is it possible to maintain wireless connection when screen turns off. It is so enoying every time screen turns off I must reconnect wifi...and all app. useing it, like opera and msn, cuz they start connecting GPRS if I don't....
anyone ? come on you can solve anything....
I have been searching for this for around 8 months with no luck. I have tried registry editiing, different apps that claim to keep WIFI alive and none of them work for my device. Very sad I have come to the conclusion that it is not possible except for listening to internet radio. For whatever reason, the constant data transmission while listening to internet radio, keeps the connection active. I want to keep the data connection active while listening to my own music collection over my network. Unfortunately, wifi shuts off before first song is done playing, and will not play next song as wifi has been disconnected when phone screen shut off and device went into standby. You can keep this from happening by pluging your device in.
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im using stock orange ROM, and i listen to net radio a fair bit at work.
the other day, i had a scenario where i'd of liked to stream net radio via wifi on my HD.
problem is, when using my HD, i always hit the power button (so screen goes off/device locked), but this disables the the wifi connection, and would obviously drop the free wifi connection, and swap to the chargable GSM network.
i'd prefer the wifi to only be active with that certain program running, so if i do forget to turn it off when i exit media player, it wont reduce battery life needlessly.
so, how does one keep wifi enabled&connected, with a specific program running (media player), and lock the device from accidental presses while in a pocket?
Having a bit of trouble here, there may be an easy fix and im jus not seeing the obvious maybe! I expect this happens to a lot of people: when you leave messenger connected, every time the hd2 screen goes off, the wifi switches off and it tries to connect to mobile network. Now, i dont want to disable the stanby setting, and i dont want to force the wifi to stay on, thatd kill battery! Is there a way i can set only windows live to stay on the mobile connection, so it doesnt keep disconnecting it?
spark001uk said:
Is there a way i can set only windows live to stay on the mobile connection, so it doesnt keep disconnecting it?
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Sorry, don't understand the problem...
i want to force windows live to use my 3g connection, as the wifi turns off in standby and interrupts it.
Well if wifi disconnects, WL will "automatically" switch to 3G anyway...
I know, but it keeps disconnecting and reconnecting wlm, what i want to try and do is get wl to use ONLY a network connection, not wifi. Is it possible?
Not that I know of.
You might want to try turning wifi off, connecting WLM, so that it connects via 3G, then turn wifi on, off etc.
In many cases when a program opens a connection through a particular interface, it will stick to it unless it has no choice. So if it initiates the connection through data it might still use data even when wifi is on. Needs experimenting.
I am having this horrible issue with my Wifi and bluetooth.
1. WIFI: When I turn on WiFi after a reboot it works flawlessly, connects to my wifi network and I can zoom around the net just dandy. As soon as I go out of range of WiFi or manually disconnect it it will NOT turn back on it says "Unable to start Wifi" until I do a full reboot. So annoying.
2.) Bluetooth: When connecting to my Headset it connects just fine after a reboot. HOWEVER, after pairing, if I put the X10 standby with the powerbutton before making a call it will drop the bluetooth audio connection and only play sound through the earpiece. Even though it SAYS it's still connected and paired. And THEN when I shut off bluetooth and try to turn it back on, pretty much the same as the wifi thing except I get no error message it just tries to initiate bluetooth and then sits for a few minutes and then I guess gives up and keeps the bluetooth shut off without any indication of failure.
I'm guessing it's defective but if anyone has had this issue, please speak up! And even better if you know how to solve it. Thanks!! =)
I too am having the same issue with wifi. Also my x10 is superslow on my wifi @ times. So i run a speedtest and I get 3MB, which is fast, but the phone isn't using that speed while browsing the internet.
Hello,
I experienced the same thing as you. Moreover I have a trouble with Bluetooth in my car. After few seconds (around 1 minute) of talk, I don't loose the BT connexion but nobody understand me !!!
Have you tried your BT?
Have you got a task killer running that's killing your bluetooth and wifi?
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I am not sure if this is even a problem, but before today my data connection to t-mobile would only connect when needed. For instance, if I was home then I would be connected to wifi and my data connection would turn off by itself, but would still connect if needed by a program, or whatever, that can't use wifi but needed the data connection instead. Like when I sent a MMS message for example. Then after the message was sent or whenever the program was done with the data connection then it would automatically disconnect where I would continue to use the wifi connection. Also, if I left the house then I would automatically be switched to the data connection as the wifi signal went out of range.
This is the way I liked it. Today it had changed the way it behaves. Now, the data connection stays on no matter what and I have to manually turn it off in the comm manager. Also, everytime the screen turns off and the device goes into sleep mode, or whatever you call it, the data connection automatically turns backs on while it is sleeping. For example, when I go to sleep I press the red hang up button to put it in sleep mode then I go to sleep. When I wake up in the morning the data connection is on and when I go to turn it off it shows it has been connected for however long I was asleep for.
Like I said I am not sure if this is a big deal or not, I just don't want to be charged for going over the data cap for some reason. And I am not sure if maybe there is a program in the background that might not be showing up in the task manager and is downloading data that will eventually cost me when it goes over the cap.
Now I know that certain things automatically connect to download data like mail, weather, stocks, twitter, etc., but I always thought that they could use a wifi connection if available. And if not then I know for sure that it used to at least disconnect the data connection after it was done.
I am basically asking if this is normal because it used to not be like this on my phone and if it is something I need to.be worried about? Also, if anyone knows how to change it back to the way it used to be? I would greatly appreciate it if you let me know how to do it.
Thanks,
Michael
Anyone?
All I want to know is if it is normal to always have the data connection on. So does anyone else experience this? The data connection seems to reconnect by itself everytime the phone goes in standby and stays connected until I manually disconnect it.
Thanks,
Michael
Hey I just happen to have similar problem with the data connection turning on by itself when I check email on my wifi.
If you goto comm manager - menu - connections - advanced
Under "select which networks are automatically" - select networks
Change the connection type under "programs that automatically connect to the internet..." to your wifi connection from "t-mobile data."
Seems to work for me at the moment anyways. It's not connecting automatically to data connection when I check my emails.
Hi Michael.
It's actually the default behavior for the data connection to stay on once it's activated, until it's switched off manually. You won't pass significantly more data that way than if you just turned it off right after whatever app(s) are doing using it...the only downside to leaving it on is the speed at which it drains the battery.
There are some users who choose to leave it on, just to avoid the delay when they want to use it, and there's probably tons more who don't even have any idea you might want to turn it off when not in use.
Now I could swear there's a cab floating around here somewhere that will shut off the data connection once it sits idle for 60 seconds, but I didn't turn it up in a casual search the other day, so I can't point you to it right now
As for the apps using wifi when it's available instead of calling up a data connection, every one you mentioned should do that, and those all behave that way for me...so maybe there's something else you haven't thought of yet that ignores wifi when it connects to update or whatever. I would start by turning off auto updating for any and all of those services you listed, and see if the issue persists. If so, you'll need to dig deeper to find the culprit. Do you have microsoft myphone connecting to backup maybe? That seems to ignore wifi on my phone, I'm sure there's other apps that do as well.
Today it actually quit doing it for some reason. So I have no idea why it did that for awhile. Now I read that some people were having the opposite problem, which was that they couldn't get their connection to stay on. Now, this is actually the way I want it. Oh well, I hope it stays this way now.
Thanks for your help,
Michael
Alright, this is a frustrating issue that I've been having since day 1 with WhatsApp, and it's not even just SGS4, but with my old SGS too.
Problem:
Phone screen turns off while on WIFI, after a while of inactivity, WIFI still seems to run, but WhatsApp lost connection and takes a long time to reconnect, and usually requires a full restart of WIFI.
This does not happen on 3G for me, it only happens when WIFI is active.
Things tried:
- Turn off 3G entirely, so it only runs on WIFI.
- Reinstall WA
- Restart phone.
- Do a clean install of firmware (on my old SGS).
- Test it out on new phone~ (Brand new SGS4 i9505)
I don't know what's causing this, can anyone please help me figure this out? Let me know if you need more info.
is your router set to "always connected" or does it disconnect after sometime if no data comes in?
maybe i'm wrong but if it's only a wifi problem you maybe should look into your router settings.
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is your router set to "always connected" or does it disconnect after sometime if no data comes in?
maybe i'm wrong but if it's only a wifi problem you maybe should look into your router settings.
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Already looked into that.
Weird part is that Skype stays connected perfectly fine, but WhatsApp never does.
Please search a bit, this has been answered just a day ago.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2351753
[Q] WhatsApp Issues on GS4