Just for background information, I'm using Cyanogen 5.0.7-5 with Autolock.
I cant find anything about this but. Is possible to disable debugging mode and tethering when the phone locks? It would also have to know when debugging mode and/or tethering are being used so it wont shut the services down when in use, for the next time it locks of course. To be able to do this would be more secure, in-case someone gets a hold of you'r phone. The theif then wouldn't be able to get into your phone with adb to steal data or be able use the internet tethering.
Of course I can just manually turn off these services, but that gets annoying. Plus any human interaction means there is going to be some error, like leaving on either debugging or tethering.
Maybe im lucky and there is already a app that does this?
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Howdy wise men and women,
Is there any way to prevent the phone from connecting to my service providers data.
I have turned off auto update on weather and email. However, when I wake up in the morning, I look at my phone and the data has been connected for the entire night. I dont know what its connecting to. Maybe facebook updates via the 'people' tab? I do have that synced up....? I cant seem to find any settings there to prevent it from updating automatically....
I have the data disconnect quicklink installed, but that can only be used once I notice it has automatically logged on.
Is there a way I can prevent to phone from logging on unless I actually click through to a function?
Many thanks
Tom
Try using Bandswitcher or other Auto dissconnet apps.
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
I have a fascinate which i bought outright for use as a GPS / media player / itouch replacment and im having issues with the app marketplace...
Every time i try to set up the account using wifi it says could not establish a reliable data connection.
how can i get past this? is there some way i can trick the phone into thinking its running on a data network when its really going through wifi?
Also, every time i turn on the phone its asking me to unlock / set up the phone. i get out of this by using *#83786633 but its a bit annoying, is there anything else i can do? Its a verizon phone and im in canada, so no luck going to V. and asking them to fix it...
would putting a custom firmware on the device be of any use? i have rooted the phone, just cant download any apps through the marketplace. Is there a way to manually install apps through rooting?
My bet would be that you're not fully connected to wifi, to be getting that message. I've been using mine on wifi since I got it, and have set everything up fine. The only time I ran into that problem is when my router went out, it said I was connected but there really was no connection.
As far as the activation screen issue, no there really isn't any way around that. Its there because the phone really should be connected to a network. (And I'm not 100% sure if its going to connect to GPS without being connected to a data network? I've never tried.)
Well if I use airplane mode it turns my gps receiver off however if I use the code above it lets me use gps and wifi no problem. Hell I'm on wifi now on the phone but it won't connect the phone to my google account tho if I go to google.com it works fine.
Any ideas?
oops double post, mods plz delete this
The same happened on my Eris. Best bet is to use data to activate. Turn of syncs and then use wifi to sync. It cant be all that much data. Once your active you wont have a problem using the market and stuff over wifi. Thats what I had to do on the eris to use it as a wifi toy when i got my fas.
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is it possible to remotely wipe my tablet if it gets stolen?
or are thieves smart enough not to connect to Wi-Fi after they steal the tablets?
I don't use the unlock screen with pin, so anybody who steals my tablet can
probably do a lot of damage? (send out random emails, order stuff from Amazon,
or worse?)
SarahKirschbaum said:
is it possible to remotely wipe my tablet if it gets stolen?
or are thieves smart enough not to connect to Wi-Fi after they steal the tablets?
I don't use the unlock screen with pin, so anybody who steals my tablet can
probably do a lot of damage? (send out random emails, order stuff from Amazon,
or worse?)
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If it has 3G (and it stays enabled) you have a much greater chance. If the tablet has only Wi-Fi, you can only send a command to wipe it when someone else (unwanted, I suppose) connect to a Wi-Fi network.
Now, speaking about solutions to this, the one I have on my phone is Android Lost (www.androidlost.com). It's free, awesome and works with a Google Account. You can not only wipe, but enable GPS, get the location (when and if the GPS can get a fix), sound alarms, speak some text you want out loud (anything you want, like "if you found this device, contact XXXXXXXX"), get the status of the device (battery percentage, temperature, etc) and some other things.
SarahKirschbaum said:
is it possible to remotely wipe my tablet if it gets stolen?
or are thieves smart enough not to connect to Wi-Fi after they steal the tablets?
I don't use the unlock screen with pin, so anybody who steals my tablet can
probably do a lot of damage? (send out random emails, order stuff from Amazon,
or worse?)
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buddy you can only wipe tab data provided your tab is connected to internet .if no internet connection it is impossible to wipe it...
To remotely wipe your tab data you can set an samsung account and switch on remote controls(in settings->security)
also by setting samsung account thieve can not format your tab without account password...
So go to samsung dive page and set whenever your tab will get conected to net it will be wiped and also you can find its location....
Droidlover123 said:
buddy you can only wipe tab data provided your tab is connected to internet .if no internet connection it is impossible to wipe it...
To remotely wipe your tab data you can set an samsung account and switch on remote controls(in settings->security)
also by setting samsung account thieve can not format your tab without account password...
So go to samsung dive page and set whenever your tab will get conected to net it will be wiped and also you can find its location....
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To add to this, it's obviously quite important to set up aa high security lock screen option if your serious about protecting your data pin or password is best. Disable the debugging bridge so they can't get in that way and try and keep all your private files in the internal memory. That way you can seriously reduce the chance of identity theft and the likes even without encrypting.
I use androidlost, its on the market. This allows me to wipe my phone remotely. I can also request the phones location and other stuff. It not the only app for this on the market. Just search 'wipe lost phone' and you'll find others
You can use Cerberus App for this.
What I use
I use lookout though to remotely wipe your device you must have a premium lookout plan ,,,
How do I turn off network notifications, I go to advanced tab in wifi, and network notifications is grey and I can't uncheck it. Wifi on is killing the battery, and I turn it off but when I go by any wifi network it automatically turns on. Is there a way to stop this or am I stuck with this also. The more and more I go through this phone, the limitations put in by sharp make me want to get rid of this phone. It's a great phone, but the user limitations are really killing this phone, and I dont see sharp helping to alleviate problems. Sharp is gonna have a hard time in the American market, just for the fact of poor programming and support every website for any root or anything always points to xda, I would think these companies would appreciate xda's input and concerns. Its more about money than the people. Sorry about the rant, but I can't count the times people of xda have emailed sharp and they could give 2 craps about what we want.
You have to have wifi enabled to toggle that option. If wifi is disabled, that field is grayed out. But, with that being said, I have noticed that when I disable the wifi it will re-enable itself after a short period of time. Another issue that I have is sometimes I will get "Avoided poor internet connection" while that option is disabled, and the internet connection in question is in fact functioning properly and bandwidth is exceptional. All the more reason that we need to achieve root and take back control of our devices.
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Disable Connections Optimizer under Mobile Data