My wifi is stuck on - I click turn off wifi in connections, and nothing happens, just the whirly progress thingy for a few seconds, but the wifi does not turn off. I also can't see the list of available wireless networks in the sense UI, only if I go to the old WM wifi app, but I can't turn off wifi from here either. Any ideas??
turn the phone into plane mode and then turn it back off.
Still not able to turn off wifi
OK, so I go into plane mode, everything turns off EXCEPT wifi is greyed but still ON! Can't select it to turn it off. Then go to settings, all settings, wifi - "turn on wifi" is ticked. I untick it, but wifi does not turn off after I click ok. Go back in and it is still ticked - so unticking it had no effect!
Something to do with Wifi Monster?
I installed Wifi Monster, which did not work, prior to this problem. My wireless card was not detected, so I uninstalled it. Since then, I have not been able to turn wifi off. Is this a coincidence?
Is it me or it should be like that? When my phone is going to losj screen it just changes from WiFi to 3G connection and when i am unlocking it goes to WIFI
Its annoying, I get the exact same thing. If I leave it locked for a few minutes, it switches WIFI off, and restarts it.
Its automatically set that way. To leave it on: goto settings > wireless & network >wifi settings> press menu button then goto advance > set WIFI sleep policy to NEVER and you should be good.
Hi,
i'd like to save some battery on my desire and i think WiFi is draining the battery a lot.
Like many people i use wifi only at home but i forget to turn off wifi often and then the phone is searching for new wifi networks all the time.
Is there an app out there which turns off wifi automatically when a certain wifi network is out of range? Switching on manually is no problem, cause when i use internet at home i realize quick that i am on 3G and not Wifi. I think there is no way for an auto-on/auto-off.
Any ideas?
thanks
There's an app called Sweet Dreams that turn Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/Ringer/ on or off based on some things like current day, hour of the day, location, sound in the room, movement of the handset.
It's more focused on saving battery and turning sound down when you sleep but works perfectly for what you need.
There's also something like Locale
thx, but i think both apps use GPS for the Location which drains the battery again
A Simple:
If wifi XXX is out of range for more than 5 minutes -> turn off wifi
Or you can use "Setting Profiles" which I use and prefer much more over "Locale"
With Setting Profiles you have the option to save a location based on either
Lat/lon or Cells ids or WIFI location.
Also has reverse logic
Info:
***.probeez.com
(replace *** with www as I am not allowed to post external links)
Best program in Market for this if you ask me.
How the hell do you set this up
LOL. I wanted to turn wifi off when away from home
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Might be easier to help you if you also tell us what program your trying to setup
y5 battery saver - used it on my g1 and hero with perfect results
more info: http://y5.polidea.pl/
y5 seems a good little app, will try it out this evening, thanks for the tip stingerpl
setting profiles its the app im trying too setup
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watercool said:
thx, but i think both apps use GPS for the Location which drains the battery again
A Simple:
If wifi XXX is out of range for more than 5 minutes -> turn off wifi
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Well both have the option of using GPS but it can work just fine with cell triangulation. If your GPS is off it can work just fine based only on approximation from GSM towers, similar to what Google Maps does for the "My Location" feature.
Guitarfreak26 said:
setting profiles its the app im trying too setup
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Well if you want it to turn off WIFI when your leaving home and get out of reach of your WIFI you do the following:
1. Press "locations" and press the menu button and press "New location". Choose "Wi-Fi AP Identified" and put a mark where it says the name of you WiFI at home. and name it like "Home"
2. Now press the profiles button and create 2 profiles. First one you can call "At Home" and set it up like you want you telefon with WiFi enabled and so on when your at home.
Next create another profile and call it something like " Away from Home" and set it up with WiFi disabled and so on like you want it.
3. Now press the "Rules" button and press menu again and create a new rule.
Again press "Menu" and then "Add condition" and choose location you just created before.
Now press Menu and choose "add action" and choose "Activate profile" and choose the profile "At Home" that you created before.
4. Now press the "Rules" button and press menu again and create a new rule.
Again press "Menu" and then "Add condition" and choose location you just created before. But this time put a mark in "Inverse condition logic"
Now press Menu and choose "add action" and choose "Activate profile" and choose the profile "Away from Home" that you created before.
Now your telefon is set to turn off Wifi and what else you want off when you leave reach of your network at home and also it is set to turn back WiFi on when you get back home in reach of your network.
Simple once you learn the logic of setting up profiles and so on. And extremely powerfull as you can basicly set and rule and action for anything you want and get it to do anything you want.
Hope that helped a bit.
Ahh i see.. Ive set that up..
Now i need to figure a way to turn bluetooth on when im in the car lol...
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Well if you want it to turn off WIFI when your leaving home and get out of reach of your WIFI you do the following:
1. Press "locations" and press the menu button and press "New location". Choose "Wi-Fi AP Identified" and put a mark where it says the name of you WiFI at home. and name it like "Home"
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That isn't going to work, when coming back from 'Away from Home' the wifi is in an off state therefore it won't detect that it is back in the home wifi range.
You need to set-up lon/lat for the wifi to turn back on again.
Ive set it up with location.. surely tht needs gps on tho?
Guitarfreak26 said:
Ive set it up with location.. surely tht needs gps on tho?
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No, I think it works out your location using the mobile network masts
I thought the HTC desire switched over to the 3G network when out of range of the wifi anyway.
How do you know for sure that it continues scanning for a wireless network?
And if this is certain, does it do this only when the phone is on and not in stand-by?
I think the best way to approach this is something like Nokia have.
Get the networks (wifi or 3g) in order of preference to connect. Then when sync is need if you have wifi network in a major priority of an 3g, the phone try to connect first to the wifi, if not in range go to 3g.
i downloaded the y5 app form the market and used it for a full day, i say it works amazing like how you want it...
at first i thought it was not working because when i was out of range, the wifi didnt turn off...but i found out why
when you first got your y5 app, open it and it will auto remember your wifi AP(if you are connected to the wifi AP when opening the app)
ok now the tricky part is setting it to turn off, you have to go out of range from the wifi(just go out the house until there is clearly no signal), then manually turn off the wireless.....
ok now go back into the wifi range, voila it will turn itself back on! and go away from it, will turn wifi off!
=D tried and tested....
ps: if you dont manually turn it off when you go out of range for the first time, it somehow wont auto turn wifi off after that......for me at least...
Does it have to be automatic? ToggleWifi shows a not connected icon in the topbar when you have wifi on and not connected. And it is not a widget, so you can customize the icon for wifi (which acts as a wifi toggle)
msc4985 said:
I thought the HTC desire switched over to the 3G network when out of range of the wifi anyway.
How do you know for sure that it continues scanning for a wireless network?
And if this is certain, does it do this only when the phone is on and not in stand-by?
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- cause i get a notification when an open wifi is awailable, and in addition, how should the phone know that i am at home without scanning (and do an auto connect)?
- second is true, i set at the wifi-policies that wifi is turned off when in standby
I use an application called Xiaalive to listen to a Shoutcast stream.
When my Display timesout it shuts down my WiFi or data connection. Primarily, I would like to use this app with my Data connection.
If I set the display timeout to 10 minutes, the app will stream for 10 minutes. If the screen timesout, it stops. I open the display back up, it fires up the data connection and the stream starts again.
Anyway to make this particular app able to maintain it's data connection even when the screen goes dark?
You should check your wlan standby settings...
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You should check your wlan standby settings...
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I've never seen the settings you are talking about. Where are they?
Actually the 3G/4G is where the biggest issue is at.
Wlan settings-> press left menu button -> advanced settings -> wlan standby settings
Changing from wlan to 3G may result in an ip number change. All open connections will interrupt.
As the title suggests, my phone will not connect to known WiFi networks if I do not wake the phone myself.
Image being away from home, having both mobile data and WiFi enabled. The screen is off throughout the whole time and when I reach home it is supposed to connect to my WiFi. Instead, it connects to my WiFi only if I wake the phone. If I leave the phone sleeping (standby) it will stay on mobile data, unless I wake the phone myself.
Is this regular behaviour?
PS. The phone has not problem retaining connection to WiFi networks when sleeping. It just won't make a new connection even to know networks.
There is a setting in wifi settings under advanced where you can change how and when the wifi must be on/off.
termdj said:
There is a setting in wifi settings under advanced where you can change how and when the wifi must be on/off.
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If you mean "Keep WiFi on during sleep", I have it enabled already!
Have you played around with power saving settings?