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Does the activation "google account sign-in" must happen through the simcard network?

Does the activation "google account sign-in" must happen through the simcard network?
hi,
Can someone please let me know whether the nexus one activation "google account sign-in" must happen through the simcard network (3g) or it can be done over the wifi?
Thanks.

It first tries through over-the-air as in 3g/edge. But, then gives you the chance to use wifi

bobtentpeg said:
It first tries through over-the-air as in 3g/edge. But, then gives you the chance to use wifi
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How can you avoid it using the 3G/Edge for that, then? Can you start using the phone without a SIM-card, thereby forcing it to do it over WiFi?

Yes, just turn it on without a SIM card. It will complain about not being able to connect, and then ask if you want to use Wifi, IIRC. Then you put in your AP information and sign in. That's how I set mine up initially.

Hi,
I hard format the phone, take out the simcard and then turn it on. It does not activate the phone and shows the same error it was showing .
" cant establish a reliable data connection...."
Are you sure you activate the phone without a simcard?
Thanks.

Yes, you just need to skip the initial login/registration process and once you get access to your home screen turn on wifi and get an internet connection. Once you have a connection you can create an account or login.
That's how I did it. I promise you it works.

andythefan said:
Yes, you just need to skip the initial login/registration process and once you get access to your home screen turn on wifi and get an internet connection. Once you have a connection you can create an account or login.
That's how I did it. I promise you it works.
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Thanks! I'll keep this in mind for when I get mine

3g fallback for internet on wifi?

So I'm having trouble with getting wifi how I want it on my phone. At work we have a unsecured WAP with a web based authentication page. Trouble if you ever use it, it remembers the WAP and wants to login, but unless you you goto the web page, you have no internet. This is particularly a problem when wifi sleeps and looses connection.
The big issue with this is that my phone assumes it has internet when it doesn't. It doesn't fall back to 3g on failure to connect. That means I will not get texts for hours, facebook won't update, etc, etc.
Is there a way to force the phone to fall back to 3g when it fails to connect via wifi? Alternately is there an app that will parse a wifi login page and auto login for me? I'm running clean GB right now.

Geekybiker said:
So I'm having trouble with getting wifi how I want it on my phone. At work we have a unsecured WAP with a web based authentication page. Trouble if you ever use it, it remembers the WAP and wants to login, but unless you you goto the web page, you have no internet. This is particularly a problem when wifi sleeps and looses connection.
The big issue with this is that my phone assumes it has internet when it doesn't. It doesn't fall back to 3g on failure to connect. That means I will not get texts for hours, facebook won't update, etc, etc.
Is there a way to force the phone to fall back to 3g when it fails to connect via wifi? Alternately is there an app that will parse a wifi login page and auto login for me? I'm running clean GB right now.
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If wifi was active it should stay active there is an option to keep wifi on in the settings that way it wont go turn off/ go to sleep while its connected. Change the wifi sleep policy this will keep it from "disconnecting".
Settings>wireless & networks> wifi settings> press the menu button advanced> wifi sleep policy> Never

Geekybiker said:
So I'm having trouble with getting wifi how I want it on my phone. At work we have a unsecured WAP with a web based authentication page. Trouble if you ever use it, it remembers the WAP and wants to login, but unless you you goto the web page, you have no internet. This is particularly a problem when wifi sleeps and looses connection.
The big issue with this is that my phone assumes it has internet when it doesn't. It doesn't fall back to 3g on failure to connect. That means I will not get texts for hours, facebook won't update, etc, etc.
Is there a way to force the phone to fall back to 3g when it fails to connect via wifi? Alternately is there an app that will parse a wifi login page and auto login for me? I'm running clean GB right now.
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Yep like Big Goron said and my School has that thing to web authentication

Big Goron said:
If wifi was active it should stay active there is an option to keep wifi on in the settings that way it wont go turn off/ go to sleep while its connected. Change the wifi sleep policy this will keep it from "disconnecting".
Settings>wireless & networks> wifi settings> press the menu button advanced> wifi sleep policy> Never
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That's not the big problem though. If I lose connection (easy enough with out concrete walls and walking around) or simply don't login in first thing in the morning I still have the issue.
I either need a fallback to 3g or a way to auto login.

Geekybiker said:
That's not the big problem though. If I lose connection (easy enough with out concrete walls and walking around) or simply don't login in first thing in the morning I still have the issue.
I either need a fallback to 3g or a way to auto login.
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well i can tell you what i use Juice Defender and When WiFi is once it goes off my data kicks in so yeah that's my fallback to 3G so you could give that ago if you want.

IMO
Juice Defender= Battery Drainer and waste of money when i can do what it does manually.
To the OP:
the phone should automatically go back to 3g when wifi disconnects i just tested this with my router i had it connected then pull the plug and it went to 3g.

Big Goron said:
IMO
Juice Defender= Battery Drainer and waste of money when i can do what it does manually.
To the OP:
the phone should automatically go back to 3g when wifi disconnects i just tested this with my router i had it connected then pull the plug and it went to 3g.
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ive done some tests without JD also helps in other areas BTW, and to let you know i put JD on Extreme and let no apps get data unless i manually toggle data and i can tell that my battery lasts much longer by at least by a few hours but still helps rather than my data always being funny randomly connecting and disconnecting to 3G or even if it was off JD does help.

Big Goron said:
IMO
Juice Defender= Battery Drainer and waste of money when i can do what it does manually.
To the OP:
the phone should automatically go back to 3g when wifi disconnects i just tested this with my router i had it connected then pull the plug and it went to 3g.
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It does when it disconnects, however since the wifi point is open it auto connects every time it picks it up again. Aside from manually forgetting the wifi point all the time, there doesn't appear to be a way to stop this. Connecting remembers it. Its not that I can't get around this manually, but its really annoying.

You could probably do something with a tasker profile. I don't know how to do it but they have a bunch of examples on their site that may help.

Geekybiker said:
It does when it disconnects, however since the wifi point is open it auto connects every time it picks it up again. Aside from manually forgetting the wifi point all the time, there doesn't appear to be a way to stop this. Connecting remembers it. Its not that I can't get around this manually, but its really annoying.
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I see your problem. You may be able to do this using scripting. The closest thing I have ever done like this is write a script that logged into my cable modem admin page automatically and grabbed the signal strength to log it. I used PHP (command line interpreter) but I would think any language should be capable of submitting data via a post request. Mine was triggered by cron. You would need to trigger on a successful wifi connection, check the ssid, and go from there. I dont know enough details about how that part is done to be helpful, but I know there are some apps that do detect active wifi connections (samba comes to mind) so it must be possible.
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Good suggestions so far, u could also try spare parts wifi sleep policy settings..
It might also be something where the connection on the wifi network's (not your phone's) end times out, in which case I'm not sure what to tell u.
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Geekybiker said:
It does when it disconnects, however since the wifi point is open it auto connects every time it picks it up again. Aside from manually forgetting the wifi point all the time, there doesn't appear to be a way to stop this. Connecting remembers it. Its not that I can't get around this manually, but its really annoying.
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DON'T USE THEIR WIFI! Problem solved.

Bluetooth auto connect

Hey all,
My old phone (an infuse 4g) would automatically connect to my car radio when I started the car. My s4 needs to be manually connected every time.
Is there some setting I'm missing?
Thanks

I use A2DP Volume on my SIII since it doesn't auto connect, works great and is very lightweight

It should auto connect after successful pairing. I just paired mine this morning so I will check and see if it connects automatically next time around.
wdouglass said:
Hey all,
My old phone (an infuse 4g) would automatically connect to my car radio when I started the car. My s4 needs to be manually connected every time.
Is there some setting I'm missing?
Thanks
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Worked as expected when I went to lunch..
bigworm50 said:
It should auto connect after successful pairing. I just paired mine this morning so I will check and see if it connects automatically next time around.
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wdouglass said:
Hey all,
My old phone (an infuse 4g) would automatically connect to my car radio when I started the car. My s4 needs to be manually connected every time.
Is there some setting I'm missing?
Thanks
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I set up blue tooth in my car right after getting the phone today - (at lunch) went back to work - started the car and blue tooth connected automatically - just like it always did on my Note 2 - no issues - no special configurations.
If it didn't work for you - maybe your settings cleared somehow after you configured yours - that didn't happen often on my note two - but it did on rare occassions...good luck - if you continue to have issues, might be a problem with either your phone or your car - hope it works out....

Nope, no autoconnect. Tried repairing this morning. What a pain... I'll probably get an NFC tag for my car as a fix, but this kinda sucks. I'm going to try some other bluetooth devices to make sure there's nothing wrong with the phone...
I've searched around, looks like some people had this problem with the sIII

So if i turn bluetooth off and then on again, i get a popup "connect" menu. (i'd rather it just connect to whatever's around, like my infuse 4g did) I wonder if this is related?

I believe that is the standard behavior. If I don't touch that popup it goes away and my phone still auto connects as expected.
wdouglass said:
So if i turn bluetooth off and then on again, i get a popup "connect" menu. (i'd rather it just connect to whatever's around, like my infuse 4g did) I wonder if this is related?
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Got home, tried it with my nokia bluetooth headset, and i get the same behavior. going to the at&t store tonight to see what they say.

Why dont you guys just do a factory restore instead of going to AT&T? What are they gonna do?

I actually did factory restore. it didn't help.
Turns out the "visible" checkbox needs to be checked for the thing to autoconnect. wierd. it all works now....nevermind.

I don't have that box checked. Although I bet that could depend on the device you're paired to.
wdouglass said:
Turns out the "visible" checkbox needs to be checked for the thing to autoconnect. wierd. it all works now....nevermind.
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wdouglass said:
I actually did factory restore. it didn't help.
Turns out the "visible" checkbox needs to be checked for the thing to autoconnect. wierd. it all works now....nevermind.
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Of course it needs to be, else how would the target pair with your phone if it can't see it
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Semi-protected Wi-Fi - Android 4.3

Hi!
I've update my I9505 to Stock 4.3, with root. I've a problem. I use semi-protected WiFI (like at University) that works as follows : the network is technically open to everyone, free, but for navigate\download\anything, you need to open your browser and enter your credentials.
Android 4.2.2 on my I9505 connected automatically to this network, so I opened a browser and put my credentials.
Since I upgraded to 4.3, my phone connects to the network, then disconnects after a few seconds saying that you must authenticate yourself, then I have to enter settings (making it pointless to activate the wifi with the toggle in the notification bar), i've to reconnect to the network manually, wait about 10 \ 15 seconds, then I can open the stock browser and connect from there (I have to connect when it says so). This even though I do not use the toggle, when I activate the wifi in the settings, it connects, disconnects, and I have to reconnect again.
Now, every time I connect I lose a minute when in fact it took a few seconds before, there is no way to return to the previous behavior? Even with root solution. To read an e-mail I have to wait a minute for the connection...
thanks
Edit: sorry, maybe I had to put this thread on Q&A section, but now I can't move...
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Yeah I hate it, the same thing happens on the London Underground wifi. It used to just connect then have the notification telling you you had to log in, which you could then click on. What makes it extra doubly annoying, is that the Underground wifi actually does work for everything apart from HTTP traffic before signing in, so you could just not sign in the whole journey and still get email/whatsapp, but not webpages or facebook etc. Now that it disconnects you I don't get anything till I manually connect it.

jeremy_inc said:
Yeah I hate it, the same thing happens on the London Underground wifi. It used to just connect then have the notification telling you you had to log in, which you could then click on. What makes it extra doubly annoying, is that the Underground wifi actually does work for everything apart from HTTP traffic before signing in, so you could just not sign in the whole journey and still get email/whatsapp, but not webpages or facebook etc. Now that it disconnects you I don't get anything till I manually connect it.
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To get back to the old behaviour go into Settings->Connections->Wifi - > MENU button ->Advanced and disable "auto network switch"
I found I had to do this to get such networks to work ok, otherwise the wifi network was deactivated

planetf1 said:
To get back to the old behaviour go into Settings->Connections->Wifi - > MENU button ->Advanced and disable "auto network switch"
I found I had to do this to get such networks to work ok, otherwise the wifi network was deactivated
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This was already disable in my phone...
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jeremy_inc said:
Yeah I hate it, the same thing happens on the London Underground wifi. It used to just connect then have the notification telling you you had to log in, which you could then click on. What makes it extra doubly annoying, is that the Underground wifi actually does work for everything apart from HTTP traffic before signing in, so you could just not sign in the whole journey and still get email/whatsapp, but not webpages or facebook etc. Now that it disconnects you I don't get anything till I manually connect it.
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ya that was the first thing I checked, it was already off.

I am also facing this problem. Till now no solution. The "Auto Network Switch" seems to be valid for Mobile Data only...

[Q] Phone is slow loading content while on WiFi. Just started a week ago.

In the last week I have noticed that when I click on say a website or a article from a app that it takes like 30 seconds to start to load that page on my home WiFi, this never happened before, usually it's instant. This does not happen when I'm on 4g at all. I have checked my WiFi with my laptop, xbox one, and a tablet and no problem there. This is getting annoying does anyone have any solutions for this or maybe something that was changed that shouldn't have been? Thanks

Remove your WiFi credentials from the phone, reboot and add them again. ( go to settings, WiFi . click your network and say "forget" ).
It is also a good idea to power cycle your home WiFi router as well (if you haven't done so already).
Hope it helps!

Thanks I'll give it a try.
Commodore 64 said:
Remove your WiFi credentials from the phone, reboot and add them again. ( go to settings, WiFi . click your network and say "forget" ).
It is also a good idea to power cycle your home WiFi router as well (if you haven't done so already).
Hope it helps!
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