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[Q] Best APP to turn on WIFI based on location

Does anyone know what app is the best for turning on WIFI based on your location?

I don't know about best, but I've been playing around lately with Profile Valet. It's free, and you can setup different profiles using all kinds of different qualifications. You can set it up using locations as well.

I'm sure someone will suggest Tasker but it would be overkill if this is all you're wanting to do. I used to use Wapdroid for turning wifi on and off and it worked really well for me.

Totally gonna give Profile Valet a try.

Locale.....

here is a question:
why have an app/service running in the background, with access to (i.e. enabling) GPS for location, to do what you can do in a second by using the power control widgets?
100% of the time I turn wifi on and off by location, as you want the app to do. except i do it myself, all i have to do is drop my notification bar down and press one button...simple, and nothing running in the background or gps eating away at your battery

profile valet has a lot of potential but it didn't work that well for me.
I have not used it in a while but it may have gotten better

Cosign Max....
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Max_Pain said:
why have an app/service running in the background, with access to (i.e. enabling) GPS for location, to do what you can do in a second by using the power control widgets?
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Because I don't want to do it myself. When I walk into my office (which has crappy Sprint coverage and a locked down WiFi network) my WiFi shuts off, my roaming kicks over to Verizon, and my ringer drops to vibrate. The moment I walk out of my office my ringer comes back to life, my WiFi restores, and I jump back on the Sprint network.
Yes, I could do that myself with a few clicks... but why bother when a program exists which can do it for me.

I've used Y5 for quite a while. It's free in the market, does exactly what you want, and it works very well.

Why does my gps icon keeps flashing?

The gps icon on my DHD keeps flashing, even if I close (or kill) all applications using gps. I suppose that this uses battery power. Does anyone have a solution?

If you have it always on, locations uses it for weather data. Just turn it off in settings, and activate when needed
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its flashing cause its trying to get a lock. YEh just shut it off untill you want to use it

alternatively, do you have HTCSENSE running in the background?? if yes, then it may be trying to locate you for syncing purposes.

[Q] No internet through WiFi after few minutes, still connected

Hi guys,
I've searched the whole forum but I couldn't find any other thread about my problem.
When I connect my HOX to WiIF (Sitecom WL-370 - 300N Gigabit Dualband Router) everything works fine at first, but after a few minutes (5, or sometimes 15 minutes) I've got no Internet anymore but I'm still connected. Also WiFI Analyzer still detects the network. I've this problem both on 2.4 GHz as on 5 GHz. I've also tried switching channels.
The strange thing is, I can still receive a WhatsApp message but I can't send any, also I can't browse on the Internet or things like that.
After turning my WiFi off and on it works fine again for the few minutes..
Best Wi-Fi performance is turned on and the other devices at home haven't got this problem.
Anyone having the same problem or knows a solution?

I've got the same problem and it seems to be totally random. What i noticed is that my Google Play Store always stops working (no connection) shortly after i turned on the phone (~10 minutes). Switching Wifi off and on again doesn't seem to change it, i need to restart my HOX to get it working again while other apps connect just fine after turning Wifi off and on again.
Edit: Stock Vodafone ROM (1.28.161.9)

I have the exact same issue and i went through every setting in my router trying to fix this.
I would turn on my WIFI, connect to my home network, and start downloading. After a few minutes it'll either stop (the dl percentage not change) and then if i reload the market/youtube/browser or any app that users the net, it'll say no connection.
The weird thing about this is that it LOOKS like i am connected to wifi (in the notification bar).
This may be a separate issue, but i tried to turn it off and then on again to get around the issue. This time around i would try to connect to my home wifi and it'll just say 'Saved' and then the network would go out of range.
I am running Leedroids rom.

I might have found a solution:
Under Settings -> Wifi -> Menu -> Extended there is an option for Wifi Power Saving. After unchecking it all my connectivity problems are gone.

May be worth trying a static IP configuration, if you know enough about ip4 to do it. I've seen problems with android Wi-Fi since version 2.2 - if your router issues an indefinite dhcp lease, it can show exactly the symptoms you describe. Only a possibility but worth a try.
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I have the exact same issue - the wireless shows connected yet you cannot browse the Internet etc. I have also tried every setting on the Wireless AP without any success. Even tried static IP and that does not fix it either. Whilst other devices in the house are ok...
The weirdest thing is though it does not happen everywhere i.e. at other places like work (where at least the same type of AP is in use) or at my brothers' house (where he has a Linksys). This is pretty much the only thing that bugs me with the HTC - the only workaround I have found is to make sure that WiFi is kept on only at times when plugged in - this doesn't actually fix the issue but it does mean that the phone will disconnect the WiFi and get a new connection next time it wakes up - this way I find I get the problem much less than when I have it set to Always.

I might have found a solution:
Under Settings -> Wifi -> Menu -> Extended there is an option for Wifi Power Saving. After unchecking it all my connectivity problems are gone.
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I already unchecked it but it didn't solved my problem
May be worth trying a static IP configuration, if you know enough about ip4 to do it. I've seen problems with android Wi-Fi since version 2.2 - if your router issues an indefinite dhcp lease, it can show exactly the symptoms you describe. Only a possibility but worth a try.
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Also no success
I have the exact same issue - the wireless shows connected yet you cannot browse the Internet etc. I have also tried every setting on the Wireless AP without any success. Even tried static IP and that does not fix it either. Whilst other devices in the house are ok...
The weirdest thing is though it does not happen everywhere i.e. at other places like work (where at least the same type of AP is in use) or at my brothers' house (where he has a Linksys). This is pretty much the only thing that bugs me with the HTC - the only workaround I have found is to make sure that WiFi is kept on only at times when plugged in - this doesn't actually fix the issue but it does mean that the phone will disconnect the WiFi and get a new connection next time it wakes up - this way I find I get the problem much less than when I have it set to Always.
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Yeah, exactly, I've got the same problem. At school I've got no problems with the WiFi. I already send a message to HTC and I'm waiting on there answer.

I have kinda the same issue.
Using a HOX and at work I'm connected to Wifi and I can browse. At my house I can connect to the wifi, my IP is right that I'm getting from DHCP (I even tried putting in a static IP) but I can't browse
I also have a HTC Sensation, same setup and it works. The sensation can browse at work and at my house.
Why would this be?

Tried all sorts of solutions, but the only one that works is disabling the N-band and only leave B and G. This means that your laptop won't connect with the faster N, but at least the HOX works (what's more important )

Well I tried broadcasting a separate SSID on the b/g interface only for the exclusive use for the hox but that hasn't made any difference...my workaround is to have tunein radio in the background streaming whilst surfing...if I get bored of that solution my next workaround will be to trade the hox for an s3 as much as I despise TW...
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I tried all the bands "B, G, N" and nothing works. So tired of this crap. Think I might just get a S3

RenVilo said:
I tried all the bands "B, G, N" and nothing works. So tired of this crap. Think I might just get a S3
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I was thinking to do the same but there is no chance in hell of me doing that after I compared my HOX with a display model at the phone shop. Pentile screen vs LCD on the HOX? HOX = Sharper and better whites - the white on the S3 is bluish and so obvious. Another thing also I noticed is that the aggressive auto brightness on the S3 is too much - you won't tolerate it and you will likely be forced to manually adjust all the time. That plus reading that the S3 goes through the battery like no mans business when on standby unless you turn off all the features and put it in power save mode (might as well buy a Nokia then) at least the HOX uses the Ninja core and actually does save your battery in standby mode.
Anyway - the reason I replied is that I found a workaround (note, workaround does not mean a fix) - I put in a wifi extender in an area where I tend to spent most of my time with the HOX - this has not fixed the problem per se but rather seems to have elevated it somewhat. Basically now if the HOX drops from the main offending AP it automatically gets hooked up on to the extender and carries on working! I say this because (and I saw this only twice so far) I realised that when the phones Internet connection stops and you load a new page it timed out and get page cannot be found but when I hit refresh it works again you do notice a 3-4 second lag (this never happened before the extender came into play). Not sure if anyone else has tried this but I got a Linksys/Cisco extender for £69 and so far at least it has given me a workaround. Of course your mileage may vary...so don't splash out on an extender and come and blame me if it doesn't work for anyone here...

I am also having this issue with my HOX has anyone found a fix for this?
i have tried everything listed and nothing works.
its weird though because i have NO issues on my home network, but my network in my apartment here and at work network i get this issue

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bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbuuuuuummp any fixes??? this sucks !!!!

What versions of android you guys have? Stock, sense, vanilla android, ics, jelly bean? Because I didn't encounter this problem when running stock or ics custom roms. After I updated hboot to 1.31 and tried different jelly bean sense roms it appeared. I also tried some stock android roms (ice cold jelly and liquid smooth) and wifi seemed to work fine. So is this sense problem only?

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What versions of android you guys have? Stock, sense, vanilla android, ics, jelly bean? Because I didn't encounter this problem when running stock or ics custom roms. After I updated hboot to 1.31 and tried different jelly bean sense roms it appeared. I also tried some stock android roms (ice cold jelly and liquid smooth) and wifi seemed to work fine. So is this sense problem only?
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The only change for me is update to HBOOT 1.31 and then things started happening. Otherwise runnin 4.0.4.
No workaround so far, at least i have not founf a way.

Even with JB, push notifications delayed under wifi

I'm really getting bored about this...
Basically happens that the push notifications are completely delayed (or temporarily stopped) after a while im on wifi..
everything is set correctly, wifi sleep policy is set to keep awake even on sleep...
with 3g network everything is ok, push notificaton works fine...instead on wifi after a while, notifications stops (gtalk messages, mails, whatsapp,..), they back all together at some point later...so the solution is to wait (couple/ten minutes) or I have to put wifi toggle off and on to get notifications all together
the wifi and network indicator are blue...but i supect the synch with google services is lost, since if i log out from gtalk and log in again, gtalk don't come online soon...when it finally come online, the i got all notification all together...
the wifi has no proxy or something..a simple wpa home wifi..
what could the problem? someone encountered it? tips? its only me? (i can't believe only me)
to me is seems like after the phone go on sleep, the connection to google services is lost, and it come back only after some several minutes (when probably a reconnection is being forced)..this is annoyng when chatting on gtalk...i also noticed that doesn't never happen if screen is on and im currently using gtalk for example..
currently im with stock JB 4.1.1 (see signature), but was happening with ICS also, and even with my previous htc desire..but now with JB seems to happen more often and in a fast way, it loose the push notification connection much sooner than ICS..and also, let me say: we are on android 4.1 and still google didn't fix this? wtf those android push are not reliable, and note that I'm a big android fan so..
its some bug on android or something wrong with my wifi router/network (even if I tried also in my parent house, and its same)?
also, i tried using static ip, google dns, 2.4ghz only..what else to try?
really appreciate some tips..thanks in advance! and sorry if my english not perfect!

No one?
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Does it do that on other devices that you own? (Nexus 7 maybe?)
Also, you're saying that this is happening after the update, right?

At the moment I have only this device
It happen before with ICS and also now with JB
But I don't think Im the only one that have this..
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So no one have delayed push notification under wifi??
/last bump

I have the similar problem (except I don't get notification unless I connect via mobile data).
Since on ICS, no push notifications over WiFi (everything works fine on mobile data though). Acc sync is on, WiFi set to never sleep (which I think doesn't really matter, because I'm not gettin any push notif. even when the phone is awake).
Also tried different ROMs, kernels, factory resets etc. (rooted), nothing helps. I have to open the app when I want notification update (using Gmail, Whatsapp, Foursquare, Friendcaster).
This is really a pain, could anyone help pls?
I use SGS GT-I9000, currently on SLIM rom, Semaphore kernel (see attached img).

Hey bro, is there any updated solution on the push notification failure on Jellly Bean???
It's frustrated to get in whatsapp for msg everytime.

gase888 said:
Hey bro, is there any updated solution on the push notification failure on Jellly Bean???
It's frustrated to get in whatsapp for msg everytime.
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the real solution is a good mobile carrier and a good wifi router
I think google will never take care of other's fault

andQlimax said:
the real solution is a good mobile carrier and a good wifi router
I think google will never take care of other's fault
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Disagree. As I tried (as suggested by others on XDA), i open whatsapp and then off the screen. The push notification works.
So it's not about the strength of signal.

The push notification framework is one service that run for all the apps.. So it's not related to one or to an other app
Whatsapp not use push notifications when you have it opened, it only use push after some minutes that you don't open it
Its not a problem of signal strength, is a problem of connection timeout... Every carrier have different timeout for long connections... The push connection is a long running connection, that should always be alive to work correctly
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I'VE FOUND A WORKAROUND of this no-push-notif during deep sleep problem.
Earlier, I tried holding partial wakelock so the device never sleep, this of course works alright, but drains battery very rapidly (5% / 30mins).
This is NOT ACCEPTABLE.
So, I tried something else :
automatically waking up the device regularly every 30mins, with the help of Tasker (which doesn't turn on the screen at all).
The result is :
7 hours after screen off and a good night sleep, in the morning I sent myself a BBMsg and it arrived perfectly in about 5 secs.
Battery consumption is totally acceptable : only 4% drop during 7 hours (dual sim ON, data ON).
That's days ago, and still works perfectly until now, I'm happy with it, so I'd like to share the AWESOMENESS.
I'm not sure about push notif from Google servers via GCM, I don't use any app which takes advantage of GCM, I only use BBM which uses its own servers.
In this case, you should first try adjusting heartbeat interval using PushNotificationFixer (which can't help me since it only resends heartbeat to Google server).
Tasker setup :
1. create new profile : Time
* uncheck both start & end time (so it starts and ends from midnight to midnight)
* check Repeat : every 6 minutes (during deep sleep, this 6 mins expands 5x to 30 mins)
2. add new task :
what you do in this task doesn't really matter, the point is to do something in a regular interval (I only use Alert Morse, so I know that the profile is still running)
GODSPEED !!!!
PS. :
if you're not familiar with Tasker, after installation you have to :
1. allow it as admin (system Settings > Device Administrators)
2. turn on its service (system Settings > Accessibility)
3. put it on auto-start list

App that alternates WiFi/data automatically?

Hello,I'm looking for an app that:
1.Enables WiFi when there's a network available (based on location or checking periodically every hour for example) and disables data the moment it connects.
2.Enables Data the moment I lose WiFi connection and automatically disables WiFi.
Simple,but I just can't find such an app.Most of the just switch on WiFi using location based rules but also leave Data ON.
Looking to maximize battery life without having to keep switching WiFi/Data ON or OFF myself.
N.
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Im pretty sure you can do that with tasker. Its a really cool app, you should try it out. Though it is quite complicated and not for beginners, good luck

OK,thanks.Is there any guide on how to get it to do what I describe in the first post?
Not sent from my Xperia.

No-one?
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