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turn off WiFi?

guys, is there any point turning off WiFi when not in use, or does it do the decent thing and stop using power when not actively in use?
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I'd imagine it still scans for networks so it will still use battery - I just have the toggle on one of my home screens and turn it on when needed

landwomble said:
guys, is there any point turning off WiFi when not in use, or does it do the decent thing and stop using power when not actively in use?
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from Market, get WiFi Status from Andrew Schwimmer, one of the very best android app developers. It doesn't do exactly what you want but it's the smartest detection app out there for letting you know when there is no wifi signal to connect to, thus prompting you to toggle off wifi. It displays in the Notification Bar.
As for turning off wifi, I tried about 10 home screen widgets; they are all the same more or less. To me the far greater tool is Quick Settings, which gives you one-click access from anywhere via the Notification Bar, vs having to navigate to home screen and find the widget. But in addition it has toggles for sound, brightness, data, gps, bluetooth, etc -- all in on fast app.
I think it blows all these single-function widgets away as dumb.

So if my phone is on, screen off, in my pocket, it'll be constantly looking for wifi? If this is the case it's, well, dumb. Ta for tip about quick settings, just installed it and it's very nice.

landwomble said:
So if my phone is on, screen off, in my pocket, it'll be constantly looking for wifi? If this is the case it's, well, dumb. Ta for tip about quick settings, just installed it and it's very nice.
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then try wifinder -- i mused ti use that, but with quick setings i dont bothher any more

Add the widget 'Power Control' for one-touch bluetooth/wifi/gps/sync/brightness control....

landwomble said:
So if my phone is on, screen off, in my pocket, it'll be constantly looking for wifi? If this is the case it's, well, dumb. Ta for tip about quick settings, just installed it and it's very nice.
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Not sure it would be scanning for wifi when the screen is off. That would be daft. Ntework coverage yes, but wouldnt think wifi until you turn on the screen. Anyone confirm?

no, it stays on when the screen is off.
Seems so many people complained about it turning off in standby that google went ahead and changed it.
now it defaults to staying on forever until manually turned off.

Go to Settings> Wireless & Networks > Wi-Fi Settings > [Menu] > Advanced > Wi-Fi sleep policy. I set mine to 'after 15 mins'... if I understood this setting correctly then after 15 minutes of the phone being in Sleep mode it'd turn off the Wi-Fi. I don't use mobile data anyway so that's irrelevant. Wi-Fi will turn on again once I activate the screen.

blimey, that's well hidden.
what a stupid arrangement. WiFi should be on demand, and enabled only when data requests it, like the iPhone.
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I use "Y5 - Battery Saver" for my wireless shenanigans

I am using 'Y5 battery save'r. It turns on wifi if you are on a location where you had a wifi connection and turns it off if you go elsewhere. You can manage the locations in the program. It can use the GPS or radio for the locations. You will find it in the market place.

4G on boot up question

I notice that every time I reboot my phone, 4G turns on for about 10 seconds after boot up (by itself) and then turns off. It was not on when I powered off the phone. Is this normal behavior, and if so, does anyone know why?

If you have switchpro installed, this is normal.
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fachadick said:
If you have switchpro installed, this is normal.
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Yes, I do... Is it a bug? Why does Switchpro do this?

Matt_TX said:
Yes, I do... Is it a bug? Why does Switchpro do this?
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I've been crowing about this for ages - it doesn't have nearly the attention it should. It actually has to do with how switchpro fixed a bug with the 4g toggle from a previous version. If you have switchpro installed, it acts almost as a master switch for 4g. So when you turn the phone on, it will turn on 4g for a bit, then see the switchpro toggle setting is off, then shut it off again (previous versions it would turn on 4g whenever you rebooted, and leave it on). This is also why if you have it installed, you can't turn on 4g from the settings menu right off the bat - you have to turn it on through switchpro first, and then you can turn it back off and back on through settings, or just use the switchpro 4g toggle exclusively, instead of going into settings.

fachadick said:
I've been crowing about this for ages - it doesn't have nearly the attention it should. It actually has to do with how switchpro fixed a bug with the 4g toggle from a previous version. If you have switchpro installed, it acts almost as a master switch for 4g. So when you turn the phone on, it will turn on 4g for a bit, then see the switchpro toggle setting is off, then shut it off again (previous versions it would turn on 4g whenever you rebooted, and leave it on). This is also why if you have it installed, you can't turn on 4g from the settings menu right off the bat - you have to turn it on through switchpro first, and then you can turn it back off and back on through settings, or just use the switchpro 4g toggle exclusively, instead of going into settings.
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Interesting, so other than being sightly annoying, does this cause any other issues (eg. battery drain, etc.)?
If I uninstall SwitchPro does it fix the issue?
Are there any alternatives to SwitchPro that don't do this?
Thanks,
Matt_TX

Matt_TX said:
Interesting, so other than being sightly annoying, does this cause any other issues (eg. battery drain, etc.)?
If I uninstall SwitchPro does it fix the issue?
Are there any alternatives to SwitchPro that don't do this?
Thanks,
Matt_TX
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I'm sure it drains the battery a bit, but I haven't found it draining enough where it was an issue (for me anyway). Uninstalling should fix that, and there are a few other control panel and toggle widgets out there that I don't think have this issue - all of their names escape me at the moment though. Sorry

Thanks bro totally fixed my problem with my 4g!!!
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Interesting. I'm actually using the Beautiful Widgets 4G toggle and it does the same thing - it just doesn't turn it off. When you restart the phone, it'll turn 4G on. This also happens whenever you turn on Airplane Mode, which is particularly annoying.

[Q] Cyanogen Radios Widget

Has anyone else noticed that the radios widget is no longer in Cyanogens 7.0.2.1? This is the widget that you can toggle the radios off and on in. I use this quite a bit as I do WiFi in my house, have Wimax at work and I trvel very heavily so I use airplane mode quite a bit.
-Don

dtabbs said:
Has anyone else noticed that the radios widget is no longer in Cyanogens 7.0.2.1? This is the widget that you can toggle the radios off and on in. I use this quite a bit as I do WiFi in my house, have Wimax at work and I trvel very heavily so I use airplane mode quite a bit.
-Don
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I have that widget on my home screen right now, running CM7.0.2.1 it is called power control, and you just long press on the home screen, choose widget, and power control, then you choose which controls you want.

Its still there.
Settings > CM Settings > Interface > Notification Power Widgets
Scroll down to mobile data [3G], Wimax is your 4G, and Wifi toggle AP [hotspot]

Muellersirch said:
I have that widget on my home screen right now, running CM7.0.2.1 it is called power control, and you just long press on the home screen, choose widget, and power control, then you choose which controls you want.
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Thanks, don't know why I could not find it previously.
-Don
P.S. This is BS that I have to wait five minutes to edit a post. can't do a ninja edit that way...

No problem man.

Add wifi on off in quick menu?

To save a lot of my battery life I have widget to turn off wifi when I'm just playing a game or reading. I notice on my 10 inch Lenovo tablet there is a wifi toggle on/off why isn't it there for the a100? Is there any way to enable it or add it on? I know I can use the widgets but If I'm already reading or playing a game it a PITA to have to go back to home screen just to toggle wifi via widget rather than just launching the quick menu to disable it.

The notification menu allows for the toggling of airplane mode. Is that sufficient? (Three clicks to popup, click the settings icon, and toggle the mode). I think there is a way to add an icon on the desktop for a single click. I need to look into that later today.
When you say "quick menu," do you mean the three button ribbon? I don't know how to add or remove anything from there, but I would be interested in learning. I would also be interested in hiding it or using swiping to toggle it. I will try to look into this too.

I used curvefish Widgets for one tap wifi on-off and autorotation lock. (not a fan of physical switches) I am now using Beautiful Widgets toggle switches for Wifi and rotation since it was only 10 cents in the market.

bakura82 said:
The notification menu allows for the toggling of airplane mode. Is that sufficient? (Three clicks to popup, click the settings icon, and toggle the mode). I think there is a way to add an icon on the desktop for a single click. I need to look into that later today.
When you say "quick menu," do you mean the three button ribbon? I don't know how to add or remove anything from there, but I would be interested in learning. I would also be interested in hiding it or using swiping to toggle it. I will try to look into this too.
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You're right I could just toggle airplane mode which should turn off wifi. I'm gonna see if this also turns off GPS. Thanks.
I think the wifi toggle doesn't exist in the 7 inch tablets. I saw a video of a flyer with honeycomb and it didn't have it eithrt but it did have airplane toggle.

aznmode said:
You're right I could just toggle airplane mode which should turn off wifi. I'm gonna see if this also turns off GPS. Thanks.
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The Airplane toggle does not turn off the GPS. At least, I use the GPS while in Airplane mode quite frequently (e.g. navigation apps, geocaching app, and etc.). There is a possibility that I am disabling the GPS with Airplane mode and then manually turning on the GPS when I activate a related app. I need to test that.
littleemp said:
...curvefish Widgets...
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I looked this up (haven't tried it yet) and it looks promising. Of course, you have to go to the main menu.
I wonder if there is a way to modify the Android ribbon on that has the back, home, and switch app buttons. I believe you called that the "Quick Menu." Still need to look that up. I would personally love to remove the Home button (since we have capacitive Acer home key) and maybe add another button.

aznmode said:
I'm gonna see if this also turns off GPS.
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I just confirmed that toggling Airplane mode has no effect on the GPS. In order for me to turn off the GPS, I have to toggle the GPS setting.

Since this isn't a phone, is "Airplane Mode" nothing more than a WiFi toggle?
The Curvefish GPS won't show up on my list of widgets.
I downloaded the Toggle Widgets Pack which gives me a GPS widget that just sends me directly to the GPS settings rather than toggles it on and off.
The TW widgets for WiFi, Airplane mode, Bluetooth, etc do act as a toggle though. Odd.

RangerJay said:
Since this isn't a phone, is "Airplane Mode" nothing more than a WiFi toggle?
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I am pretty sure it toggles bluetooth as well. Of course, I have to look that up.

The bluetooth I dont really use and the GPS havent yet the need to use to so for now the airplane mode will do. Previously I was using a wifi on off widget in my home screen to turn it off now I dont have to leave any game or watching a video to turn it off. Thanks for the advice!

Np. Enjoy!
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The best toggle app I have found is Widgetsoid2.x. It puts the toggle buttons into the Notifications menu, so to toggle WiFi off/on I just click once for the Notification Menu, once for the toggle, then click back to the main screen.

jschall said:
The best toggle app I have found is Widgetsoid2.x. It puts the toggle buttons into the Notifications menu, so to toggle WiFi off/on I just click once for the Notification Menu, once for the toggle, then click back to the main screen.
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I used widgetsoid on my gtab before but i didnt know it can add those to the notification menu. I'll have to try it...thanks.
Just installed it...I see in the market images it can be added to android 2.3 or below. Can you show me how to add it in the notification bar on the bottom for honeycomb?
EDIT: It seems a big buggy an too redundant since you already have it in the notification bar also. Thanks for the tip though.

aznmode said:
Can you show me how to add it in the notification bar on the bottom for honeycomb?
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Just enable notifications in the settings.

Free Power Widget
Download the Free Power Widget and you have control of wifi-gps- and whatever .
Very nice.

tohoro said:
Download the Free Power Widget and you have control of wifi-gps- and whatever .
Very nice.
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At this point I already have toggle widgets. But he mentioned an app that can add the toggle in the status bar on the bottom (atleast thats what I think hes saying). This would be better since it doesnt require me to go to home screen.

I'm Using MoreQuicklyPanel...

spino1970 said:
I'm Using MoreQuicklyPanel...
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Thank you! Looking at the images it looks very nice and matches the HC quick setting perfectly. Widgetsoid was good too but I think was kinda buggy so I never really used it. Gonna try yours now. Thanks again......
EDIT: Just installed it. Love that it matches honeycomb and you cant really tell its an add on. It is someone redundant though cause it also shows a notification icon in the bottom bar. But I'm not complaining.
EDIT2: Found theres setting to disable icon in notification bar.

data 3g toggle help?

To save battery I like to have my data off & only turn it on when checking smthn. Is there a widget /app that gives me access to turning it on directly on my home screen instead of going through settings etc... ?

psixichka said:
To save battery I like to have my data off & only turn it on when checking smthn. Is there a widget /app that gives me access to turning it on directly on my home screen instead of going through settings etc... ?
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Data Enabler. Works great and has a widget!

Data switch works awesome also. Just place the icon on one of your screens and hit on our off and toggles off and on.
Sent from my Samsung Epic 4G Touch.

Unamed rom has it in the notification bar

phatmanxxl said:
Unamed rom has it in the notification bar
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Does it have the 4g hotspot? And can I use diff themes with it( confused as to how I use themes)?
Tia

Yea and there are a few themes in the appropriate section.

What would be ideal is a simple toggle widget that you press once and it turns off 3G and turns wifi on all with one press. That would make switching from 3G to wifi super quick and easy.

cds0699 said:
What would be ideal is a simple toggle widget that you press once and it turns off 3G and turns wifi on all with one press. That would make switching from 3G to wifi super quick and easy.
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Tasker will let you make that script, and thousands of others as specific and awesome as you can make them