Is there an app that will auto turn off 4g and turn it back on when I lose connection? I know the areas that I have 4g and turn it off when going out of those areas. However, there's a couple dead spots in town that kick me off when I'm driving around and it never reconnects by itself. I've tried editing the wimax settings, but none of them reconnect for me.
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I bought, but never used, the profiles app. I don't know if it can be configured to do what you want. I think it might be able to do things based on the time of day or location. I'm sure someone that uses that app could tell you if rules could be made up with it to do what you're looking for.
That's a good idea. I have Tasker, but didn't think about that. I will look into that in the mean time. thanks
ok I think tasker is a little too advanced for me to figure out how to do that. I just use i for basic things so far hehe.
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I bought, but never used, the profiles app. I don't know if it can be configured to do what you want. I think it might be able to do things based on the time of day or location. I'm sure someone that uses that app could tell you if rules could be made up with it to do what you're looking for.
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Anyone know of anything? I've spent a good part of my day trying to find an alternative to Mobile Defense with no luck. I would rather not put all my information out there and txt messaging would be a good alternative to using an internet connection. SU access is no problem.
So you want to turn on your GPS by sending a text message to your phone?
check out the app on the market called wheres my droid, its free and does what your asking i found it last night so i am not sure if it does what it says or not but its worth checking out.
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So you want to turn on your GPS by sending a text message to your phone?
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Yup, that way if I ever lose it somewhere I don't have to worry about the GPS being off. If that happens you're stuck going by what towers it's pinging and that will give you a 3-5 mile area.
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check out the app on the market called wheres my droid, its free and does what your asking i found it last night so i am not sure if it does what it says or not but its worth checking out.
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Where's my Droid is what I was going to use to get it's location. Only thing is the GPS has to already be on for it to work.
ah i didnt know that, like i said have only had it since last night, but id say that with SU access you should be able to do anything so im sure someone with more knowledge then me can come up with an answer but i doubt that it cant be done.
I've read (and I could be wrong) that leaving GPS on all the time won't kill your battery like you'd think. It only uses resources when it's actually getting GPS data, which is signaled by the GPS icon in your notification bar. I've been leaving mine on all the time for weeks, and I still get 36+ hours of normal usage just like I did when I was clicking it off all the time except when I wanted to navigate something.
And then you could use Where's My Droid's GPS feature.
Try Lookout and see if it suits your needs.
As most, I also keep my GPS off to conserve battery life.
I am looking for an app that can turn on my GPS remotely, in the event that I ever lose my phone.
So far a quick search found two:
mobile defense (which I cannot find in the market)
and Tasker
Are there any more out there? Anyone else have something else to recommend?
If u have an Android phone, check out lookout mobile security
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cLo013 said:
If u have an Android phone, check out lookout mobile security
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I posted my question in the Evo 4G Thems and Apps section. Of course I have an Android! lmfao
I already have Lookout. How is Lookout going to determine my GPS location if I have the GPS radio turned OFF all the time?
The question was, how can you turn ON the GPS feature remotely???
Here's an idea -- use an app that can schedule your GPS to be on at a certain time every day. Or is that your idea with Tasker?
Tasker and mobile defense (i believe) have the capability of you sending a text to your phone and activating features. Which is exactly what I need.
I am looking to see what else is there available and obviously, reports from EVO users themselves...
I believe wavesecure can turn on gps for rooted phones. I leave my gps on all the time and doesn't eat up much battery with how well kernels run now. Is there still a big difference in battery life with it on than off? If you're rooted and don't mind paying $20/yr for subscription, then wavesecure is an option. Don't know many other apps that can remotely turn on gps itself. Most apps can be remotely activated with sms for tracking, but don't think they can turn on the gps module. Hopefully, someone could be more helpful.
Lookout will turn on your GPS if off. Have used it a few times to find my wife's EVO. Works well.
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Leaving gps "on" does not use battery. The gps is only on when a program that uses it is running. Leave it on...
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Leaving gps "on" does not use battery. The gps is only on when a program that uses it is running. Leave it on...
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While that is true, consider this scenario:
Your phone isn't lost, but stolen. If the thief is smart but not too smart, he'll turn off GPS with a widget. Having the ability to turn it on remotely would be a valuable feature in this case.
SteelH said:
While that is true, consider this scenario:
Your phone isn't lost, but stolen. If the thief is smart but not too smart, he'll turn off GPS with a widget. Having the ability to turn it on remotely would be a valuable feature in this case.
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LOOKout will turn on the gps when you do search it. i can confirm this
edisepic said:
LOOKout will turn on the gps when you do search it. i can confirm this
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Thanx for the advice. I will definitely look into this as I already have Lookout.
And yes, leaving GPS on all the time is definitely not an option as I need to cover all bases - I always prepare for worst case scenarios.
Which leads me to the following:
If Lookout does indeed work in this manner, it will be a "good" fix but not an "excellent" fix. Remember worst case scenarios?
That's right - The first thing any educated thief would do is reset the phone, which would remove Lookout!
I read somewhere that Mobile Defense will not be affected by a phone reset.
I have to research this on Tasker though.
BTW - yes my Evo is also rooted and overclocked with custom kernel. So you can suggest pretty much any app to me...
Newbie_from_NJ said:
I posted my question in the Evo 4G Thems and Apps section. Of course I have an Android! lmfao
I already have Lookout. How is Lookout going to determine my GPS location if I have the GPS radio turned OFF all the time?
The question was, how can you turn ON the GPS feature remotely???
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Lookout can also find your phone using the mobile network. It will give you an approximated location, but it is very handy when your phone is out of GPS signal reach. I can confirm this as I have tried it myself.
Is there a way to setup the phone so it will only use your home wifi when it is available? I don't want to manually have to change this all the time. I want it to use my home network when it can connect to it. If it can't then use 4g. Anyone?
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Is there a way to setup the phone so it will only use your home wifi when it is available? I don't want to manually have to change this all the time. I want it to use my home network when it can connect to it. If it can't then use 4g. Anyone?
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In cyanogen there are profiles you can set.
But if you're stock there are third party apps that you can use. I believe they even track your location to know if you're home or not.
Or just leave WiFi on all the time and it will connect when in range. But might kill your battery quicker since it will be scanning constantly
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Thanks for your response. How do you give someone a thank you or whatever its called? Someone flipped me **** because I hadnt given any. I dont know how.
I use LLama ---> https://play.google.com/store/apps/...t#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5rZWJhYi5MbGFtYSJd
My wife uses [email protected] ---> https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5hZWJlaW5yb3RoLndpZmlob21lIl0.
They both work. LLama does so much more than what you desire and [email protected] only does what you want.
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Thanks for your response. How do you give someone a thank you or whatever its called? Someone flipped me **** because I hadnt given any. I dont know how.
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Click the thanks button on the left side under the name and post count. If you're on the xda app just click the post.
I'm pretty sure the phone will only connect to a network when you tell it to so you can just leave wifi on. From my experience wifi didn't really use that much more power. It'll just connect automatically within range.
Additionally, there's ways to change the scan interval times so it doesn't check constantly.
If you wanna impress some folks buy some Nfc tags and set them up.
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Benn running MOAR v2.2 for a few days and love it. But I've noticed something when wifi is turned on. If I'm on the wifi settings screen, I can see it scanning about every 5-6 seconds for new wifi signals, even though I'm signed into my home router with a good signal.
Network notification is turned off. I'm running the stock kernel.
Couldn't find anything in the moar thread about this.
Wondering if it's just me or if others also have this happening but just haven't noticed? Because you wouldn't know unless you're on the wifi settings screen with wifi turned on.
Can anyone verify this?
Any ideas on how to make it stop constantly scanning?
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Benn running MOAR v2.2 for a few days and love it. But I've noticed something when wifi is turned on. If I'm on the wifi settings screen, I can see it scanning about every 5-6 seconds for new wifi signals, even though I'm signed into my home router with a good signal.
Network notification is turned off. I'm running the stock kernel.
Couldn't find anything in the moar thread about this.
Wondering if it's just me or if others also have this happening but just haven't noticed? Because you wouldn't know unless you're on the wifi settings screen with wifi turned on.
Can anyone verify this?
Any ideas on how to make it stop constantly scanning?
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Well, this has nothing to do with your rom or kernel...thats just how the wifi is implemented. And you cant turn it off, unless you want to use wifi at all that is, this is to make sure you still have wifi access and to update the wifi networks that show up listed
You can make the scan interval longer by setting the "wifi_supplicant_scan_interval" (or something along those lines) to a higher value in your build.prop (located at /system/build.prop)
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Well, this has nothing to do with your rom or kernel...thats just how the wifi is implemented. And you cant turn it off, unless you want to use wifi at all that is, this is to make sure you still have wifi access and to update the wifi networks that show up listed
You can make the scan interval longer by setting the "wifi_supplicant_scan_interval" (or something along those lines) to a higher value in your build.prop (located at /system/build.prop)
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Thanks for the reply.
I also eventually found the answer by searching (of course), and the moment I found it, I had a horrible thought. OMG did I get a furry little animal killed?
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Thanks for the reply.
I also eventually found the answer by searching (of course), and the moment I found it, I had a horrible thought. OMG did I get a furry little animal killed?
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Lol what?
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Lol what?
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I've been doing tons of reading here and I've seen some devs saying, "every time someone asks a question that could have been answered by searching, a cute furry animal dies." lol
Reminded me of an old National Lampoon cover with a picture of a dog with a gun to it's head. Next to the picture it said "If you don't buy this magazine, we'll kill this dog!" One of the best covers of any magazine EVER. I cant post pics yet but google that phrase and you can see it.
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I've been doing tons of reading here and I've seen some devs saying, "every time someone asks a question that could have been answered by searching, a cute furry animal dies." lol
Reminded me of an old National Lampoon cover with a picture of a dog with a gun to it's head. Next to the picture it said "If you don't buy this magazine, we'll kill this dog!" One of the best covers of any magazine EVER. I cant post pics yet but google that phrase and you can see it.
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We have given our young daughters Galaxy S ll’s. Our cell provider is kajeet.com which has decent parental controls on phone usage including Internet access via the cell connection. But kajeet doesn’t affect the wifi connection. Hence, Internet access is available.
We would like to shut down the wifi and have the phones used only for texting and talk. The girls have other forms of (monitored) Internet access.
Does anyone have a solution for shutting down the wifi connection?
I have done quite a bit of research on the web for an answer and haven’t come up with anything that is largely within our control.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Jona
First up, what model phone are we talking about (sticker on the phone chassis under the battery) ? Reason I ask is, I noticed Kajeet uses Sprint, which means there's a good chance you're in the wrong forum. As the I9100 wasn't sold in great numbers in the US, various carriers have their own variants, which have their own forums here.
I honestly doubt you can do it (I'm not aware of any way to block access outright), you can probably use one of the myriad security apps on Google Play to block WiFi access to individual apps (I.E all of them). But that might be different for different SGS2 variants (being an I9100 forum, I only know this for the I9100).
If you do have a different variant, we'll have the thread moved & maybe those who have the same phone might be able to tell you something different.
Months ago on cm10.1 i had managed to completely disable wifi by accident on numerous occasions by flashing old versions of dorimanx kernels that update the wifi drivers, then flash stock cm kernel again that uses old drivers, couldn't turn wifi on or off until I reflashed cm, so it is indeed possible. Not sure how you'd go about this. Maybe remove wifi drivers from rom if you are rooted? Sorry I'm not much help, just thought I'd share this.
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my opinion, disableing wifi from a young kid will not stop him to access internet from any other place instead it will make him search and found more just because he dont have easy access to information he want. soo this is not the right thing to do but start takling to him and understanding his
needs will do more good. But this is just my opinion it seems thees days there are too many ways to find out things and there is noone who can shut them all off. Cheers!!
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It does look like I belong on a different forum.
>>>there's a good chance you're in the wrong forum
You are correct. My phone is a SPH-0710. Can you please port me over to where I am supposed to be?
Thank you for your help. This has been a frustrating experience, and it is reassuring to have someone take it seriously. I appreciate your taking your time to head me in the right direction.
Jona
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>>>there's a good chance you're in the wrong forum
You are correct. My phone is a SPH-0710. Can you please port me over to where I am supposed to be?
Thank you for your help. This has been a frustrating experience, and it is reassuring to have someone take it seriously. I appreciate your taking your time to head me in the right direction.
Jona
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/epic-4g-touch
jonaona said:
We have given our young daughters Galaxy S ll’s. Our cell provider is kajeet.com which has decent parental controls on phone usage including Internet access via the cell connection. But kajeet doesn’t affect the wifi connection. Hence, Internet access is available.
We would like to shut down the wifi and have the phones used only for texting and talk. The girls have other forms of (monitored) Internet access.
Does anyone have a solution for shutting down the wifi connection?
I have done quite a bit of research on the web for an answer and haven’t come up with anything that is largely within our control.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Jona
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I'm a Moto Atrix 4G and HD user. I know from development on the 4G, we could disable the wifi by not installing certain packages or flashing a kernel without the required lib/module files. I'm in the middle of fixing a friend's S2/Epic 4G touch and I saw this thread. I would think that something similar would be available here, but i am just starting out with this process of helping my friend out so I'm not sure what files really affect the wifi. I'm sure you could root the device and delete the files that enable wifi access, but I'd have to do some digging for that before i advise any further.