OK I know how to create a general shortcut, but what I am looking for is a way to create a shortcut to the BT connection to my cell. I have a WiFi only Xoom and when I am away from a hotspot I tether over BT to my cell. It would be great if I could make a shortcut so I would not have to go into settings>Bluetooth settings> etc. I use App Protector to password protect my settings page so what would normally take 6 clicks takes 10. A one click option sure would be nice.
Tasker. 'When Wifi not connected, connect bluetooth to device'
Thanks for the reply, but I do not want it to automatically tether. That would drastically reduce my cell phone battery life.
Why not wifi tether?
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HuckFinn said:
Thanks for the reply, but I do not want it to automatically tether. That would drastically reduce my cell phone battery life.
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I haven't messed with my tasker lately, but I think you can add a widget to activate certain profiles.
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Why not wifi tether?
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WiFi tethering would mean I have to do something with the phone to make it work. The beauty of the BT tether is that I never have to touch my phone. As long as bluetooth is on, I can simply connect from the Xoom and I am good.
Also for some reason I have had much better luck with the BT tethering. It seems the WiFi hotspot feature on my phone will shut off if there is too long of an idle time. I tried playing with the settings but still had issues where I had to restart it. BT tethering seems to be very stable.
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I haven't messed with my tasker lately, but I think you can add a widget to activate certain profiles.
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Thanks I will have to look into tasker. I have not used it and have heard it is pretty powerful, I will just have to consider if it is worth the $$.
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Thanks I will have to look into tasker. I have not used it and have heard it is pretty powerful, I will just have to consider if it is worth the $$.
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I have found it to be worth the money just in battery savings on my Epic.
Have it scheduled to turn off Mobile Data, and turn on wifi from 8-11:30, Data back on at 11:30-12:30 and Wifi on 12:30-5.
For my Milestone2 I could see where this would help with battery life a bit, but since this is a WiFi only Xoom I am having a hard time figuring out what else I could automate.
Since you are a user of Tasker, could I make a profile that would do the following?
-If there is no WiFi connection AND the screen is on connect via BT to cellphoneXXX.
-Once the screen goes off disconnect BT connection.
If I could set that up then I would be ok with it automatically connecting to my cell phone. I just do not want it sucking up battery power on my cell for background syncing of email, etc. Most of the day my Xoom has a WiFi connection so it is not that big of a deal.
HuckFinn said:
For my Milestone2 I could see where this would help with battery life a bit, but since this is a WiFi only Xoom I am having a hard time figuring out what else I could automate.
Since you are a user of Tasker, could I make a profile that would do the following?
-If there is no WiFi connection AND the screen is on connect via BT to cellphoneXXX.
-Once the screen goes off disconnect BT connection.
If I could set that up then I would be ok with it automatically connecting to my cell phone. I just do not want it sucking up battery power on my cell for background syncing of email, etc. Most of the day my Xoom has a WiFi connection so it is not that big of a deal.
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I will look when I get home, but I am 90% certain you can.
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Hi guys,
I am new to amdroid platform. I've been using symbian before this. I want to know as to how do I auto use wifi when. Available without manually turning it on. Below is a use case scenario.
I have configured wifi as well as gprs. I have turned off background sync so as to conserve battery and the wifi is off. Now when my active sync want to connect to server to synchronize emails, it should auto check if I have a nearby wifi already configured. If yes, then turn on the wifi, sync the data and close the connection thereby disconnecting from wlan. If a known wlan network is not available, use the data plan of my service provider to get the job done.
Now I know for sure that when I've wifi turned off, the phone is not always connected to 3G. It uses it only if requested by an application. But when I turn ON wifi, it always remains connected to the known network. I want to avoid this for saving battery.
Please let me know if there is an app for that. I am using HTC DESIRE Z running Froyo (non rooted). I dont mind rooting the phone for this thing but only if a standard way is not available.
Thanks in advance,
Karan
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I think Juice Defender does exactly what you're looking for.
Or Tasker if you really want to customize and make it location-based.
Good luck, and welcome to Android! I also came from Symbian.
Technically the phone can't know if there is wifi available unless wifi is on..
However, a tool like Tasker can use various contexts in order to determine if Wifi is to be turned on. For example you could use cell tower ID's to determine if you're at a certain (fairly wide area) location, like "at work". Or you could use GPS to get more fine tuned information, however it doesn't necessarily work indoors.
Or Tasker could also turn on Wifi if ActiveSync is running, assuming it's a distinct program it can detect.
I see in the time I opened the thread and responded someone else suggested Tasker as well. It's several bucks but it's well worth it, it does a LOT.
You should try an app called "Y5".
JuiceDefender does this for me. It must use gps positioning to determine if you are in an area that you have as a familiar wireless network. When I am home my wifi turns on and connects automatically. When I leave it shuts it off. JuiceDefender is great for many reasons beyond this.
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JuiceDefender does this for me. It must use gps positioning to determine if you are in an area that you have as a familiar wireless network.
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GPS uses tons more battery power than just leaving WiFi on would. It might be using cell tower triangulation for a rough area, but I doubt it. The most efficient way to detect if familiar wireless is near, is to turn the WiFi on for a minute or so and do a scan.
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Now I know for sure that when I've wifi turned off, the phone is not always connected to 3G. It uses it only if requested by an application. But when I turn ON wifi, it always remains connected to the known network. I want to avoid this for saving battery.
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WiFi doesn't use power to maintain the connection until it's needed, or something wakes it and it realizes its no longer connected. 3G uses power to track cell tower connectivity and stay connected, but it is very little. WiFi only uses more power when you're in an unfamiliar location, since it actively scans for new wireless networks.
Hi everybody,
Forgive me if the answer has been posted to this, but I have not been able to find it.
I live in a huge apartment, that sadly do not have proper wifi coverage. This means that when I am in half of the apartment I can reach my router but with signal so low that it is useless. The result is no wifi and no 3G unless I turn wifi off.
So I was thinking, when I am in the wifi reachable part of my apartment, I usually have my phone charging. I only use wifi for syncing, so charging is a good idea anyways.
So here is my question: Is there a way (or an app) that would make my Desire HD automatically turn on wifi ONLY when I connect to an AC charger or USB, and turn wifi off when I unplug the phone again?
This could make my life so much easier. I hope someone is able to help me with this.
Thanks in advance...
Kingkeld.
I think this is possible with tasker, but i am not sure
Or with SuperPower.
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I think this is possible with tasker, but i am not sure
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It is possible with tasker, I have a similar profile
Go for Tasker, it's a bit clunky but you'll pick up how to set the rules quickly.
Pretty sure you can set it up so that wifi will come on when it's plugged in and you're home (detected by the phone network) so that if you are at a friend's and plug your phone in it won't automatically turn wifi on.
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Go for Tasker, it's a bit clunky but you'll pick up how to set the rules quickly.
Pretty sure you can set it up so that wifi will come on when it's plugged in and you're home (detected by the phone network) so that if you are at a friend's and plug your phone in it won't automatically turn wifi on.
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Thanks, everyone. I will try them both out.
I can find plenty of apps that will turn on/off wifi based on GPS location, but I'd like to turn on/off GPS based on wifi connection. Is there an app out there (or combination of two apps) that will disable GPS when you are stationary and connected to a known wifi and then, once you disconnect/leave, it will turn on GPS and turn off Wifi? That way, the GPS location could turn on WiFi and connect to a known network and turn off GPS. Then, when you leave that location, it turns off the WiFi and turns back on the GPS. If the app(s) could also toggle sound profiles based on location/time, that would be great as well. I don't mind paying for the app, but free would be nice.
Try an app called auto WiFi enabler. It turns WiFi on when the network is in range. Works good for me that way I dnt have to turn on WiFi when I get home.
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Tasker or Settings Profiles are your best bet for these. SP is easy to configure but Tasker is much much more powerful in its profiles. Tasker is my fave.
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Sunblood said:
Tasker or Settings Profiles are your best bet for these. SP is easy to configure but Tasker is much much more powerful in its profiles. Tasker is my fave.
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I pulled up the info on Tasker and, when I saw what all it could do, my eyes widened and a "WOW!" escaped from my dropped jaw. What an incredible app! I think I can get it and delete multiple other apps that I'd downloaded to do different things. Thanks so much for pointing me to this. Sent some "thanks" your way.
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Hi, I'm new to android, but tech aware. Not sure if this is android or Sensation (I'm on XE with thanks to Mike1986).
I use WiFi a lot, but also wander. I tend to forget to turn off the WiFi when I leave work/home/pub - not top of my list!
Whilst I'm wandering I often try to look something up, when WiFi's scanning, and wait for ages.
Shouldn't the 'system' failover to phone data access if WiFi is not connected - or at least ask me for an action?
As I say, I'm new to this - apologies.
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yes, it should fail over to data if it is not connected to WIFI.
Correct. If you have wifi enabled, leave the area like to work that has no wifi, then yes mobile network takes over.
But I go one above and use Llama location profiles. Where depending where are based on the conditions you set, you can trigger actions using this app. The app is free in the market and is an invaluable tool for me when I am leaving work, heading to the car with my bt and gets connected because I set my condition to look for a bt device if I am no longer connected to my wifi at work.
Gotta love Android
Hmmm. That's not the behaviour I'm seeing. Just thought it was an irritation. Should failover be auto or is there settings (or apps) to control it? I like the concept of profiles ... But you've got to be more organised than I!
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Hmmm. That's not the behaviour I'm seeing. Just thought it was an irritation. Should failover be auto or is there settings (or apps) to control it? I like the concept of profiles ... But you've got to be more organised than I!
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It's auto. Like my n1, whenever I am in range of a known wifi connection, the wifi will auto connect if wifi was left on from the prior location or out of range and back again, if that makes sense lol...
So if you go out and are out of wifi range, and you manually turn off wifi, then no wifi won't auto connect of course.
Yes, that all works fine - when I'm wandering in and out of wifi zones. My gripe/question is :
When I am out of wifi range, and wifi is on (scanning), should the phone fall back to the phone data connection? The behaviour I see is that connecting just hangs until I turn wifi off.
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Hi.
I travel a lot from home to work and back (over 2h in one direction each day) and I want to be online all the time. There is no problem with my Galaxy S II because when I'm not in range of known wifi network phone automaticaly switches to 3G or GSM.
With my TF300T there is a small problem: when TF300T detects known wifi network it is connecting automatically (correct) but when I'm out of range of wifi I would like to automatically switch to internet via bluetooth connection (from paired Galaxy S II). At this moment I must to remeber each time to go into Settings->Bluetooth and click on device (phone) to reconect.
Is there any setting or app with will do this automatically each time wifi connection is lost?
Thx.
You might be able to do this with an app like tasker or llama. I haven't tried it myself though.
Thx for your reply.
Tasker is too expensive for that simple issue (I really don't need more from Tasker) but llama looks promising. I will test it.
Anyway I will be still looking for something simpler to do this. Any ideas?
PDAnet tablet comes close, it takes like one click. Not 100% automated, but it works for me so far.
Citruspers said:
PDAnet tablet comes close, it takes like one click. Not 100% automated, but it works for me so far.
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It's almost exactly what I need Thx