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[Request} Wifi Calling toggle widget?

It would be super handy to be able to toggle on and off without going into the app. Anybody up to it?

Keep it enabled and toggle on and off wifi with beautiful widgets or power control and boom same thing!
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jland22 said:
Keep it enabled and toggle on and off wifi with beautiful widgets or power control and boom same thing!
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While that is an option, it's not quite the same thing. There are times when I simply want to toggle off wifi calling quickly and keep wifi connected. Am I alone?

jland22 said:
Keep it enabled and toggle on and off wifi with beautiful widgets or power control and boom same thing!
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thats a very dumb solution considering how much wifi calling running drains the battery.

A widget would be nice
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1098687
I wrote some Tasker scripts that provide an "Enable" and a "Disable" button for wifi calling. They require Tasker and the Locale Execute Plugin.
It essentially freezes/unfreezes Wifi Calling so it doesn't drain battery when not in use. It also toggles wifi on when the app is enabled, and when disabled (if necessary)... it gives a few seconds after WIFI changes to allow for the app and phone radio to not cause force closes.
An enterprising individual could *probably* combine the two scripts into a single widget.

sincest said:
thats a very dumb solution considering how much wifi calling running drains the battery.
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I was being sarcastic however Doesn't drain mine... Phone radio uses more battery for me but good luck finding.
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jland22 said:
I was being sarcastic however Doesn't drain mine... Phone radio uses more battery for me but good luck finding.
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On the Vibrant, at least, the Wifi Calling App is frequently the #1 user of CPU time even when Wifi calling itself is disabled. I don't know if it has the same problem on the G2x, but if you check with SystemPanel's logging, you might find that it does. This is why some of us go to extreme measures to freeze/disable the app when not in use.

[REQ] wireless network manager that works

Has anybody had any luck with wireless network connection managers on the Charge? I used Green Power on the Fascinate, but it doesn't seem to work here. Even if I have 4G disabled, data will not turn on when the phone wakes up. Active data when the phone is sleeping is killing my battery.
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Are you talking about wifi? If so then you can set it to turn off when the phone is asleep. Settings-wifi settings-advanced settings.
If you're talking about 3g/4G data then I guess you'd just toggle it on and off via the pull down switch?
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LANAtron said:
Are you talking about wifi? If so then you can set it to turn off when the phone is asleep. Settings-wifi settings-advanced settings.
If you're talking about 3g/4G data then I guess you'd just toggle it on and off via the pull down switch?
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I'm mostly talking about the 3G/4G data. I manually toggle wifi when I'm at home, and have it off when I'm out. Green Power did a good job managing the mobile data while the phone was sleeping, but it's not working well on the Charge. It will turn the data off after the screen turns off, but it won't turn back on when the phone is unlocked. I'm trying Juice Defender, bit so far, I'm not sure if it is working, since the free version doesn't have too many custom settings.
*update* JD isn't working for me. Mobile data was still on while the screen was off for at least 10 minutes. uninstalled. I'll keep trying. */update*
I have also noticed that this phone does not sleep when it's charging, it locks in at 100 MHz when the phone should be sleeping (never saw this on the Fascinate). I'm running PBJ_voodoo under stock rooted rom.
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So it puts in like airplane mode when sleeping, Pretty slick.
I would still go into your wireless settings to have your wifi turn off when at sleep for when you're at home. It saved me a ton of battery at the house and that feature is not available for most phones.
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Somewhat like airplane mode, except only for mobile data, voice signal stays active.
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I can confirm that both Green power and JD do not work for data control...well JD does sorta...it will turn the 4G off and on but it will have issues turning it back on if it changed to 3g..there is a mode that you can highlight if it has troubles re engaging the data but it takes a few minutes and then it totally resets the connection including the phone service...at least thats what happened for me. Both control the wifi fine though. I have yet to find a service that can control the 4g consistently but I would like one

WTF?!? I live just outside of an LTE zone, so I have my network set to CDMA. I've gone all day with data turned off, and battery is still at 30% (16.5 hours since unplugged). I've switched the data on a couple times during the day, but only for short periods, which is what these apps are supposed to do. It just sucks that they don't work. Even on a good day with the fascinate, I never got close to this kind of battery. *sigh*
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Is there anyway to turn off lte?

I am using the the latest sky pics, is there anyway to turn on/off the lte/3g
Thanks
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Not aware of anyway to switch to 3G only, but I know gingerbread has an option for hspa/GSM and GSM only mode. I just use a different apn to access atts hspa+ only network, gets me around throttling. Running sky ics ucle2
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Yeah thanks, just came from captivate with slim ics, and it had that option to turn off 3g. Just hope there is way to turn it off to save some battery
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spiderman905 said:
Yeah thanks, just came from captivate with slim ics, and it had that option to turn off 3g. Just hope there is way to turn it off to save some battery
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Use seans sky ics rom, incredible battery life. TIP: Some dont know this, but if you go into wifi where it shows what access points are in reach, hit menu and an advanced menu will pop up. Tell wifi to only stay on while charging.
If i am on wifi and pocket the phone, wifi will turn off while sleeping, it will still use cell data though, but saves battery big time while sleeping. I have had the skyrocket for a few months now and I am pretty normal to heavy user and I can easily get a whole day. 16 hours+ with data on at all times.
The sky ICS rom does allow you to tuen data off completley within the 15 toggle mod that is baked into the rom.

Yeah that's the rom I'm using, but I was just wondering if I can have data on but lte and 3g off, thanks for trying to help anyways
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Tests have shown that the LTE radio is on even if using a different APN or 3G Only mode (Rogers GB)
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Any idea what's causing this

It's like my radio sleeps sometimes. This screen shot shows no data. Once I wake my phone data reconnects. I don't think this is caused by no signal.
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Looks like you live in a so so signal area, the closer it is to green then the greater your signal is. I would think that's an issue with the towers in your area cuz as you know the signal fluctuates often even while sleep.
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Thanks. I don't understand why it shows no signal when there was signal. As soon as I woke the phone it reconnected to the tower. There's a delay when it switches from 4g, 3g and 1x....This long area of red was probably the phone stuck in the delay between switching? While trying to submit this post I just lost data in a strong 4G area..... I don't get it.
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How often within a day/week does this occur? That's still odd behavior that you lose signal or notice signal degradation while sleeping.
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This happens once or twice per day. Seems to happen in areas with less than great signal, that's why I think it is maybe getting stuck in the transition between 3g and 1x. No idea why it stays stuck once I move to an area with better signal.... Seems like the radio is sleeping until I wake the device.
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It happened to me before. Try to go to flight/airplane mode and back. It should reset everything. I also sometimes press and hold the home button , then remove all applications and go to ram memory and clear it.
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That does work but we should not have to do that in the first place. Hopefully a update will fix the data problems.
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Ryno77 said:
This happens once or twice per day. Seems to happen in areas with less than great signal, that's why I think it is maybe getting stuck in the transition between 3g and 1x. No idea why it stays stuck once I move to an area with better signal.... Seems like the radio is sleeping until I wake the device.
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Are you stock? if no, what ROM are you running? Are you rooted? what apps are installed.
If you have CWM recovery, i would try to wipe cache and reboot, see if it helps at all?? if you don't have much installed, i would say do a full system restore...

one other thing, are you losing data, ie; not getting text and or phone calls? Also, check to see if you have any battery savers checked. Might be just a method of saving battery by shutting off data until it is needed.

EpicMangina said:
Are you stock? if no, what ROM are you running? Are you rooted? what apps are installed.
If you have CWM recovery, i would try to wipe cache and reboot, see if it helps at all?? if you don't have much installed, i would say do a full system restore...
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I am on stock not even rooted. Phone is a week and a half old.... I am willing to wipe data if you think it would help.
goldsmitht said:
one other thing, are you losing data, ie; not getting text and or phone calls? Also, check to see if you have any battery savers checked. Might be just a method of saving battery by shutting off data until it is needed.
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As far as I know I am not missing phone calls or texts. Power saver is turned off. I am basically running the phone the way it came brand new (not many apps, no root, no unlock.... Yet).
Thanks for the replies. Any chance a factory reset would help? My mute/vibrate functions in settings do not mute the phone either... Still get audible notifications and phone rings like normal. Unrelated to the data issue but still weird for a new stock phone.
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I'm not going to lie. I don't know if it will help or not. But if you are stock and got nothing to lose it would give it a shot. Can't hurt? Also, as others have said, it sounds ds like it could be because of signal strength. A lot of variables though.
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Data wipe did not fix the mute problem. I am very annoyed. Will see how my radio acts today after the wipe.
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Just found a post on Verizon's forum regarding this problem. Apparently I was right when I said there was a issue when switching from 4g/3g/1x.
51. Re: Galaxy S3 Worst Cell Service Of Any Phone EVER!
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Wildman Aug 18, 2012 3:43 PM (in response to BigClyde)
Now before I say this I want to make it clear that I am not representing Verizon or Samsung in any way with this post, I am just updating the users on what I have identified from the test of my device on this reported issue.... So with that said you can take this accordingly..
Ok everyone about the reported connection issues reported, I recently have been able to duplicate the signaling issue reported on my S3 and it appears to be miner for me at the moment but I can say that it is present.. I recently attempted to isolate the bug and I learned that when I placed it in my test rig to monitor the device in the weakest area in my house the software would temporarily powers down the radio for a few seconds that causes the device to loose all connections (Wifi, Bluetooth, 4G and some times also the network connection), this only happens in a weak connection area and it does appear it could be a software related bug with how the radio drivers handles switching the connection from one connection to another.
From the test results this does not appear to be a hardware issue but I do agree that this could be a pain for a user on the border of a 3G and 4G connection because any connection change causes a crash or radio and force restart.
I have reported this to CS and it appears to be a situation that is being looked into and a solution is possibly in the works... Eventho this isnt a major issue for me at this time, I hope to see a update to address this soon.
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Ryno77 said:
It's like my radio sleeps sometimes. This screen shot shows no data. Once I wake my phone data reconnects. I don't think this is caused by no signal.
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check any settings you may have done in the "Profiles" option? is that on a option in settings on the stock rom, lol, cant really remember

What a joke. This really irritates me.
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This is frustrating. I have lost signal now two times and needed a reboot to get it back. When I did, I was not only losing data, but phone also. I would get this barrage of texts and missed calls.
I am rooted and unlocked, so there in itself could lie a problem, but it comes without warning and the phone appears to be working. Would the SIM card really effect that?
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Someone use juicedefender?

I discovered it in the store, but the tf700 has already a suspension mode for the wifi when the screen is of.
Anyone use it? Some advice?
J

get tasker instead. More work to set up but a LOT more powerful. JD tended to kill my battery more than save it

Juicedefender is only most useful when you're juggling mobile data and wifi, unless you really have a regular schedule daily... I find that it doesn't make battery life worse, but I don't use it on my tablet as it doesn't affect the life much.
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Chryses said:
I discovered it in the store, but the tf700 has already a suspension mode for the wifi when the screen is of.
Anyone use it? Some advice?
J
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Every Android device has this option actually. It's just a bit hidden. Settings/WiFi now press the menu button then advanced and then you can choose your wifi sleep policy.
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