The only network I connect to is my home WIFI... here come's the stupid question...
when I leave the range of my home network it will switch to 4G
but... will it switch back to my home network when i am in range
in essence, does it prioritize wifi over a 4g connection if a profile exists?
i ask because i had downloaded VZW auto wifi on... seems like it might just be bloat
anyway, thanks all
I'm fairly certain all Android phones "prioritize" Wi-Fi over mobile data. If you leave LTE enabled then turn on Wi-Fi while home, you can see this yourself.
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Yes. If you leave your wifi on on your phone and at home, when you get back home it will auto connect to the wifi cause it scans for available points every so often
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Hi to all, does anyone have problem WiFi connection its stops working then, the icon shows full bars but if I'm trying to use its using the 4g connection. Like both icons are on and its using the 4g connection, sorry I don't know how else to explain.
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The thing is it doesn't turn off the 4g radio once u connect to the wifi it shows both of them connected and when I try to use the speedtest app its testing the 4g connection then changes to wifi
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I saw that this morning. It just took a while for it to actually switch over to wifi and I don't think the 4g icon ever went away.
I'm trying my best not to use wifi because I'm testing T-Mobile's service to see if it works for me.
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I'm having a similar problem. I have a terrible T-Mobile signal in my house so I always have wi-fi enabled. I've noticed a couple of times that my phone tries to use the mobile data instead of the wi-fi data even though I have no mobile signal and full bars on the wi-fi. I have to either go to airplane mode, then re-enable the wi-fi, or un-tic the "use mobile data" box in the wireless settings, and then it will switch to wi-fi and it works fine. I've had the phone for two days and this has happened twice.
One other thing I've noticed is even when I have a good signal, MMS is reluctant to send over the mobile network. If I reboot my phone and then send the message it sends right away.
It also takes a while for it to switch to wifi for me as well. Once it's on, it's on though. I noticed that to enable it quicker, turn it on and go into Wifi settings where you see all the available networks. It appears to connect instantly from that screen.
Yes this issue is starting to get real annoying. I powered on this morning and both wifi and 2g connected. 2g wouldn't drop until I toggled the data connection
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here's a thread that may help. i think it's the same issue you're describing.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1044349
Any advice on improving WI-FI calling.
I get no signal inside my house.
No one is online and all computer are off.
Stock Gingerbread Tom.
You get no wifi signal or the wifi calling will not connect?
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WI-FI connects and every thing
WI-FI related works great except WI-FI calling. I have the router in the middle of house. The call connection is fine at first then it acts like when a cordless phones go out of range static and echo.
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I use WiFi calling all day without this issue. You might try telling your router to use a different channel, and/or looking for sources of interference.
That sounds more like internet connection quality to me.
I would try making sure nobody is running torrents or other high bandwidth stuff at the same time.
I had no issues with WIFI Calling on CM7. I recently switched back to the stock rom and have had jitter issues and poor sound quality. Hope this helps.
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I use WiFi calling all day without this issue. You might try telling your router to use a different channel, and/or looking for sources of interference.
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+1.. get the free wifi analyzer app.. then switch your router to the channel with the least interference.
I try that on my next day off.
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WI-FI connects and every thing
WI-FI related works great except WI-FI calling. I have the router in the middle of house. The call connection is fine at first then it acts like when a cordless phones go out of range static and echo.
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What version is your wifi calling app?
Hope this helps.
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In the WiFi Calling app settings, check under Connection Preferences to be sure you have WiFi preferred for calling selected, just in case something changed it. Also, in the setting area, maybe under advanced, there is a menu option for log errors. That might help point to the problem and a solution.
Problem with wifi calling
I have a LG G2x 2.3.3 (rooted) running Xboarder's Stock Tweaked OTA Gingerbread build v1.2.2 and faux123 kernel (thank you great work) just have one problem that I have not been able to solve or find on here, my wifi calling will open and say enabling and stays that way (will not connect to wifi calling) any suggestions?
KRAZYADROIDMASTER said:
WI-FI connects and every thing
WI-FI related works great except WI-FI calling. I have the router in the middle of house. The call connection is fine at first then it acts like when a cordless phones go out of range static and echo.
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I had the same problem when I was on stock rom. Once I updated the baseband and flashed a custom rom, I dont have that problem anymore.
I notice that on my SGS4G running Gingerbread, that if I enable wifi the 4G icon goes out, and if dig deeper ifconfig shows just the pdp0 mobile interface is replaced by the eth0 wireless interface.
A colleague of mine has a new SGSII also running Gingerbread and when he enables wireless he gets both the wireless icon and the 4G icon. ifconfig shows both the pdp0 and eth0 interfaces alive at once.
Any reason for the difference in behavior?
I only notice both at same time when download SMS.
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My wireless AP is going crazy at my house. Its custom and has some driver problem a Co-worker of mine is looking into.
What happens is the ssid still broadcast, but the AP doesn't pass traffic. On my phone I see the wifi icon and 4G when this happens. If I reset the AP so wifi works again (for another hour) the 4G icon disappears.
Maybe the sgs2 is able to connect, but not able to pass traffic. If you had a static build of netkit ping, it has an option to specify the interface to ping out.
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Actually, I think I remember koush saying something on g+ about udp not working over cell networks. Maybe im wrong. You could also use tcpdump.
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Lol, nevermind. Ping works.
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The 4G icon goes away because you would not need the 4G data service if you have a WiFi connection with an active internet connection. It is standard even not for 4G signal, it does that with edge, 3g, and HSPS. I believe it just leaves a standard GPRS connection open with the tower. All to save battery.
when connected to wireless network, the phone continue to use the courier data plan instead. how to change that? how to set to use the wifi network as default? thank u
Have you turned on the wifi?
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yeah... and its connected and working. tried 3-4 public wifi networks and its the same..
I know I'm jumping the gun here. Because neither the download booster or the hotspot mod have been made for the galaxy S5 yet.
But I was wondering if this possibility is far fetched?? I do a lot of traveling and sometimes hotel wifi will not cut it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51994698
This wifi tether router works with rooted sprint gs5.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51994698
This wifi tether router works with rooted sprint gs5.
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Flashed this in recovery menu on my sprint S5 and it activated the native hotspot ;-]
Scroll down all the way to the bottom on the 1st page and download the file.
Original thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2725397
INSTRUCTIONS
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=52100317
Now that we have a working native hotspot thanks to miked63017. My original question was, is there a possibility to combined WiFi and LTE using the download booster to create an super fast hotspot connection?
HaLFBaK3D said:
Now that we have a working native hotspot thanks to miked63017. My original question was, is there a possibility to combined WiFi and LTE using the download booster to create an super fast hotspot connection?
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Would love to see this happen as well!
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HaLFBaK3D said:
Now that we have a working native hotspot thanks to miked63017. My original question was, is there a possibility to combined WiFi and LTE using the download booster to create an super fast hotspot connection?
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I am far from an expert but I don't think the wifi could operate in AP mode and stil connect to another AP for extra d/l speed.
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I am far from an expert but I don't think the wifi could operate in AP mode and stil connect to another AP for extra d/l speed.
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The reason I thought this would be possible was because of the MiMo(multi-input multi-output) capabilities of the S5. I know there are things that would pose an issue like not being able to be connected to WiFi while creating a hotspot.
But that's what the muti input side is for, taking in WiFi and LTE. It almost makes since to be able to send that combination speed out as hotspot.
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I am far from an expert but I don't think the wifi could operate in AP mode and stil connect to another AP for extra d/l speed.
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It would be more like one ap with two aggregated backbone connections. Possible, yes. Doable on the phone, don't know but if the S5 still turns off wifi when you turn on hotshot that would be the trick.
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It would be more like one ap with two aggregated backbone connections. Possible, yes. Doable on the phone, don't know but if the S5 still turns off wifi when you turn on hotshot that would be the trick.
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So MiMo would theoretically allow the wifi chip to setup an AP and also be connected to seperate AP, and 3g/4g, to aggregate data? That would be awesome. I have tried bridging two wifi networks with one wifi card on desktops but have never been able to get more than one connection per wifi chip. Where AP mode would be its own connection.
:fingers crossed: maybe we can...
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So MiMo would theoretically allow the wifi chip to setup an AP and also be connected to seperate AP, and 3g/4g, to aggregate data? That would be awesome. I have tried bridging two wifi networks with one wifi card on desktops but have never been able to get more than one connection per wifi chip. Where AP mode would be its own connection.
:fingers crossed: maybe we can...
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In theory I believe it should work. I could swear, I am 99% sure of this, that way back in the day you could wifi tether to your phone while it was connected to wifi. Might have been the S1 or S2. I am positive that worked because I remember testing the hotspot once and getting some crazy download speeds. This was when I only had 3G and could barely get 300k. And I was freaking out trying to figure out how it was going so fast. Then I realized the phone was connected to wifi:silly: So MiMo isn't needed for one singular stream. It's basically just doing incoming and outgoing traffic on the same feed. But adding in the LTE should work on MiMo. If LTE had it's own card, does it?, you shouldn't need MiMo either. You would just have to first get the aggregation working which I think somebody got it enabled right? And then disable the wifi from shutting off during hotspot. After that it would work without anything special.
Just wanted to give this thread a bump.
Has anyone heard anything about this idea working?