I'm coming over from a dumb phone to a Nexus 5 in mid December and have a question about Data usage vs Wifi. When I'm home, I anticipate using my WiFi connection to avoid using my plan's Data allocation. What setting do I switch off to avoid using Data connection? If I turn WiFi on my Nexus 5, will the Nexus 5 automatically favor WiFi over Data access?
BillyL said:
I'm coming over from a dumb phone to a Nexus 5 in mid December and have a question about Data usage vs Wifi. When I'm home, I anticipate using my WiFi connection to avoid using my plan's Data allocation. What setting do I switch off to avoid using Data connection? If I turn WiFi on my Nexus 5, will the Nexus 5 automatically favor WiFi over Data access?
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Yes it will use your WiFi connection first
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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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I don't know if this has been documented before so I figured I should share. I've been tethering a new Nexus 7 to my tbolt the last fee days and was having constant data (not tethering) drops on the tbolt while doing so. Then data would not come back untill I restarted the bolt. Toggeling airplane mode or data doesn't work. But I just had an idea to turn off the bolts autosync setting while using the tether and it seems to be much more reliable. In fact I didnt get a drop untill I hopped on the bolt to come here and type this up. Somehow, uncharacteristically it came back on its own. Which makes me wonder if any kind of communication (on the bolt) will break the data while tethering.
Tshed 1.6, .19 radio
Another thingI notice a problem, when I turn tethering off on the bolt it usually causes all data to drop then also.
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Have you tried any different radios? I've always got pretty frequent data drops with CM roms, at least if using the built in hotspot. Do you use wi-fi tether?
Well in general data "cycles" because that's how other carriers bill for tethering. It's literally a different connection to Verizon, a different 3G/4G if you will.
Have you given Barnacle a try? It doesn't refresh the mobile data connection.
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No I haven't tried diff radios. I did try Wifi Tether and it appears to simply attach itself to thundersheds built in tether. I apparently had some settings wrong and it would keep dropping. So I tried switching to he built in and the drops continued. Then I uninstalled wifi tether and after that the built in worked just fine. Minus the data drops. I didn't mention though that when tethering the nexus 7 the drops were constant, when tethering a laptop the drops were far more infrequent.
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I want to know if you can transfer data to/from Android devices through Wi-Fi without a router?
Here's the story:
There is a a SGS2 from which I have to take lots of data and I don't have Wi-Fi network nor can I use Wi-Fi Direct (coz NS doesn't support it) and bluetooth wil be painfully slow. Is there any way out like making an FTP server or something like that?
I don't want to use mobile data.
It's just too puzzling...
Use public wifi hotspot and cloud server like DropBox ?
Or: USB connection to PC?
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Use public wifi hotspot and cloud server like DropBox ?
Or: USB connection to PC?
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No PC available and no mobile data to be used...I can't be using mobile data for files sizing up to hundreds of MBs...
Seems difficult but i have a feeling there is a solution...
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There's several public wi fi hot spots in Mumbai. 2 near ft. Mumbai. Barista coffee. Why can't you use them to back up your data to the cloud and transfer to the other device?
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n2d551 said:
There's several public wi fi hot spots in Mumbai. 2 near ft. Mumbai. Barista coffee. Why can't you use them to back up your data to the cloud and transfer to the other device?
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The thing is that I don't want mobile data to be involved anywhere.
I was just wondering if this can be done somehow by making one phone a server of some kind and the other a client and connect them directly.
I agree there are some other ways like you and other users have mentioned but i just want to try and use it this way.
If it's not possible then I'll just use the old fashioned way.
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smit.sanghavi said:
No PC available and no mobile data to be used...I can't be using mobile data for files sizing up to hundreds of MBs...
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Wifi does not involve mobile data. You can avoid accidental charges by toggling mobile data off.
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Wifi does not involve mobile data. You can avoid accidental charges by toggling mobile data off.
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What i mean is a direct connection between two devices...nothing between them...
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Well I have a nexus 5 on latest android 6.0.1 rooted.
I know I can hotspot, but when I hotspot it, disables the WiFi an uses my phone data... is there a way that I can b connected to WiFi and share the WiFi connection not my mobile data...
I had this on my iPhone 4s on iOS 6 with MyWi an it was called WiFi sharing. Is there a way to do it with my Nexus 5? I have foxfi, but it disables my WiFi an uses my mobile data.
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nemopsp said:
Well I have a nexus 5 on latest android 6.0.1 rooted.
I know I can hotspot, but when I hotspot it, disables the WiFi an uses my phone data... is there a way that I can b connected to WiFi and share the WiFi connection not my mobile data...
I had this on my iPhone 4s on iOS 6 with MyWi an it was called WiFi sharing. Is there a way to do it with my Nexus 5? I have foxfi, but it disables my WiFi an uses my mobile data.
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No you can't do this. Why would you need to in any case? If there's wifi available, there's no need to share it again through your phone?
Also, MyWi never did this either, it also just shares your iPhones cellular data connection.
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No you can't do this. Why would you need to in any case? If there's wifi available, there's no need to share it again through your phone?
Also, MyWi never did this either, it also just shares your iPhones cellular data connection.
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Well my iPhone 4s on iOS6.1.3 does it with MyWi so I know your wrong, but my question is can I do it with a rooted nexus 5
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Think why you wanted that function again..
The whole point of hotspot is to bridge devices that don't have data access.
Use case scenarios.. Nexus 5 hotspot and I connect my wifi only iPad to it, now iPad can access the internet.
So the whole MyWi, does exactly this.
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Here why this is good thing. You are in roaming and in the hotel where you must to pay for WiFi , but when you pay it's allow you to connect only one device. Then you can share wifi whit all your device with wifi share
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Hello,
I'm going to sound like a complete noob for asking this question but if someone could clarify for me, it'd be great.
If Wi-Fi and mobile data are both turned on and say you're downloading something, would it eat away from mobile data and Wi-Fi or how does it work?
Could someone please assist. Thanks.
You would need download booster turned on to use both, normally would use WiFi unless no connection
MiscAcc said:
Hello,
I'm going to sound like a complete noob for asking this question but if someone could clarify for me, it'd be great.
If Wi-Fi and mobile data are both turned on and say you're downloading something, would it eat away from mobile data and Wi-Fi or how does it work?
Could someone please assist. Thanks.
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Tonesav said:
You would need download booster turned on to use both, normally would use WiFi unless no connection
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No, without using download booster, if Wi-Fi and mobile data is on and you're using Wi-Fi, can it still eat away from mobile data? Or that if Wi-Fi is turned on, does it block mobile data even if it may be turned on at the same time (show priority to Wi-Fi connection)?
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No, without using download booster, if Wi-Fi and mobile data is on and you're using Wi-Fi, can it still eat away from mobile data? Or that if Wi-Fi is turned on, does it block mobile data even if it may be turned on at the same time (show priority to Wi-Fi connection)?
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On mine I am only aware of it using mobile data away from WiFi or if it deems the WiFi as an unstable connection to the Internet
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