Turning location on, always reverts to GPS, Mobile & Wifi - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions & Answers

Hello,
Ive noticed each time I turn on my location services/GPS it always switches to the GPS, Mobile network & wifi option. So each time I have to go choose if I only want GPS, or only want mobile/wifi for location. How to do I reset this?
Thanks!

Could anyone help? Or point me in the right direction?

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Turn off wifi automatically after a certain period of time?

Hi everyone,
I have been searching all day! No results.
What i am looking for is for my wifi connection to switch off automatically after xxx time if idle. sometimes i update stuff and forget my wifi on which drains my battery. i know that normally it switches off when device goes to sleep, but i set it to stay on in standby. useful when on msn.
Can somebody please point me to a solution for this.
Thanks
Yeah buy G-Profile its just 5 euro. And u can put on wifi or of by cell towers time, day, calender evement, or if an program starts running or if your computer is connected on activesynce, external power source, under a call.
You can do the same for the volume, blutooth, etc..
Great program
Connective Tools CT Scheduler
See here http://www.connectivetools.com/ctscheduler.html
Switch Wi-Fi Mode. This new action allows switching Wi-Fi mode on and off. As well as Bluetooth and FlightMode, this action could be used at night, for example, for extending the battery life.
Try this - it may help.
Go to the settings tab, menu, all settings, connections, wi-fi and click "wireless networks". Go to menu, advanced and then you can set "Turn off wi-fi if not connected in:". It's set to never by default, but if you set it to a time then wifi will automatically turn off if it's not connected, after that period of time.
Hope this helps
johncmolyneux said:
Try this - it may help.
Go to the settings tab, menu, all settings, connections, wi-fi and click "wireless networks". Go to menu, advanced and then you can set "Turn off wi-fi if not connected in:". It's set to never by default, but if you set it to a time then wifi will automatically turn off if it's not connected, after that period of time.
Hope this helps
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It only applies when there are no available hotspots.
djet said:
It only applies when there are no available hotspots.
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Yeah - I just reread the OP and see that he's talking about idle time. I use this so I can switch wifi on when I get home and forget about it. It turns off when I leave the house, which is ideal for me.
Use wireless time : http://www.pdainfo.org/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=52f3bfde5b6bad62fb558bed9f80c503&topic=222.0
i appreciate all the suggestions. these are not what i am looking for.
let me try to explain this again. i switched on WiFi, useful it for mail, browsing etc.
left my phone aside and forgot to turn WiFi off. since the connection is not used for xxx of time , then WiFi should switch off automatically.
do you think this is possible?
same here, i want the same options, my older touch phones had it, but not this one, and i dont fell like installing another program just to schedule the wifi, when thats the only option i need.so now what i do is, Just try to remember to turn my wifi off, at night, and when not using. so your only safe option, other than installing external software is remember it. and it helps improve memory, so you'll remeber to take your pills when you get old

[Q] Losing data connection on GPS

Hello all,
I'm having this problem with my HTC Desire S.
Everytime I start an app that uses my GPS, and tries to get a fix. Like maps, runkeeper or GPS Status. I lose my data connection.
I can go to my settings then. And in my settings its still turned on, but I dont have the little icon on top, neither do I have an internet connection.
I can turn off my data connection then, en turn it back on. And then it reconnects again, and both my GPS and data connection are working.
Untill I exit the app that uses my gps, and if after an hour or so I use my GPS again, the problem repeats itself.
Anyone else had this problem and / or know a fix for it?
I've used the search, but nothing came up.
Hello,
I had the same problem but it resolved with GPS TEST application from market.
Turn on GPS and mobiile network then run app Gps Test and from settings menu clear a-gps then update Gps and wait to lock gps to satellites.
After that you can use some navigation software such iGO, Sygic .. and so ..
I solved my problem with this way.

wifi fallback issue on SGH-i727????

Hi,
Just wonder if anybody is experiencing the same wifi fallback issue on the SGH-i727?
Basically, the phone doesn't automatically fall back to the previously added wifi network from LTE/4G when the screen is off. To get around that, I'll need to hit the power button once every time I enter the wifi range. When the screen is turned on by hitting the power button, I will see the 4G/LTE being replaced by the wifi icon very quickly. After that, it will then stay connected to the wifi network regardless whether the screen is on or off.
I was able to confirm this issue by monitoring the app traffic before and after I turned on the screen.
Without turning on the screen in the wifi range, the phone will stay on the 4g/LTE network forever even though the previously added wifi network is available.
I have already tried out different routers and it's still the same. SSID broadcast is on. I am thinking if there's a bug with the phone. Note that on my phone, my "Wi-Fi sleep policy" under the advanced menu of the "Wi-Fi settings" is always set to "never". Also, it's a stock ROM, nothing is modified at all.
This issue has never happened on other phones. What you think? Am I missing anything here?
After playing with it more, I noticed that the phone will never do the wifi handshake when the screen is off.
I tried turning off and on the wifi in the Wi-Fi settings. If I turn off the screen quickly before the phone gets connected to the wifi network again, it *will* remain unconnected until the screen is turned on again. =(
Did you go into the advanced wifi settings and change the wifi sleep policy?
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No, I didn't. I've never touched that setting. The "Wi-Fi sleep policy" is always set to "never".
My phone can still be connected to wifi when the screen is off, so it doesn't seem related to the "Wi-Fi sleep policy". The problem is only that it won't do any wifi connection handshake during screen-off.
Am I the only one having this issue? I guess that's more of a software issue rather than a hardware issue?
Have you tried the AT&T wifi app? It automatically turns off and on wifi as needed
No, that doesn't help.
Yes, I do realize I'm bringing back a thread from the dead, but...
I just got a Samsung Stratosphere (SCH-i405 -- a CDMA-1X/EVDO/LTE Galaxy S phone) and it does EXACTLY the same thing. It's ironic, on the Stratosphere they added a bit of fun that CONSTANTLY lets you know there's networks (which I had to disable), but it doesn't connect to the wifi networks I do have in there until I turn on the screen I guess that's just how it is; at least it doesn't kill the wifi once it IS connected.
If anyone knows a programmatic way to bypass this, I'd be interested, and I could write up a wifi app to implement the solution. I'm guesisng it's a behavior of the drivers though and would take some custom ROM or something to fix.
You could always try to use tasker for automatically connecting to the wifi using radio antenna or maybe can't remember if possible by identifying certain wifi spot.

[Q] Having Problems with CM10 profiles on SGS3

I made three custom profiles for CM10 for when I'm home, out, or sleeping. However, when I switch to any profile, it will disable what I have checked off but when I go to another profile and that option is no longer selected to be disabled, it doesn't turn that option back on, or on in general. For instance, for home I have Mobile Data, Bluetooth, GPS,and Portable Wi-Fi hotspot disabled. If I go to Out, while has mobile data enabled, but WiFi turned off, it will disable WiFi but won't turn on mobile data. If I go back to home where WiFi is enabled, it won't turn WiFi back on. I hope I made my problem understandable, lol. Anyways, has anyone else been having this problem? And is this a known problem by the CM team? Or could it be something with my phone?

Can't maintain WiFi

Experiencing the following issue
ever since the upgrade to 12.1-YOG4PAS3JL...
If I leave home/work (Wi-Fi) briefly, (and so therefore on mobile data) and then soon after return to my regular Wi-Fi, it does not reconnect, it just stays on mobile data. The Wi-Fi signal remains on, but does not auto reconnect. If I check my Wi-Fi settings it must shows the location with a status of 'saved'. My only remedy is to go into and out of Airplane mode, and then it does connect to Wi-Fi.
How can I fix this?
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Experiencing the following issue
ever since the upgrade to 12.1-YOG4PAS3JL...
If I leave home/work (Wi-Fi) briefly, (and so therefore on mobile data) and then soon after return to my regular Wi-Fi, it does not reconnect, it just stays on mobile data. The Wi-Fi signal remains on, but does not auto reconnect. If I check my Wi-Fi settings it must shows the location with a status of 'saved'. My only remedy is to go into and out of Airplane mode, and then it does connect to Wi-Fi.
How can I fix this?
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Have upgraded to CyanogenOS 12.1.1-YOG7DAS2K1 but still have the same issue.
Anybody know how to fix???
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