I have a Oppo R7 and when I setup tethering it connects to my laptop fine, but as soon as the phones screen turns off, it also turns off the data sharing function.
Can anyone please tell me what is wrong and how can I fix it.
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Hi,
Could anyone tell me what's the rationale behind this:
When the device connects to the internet via 3G in order to receive mail or whatever, it will just stay connected until you bother to manually disconnect it. But when using wifi, which unlike 3G doesn't cost by the byte, it will disconnect as soon as the screen goes off?
Why on earth is that? Instead of running the hell away from cellular internet as soon as possible it does so with the free wifi? Is there any way to change this behavior? Or am I the only one who's bothered by this?
Besides that, more often than not, I'm having problems connecting to wifi... sometimes it would attempt to connect to a network and then give up and say it's unavailable (even though the signal is excellent and I'm right by the AP). other times, it appears connected but there's no internet... anyone else has these problems? Is my device defective?
Sorry if I'm ranting...
Thanks!
I think the behaviour is to save energy. When the screen goes off, the device "thinks" you don't use it anymore. Wifi drains your battery very fast, so the phone tries to reduce it.
For 3G it's the point, that there isn't much data transfer in order to stay connected. Maybe a few kb for the whole day (I don't know if there is any data transfer anyway, but when it's verly little). That's much cheaper than to pay for the full block (for example 100kb) everytime you disconnect. So staying connected saves money in most cases. That's why.
Connection problems: Do you use any encryption? Maybe that's the problem. So far I use wifi only for data transfers between my Macbook and the device. But I don't have any problems.
If you search hard enough you can find apps that might jus tkeep it on.
One such app is KaiserTweak which will keep that wifi on when screen goes off. problem with kaisertweak is that i have heard it can hard reset some peoples devvices, depending on what options you select.
i might give it a whirl because i hate it when my connection is lost, i end up using my data connection when i dont need to as it tries to take over when device wakes up!
edit: seems ok so far no hardreset yet!
Thanks, will try that.
I flashed a 6.1 rom and it seems to have made an improvement. Now it would connect fine to my home router every time and not just occasionally (it uses the most basic wep encryption). Still no luck at work though... just as before it appears connected but I can't reach anything inside or outside the lan. The encryption there is the more secure wpa-psk and there's no mac filtering.
Anyone successfully connected to a wpa wlan?
This is something I discovered, which may already be known (i couldn't find anything), which I hope may be able to help someone as much as it helped me.
If I'm connected to WIFI on my phone and I USB tether to my computer, my computer gets the speedy and strong WIFI connection.
If you're wondering why I would go through that and not just directly connect my laptop to the WIFI, well it's because the piece I put together doesn't have all the proper drivers (and I probably broke something) so I cant even turn WIFI on, let alone connect to it.
Whatever your situation may be, I hope someone else finds this useful.
Hey Guys,
i have a problem with my Samsung Omnia 7.
When my phone ist running and i want to activate bluetooth, the screen displays "searching" (in german "Suchen"). My phone wont find a device which is in the near and where i know, that i can connect normally.
I know that, because, when i turn bluetooth on and restart my phone, then after restart, i will find all the bluetooth devices in the near and i can connect for example with my laptop and play music from my phone on the laptop or hear the voice when im calling with someone.
But when i turn bluetooth off and after this on again, there is only the screen which diplasy "searching".
My bluetooth works only if after i turn bluetooth on before i restart my phone.
Sorry for my bad english , i hope you understand my problem.
Is there anybody with a same problem or anybody who can help me?
The HD2 has similiar problems with bluetooth and wifi together. However I'm not an Omnia 7 user.
Anyway, you can ask it in the Omnia 7 forum (which would be the correct one) or even better: Use the search tool and browse all existing bluetooth problems thread to see if someone has found a solution (There are plenty of it...). Thanks
thanks for your advice. after u told about the problem with bluetooth and wifi togehter, i just tested what happens if i activate wifi and bluetooth togehter and i was suprised to see that my bluetooth works. i can avtivate and deactivate and it just works in connection when wifi is "on". if i turn wifi off, bluetooth wont work anymore...
but thanks, so i have a workaround and can use it, i will search in thread with same problems, thanks!
Hi! Just wondering if this has happened to anyone else and if they know of a fix;
While using my Pixel as a hotspot, it occasionally will automatically turn my wifi on and thus turning off the hotspot.
Not this is where it gets weird;
I got an app to force my wifi off. (This happens when I play Overwatch on PC by the way). While mid game, it will disconnect me, but the hotspot will still be on and wifi will be off like it should be. I get forced logged out and it locks my account due to "suspicious activity". Same thing will happen to my girlfriend while she plays with me as well on my hotspot.
Could this be because the phone will change the IP address (is that the right term I'm looking for?) While using the hotspot?
It's super frustrating​ and I don't have any apps that I know of that mess with my wifi settings.
I'm on 7.1.2 with a Verizon Google Pixel.
Thanks in advance if anyone reads all this and maybe knows the issue!
This seems to be an issue on other android phones as well but none of the treads on google have found a solution.
I'm not even sure this is a flaw, might be like this by design...
Whenever I come home with my WiFi turned on, the phone will not connect until the moment I turn the screen on.
It never disconnects when it is already connected.
WiFi always on is turned on. I do not use data.
Running Oreo but same thing happens in Pie.
Anyone willing to test whether theirs acts the same? Any solutions?
Thanks!