As title says, the function of enabling/diasbling wifi near home simply does nothing. Any hint, please?
Do you have location services enabled?
Yes
Do you need wifi scanning enabled?
Bingley said:
Do you need wifi scanning enabled?
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Yes you do.
I have this enabled, too. No differences.
After hard reset, I still experience this problem. Is a passcode mandatory for wifi? I use jus MAC filtering.
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It happened again. I come to work and my phone doesnt connect. I check the wifi and it is asking me as if it was a new wifi connection. What the hell? I have to enter the whole wep key again. Why does this happen?
this happens to me too
Is there any utility that backs up these settings/ saved keys?
I think only our brains.
lollonais said:
I think only our brains.
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Gar...thanks. Where are these settings being stored. The registry?
wingmanjd said:
Gar...thanks. Where are these settings being stored. The registry?
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Get a reg editor and search Wifi, I think the settings are stored in there somewhere under HKLM.
do you use TF3D/Manila's wifi manager, or the WM default wifi manager?
with EnergyROM 6.5 + Manila's wifi manager, my phone auto connects after setting the password for the first time...
B/G router set to WPA2/AES and WPA1/TKIP fallback
Thanks all. I'll look into it.
But instead use USB internet passthrough or the wifi connection on the phone.
I have a nds and a psp that don't have wpa2 encryption on it and I cant connect through wifi anymore at my house. So I'm trying to figure out how I can turn my phone (HTC rezound no root) into a wifi hotspot to bypass the encryption and without using 3g/4g.
A quick google search turned up that one user had success by changing his router security settings from AES to AES-TKIP
I would give you the link, but I am not allowed to do that yet...
Hope it works for you.
Auburn_Cap said:
A quick google search turned up that one user had success by changing his router security settings from AES to AES-TKIP
I would give you the link, but I am not allowed to do that yet...
Hope it works for you.
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The thing is I'm not allowed access to the security settings for my internet.
vat2nike said:
The thing is I'm not allowed access to the security settings for my internet.
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Figured it was worth a shot. I hope someone will be able to give you the answer you are looking for.
Only other thing I can think of is to see if there are any firmware updates for the PSP and NDS.
Good luck.
Hello fellow Z3 owners,
I have had my Z3 for 3 days, and today I found something alarming: the Wifi seems to always be on, even when I manually turn it off from the System Settings.
It appears turned off from the settings, but using an app such as WIfi Analyser, I can see the networks around me, and I don't have any error message saying I have to turn WIfi on.
While using WIfi Analyser, I can go back to the settings page, and see that the wifi really appears to be off.
Does anyone have an explanation? Could anyone try to reproduce this?
Cheers,
JPascal.
jpascal said:
Hello fellow Z3 owners,
I have had my Z3 for 3 days, and today I found something alarming: the Wifi seems to always be on, even when I manually turn it off from the System Settings.
It appears turned off from the settings, but using an app such as WIfi Analyser, I can see the networks around me, and I don't have any error message saying I have to turn WIfi on.
While using WIfi Analyser, I can go back to the settings page, and see that the wifi really appears to be off.
Does anyone have an explanation? Could anyone try to reproduce this?
Cheers,
JPascal.
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in android JB or Kitkat(IDR which) google added the feature for the wifi to "always scan" even when its off. i recreated your problem on my z3 and the exact same thing happened. go into your wifi menu, hit the soft key for options.. click advanced and then uncheck "wifi scanning always on" or whatever it says. this should also save you some battery.
Thanks for the solution! I found that as well, I still think there is a privacy issue. IMO this should be disabled by default.
Thanks for sharing, cheers,
JPascal.
During the setup process, the user is asked if they want this service to run in background and I always say no.
jpascal said:
Thanks for the solution! I found that as well, I still think there is a privacy issue. IMO this should be disabled by default.
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Uh...what privacy issue?
poldie said:
Uh...what privacy issue?
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That's actually a very good question. I am not a Wifi specialist, and when I saw that Wifi Analyser could see WIfi networks while my phone was saying the wifi is off, I assumed the WIfi was actually on all the time.
If I understand correctly, it's only turned on to scan surrounding Wifi networks. If it means your phone only listens, and does not speak with surrounding networks, then it should remain undetected, and we do not have any privacy issue. But if scanning means talking with surrounding networks, then it means these networks could potentially know you're around, right? Please understand that this is a question, not a conclusion.
Cheers,
JPascal.
jpascal said:
That's actually a very good question. I am not a Wifi specialist, and when I saw that Wifi Analyser could see WIfi networks while my phone was saying the wifi is off, I assumed the WIfi was actually on all the time.
If I understand correctly, it's only turned on to scan surrounding Wifi networks. If it means your phone only listens, and does not speak with surrounding networks, then it should remain undetected, and we do not have any privacy issue. But if scanning means talking with surrounding networks, then it means these networks could potentially know you're around, right? Please understand that this is a question, not a conclusion.
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Sure, it's always good to consider security. Without going through the code it's not possible to know, but I'd imagine it's passively listening, if all it's doing is seeing which base stations are in the area. Were it to be actively probing then it should only be giving your MAC address away, which is not normally considered a threat. I turn it off to save battery, because otherwise wifi is on all the time!
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Sure, it's always good to consider security. Without going through the code it's not possible to know, but I'd imagine it's passively listening, if all it's doing is seeing which base stations are in the area. Were it to be actively probing then it should only be giving your MAC address away, which is not normally considered a threat. I turn it off to save battery, because otherwise wifi is on all the time!
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I did turn it off as well
Hi, I'm looking for this setting, to avoid introducing my PIN when I'm at home or connected to a specific device (BT)... Is it there ? I can't find it under Security settings.
Thnx a lot in advance.
It's Settings, in Security, under Smart Lock.
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It's Settings, in Security, under Smart Lock.
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Hi... anyone know why there's no "Smart Lock" while connecting to certain WiFi networks? For now only bluetooth, nfc, geo locations and faces...
Thanks...
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It's Settings, in Security, under Smart Lock.
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Solved!
I needed to activate "Smart Lock (Google)" at the end of the page, under "Advanced Options" in "Trusted Agents".
Thnx and regards.
entelekia said:
Solved!
I needed to activate "Smart Lock (Google)" at the end of the page, under "Advanced Options" in "Trusted Agents".
Thnx and regards.
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That's... weird.
I had previously suspected Smart Lock was now part of Google Play Services and not Android, but this time around the settings seemed more conclusive that it was really stock Android.
Chaleman said:
Hi... anyone know why there's no "Smart Lock" while connecting to certain WiFi networks? For now only bluetooth, nfc, geo locations and faces...
Thanks...
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Simply because wifi isn't an option for smart lock. It would need to be modified to trigger on wifi networks as well. Not sure why they decided not to, maybe because it would be less secure?
Still stock. Have wifi on/off in smart settings per location but I still need to manually turn data connection on/off which defeats the purpose of having smart wifi settings. Anyone know?
Root first for best result !
juntjoo said:
Still stock. Have wifi on/off in smart settings per location but I still need to manually turn data connection on/off which defeats the purpose of having smart wifi settings. Anyone know?
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This work nice on Android 4.4.2. and maybe 99% above. Work perfect with root, not sure without and new Android. Auto 3G for root type "Root LG G5 (HighONAndroid lgg5root.com)" . Work perfectly for me !
juntjoo said:
Still stock. Have wifi on/off in smart settings per location but I still need to manually turn data connection on/off which defeats the purpose of having smart wifi settings. Anyone know?
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use the app called - Llama location profiler. great app.
Thanks, although I don't like how it's constantly checking your position in the background even if you don't need it to.