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[APP][2.2+] Smart WiFi Toggler

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Description:
Smart WiFi Toggler is an application designed to control your phone's WiFi using location based rules. Its aim is to conserve battery and minimize data charges by turning WiFi off when not connected to a network, and turning it on when a known hotspot is present. It constantly learns where your hotspots are located to make its decisions.
It's a very useful application if you frequently forget to turn WiFi off when leaving a hotspot, or if you want to automatically switch from mobile data to WiFi to conserve battery whenever you're back into a hotspot.
Hope you enjoy using Smart WiFi Toggler as much as I enjoyed building it!
*** I am happy to add support for more languages. If you are willing to help with the translation, please drop me an email. Thanks. ***
Features:
- Automatically learns your WiFi hotspot locations.
- Turns WiFi off when disconnected from WiFi network.
- Automatically turns WiFi on when near a known hotspot.
- Uses your network location. No GPS battery drain.
- Provides the ability to control "auto-connect" behavior for each hotspot.
- Ability to lock WiFi to a disabled state.
- Warning notification and auto-locking WiFi when a hotspot is down.
- History and logging, in addition to a view of what is going on under the hood.
Market Link (Still on 2.2.10): Click here
Bug report & Questions:
Any questions you have or bugs you would like to report, you may post it here or contact me on the app's developer email. I will try to get back to you as soon as I can.
Changelog
v2.3
- Brand new UI.
- Performance tweaks.
- Bug fixes.
- Added Spanish, Hungarian, Hebrew, Japanese, and Turkish languages. Thanks to Carlos Filoteo, Laszlo Horvath, Yev Gavrikov, Kayoko Sawada, and Fikret Sadak!
v2.2.10
- Added a new statistics screen.
- Better toggler accuracy for devices with a barometer.
- Added Danish, Traditional and Simplified Chinese language support. (Thanks to nodjack (xda), Bryan Yang and Eclipse!)
- Ability to change the app's language from the settings.
- Replaced Tips with an online FAQ.
- Google Analytics to help improve the app.
- Bug fixes.

Great idea!
If I understood correctly from the screenshots, the app will shut down wifi when the connection is lost. How does it know when the device is back to hotspot area? By using gps locations?

mikpel said:
Great idea!
If I understood correctly from the screenshots, the app will shut down wifi when the connection is lost. How does it know when the device is back to hotspot area? By using gps locations?
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GPS is not used. It uses your network location. It's not 100% accurate, but the aim was to use as little battery as possible. GPS would not have fit that criteria.

Actually that's what I wanted to hear because, as you say, gps would spoil the idea of battery saving.
Now I really have to try this!

Cool app bro. You finally released it to the public. I will definitely check it out. You guys should probably try it. There is very hard work in it. Keep up the good work.

Anyone else getting "unable to process purchase" from the market??

Cloaker said:
Anyone else getting "unable to process purchase" from the market??
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Nope

Finally got it working. It was my fault.
Now it's crashing on me when I select the start button. On an evo 3d running cm9.

Cloaker said:
Finally got it working. It was my fault.
Now it's crashing on me when I select the start button. On an evo 3d running cm9.
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Well that's no good. Please send me your logcat trace. I'll try to find out why that's happening.
Edit: I just saw the crash report. Do you have a CDMA phone? If so, it won't work. Currently, it only works on GSM. I should have mentioned that, sorry.

Awwww! Yes it's cmda. I'm sad now, all the other apps like this are out dated. Oh well, keep up the good work coughcmdacough

Updated to version 1.1. Now supporting CDMA devices (thanks to Cloaker).

Any reason that I'd want to replace Y5 with this? Does this do anything different or better?

lexluthor said:
Any reason that I'd want to replace Y5 with this? Does this do anything different or better?
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I don't know really. I've never tried Y5.
After checking it out, it looks outdated (kidding...). Smart WiFi Toggler has more options i guess. Timer control, per-wifi settings, etc.
Try it, see if you like it. If not, I'm happy you tried anyway.

lexluthor said:
Any reason that I'd want to replace Y5 with this? Does this do anything different or better?
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Y5 for me seemed to open too large of an area, this seems tighter and has more options. Also, I'm not afraid to offend, lol, y5 is outdated.

Yes, Y5 is very outdated at this point and is probably abandonware, but it does still work.
Always looking to replace abandoned apps with apps still supported though, so I'll give this a try.
I have an issue/bug? and a couple of questions so I can understand how it works.
First, in the initial startup settings pages, I chose to not run service in foreground, but if I did, I couldn't uncheck show notification icon. After initial setup, when I go into settings, run service in foreground was checked. But, over in those settings, I can disable the show notification icon. Seems like run service in foreground and no notification icon is my preferred solution, so I'll use that. Hopefully, that will keep the program from getting killed.
So, is this using cell tower information to determine that I'm near a known wifi hotspot?
What happens if I walk out of my house and lose the wifi connection for a couple of minutes and then I come back in and want to connect back to wifi. It seems like it will turn wifi off after 30 seconds because I was disconnected from my wifi hotstop. Will it turn wifi back on by itself again?
EDIT: Tested it and wifi does not come back on. So, then what logic makes it ever come back in? Do I have to go far enough away that smart wifi toggler thinks I'm out of range of my wifi and then come back in range?
Hopefully, there's a way to make that work better or that's probably a deal breaker for me.
The thing I don't like about Y5, which I think this fixes is if I turn off wifi while Y5 is running, it turns it right back on immediately. The only way to actually make wifi stay off if I'm in a known wifi hotspot is to disable Y5.
It'd be nice if there was a way that if I manually turn off wifi, it stays off, but if wifi just gets disconnected, it comes back on automatically.
What happens if I set wifi disconnection to 0? Will wifi still go off when I'm out of range (based on your cell tower information) of a known wifi hotspot?

Hi lexluthor. Thanks for trying out the app. Let me see if my answers can be useful:
lexluthor said:
First, in the initial startup settings pages, I chose to not run service in foreground, but if I did, I couldn't uncheck show notification icon. After initial setup, when I go into settings, run service in foreground was checked. But, over in those settings, I can disable the show notification icon. Seems like run service in foreground and no notification icon is my preferred solution, so I'll use that. Hopefully, that will keep the program from getting killed.
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As far as I know, android does not permit running in foreground mode without showing a notification. If I'm wrong here, I'd appreciate an example where this is not the case. If you choose to not run in foreground mode to avoid the icon, android will keep killing and restarting the service because of inactivity.
Do I understand correctly that you could disable the icon in foreground mode? If so, please make sure that whenever you check foreground mode, you have to restart the service so it can take effect. (It should show you a "service restart required" toast message).
So, is this using cell tower information to determine that I'm near a known wifi hotspot?
What happens if I walk out of my house and lose the wifi connection for a couple of minutes and then I come back in and want to connect back to wifi. It seems like it will turn wifi off after 30 seconds because I was disconnected from my wifi hotstop. Will it turn wifi back on by itself again?
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You are correct. It is using your cell location info. Just like you've observed, when wifi gets disconnected, the timer will start counting. On timeout, it will turn wifi off. Logically, there is no way the app can know if you are inside or outside. What it does do however, is the next time you wake the phone up from sleep (screen off then back on) it will enable wifi and wait for a connection. (I'm assuming here that you are connected to the same cell inside and outside of your house).
The only difference I can think of inside and outside your house is the signal strength. This is something I plan to experiment with to see how useful in can be to get even more accuracy.
The thing I don't like about Y5, which I think this fixes is if I turn off wifi while Y5 is running, it turns it right back on immediately. The only way to actually make wifi stay off if I'm in a known wifi hotspot is to disable Y5.
It'd be nice if there was a way that if I manually turn off wifi, it stays off, but if wifi just gets disconnected, it comes back on automatically.
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This is something I was experimenting with, but it made things complicated. How would the app know when to turn it on again automatically at a later time? Would you have to leave that location then come back? I guess this is something worth trying in future releases.
What happens if I set wifi disconnection to 0? Will wifi still go off when I'm out of range (based on your cell tower information) of a known wifi hotspot?
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Setting the disconnection timer to zero will disable auto-wifi-off. This means WiFi will be kept on.

sebouh00 said:
Hi lexluthor. Thanks for trying out the app. Let me see if my answers can be useful:
As far as I know, android does not permit running in foreground mode without showing a notification. If I'm wrong here, I'd appreciate an example where this is not the case. If you choose to not run in foreground mode to avoid the icon, android will keep killing and restarting the service because of inactivity.
Do I understand correctly that you could disable the icon in foreground mode? If so, please make sure that whenever you check foreground mode, you have to restart the service so it can take effect. (It should show you a "service restart required" toast message).
You are correct. It is using your cell location info. Just like you've observed, when wifi gets disconnected, the timer will start counting. On timeout, it will turn wifi off. Logically, there is no way the app can know if you are inside or outside. What it does do however, is the next time you wake the phone up from sleep (screen off then back on) it will enable wifi and wait for a connection. (I'm assuming here that you are connected to the same cell inside and outside of your house).
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I'll double check the service a little later. Right now, foreground mode is on, but I have no icon. I'll reboot and see if it remains that way. I'm probably wrong, but I thought you could have a foreground service in ICS with no icon.
Anyhow, no, wifi didn't come back on for me even after I turned the screen off/on. Your assumption that I'm connected to the same cell is probably wrong. In areas with a lot of cell towers, couldn't my phone connect to many different towers, even within my own house? Y5 says it has something like 30 towers remembered for me. Also, I know if I reset my Y5 data, even after a few days, there are times when I'm connected to wifi and connected to a cell tower that Y5 hasn't learned yet.
If your logic is that a wifi hotspot is associated with the cell tower that I'm connected to when I first connect to the wifi hotspot, that's going to be a problem if I can connect to many different towers while at that wifi hotstop.
Appreciate your responses so far. I'm just trying to help improve your program, not being critical in any way.

lexluthor said:
I'll double check the service a little later. Right now, foreground mode is on, but I have no icon. I'll reboot and see if it remains that way. I'm probably wrong, but I thought you could have a foreground service in ICS with no icon.
Anyhow, no, wifi didn't come back on for me even after I turned the screen off/on. Your assumption that I'm connected to the same cell is probably wrong. In areas with a lot of cell towers, couldn't my phone connect to many different towers, even within my own house? Y5 says it has something like 30 towers remembered for me. Also, I know if I reset my Y5 data, even after a few days, there are times when I'm connected to wifi and connected to a cell tower that Y5 hasn't learned yet.
If your logic is that a wifi hotspot is associated with the cell tower that I'm connected to when I first connect to the wifi hotspot, that's going to be a problem if I can connect to many different towers while at that wifi hotstop.
Appreciate your responses so far. I'm just trying to help improve your program, not being critical in any way.
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If it didn't come back on, then you must have camped onto another cell. As I mention in the help section, if you're house is located in an area that keeps your phone hopping between cells, then Smart WiFi Toggler has to save all of them. It does in fact do that on every cell update whilst you're connected to a WiFi. This is the "learning curve" I mention in there. Once it has associated these cells with the hotspot, then you're good to go.
The thing I noticed about Y5 when I tried it today is that while I was standing in one location (inside an office -- with an inbuilding antenna system), it saved more than one cell for the hotspot. I felt this was excessive as it will make the auto-wifi-on window larger. Smart WiFi Toggler only saves the cell you are connected to. Not the neighbors. This has an initial disadvantage, but after that it's more efficient.
Anyway, I understand your concerns and your questions are all valid. I'm happy to answer all of them. In the end, you just have to try it and see if it works for you or not. I didn't have much audience to test the app with, but I'm fairly confident that 5 months of first hand testing and refining should make it a decent app.

Great. Your responses are helping me understand the app better note and i should be able to help test better.
Will give it a learning curve and keep an eye on it and will post later.

Ok. Looks like run in foreground and notification icon are now linked together. I turned run in foreground off as I don't like notification icons. I run that way with tasker and my phone has never closed out that service.
I'm still not seeing wifi ever come back on on it's own. I've turned wifi on and off a a few times in the hopes of it trying to remember more cells.
I see may cell location update received notices in the logs. When I toggle wifi on and off, I seem to always get cell already exists for this wifi entry in the log.
So, after I toggle wifi off and get that entry in the log, I put the phone to sleep, wait a few minutes, turn it back on and wifi still doesn't ever turn on.
Any idea what's going on?
I have a Verizon CDMA Samsung Galaxy S III running stock/rooted.

[APP][ANDROID 3.0+] WiFi Connection Manager

DESCRIPTION
The Wifi consumes a lot of battery, this is a really, and the main consumption occurs while the system is looking for a network to connect (which happens when we are not connected to a wifi network).
This app attempts to minimize the battery consumption, and does so in a very simple way: turning off the wifi, which translates into a real battery saver.
So, when it detects that the device has been disconnected from a wireless network, and after waiting a reasonable time (configurable), the hardware wifi going to off.
A few minutes later (configurable), the wifi hardware is reactivated and system scans for some seconds (configurable) searching for available networks.
If it hasn't been possible to establish a wifi connection, the hardware back off again and, therefore, to stop consuming resources.
Furthermore, to increase the battery saving, the application increases the delay between two consecutive wifi activations in each attempt (to a configurable limit).
The application also allows you to add notifications in the status bar, view the history of connections (PRO version), auto disable while airplane mode active, etc.
CONFIGURABLE TIMES
First deactivation time: After a wifi connection was lost, or after device boot, this is the time that system wait before start managing the wifi hardware.
Deactivation time: When the wifi hardware is disabled, this is the time that app waits before activate the wifi again. Increase this time to save battery, but note that system can't establish a wifi connection during this time, even if a wifi network in the range.
Deactivation increase time: This is the time that is added to the deactivation time each time that app deactivate the wifi, in order to save battery.
Max deactivation time: This is the maximum deactivation time. The system cannot increase the wifi deactivation time over this value (in each deactivation).
Activation time: This is the time that wifi remains activated in each check. Decrease this time to save battery.
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Play Store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ryosoftware.wirelessmanager
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In order to redeem it do this:
1) Enter app
2) Open app settings
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Pushed a new version a few hours ago that introduces some updates and improvements...

bartito said:
Pushed a new version a few hours ago that introduces some updates and improvements...
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Difference between free and pro?

dEris said:
Difference between free and pro?
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For now the only difference are the presence of ads and the ability show connections history.
In the future, I don't know

Maybe another day and thanks for posting
Key no worky for me. Says invalid.......and yes i copied exactly as above.

First of all , thanks for the App, will give it a try .
Key dont work here too
Greetings

rolling56 said:
Maybe another day and thanks for posting
Key no worky for me. Says invalid.......and yes i copied exactly as above.
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Ditto for me on the key but thanks for this app, pretty awesome!

rolling56 said:
Maybe another day and thanks for posting
Key no worky for me. Says invalid.......and yes i copied exactly as above.
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rpenrod23 said:
Ditto for me on the key but thanks for this app, pretty awesome!
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hi,
tried the code provided at OP and working fine.
note that the code allows to access all PRO features but shows Ads...
After put the code try to access to the connections history. If done you're in PRO version.

Works now , it doesn't show pro after restart the app ( that was the mistake ) but the connection history works now
Tapatalk Team SlimRoms

Tylog said:
Works now , it doesn't show pro after restart the app ( that was the mistake ) but the connection history works now
Tapatalk Team SlimRoms
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You're right.
PRO version code is only show for PRO users that has buy via InApp.
Just corrected in new release.

I think this app could be even more useful if it was possible to combine wifi search with gps location. So the app could use more energy searching for wifi when phone is near a location previously registered as having wifi connection available, like when I'm near my home. Please consider to implement a configurable feature like this.

Allan_Hun said:
I think this app could be even more useful if it was possible to combine wifi search with gps location. So the app could use more energy searching for wifi when phone is near a location previously registered as having wifi connection available, like when I'm near my home. Please consider to implement a configurable feature like this.
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Location via GPS uses a lot of battery.
I'm planning to add TELEPHONY location (location via phone cells, that don't uses additional battery) in a near future.

bartito said:
Deactivation increase time: This is the time that is added to the deactivation time each time that app deactivate the wifi, in order to save battery.
Max deactivation time: This is the maximum deactivation time. The system cannot increase the wifi deactivation time over this value (in each deactivation).
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I didn't really understand these two times. Could you pls explain with an example?

jyo1 said:
I didn't really understand these two times. Could you pls explain with an example?
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1) Device is connected to a wifi network
2) The wifi connection is lost
3) If before "first deactivation time" a wifi connection is established then goto 1 else goto 3b
3b) "deactivation time" is the configured value for "deactivation time" then goto 4
4) disable wifi and count "deactivation time" minutes and goto 5
5) enable wifi
6) if before "activation time" a wifi connection is established then goto 1 else goto 7
7) add "deactivation increase time" to "deactivation time" then goto 8
8) if new "deactivation time" is higher to "max deactivation time" then set "deactivation time=max deactivation time" then goto 4

Thanks for creating this great app and for the bonus xda gift.
One request: could you add the option to set the timers by entering numbers or using up/down buttons? The sliders are difficult to be precise with.
Cheers.

Thanks @bartito though will check the app later

bartito said:
Location via GPS uses a lot of battery.
I'm planning to add TELEPHONY location (location via phone cells, that don't uses additional battery) in a near future.
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This option will be great addition, as I only use the Wifi at home and I would love to disable it completely when I am not home in order to save battery

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Full ack.
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Yeah, enable/disable based on the location via mobile cell would be really nice. That's what i'm searching for.
So if you're in the mobile cell(s) where you was connected to a known wlan before, the app enable wlan and if you lost the wlan connection and you're not in the known mobile cells anymore it disable wlan after the deactivation time.

Just try it and check if it could save battery or not.

[Q] Nexus 5 Cyanogenmod M7 stable Profile 2g/3g LTE profile question.

First time caller, long time listener. I'm on the most recent stable Cyanogenmod build, and I have a question, I've tried searching the forums and google but not sure I'm describing the issue correctly.
I am using profiles, 2 separate ones, one for home, one for when I leave home (lose wifi connectivity.) Inside I have the phone data off, and only wifi on, and then when I leave I have that profile set to turn data on, and it seems that I've figured everything out except for that when I leave LTE is not enabled and I cannot find an option where to have that automatically enabled. I get data, but only 3G HSPA+. Yes, I have LTE in my area, and I can manually enable it, but cannot figure out where to set it to automatically enable.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

ChunkMale said:
First time caller, long time listener. I'm on the most recent stable Cyanogenmod build, and I have a question, I've tried searching the forums and google but not sure I'm describing the issue correctly.
I am using profiles, 2 separate ones, one for home, one for when I leave home (lose wifi connectivity.) Inside I have the phone data off, and only wifi on, and then when I leave I have that profile set to turn data on, and it seems that I've figured everything out except for that when I leave LTE is not enabled and I cannot find an option where to have that automatically enabled. I get data, but only 3G HSPA+. Yes, I have LTE in my area, and I can manually enable it, but cannot figure out where to set it to automatically enable.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
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I don't think you can enable LTE in CM profiles. Pretty sure LTE is a separate toggle that you might as well leave on?

Lethargy said:
I don't think you can enable LTE in CM profiles. Pretty sure LTE is a separate toggle that you might as well leave on?
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Thank you for your response. Not to sound dumb, but how do I go about leaving it on? Inside my home I don't actually receive LTE coverage, but I do the second I walk outside the door. However with the profiles as they are, when I walk out the door it just stays on 3G/HSPA, unless I actually push the LTE button from the notification bar menu to enable it. Any ideas how to just have it always stay on?

ChunkMale said:
Thank you for your response. Not to sound dumb, but how do I go about leaving it on? Inside my home I don't actually receive LTE coverage, but I do the second I walk outside the door. However with the profiles as they are, when I walk out the door it just stays on 3G/HSPA, unless I actually push the LTE button from the notification bar menu to enable it. Any ideas how to just have it always stay on?
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LTE button as in LTE in your quick settings? I never had to manually enable LTE when I had coverage again, which makes it weird for you. Are you "enforcing" "2G/3G" in your profiles?

Lethargy said:
LTE button as in LTE in your quick settings? I never had to manually enable LTE when I had coverage again, which makes it weird for you. Are you "enforcing" "2G/3G" in your profiles?
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I've tried it with both 2G/3G checked, and unchecked in the profiles. However each time I have to actually manually turn it on for it to work, when I go outside it's just 3G/HSPA+, I then turn it on, but when I come back inside it goes off (since I don't get LTE inside), but never comes on when I leave again.
If that makes any sense.

ChunkMale said:
I've tried it with both 2G/3G checked, and unchecked in the profiles. However each time I have to actually manually turn it on for it to work, when I go outside it's just 3G/HSPA+, I then turn it on, but when I come back inside it goes off (since I don't get LTE inside), but never comes on when I leave again.
If that makes any sense.
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Is your "Preferred network type" set to "4G/LTE"?

Lethargy said:
Is your "Preferred network type" set to "4G/LTE"?
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Yes it is, when I'm outside, after I enable the LTE through the quick settings. Oddly though that changes automatically back to 3G when I come inside, yet doesn't automatically change back to 4G/LTE automatically when I go outside.

ChunkMale said:
Yes it is, when I'm outside, after I enable the LTE through the quick settings. Oddly though that changes automatically back to 3G when I come inside, yet doesn't automatically change back to 4G/LTE automatically when I go outside.
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Weird. When I lose 4G/LTE coverage it doesn't change my settings to 3G, it keeps LTE on but connects on 3G/HSPA. What happens if you turn LTE on while you're inside?

Lethargy said:
Is your "Preferred network type" set to "4G/LTE"?
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I found this through google that seems quite similar to what I'm asking (they wont let me post a link) but a google search of
"cyanogenmod profile 2g/3g LTE"
the 1st couple result shows something at cyanogenmod site is that a bug report or something they are aware of?

Lethargy said:
Weird. When I lose 4G/LTE coverage it doesn't change my settings to 3G, it keeps LTE on but connects on 3G/HSPA. What happens if you turn LTE on while you're inside?
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Even if I turn it on while inside, for a second it changes my preferred data to LTE, but then after a few seconds of not finding signal goes off and switches back to 3G.
I was primarily trying to use the profiles to turn off mobile data altogether indoors and then on once it loses wifi, but even if I try to leave it on indoors, it doesn't re-enable LTE when I go outside. At least not when I have profiles setup. When I wasn't using profiles it would actually.

ChunkMale said:
I found this through google that seems quite similar to what I'm asking (they wont let me post a link) but a google search of
"cyanogenmod profile 2g/3g LTE"
the 1st couple result shows something at cyanogenmod site is that a bug report or something they are aware of?
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First result is this thread itself.. :silly:
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ChunkMale said:
Even if I turn it on while inside, for a second it changes my preferred data to LTE, but then after a few seconds of not finding signal goes off and switches back to 3G.
I was primarily trying to use the profiles to turn off mobile data altogether indoors and then on once it loses wifi, but even if I try to leave it on indoors, it doesn't re-enable LTE when I go outside. At least not when I have profiles setup. When I wasn't using profiles it would actually.
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Try enforcing "Mobile Data" in your profile that you use for outside, or is it already like that?

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Lethargy said:
First result is this thread itself.. :silly:
Ha, Yeah I noticed that, but it was only that way in my Firefox browser, in IE, the first 2 threads were the 2nd thread which was the one I was referring too.
Try enforcing "Mobile Data" in your profile that you use for outside, or is it already like that?
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Mobile Data is enforced for my outside profile, but not the inside one (typically) Though even when I have it enabled on the inside one and turn LTE on manually, it still goes off and changes back to default Preferred Network Type 3G after a few seconds.

ChunkMale said:
Mobile Data is enforced for my outside profile, but not the inside one (typically) Though even when I have it enabled on the inside one and turn LTE on manually, it still goes off and changes back to default Preferred Network Type 3G after a few seconds.
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Add information...when I turn profiles offf completely using on/off button...Preferred Network type goes to LTE and stays on LTE...doesn't change back even indoors where I don't get LTE...

ChunkMale said:
Mobile Data is enforced for my outside profile, but not the inside one (typically) Though even when I have it enabled on the inside one and turn LTE on manually, it still goes off and changes back to default Preferred Network Type 3G after a few seconds.
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Really weird, especially if it only happens with Profiles enabled.
It changes to 3G here?:

Lethargy said:
Really weird, especially if it only happens with Profiles enabled.
It changes to 3G here?:
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Ugh, 5 minutes between posts for being new....
Yes sir (or ma'am) that's exactly where it changes, but ONLY when profiles are on. Not when they are off, then it is on LTE and stays on LTE at all times leaving me to in a sense blame profiles...or my configuration of them, though I think it has to do with not having that 4g option under 2g/3g. I'm not positive.

ChunkMale said:
Ugh, 5 minutes between posts for being new....
Yes sir that's exactly where it changes, but ONLY when profiles are on. Not when they are off, then it is on LTE and stays on LTE at all times leaving me to in a sense blame profiles...or my configuration of them, though I think it has to do with not having that 4g option under 2g/3g. I'm not positive.
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New member struggles.. Somehow I got caught with this:
I'm not entirely sure as I never enforced anything related to data/WiFi in my profiles, only things like volumes and ring mode. I always manually turned Mobile Data on and off manually, and the bug report for CM in the Google search doesn't mention it forcing you to 3G even when not enforcing it on in Profiles, it only mentions the lack of LTE as an option.
We can probably rule out the issue being cause by enabling Profiles, it's probably somehow related to your Profile configurations.

Lethargy said:
New member struggles.. Somehow I got caught with this:
I'm not entirely sure as I never enforced anything related to data/WiFi in my profiles, only things like volumes and ring mode. I always manually turned Mobile Data on and off manually, and the bug report for CM in the Google search doesn't mention it forcing you to 3G even when not enforcing it on in Profiles, it only mentions the lack of LTE as an option.
We can probably rule out the issue being cause by enabling Profiles, it's probably somehow related to your Profile configurations.
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Well, I only have 2 profiles one called automobile, 1 called home. In auto all I did was
enable bluetooth, gps, wifi, data sync, mobile data, each of the 4 volume overrides and use system default lock screen mode,
then for home
enabled bluetooth, wifi, data sync, mobile data, and each of the 4 volume overrides with lock screen disabled...

Lethargy said:
New member struggles.. Somehow I got caught with this:
I'm not entirely sure as I never enforced anything related to data/WiFi in my profiles, only things like volumes and ring mode. I always manually turned Mobile Data on and off manually, and the bug report for CM in the Google search doesn't mention it forcing you to 3G even when not enforcing it on in Profiles, it only mentions the lack of LTE as an option.
We can probably rule out the issue being cause by enabling Profiles, it's probably somehow related to your Profile configurations.
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UGH...I'M A MORON. I had 2g/3g enabled on the home profile, I unchecked it, and it's working as expected. Thank you so much for letting me waste your time...

ChunkMale said:
Well, I only have 2 profiles one called automobile, 1 called home. In auto all I did was
enable bluetooth, gps, wifi, data sync, mobile data, each of the 4 volume overrides and use system default lock screen mode,
then for home
enabled bluetooth, wifi, data sync, mobile data, and each of the 4 volume overrides with lock screen disabled...
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I just tried enforcing Mobile Data in a profile and it didn't work at all.. I don't know, maybe we have to see if other people have the same issue. Maybe wait for someone else to reply, could just be ROM-specific, carrier specific or somehow device-specific.
Edit: Well that was an easy fix. It's fine, it happens sometimes, wasn't a waste of time at all.

Lethargy said:
I just tried enforcing Mobile Data in a profile and it didn't work at all.. I don't know, maybe we have to see if other people have the same issue. Maybe wait for someone else to reply, could just be ROM-specific, carrier specific or somehow device-specific.
Edit: Well that was an easy fix. It's fine, it happens sometimes, wasn't a waste of time at all.
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Yeah everything seems fine with 2g/3g off in both profiles. I think I thought that you needed 2g/3g enabled to receive calls indoors which is probably why I turned it on. So frustrating I wasted hours looking up a solution to a PEBKAC issue. Feel dumb for missing that.

[APP][4.0+] WiFi Better Battery 1.4

Hey everyone! I hope you all had a good start into the new year!
Please allow me to introduce to you my new app - WiFi Better Battery. Its primary functionality lies within decreasing battery usage of WiFi and getting some security into Android's WiFi.
Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.minudev.wifipowersave
It saves battery by making sure WiFi is only on when needed. When you leave the range of your (for example) home WiFi, your device's WiFi module is turned off after a short delay (to make up for connection hiccups). When you reenter the range, you will quickly be reconnected.
Optionally, the app comes with a MAC checking feature to actually get some security into Android's WiFi system. By default, Android only checks the name of the network. That means that if any network has the same name, Android automatically connects to it, including sending the network password to this probably malicious router. Not to mention the dangers coming from being connected to a malicious WiFi. The MAC check tries to make sure the network is actually who it seems to be.
The app does have in-app purchases, but those are only for donations and to deactivate ads. The full functionality is completely free.
QR code for easy download:
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Hello.
Please say. Is GPS should be always on? Or you track the location in some other way?
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Sounds a really good idea hope it works well. I'll give it a try and leave some feedback

Thanks for this great app =D

Not trying to discredit your work or anything, but how does this work differently to the other alternatives out there?
As far as I'm aware, most apps use GPS locations to pin-point where you are and enable/disable functions. You mentioned that if you're out of the WiFi range then it turns off automatically. How does it detect you're within range to automatically turn back on then?

Hey!
It does not use location, nor does it require the permission to access your location.
What it does: Every x minutes (that's a setting) it activates your WiFi module into a low-power state to only scan for networks. If any networks that you entered before are found, the WiFi module is powered up and it connects to the network. Otherwise, it turns it off again.
Hope that clears things up, if not, feel free to ask more questions!
Have a nice day!

Ahh I see, thanks for clearing that up!
Would we be able to adjust the WiFi scanning period? What is the actual "X" minutes? You see, my mom uses WiFi heaps on her phone for stuff like Facebook etc......but it drains her battery easily, so I was trying to find ways to decrease the battery drain for her. I was looking at things like Tasker or whatnot, but then I saw this today and it looks like a simple and easy option. If I could adjust the scanning threshold/period to e.g. 10 or 15 minutes then that would be nice.

chaoscreater said:
Ahh I see, thanks for clearing that up!
Would we be able to adjust the WiFi scanning period? What is the actual "X" minutes? You see, my mom uses WiFi heaps on her phone for stuff like Facebook etc......but it drains her battery easily, so I was trying to find ways to decrease the battery drain for her. I was looking at things like Tasker or whatnot, but then I saw this today and it looks like a simple and easy option. If I could adjust the scanning threshold/period to e.g. 10 or 15 minutes then that would be nice.
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Look in the settings you can set the interval to what you want. The default is 2 mins

Thanks for helping out, sawdoctor!
By the way: While WiFi is connected, it does NOT scan to further save battery.

I'm not 100% convinced that this will increase battery life since I have a habit of manually turning wifi on/off as I need to. But I'm intrigued by the MAC check. Looking forward to seeing how this develops.

perhaps you can add a feature that allow user to turn on/off wifi at specific time interval instead of 24/7

huei92 said:
perhaps you can add a feature that allow user to turn on/off wifi at specific time interval instead of 24/7
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I'm honestly not sure why that would be needed - that WiFi isn't on 24/7 is the whole point of my app.
Or did you mean controlling the interval of the automated checks? There's a setting for that.
Hmmm...or did you mean controlling at what times WiFi Better Battery automates WiFi connections?

So what you are saying is that I don't need to remember to turn off my wifi? I'm in!
I'll check on the battery usage and let you know if I notice anything...

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I'm honestly not sure why that would be needed - that WiFi isn't on 24/7 is the whole point of my app.
Or did you mean controlling the interval of the automated checks? There's a setting for that.
Hmmm...or did you mean controlling at what times WiFi Better Battery automates WiFi connections?
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the latter 1

huei92 said:
the latter 1
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It's definitely possible, though I honestly don't see yet what this would be useful for. When would you like to disable the automated features and why? I'm not saying I won't implement it, I just want to find the best way possible.

Xenon O said:
Hey everyone! I hope you all had a good start into the new year!
Please allow me to introduce to you my new app - WiFi Better Battery. Its primary functionality lies within decreasing battery usage of WiFi and getting some security into Android's WiFi.
Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.minudev.wifipowersave
Maybe a mod would be so kind to convert that into a link, I'm not allowed to post external links yet unfortunately.
It saves battery by making sure WiFi is only on when needed. When you leave the range of your (for example) home WiFi, your device's WiFi module is turned off after a short delay (to make up for connection hiccups). When you reenter the range, you will quickly be reconnected.
Optionally, the app comes with a MAC checking feature to actually get some security into Android's WiFi system. By default, Android only checks the name of the network. That means that if any network has the same name, Android automatically connects to it, including sending the network password to this probably malicious router. Not to mention the dangers coming from being connected to a malicious WiFi. The MAC check tries to make sure the network is actually who it seems to be.
The app does have in-app purchases, but those are only for donations and to deactivate ads. The full functionality is completely free.
I'm looking forward to any feedback you may have for me and would be very grateful for it. Thanks in advance!
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I'll definitely have to try this. Combined with Cataclysm's smart radio option, this could be a real winner.
huei92 said:
perhaps you can add a feature that allow user to turn on/off wifi at specific time interval instead of 24/7
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I think this would make the app unnecessarily complex. The app presumably saves battery power by reducing the frequency of wifi scans, no need to bloat it beyond that. Tasker already allows such granular control of processes, among other options for those who want it. However, I do think a good alternative would be a push button widget to force wifi scan, that way when you come within range of a familiar wifi network you could scan and connect with one touch.

BirchBarlow said:
a push button widget to force wifi scan, that way when you come within range of a familiar wifi network you could scan and connect with one touch.
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Now that's part-of-the-next-update material! Thank you!
huei92, I'd still like to make sure you're satisfied though, so if you could tell me why you need that feature, I'm sure we can come up with a good solution

EDIT: Ha! I'm so tired of run of the mill apps getting featured that I asked the following without installing. Installed and answered all my own questions, kind of embarrassing. Great app, I'm about to buy the add free/donation purchase. It would be great to have Tasker integration for disabling and enabling the service process for when my WiFi goes down but in addition to some of my own unique uses of the phone. I've worked around everything and it was worth it. I hope you cash in really well before Google rips off your idea in a future update.
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Does this require "scanning always available" to be off? I would presume that since its just listening in this mode that the phone's stored login settings aren't being sent but I'm no expert here. In my scenario, scanning always available is set on when I'm not at home but wifi is off and notification of open networks is off.
Essentially, can I use this app with those settings and still have a wifi near profile in Tasker?
Also, is your app depending upon "scanning always available" in the wifi settings or is it running its own separate service for this, and if it is a separate service, is there a Tasker plugin similar to wifi near in the future?

what the different between this and interval wifi scan time in build.prop?

Sounds like a great app. Will try it. Thanks.

How to delete saved wifi connection?

On my S5, all saved wifi connections were visible in the wifi settings page. On the S7, it seems that only the connections within range are visible. If you go into the data usage / restrict networks, every saved wifi connection is displayed, but there is no way to delete them from there. It seems that there is no way to delete a saved wifi connection once it goes out of range. Anyone know how to do this?

bimmerdriver said:
...On the S7, it seems that only the connections within range are visible. I...
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Exactly the same issue here. Anyone got any workarounds (non-root)? Third party apps don't seem to work. Pretty ridiculous that you can't forget a saved network and causes a serious issue for me: I have to change my password at work and can't forget the WiFi AP before getting to the office so I'm locked out of my work account...

It is a bit annoying but I can't see how it's a problem?
How are you locked out of your work account?
You can change password when you are in range.
What's the other issue?

jarayn said:
It is a bit annoying but I can't see how it's a problem?
How are you locked out of your work account?
You can change password when you are in range.
What's the other issue?
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The problematic are Hotel / Airport / etc. Hotspots...
When i received my S7 i "load" an backup from my old android phone... I few days earlier i returned from a long holiday trip and so the "restore-backup" created a lot of hotspots an my S7 i never never need and i'm not able to delete ....
(OK - i can start for a second trip, visit all places and delete hotspot when connected... ) <-- ironic

jarayn said:
It is a bit annoying but I can't see how it's a problem?
How are you locked out of your work account?...
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We use exchange authentication for WiFi at work. The phone automatically tries to connect using the old password as soon as i'm near the office. Does this three times and locks my ability to use the WiFi. This is before i have chance to see it and forget it in the WiFi settings. Such a simple omission in the UX makes this even an more annoying issue.

Yeah OK the work thing sounds a bit troublesome. I would turn off wifi before I go then turn it on when I'm ready and forget the network before it connects.
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The holiday wifi hotspot thing i don't get still.
Why is that a problem? You can't see the networks anyway. Is it just an ocd thing?

well you have a drastic option, if nothing else works
go settings>backup and reset>reset network settings
this will erase all your wifi, as well as all bluetooth and data connections saved
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wegiwegi said:
well you have a drastic option, if nothing else works
go settings>backup and reset>reset network settings
this will erase all your wifi, as well as all bluetooth and data connections saved
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just done that myself, all my connections disappeared, it works fine, you should try that
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The problem with the holiday Hotspots is at least not a real problem... But I don't like this.
I would prefer a function to delete Hotspots even when I'm not connected to them...
(maybe it is small security issue, because a common SSID can be used to connect with my phone...)

Wifi Manager - choose Known network, then remove.

I reported this to Samsung support. That's the only way to get them to fix it. The more people report it, the more likely they are to fix it sooner.
As for whether it's a "problem", I suppose it's not immediately a show stopper. However, after only a couple of weeks, I accumulated a lot of hotspots that clutter up the restrict networks page. Who knows, if too many build up it could cause an problem. There is no reason for Samsung to have implemented it in this way. I've never seen a device (mobile or pc) that did this.

lost_ said:
Wifi Manager - choose Known network, then remove.
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Thanks, but Android 6 only allows you to forget those networks that you've connected to using the same app. So you can only forget those that you connected to with WiFi Manager, not the in-built settings.

do7slash said:
Thanks, but Android 6 only allows you to forget those networks that you've connected to using the same app. So you can only forget those that you connected to with WiFi Manager, not the in-built settings.
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Edit: you're correct. I think root and find where file or db that stores the SSID would be the next option.
Edit 2: Get a root editor, backup /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf, then edit it to either remove the entire SSID entry, or set autojoin to 0. There may be root apps that does this.
The plain text passwords are also stored in that supplicant file.
I don't think there is any non-root solution until Samsung changes the Wifi settings to show out-of-range SSIDs. I agree that it is silly for it to not do have this feature at all.

2 solutions so far (?)
Hi,
if you have a non rooted S7 there is no build in possibility to delete the saved wifi connections if you are out of range. Samsung has to fix this in my opinion.
With Marshmallow you can only delete wifi networks with the same app you created them, so third party apps like wifi manager do not work. So far there might be two solutions which work, both are far away from being perfect.
- First solution is to delete ALL network connections...and start from the beginning (1. Go to settings -> 2. Bakup and reset -> 3. Reset network settings -> 4. Follow on screen instructions)...including bluetooth etc.
- Second solution is not fine either. Take a third party app like wifi manager from Kostya on play store and list all known networks. Then set up a (fake) wifi access point with the SSID you want to delete. Once they are in range, you can delete the saved wifi connection. You have to repeat this for every SSID you want to delete.
Best regards,
Alexander

jarayn said:
Yeah OK the work thing sounds a bit troublesome. I would turn off wifi before I go then turn it on when I'm ready and forget the network before it connects.
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The holiday wifi hotspot thing i don't get still.
Why is that a problem? You can't see the networks anyway. Is it just an ocd thing?
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Ummm..... maybe cuz stored WiFi networks spew out a wealth of valuable information!!
isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/WiFi+Still+Remains+a+Good+Attack+Vector/21583

lost_ said:
Wifi Manager - choose Known network, then remove.
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can not remove!

I updated my S7 today (with Sprint) to Android 7, and they fixed this. Out-of-range WiFi networks are listed under the "Manage Networks" options and can be removed from there.