I'm in the UK, and using a Touch Diamond.....on Vodafone 3G. When I'm connected to WIFI, I obviously want to use that for data, rather than use up my precious data allowance.
When I'm connected to a WIFI connection, how do I know Opera/IE/Email are using WIFI - and not my 3G connection? There are times when I'm in my house, and I know it's using my phone data connection, as it's just so slow (very limited reception 3G in my house)....whereas the WIFI should be pretty fast.
i COULD be wrong here.... but the way i know is if the WIFI icon at the top shows connected. If you rphone cant find the WIFI, it'll always divert to a data connection. Play with your phone around the house, see where you get connectivity and how strong to your wifi.
luigi_sa said:
i COULD be wrong here.... but the way i know is if the WIFI icon at the top shows connected. If you rphone cant find the WIFI, it'll always divert to a data connection. Play with your phone around the house, see where you get connectivity and how strong to your wifi.
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Yes I know when I'm connected to WIFI and how strong it is....what I want to know is how I know whether my phone is using 3G/GPRS - when I am connected to WIFI and want it to use WIFI and not my phone network. There seems to be no indication to show you are actually 'using' the WIFI network over the phone network....
Settings > Communication Settings.
Turn data connection off, turn wifi on.
Do that before you use internet and your sorted.
On both my Diamond and Touch Pro, the Wi-Fi icon appears on the task bar when Wi-Fi is available. Same goes for 3G.
Also note that some programs call for a certain connection method automatically. For example, you will note that some programs initiate 3G instead of using your Wi-Fi connection. Hopefully, there is a configuration option for such apps.
Cheers.
i don't know if you notice it, but if you are connecting through E or H or G or 3G.. the reception bar instead of the antenna you will get the corresponding letter if you are currently connected to one of them
As long as your WiFi is on and none of those letters are showing up.. you will be fine
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I did a search and only found one reference to this in a post. So dont flame on if I missed it.
I can connect to my network fine at home over the WiFi but if I leave the cellular connection on it is terribly slow. If I go into airplane mode and then turn on the WIFI separately its blazing fast. It appears the cellular wants to take priority over the WiFi. Has anyone else experienced this or found what causes it. Below are my phone specs and network.
HD7 with WiFi, Bluetooth, cellular enabled.
Netgear wireless N
I completely agree with this statement btw.
In my basement my "wifi" connection is HORRIBLY slow on my hd7. Many, and I repeat MANY times I feel as though i'm still using my 3G connection instead of the wifi as it should.
Just wanted to comment on this, i'll search later on, maybe i'll find something else.
just turn on cellular connection when you need it , and turn off when don't need.(when u have wifi nearby)
Thats what I do but it shouldn't work like that. There should be WiFi priority when available for data services.
If ur wifi signal is too weak , it can be so.
dougolupski said:
I did a search and only found one reference to this in a post. So dont flame on if I missed it.
I can connect to my network fine at home over the WiFi but if I leave the cellular connection on it is terribly slow. If I go into airplane mode and then turn on the WIFI separately its blazing fast. It appears the cellular wants to take priority over the WiFi. Has anyone else experienced this or found what causes it. Below are my phone specs and network.
HD7 with WiFi, Bluetooth, cellular enabled.
Netgear wireless N
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I have the same phone as you, from TMOUS, and I have noticed the same effect, cellular over-riding the wifi, and I think that the cellular is just set as the default... and I think that is the way it is intended, by the carrier(s), because then we would use our minutes/data up quicker then otherwise... I have noticed when using wifi, and not on airplane mode, that minutes/data are consumed at a MUCH quicker rate, than when on wifi w/airplane mode on... and thanks for pointing this out, I may not have payed as much attention otherwise... I am leaving TMOUS, maybe going to Simple Mobile, or something like that, and I will be keeping a much closer eye on it now... right now, with no carrier, I am using my phone strictly on wifi and it is pretty damn fast, and I only have an 802.11G router, not an 802.11N router like yours... which only makes me want an N router even worse... I'll post any more info as it appears, and thanks again!...
@ artmodeler At work I can understand a week signal but not at my house. I am about 10 feet away from the router which is located on my desk. Also the connection manager in the settings is showing full bars.
@ mlongue1 Yeah it works amazingly fast on my WiFi under airplane mode. I use Super Tube for my you tube client and theres little if any pausing to buffer large videos. Not so much when the cellular connection is enabled.
All of the WiFi issues I have found seem so to be that the WiFi cant connect properly.
I have the opposite problem in that I am not often near free networks. When I leave my house, I turn the WiFi off on my phone.
So I will be watching something on youtube or updating mail at work and everything will just quit. I check the connection and the WiFi is back on and everything stopped because it is trying to connect to WiFi and not staying on my Sprint data connection.
How do I make it quit? I will be at work where there is a highly secured WiFi connection used by some of the more remote robotic systems. My phone will suddenly pop up and tell me that a WiFi signal has been detected and I will get better service by using that connection.
I only want to use WiFi when I turn it on - not when the phone suddenly decides to turn it on.
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If you're on Sprint then you have an S4 and are in the wrong forum. This forum is for the S4 Active.
Can be connected to wifi, but for some reason the phone thinks the wifi connection is bad/poor, and then it will use cellular data (there will be an ! in the wifi)
This is VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY bad for me because I use a LIMITED CELLULAR DATA plan - and this phone decides on its own to not use what is really usable wifi. I have only had the phone 2 days and it is doing it repeatedly - did it at a hotel (which required username/password) but then every single time I leave the hotel and return, it connects to the wifi, but uses cellular data. If I turn off cellular data [I use Power Toggles app to make it easy], the wifi suddenly becomes acceptable to lollipop and the exclamation mark disappears from the wifi icon and I have internet access (no sign in required as the network remembers my mac id/authorized me for at least 24 hours) - and then I can toggle cellular data back on and it will stay on wifi - UNTIL I leave and return again when it starts all over again.
Similarly, at my home where I have strong wifi - sometimes it just decides not to use it. So, when I look at my phone and see the wifi with ! I have to do the same thing - disable cell data to get it to use the wifi.
This is ridiculous!
This switchover to cell data should at minimum be a user-configurable option. I do not want it doing this!
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Can be connected to wifi, but for some reason the phone thinks the wifi connection is bad/poor, and then it will use cellular data (there will be an ! in the wifi)
This is VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY bad for me because I use a LIMITED CELLULAR DATA plan - and this phone decides on its own to not use what is really usable wifi. I have only had the phone 2 days and it is doing it repeatedly - did it at a hotel (which required username/password) but then every single time I leave the hotel and return, it connects to the wifi, but uses cellular data. If I turn off cellular data [I use Power Toggles app to make it easy], the wifi suddenly becomes acceptable to lollipop and the exclamation mark disappears from the wifi icon and I have internet access (no sign in required as the network remembers my mac id/authorized me for at least 24 hours) - and then I can toggle cellular data back on and it will stay on wifi - UNTIL I leave and return again when it starts all over again.
Similarly, at my home where I have strong wifi - sometimes it just decides not to use it. So, when I look at my phone and see the wifi with ! I have to do the same thing - disable cell data to get it to use the wifi.
This is ridiculous!
This switchover to cell data should at minimum be a user-configurable option. I do not want it doing this!
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go into the main phone settings, wifi, three dots at the top right, advanced, now disable scanning always available
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go into the main phone settings, wifi, three dots at the top right, advanced, now disable scanning always available
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Already was disabled. (That was the option I chose when I set the phone up).
So I will turn on wifi on my phone but for some reason it still shows the 3G bar and I get not signal at my house so when i try to load up webpages its clearly trying to use my non existent data signal rather than the wifi to load thing. why is it doing this? it's supposed to override the data but its not.
shadowswithin said:
So I will turn on wifi on my phone but for some reason it still shows the 3G bar and I get not signal at my house so when i try to load up webpages its clearly trying to use my non existent data signal rather than the wifi to load thing. why is it doing this? it's supposed to override the data but its not.
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I would troubleshoot your network. The signal bars for cellular do not go away when connected to WiFi, so I would not suspect that is a symptom.
well i am aware of my router being complete crap but im not saying the cellular bars im saying even though wifi is enabled it still trying to use data instead of wifi.
shadowswithin said:
well i am aware of my router being complete crap but im not saying the cellular bars im saying even though wifi is enabled it still trying to use data instead of wifi.
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How are you measuring that?
Check your IP address and see if you can verify from that.
All I know is that I've had wireless issues since day one with my turbo, in fact so bad that I just never use anymore (yea sucks)
I am at my inlaws, using my laptop to work all day on the wifi and connection is great. on my Turbo - the wifi keeps stopping, hiccupping, etc. I have to keep turning on/off, etc. to get stuff to work. I just gave up.
There are other threads on the Motorola Forum with similar issues.
Wish we could figure out what magic settings are necessary to make wifi stable.
Since Huwei doesn't seem to give ANY real explanation how certain features work, I'm wondering, how does their Wi-Fi+ function works that supposedly intelligently selects between 4G and WiFi?
Does it hang on the WiFi in range, but when it's out of the WiFi's range, it switches to 4G and disables WiFi searching of networks and just pings them here and there or how does it "intelligently" detect them without actually consuming more battery by using 4G and constantly "pinging" for WiFi networks in the vicinity?
as i noticed, wfi+ connect automaticly when you are near saved wifi networks and disconnect when you are far away from them
but it doesn't connect on data network when there is no wifi