Whenever I turn WiFi on, the phone will go nuts looking for access points (and chew up the battery doing so and notify me repeatedly). Is there any way to configure WiFi so that it will only using WiFi when it sees a particular access point(s), e.g. my home or work, and ignore everything else on the street. And when those specific access points are unavailable, go back to Edge, GPRS, etc.?
You can still turn off notifications if you want, go to Settings > Wi-Fi > Menu > Advanced and untick "Turn on available network notification".
After I've done the initial setup, when I enable Wifi, my phone auto connects to my Home Wifi and doesn't notify me of any other networks when I'm in Range.
Ta
Dave
DaveShaw said:
After I've done the initial setup, when I enable Wifi, my phone auto connects to my Home Wifi and doesn't notify me of any other networks when I'm in Range.
Ta
Dave
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yes +1, but I was thiking that anyway WiFi turns off when you shut down the screen, so when you walk in the street your wifi should not be alive. As to do so, you would have anyway a poor battery life. It's cool to use wifi when you need, but let it scan for networks all the time is not the best way.
In the settings (phone->data tab) the option - Disable GPRS/3G option on sleep
does it mean then I stop using the device and puch the turn off buton to switch off the display it is a sleep mode? so the GPRS connections will be terminated (if any)? what about wi-fi?
On Sleep mode my phone stops using wifi and goes back to the dataconnection. I have prepaid so I want it to remain on wifi all the time.
Jorgelgjr said:
On Sleep mode my phone stops using wifi and goes back to the dataconnection. I have prepaid so I want it to remain on wifi all the time.
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wireless controls > wifi > press menu and click advanced > Wifi sleep policy
thanks i had no idea about that advance menu on wifi
How to prevent wifi from sleeping?
I have a few apps that have the permission of "prevent phone from sleeping" but seems the phone will still switch off the wifi soon after the screen timed out. Is it supposed to work like this, or is there some settings for this?
one of the apps i tried is "wireless file transfer lite", which by the way, is a very light wifi transfer tool between phone and pc
Wifi settings > menu button, advanced > Wifi sleep policy.
ha! didn't know there is advanced setting.
many thanks!
Both my wife and I have the same problem: when we are away from home, and thus no WiFi reception, WiFi turns itself off. So when we come home we have to turn it on manually.
Both on miui 12.5 and not changed any WiFi settings. I've checked WiFi assistant and “turn on WiFi automatically" is turned off.
Any clues?