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
I'm having a weird issue with my signal and the strangest part is I can completely control when it happens. All I have to do is go into Network Settings and enable 3G connections and suddenly I have no network connection OR signal. Once I set it to only use 2G networks then it works as usual, besides not being able to connect to 3G networks.
I'm using CM5 Test 2 which is not the latest. Could it be an issue with my radio?
Bump, please help I'm stuck on Edge....
I have an AT&T Galaxy S5 and it does not switch from Wi-Fi networks to Cellular Data automatically.
For example, when I'm at work I have great Wi-Fi signal between many different access points throughout the building, so I prefer Wi-Fi. When I go just outside the building the Wi-Fi signal is terrible, pretty much unusable on any access point although the SSID broadcasts are still visible the signal is too terrible to maintain a connection. So when I'm outside I'd like my phone to automatically switch to Cellular since the LTE signal outside is great.
It seems my Galaxy S5 isn't "Smart network switching," I've tried this with the feature turned off and on. Having to turn off Wi-Fi when I go outside, and then back on when inside is pretty annoying. Plus the fact the phone should be doing this automatically, especially with a feature called "Smart network switch. Automatically switch between Wi-Fi and mobile networks to maintain a stable internet connection."
It's as if my Galaxy S5 keeps trying to use a Wi-Fi network no matter how bad the signal is, as long as it can still see it. Does anyone have any ideas for fixing this?
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
Hello!
I live in a concrete structure so I get pretty bad cellular reception and rely on wifi calling for calls/texts. I've tried the following method to force wifi calling to use wifi preferred whenever connected to a wifi network and not switch back to cellular preferred but I'm not having any success. Perhaps there's been an update to Android since those instructions came out?
Force Wifi preferred
Any help and/or other methods would be greatly appreciated.
Edit: Something else that could work is setting up a task to turn on airplane mode when connected to my home wifi network and then reconnecting to the wifi network since that would force wifi calling to use "wifi preferred" but I can't figure out how to set it up via Tasker. Tried a few things but it doesn't work. Thanks!