Hi all,
Bought a new Nokia 7 Plus today in India.
1. Which consumes less battery, using WiFi from an adjacent router (jiofy) or Jio Mobile data....?
2. When I turn WiFi on and it's connected to the router already, why does it keep searching for more networks?
How do I stop that?
Thanks
Wifi uses way less power than mobile data. Unfortunately, I don't have an answer for your 2nd question. I will get my device tomorrow and will see if the same happens here.
K.khiladi said:
Wifi uses way less power than mobile data. Unfortunately, I don't have an answer for your 2nd question. I will get my device tomorrow and will see if the same happens here.
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Xebeck said:
Hi all,
Bought a new Nokia 7 Plus today in India.
1. Which consumes less battery, using WiFi from an adjacent router (jiofy) or Jio Mobile data....?
2. When I turn WiFi on and it's connected to the router already, why does it keep searching for more networks?
How do I stop that?
Thanks
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Definitely WiFi gives you more battery life compared to data, it's good for your battery and also your mobile data plan ( in case you have limited data plans)
For the second part, i think it's because the WiFi connection is congested. Or maybe there are other WiFi nearby occupying the same channel/band.
My suggestion is to change your band to 5ghz if your router supports it, if not change it to use a less frequent channel like channel 12
Madarao said:
Definitely WiFi gives you more battery life compared to data, it's good for your battery and also your mobile data plan ( in case you have limited data plans)
For the second part, i think it's because the WiFi connection is congested. Or maybe there are other WiFi nearby occupying the same channel/band.
My suggestion is to change your band to 5ghz if your router supports it, if not change it to use a less frequent channel like channel 12
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Hi, when I'm abroad using wifi (so no cellular data), my battery lasts longer compared to being at home, also on Wifi. how can this be possible? shouldnt cellular data be deactivated as soon as i activate wifi?
thanks in advance
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Depends on what Wi-Fi network you're connecting to. In theory - 5Ghz network takes more battery than 2.4Ghz or a/b/g network. Also, signal strength also plays it's role - constant low signal forces the antenna to work harder - and at home you always get good signal.
Who knows, maybe that's the reason.
Maybe when you are home the data connection stays in the background waiting for you to drop off wifi network and therefore eats up the battery
but when you are on roaming the data connection is turned off completely to save on data bill
this is just an assumption...
what I usually do is when am at home or work, I turn off data and turn on wifi manually instead of letting the phone choose for me. I've found that this helps in conserving battery
No, thats not how it works.. Your cellular data connection is active, just unused.
k1ckdapro said:
Hi, when I'm abroad using wifi (so no cellular data), my battery lasts longer compared to being at home, also on Wifi. how can this be possible? shouldnt cellular data be deactivated as soon as i activate wifi?
thanks in advance
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itsrijo said:
what I usually do is when am at home or work, I turn off data and turn on wifi manually instead of letting the phone choose for me. I've found that this helps in conserving battery
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I do this too, in fact I use Llama to do it for me. It saves a lot of battery.
Thanks, that's what I thought. But why can't android simply deactivate data when connected. I don't get why there is no such option.
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Hi.
Is there any way for our android device to automatically start using mobile data even if its connected to a WIFI network, like it does in Iphone and Blackberry.
There are times you go to a certain location and having used their wifi before, your phone automatically connects to it only to find out that no data is transmitting and you can sit there for hours not realizing your phone is disconnected from the internet whereby, in BB or iphone, the phone just switches over to mobile data and keeps you online.
Most apps available just toggle wifi on and off but none I've seen can keep WIFI connected and still use mobile data.
Any help will be appreciated
There is an option, that the phone only connects to wifi if there is a good connection (under wlan --> advanced )
Hope this helps.
Same problem (but inverse)
Hi everybody,
I'm facing the same problem, just inverse: when the phone "considers" the wifi signal "too weak", it automatically switches to mobile data (even if the latter are disabled), the result is the mobile frequently drop the connection in some places at home where the signal is a little less intense.
In my phone, the option mentioned by Marc199 doesn't exist (or isn't displayed)...
What can I do?
Is there a way to access "hidden" settings like the one mentioned?
Thanks for your answers!
Marc199 said:
There is an option, that the phone only connects to wifi if there is a good connection (under wlan --> advanced )
Hope this helps.
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albi99 said:
Hi everybody,
I'm facing the same problem, just inverse: when the phone "considers" the wifi signal "too weak", it automatically switches to mobile data (even if the latter are disabled), the result is the mobile frequently drop the connection in some places at home where the signal is a little less intense.
In my phone, the option mentioned by Marc199 doesn't exist (or isn't displayed)...
What can I do?
Is there a way to access "hidden" settings like the one mentioned?
Thanks for your answers!
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Well, you can always use the quick settings to turn off the mobile data.
albi99 said:
Hi everybody,
I'm facing the same problem, just inverse: when the phone "considers" the wifi signal "too weak", it automatically switches to mobile data (even if the latter are disabled), the result is the mobile frequently drop the connection in some places at home where the signal is a little less intense.
In my phone, the option mentioned by Marc199 doesn't exist (or isn't displayed)...
What can I do?
Is there a way to access "hidden" settings like the one mentioned?
Thanks for your answerns!
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Well, there might be a chance that HTC removed (or never implemented) this feature. I'm using a GPE ROM.
If you mean the developer options, they won't be any use to you.
BestSignal Wifi-->Mobile Data App
I just installed BESTSIGNAL on my **HTC ONE M7**from the developer of the same name (BestSignal).
It's the paid version but only AUD1.99 and it works well, simple yet highly functional GUI. However it was not compatible on my Google Nexus 7 (2012) nor my ASUS Transformer TF700T so be sure to check your device compatibility.
As a XDA newbie I'm not allowed to include active HTML links so the App URL extension is: details?id=com.eightythirty.bestsignal and the Dev's is: developer?id=BestSignal
I'm curious how your wifi is performing because i'm getting pretty bad wifi reception and starting to think it's maybe a hardware fault.
On my old phone (One X) i'm getting full bars and a link speed of 72Mbps allmost everywhere in my livingroom.
On the One mini i have never had 72Mbps (max 54 and mostly 26 or lower) and frequently loose wifi connection in my house where the One X easally maintains a strong connection.
The same is with the bleutooth connection. When streaming music I only have to touch the top of the right corner and things start to stutter.
What is your experience? Please let me know so I know if i have to send it for repair.
Carlovn said:
I'm curious how your wifi is performing because i'm getting pretty bad wifi reception and starting to think it's maybe a hardware fault.
On my old phone (One X) i'm getting full bars and a link speed of 72Mbps allmost everywhere in my livingroom.
On the One mini i have never had 72Mbps (max 54 and mostly 26 or lower) and frequently loose wifi connection in my house where the One X easally maintains a strong connection.
The same is with the bleutooth connection. When streaming music I only have to touch the top of the right corner and things start to stutter.
What is your experience? Please let me know so I know if i have to send it for repair.
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It does sound bit strange. have you tried going into advance setting and put wifi optimization on?
kativiti said:
It does sound bit strange. have you tried going into advance setting and put wifi optimization on?
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Thanks for responding. I have tried that and it didn't seem te make a differnce.
What kind of link speeds are you getting?
You can check that by tapping on your wifi SSID when you are connected.
Thanks!
According to my phone, 65Mbps
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I have sent my device in for repair. I received a new phone and all problems are solved I have steady connection now
Could not find an app where once Wifi is connected, Mobile Data is disable and enable when there is no Wifi connection.
Hope someone can help, thank you.
peanuts3 said:
Could not find an app where once Wifi is connected, Mobile Data is disable and enable when there is no Wifi connection.
Hope someone can help, thank you.
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when the wifi is connected mobile data automatically turns off you dont need a app :/
Thanks are you referring to the Auto Network Switch under the Wifi setting?
When I set to Yes it gave a warning that it may auto switch to Mobile Data.
Suspect that if Wifi is not strong but still connected, it may switch to Mobile Data to get better connection which I do not want.
Pakman123 said:
when the wifi is connected mobile data automatically turns off you dont need a app :/
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peanuts3 said:
Suspect that if Wifi is not strong but still connected, it may switch to Mobile Data to get better connection which I do not want.
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I'm in the complete opposite camp, how I wish there's an option for the phone to automatically switch to mobile data when the wifi becomes practically unusable.
There's a wifi deadspot in my house where I often use the phone, and contrary to what you suspect, my observations indicate that as long as there's a wifi connection, no matter how weak the signal, the phone will try its best to send and receive packets over wifi.
I usually have to manually switch off wifi.
Thanks for your feedback.
I will monitor whether the outcome is similar like yours.
I will turn ON both the Mobile Data and Wifi and using the Wifi preference setting.
If it works as you have stated, I will be very happy.
My priority is saving the cost from Mobile Data which is expensive to me.
I would like to control all downloads/updates of apps through Wifi.
Will use Mobile Data only when Wifi is not available/connected.
mhaha said:
I'm in the complete opposite camp, how I wish there's an option for the phone to automatically switch to mobile data when the wifi becomes practically unusable.
There's a wifi deadspot in my house where I often use the phone, and contrary to what you suspect, my observations indicate that as long as there's a wifi connection, no matter how weak the signal, the phone will try its best to send and receive packets over wifi.
I usually have to manually switch off wifi.
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There is an option in developer settings to keep mobile data active even when Wi-Fi is connected. That may help with your Wi-Fi dead zone.
I think this option works for one device only.
I would rather recommend deploying a repeater for the Wifi signal, which will serves all devices at the dead spot.
A simple repeater should cost about USD10/
carto-man said:
There is an option in developer settings to keep mobile data active even when Wi-Fi is connected. That may help with your Wi-Fi dead zone.
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Thanks Pakman123 and mhaha, for sharing your experience.
So far testing as recommended works according to your views.
For mhaha, I believe a wifi signal repeater set up will resolve your concern.
peanuts3 said:
Thanks for your feedback.
I will monitor whether the outcome is similar like yours.
I will turn ON both the Mobile Data and Wifi and using the Wifi preference setting.
If it works as you have stated, I will be very happy.
My priority is saving the cost from Mobile Data which is expensive to me.
I would like to control all downloads/updates of apps through Wifi.
Will use Mobile Data only when Wifi is not available/connected.
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You can look at which apps are thirsty data eaters in settings under mobile data usage. Then click on the hungry app, untick background data.
Turning off background data will keep the apps restricted to WiFi slurping.
Thanks for looking up.
Appreciate your good suggestion.
Didgesteve said:
You can look at which apps are thirsty data eaters in settings under mobile data usage. Then click on the hungry app, untick background data.
Turning off background data will keep the apps restricted to WiFi slurping.
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Hello,
I've used my Mi A2 around 2 weeks now and I'm really satisfied with the phone. However, I got some annoying issue about wifi. When the signal strength of wifi is not so strong (below -70 dbm), it tends to disconnect for around 10-20 sec and then reconnected again. This happened to me like 10 times since I got the phone. And wifi works perfectly without disconnections when the signal strength is strong enough.
Does anyone experience this issue? Or I got a defected device?
Thank you
Same here, sometimes it just disconnects ...
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It is a normal stock android behavior, because android detects that signal of wi-fi is to low, and tries to switch automatically to GSM mobile data, or to another wi-fi if it is available in the area.
I don't have this happen but wifi signal is strong and also; gsm data is turned off.
That *may* help to turn that off possibly, as it obviously can't (now) switch to it?
minnuss said:
It is a normal stock android behavior, because android detects that signal of wi-fi is to low, and tries to switch automatically to GSM mobile data, or to another wi-fi if it is available in the area.
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Even if mobile network is off? Is there a way to change such behavior? I tried to find in the setting but what I just found is Aggressive WiFi to mobile handover, which was already turned off.
AsItLies said:
I don't have this happen but wifi signal is strong and also; gsm data is turned off.
That *may* help to turn that off possibly, as it obviously can't (now) switch to it?
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It happened both when mobile network was on or off.
Marciano09 said:
Even if mobile network is off? Is there a way to change such behavior? I tried to find in the setting but what I just found is Aggressive WiFi to mobile handover, which was already turned off.
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I think that it is called smart wifi, or wifi+ option in other types of android OS, and here it is just a automatic option in stock android i guess.
I don't mind it, because it will change my wifi router AP if it get stuck, and need an reboot, so it will automatically switch to another closest one that works.
You better think of some way to get a better signal then to turn off this function.
Try with aps like this on the link.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seah0rse.swififree
minnuss said:
I think that it is called smart wifi, or wifi+ option in other types of android OS, and here it is just a automatic option in stock android i guess.
I don't mind it, because it will change my wifi router AP if it get stuck, and need an reboot, so it will automatically switch to another closest one that works.
You better think of some way to get a better signal then to turn off this function.
Try with aps like this on the link.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seah0rse.swififree
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The thing is that wifi also disconnected when there's no other nearby networks to switch to. I did something to get better signal in my room but this still happened sometimes.