Auto-Off for WiFi when not at home

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Hi,

i'd like to save some battery on my desire and i think WiFi is draining the battery a lot.

Like many people i use wifi only at home but i forget to turn off wifi often and then the phone is searching for new wifi networks all the time.

Is there an app out there which turns off wifi automatically when a certain wifi network is out of range? Switching on manually is no problem, cause when i use internet at home i realize quick that i am on 3G and not Wifi. I think there is no way for an auto-on/auto-off.

Any ideas?

thanks

There's an app called Sweet Dreams that turn Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/Ringer/ on or off based on some things like current day, hour of the day, location, sound in the room, movement of the handset.

It's more focused on saving battery and turning sound down when you sleep but works perfectly for what you need.

There's also something like Locale

thx, but i think both apps use GPS for the Location which drains the battery again

A Simple:

If wifi XXX is out of range for more than 5 minutes -> turn off wifi

Or you can use "Setting Profiles" which I use and prefer much more over "Locale"

With Setting Profiles you have the option to save a location based on either

Lat/lon or Cells ids or WIFI location.

Also has reverse logic

Info:

***.probeez.com

(replace *** with www as I am not allowed to post external links)


Best program in Market for this if you ask me.

Re: Auto-Off for WiFi when not at home

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How the hell do you set this up
LOL. I wanted to turn wifi off when away from home


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Might be easier to help you if you also tell us what program your trying to setup

y5 battery saver - used it on my g1 and hero with perfect results
more info: http://y5.polidea.pl/

y5 seems a good little app, will try it out this evening, thanks for the tip stingerpl

Re: Auto-Off for WiFi when not at home

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setting profiles its the app im trying too setup

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Originally Posted by watercool

thx, but i think both apps use GPS for the Location which drains the battery again

A Simple:

If wifi XXX is out of range for more than 5 minutes -> turn off wifi

Well both have the option of using GPS but it can work just fine with cell triangulation. If your GPS is off it can work just fine based only on approximation from GSM towers, similar to what Google Maps does for the "My Location" feature.