How To Modify The WiFi Sleep Policy

[Droidish]

I am sorry if this was already found.

I know alot of people were complaining about the wifi shutting down when the screen timeout occurred. I found a setting in Spare Parts that changes the wifi sleep policy. My NC battery died and is charging so I didn't get a chance to see how well it worked but hopefully it helps.

I set mine to never. I also found that a some of the lg apps posted elsewhere here install and work on the nook.


I for one cannot wait for the roms. This thing kicks serious ass in it's infancy... imagine if someone like cyanogen came on board.

 

[norkoastal]

Agreed.. Once Bluetooth is active and hopefully CM6 comes to play this puppy should perform quite well (mouse on screen ya!).. I'm amazed that the 3D games (mainly Gameloft) play so well right off the bat..

 

[johnopsec]

I did the same thing in Spare Parts and can verify that the Wifi stays active. I know because K9 on my NC beeps at me a second before my phone chimes when I get an email, even when it's been locked with the screen off for hours.

 

[peiziyu]

I did the same thing in Spare Parts and can verify that the Wifi stays active. I know because K9 on my NC beeps at me a second before my phone chimes when I get an email, even when it's been locked with the screen off for hours.

How does this affect battery life though? I imagine if Wifi is always connected and getting email, it should be a serious drain on the battery...

 

[BigBadger]

wifi on = battery drain

How does this affect battery life though? I imagine if Wifi is always connected and getting email, it should be a serious drain on the battery...

Yes it would so use judiciously.

 

[golfprorm]

I set mine to never turn off wifi automatically, and then I just use a wifi widget (either the power control widget that's already there) or Beautiful Widgets wifi toggle to turn it off when I'm not using it (during the day at work for example).

 

[jdposhkus]

I have mine set to never...Still cuts wifi when the screen sleeps.

Any other tricks to try? I need wifi to remain active....

 

[vapor63]

I have mine set to never...Still cuts wifi when the screen sleeps.

Any other tricks to try? I need wifi to remain active....

I've tried Wifi Lock as well as Spare Parts, and have the same result. Wifi still sleeps.

 

[GuestUSUT]

Spare Parts did not work for me either. I've yet to try Wifi Lock.

 

[Dusko75]

Wifi Lock works for me...

Ok.. I read all the posts I could find and installed Wifi Lock, this is the only one I tested and works great for me. (Tested using Pandora radio)

This is what I did:

1- Install Wifi Lock (Android Market)

2- Reboot Nook Color

3- Go to your Extras and run the app. (It doesn't have a user interface, it only displays a message every time you click on it: Default / Never)

4- If you are using Advanced Task Killer (or any other) make sure you deselect Wifi Lock and add it to your Ignore List (I did it right away, I guess that's a VERY important step)

I just tested it several times for about an hour using Pandora radio, I have no idea how much it will drain the battery... If something goes wrong I'll let you know...

 

[daithioflionn]

Is this policy of keeping wifi on based on nooks that do not constantly reboot themselves, which is an issue many of us are having. there is a huge thread clarifying a partial fix for the rebooting based on killing wifi when the screen is off.

 

[rjoudrey]

I am having pretty good results with "WiFi Manager" in the marketplace.

 

[slugbug2010]

never mind - my bad, info was not correct, so sorry

 

[notinterested]

If you don't set your wifi to never sleep, then when it DOES sleep it will scan. Scanning is a battery drain. Wifi never sleep is better.

This is absolute nonsense.

Wifi never sleep is a massive drain on the nook battery. Its better on a phone because when the wifi shuts off the phones data turns on and uses more battery. The nook has no data connection so when wifi is off it uses next to no battery life.

 

[slugbug2010]

This is absolute nonsense.

Wifi never sleep is a massive drain on the nook battery. Its better on a phone because when the wifi shuts off the phones data turns on and uses more battery. The nook has no data connection so when wifi is off it uses next to no battery life.

Thank you. My bad, I apologize for the bad information.

 

[CocoaGoddess]

My problem was a bit different than everyone else's, because when my wifi shut off during sleep, I would have to manually reset my router in order to get the NC to recognize it. Needless to say, this was a huge pain, because we have a lot of devices in our home depending on the wireless router, including our cable boxes.

So, I've been using WiFi Lock on the NC for the past two days. So far, it's only lost the wifi signal once, and I was able to turn it back on within the Nookcolor. Hopefully this will last, because I will gladly take that over having to reboot our rooter.

 

[lurker_hlb3]

I would like to pass along some info on an app that I “highly” recommend for controlling the Nook Color’s WiFi. For the last few days I’ve been using “Green Power FREE battery saver”


The beauty of this app is that you can control the “automatic” ON/OFF of WiFi based on when the screen turns off. With it setup to turn off the WiFi with a 0 second time delay I have eliminated all random reboots when the system goes into sleep mode. Also as soon as the screen comes back on it automatically turns the Wifi back on, and my Nook reconnects in about ten seconds. I have tested this in both Infrastructure and ADHOC modes (tethered to my phone) with no problems what so ever.

 

[10equals2]

Agreed.. Once Bluetooth is active and hopefully CM6 comes to play this puppy should perform quite well (mouse on screen ya!).. I'm amazed that the 3D games (mainly Gameloft) play so well right off the bat..

I thought that CM was going straight the CM7 for the nook?
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[TJNooker]

Update

I have tried Wake Lock, Spare Parts, and WIFILock. I saw the most success with WIFILock but it has been failing lately. I'm going to try Soft Locker next and see what happens.

 

[richardop]

I have tried Wake Lock, Spare Parts, and WIFILock. I saw the most success with WIFILock but it has been failing lately. I'm going to try Soft Locker next and see what happens.

The Nook wifi problem sounds very much like the issue the ZTE blade has, I've made an app that creates a wakelock whenever you turn the screen off (if wifi is enabled).

Let me know if it works!

Market Link - Advanced Wifi Lock

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