Hello,
I have an HTC ONE S, and I hoping someone can recommend an App for a very specific situation.
Recently, my employer switched to a Guest access Wi-Fi. Basically, when I walk into the office in the morning, all my settings and passwords are still saved to login to the corporate network; however in order to connect to the network I have to open my web browser, a web page will load listing the conditions governing the use of the corporate WI-Fi, and I need to click on the Accept button on the page. I'm then connected to the network. So far, so good.
Here is where I'm hoping for assistance: I typically leave the phone charging on my desk. I'll check it periodically throughout the day (or if I receive a text). The problem is that the network must sense a lack of activity after a certain amount of time. At which point, I'm no longer connected to the network and must then open up my web browser again, Accept the conditions of use again, at which point I'm logged back onto the network.
Is there an application I could install that would automatically generate some sort of activity to keep me logged into the network? I have the weather app that come stock on the HTC One S; however the smallest update interval the app allows is one hour. I thought that might have been a possible solution, but along with the 1 hour time interval, I'm unsure if it is web browser activity or of any sort of network activity that is required to stay logged in?
If this is helpful: I have Automagic installed and I've used Tasker in the past but I'm not well versed in writing scripts for Tasker.
The phone is an HTC One S
Network is T-Mobile
Android version is 4.0.4
I did root the phone as there is no SD Card slot on this phone, and I removed the bloatware to free up some space.
Many thanks in advance.
Respectfully,
Vaux
Related
Every month I have paid much money for phone and internet fee(9800 yen). I want to disable internet connection because it is not necessary for me.
thanks in advance
you can create a new internet connection and replace the default with it.
thanks for reply but how to make new connection.
Hello. What do you mean? You mean I can use it for a non-softbank account? (via 3g?) Of course, I suppose we could just delete the whole softbank account, and therefore it would not be able to "connect" via 3G, and we could connect via a wireless account, but then softbank mail would not work, right? I wonder if it is possible to just disable connecting to the internet via explorer.... any ideas?
@taicyber: i ran into a similar problem. sometimes while in my carrying case, my keitai would connect to the internet via internet explorer, and my monthly fee for internet usage was much higher than it should have been. so i took a couple steps. first, i changed the internet button on the front of the phone to a different function (that's apparently the button that often gets accidentally pressed). after that, i changed pie's (pocket internet explorer's) start page to a local file (ie. the help file). that step solved the majority of my problems. what was happening when it auto-connected was that yahoo.co.jp was the start page, and that page has HUNDREDS of little pics and ads that refresh every few minutes and drive those packet amounts up. if you make it a local file you'll no longer have those mystery packets being sent. and it doesn't affect your mms/sms in any way. having the dummy file as a start page made it safe for me to change the pie button back to it's default function of opening up pie.
also, just for reference, i don't think you have to worry about the phone being connected to the 3g network too much. unless a page that refreshes itself frequently is opened, then no data is sent. the only problem i run into with 3g being connected is that it kills my battery faster.
thanks shunsai. I have experience like you said. and I also changed the button and defalult.html(in /windows).But I am not sure if my phone will connect internet via other way.
Hey it might not be super helpful in this case, but for me I disable gprs using a piece of software called 'NoData'. it will let you quickly switch on / off data connections. Search the forums for NoData and you'll find links to it.
The issue sounds specific to Softbank the carrier though so YMMV.
I may be one of the few smart phone (HTC Rhodium / ATT Tilt 2) users who have requested to NOT have a data plan. I simply have no need for the service and have a basic call/text plan. I’ve decided to give Android a whirl with my AT&T Touch Pro2. I am having difficulty determining what services/apps/settings to disable to ensure no data usage is expended.
I have been using “Energy” ROMs for almost two years now and have been successful at ensuring no data usage is consumed. I few simple steps to turn off a handful of apps/services and I’m all set. Android, on the other hand, isn’t proving to be as easy….for me.
I have dug through the forums and searched around, but I’ve come up empty. I’ve found a few “nodata” programs, but they seem to all be outdated or for Windows Mobile. I don’t think my situation is very common, hence why I’m posting today.
I have successfully installed and used the latest Froyo build (FRX07.1, dated 01SEP11) found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1171052
QUESTION:
How can I stop all data usage while using Android?
ie...
a. stop specific services/apps/programs
b. install a "no data" app
c. any other ideas?
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Best way is using the curvefish 3G/ON/OFF Widget, to quickly choose when to be online and when offline.
Can still use data without 3G though? It will just be slower.
What I do is make an internet profile with blank settings on my phone, set it as default then if it tries to connect it instantly fails.
theronkinator said:
What I do is make an internet profile with blank settings on my phone, set it as default then if it tries to connect it instantly fails.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This is a good solution by-design, same I used on my old nokia phones
But if you are looking for an app to handle that, try Droidwall (market)
Allows you to restrict which apps can access the network.
This is the perfect solution if you don't have an unlimited data plan, or just wants to see your battery lasting longer.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
"Settings -> Wireless & networks -> Mobile networks -> Data enabled"?
Or you can simply install from market "Apn Droid"
I use my g-mail account on my SGS2 and on my pc with windows live mail.
Half the time WLM gives me a message "The server has rejected your login..." and these details.
Server: imap.gmail.com
User name: xxxx
Protocol: IMAP
Port: 993
Secure(SSL): 1
Code: 800cccd1
The problem is that there are too many simultaneous connections to my g-mail account. When I leave my home (wifi) and hit the road and my phone is connecting to g-mail using the data network, then bounces to another cell tower with another new IP address, then another, then another. By the time I get to my office and login on my PC, I've reached G-mail's maximum of 10 simultaneous connections.
The only fix I'm aware of is to open gmail with the browser and log out all open sessions, which really just re-sets the counter for another day or so. It is getting to be quite annoying.
Is there a better workaround??
hoopdaddy6 said:
Is there a better workaround??
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Would it be feasible (or even practical) to turn off the sync during your commute? There are widgets to make this easy - Power Control, for example. Or you could use profile apps (like Toggle Settings) to determine when/where sync should occur based on time or geographic location.
Youre on to something there.
It'd be a small sacrifice, but I'd be happy with an ability to toggle autosync to exclusively use a wifi connection when it's available and not use the data network at all, or otherwise a location based toggle.
I already use juice defender ultimate, but I don't think it has exactly the functionality I'm looking for.
Toggle settings is complicated, I couldn't quite figure out how to create rules to match such needs.
Still open to ideas or help.
Hi
I am trying to connect to my office wifi via proxy server.
Scenario 1: I am using Samsung Bada (wave 1), connected to the internet successfully and also any applications that require an internet connection including Samsung's app store.
While, connecting via open networks like home wifi and other friends' wifi also worked without any issue.
Scenario 2: Now I also have an android based Galaxy pocket: even after entering all the required proxy setting as mentioned above, I can access websites via browser but cannot access samsung's app store, google's play store, skype, sipdroid etc.,
I know it is nothing to do with the network administration as I am still accessing via my samsung wave but not via android. Please help me in identifying what I am missing. Is there anything like a network profile I need to assign for these applications?
thanks
S
Figured out the solution
Sometimes it is pathetic to notice that I didn't receive a single suggestion after I posted my question above. This is not how it used to be when we had smartphones that were just running windows long time ago.
There were lot of suggestions that comes up within a few minutes of posting, now after the invent of android and so many devices we have so many members but knowledge sharing has decreased considerably as each person is busy with solving their own issues.
Well, let me come back to the point - All that I needed to do was to run an app like 'proxydroid' or 'auto proxy lite' from one of our members from xda-developers to solve this issue. In order, to run these apps the device needed to be rooted. I rooted and installed this app and from that instance I am able to make all my apps including skype, google app market and what not all can access internet from my corporate wifi.
However, I noticed that only one application never succeeded this trick - that app is a Voip/SIP application called 'Pronto dialer' which throws a message 'unknown error occurred'. It works fine in an open wifi like at home etc., I am suspecting the proxy setting in the office network clashes with the proxy setting in the dialer...dont know what it is. Anyway I am glad and relieved that I was able to solve 90% of the issue.
Hope the above will be useful for someone with similar limitation from corporate wifi.
Hey all, I turned on google maps (and the location service) on my stock Galaxy S9+ and noticed that the android system was suddenly making some outside calls on the HTTPS port (443). I've blocked them for now, but I was wondering if any of you know if they are ok to let through? The IP addresses are usually 13.249.134.*, going out to an amazon cloudfront server. Is this just how Samsung does some of its updates, or should I be worried about my privacy?
It could be any number of apps or services on your phone doing that. Without knowing which app did it or what it was doing (get, post, etc) was it's not possible to tell you if it's normal or not.
For example on my phone I see an https tunnel connection to 13.56.148.213:443 by Samsung neural keyboard.
I would try to use something to help narrow down what app is connecting to that IP address, and what it is doing in a bit more detail.
I cleared my adguard filter log recently but I will keep an eye on it. Will check on it tomorrow and see if I have any requests going to that IP address range.
**Edit - I don't see anything calling to that specific ip address range, but that doesn't mean anything necessarily. I would strongly suggest you find a way to identify what application is trying to connect to the IP address and what kind of event is taking place (POST, GET, HTTP TUNNEL, etc). Amazon cloudfront server(s) could very well be some form of content delivery service (images and etc), a server for use in backing up configurations/data, or as a way to send data to an app using the closest server to your location (like some sort of content delivery network).
Alright, thanks for your help! Would you happen to know of any good packet sniffers that wouldn't require root access?
StultusNemo said:
Alright, thanks for your help! Would you happen to know of any good packet sniffers that wouldn't require root access?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Unfortunately no., and I looked for such an app for a while (over past few months) now.