Connected to a hotel WiFi network with my Pixel 6a, every few seconds/minutes, irregularly, the phone makes the default notification sound. After much f***ing around, I determined that it happens every time the hotel's generally fast but somewhat intermittent WiFi reconnects on the phone. It's one of those WiFi networks with a 'lobby ambassador' which intercepts connections and asks you to login, and thereafter it remembers the device MAC and does not intercept your device's communication attempts anymore.
Every time the phone reconnects to this network, which is frequent because apparently my room is a bit out at the edge of coverage, after the layer 1/2 negotiation for the phone to establish the link, the WiFi client on the phone briefly shows "authenticating", and then the connection is established (without user interaction) and immediately the phone emits the default notification sound. So my phone is irregularly and frequently chirping Android 13's default "popcorn" sound. It's super annoying.
I've looked at Settings -> Notifications -> Apps, show System -> Android System - it's not any of those. I turned off all Android System notifications and it still does this.
What is the actual notification class and specific notification type on (Android 13 on) the Pixel 6 series (I have a 6a) which causes the default notification sound to play every time WiFi (re)connects please, so I can turn off this torture without silencing the whole phone?
(My one last test, ongoing at present, was to change the hotel WiFi network Privacy configuration from "randomized MAC" to "device MAC"; I don't see why that should change anything, because it's my device that is audibly notifying me that it's (re)connected; the network to which it's (re)connecting is not a new network every time - for that I might expect a notification).
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You could temporarily enable Do Not Disturb with exceptions for your usual apps? Otherwise I'm not sure if there's a way to disable that. It'd make sense if your change from randomized -> device MAC fixed this, though, as the network should remember your device rather than make you log in again every time, but that's a big should that's not in your control.
Well, damnedest thing. Looks like turning off privacy/random-MAC mode for this WiFi stopped the notification. Doesn't make any sense at all, since my phone knows that the hotel WiFi is the same one to which it had connected before, even if the hotel WiFi might think my phone is new every few minutes...
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Can anyone recommend me a FREE app that will automatically enable bluetooth when wifi disconnects and disable it when wifi reconnects.
Both me and my wife have bluetooth enabled phones, mine is a htc desire and hers is an X10 Mini
Our bluetooth kit in the car does not support multipoint so only one phone can connect at a time.
If either of us is by ourselves this is fine but when we are both in the car together its a crap shoot on which phone will connect.
manually checking bluetooth every time we get in the car is a pain in the butt and given the fact that I always drive when we are together I want to install an app to turn on her BT when her WIFI disconnects.
This solves the problem because if we are together my phone has already connected long before her BT ever gets enabled.
Have you tried "Setting Profiles". I can't remember what the free version does but certainly the paid for version (which isn't very much) enables you to do a whole lot of setting rules which would enable you to do exactly what you are wanting.
Give it a try. I've got some complex rules which detect cell locations and then trigger the enabling of WiFi when I get close to home and then when the WiFi is on another rule sets some other bits when I connect to my home WiFi.
Triggers can be, GPS location, Cell location, WiFi networks connected/disconnected, time of day, bluetooth connection etc. Very useful app. Good for power saving as well. (I've got a HTC Desire S but it should work on your phones as well).
As the subject asks, why does it drain the phone so much?
On my nokia symbian phone, it is connected to my asterisk box 24/7 over wifi and will last for days.
My galaxy nexus will drain out in hours if connected via wifi to my asterisk box.
The SIP qualifys are every 60 seconds.
Has anyone been able to get decent battery life for incoming SIP on ICS?
A somewhat related question I have; does anyone know of an app that will enable incoming SIP only when on wireless?
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It is because either the app or the build prop on the phone has the wifi scan rate up high. That means it needs to have a stable and solid connection so scanning for the wifi source more regularly ensures it doesn't drop a call or miss a message or what ever.
You can do one of a few things. You can freeze the app using Titanium backup and then unfreeze it when you need to use it and or you can drop the wifi scan rate from what it is now to a higher number i.e. 20 = 20 seconds (thats intervals between scans) and 180 is a large interval between scans. Above 180 and your starting to run the risk of having a call drop out on you if you are not on a solid wifi connection.
I am looking into a way of either modifying the default prop or possibly a script into adjusting the wifi scan rate to enable users to turn the scan rate down when not engaged in a wifi call and then turn it back up if they wish to (i.e. whilst on a wifi call or in a area of poor signal strength).
Hey everyone, I got myself a Z2 recently and have been very happy about it for the most part. However, some things seem to not function a 100% the way it's supposed to.
Some times after it's been to sleep and I try browsing online with it using either 3g/4g or wifi the phone says it has a connection, but nothing loads. All I have to do to solve this is to refresh the wifi/3g connection manually, and then it works. It's rather annoying to always go through that procedure every time I want to use my phone, so I'm wondering is there anything I can do about this? Or anyone experienced anything similar?
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I have the same issue with WiFi while the phone sleeps or is active (no probs with mobile data though!), but I was not able to determine whether it's my router, the phone, or a combination of the two (though I have a hunch).
When I'm in my room which is unfortunately the farthest from the router, and the connection drops, my Z2 is not able to reconnect on its own. Have to disable/enable WiFi or else it's stuck in an infinite loop of connecting and obtaining an IP.
Now, I'm fine with a dropping connection occasionally given the distance and the... quality of my router. However, my laptop is able to reconnect automatically.
I have tried lots of possible solutions: WiFi sleep policy, static IP or DHCP, disabling/enabling WiFi optimisation or Auto-IP, switching WiFi channels, and various WiFi fixer apps. Nothing worked.
My guess? There is a bug in the stock firmware that makes the phone unable to reconnect if a connection is forcibly dropped . Pair this with a crappy router and you have a recipe for inconvenience.
Unfortunately, I have no spare router to confirm this, and with the bugs in CyanogenMod I am reluctant to flash for now.
Also, I am sure this is not a hardware fault of the phone in my case since I notice this behaviour at home in my network only.
Do you guys possibly know where I could find some logs related WiFi? I wanna get to the bottom of this.
This may seem like a minor issue, but it's driving me crazy.
I always set my Wifi to "Always on" on my devices, so that when I pick up my phone or tablet, it's connected and I don't need to wait for it to switch to Wifi and make a connection. This usually works great except on my HTC Desire. Something to do with HTC's connection manager stubbornly switches to the wireless data (3G/4G) connection even though I'm already on Wifi.
Basically what happens is this: I'm using my phone on Wifi, I put it to sleep, set it aside. I pick it up a second, a minute or hours later and turn it back on. It's still connected to Wifi, but then the connection manager toggles over to 3G for no reason at all. Then a few seconds later it flops back over to the Wifi connection.
Again, this may seem like a minor problem, but when I've told my phone to stay on Wifi, I'd like it to stay that way. Plus, the way it works, I'm usually already in an app by the time it toggles my connections, so I'm stuck sitting there and waiting while it does it's thing.
At one point I used Titanium Backup to freeze one of the connection managers that I found in the app list, but that didn't seem to stop it. Does anyone else know which app is doing this nonsense?
I'm on stock 4.2.2 (or whatever the phone came with). The phone is currently rooted.
Thanks a lot!
Hi folks,
Weird thing happening to me while I'm out of the country on vacation. Being out of the country is probably irrelevant though.
I'm in a hotel that has crappy slow "captive portal" wifi. So, you connect to the SSID without password, and it redirects you to a login page (name/room number), then it provisions the device.
The wifi frequently hangs or disconnects here, and is super slow even when it is working, so I decided to bail and just use my phone's mobile data. So I went into Internet and turned off the wifi. Slid that switch to OFF.
Looked down an hour later when I had trouble connecting to a site and found the wifi was back on and connected to the hotel site. I turned it off again, but shortly the same thing happened again.
Eventually I turned off the other part, where it can scan in the background for improved location etc, and THAT seems to have stopped the problem, but why does the wifi keep turning on and connecting when I've explicitly switched it off?
Bug? Feature?
Bit of a guess... you are on data roaming? If roaming, I bet the phone is looking for "better options" if discovery is on, and it will re-connect if it finds a wifi that it can use. I'll go with buggy-feature.