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j4velin / WiFi-Automatic

Automatically turn off WiFi if you don't need it
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.j4velin.wifiAutoOff
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Possibly causes DataStats app to stop functioning #17

Closed Gitoffthelawn closed 9 years ago

Gitoffthelawn commented 9 years ago

Hopefully not too many (or any) people have read my initial versions of this Issue post. I've updated it to provide more details.

Here's the issue in a nutshell: I have used DataStats ( https://github.com/takke/DataStats ) for quite a while without a single issue. I then installed WiFi-Automatic. After installing WiFi-Automatic, DataStats would no longer work after I turned the screen off, waited just a few seconds, and then turned it back on. DataStats would see no data after turning the screen back on.

I figured it was probably an app conflict, so I uninstalled WiFi-Automatic expecting DataStats to start working again. Even after rebooting, DataStats works great until the screen is turned off; once the screen is turned off and then back on, it no longer shows throughput stats. Reinstalling DataStats does not help.

So the big question: is it possible that WiFi-Automatic has changed something that would persist after being uninstalled?

I looked through my logs to try to determine if it could be something else. I had updated a couple apps, but I took a close look at those, and I highly doubt there could be any relationship to this issue.

The only other thing that I did was run (it was already installated) and then uninstall Wifi Key Recovery ( https://github.com/alt236/Wifi-Key-Recovery---Android ). It had root privs, but it should be read-only.

Since running WiFi-Automatic, I can't get DataStats to survive a screen off/on cycle. As such, I am now limited in the testing I can provide. Perhaps others can try the following to see if it reproduces the issue:

Steps I took:

  1. Install DataStats ( https://github.com/takke/DataStats )
  2. Set DataStats to auto start on boot
  3. Reboot*
  4. Install WiFi-Automatic ( https://github.com/j4velin/WiFi-Automatic )
  5. Reboot
  6. Let system stabilize after boot
  7. Turn off screen
  8. Wait a few seconds
  9. Turn on screen
  10. DataStats is now frozen at whatever level it was displaying when screen turned off
    • I had updated a couple apps and ran then uninstalled Wifi Key Recovery at this step.
j4velin commented 9 years ago

I don't really think this is an issue of WiFi Automatic - the app only turns WiFi on or off. If another app stops working because WiFi has been turned off, then thats an issue of this other app

Gitoffthelawn commented 9 years ago

Thanks. I appreciate your feedback. Does WiFi Automatic change anything that could persist after it is uninstalled?

j4velin commented 9 years ago

Nope

Gitoffthelawn commented 9 years ago

That's good news. Thanks!