mobile phone turning WiFi on by itself?

littlerock

I always keep the WiFi on my Sony phone turned off as a default. But it has started turning itself back on with no intervention from me. Any suggestions on cause and how to fix?

(for example last night I carefully checked wifi was off .This morning it suddenly sprang into life and started downloading Facebook notifications.)

grumbler

I don't know the answer, but what's the point in keeping it off as a default?

pappa_golf

uncheck "automatic updates" by wifi

esuhl

I don't know, but do you have mobile data switched on? Is there some kind of setting that automatically switches you to wifi if the mobile data drops?

grumbler wrote: »

I don't know the answer, but what's the point in keeping it off as a default?

To save battery life? To stop shops from tracking you?

http://bgr.com/2014/02/19/how-smartphone-wi-fi-tracking-works/

Oblivion

Beware, your smartphone is listening to you :cool:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35639549

donnajunkie

If you are worried about using data that costs you money just turn off mobile data in the settings. If you have connected to a certain wifi network once it will detect it automatically whenever you are in range and connect to it. If you are in range of wifi networks but have never connected to them before your phone will just display a message saying there are wifi networks available. If there is a specific wifi network that you have connected to before but you dont want to automatically connect to it in the future you can tell your phone to forget that network in the wifi settings as there is a list on your phone of all wifi networks you have connected to before.
If you are just worried about security then there are free security apps available from the likes of avg for android phones.

donnajunkie

esuhl wrote: »

I don't know, but do you have mobile data switched on? Is there some kind of setting that automatically switches you to wifi if the mobile data drops?



To save battery life? To stop shops from tracking you?

http://bgr.com/2014/02/19/how-smartphone-wi-fi-tracking-works/

Sony phones have a power saving setting. If you dont want your location tracked you can turn the location setting off. You can also install avg cleaner to wipe the cache etc.

20aday

As posted above by Pappa John (source: Android Central by poster using Sony Xperia):

Setting -> Power management -> Location based Wifi (Wi-Fi activated automatically when in range of a saved Wi-Fi network) -> [Off]

esuhl

donnajunkie wrote: »

Sony phones have a power saving setting. If you dont want your location tracked you can turn the location setting off.

That will stop your phone from using wifi signals to determine your location. It won't stop third parties from monitoring your wifi activity and determining your location.

donnajunkie

esuhl wrote: »

That will stop your phone from using wifi signals to determine your location. It won't stop third parties from monitoring your wifi activity and determining your location.

Well I Have noticed on mine when it's on some apps detect your location but when I turn it off apps dont do it.

paddyrg

grumbler wrote: »

I don't know the answer, but what's the point in keeping it off as a default?

If you have an unlimited data tariff you wouldn't want your phone jumping around trying to connect to wifi networks interrupting your perfectly good always-on data connection - or at least I don't!