Better Wifi On/Off

Gives you control of the Wifi state and optimizes your battery life.

by Sven Knispel

50+

Thousand

Downloads

2.1+

Android version

6/16/13

Last updated

2012

October

App age

1.14 MB

App size

Everyone

Content rating

FREE

Price

Google Play Rating history and histogram

319

Changelog

Sep 5, 2016 Installs 50,000+ installs
Jun 16, 2013 Update Version 2.1.0.0
Apr 11, 2013 Update Version 2.0.0.0
Mar 28, 2013 Installs 10,000+ installs
Jan 29, 2013 Update Version 1.3.0.2
Jan 8, 2013 Update Version 1.3.0.0
Jan 1, 2013 Installs 5,000+ installs
Dec 25, 2012 Update Version 1.2.0.0
Dec 15, 2012 Update Version 1.1.0.0
Nov 10, 2012 Installs 1,000+ installs
Oct 27, 2012 Installs 500+ installs
Oct 21, 2012 New App Version 1.0.0.0 in Tools for Free

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Developer information

Sven Knispel

[email protected]

Website

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Description

Better Wifi on/off aims at giving you the control of the Wifi state, optimizing your battery life without losing on user experience.

The app is free, fully featured with ads.

*What is the motivation behind controlling Wifi?*
On paper Wifi is less power hungry than 3G but... some apps behave differently when Wifi is on and the well known wlan_rx kernel wakelock is a symptom of wakeups caused by uncontrolled Wifi hotspots, the Wifi sleep policy is not working consistently and does solve all problems.

Support: the rating tool is not the right place to submit bugs or feature requests.
If you have questions or want to report bugs please send me a mail, post your question in the support thread at xda (http://goo.gl/oc8MR).

Keywords: battery life, control wifi, save battery, battery drain, saving battery

Permissions:
- android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE: detect if wifi is on or off
- android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE, CHANGE_NETWORK_STATE and android.permission.UPDATE_DEVICE_STATS: change wifi state
- android.permission.WAKE_LOCK: hold a wakelock
- android.permission.BATTERY_STATS and android.permission.DEVICE_POWER: detect if on charger
- android.permission.INTERNET and android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE: required for ads
- android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: save logcat
- android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED: start service on boot
- android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE: detect screen on/off/unlock

BetterWifiOnOff is open source so you can inspect/review/ contribute and submit issues or feature requests. Please check the about dialog for further details.

Recent changes:
- Updated russian translations
- Add option to leave wifi on when screen goes off but a connection is active
- Loading application whitelist is now asynchronous
- Added timed checks: regularly turn Wifi on (all rules apply)
- Fixed event log for enabling/disabling from the widget
- A better detection of the donate version
- Fixed alarm "null" error leaving Wifi on
- Fixed event log for power connected / disconnected
- Implemented more sophisticaled cage detection

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