[fritzoune]

Hi,

How can I force disable/disconnect the wifi/3g ? I set to widget of the home screen to offline mode. but everytime I manually disconnect the wifi, it automatically reconnects in the second.

I have my mail,(hotmail), facebook status, calendar, some webshortcuts, and the info like cnn, weaher, reuters.

And when I go to sleep, I dont want the connection to be active.

[Fender77]

It's probably some feature needing it connected.

Is the email set to auto connect?

I bet you have something forcing the wlan to connect. On my E7 I have my emails accounts set to auto connect every 4th hour with accesspoint internet in use. My wifi accesspoints are stored in the phone under internet and is the priority 1, hence the email will try to connect to wifi when available. Could this be the case for you since you have the homescreen in offline mode?

[Fender77]

It's definitely some app/setting forcing the phone to connect to internet. You don't happen to have the app caled 'whatsapp' ?

[fritzoune]

I have whatsapp to give a try. but its not launched.

Also for my mail, it's my hotmail account I can only set the synch from the widget I think,

and it seems to get the mail the whole day, with frequency asap.

I will try to change those settings but there is no "manually check for email" option.

But if i put my widgets in offline mode, shouldn't the email widget stop connecting ?

Is there a MasterSwitch "turn off all connections" that it has priority above the application ?

Because if I get the wifi to stop connecting, I don't want the 3G to be connected too my Phone provider will get very rich then

[Fender77]

No master switch as I know, you will then have to delete the accesspoints which some of them will probably reinstall them selvs.

The whatsapp launches itself at boot, so unless you exit it afterwards it will run.

You can set your hotmail account to only update manually.

So try those two steps too, before going to bed.

By setting the phone in offline mode, you will stop the phone from using the service providers network. You will also be asked if you would like the wlan to be allowed to run while in offline mode. You can just say no and it will be totally offline. Of course this will also affect calls/messages to not be available during the time offline.

[spurdoman · Accepted solution]

Disable all email boxes. That worked for me, they kept forcing the phone to be on 3g packet data connection or in wlan, even if there was no network traffic. I think its a bug.

[Fender77]

I've posted in your other thread, spurdoman, and it might be a bug, but it does not happen a lot with my device. Only a few times.

In this case the OP has whatsapp on his phone which is autostarting at boot.

When disabling whatsapp, disabling widgets to connect and turn off auto connect for my email accounts, I have now managed to completely turn off the wlan and 3g connection.

[fritzoune]

seems that it is the mail widget wich is continually trying to get the inbox, even when widgets are in offline mode. I change the frequency check and the hours to check for mails. now when I click to disable wifi, it does not reconnect immediately. Hope that works

Whatsapp works with push function, so it shouldn't be the problem. but on my phone it does not load automatically at startup.

[Fender77]

Okey, thats good! Whatsapp does load automaticly on mine and runs in the back ground from boot and on unless I open it and exit the app.

[fritzoune]

so I made some new test. You're right whatsapp starts up automatically. But i set it up to use 3g, so thats fine.
its mostly the mail widget and the news widgets that wont stop connecting.
So I remove them and wait to see a fix in the future from nokia before they all go on w7 !

[treefitter]

In the home screen  Options  Widgets to OFFLINE mode   Job done

[Fender77]

If you read the first post treefitter, you will see that this has already been done. If you have whatsapp or email or something else, it will still need an connection.

[fritzoune]

yeah in my case it was the email widget, which i had to remove (on a business phone..) because even after set it not to manually get the mail, it still does. Using wifi... not 3g.. duno why.

There are so many other "strange" features in that phone. Really worse than on my old n95.

Hardly waiting for an update.

[Fender77]

What? Manually would force you to open the email account to refresh it/ sync it. If it's set to sync each hour, it will and within your email settings you can set what accesspoint to use, so if it's set to internet and you have wlan as priority one within that category in connectivity settings, it will try to use wlan.

[MJJ87]

I connect to my wi-fi successfully, but then it still uses 3G for whatsapp, emails & when I go on the internet.

I just upgrade form the E72 & when in range it automatically connected to the wi-fi and used it as preferred connection...why won't the E7 do the same?

[oilman272]

Hi , follow the setting :

1- settings----->connectivity---->wlan------->switch wlan scan off

and

2- settings-------->connectivity---->settings------->switch to wlan (manual)+data use in home country(automatic)+data use when abroad(always ask)

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if it is not useful

settings-------->connectivity---->settings------->destinations------->internet <click and hold>(delete)