1013604 - Turn off WiFi when device is in a cell where it has previously never connected to a WiFi network

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Wifi, defect)

Description

[Ravi Dandu]

From  [e-mail]: 

In Firefox OS, since it's a lower profile smartphones OS, I think it should have itself a button with the option of auto turning on/off the Wi-Fi. If the device could turn on the Wi-Fi when I arrive home (e.g), and even turn off the 3g meanwhile the Wi-Fi is connected, and then turn off the Wi-Fi and turn on the 3g when I go out home (and every place when I usually connect to wifi), this would make Firefox OS an intelligent OS.

And since to do this you should only learn the operator network cell identifiers of the places where the smartphone is connected to Wi-Fi, you shouldn't waste battery since this data is something the system is always reading.

It would be something like what Wi-Fi matic does in Android, but in FFOS itself. Wi-Fi matic is an open source android app that activates and deactivates Wi-Fi of your device automatically depending on your location, helping you to save battery and consumption of data through your operator network. It DOES NOT USE GPS nor Android network location services, as it uses your operator network cell identifiers (cell tower identifiers) as the relative location where you are, and where your Wi-Fi networks are. Wi-Fi Matic detects and learns automatically locations where you are connected to a Wi-Fi.
https://sites.google.com/site/wifimaticapp/

To sum up, it remember where you usually connect to Wi-Fi throug operator network cell identifiers, and when you are there it turns it on, and where you go to other places it turns it off automatically.

In a low profile smartphones OS like FFO, this would help to save a lot of battery.

Comment 1

[BMO Automation]

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