WiFi On/Off widget turns on by itself

Lloyd Cardwell · November 29th, 2012, 10:15 AM

Hey folks...new SIII user here. My "WiFi On/Off" widget keeps turning itself on, seemingly at random and I don't have any idea why.

Had a system update from Sprint the other day (On 4.1.1 now I guess) and I added a Voxer account...those are the only recent changes.

Anybody run across this?

Digital Controller · November 29th, 2012, 10:35 AM

First off welcome to the forums

Is there any way you have Juice Defender installed? It automatically turns Wifi On/Off.

If not get back to me!

Lloyd Cardwell · November 29th, 2012, 11:23 AM

Glad to be here!

No Juice Defender installed.

I thought maybe it was the GPS Location settings, but I turned that off an hour ago and when I just checked it the darned widget was back on and searching for networks.

Lloyd Cardwell · November 29th, 2012, 11:25 AM

I just unstalled it and downloaded a different one. I'll see if that works.

Lloyd Cardwell · November 29th, 2012, 11:57 AM

Nope...within five minutes the new widget has turned itself on and was wasting battery looking for networks.

I shut it off and it stayed off for maybe a half hour, then when I plugged my phone into my laptop to charge it turned itself on again immediately. Quite puzzling...and annoying.

Linx · November 29th, 2012, 02:44 PM

This had me puzzled until someone showed me on another section of this forum.
Go to Settings, under the first section '' WiFi. And Networks" press the More Settings button>Mobile Networks>Connection Optimizer > then unchecked the box. That will fix your issue.

Lloyd Cardwell · November 29th, 2012, 04:48 PM

Yeah, I dicked around with it a bit and came up with that too. Thx!

jucrazy13 · December 8th, 2012, 05:28 PM

anyone know why the wifi tether not working for rooted user