I saw an update to Smart Actions just now. Try updating it.

 

I really would like to have a smart Action that only switches to known or truly open wifi networks. Now the phone constantly is fooled by pseudo open networks such as are commonly available from various cable providers for subscribers.

Is this possible with SA or Tasker or Locale--any or all?

 

SomeTimes you have to create the profile from scratch instead of using the built in default ones. I've had the greyed out issue on default ones before, and even if you delete some of the rules it stays greyed out.

 

Why would you want this?

When you're connected to a WiFi network, the phone doesn't use any mobile data... I don't even think it stays connected to 4G.

 

That's exactly my thought. 3G/4G data is disabled (signal bar grayed out) when WiFi access point is connected. There is no extra power drain from cell data connection.

So I don't see the point of setting up WiFi, data connection trigger in Smartaction or other apps like JD, tasker, etc. It's going to use more battery than just leaving WiFi on because the app needs to use GPS radio to determine your location for triggering WiFi.

 

That's weird. So your signal bar stays in blue even when connected with Wifi? Mine just becomes gray with 4G or 3G icon on it, blue WiFi signal bars on the left side.

I agree that frequent 3G/4G bouncing is battery drain though. If you really want to avoid that at home, you can just turn off mobile data in main setting or using any power toggle widget.

 

Turning off mobile data doesn't stop you from getting cell voice/text. 1X cell connection remains active unless you put the phone in airplane mode. You only lose 3G/4G data, which WiFi will replace anyway.

 

For me, it's just fine to simply leave WiFi on and it just works everywhere I go.

But if you really need such functionality like that smartaction offers, you may try out "tasker" app from google play. It's paid app and I never used it. But I heard it's very capable with a lot of options.

 

Is there a reason to shut down Wifi? With the battery life, it's not really much of a "battery saver" any more. You can always tell Wifi not to annoy you every time it finds an open access point.