WIFI turning on on its own

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I keep waking in up in the morning and find that the wifi on my droid 2 has mysteriously turned on. I rarely usethe wifi and when I do, always turn it back off when i'm done to save battery.
I think it may only happen when the battery level is low....but there's no option to switch to wifi when battery is low.....


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Isn't there a setting somewhere for "prefer wifi connections" that will have your phone default to wifi over 3G when a network is available? Also, wifi uses far less battery than 3G, so this isn't necessarily a bad thing.
 

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Menu>settings>wireless and network>wifi connections>menu>advanced>wifi sleep policy>choose your poison
 
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Menu>settings>wireless and network>wifi connections>menu>advanced>wifi sleep policy>choose your poison

Methinks you misunderstood the question.

OP, have you changed/installed anything lately? You could always try a factory data wipe.
 
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Not that i can think of. this has been going on for a while. i was thinking maybe when i use the wifi and go to turn it off, that the widget isn't actually turning it off--but it was on this morning and i hadn't used wifi at all yesterday.
 
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Nope, everything is stock. The only thing i have is advanced task killer and a custom battery saver that turns off data sync between 1am and 9am.
 

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Goto menu>settings>data manager>data delivery>social applications and see if sync over wifi only is checked.

Don't know if your phone hasn't synced for a while if it is turning wifi on because of this setting.
 

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Isn't there a setting somewhere for "prefer wifi connections" that will have your phone default to wifi over 3G when a network is available? Also, wifi uses far less battery than 3G, so this isn't necessarily a bad thing.
I was under the impression that this was the other way around. I thought WiFi used more battery that 3G?
 

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3G uses more juice, probably just because it is slower and takes longer to do whatever it is doing. Aside from that, I don't think there is anything inherent about 3G that makes it use more power.
 
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3G uses more juice, probably just because it is slower and takes longer to do whatever it is doing. Aside from that, I don't think there is anything inherent about 3G that makes it use more power.


How about the fact that it's communicating with a radio tower that's miles away, versus a wireless router that's usually less than 50 feet away?
 

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Good point on the tower thing.

Edit : what about my case of WiFi. I've got several APssetup with DHCP and my D2 is constantly getting new IPs as I physically move around my network. (My WiFi covers about 3 acres this way.) Wouldn't getting a new IP every few minutes take its toll on a battery.

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