3g/WiFi toggle by location

[danieldenham]

Hi

I only use wifi at home and find it does no end of harm to my battery life throughout the day if I leave it on. I use SBSettings to quickly turn off the wifi when I'm out of the house but wondered if there was a way to automate this by location or ideally active cell. There is a symbian app which changes nokia profiles in this way: Handy Profiles

If the same app could turn the 3g off when at home, that would be even better!

On searching on the web I did come across this article but no real solutions: Needed: iPhone radio toggle application

Daniel



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[hl2040]

True. But location based on/off is probably a bit counter-productive because it would have to keep checking gps position.

What I would like, and maybe this exists, is the setting:

'hey iphone if i have added a wifi connection use it otherwise stop popping up random connections you find as im walking along'

Also, true on the 3G idea.

[danieldenham]

Agreed using the GPS might be OTT but using "active cell" (as the Nokia software does) would drain no additional battery power and would work just as well for most locations.

Daniel



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[hl2040]

Tell me about 'active cell'.

[danieldenham]

Sorry for slow reply.

From what I understand, "Active Cell" is basically the number given to each mobile areal/mast. Therefore, if you know what cell your are using you can get a pretty good idea of location.

Dan



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[danieldenham]

SBSchedule did the job, not by location but time, which is good enough:
SBSchedule




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