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Help Android should not test internet connectivity

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Lord Giblets

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Greetings,

I am an owner of the glorious BlackBerry Priv, master of all Android phones, a beacon of light in the darkness of Google and a symbol of all that is good in this world.
Unfortunately, when I want to connect to a device on a network that does not have internet access, I must disable cellular data services or it will try to use the cellular network connection instead..... and subsequently fail. It seems to decide since it can't reach the internet on the network I've chosen, to punish me like some sort of internet heretic.
When I'm connecting to a network, it doesn't mean I expect to connect to the internet. So...

Can I disable this internet check?

Sincerely,
Lord Giblets
 
Sounds like something that's specific to the Priv. Because with any devices I've had, if they connect to WiFi but there's no internet there, they just give a brief notification about it, which can just ignore, and certainly doesn't try to resume with cellular data once connected to WiFi, again even though there might not be any internet access.

Have you can fix it, have no idea. They're not available here. Maybe because it's a Blackberry, they want to really make sure it tries to stay connected to the internet and Blackberry service for urgent messages, important emails, etc, so really punishes you as an "internet heretic" and protests loudly if it can't.
 
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Hello,

I hadn't thought of that possibility. I just tested on a Nexus 5 though and had the same experience, it failed to connect to a local Web page with cell data enabled and WiFi connected without Internet access.(typing IP address directly). Disabled cell data and then the page loaded. I also thought I should try Firefox instead of chrome, but no change.
I then used connectbot to use ssh, but had to have cell data disabled before it would even connect.
So, if you pull the ethernet cable from your cable modem, let it lose internet and stay connected to your wifi - are you still able to load something like your printers' web page or ssh into a host on your network?

I might just be doing something dumb.
 
Lord Giblets said:
So, if you pull the ethernet cable from your cable modem, let it lose internet and stay connected to your wifi - are you still able to load something like your printers' web page or ssh into a host on your network?
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Of course, provided you use the device's IP address and not a URL or other alias, which would require DNS resolution. Your router will provide routing via its ARP table.
 
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