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App that detects youve entered your house.

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Ruswit

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Right this seems quite tricky and I couldnt really find any decent search results as I had absolutely no idea what to google :P

Basically an App that detects you're at home/work or other places and will then change your phones settings accordingly. Things like turn on bluetooth ( to transfer files to laptop, but if left on all the time will help drain battery). I assume it would be somewhat possible for it to do this if it recognised your wifi networks? Otherwise perhaps an actual switch/profile system?
 
NFC tags have been mentioned as a solution to this, but I think that Tasker or the like will do the trick just as well. Without the need for additional hardware. Or an upgrade ;-)
 
Juice Defender Ultimate will turn on Wi Fi when it detects home network. It will turn off when you leave home. It also detects Wi Fi at work or selected places e.g. shopping malls etc.
 
1st_Paladin said:
Juice Defender Ultimate will turn on Wi Fi when it detects home network. It will turn off when you leave home. It also detects Wi Fi at work or selected places e.g. shopping malls etc.
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How does it detect the home network if the thing that detects the network is off? Dubious
 
Must switch on and off the wifi every now and then to do that - sounds bad for battery and hardly instantaneous.
 
JD Ultimate is not instantaneous, but based on locale it will turn on wifi to search for a network that you have told it to remember.

It will not work very well in areas with bad reception, since its accuracy will be quite bad. But with decent reception it is quite accurate, as far as I can tell.
 
Yup

And it really just takes a few seconds, if signal strength is good. In bad reception you probably need to hit the switch manually...
 
So, your phone spends battery working out where you are to see if it should switch the WiFi on. Mine simply leaves WiFi on, I suspect the battery drain is about the same and I get to see when there's a free WiFi router near me...

Never been convinced by JD.
 
Mine does that with Phoneweaver but it'd about more than just the wifi than swicthes (volume, gps etc) and I've never noticed any increased battery drain so am happy
 
When I let Wifi stay on constantly, I notice a sharp decrease in battery life. For me, JD ultimate saves me a massive amount of power.
 
Griff_LI said:
What usage do you get out of it normally Flumme ?
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Right now I'm at 52%, after 15 hours of a little more than medium use. A little Facebook, a lot of Phandroid, a few calls,quite a lot of Pulse and newsbrowsing.

Fairly typical for me.
 
I'm looking into PhoneWeaver and AutomateIt and see if they are better than Llama :D
 
SUroot said:
How does it detect the home network if the thing that detects the network is off? Dubious
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As mentioned, I can set WiFi zones. Think it uses GPS coordinates from cell phone tower to recognize locations. As mentioned, it turns on when it is within the area. After one leaves the area, it will turn off WiFi after failing to connect. One can also set it to turn on at specific time intervals with peak/ non peak and night options. E.g. Peak - hourly, non peak - 2 hourly, night - go offline into aeroplane mode for example. From my experience, it helps save battery life.
 
Flumme said:
Right now I'm at 52%, after 15 hours of a little more than medium use. A little Facebook, a lot of Phandroid, a few calls,quite a lot of Pulse and newsbrowsing.

Fairly typical for me.
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And, I'd say, pretty typical for a vanilla Desire (like what mine is) without JD.

Thanks for the info.
 
Roze said:
I'm looking into PhoneWeaver and AutomateIt and see if they are better than Llama :D
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PhoneWeaver has a 12 days trial period and then you have to buy it. It's the most expensive at 3.99. Both AutomateIt and Llama are $1.50 and you get a full ad version. If all three do the same things, AutomateIt or Llama would do the job.

AutomateIt has a nicer UI than Llama but when I try to set up cell towers profiles, it doesn't seem to be picking up any cell towers?
 
Griff_LI said:
And, I'd say, pretty typical for a vanilla Desire (like what mine is) without JD.

Thanks for the info.
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No worries!

For me, after use like that, my phone without JD would be down to about 15-20 %.

Pure vanilla, and you get numbers like that! ? Impressive! :)
 
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