App to Toggle Data and WIFI Automatically

[Superorb]

I'm looking for an app to toggle data/WIFI off when the screen is turned off and on when the screen is turned on. I tried Green Power, but it didn't toggle anything so I uninstalled it. What has worked for others here?

 

[determined sou]

I'm looking for an app to toggle data/WIFI off when the screen is turned off and on when the screen is turned on. I tried Green Power, but it didn't toggle anything so I uninstalled it. What has worked for others here?

tasker

 

[funkylogik]

This might be an unpopular answer here lol but Deep Sleep Battery Saver seems to work for me on my tablet
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootuninstaller.batrsaver
I wouldn't use it on my phone though tbh. My tablet only gets rare use nowadays

 

[Superorb]

So Tasker is the best way to go for the F6? Is that what everyone here uses?

 

[determined sou]

So Tasker is the best way to go for the F6? Is that what everyone here uses?

no i just like that app

 

[funkylogik]

So Tasker is the best way to go for the F6? Is that what everyone here uses?

Tasker would be the smart way to do it (if you learn how.. Please teach me lol)

 

[frosthax1]

pure performance x includes deep sleeper mode just ftw

 

[RazzMaTazz]

You can use Llama. Unlike Tasker, Llama is free. Llama is very intuitive. It's what I use.

In your case, you would create 2 complementary "Events" in Llama whereby you would select trigger-conditions and the resulting actions from a menu of options like "Screen off", "Mobile data off", etc. (E.g. Let's name the 2 events "Screen-Data-Off" and "Screen-Data-On".)
Screen-Data-Off
Condition: Screen off
Action: Mobile Data off. WiFi off.

Screen-Data-On
Condition: Screen on
Action: Mobile Data on. WiFi on.

For your posted need, you probably only need to take advantage of Llama's "Event" functionality described below. ("Event" isn't a very intuitive name. It's really an If-Then function.) But Llama can do so much more. So following is more detailed information about how to use Llama (that I cut and pasted from a reply that I made many months ago)...

Profiles: You can create profiles to behave certain ways, like creating a "Silent" profile for when you're in church or a movie theater. From the top select Profiles and hit the "+" on the bottom to create a new profile or just edit an existing one. You don't have to create profiles but they can be very useful.

Areas: You can teach Llama different locations based on the cell towers that are "visible" to the phone. For example, you may want to teach Llama where your home, office, church, movie-theater are-- and assign them a name. Then later you can have Llama perform different actions when the phone enters, leaves, is inside, or outside that location. You have to be in that location to teach Llama to recognize it. To do so, select "Areas" from the top and "+" at the bottom. It will walk you through.

Events: These are really "If-Then" commands, where the "If's" are what Llama calls "Conditions" and the "Thens" are what Llama calls "Actions". Examples:

• "Church Quiet" event:
  • (If) Condition is Area church.
  • (Then) Action is "Quiet" profile.
• "In-Car" event:
  • (If) Condition is Bluetooth connected to car stereo AND condition is charging.
  • (Then) Actions are, Brightness full, Volume full, screen-time-out off, launch Waze-GPS, & launch Pandora.

Typically you want to create these "Events" in oppositely-functioning pairs so that, for example, when you leave church you go back to a Normal profile and when you disconnect from your car's stereo, you undo the aforementioned settings and kill the apps. To create an "Event" tap on "Events" at the top. Then select the "Conditions" and then the "Actions".

Advanced: When editing an "Event" you'll see a menu option called "Advanced...". If you select that, you can control things like "Delay Event" to delay the action taken and "Repeat Event" where you can choose whether or not to repeat it at a user-defined interval.

I hope that helps.

 

[Superorb]

Awesome, thanks. I'll install Llama and see if I can get it to work.

ETA: Installed and setup events, and it works perfectly! Thanks again! I'll put this on my wife's F3 that doesn't cooperate with Green Power either.

 

[RazzMaTazz]

Glad to hear it worked well for you!

 

[Superorb]

How do I set it so that if Airplane Mode is on it will not automatically enable wifi? I was messing around with the advanced triggers, but I can't figure it out.

 

[Mr. Lucky]

ETA: Installed and setup events, and it works perfectly! Thanks again! I'll put this on my wife's F3 that doesn't cooperate with Green Power either.

Thanks for the feedback, and thanks to @RazzMaTazz for the suggestion - learn something new every day! I don't understand why GreenPower isn't working for the OP though. I've been using it for over a year and it works perfectly. Whatever… a solution is a solution

 

[llamalab]

If you don't like Tasker or Llama then Automate is another automation app that could easily do this.

 

[RazzMaTazz]

How do I set it so that if Airplane Mode is on it will not automatically enable wifi? I was messing around with the advanced triggers, but I can't figure it out.

I'm not sure what you're trying to do but you can have multiple conditions and multiple actions. (It doesn't sound like you need Advanced options. Maybe you want to add the following to the aforementioned "Events"?

Screen-Data-On-Unless Airplane-Mode-On
Condition: Screen on. Airplane Mode On.
Action: Mobile Data on. WiFi off.

 

[Superorb]

Basically, if I turn airplane mode on it's most likely due to being on a plane. As it is now Wifi turns on when airplane mode is on. I'd like it to turn wifi and data on unless I'm in airplane mode, then I want wifi to stay off.

I just created 2 events: one for when airplane mode is on and one for when it's off. Works great! It also looks like if I manually enable wifi in airplane mode it doesn't automatically disable it too.