Passing a wifi starts up Google in Chrome

[evans62]

Hi,

Sorry for the very basic post, but every time I pass a wifi, it interrupts what I'm doing by opening up Chrome and going to Google. How do I turn this off?

Another easy question, how can I lock out Xfinity wifi? I'm constantly being asked if I want to connect to XFinity, and it's useless to me.

I have a non-rooted ATT SM-N910A

I did try to search these 2 items.

thanks in advance!
- J

 

[touringhaggis]

Hi,

I assume your two questions are related. Whenever your phone comes close to a known network it will try to connect to it. The problem with "free/open" networks is that they automatically trigger the launch of the default browser for authentication (usually free does not mean free for all). So, you need to "forget" these open networks when you are done using one. To do this simply swipe down to open your notifications screen and long press the wifi toggle button (at the top left on my phone). Scroll through the list of known wifi networks (usually the ones that say out of range) and long press on the one you want to remove and select "forget network". Repeat until you have a clean list of access points that you really want to connect to.

You could also open the advanced wifi settings (from the above screen press the three dots followed by advanced from the menu that appears) and make sure you have no connect automatically options selected.

One thing that would certainly work would be to turn off wifi when it is not needed, but that may not work for you.

Regards,
Eric.

 

[evans62]

I am updating this post to say this did not help. Even when I turn Wifi off, somehow the phone is still trying to connect to any wifi that it passes. "Forgetting" that particular Wifi is not helping. Please, what am I doing wrong?