Help WiFi turns on all by itself

[Randall3219]

My Hydro suddenly started turning on the WiFi (and draining my battery faster, argh!) even when I turn off wifi, even after I installed an android app to turn off wifi. Wtf? Seems to have been happening after the phone did a boost mobile firmware update I wonder if that update is trying to save Boost money by trying to use wifi for bandwidth instead of the boost/sprint network?

Any ideas how to fix this? Should I just reset the phone to factory condition and then avoid any updates like the plague? Frustrating, as I had a tweaked the phone to get a long battery life before this. I even uninstalled almost all my apps just in case they are doing something funky. Help? What can i do?

 

[neil154]

try menu>settings>wifi>and uncheck "notify me"

 

[shadowspawn]

I had a customer with a similar issue on a Kyocera Rise from Virgin which is basically the same phone. I'll ask what she did to fix it if she fixed it at all. I'd already tried for about 10 minutes to figure out what might be causing it and the problem persisted. IIRC, it turns itself back on whenever there are wifi networks available after waking up from sleep.

 

[ffamole99]

go to menu < settings < click more under wireless&networks < than click mobile networks < than Connections Optimizer ... their should be a check box under connections optimizer turn that off and it will not switch over to wi-fi anymore... worked for me after playing with the settings and I finally figured this out!

Hope this helps!