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Adjust Wi-Fi Sleep Settings 7

by Adam Marks Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:50 am EST

Using Wi-Fi to connect to a data network will typically provide a faster data connection and actually preserve battery life as compared to using your cellular network. By default, webOS will keep your Wi-Fi connections active even if you turn your screen off, but you can actually adjust this behavior if you want your Wi-Fi connection to drop every time your screen turns off. To accomplish this:

  1. Open the Wi-Fi app
  2. Swipe-down from the top-left corner to bring down the Wi-Fi Application drop-down menu and select "Sleep Settings"
  3. Choose your option to "Keep Wi-Fi On" or "Turn Wi-Fi Off" when you phone's screen turns off
  4. Swipe-back to go back to the main Wi-Fi app
  5. Close the Wi-Fi app
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7 Comments

Posted by ekegley on Tue, 04 Jan 2011 5:28 pm EST

The question is, does it save battery if one leaves wi-fi on or turns it to sleep if screen is off? I need to conserve as much battery as possible.

Posted by reflex on Tue, 04 Jan 2011 5:31 pm EST

For what it's worth, there are wireless access points that will keep the connection active (don't ask for names, but I had one once). In that case you'll probably save battery life by using the "Turn Wi-Fi Off" option.

Posted by AndrewRich on Tue, 04 Jan 2011 5:32 pm EST

Why would I want to do this? Keeping the wifi connection active when the screen sleeps is a good thing.

Posted by jalba3 on Tue, 04 Jan 2011 5:40 pm EST

It's been discussed in the forums, but keeping Wi-Fi on conserves battery assuming that your connected to a Wi-Fi network. The reason is because instead of turning off its Wi-Fi antenna & turning on the 3G antenna when the screen is off, it will continuously have the Wi-Fi antenna turned on. And we all know that processing data through Wi-Fi is much more efficient than 3G.

Posted by sanaking on Tue, 04 Jan 2011 8:28 pm EST

it might be easier to use this through Mode Switcher, it has a screenstate trigger, so it could be made to turn off wifi, and even (3g) data on screen off. This could be given a launcher icon too for ease of enable/Disable. Id suggest making this a modifier mode, so that you could more easily switch back to the settings you had before starting the "turn off data on screen off" mode

Posted by ilovemypreplus on Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:19 pm EST

Re: battery life, just a suggestion: It may be time to buy a new battery! After 10 months, my pre plus battery only held 50% charge. A new battery has helped a lot!

Posted by taandrews on Sat, 22 Jan 2011 8:34 am EST

I was told that wifi will improve reception for phone calls. True?