No Cell Radio
$1.51
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About No Cell Radio
This is a simple home page widget that does two things in one step - 1) turns on Airplane Mode - which will turn off the cell radio, GPS, Bluetooth, and WiFi - then 2) turn WiFi back on.
This widget is great for re-purposing older devices to WiFi only, or when traveling internationally and you only want WiFi access without any bogus international roaming charges. Use it with our Voice+Recorder software to create a useful re-purpose of your old smart phone.
Please note: your battery usage stats don't change until the device is fully charged.
This app uses standard Android SDK system calls to work it's magic so should work on any Android compatible device (using Android versions from 2.1.x through 4.1.x)
I have had a report that this may interfere with Google Voice - I don't use gVoice, so can't say for sure. Just saying that if you use Google Voice, you should check that first and be sure it works as expected - if not, you have the 15 minute window to get your money back.
NOTICE: As eluded to above - this does not work on Android version 4.2.x or above!!! Google removed our ability to toggle "Airplane Mode" starting with Android 4.2 - progress at slowly alienating most developers I guess. I have updated the app listing to hide from users with 4.2.x, but please double check that.
I wrote this for my Sprint Galaxy Tab which I used strictly via WiFi - the cell radio is on by default and consumed about 2% of my battery looking for service that I don't want or have.
On the Galaxy Tab, getting to the Airplane Mode setting is a pain - it's not on the Notification Bar pull down. So I wrote this widget to do what I need - maybe it will help someone else.
If your device is truly "WiFi Only" and your "cell standby" always reads 75%, this app probably can't help you.
PERMISSIONS:
WRITE_SETTINGS - this is needed to toggle Airplane Mode.
ACCESS_WIFI_STATE, CHANGE_WIFI_STATE - these are used to read and change the WiFi state back on after toggling Airplane Mode on.
I am committed to my apps and users - I test my apps on various emulators and a few different classes of Android devices.
This app is available on over 2500 devices and there is no way I can test on all of them, so if you have troubles, please contact me and we can work it out.
Find me on Twitter @OneNutzSoftware
This widget is great for re-purposing older devices to WiFi only, or when traveling internationally and you only want WiFi access without any bogus international roaming charges. Use it with our Voice+Recorder software to create a useful re-purpose of your old smart phone.
Please note: your battery usage stats don't change until the device is fully charged.
This app uses standard Android SDK system calls to work it's magic so should work on any Android compatible device (using Android versions from 2.1.x through 4.1.x)
I have had a report that this may interfere with Google Voice - I don't use gVoice, so can't say for sure. Just saying that if you use Google Voice, you should check that first and be sure it works as expected - if not, you have the 15 minute window to get your money back.
NOTICE: As eluded to above - this does not work on Android version 4.2.x or above!!! Google removed our ability to toggle "Airplane Mode" starting with Android 4.2 - progress at slowly alienating most developers I guess. I have updated the app listing to hide from users with 4.2.x, but please double check that.
I wrote this for my Sprint Galaxy Tab which I used strictly via WiFi - the cell radio is on by default and consumed about 2% of my battery looking for service that I don't want or have.
On the Galaxy Tab, getting to the Airplane Mode setting is a pain - it's not on the Notification Bar pull down. So I wrote this widget to do what I need - maybe it will help someone else.
If your device is truly "WiFi Only" and your "cell standby" always reads 75%, this app probably can't help you.
PERMISSIONS:
WRITE_SETTINGS - this is needed to toggle Airplane Mode.
ACCESS_WIFI_STATE, CHANGE_WIFI_STATE - these are used to read and change the WiFi state back on after toggling Airplane Mode on.
I am committed to my apps and users - I test my apps on various emulators and a few different classes of Android devices.
This app is available on over 2500 devices and there is no way I can test on all of them, so if you have troubles, please contact me and we can work it out.
Find me on Twitter @OneNutzSoftware
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version 1.3 was uploaded to hide this app from users with Android 4.2.x since Google decided to take away our ability to toggle Airplane Mode - progress!!!
The 1 star review from Doug Constantine (update: he has now upped it to 5 stars but left the warning in) was the tip off on the Android 4.2.x thing - thanks to him for taking the time to answer my questions. I have refunded Doug's purchase price. This update was posted within 6 hours of me seeing Doug's review.
version 1.3 was uploaded to hide this app from users with Android 4.2.x since Google decided to take away our ability to toggle Airplane Mode - progress!!!
The 1 star review from Doug Constantine (update: he has now upped it to 5 stars but left the warning in) was the tip off on the Android 4.2.x thing - thanks to him for taking the time to answer my questions. I have refunded Doug's purchase price. This update was posted within 6 hours of me seeing Doug's review.
Price update Price changed from $1.99 to $1.51.
More downloads No Cell Radio reached 100 - 500 downloads
Version update No Cell Radio was updated to version 1.3
Price update Price changed from $0.99 to $1.99.
What are users saying about No Cell Radio
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Great little app. Does just what it says on the tin
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Been trying to figure out how to do this. Android does not make it easy. This widget does it. Turns off cell radio and then starts wifi only. Great job!
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It works! But seems to require power cycle or reboot. It would be a little nicer if it could "do it's thing" without needing the reboot.
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Instead of tearing my hair out trying to figure out how to turn my Kocaso Android Tablet cell off which was eating about 70% of my battery life, I installed this little app and it worked perfectly.
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If your tablet thinks it's a phone, or you want to run your phone on wifi without the cell radio killing your battery, this is for you. One click of the widget, and you're set. You can even still turn wifi on and off without affecting the other settings. A steal for the price, as repacing the hair I would have torn out trying to figure this process out on my own would have been much more expensive.
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Just what the title says. Caution.
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Perfect!!!! Just the other day I thought I wanted to find an app to do exactly what this one does. Works great just be sure to follow directions and put widget on home screen. Great app!!!
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Works fine
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Great app turn off radio when you have no service....
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My old Evo 4G is now a battery sipping Wi-Fi device. Deleting the radio system apks made this phone unstable, this works better.
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Just what the title says. Caution.