By reading the title, I actually thought they fixed the biggest annoyance, the endless-and-unfixable wifi connect-connecting-saved loop. But no, 5 years after I first saw this error, it still occurs with the newer versions.
Android 5.1 Fixes a Wi-Fi Annoyance
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#12I do find quite often when walking around my university campus that my phone's attempts to connect to 2-bar WiFi signals result in a much worse connection than just turning off WiFi and letting my iPhone use 3G or 4G. I mean, if it's 4 or 5 bars (inside a building), the WiFi's as good as, or better than, 4G. But outside, the phone keeps trying to connect to weak signals despite having the option of superfast 4G. Anot…
Browsing to http://example.com/ is perfect for finding the captive portal.
I thought Android already used http://www.gstatic.com/generate_204 for exactly this purpose.
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#13> While the Nexus 6 has already started seeing the update stateside, Google’s latest and greatest software still takes too long to percolate around the ecosystem for everyone else.
Both my Nexus 5 and first generation Nexus 7 got 5.1 a week ago. The 7 got it before the 5, which is weird because it got Kitkat almost a month after the 5 got it.
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#14As someone who still has a plan with a "adorably small data cap", I'm happy and worried at the same time. I'm happy because, as most other people, I too have had to disconnect from hotspots with captive portals manually, in order to get the phone to switch to mobile data. But I'm also worried that this fancy new algorithm will choose 3G instead of WiFi much often and sometimes against my will, effectively reaching the cap much faster.
My Android 4.2 phone already does something similar with WiFi networks where it says it "avoided a poor connection", which is annoying when you're trying to connect to that "poor" connection precisely, and even worse when it ditches the "poor" connection... for one with a captive portal, leaving me with a super fast connection, indeed, but which only leads to a login page.
As someone with a capped plan who often prefers slow-but-unlimited to fast-but-limited connections, I'd like to be able to disable the automatic switch, and I really hope they add an option for that. In this day and age though, everything seems to be moving in the direction of less and less configurability...
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#15This was one of the reasons I left AT&T. They have hotspots everywhere that my phone would connect to and they inevitably either sucked or were located just far enough away from the store I was visiting that the phone could connect but not get usable internet. I'd have to keep turning wi-fi off in order to use the internet, then naturally I'd forget to turn it back on. Between the removal of unlimited data plans and…
Couldn't you just delete the AT&T WiFi data from your phone so it never tries connecting?
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#16To me the biggest annoyance is when phone connects to WiFi but doesn't open a browser to login or accept terms so it's just silently done't work at all
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#17As someone who still has a plan with a "adorably small data cap", I'm happy and worried at the same time. I'm happy because, as most other people, I too have had to disconnect from hotspots with captive portals manually, in order to get the phone to switch to mobile data. But I'm also worried that this fancy new algorithm will choose 3G instead of WiFi much often and sometimes against my will, effectively reaching th…
Indeed my Galaxy S5 has a checkbox to disable this feature.
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#19Does anyone else hate these tech headlines that begin "X just did Y." It's the inclusion of "just" that for some reason infuriates me. It seems to imply some degree of worship toward the company who "just" did this. Thank god! Our saviors!
Am I totally alone on this sentiment?
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#20Does anyone else hate these tech headlines that begin "X just did Y." It's the inclusion of "just" that for some reason infuriates me. It seems to imply some degree of worship toward the company who "just" did this. Thank god! Our saviors! Am I totally alone on this sentiment?
No you're not alone. The title is verging on clickbait as it doesn't tell you how they fixed it.