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This exists on Android. If you enable the "developer settings" https://www.howtogeek.com/129728/how-to-access-the-developer-options-menu-and-enable-usb-debugg
by jessriedel 10y ago
This exists on Android. If you enable the "developer settings"
https://www.howtogeek.com/129728/how-to-access-the-developer-options-menu-and-enable-usb-debugging-on-android-4.2/ https://www.howtogeek.com/129728/how-to-access-the-developer...
you then have the option to enable "Aggressive Wi-Fi to Cellular handover"
> It just artificially reduces the WiFi RSSI (received signal strength indication) to encourage the WiFi state machine to decide to switch the connection from WiFi to cellular network.
https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/90250/what-does-the-aggressive-wi-fi-to-cellular-handover-option-in-developer-settin https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/90250/what-does-...
Anecdotally, I have had fewer headaches with the phone holding on to poor wifi-signals since I enabled this. Ideally the phone would handle this in a smarter way, e.g., by monitoring the strength of both the wifi and data signals and switching to whichever is likely to have the least packet loss.
- chetanahuja 10y ago> Ideally the phone would handle this in a smarter way, e.g., by monitoring the strength of both the wifi and data signals and switching to whichever is likely to have the least packet loss The tradeoff here of course is battery life. The phone OS doesn't want to switch on a second radio until absolutely necessary for obvious reasons.