Automatic WiFi connection Problems

[sfurse]

Bought my Samsung Galaxy Note 5 from AT&T and love it. The only problem I have with it is when I move from one known wifi area to another one, it will automatically turn off the wifi and not connect until I manually turn wifi back on. I have checked all of the settings relating to the wifi and they seem correct. I have it so it is suppose to always scan for wifi even when in sleep mode. Is there a setting I am missing or is this something to do with AT&T?

 

[Neal Smith]

Won't that drain your battery down pretty fast?I have Avast battery saver app on mine and it turns on wifi by location so I never have to worry about it.

Bought my Samsung Galaxy Note 5 from AT&T and love it. The only problem I have with it is when I move from one known wifi area to another one, it will automatically turn off the wifi and not connect until I manually turn wifi back on. I have checked all of the settings relating to the wifi and they seem correct. I have it so it is suppose to always scan for wifi even when in sleep mode. Is there a setting I am missing or is this something to do with AT&T?

 

[Kelly Kearns]

Bought my Samsung Galaxy Note 5 from AT&T and love it. The only problem I have with it is when I move from one known wifi area to another one, it will automatically turn off the wifi and not connect until I manually turn wifi back on. I have checked all of the settings relating to the wifi and they seem correct. I have it so it is suppose to always scan for wifi even when in sleep mode. Is there a setting I am missing or is this something to do with AT&T?

Turn that scan off.

It should automatically connect to all known WiFi areas.

You don't have AT&T"s Smart WiFi or whatever they call it now, connected do you?

 

[dkunzman]

Go into app settings and disable AT&T Smart WiFi and AT&T hot Spots.
I have found that unless you really want the AT&T function, most AT&T apps can be safely disabled. This usually takes care of a number of issues that seem to crop up on their devices.

 

[sfurse]

Thanks for the information. I just disabled the AT&T Smart WiFi app. Hopefully that will work.

 

[Kelly Kearns]

Thanks for the information. I just disabled the AT&T Smart WiFi app. Hopefully that will work.

Yeah that thing causes problems.