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I want my Wi-Fi toggle again!
Allan despatched in a really detailed subject about Android’s foolish resolution to take away a fast technique to flip off Wi-Fi. The gist of it:
I’ve an Android Auto WiFi dongle, which auto connects and all the things is ok… BUT… once I depart the automobile and stroll away the cellphone continues to be related to the car and the audio is within the automobile, not on the cellphone.
How can I flip off the WiFi quickly?
Hello Allan. You are experiencing one thing that lots of people do not like about current variations of Android. It was you possibly can discover a fast settings toggle change to close off Wi-Fi utterly and even place it as a house display widget. Not anymore.
There’s a technique to repair it, however you are most likely not going to love it. I do know I do not as a result of I wish to drop a fast reply at first of any clarification. Right here it’s: Tasker. However not the Tasker you may discover within the Play Retailer. I hope you are able to get nerdy.
I do not know why Google modified the best way Wi-Fi settings are displayed or why it determined to take away the simple technique to shut it off. I have been informed that the present answer — hiding all the things in a Community & Web part of the settings — is a extra elegant answer however I do not keep in mind anybody asking for Wi-Fi settings to be made extra elegant. Google does what Google does typically.
The larger subject is that with API 29 Google additionally modified some guidelines about system settings and connections, making it so an app developer could not simply create a change to show off Wi-Fi. You possibly can nonetheless do it, however making a succesful app means it may well’t be within the Play Retailer and it will not set up the conventional approach.
Fortunately, the developer of Tasker has offered the supply and an archived Android app that does precisely what you need. Head right here and seize the “Toggle Wifi” model of Tasker 1.2 and put it aside to a pc. Sure, you want a pc, too. Thanks, Google.
That is the simple half. The tougher half is to arrange your cellphone and a pc (Home windows, Mac, or Linux all work superb) to make use of adb (Android Debug Bridge). Since Android 14, you’ll be able to’t sideload apps constructed on depreciated SDK variations robotically, however you’ll be able to pressure set up them utilizing the command line.
Upon getting all the things so as, run the next command:
adb set up —bypass-low-target-sdk-block TaskerSettings.apk
You possibly can then use Tasker usually and create a change or routine to toggle Wi-Fi on and off.
Anytime somebody on-line begins saying Android telephones are “higher” as a result of it is so customizable I keep in mind that an app like Tasker has to exist and that Google does all the things to maintain you from doing what you need if it is not what it desires.
I do know all of that is accomplished with useability in thoughts. Google actually would not need individuals to have the ability to simply set up outdated variations of apps which may do undesirable and unintended issues. I additionally know that there may very well be a change in your cellphone within the developer instruments part that makes bypasses the goal SDK block setting.
Anyway, this horrible answer will work and it is best to have the ability to shut Wi-Fi down utterly with a faucet then reenable it with one other proper from your own home display as soon as you’ve got accomplished all of the work. Good Luck!