Holding a scan wifilock ensures you get alteast scan capabilities and keeps
wifi up - the system is still in control of whether wifi needs to connect
when its turned on
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:38 PM, seema <seema22...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Here is what I do to scan on wifi while connected to 3G.
>
> WifiLock wifiLock =
> wifiService.createWifiLock(WifiManager.WIFI_MODE_SCAN_ONLY,
> "MyLock");
>
> if(!wifiLock.isHeld()){
> wifiLock.acquire();
> }
>
> if(wifiService.isWifiEnabled() == false){
> wifiService.setWifiEnabled(true);
> }
>
> Is my usage of WIFI_MODE_SCAN_ONLY is correct. When I enable Wifi,
> it automatically connects to the remembered network. I just want
> to scan but not connect. The definition of WIFI_MODE_SCAN_ONLY is:
> In this Wi-Fi lock mode, Wi-Fi will be kept active, but the only
> operation that will be supported is initiation of scans, and the
> subsequent reporting of scan results.
>
> Please help me
>
> Regards,
> Seema
>
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