Posts Tagged ‘wifi always on’

Wifi stay connected

Have you ever wanted to keep you Wifi connection always ON in you Iphone, but as soon as you lock your iphone or undock it from the USB cable the WiFi gets disconnected. By defoault this is how it works, because the apple configured it this way, so it will save your battery from getting discharged. And logicaly this is how it should be because the smart apple people dont let you run any kind of application in background and they dont support multi tasking.

But I do have a jailbroken Iphone, which lets me run apps in background now thanks to some application which can be found in Cydia. However if im connected to my wireless internet connection, and i put my messenger app (fring,ebuddy,parilno…) it gets disconnected as soon as i lock my iphone, or it gets locked autinmaticly becouse of the autolock feature and this realy pisses me off.

I did search on internet for a hack on this issue for a long time, but today it came up by its self right before my eyes. While i was looking for a new releases under cydia, i saw an application named Insomnia Pro 4.0. And this application does the same thing i am talking about, it keeps your iphone wireless connected even when its inactive. It allows any applications to continue to run and WiFi to stay connected long after the screen has been switched off. Runs as a background daemon with a status bar icon and survives reboots and re-springs. This Pro version also allows you to set a schedule for when Insomnia will become active.

It really cost 1.99 GBP (which is apromaxitly 4$), but you can use the free version which does not have only the Schedule option. Thanks to this app now i can use my old 2g iphone as a cordless Voip phone, because i can configure it as a voip client, and thanks to insomnia, its going to be connected and active forever in the background.