Any suggestions for paid one time purchase apps on the Google play store?

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I used it to identify the cell towers near my home and turn wifi off when I was out of their range and back on when I was in range. It seemed to help save battery by not constantly looking for wifi networks and I didn’t have to remember to turn it off and on manually.

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That’s smart!

I have a few triggers that turn on Do Not Disturb mode:

  1. When I open an app that I doom scroll before I fall asleep and when I wake up.

  2. When I connect to my doctor’s or dentist’s office wifi.

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Cell towers are not wifi, but I think I understand what you mean.

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Never said they were lol

At home I want wifi on, and away I want it off. This saves battery so it’s not constantly looking for wifi networks.

I could achieve similar with location service turned on all the time, but that drains battery even more.

Since cellular data is always connected to some cell tower nearby, and Tasker is able to identify the cell tower names, I used the ones near my home as flags to indicate “I’m close to home, therefore turn on WiFi because I’ll be home soon”. And turn it off when I leave my neighborhood.

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Ok. I did not see what you meant.

I have a home zone that triggers things. I don’t think location services uses enough battery for me to worry about

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