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Best app for managing WiFi wake locks

Started Aug 30, 2013 | Questions thread
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Best app for managing WiFi wake locks

The nasty manner in which ICS uses WiFi is absolutely killing my battery life. Since I have WiFi at home and the office, it's available almost the whole time. If I do absolutely nothing, the battery is dead in less than a day. Horrible.

I have confirmed that reasonable battery life is restored if I shut off WiFi for good chunks of time.

Based on some reading, I have tweaked the Beacon and DTIM settings of my WiFi AP at home but of course I can't control those parameters anywhere else.

So, I'm looking for the best app that will give me some (automated) control over these WiFi wake locks. The best I've found so far is "Screen Off WiFi Off" which seems simple and effective:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ajas.screenoffwifioff

Anyone else been down this road and found a better app or strategy for managing this problem?

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