Problem with Wi-Fi Near. Android 7.1.1

[José Manuel Mérida]

Hello, the state keeps going from activated to inactive on every check cicle. I have the configuration to check for a wifi network always, battery optimizations disabled...

[Art]

Hello! You must turn location mode to high accuracy or battery saving.

[Cycneuramus]

The "Device Only" (GPS) mode suffices for WiFi scanning to work, and that way you don't have to put up with the constant barrage of arbitrary location requests coming from Google's snoopy Play Services that will otherwise happen on High Accuracy / Battery Saving.

[José Manuel Mérida]

Thank you so much to both of you. I actually had the device location set to off. Turning it on to either "device only" or "high accuracy" solved the problem.
But, why is the location service necessary in order to detect the availability of a d

[José Manuel Mérida]

Sorry I published it by error. But why is the location necessary?

Thank you so much again

[Tristan BRÉJON]

Hello,

Sorry to answer on an old topic, but I have the same issue.
I turn on location to "Battery Saving" to try, and I have the same question, why is the location necessary for wifi near?

The "Scanning always available" seems to be available either location turn on/off.

[Sean Williams]

Hi,

I turn on location to "Battery Saving" to try, and I have the same question, why is the location necessary for wifi near?

Google has made this the case. I guess they felt WiFi networks can represent a location or maybe it's just another way to collect user data.

The "Scanning always available" seems to be available either location turn on/off.

It's a different setting so scanning requests can be done for example when device WiFi is switched off.

If an app attempts a scan without location services no results are returned. This doesn't extend to the system however as it still retains full access.

[Tristan BRÉJON]

Thank you so much for this information.