This is why Tethering requires rooted phones; you cannot have both radio's active at once.
The only solution I can think of is to request sufficient permissions for your app that you can turn WIFI off temporarily, let the 3G boot and use it. Of course people would lose their WIFI if it's being used. SoftwareForMe.com Makers of PhoneMyPC On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Adrian Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > In case anyone else comes across this problem, apparently it isn't > possible in current releases - seems like a bit of an oversight for > certain types of application. > > Adrian > > On Nov 19, 4:31 pm, Adrian Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is there any way for an application to force a network request to go > > over the mobile network if it's available in preference toWiFi? I'm > > looking at ConnectivityManager#setNetworkPreference, but there's no > > documentation, and looking at the source seems to suggest it's setting > > a global preference somewhere which isn't what's required here - I > > just need to force certain requests that need to go over the mobile > > network to ignoreWiFi. > > > > Adrian > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Warm regards, The PhoneMyPC Team -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
