Re: home screen icon to connect to wi-fi network

On 9/18/2024 1:50 AM, Arno Welzel wrote:

Instead of waiting for the phone to find the network and connect to it,

 
How long to you have to wait? My phone usually connects within seconds
if a known WiFi network is in reach.

How long is the wait? Forever.

Actually the wait is "forever and ever" because I have the wi-fi
auto-connect turned off for privacy reasons - as leaving auto-connect
turned on shouts out your home BSSID every few seconds everywhere you go.

While I'm not Hezbollah, hiding my cellphone and pager from the Israeli
Mossad, it seems prudent to set up a cellphone to not ID you every moment.

Alls a nefarious outfit has to do is sell their services to a company, say
Macy's or Nordstrom or Target or whatever, and tell that store that they
can uniquely track each customer's presence in every store, although they
often already do that with bluetooth trackers (so my bluetooth is off too).

I can easily make an Android homescreen shortcut to the activity named
com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings$WifiSettingsActivity
but what I really want to bring up is an activity to a specific access
point BSSID/SSID pair such as "01:02:03:04:05:06/my-access-point-01".

Given a known BSSID/SSID to my own home access points, if anyone figures
out how to directly connect to them with a terminal command, let me know.