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Originally Posted by davidfor
By not paying enough attention to what is happening 
I always have WiFi on, so I was mainly watching the Bluetooth. And I'm not sure I tried with WiFi off.
What I can see is:
- Visit Bluetooth settings and turn it off.
- Then visit WiFi sttings and turn if off.
- If I visit WiFi settings again, it does not turn on. This is how it always has been.
- If I visit Bluetooth settings, it turns on after a few seconds.
- If I then go to the WiFi settings, it is on.
- If I turn off WiFi and go back to Bluetooth, Bluetooth is on. Returning to WiFi, it is still off.
From all that, it appears you can turn off either setting independently. But, when you turn on Bluetooth, it also turns on WiFi. If you turn on WiFi while Bluetooth is off, it does not turn on Bluetooth.
With the fact that Bluetooth and WiFi are on a common chip, I can understand this. It means it might not be possible to turn of the power used by the other function. But, it is apparently possible to stop the actual use of it, so the other function should not be forced on. The justification might be that WiFi is needed when playing purchased audiobooks to check for something. But, that still should be optional. What happens when there is no WiFi available? |
If it's anything like phone apps, chances are it might look for purchase verification but if there is no WiFi available it will ignore it. If they are somewhat aggressive about it then after X amount of time/uses without being able to verify they would insist on you connecting to use it. But I seriously doubt this. They don't do it for normal books and what's the point of a lower power portable device if it requires a constant connection (but doesn't have 3G).
Also, it would HAVE to be a very quick check. Cheap devices have BT and WiFi share a chip AND antenna. This means using both will dramatically drop WiFi speeds and possibly provide choppy BT audio. A great example was the Huawei Medipad M5. If you were using bluetooth headphones (which was kind of a must since it has no headphone jack) then you couldn't reliably stream video since the WiFi was too slow for it.
I'm guessing these devices would suffer similarly if anyone tried to do something like that. For example, playing an audiobook while using the experimental browser (do they still have this?).
On a side note... I bought my Elipsa directly from Kobo in Canada... should I have gotten this update already? Cause whenever I check for updates from settings or do a sync I get nothing and am still on 4.28...