This little tutorial will be very handy for most
students who hardly enjoy 6hrs of steady
electricity supply and yet have more contacts
on their whatsapp including strangers and
acquaintances.
Whatsapp is one of those messaging apps
out there you will get addicted to when
opportune to have access to it, Little wonder
why it is currently the most respected cross-
platform mobile ready instant messaging
app. Blackberry Messenger (BBM) is even
beginning to loose popularity among the
youths since the rise of whatsapp
messenger, But all these do not come
without a little burden to those whose phone
operates on a very strict data plan and high
battery consumption since the app was built
in a such a way that it stays online 24hrs
just like your native phone sms application. This is the major reason we are presenting
this little guide on how you can quickly
prevent whatsapp messenger from
connecting to the internet automatically on
both Nokai s40 and S60 .
S60 (Nokia Symbian)
Guide to Preventing
Whatsapp from Auto-connecting to the
Internet:
S60 as widely known belongs to the first
series of nokia smartphone which runs on
the Symbian Operating system. It varies
between various versions though, from
version1 to version 5 (s60 v2, s60 v3 and
s60v5) before Nokia finally moved to the
Windows Operating system which now
powers it’s smartphones. Stopping your
whatsapp application from auto-connecting
on any Symbian powered smartphone is just
as easy as following the two steps below;
The Use of Password
You can easily restrict any application from
auto-connecting to the internet by password-
protecting your active access point setting
by going to Home button
=>settings
=>connectivity
=>destinations
=>Select
your active internet access point and add a
password to it.
This will make the app (whatsapp) prompt
for the set password each time it wants to
connect to the internet. Your ignoring this
request will automatically restrict it from
accessing your mobile data and so won’t
connect till you permit it. I rarely use this
method ‘cos it doesn’t guaranty zero access
to the battery life, neither does it work
without disturbing my peace, the only part
that makes it easy and sweet is the part of
Symbian phones being able to Multitask.
The use of a Firewall / anti-virus
Program
This is the most Recommended method as
this will guaranty you of a lasting battery life
and zero data consumption.
Firewalls and
mobile security app (anti-virus) comes very
handy for every Symbian Phone and does
variety of things including giving you control
to every apps on your phone.
For the sake of
this tutorial we will like to mention the free
version of netqin anti-Virus which I used
before writing this simple tutorial. All I did
was turning on my Netqin Mobile security
==> going to firewalls
==> settings
==> added
whatsapp to untrusted applications list and that solved the autoconnecting,you have to go back to
your firewall settings and move it back to
trusted application list , That’s all you need
to treat the madness of any other app that
chooses this route against your wish.
S40 (Java Phones) Guide to Preventing
Whatsapp from Auto-connecting to the
Internet :
It is almost unlikely to see regular feature
phones running on the Java Operating
System accepting any kind of firewall or
advanced security application, this is why I
am teaching you about these alternate
methods that was made available to me
by Noble Ozogbuda of Noble Ict Zone .
#1 Method for stopping whatsapp auto-
internet connection on nokia s40 phones :
This is one easy method he claimed to have
used in many s40 phones before dumping
s40 for s60 version of nokia phones. Here is
the first trick
Go to menu from your center button
==>locate
the whatsapp application either in the games
or apps directory
==>Right click on it (press
the options button)
=>choose delete=>when
prompted with the question “are you sure
you want to delete” ?
==>choose
“NO”
==>That’s all the connection will be
stopped till another phone restart.
#2 Method for stopping whatsapp auto-
internet connection on nokia s40 phones :
After your normal download, installation and
initial launch of the whatsapp instant
messenger, Kindly close it and locate the app
from your phone memory where it is
currently stored
==> Move it to the external
memory card (sd card)
==> Quickly remove
your memory card to stop the whatsapp
connection
This will kill off the internet connection (after
inserting the memory card back) till when
manually launched or after a phone reboot.
He also mentioned about switching to a
wrong provider after removing the card, that
is if you are not having any need for internet
connection at that very moment.
Let’s get your opinion on this simple trick to
stop whatsapp from automatically
connecting to the internet against your wish
via the comments form below.
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