I do not need the background connections -- what I would like is to use Wi-Fi when I need to (i.e., when I surf the web). I noticed that as long as you connect to Wi-Fi first, then turn on power savings, then even when power savings turns off the Wi-Fi (when unused for a period of time), then whenever you need to access the internet the Wi-Fi would be used. Right now, because of power savings, I find that sometimes the Wi-Fi connection is never established, so after I enable power savings and I need to use the internet, 2G is used instead of Wi-Fi, which is too slow. Hope that makes sense LOL.