Comment 8 for bug 1386109

So what i found is that you need to somehow prod networkmanager, that is, i can disable wifi and wait for minutes and be in this situation

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:/var/crash$ ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:9062 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:9062 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:2546884 (2.5 MB) TX bytes:2546884 (2.5 MB)

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:/var/crash$ qdbus com.ubuntu.connectivity1 /com/ubuntu/connectivity1/NetworkingStatus com.ubuntu.connectivity1.NetworkingStatus.Status
online

then if i call nmcli the status changes immediately

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:/var/crash$ nmcli nm
RUNNING STATE WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
running disconnected enabled disabled enabled disabled
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:/var/crash$ qdbus com.ubuntu.connectivity1 /com/ubuntu/connectivity1/NetworkingStatus com.ubuntu.connectivity1.NetworkingStatus.Status
offline