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Automatically connect to the internet using any available WiFi network

I am looking for something similar to what Hitchhicker is supposed to do, but without the Hitchhiker's problems on WM6. For me, it was completely unreliable, left tons of connection settings behind in the registry etc etc.
All i want is an ability to find a public/open WiFi network with internet access and connect to it in a single tap.
Any ideas ?

I use WeFi- Free and works like charm. Also can start programms after it connected.
I start Palringo (Free multi Messanger)

I read about WeFi here, the reason i never tried it was this:
VanGog said:
Same thing as with the previous version.
It scrambled my wifi settings I had to make a hard reset (Asus P535, WM6).
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Will never install it again!
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Can you tell me what particular version seems to work on Polaris ?
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: i am currently backing up to try the latest version myself, will report here later today

First report about WeFi:
It seems to erase all your normal (WZC) WiFi settings without asking, including the WEP/WPA keys. And KEEP ERASING those every start.
It would not connect to my own home WiFi (secured, WPA2+PSK, AES) despite having correct the key entered in it's dialog.
After manually connecting using the normal utility, while WeFi still running in the background, it "tested" the hostspot, and found it to have internet connectivity. After that, it reported 1 user being connected on that hot spot (me) ! What this means is, it certainly tells some of the hotspot details (SSID) to it's server. The question is, would it also share the key with every other user on the planet ? If it would, this would be completely unacceptable !!!
One positive thing about it, somehow, it managed to reconfigure the WZC on Polaris to connect to any open hotspot available (good for me), even when the program isn't running (no, i didn't forget to shut it's today plugin down). This is probably some registry setting unknown to us. I'll try fishing it out and report.
EDIT: sorry, my mistake, it didn't really reconfigure WZC, it got some processes installed, running at the background, that i missed :-(​

Just in case someone may want to know this, the part of WeFi that seems to do the "auto-connect to any open network" thing, but not the internet connectivity probing, is the WeFiSrv.exe, that seems to require Comm.DLL, Engine.dll, Hessian.dll, OpenNETCF.dll, Prot.DLL, Util.dll and Win.dll to run
as well.
EDIT: WeFiSrv.exe seems to be responsible for deleting the existing "normal" WiFi settings too. As well as responsible for eating a big chunk of RAM while running.
EDIT2: same app also responsible for screwing up the settings
Conclusion: unless you are going to connect to unprotected WiFi hotspots ONLY, this program, or any parts of it, isn't really an option.
Any other suggestions ?

Manilla2D picture tab problem

Let the pictures talk
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please any one help me ASAP

your landscape is probably off because landscape is not supported.
The portrait is strange though.... have you soft reset your phone since install? (or since the problem occured)

joel2009 said:
your landscape is probably off because landscape is not supported.
The portrait is strange though.... have you soft reset your phone since install? (or since the problem occured)
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yes i soft reseted millions times but the proplem unsolved

hmm what phone are you running it on

joel2009 said:
hmm what phone are you running it on
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GENE aka p3400 wm 6.1

1. check the resolution of the images and see if they're large enough for preview
2. remove the pictures from your phone, reset, and put them back. then reset again.
3. If these don't work.. i'll get back to you on this

nir36 said:
1. check the resolution of the images and see if they're large enough for preview
2. remove the pictures from your phone, reset, and put them back. then reset again.
3. If these don't work.. i'll get back to you on this
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thanks nir36
but i already done step 1 & 2
the pictures are between 320*240 and 1024*768 so they are "large enough for preview"
i already formated the Storage Card and put every thing again from the computer
so get back to me plz...

I was gonna say if you weren't running an htc phone you may run into problems.....
but thats htc. the only other thing i can recomend is a reinstall. (or if you want you could remove the picture tab with m2dc.)
You may also want to check what version you are running. Manilla 2d is still in development and so it isn't perfect yet you can contact the main developer here though. He may be able to offer more help or even be able to inlcled a bug fix in the next version.

joel2009 said:
I was gonna say if you weren't running an htc phone you may run into problems.....
but thats htc. the only other thing i can recomend is a reinstall. (or if you want you could remove the picture tab with m2dc.)
You may also want to check what version you are running. Manilla 2d is still in development and so it isn't perfect yet you can contact the main developer here though. He may be able to offer more help or even be able to inlcled a bug fix in the next version.
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i already sent him 2 or 3 (can't remember) and did't respond and about my Manilla 2d version i think it was in his topic under title "UPDATE 15" i tried all other updates but either too big around 25 mb or too slow eat all ram
and mine fast don't eat much ram and size 15 mb. but nothing perfect the only bug the picture tab

Broken hp ipaq rx3715

Hi, I've had my RX3715 for about a year and a half now, one day, it just froze. So I restarted it, the restart loads and when it's fully loaded the screen is just frozen. I tried a hard reset and the same thing happens. I even tried taking the battery out and resetting and still, the screen remains frozen once the loading bar is full. I've also tried a siftware update from hp but the problem still persists ...
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Any remedies?
Thanks

Al3xxxinho said:
Hi, I've had my RX3715 for about a year and a half now, one day, it just froze. So I restarted it, the restart loads and when it's fully loaded the screen is just frozen. I tried a hard reset and the same thing happens. I even tried taking the battery out and resetting and still, the screen remains frozen once the loading bar is full. I've also tried a siftware update from hp but the problem still persists ...
Any remedies?
Thanks
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When did you noticed it? What had you done to it prior (program installation/removal, flashing a new rom, etc)
It could be that you damaged the screen somehow, so you may want to consider sending it to HP as well.

My problem occured one night when I was surfing the internet via wi-fi and opera browser ... At a certain moment my pda stoped responding and showed the busy icon ... I tried soft reset but nothing happened .. so i took the battery out ... And from that night it stopped working ... I think my problem is not a hardware one, because I took a good care of my pda

Or can anyone give me some programs to dump the rom from a working ipaq to a computer and flash it to my broken ipaq ... Because i have a feeling that the rom from hp website is just an update, not the entire rom

Al3xxxinho said:
Or can anyone give me some programs to dump the rom from a working ipaq to a computer and flash it to my broken ipaq ... Because i have a feeling that the rom from hp website is just an update, not the entire rom
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Unlike with computers, if you see a "Rom Update", you will have a brand new OS in that package. In a PDA, you don't have much space to be installing fixes or service packs (a la Windows) so they rather fix the bugs and release a new version of the OS in the form of an "update".

So, is there any free solution for fixing my broken ipaq ?

Can anyone help me with a rom dump for this pda ?

Same problem.
Hey, i just got my friends ipaq to try fix and the exact same things happened to him, sadly i haven't found a way to fix it, have you? Do you have any link or something to help flash this thing? Any help would be greatly appriciated. Thanks.

I bought another ipaq with a broken lcd screen, and changed the motherboard ... Now works like a charm

Phone running out of memory.

I'm sorry if I'll sound retarded but I just don't know much about this platform yet, so you may enlighten me on this one. A few minutes ago I was trying to save a favorite in the browser, but the phone didn't let me: an error message popped up telling me I was out of memory. What's that? I've got plenty of memory, is that a bug? I updated the firmware to the latest version just the other day, maybe this is what is causing the issue? I knew about a bug not allowing you to edit one, but this looks different. I also tried to delete the others but it didn't help. Thanks in advance.

update: apparently I can add favourites from any other site, but not from the specific one I was browsing. Now that is weird...

vnvman said:
I'm sorry if I'll sound retarded but I just don't know much about this platform yet, so you may enlighten me on this one. A few minutes ago I was trying to save a favorite in the browser, but the phone didn't let me: an error message popped up telling me I was out of memory. What's that? I've got plenty of memory, is that a bug? I updated the firmware to the latest version just the other day, maybe this is what is causing the issue? I knew about a bug not allowing you to edit one, but this looks different. I also tried to delete the others but it didn't help. Thanks in advance.
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vnvman said:
update: apparently I can add favourites from any other site, but not from the specific one I was browsing. Now that is weird...
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This cannot be Windows Phone! It's memory management surpasses thousands of other toys out there!
BTW, try this - look up your background tasks, see if manually turning one or two off gives you more room to favourite that particular page?
What happens after a restart? May be clearing all the temp files might be the case? I have only restarted/switched off my Titan 5 times max in last 3 months! 3 times was for updates and 2 times was because I wanted to drain battery to 0. Now that worries me because I am so used to restarting my old green man phones to keep temp and cache clear. - non-tech speculation this is.

Wooa, I found an answer by myself in the end...get ready because this one is pretty dumb: apparently the name given by default to the favourite was way too long, once I shortened it I could add it just fine. So I guess I found a new (very minor) bug: if the name is too long the phone displays an error message saying the phone memory is full, pretty weird heh...
Here's a link to the site I was trying to add, maybe you can reproduce the issue even on your Titan, let me know, I'm pretty curious
http://yourlifeupdated.it/2011/11/n...ows-phone-download-xap-nokia-drive-video.html

Actually, this is a well known bug that affect favorites.
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day2die said:
Actually, this is a well known bug that affect favorites.
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Yeah, but it's not literally a memory issue, it simply displays the wrong error message.
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Suddenly, wifi connection is draining my battery

Hello friends. I'm going to try to tell my problem in English.
Wifi signal is draining my battery since three days ago. I've read a post of a user who solved it, cleaning the golden contacts of the back cover. I've tried it, but it does not work. As i said in the other thread, I'm not root
What can I do?

Garz.SP said:
Hello friends. I'm going to try to tell my problem in English.
Wifi signal is draining my battery since three days ago. I've read a post of a user who solved it, cleaning the golden contacts of the back cover. I've tried it, but it does not work. As i said in the other thread, I'm not root
What can I do?
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was tempted to say charge you battery or stop using wifi
But, first you should provide us with more details like ROM version, radio, full details of your bootloader screen so that we can understand you device more.
What have you tried apart from cleaning the contacts, full wipe, factory reset etc?

thanks ben
Thanks for your help ben!
I have the same general settings, sync settings and same apps than before the problem.
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I have no tried factory reset cause it`s a big problem to lose everything, but if that´s the only way to solve the problem, I can try it. I downloaded a free app and I´m going to calibrate the battery in a few minutes. is that like to do a fullwipe?
Thanks again for your help and sorry for my English. I do my best.

suggestions would be to install an application like battery monitor widget to produce a history of your power consumption, so that you can analyse what is using all the power.
Check the following settings
Settings->Wireless & Networks->Wi-fi settings->(Menu button)->Advanced->
Wifi Sleep Policy = Never
Best Wifi Performance=OFF
Consider which new application youve installed in the last three days?
What has changed?

Thanks a lot ben! I think that´s the solution.
My device looks like this:
Wifi Sleep Policy = Never
Best Wifi Performance=ON
I've unchecked Best Wifi performance, I think my girlfriend was trying to connect to her wifi network the day when I noticed the problem. Maybe she checked this option. She says she didn't check anything, therefore I'm sure that she checked it.
Thanks again.

Garz.SP said:
Thanks a lot ben! I think that´s the solution.
My device looks like this:
Wifi Sleep Policy = Never
Best Wifi Performance=ON
I've unchecked Best Wifi performance, I think my girlfriend was trying to connect to her wifi network the day when I noticed the problem. Maybe she checked this option. She says she didn't check anything, therefore I'm sure that she checked it.
Thanks again.
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in which case, she certainly checked it that could be the end of your problem.....that setting improves the the wifi connection at the expense of additional battery consumption.
so install and run the monitoring as suggested above and report back in a couple of days.