Hi,
I don't think this post is going to make me any friends. But here it goes.
I'm looking for an app or way to disable WiFi, Bluetooth and GPRS in WM5 or to protect those features with a password.
We have a couple of PDAs -non XDAs- that we want to use to take GPS points in the streets but sometimes the WiFi or Bluetooth or phone connections would turn on automatically or accidentally draining the battery and I want a definitive way to block them.
Thanks for your help
raindogmx said:
Hi,
I don't think this post is going to make me any friends. But here it goes.
I'm looking for an app or way to disable WiFi, Bluetooth and GPRS in WM5 or to protect those features with a password.
We have a couple of PDAs -non XDAs- that we want to use to take GPS points in the streets but sometimes the WiFi or Bluetooth or phone connections would turn on automatically or accidentally draining the battery and I want a definitive way to block them.
Thanks for your help
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just guessing: what about using Vijay555's wireless en/disabler EXE files along with, say, MortScript to conditionally execute them? The latter may have password promting capabilities.
Thanks, will try it
Hello Forum! One question for the pros out there. Our company uses MS-Exchange servers for mobile Email access. One security policy is that the phone will ask you for the PIN every 5 minutes. Which sucks when you use TomTom, the display will show you the lock-screen then while navigation is in progress. After a few moments the display will go black. Well, that's not fun while driving. Is there a way of stopping the security policy automatically while TomTom is active? OK, there is a way of preventing the security policy in the registry manually, but I would prefer a automatic solution. Anyone?
Thank you in advance guys, and have a great weekend!
Studebaker
Ahm, seems that I'm the only one with that problem...
Hi
Just got my HD2 this weekend. Had phone connected to PC and logged onto my work email. The dreaded phone lock set itself up automatically
Found this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=422668
Also look here
http://khason.net/blog/how-to-disable-exchange-security-policy-for-windows-mobile-devices/
Worked on my device. Can now choose upto 24hrs. I can live with that. Lock seems to come on when the device powers down but I assume you will be running with some sort of power plugged in as GPS always seems to kill the battery. In that case you could set the backlight options not switch off.
Hope this helps
Thanks Dude, these Links are pure Gold!!!!!!
Have a great week!
Studebaker
Hi everyone,
I'm new to this forum, and was wondering if anyone can help me out. I have an Acer S200 but figured that perhaps this could relate to any windows mobile 6.5 device. Basically due to restrictions at work, we need to disable internet access from our work mobile devices!
I have read various posts that state that this can be achieved by disabling wifi access by altering the registry keys, however none of the methods that i have come accross seem to apply to my Acer S200 mobile 6.5.
Sorry to be a pain, but does anyone know how i can do this?
Thanks in advance everyone.
alan
Like it has to be unable to turn on, or off? Does the default winmo comm manager not work? If not, just try a third party one, theres plenty out there
Hi cmstackar
thanks for the reply. Yes thats right, there should not be an ability to toggle it on or off - just for the wifi to be disabled for the user. I understand that changing registry keys is only a temporary solution since hard resetting would put things back to normal, but even that's okay for the time being.
Any ideas anyone?
What third party software did you particularly have in mind?
What about your internet access from the phone network? Surely that would be the issue, not wifi which you can't use to connect to the internet unless you're near a internet accessible wireless network which you have the network key to access...
hi xaccers,
the phone doesn't have a data connection plan with it, so it would be too expensive to use for internet access i imagine.
but, likewise then, is there a way to disable both of these (wifi, data connection)?
I know this is such a strange request, but appreciate any pointers from forum members.
Thanks
If would be easy if you could cook your own ROM, but if the user is willing to do a hard reset, there is nothing you could do to a factory ROM to prevent it from coming back after a hard reset.
hi trueg
that is true. However, I am a complete newby to cooking ROMS etc, and also if the user did hard reset the device, it would need to be taken back to technical department to have software reinstalled, etc. So the temporary changes could be reintroduced again.
So, given the above, do you you know how to temporary disable wifi/data connection? I have read others state that this can be achieved by altering registry keys - but the ones that are referred to are not present on my acer.
any expert willing to depart a little advice my way?
So your Acer phone has a wifi thats always on? I never encountered such a device but nonetheless if your wifi network at work is secured then your phone won't be able to connect to the wifi router hence won't get any internet connection.
hiya,
The users can use the devices in public wifi areas. But also, now that i've been trying to do this for ages, i really would just like to know how to fiddle with the registry keys. its kind of bugging me that I haven't managed to figure this out...
will I really need to learn how to cook my own ROM? (I'm not sure I want to take the risk :S)
I'm sure there is a really easy way to disable wifi/data connection (even if temporarily upon hard resetting) that the more experience members can help with... Please
thanks for all the input so far guys.
alan
OK, so you want to prevent users from accessing the Wireless Manager, or do you want WiFi to not work?
How smart are the users that you are dealing with?
You can easily hide the Wireless Manager from the Control Panel and you could possibly overwrite wrlsmgr.exe with a dummy file, but preventing access to the Wireless Manager would mean they couldn't put the phone in aeroplane mode.
There should be several ways to change the registry to prevent WiFi from working at all.
I like to use FdcSoft Task Manager v3.1 to edit my registry.
Hi Alan, You can try cooking a ROM..it's not so difficult unlock your device go to XDA WIki find your phone then check step by step the procedure, connect Acer to the PC download the ROM you think is better for you, copy it to desktop, then to your device. That's it
Thanks trueg,
you say there should be several ways of changing the registry to prevent wifi from working at all. Would you be kind enough to let me know how? sorry - complete newbie here.
francomur99: thanks for pointing that out buddie. I'll look into that too...
OK, well do you have the following key in your device?
HKLM\System\State\Hardware
WiFi = dword:00000001
Changing this to 0 removes the WiFi option from the default Windows Wireless Manager.
Does your device use the default Wireless Manager or do you have a 3rd party Manager?
Update: Hmm, that only works until you soft reset and if you have a separate WiFi manager, it can still turn it on. Well I can make you an application that will set this back to 0 after every soft reset and you can hide any WiFi managers from the control panel, but they will still exist in the \Windows directory.
The best way may be to create invalid entires for the WiFi driver. Do you have this entry in your registry?
HKLM\Software\Drivers\WLAN
AdapterName = ....
OK, well do you have the following key in your device?
HKLM\System\State\Hardware
WiFi = dword:00000001
Changing this to 0 removes the WiFi option from the default Windows Wireless Manager.
Does your device use the default Wireless Manager or do you have a 3rd party Manager?
Update: Hmm, that only works until you soft reset and if you have a separate WiFi manager, it can still turn it on. Well I can make you an application that will set this back to 0 after every soft reset and you can hide any WiFi managers from the control panel, but they will still exist in the \Windows directory.
The best way may be to create invalid entires for the WiFi driver. Do you have this entry in your registry?
HKLM\Software\Drivers\WLAN
AdapterName = ....
Hi Trueg,
Thanks for the tip. Yes, you're advice has removed the WLAN display from the comm manager. However, I do not have the HKLM\Software\Drivers|WLAN entry.
Infact, under HKLM\Software, there is no Driver folder. There is a HKLM\Driver folder however this doesn't contain a WLAN subdirectory.
Any ideas?
Schaps Advanced Config allows you to edit the com manager. You could easily remove the wifi toggle from there, but it would still be fairly easy to work around if you wanted to turn the wifi on. Maybe someone else could tell you how to remove it from the settings menu.
Sorry alan303487, what is your status with this?
hi trueg
I haven't been able to move forward with this since the post on 16th April 2010 11:01.
i.e. the wifi connectino from the comm manager isn't showing, but I can still connect via windows menus.
would still appreciate any advice - so far, it seems that cooking my own ROM is the only other method thats been suggested.
still would appreciate your help trueg. Any ideas?
thanks mate.
OK, well how would you like to proceed? Would you like to try and hide all of the options that will allow WiFi to be turned back on, or disable WiFi permanently?
Also, what do you have listed under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\?
Example: the WiFi driver on my HTC Touch Pro is
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\TNETW1251]
hi trueg,
thanks for helping..
well, either of the options would do - depends on the complexity of the method involved.
regarding what listed under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\
there are many subfolders - below is a selection.
AFD
Application Download
AxyncMac
AsyncMac1
BCMSD
BCMSD1
BTCEPAN..
....
connection sharing
..
connMfr
CXPort
..
Devices
...
Wifi
Thanks for your help.
Alan
hi trueg
any ideas? any leads?
thanks buddy
alan
Ive been trying to figure this out for a while. Recently playing with a friends DX he had juicedefender pro installed. Within JDP there is a setting that JDP will periodically scan to see if it is connected to a certain BT device if not then it keeps BT off.
What Im looking for is a profile for either tasker or autoit that will let me do that. I want to be able to have it auto connect to my H/U in my vehicle and once it doesnt see the signal anymore turn off BT.
Thanks in advance. Before somebody says search...I have posted for help in the tasker forums, here, and two other forums for help. I figure with teh knowledge here somebody will know where to point me.
Hello guys,
How can i remove the wifi option on the go flip which is operated by KaiOS,
meaning how can i remove the driver software that lets you use the wifi chip
and ultimately use the browser with wifi etc.. so in short to be able to disable the wifi
as if the wifi chip was never there
im sure you can do this with some rooting etc.. but im not sure how to do this,
maybe if anyone knows if its [more less..] easy to remove the wifi chip off this phone please tell me
thanks in advance,
mendel g.