Tell me, is there any way to prevent lousy wireless connecting automaticly to all sorts of networks as soon as I fire it up?
I wanna connect to certain networks and find out which are available around, not connect first one immediatly.
Thanks ppl
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Hi All,
Had a search but couldn't find anything relevant to my issue, here or on google.
I have wireless router at home and all of the necessary info to connect is stored on the phone. I use SPB Phone suit to switch the wireless on and off. However when I switch on I'd always expected the device to find and connect to it, and for some time this did happen. Now, however, I have to open the wifi settings and connect manually.
I quite happily informs me of other networks, but never connects to mine without a push.
Orbit 2 with shipped ROM.
Thanks
Neville
Neville.Holland said:
Hi All,
Had a search but couldn't find anything relevant to my issue, here or on google.
I have wireless router at home and all of the necessary info to connect is stored on the phone. I use SPB Phone suit to switch the wireless on and off. However when I switch on I'd always expected the device to find and connect to it, and for some time this did happen. Now, however, I have to open the wifi settings and connect manually.
I quite happily informs me of other networks, but never connects to mine without a push.
Orbit 2 with shipped ROM.
Thanks
Neville
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Ensure that you have your own Access Point set as preferred.
May be that you have had a wireless connection in another area.
Just be thankful it connects at all is my advice!
same here. must soft-reset the phone to connect at all sometimes.
how do i set my home wlan to be prefered?
Does anyone else have this problem?
My laptop will stay connected for a maybe a minute at a time, sometimes just a few seconds and I have to reconnect. Under Wireless Network Connection, the network is listed as "On Demand", if that helps.
I've tried every version of "Wireless Tether for Root Users" I can find and they all have the same problem. Is there anyway to stay connected?
Is it possible that your computer won't let you connect to an Ad-hoc connection? Maybe as soon as it realizes what it's connecting to it jumps off?
Havent had a problem, are you using the administration portion of wireless thether, you might have to just confirm the connection on the phone and apply the settings, you should have a green sheild when on your phone when a allowed device is connected
As far as I know ad hoc networks are allowed, I am using windows xp.
I have access control on and my laptop is allowed and connects fine, it just will not stay connected.
I am using a Toshiba nb205 netbook with windows xp.
On the Choose a Wireless Network window, next to G1Tether it says "On Demand" instead of Manual or Automatic. I've never seen that before.
I'm using the internet fine, I just have to reconnect every 30 seconds or so. Perhaps my google skills are too weak, but I cannot find anything, any help is very much appreciated.
Can you connect to a wifi network from the phone and stay connected?
Can you connect to a wifi network from the laptop and stay conencted?
"On Demand" is normal for Ad-Hoc Networks.
I had the same problem after upgrading from fresh 1.0 to 1.1 w/ gk-31. I uninstalled wireless tether and reinstalled it from my mybackup pro app backup (the one I made before flashing the new Rom and kernel. Works just fine now.
If I'm not mistaken I believe flipz included a newer version of wireless tether, maybe the old one works better.
I just realized I assumed you are using freshrom...
Might try reinstalling it anyways, let us know how it works out.
Reinstalling didn't work. I'll try out some roms tonight and see if they work any better, thanks anyways
Old post I know, but just wanted to see if anyone had any more ideas here. I don't think it's an android app issue at all, but rather windows. I'll be cruising along the highway with a fine connection, but as soon as windows picks up a random access point, it will jump off my ad-hoc connection and try to connect to the other one. not cool.
Is there such app?
or perhaps something that prevents the phone from disconecting from a wifi conection when it goes to sleep?/
or one that prevents the phone to go sleep while conected to a wifi?
The thing is, my plan is not unlimited and i dont want to use 3G if a wifi connection is available and connecting each time is a pain.
At some point Froyo was doing this (conecting automatically, almost instantl to my home wifi when i opened browser for instance) but not anymore.
cheers
Okay folks got a bit of a strage development that I could use some help with.
As we all know, Android does not currently support Wifi proxy servers, at least it has no way to access the settings. I live on campus and the wifi is piped through a proxy server to the internet and I found the lack of wireless to be quite annoying (especially the hole it was burning in my pocket!)
Anyway, I had bought a wireless router to have internet all around my apartment. The network is hidden and my HTC Desire wasn't connecting to it. I eventually found out that this was because the network was braodcasting in mixed b/g/n mode. I changed it to b/g only and the phone connected.
I hadn't really expected it to connect to the internet because there was still no proxy set up but to my surprise it did! I checked my data counters and only the Wifi one was going up. The network my router is connected to uses the same proxy as the campus wireless so there is definately a proxy.
An even stranger development is the fact that since then, when I connect directly to the campus wireless network (not to my router) the internet still works. I keep checking the data counters and its not using up any 3G data. I checked my IP address online and it corresponds to the campus IP address. I also switched off the wifi and checked again and the IP changed to my cell provider.
I haven't tried connecting to a different wireless network since then and I didn't change any settings. I'm using an unrooted HTC Desire with stock ROMs. I had downloaded WifiAce but I since removed that and the proxy still works.
So what I'm wondering is, can anybody confirm this or give any thoughts on how this is working? Does anyone also know if the data counters available on the market acurately track data usage or do they simply assume that if the wifi is connected that the phone is downloading via wireless and not cell.
If anyone has any thoughts on this or could go out of their way to try and confirm it I'd be grateful.
(update) I found that it doesn't work on one of the networks, the oldest one on campus. Not sure why this is yet
You are correct. I found out this a long time ago. It also happens with some wireless MAC Laptops. You have to define the broadcasting channel.
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You are correct. I found out this a long time ago. It also happens with some wireless MAC Laptops. You have to define the broadcasting channel.
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I wonder if you could explain what "defining the broadcasting channel" means...in case I occasion similar difficulties joining a public wifi network?
It's a dumb question, I'm sure...but I've never actually owned a router.
Between my dearly-departed, slightly hacked XV6800, followed by Tetherberry on my 9530...Wireless Tether on my CM7 Droid (only in a pinch) and the Clear Wireless dongle on my laptop (shared via Connectify), I think I'm missing several years of typical AP experience.
Am I missing a setting somewhere?
Sprint HTC Arrive - Mango w/ the standard ROM (no custom ROM or Bootloader).
I'm at work where my 3G signal is sketchy in certain areas. Since it's a work laptop, I don't have the ability to install Zune. But I can set up my laptop with an ad-hoc wireless network (since I'm plugged in via ethernet). However, when I try to connect to the ad-hoc network with my phone, it doesn't see it even if I try to add it manually (I've done it with and without a security key).
Most of my searches came back with how to set up ICS which is the opposite direction of what I'm trying to do. I want to share my laptop's network connection with my phone (which I understand will be subjected to work's filters). So is there a way to make WP7 show hidden and/or ad-hoc wifi networks?
Thanks
I know on my buddies kindle fire, it will not allow him to connect to ad-hoc wifi networks (such as turning his phone into a wifi-hotspot). This is a horrible limitation and I don't understand it. I wonder if our phones have that same built in limitation.