Hi all, I am new here and to smart phones, did the "cc" tweak for the volume, worked great, I now have a wifi issue, i have signal, the phone see's the signal, but when i launch IE it say's "your internet comm is not config properly. Please verify your settings in data connection" I have looked at things and cannot find anything that loks wrong. I find connections but not data connections. If anyone can help.. I am deployed in Iraq and have very little access to any kind of help...Thanks-- ps..feel free to use email
It may be that internet explorer is set up to only use WAP and therefore not able to get a connection. In your IE options, make sure it says Internet or Work depending on how you set your wifi up.
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Pretty self explanatory this one - is there any way of knowing whether your mobile internet connection (3G) or WiFi is being used in, for example, a browser session? Just don't want to make the mistake of looking at YouTube on the phone, meaning to use the home WiFi, and end up using my 3G by accident, and paying through the nose for extra feed.
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Pretty self explanatory this one - is there any way of knowing whether your mobile internet connection (3G) or WiFi is being used in, for example, a browser session? Just don't want to make the mistake of looking at YouTube on the phone, meaning to use the home WiFi, and end up using my 3G by accident, and paying through the nose for extra feed.
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The icons on your task bar should indicate if you have a active data connection.
Or, you can use Spb Wireless Monitor (which you need to purchase). It produces reports telling you which software uses which connections and the amount of data transferred.
In a discussion I had with HTC Tech Support, they told me that wifi, when enabled, over-rides the cellular data. I'm not sure if this just applies to the settings or always. Hopefully, someone can provide a definitive answer.
Yes that is correct, if WIFI is enabled you WILL NOT have a cellular data connection.
Umm. There is a wifi icon in the taskbar o.o and a signal icon also.....whichever is there means it's active and if wifi is there, your data will not be active, only wifi.
What all you are saying is true but some applications still use the data network even if wifi is turned on and connected it seems. I have the same issue(i don't have a data plan with my fuze since my college has wifi everywhere). But things like weather and other native apps on the phone will just turn on the 3g network and stat using data instead of wifi.
if a device is transfering data over gprs/3g whatever
it show arrows moving in the signal str icon
otherwise it use wifi
Applications can choose to use a certain connection if they are programmed to do so, windows only gives each one a type of 'ranking', the fastest connection having the highest ranking and being the one an application is to use by default, but the application can override this and choose whatever connection it likes. This ranking is called the "Interface Metric" if you'd like to learn more about it.
There's an HTC program called 'bytecounter' that monitors the SMDx: ports in the system, which are the ports the system uses for data.. in bytecounter you will see the values increase if an application is using data over cellular network. let me know if you'd like me to upload it.
Umm. There is a wifi icon in the taskbar o.o and a signal icon also.....whichever is there means it's active and if wifi is there, your data will not be active, only wifi.
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Well that wasn't particularly helpful. I too have made the same assumption, but the question asked if there was any way to make sure.
windows only gives each one a type of 'ranking', the fastest connection having the highest ranking and being the one an application is to use by default, but the application can override this and choose whatever connection it likes
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Well that was the kind of answer I was looking for, and is particularly pertinent in my case, as my connection through my mobile provider is about as fast (or maybe even faster) than my fixed line connection at home. A rather bizarre situation, but such is the advancement of Australian broadband infrastructure.
The last couple of times I have used it, I have taken to turning off the phone connection so that only WiFi is running, and then using the internet. It would be good if you can upload the byetcounter program, seems like a free (?) version of the software programatix mentioned.
Here ya go!
Maybe this is just me, but when I try to unzip that file, nothing comes up....?
lol, i always forget to remove the hidden attribute.. let me go ahead and fix that..
Edit: fixed
Newer Windows Live (including the one that come with Touch Pro) will always dial-up the 3G/GPRS connection when checking for email in Messaging. But if you are checking in Windows Live, most of the time it doesn't dial-up but sometimes, it does.
So far that is the only program that I know of behaves like this. I contacted Microsoft regarding this and they keep asking me to contact my celular provider for help. In other word, they are not helping (or do not understand the problem).
Anyway I solved the problem by changing the Connections setting to "My Work Network" for Internet. The catch is, if I really want to use 3G/GPRS, I'll have to change the setting to my celular 3G/GPRS connection.
Or you could use the nodata application from modaco and disable whenever you like the cellular 3g connection just to be sure you are using wifi.When you are away from wifi networks you can in a matter of 2 clicks reenable the cellular 3g connection...
Im having real trouble stopping my touch pro from automatically connecting to the internet whenever the h*ll it feels like, is it possible to force it to request a pin or password every time it attempts to connect? worryingly on multiple roms i have picked up my phone to find its connected to the internet and costing me money (on orange, data is rediculous)
please help
Thanks
settings-connections-connections-advanced-select networks set both drop down boxes to my work network.
Also theres a cab its appropriately named nodata, i just hope you're feeling lucky
I have about 4 access points in my area. I would like to set my HTC / ATT PURE to connect to MY access point by default (i.e. the preferred Access point). but it seems like it will only connect when I go into comm manager and select my SSID. once I do that everything works fine. How do I make my access point the default one (and autoconnect) when it's within range?
WIFI Applet?
Anyone know of any wi-fi app that would work to select a preferred access point when near it? it would also be nice if the system would send/receive e-mail, etc when in range of the preferred access point.
Shareware or retail would be fine, if anyone has any ideas.
Do you have also access to the other hotspots? Or is it just your neighbours..? In theory, your device should automatically connect only to the access points that have already been successfully accessed. That's what happens to me when I move from house-office-friends-etc..if it's a "already connected" place, then it recognises it immediately and connects. I get sometimes notifications about new networks, but i just dismiss them
I have gone to Starbucks and can connect to those hotspots, but it seems I actually have to click on them for the green check mark to appear near the Accesspoint on the phone.
I don't have access to any of the other wireless access points in my hood. so I would think it should auto-connect to mine, but it doesn't. I have to click on it, before it will appear with a green check mark. Once I do that I can tell the phone switches to wifi instead off ATT media net. I have unlimited data plan so it's not a big deal. just a bit annoying...
Any thoughts?
hi i posted this a couple weeks ago in the rhodium forum but i feel like it might be better answered here
at my school they have changed their previously password free wireless network to a password full wireless net work (more or less)
in order to use the wifi.(on a laptop) i must connect to the wifi network and when i open up firefox, a popup will show up and ask me to login with our specific student id/password.
on an iphone/itouch, you connect to the wifi network, open up safari and the login pop up shows up. sign in, and you will be able to surf freely.
unfortunately, on my tp2, i connect to the wifi network, open opera/opera10/opera mini/pie/skyfire and nothing shows up. there is no way to sign in or connect to be able to surf freely.
so my question is what must i do/ what can i do to fix this so i can sign on.