Wifi/GPRS Hand-off Problems

[Guest slamzeedoor]

I am having some trouble with the phone toggling between wifi and gprs. If I turn wifi on at home, it seems like IE keeps trying to use the gprs for a connection, and finally use wifi after awhile. then when i leave the house, gprs stop working to fetch my goodlink email.

Any one else have this problem and any ideas what to do?

[Guest zeros1122]

I am having some trouble with the phone toggling between wifi and gprs.  If I turn wifi on at home, it seems like IE keeps trying to use the gprs for a connection, and finally use wifi after awhile.  then when i leave the house, gprs stop working to fetch my goodlink email.

Any one else have this problem and any ideas what to do?

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1. It takes 10 more sec for wifi to resume the internet connection after you turn it on. If you click your url on IE before the wifi's "connection icon" (which likes a tower with a ring of light) appear, the CE connection manager will use the available channel right now, the gprs, to serve you. That's also why IE use wifi later, for wifi connection is supposed to be resumed.

2. when you're out of wifi signal range, any access of internet "supposedly" will trigger CE's connection manager to find all possible ways to serve your request. Basically I guess activesync > wifi > gprs is the default order. So if you're linked with activesync, and pc side is configured correctly, you're internet channle is activesync. Other situations you could deduce by yourself.

[Guest kc1]

1. It takes 10 more sec for wifi to resume the internet connection after you turn it on. If you click your url on IE before the wifi's "connection icon" (which likes a tower with a ring of light) appear, the CE connection manager will use the available channel right now, the gprs, to serve you.

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I have the same problem - no matter how long I wait between starting Wifi and then starting IE, once the page starts loading the G appears over the phone signal indicator. Is there a way of toggling GPRS on/off manually for internet & email connections?

[Guest kam_]

I have the same problem - no matter how long I wait between starting Wifi and then starting IE, once the page starts loading the G appears over the phone signal indicator.  Is there a way of toggling GPRS on/off manually for internet & email connections?

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Yeah i don't trust it to do it by itself either! This is what i do..

Go to the GPRS account and change it from 'internet' to 'work'.

Go to the WiFi account and make sure its 'internet'

Then in IE change it from 'automatic' to 'internet'.

Then if you later want to use GPRS u just change the setting in IE from 'internet' to 'work' or 'automatic'

[Guest kc1]

Yeah i don't trust it to do it by itself either!  This is what i do..

Go to the GPRS account and change it from 'internet' to 'work'.

Go to the WiFi account and make sure its 'internet'

Then in IE change it from 'automatic' to 'internet'.

Then if you later want to use GPRS u just change the setting in IE from 'internet' to 'work' or 'automatic'

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Hello Kam - ingenious work around for IE, but for email it takes 10-15 clicks to switch.

I wonder if there is anyone with sufficient technical knowledge and kindness who could perhaps develop us a toggle application?

[Guest kc1]

Can anybody please help us with a simple toggle/tweak to either switch between GPRS and Wifi or to simply switch GPRS off and on?

Thank you. :|

[Guest bennybenz]

Can anybody please help us with a simple toggle/tweak to either switch between GPRS and Wifi or to simply switch GPRS off and on?

Thank you. :|

Now with devices like the Dash out there with both GPRS and WiFi, I'm looking for a way to easily switch between the two. Any word on this? thanks.

[Guest Chaos]

Can anybody please help us with a simple toggle/tweak to either switch between GPRS and Wifi or to simply switch GPRS off and on?

Thank you. :|

I just switch my phone to Flight Mode before using Wifi, then GPRS stays off.