How to prefer wi-fi to GPRS

[Guest onlyconnect]

I have an i600 flashed to WM6 with the official update.

All works fine, but there are a few annoyances. Here's one. I connect to my office wi-fi. I leave the device for a few minutes, and the connection goes off (even if I have disconnect set to "Never" in wi-fi settings). Now I navigate to a site in IE. The unit then connects to GPRS instead of reconnecting to the wi-fi. Since this is slow and expensive I'd much rather it used the wi-fi.

The workaround is to open wireless manager, re-connect to wi-fi, and then use IE. But is there a way to stop GPRS being used by default?

I don't want to disable GPRS completely, but just to ensure that wi-fi is used when available.

Tim

[Guest Marco FCP]

put a difererent operator, that way it wont make the connection

[Guest kuvulmaz]

put a difererent operator, that way it wont make the connection

not very practical

[Guest Sgt_Strider]

not very practical

Have you thought about entering false login information to prevent the i600 from sucessfully connecting to GPRS?

[Guest chucky.egg]

Knobbling your GPRS settings would make it a hassle to use GPRS when you want to

I don't want to disable GPRS completely, but just to ensure that wi-fi is used when available.

I dont know of any way to do that, I don't think WM5 (or 6) is clever enough to give you the choice

[Guest onlyconnect]

Knobbling your GPRS settings would make it a hassle to use GPRS when you want to

I dont know of any way to do that, I don't think WM5 (or 6) is clever enough to give you the choice

I've come to the same conclusion. I'm now wondering what is the quickest way to make a wifi connection. Currently I go into the wifi manager. I'd like a single item on the home page that will attempt to connect.

Thanks

Tim

[Guest kuvulmaz]

Knobbling your GPRS settings would make it a hassle to use GPRS when you want to

I dont know of any way to do that, I don't think WM5 (or 6) is clever enough to give you the choice

I think WM is actually clever but thinks in a different way, it assumes that we prefer not to lose the internet connection no matter what, therefore whenever wi-fi becomes unavailable it automatically switches to gprs/edge. This sounds clever if your connection is vital, but most of the times our connections are not so vital and we prefer to wait for the wifi to become available again rather than switching to gprs immediately.

It would have been nice to have an option asking us what to do when wifi becomes unavailable.

I am guessing that we could disable auto gprs switching from somewhere in registry but do not know where ;)

I've come to the same conclusion. I'm now wondering what is the quickest way to make a wifi connection. Currently I go into the wifi manager. I'd like a single item on the home page that will attempt to connect.

Thanks

Tim

You will probably need a homescreen with wifi activator, I do not know if anyone has that, you may check the homescreen customization section of this forum.

Edited August 28, 2007 by kuvulmaz

[Guest Shuflie]

There is a quick and easy way to "knobble" GPRS and bring it back to life again easily when needed. Use Paul's "No Data" program to switch GPRS accounts on and off at will, it won't overcome the WIFI disconnecting problem, but it will avoid an unwelcome bill at the end of the month, especially if you're roaming.

[Guest kuvulmaz]

There is a quick and easy way to "knobble" GPRS and bring it back to life again easily when needed. Use Paul's "No Data" program to switch GPRS accounts on and off at will, it won't overcome the WIFI disconnecting problem, but it will avoid an unwelcome bill at the end of the month, especially if you're roaming.

Can you give us a link for that program?

I searched the forum with words "paul, no data" but found this topic only ;)

[Guest Shuflie]

Can you give us a link for that program?

I searched the forum with words "paul, no data" but found this topic only ;)

Modaco Nodata

Its a PPC program, but may work for smartphone too.

[Guest kuvulmaz]

Modaco Nodata

Its a PPC program, but may work for smartphone too.

Did not work on my I600

error:

"Notsupported exception"

[Guest Antonio63]

Guys pls see http://www.modaco.com/wireless-turns-couple-t259304.html It's a workaround but seems running fine!