WiFi issue

[Guest bugeyes]

oops double post!?

Edited November 4, 2010 by bugeyes

[Guest mrchris]

Think i'll stick with my fix using "tasker" to re associate wifi at screen on, within half a second my wifi re associates and no other apps are needed (other than tasker of course!)

if anyone wants help setting this up just ask me in this thread :)

Hi, have just installed Tasker and would be very grateful for a run through of the set up that you have working.

Cheers

[Guest JolyonS]

Candy from strangers, anyone?

Perhaps. Always best to be prudent, of course.

I did PM the author and he got back to me right away (to confirm that it tries a wifi connection and if it fails disables, then re-enables wifi) so it's not as though he's dumped this and run.

As pointed out the permissions it requires do not seem overly sinister.

Given that I've installed entire ROMs from here without knowign the authors I'm not that fussed about this 15k of app but then I do not use this Blade for anything important.

[Guest oh!dougal]

Perhaps. Always best to be prudent, of course.

I did PM the author and he got back to me right away (to confirm that it tries a wifi connection and if it fails disables, then re-enables wifi) so it's not as though he's dumped this and run.

As pointed out the permissions it requires do not seem overly sinister.

Excellent news!

But it does confirm that it doesn't actually "fix" anything.

It doesn't do anything different to a manual wifi off then wifi on.

IF doing that MANUALLY doesn't help you, this won't either.

But if you are just after an automated thing to replace the manual faff, then this is one more way of doing it ...

Edited November 4, 2010 by oh!dougal

[Guest JolyonS]

if you are just after an automated thing to replace the manual faff, then this is one more way of doing it ...

And that's exactly what I am after.

I'll do it with Tasker or something when I finally decide on an automation tool but for now if it does what it says it does what I need.

But you've made me paranoid enough that I might put some effort into checking what it actually does do!

[Guest bugeyes]

Hi, have just installed Tasker and would be very grateful for a run through of the set up that you have working.

Cheers

Hi Mrchris will post a step by step how to by Friday night!

[Guest mrchris]

Hi Mrchris will post a step by step how to by Friday night!

Great stuff, cheers :)

[Guest oh!dougal]

Aren't 99% of these "fixes" just different methods of 'automagically' turning wifi off and on again when waking from sleep?

If turning the phone's wifi off and on again manually does not reconnect you, then you'd be daft to think that a script doing it for you could have a different effect.

I'd like to see much more detail from those few who CANNOT reconnect by manually turning wifi off and on at their phone.

That would seem to be associated with specific router behaviour.

So its important to document the issue precisely. Maybe a pattern will emerge.

IIRC, the Netgear 834G v5 has been mentioned a couple of times. My v3 (which I think actually contains different hardware) isn't a problem.

...

Looks like the BT HomeHub 2.0 should be added to the list ...

http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...ss-and-failing/

Seems like the same problem for the SF and the Dell Streak (running 2.1) (Streak - post 4 in the thread)

[Guest pingy]

I should probably ask this in here instead of starting a new thread. Whenever I try to connect to my network I get "network password incorrect"

I know I'm entering the pw correctly because my laptop connects okay and if I disable security on my router I get a connection instantly.

It's a Netgear router and as far as I know all the settings for phone and router are set properly..?

Thanks.

Anyone?

I've tried several other devices with the same key and they connect no problem.

[Guest oh!dougal]

Anyone?

Password case sensitivity? With some keyboards you could be getting autocapitalisation of the first letter, for example.

[Guest lookdadnotunes]

Switcher Pro has currently fixed this problem, we shall see if it lasts.

I have also bought a new Thomson TG585 router in case this problem returns. £13 brand new on ebay, happy days.

[Guest G0DSPEED]

Not for me, I only use Wifi in one place, at home.

Do you live in Exeter? :)

[Guest womble_sanfran]

Hi Mrchris will post a step by step how to by Friday night!

I am also keen on a Tasker solution, I am a recent Tasker convert and if it can solve this issue as well then that just makes it even better!

[Guest Freekers]

Is the workaround link in the startpost really correct ?

It links to: http://code.google.com/p/mylockforandroid/...mp;can=2&q=

If not, could someone please point me to the correct workaround ? I got lost in this topic

Thanks

[Guest Acathla-]

There are a few issues so it depends what you have.

Really suggest you read through the thread although Blade WiFi Fix has helped me.

[Guest booster22]

There are a few issues so it depends what you have.

Really suggest you read through the thread although Blade WiFi Fix has helped me.

Thanks but again didnt work for me lasted all but 8 seconds

[Guest lookdadnotunes]

Finally solved this issue. It was my router that wouldn't let me reconnect to wifi, so I changed router and it's all fixed. Thanks for the help on this one, guys.

[Guest cmberry20]

Dittto!! :rolleyes: Edited November 13, 2010 by cmberry20

[Guest oh!dougal]

Dittto!! :rolleyes:

Maybe you could edit/repurpose that thread first post as a SF router blacklist/whitelist thread so that there was a single place where such info was easily available?

Finally solved this issue. It was my router that wouldn't let me reconnect to wifi, so I changed router and it's all fixed. Thanks for the help on this one, guys.

Wouldn't it be helpful to document what it was that worked and what didn't?

Edited November 13, 2010 by oh!dougal

[Guest milkykung]

Blade Wifi Fix does not do a trick for me. I used "WiFi Keep Alive" app with workaround 3&4 to do a gimmick instead.

Thank you for all useful inputs into this thread guys ^^

Cheers,

[Guest Broc]

When I press the connect to wifi button on the power control, the green light comes on underneath the icon but the green is at only half-brightness... duller than the GPS and other green lights... and the wifi doesn't connect, it just stays permanently unconnected unless I switch it on and off - this seems to do the trick each time but I don't want to have to power off/on each time.

[Guest]

is it even possible for orange to fix this with a software update as i can't find anywhere on the phone to look for software updates, my htc wildfire has such an option at settings-about-software updates but this orange san francisco doesn't appear to have such an option, surely the only way to fix this is for a software update to be released and for us to take it into an orange store and they run the software update from a pc with some custom software to update it via usb.

[Guest spoonium]

Not concerning the WiFi reconnect problem (haven't been so far yet...), but my SanFran refuses to connect to my D-Link Dir-655 if I enable n-mode only at all. It just stays disconnected the whole time.

If I switch to mixed g/n-mode it connects just fine. It however does so only with 54 mbps, thus in g-mode (and as far as I know, by doing so dragging all other n-devices down to g-level as well).

Are there some setting needed to make it work with 802.11n or it is simply not supported?

[Guest oh!dougal]

... Are there some setting needed to make it work with 802.11n or it is simply not supported?

:rolleyes:

The fact that the spec's show the SF/Blade to be an 802.11g device might give some people a clue as to why it won't work on an 11n-only network.

[Guest spoonium]

Thinking about it, that might be a viable explanation.