Hey all,
I somehow managed to screw up my Wi-Fi so it now appears to be turned on, even though it's not. The problem is, I can't turn it on..or off. Comm manager won't work. The Connections icon on the top bar of the today screen shows it as on and connected, when I click the icon the big button seems to let me turn the Wifi off, but when I hide the panel and show it again, it stays the same as before. And the other text on the panel writes "Turn Wi-Fi On". Umm..the last few sentences might look a bit confusing..well I have the Laurentius WM6 ROM (AKU 0.5 update 1 I think) so apart from the standard Turn Wi-Fi On/Off text (that looks like an internet link ), there's also a big button serving the same purpose. And simply put, the button looks as if the Wi-Fi was on, and the "link" as if it was off. I hope you get what I'm trying to say here Anyway, I tried hard-reseting the device and everything got fine again, until I restored my full backup (created by Sprite Backup 5 about a minute before the hard reseting). After that, the WiFi problem is back. Anyone got an idea what it could be caused by or what to do to get rid of it please?
Many thanks, Longlife
Well, the problem is solved, dunno how it happened but now everything works just fine Sorry for bothering :S
Longlife
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Anyone know how to get a bluetooth icon showing? I vaguelly recall a app written for WM2003 that provided this, in an attempt to override the built-in dissapearing icon issue. Can't find it tho...
Here you go...
Here is an app I took from my ba wm5 rom. I modified it for the jj. I think this is what you were looking for.
Awesome! Thanks a stack.
To everyone else, this puts BTIcon.exe in your windows diectory, with a link in your startup folder. Now u have an icon in your today tray, that u can click to turn BT on or off. Best feature is that you can see if BT is on at a glance, rather than watching the light for up to FIVE seconds to see if it flashes (I usually wacth for 10 seconds before I realise it's not on!)
craigiecraigie4 said:
Awesome! Thanks a stack.
To everyone else, this puts BTIcon.exe in your windows diectory, with a link in your startup folder. Now u have an icon in your today tray, that u can click to turn BT on or off. Best feature is that you can see if BT is on at a glance, rather than watching the light for up to FIVE seconds to see if it flashes (I usually wacth for 10 seconds before I realise it's not on!)
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hOW DO YOU INSTALL THAT?
copy cab to any directory on PPC, then run from within PPC
i just use fn and the right arrow, you can see the status of the phone,bt and the wifi connection
BTIcon installation procedures
Hi,
Here's a page out of my HTC Universal guide.
Regards
Michael
Mistad, could you please email/point me to where to find the BTIcon.exe cab file? I tried search the forum but failed to find it. Thanks and Happy New Year to all.
Hi,
Have a look at the PDF attachment in the post just above yours.
Regards
Michael
Thanks Michael. Got it working.
Thanks mistad for posting this BT icon app.. as well as giving me easy access to the Bluetooth settings, it seems to (touch wood) have cured the problem of Bluetooth switching itself off overnight!!
48hrs with no bluetooth connectivity loss.. a personal record for my Exec
Interested to see if it cures anybody elses BT problem..
Spoke a day or so to soon. BT stayed on for longer than it has ever done, but I just checked it and the "Turn on Bluetooth" box was unticked.
Which is interesting in itself, as the BT Icon did not show a red line through it, as far as it was concerned it was on. Once I opened the BT settings and ticked the box, my headset was on again.
To further test things, I went into BT Settings again, unticked the box, and the BT Icon correctly displayed with the line through it.
So somethings turning BT off in the background and not telling the rest of the system about it..
Anyone else having similar/different results ?
That was a great today plugin. Is there any same for WiFi? I miss the WiFi icon down in the right corner wich was a in 2003SE.
craigiecraigie4 said:
Awesome! Thanks a stack.
To everyone else, this puts BTIcon.exe in your windows diectory, with a link in your startup folder. Now u have an icon in your today tray, that u can click to turn BT on or off. Best feature is that you can see if BT is on at a glance, rather than watching the light for up to FIVE seconds to see if it flashes (I usually wacth for 10 seconds before I realise it's not on!)
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Awesome One. Have been looking for one such for a long time now, Cheers , Taurus
gaspx said:
Spoke a day or so to soon. BT stayed on for longer than it has ever done, but I just checked it and the "Turn on Bluetooth" box was unticked.
Which is interesting in itself, as the BT Icon did not show a red line through it, as far as it was concerned it was on. Once I opened the BT settings and ticked the box, my headset was on again.
To further test things, I went into BT Settings again, unticked the box, and the BT Icon correctly displayed with the line through it.
So somethings turning BT off in the background and not telling the rest of the system about it..
Anyone else having similar/different results ?
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@gaspx
Yes, I have come to exactly the same conclusion. The only solution I have found thus far it to disable all power off features (including the on/off switch) and simply close the JJ lid or use 'screen toggle' in PDA mode. This means that battery life drops to approx 24 hours! The main problem is that if I leave it in PDA mode (screen facing out) and switch off the screen with 'screen toggle' (PocketPlus), then if I receive a SMS or missed call then the screen turns back on and runs the battery down much quicker. What would b really usefull is if there was an application that switched off the screen after a set period of inactivity.
Sorry guys for my OT, is there a way to add more application shortcuts in the tray ?
Thanks
wi-fi manager icon
does any1 know of a wifimanager icon, same as the bticon
thanks
Yes that's what I've been looking for. A WiFi Switch.exe to do the same thing Bluetooth Icon does... but for the WiFi. Is there something like that available?
What's the status of this post folks? Any new ideas or improvements?
Greetz ET
I've been trying to use XN Resource Editor toi change the BT off icon to being greyed out instead of the red slash and am running into problems. I got the icon changed, but the pda can't run the app when I replace the BTIcon.exe in the Windows directory...can anybody take a look at it and see what I've done?
So, my brother and I have been running MoDaCo 1.1 core for a couple days now.
My phone has stopped connecting to the mobile network. All it says when I try to connect is "Standby for connecting to mobile network" with a green checkbox. I also notice now when I select the checkbox to connect it turns green instantly and shows that standby message. Before it would take a couple seconds to connect and turn green.
I have tried changing the mode of operation and it still doesn't want to connect. There is no 1x or EVDO in the notification bar. Wifi and GPS still work fine.
My brother's phone is still working fine. I have no idea what the problem can be.
Anybody else having this problem with MoDaCo 1.1?
I think that it has something to do with airplane mode. I enabled airplane mode yesterday, then turned it off. I didn't realize my data wasn't working after that since I don't use it while I'm at home. I am not sure if that is exactly the problem, just trying to think about how it could have stopped working.
I've noticed mine will do this at random on the MoDaCo 1.1 ROM. Every now and then I'll look at my phone and realize my EV symbol at the top is gone and I have no network connection. When this happens both the option in Settings and the small on/off widget on one of my home screens say it's still turned on. If I turn it off and back on, then I just get the "Standby for connecting to mobile network" message too. The only way I've found to get it to work again is to reboot the phone.
FYI this same problem happens to me with the stock ROM, even when it wasn't rooted. I've noticed it only happens when you turn airplane mode on, and then off.
Hmmm...I never touch airplane mode and I never saw this happen once in the month that I had the phone with the stock ROM. Maybe my problem is unrelated then.
Even when I reboot my phone it still doesn't work. I have tried messing around with the widgets turning things on and off multiple times and still nothing can get it working again.
I just went back to an old nandroid backup from before I put MoDaCo 1.1 on the phone and it seems to be working again. I'm going to put 1.1 on again. I'll use it for a while and try to recreate the problem to figure out exactly what it is.
Sprint/HTC has to fix that. it's a bug.
Hey,
I am having problems disabling my Wi-Fi. To be honest this isn't really a problem because my Wi-Fi is faster than mobile data transfers. Having said that though, obviously i would like the option to turn it off.
I havn't changed anything today on my phone so no software changes etc. Just on 'Comm Manager' on the Wi-Fi switch the whole line is light grayed out (and therefore i cant do anything)
Tried the standard turn off/turn on, soft reset, holding power button and terminate data connection, yet it is still grayed out and still on...
Any Ideas?
Sorry if there is already a similar post. I had a quick look and search but couldn't find anything to help. Please point in the right direction if there is.
Timmzy89 said:
Hey,
I am having problems disabling my Wi-Fi. To be honest this isn't really a problem because my Wi-Fi is faster than mobile data transfers. Having said that though, obviously i would like the option to turn it off.
I havn't changed anything today on my phone so no software changes etc. Just on 'Comm Manager' on the Wi-Fi switch the whole line is light grayed out (and therefore i cant do anything)
Tried the standard turn off/turn on, soft reset, holding power button and terminate data connection, yet it is still grayed out and still on...
Any Ideas?
Sorry if there is already a similar post. I had a quick look and search but couldn't find anything to help. Please point in the right direction if there is.
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Go to Settings, Menu, All Settings, Connection, Wi-fi. There's a checkbox there for turning on and off. You may find that doing this re-enables the one on the comm manager, otherwise, you're stuck with doing it that way (for some strange reason).
I'd also recommend the Wifi shortcut on the cab thread in the HD2 themes and apps forum. I have that in my quicklinks so I can quickly toggle the wifi on and off whenever I get home or to work or a friend's house etc..
Cheers bud.
Thats turned it off, but yeh as you suspected it doesn't enable me to do it in comm manager. Do you think you could give me a link to that quick link?
Timmzy89 said:
Cheers bud.
Thats turned it off, but yeh as you suspected it doesn't enable me to do it in comm manager. Do you think you could give me a link to that quick link?
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Yes mate - it's in my signature - the cabs link. You want the Touch X reset and wifi cab. It creates shortcuts in your start menu, and you can then add them as quicklinks if you want.
This may well be a stupid question, but is the device connected to PC with a USB cable just now?
hicks:
Nope, not currently... It was earlier though... If that is meant to make it so you cant toggle it, maybe it might be stuck like that from earlier... I will try plugging it back in later and see if this sorts it.
Cheers
johncmolyneux:
Excellent cheers! haha didn't see it there
Timmzy89 said:
hicks:
Nope, not currently... It was earlier though... If that is meant to make it so you cant toggle it, maybe it might be stuck like that from earlier... I will try plugging it back in later and see if this sorts it.
Cheers
johncmolyneux:
Excellent cheers! haha didn't see it there
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They weren't there earlier. I decided that you'd be the last person I'd search for those threads myself for
legend.
Oh and yeh seems it was a minor fault... plugged it back into comp and disconnected again, seems to be sorted in comm manager now.
Guys,
I updated my tab a few days ago. Now the market looks different but unfortunately I'm facing another irritating problem which I have no clue how to solve.
Every time that I turn off the tab, and let it be idle for 10 minutes, when I turn it back on, the WiFi icon will show no bars - which translates into no internet connectivity. That happens while the WiFi button is still pressed (green in the pop-up menu). In order for the device to connect to the net I need to turn the WiFi OFF and than ON and it works.
I checked the WiFi sleep configuration and they are set to "never turn it off" I also rebooted the device but with no change.
Please let me know what to do... as this thing sometimes just drives me crazy.
Thanks.
Gingi
imgingi said:
Guys,
I updated my tab a few days ago. Now the market looks different but unfortunately I'm facing another irritating problem which I have no clue how to solve.
Every time that I turn off the tab, and let it be idle for 10 minutes, when I turn it back on, the WiFi icon will show no bars - which translates into no internet connectivity. That happens while the WiFi button is still pressed (green in the pop-up menu). In order for the device to connect to the net I need to turn the WiFi OFF and than ON and it works.
I checked the WiFi sleep configuration and they are set to "never turn it off" I also rebooted the device but with no change.
Please let me know what to do... as this thing sometimes just drives me crazy.
Thanks.
Gingi
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Flash a custom rom bro. Otherwise you are stuck with Samsung's awesome bugs. If you don't want to flash a custom rom there isn't really much you can do about it considering you're not rooted. What did you update to? KMP???
I did the regular Samsung update -the latest one that was released a couple of says ago. The problem with rooting is losing the coverage I have for insuring the device... which I'm reluctant to do. I'm sure it has a solution somewhere...
Yes I confirm.
This "reconnect" issue is being discussed on many forums with no solutions yet. (except custom ROM)
Hello,
First of all, I have never rooted my cell phone, so I guess I am still using the original ROM? I have no idea how to change a ROM, how to root a cellphone, or how to even see what mine is, just so you know. This is why I created a new thread, the other ones solutions always reffered to "change your Rom" etc.
I currently possess a HTC/T-Mobile MyTouch 4G. The issue that I'm having is the following: Everytime I try to turn my Wi-Fi on, it takes a little while, turns on for a couple seconds and then turns itself off, without any command. And it keeps going on this cycle: turning on and off (it is so fast that it cannot even recognize any saved networks, and the wifi icon does not even show up in the upper bar), until I rapidly and manually click, when it is "on", to turn off. Then it stops the cycle, with the WiFi turned off. This means that I cannot use my wireless connection, and it has been lasting for more than 2 months by now. I can access 3G normally. I have tried to "soft format" the cellphone, but it has changed nothing. (By soft format, I mean the format option included on the phone. It formatted everything, deleted my contacts, apps, themes, configurations and etc, but it was made from within the phone). Also, when it is "on", and when I click in the "Wi-Fi settings" bar, it shows nothing and it freezes the phone for a while, some seconds. Then it turns to the "off" state and returns me to the previous page automatically.
The problem aparently appeared from nowhere, I have not made a single change in anything other than installing applications. I have had an issue regarding its battery, though, which made me substitute the battery. The problem also seemed to appear with the battery issue, but it is still occuring, even though I have substituted the battery.
I thank you very much in advance, and look forward for help and a solution.
Best regards.
TZephyrus said:
Hello,
First of all, I have never rooted my cell phone, so I guess I am still using the original ROM? I have no idea how to change a ROM, how to root a cellphone, or how to even see what mine is, just so you know. This is why I created a new thread, the other ones solutions always reffered to "change your Rom" etc.
I currently possess a HTC/T-Mobile MyTouch 4G. The issue that I'm having is the following: Everytime I try to turn my Wi-Fi on, it takes a little while, turns on for a couple seconds and then turns itself off, without any command. And it keeps going on this cycle: turning on and off (it is so fast that it cannot even recognize any saved networks, and the wifi icon does not even show up in the upper bar), until I rapidly and manually click, when it is "on", to turn off. Then it stops the cycle, with the WiFi turned off. This means that I cannot use my wireless connection, and it has been lasting for more than 2 months by now. I can access 3G normally. I have tried to "soft format" the cellphone, but it has changed nothing. (By soft format, I mean the format option included on the phone. It formatted everything, deleted my contacts, apps, themes, configurations and etc, but it was made from within the phone). Also, when it is "on", and when I click in the "Wi-Fi settings" bar, it shows nothing and it freezes the phone for a while, some seconds. Then it turns to the "off" state and returns me to the previous page automatically.
The problem aparently appeared from nowhere, I have not made a single change in anything other than installing applications. I have had an issue regarding its battery, though, which made me substitute the battery. The problem also seemed to appear with the battery issue, but it is still occuring, even though I have substituted the battery.
I thank you very much in advance, and look forward for help and a solution.
Best regards.
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My First android phone was a Motorola MB200. The WiFi never worked. Tried soft reset, flashing the stock Firmware via Pc and using wifi fixing appsbut it never worked.
Until i rooted and flashed cyanogenmod.
The Wifi miraclously started working.
Until now, i dont know why the stock rom couldnt fix that issue.
To cut things short, you could give rooting a try and it might fix your issue.