Is there a way I can reconfigure the WiFi switch on my Mogul to enable Bluetooth instead of WiFi?
Unfortunately, I believe the answer is no for the wi-fi switch is hardware employed to the wi-fi radio. Soft buttons can be re-assigned but the physical wi-fi switch would have to be re-soldered to the BT radio in order to perform the operation you are requesting...
i wouldnt give up just yet.
I say that because with some of the early cooked ROM's people would have the switch turned off but the WiFi would still be on. So that makes me wonder if it really is hard wired or ifs its really a software controlled thing.
I have read many threads related to this topic with the same conclusion. However, if there is a way to re-map the hardware wi-fi switch on the side to BT, etc then I stand corrected and I am pleased that somone has enabled the modification.
Currently I know that the physical wi-fi switch can be left in the ON position and wi-fi can be enabled/disabled through the 10-button comm manger by editing the registry. Some guys at PDAPhone have a thread where they were inquiring about re-mapping the wi-fi switch to toggle vibrate but with no success.
I will research this and see if anyone has yet successfully remapped the wi-fi switch and post results here...
Scrufdog said:
i wouldnt give up just yet.
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I say keep looking, sooner or later someone will find it. I can confirm that in the past I have seen my wireless function with the switch in the off position. Granted all I saw were available wireless networks, didn't attempt to join or verify. I just wish I could remember what ROM I was playing with when I saw this occur.
Depending on the adapter (mine is set to TNETW12511) setting in the registry, your wi-fi will connect while disregarding the hardware switch's position.
But re-mapping the entire physical connection itself to another function (vibrate, bluetooth, etc) outside of wi-fi capability may be more complicated...
If the switch is physically located in the wifi radio good luck ... I could see how one could enable or disable it with software because your just bypassing the function of the actual switch. Remapping the switch to work for an entirely different piece of physical hardware seems less likely. I'm not saying its impossible but ...
it would depend if the software is aware of the switch at all, it would seem to be a hard switch, but if wifi was indeed enabled with the switch off then it would have to be a soft switch
although it could also be that the custom rom was aware of the wifi, and just didnt realize it was powered off
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adamdaken said:
Is there a way I can reconfigure the WiFi switch on my Mogul to enable Bluetooth instead of WiFi?
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A couple of the new ROMs from PPCkitchen (19588 & 20270, I think) have a new app in the System Settings folder called "nueWIFISwitch CPL v1.3". It allows you to edit the hrdware switch bahaviors.
Hope I'm not too late to help. I see the O.P. is from a while back.
Just checking in.
anybody actually get this to work.
the nue app would work it we could get a bluetoothON.exe and bluetoothoff.exe
then just map those programs to work with the nue app - and there you go hardware on off bluetooth switch.......
anybody....
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Dear all,
I'm wondering about Wifi telephony on the QTEK 9100.
It works fairly well with various software soutions. However, the phone has to stay "fully on" (except backlight) in order for th Wifi connection to remain up. This alters battery life severely.
I'm wondering if it is possible to have the Wifi connection stay up during power save mode, with some kind of "Wake on WLAN" event that would wake up the phone so that IP phone software can process incoming data.
Some of it already happens for GSM. I'm wondering whether the GSM part is "fully independant" (like on a different processor), or if it's handled by the main processor. In the later case, it may be possible to achieve something similar with Wifi telephony.
Thanks in advance for any hint.
so there is no way having WIFI enabled and lettign the pda go to sleep mode / power save mode ??
is there an APP that leaves power save mode off if the WIFI is enabled, so only the screen goes of light, and the pda stays on ?
P.
nbougues said:
Some of it already happens for GSM. I'm wondering whether the GSM part is "fully independant" (like on a different processor), or if it's handled by the main processor. In the later case, it may be possible to achieve something similar with Wifi telephony.
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It's fully independent. It's very cleverly written; this is why, for example, listening to incoming IMAP IDLE or Push Mail callbacks don't require the CPU at all.
yes i got that part on my own, thats why the GPRS connection stays on... but still there should be a registry somewhere to prevent device to go to sleep if WIFI conneciton is made..
tried all the powermode stuff in regisrty, nothn worked... out of clue...
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yes i got that part on my own, thats why the GPRS connection stays on... but still there should be a registry somewhere to prevent device to go to sleep if WIFI conneciton is made..
tried all the powermode stuff in regisrty, nothn worked... out of clue...
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I don't think you can do this - the WI-Fi module is completely independent of the radio module. Furthermore, you'll constantly need a LOT of power to keep the Wi-Fi connection up, as opposed to GSM/GPRS, where handshaking is only done during roaming to another cell and/or every (AFAIK) 10-20 minutes. Otherwise, the PDA doesn't trasmit anything, a sopposed to the Wi-Fi case.
That is, it seem sit's impossible to do any long-term Wi-Fi "listening" in the current Wi-Fi / PPC architecture.
papizdono said:
yes i got that part on my own, thats why the GPRS connection stays on... but still there should be a registry somewhere to prevent device to go to sleep if WIFI conneciton is made..
tried all the powermode stuff in regisrty, nothn worked... out of clue...
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I don't think you can do this - the WI-Fi module is completely independent of the radio module. Furthermore, you'll constantly need a LOT of power to keep the Wi-Fi connection up, as opposed to GSM/GPRS, where handshaking is only done during roaming to another cell and/or every (AFAIK) 10-20 minutes. Otherwise, the PDA doesn't trasmit anything, a sopposed to the Wi-Fi case.
That is, it seem sit's impossible to do any long-term Wi-Fi "listening" in the current Wi-Fi / PPC architecture.
all i need is a tool that disables POWERSAVE mode if WIFI connections is made, or even if WIFI is enabled...
that would do all the work....
anyone ?
i think the closest thing is in phm powertoys (http://www.phm.lu/products/PocketPC/PowerToys/)
the screensaver option... what it does is turn off your touchscreen like in "sleep" mode but if u use this you might want to disable the power save option cause while u have screensaver on its still gonna count down n shut off ur ppc hope this helps!
my friend has a 9800 as well...
an he seems to be having a issue with his wifi...
i guess when he turns on tha little switch on the side... no icon appears
an therefor no internet access...
his phone is out tha box and other than tha task manager prog tha htc home plugin and streaming media program that i gave him hes done nothing to it...
any ideas???
I assume you mean 6800, not 9800... but anyway...
The wifi (as far as I or other people on this forum know) is a hard-switch. That means that it isn't really controllable by software, but rather when the switch is on, the wifi radio is on, and vice-versa.
If the operating system doesn't recognize that the wifi is on, it sounds like the switch might be broken. However, rather than relying on the icon to come up, try going to settings -> connections -> wifi and checking whether it can detect anything there.
Good luck!
the wifi is software controllable when the switch is on, so make sure he doesnt have any software that disables the wifi (i have SPB phonesuite on mine, and if i turn off wifi in phonesuite it doesnt come on when i flip the switch)
respect for the responses ill pass that info on to him...
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....since PPCgeeks is down, can someone help me out with this? I'm using this with the 10 button Comm. manager so I can switch WiFi On/Off using the WiFi button in the Comm. manager. Thanks alot!
i think as long as the hardware switch is on wifi is on
AFAIK theres no way to bypass the hardware switch and have it on when the switch is off
ETA: i would actually want the opposite, have it off by default (with switch on) then turn it on with software when i need it
I improperly worded my OP. What I meant was, while hardware switch is ON, I would be able to toggle ON/OFF via comm. manager. I had this previous to updating my ROM. It was a reg. edit I found on PPCgeeks. Currently, with the hardware switch ON, I'm not able to toggle WLAN since the button has an X. I understading what you're saying though defaultdotxbe.
ah, gotcha, sorry i dont know the answer
interestingly, it seems not all programs need this reg edit, im able to use spb phone suite to toggle wifi on and off with no modifications (unless phone suite does the red edit on its own) its worked on roms 2.08, 2.17 and 3.16
All,
My brother has a T-Mobile stock ROM HD 2 and he has the issue where device would just randomly connect to available access points, including a BT OpenZone and a Netgear home router. The worst thing is that if the device is connected to his home [preferred] router, it would all of a sudden connect to the BTOpenZone one and totally disable all activity and actually bring up their registration page, etc. It connects to this [random] Netgear one when he is at his in-laws place.
Just to say that these access points have never previously been added as a preferred network or otherwise.
I used to have a WM device (on to Android now) but never used the WiFi connection, so perhaps I'm missing something obvious (?!)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
This is normal behaviour, if you leave your wifi on. It automatically searches for and tries to connect to any nearby wifi sources. All you have to do is turn wifi off. Just turn it on when you want to use it.
There's a toggle app in one of the stickied threads (cabs & tips)
Must go into the WIFI settings and after couple of Nexts, Uncheck the /Automaticaly Find The Key/ or something like that..also you can go into WIFI options and remove a certain routers setting,just play around a bit with the settings and you will find it.
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This is normal behaviour, if you leave your wifi on. It automatically searches for and tries to connect to any nearby wifi sources. All you have to do is turn wifi off. Just turn it on when you want to use it.
There's a toggle app in one of the stickied threads (cabs & tips)
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Surely it's not default behaviour? I vaguely remember that it automatically searches for wifi APs (if the WiFi is on) but never knew it automatcally connected without you asking it to do so, especially if you have never connected to that AP before or previously added it as a preferred network.
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Must go into the WIFI settings and after couple of Nexts, Uncheck the /Automaticaly Find The Key/ or something like that..also you can go into WIFI options and remove a certain routers setting,just play around a bit with the settings and you will find it.
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I shall have to give that a go and look for that setting.
I have the device in front of me now, but fail to find any settings to disable/prevent this behaviour.
Hi, I just upgraded to Android 4.3 on my S4, and a few features are really starting to get to me.
The wifi automatically turns on when I shut it off. That might be great except I shut it off because I don't want to connect to the WiFi in the area. And I don't want to forget the network, because when I turn the wifi ON, I do want to connect, not enter a password. IIRC, in 4.2.2 this was called Smart Mode, but I can't seem to find it in the options. Maybe I overlooked it.
As well, when the wifi *IS* on, it continuously complains about my network connection being unstable. Having dealt with my home connection over the landlord's wifi for 1 1/2 years, I am aware of this, however, it's all I've got, so is there a way to tell it to stop trying to smartly switch to using the (almost non-existent) one bar of Verizon access that flutters on and off in my house?
I think there were a few other questions I had, but I forget what they are, I'll post them when I remember.
Thanks!
Ah, ok, I've got it, apparently, in WiFi under Settings, now the menu button (to the left of the home button) is now active for certain screens. Go to "Advanced WiFi Settings" and you now have options. I'll have to see what else is hidden in menu-button accessible places now.