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Wifi won't turn on.

Hey guys, I've been having a problem with the wifi on my universal for awhile, it just won't turn on, antenna stays off, no scanning, it's just off.
Going into the Wireless lan settings in the control panel "Wireless LAN OFF" is displayed, click "Turn on WLAN" it thinks for a few moments then returns to off with nothing changed.
Does anyone know if this is fixable? It doesn't appera to be a software issue, as it has continued on 3 diffreent ROMs... so i'm not sure how to proceed

Balur said:
Hey guys, I've been having a problem with the wifi on my universal for awhile, it just won't turn on, antenna stays off, no scanning, it's just off.
Going into the Wireless lan settings in the control panel "Wireless LAN OFF" is displayed, click "Turn on WLAN" it thinks for a few moments then returns to off with nothing changed.
Does anyone know if this is fixable? It doesn't appera to be a software issue, as it has continued on 3 diffreent ROMs... so i'm not sure how to proceed
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I don't have Universal, But did you test an official rom or a cooked rom ?! because some of the cooked roms don't have the right wifi driver

I don't think its the driver, since 3 different ROMs, and no one else has complained about such thingcs in any of those ROM's, also it does work sometimes but thats maybe 1 in 20 reboots.

Balur said:
I don't think its the driver, since 3 different ROMs, and no one else has complained about such thingcs in any of those ROM's, also it does work sometimes but thats maybe 1 in 20 reboots.
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i have the same problem...although my universal has an official rom...
but Balur i have another problem please tell me if you have the same thing... sometimes when im lucky and get the wifi on and log into a wifi network sometimes the (new wifi network balloon message) appears 5 to 10 times and other times even after i log into a network i cant use the internet for anything browsin, messenger or anything else....
again that occurs frequently but not all the time....
hope anyone could help...

hi i also have the same problem that sometimes the wifi wont turn on, although i press the wifi button...don#t know why...
i often have to resset and than it works...

Anyone...
Anybody...
we need a solution plz

hello people, fist time poster here. had my uni for about a month now. very useful device, I was loving using the wifi until 10 mins ago when the whole device turned off randomly whilst browsing through wifi. plugged it in to charge, when starting up I get a couple of errors saying certain things won't start. now wifi doesn't start and I get the same problems as others on here. do we have a solution to this?? also, can I actually turn this device off? I've tried holding the power button on for 20+ seconds and had no joy.

Bellers said:
also, can I actually turn this device off? I've tried holding the power button on for 20+ seconds and had no joy.
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You mean "really" off, like as no battery would be inside?
Nope, you can't
You can switch the active pda part off and set it to silent, but this wouldn't prevent the device from switching back on on phonecalls. Even if you turn off the radio stack it still would power the display's backlight on and show a notifier if a reminder was set up.
Really turning it off is only possible by removing the battery. Yes, it is a windows mobile device.
Concerning your problems after the crash you should be fine by coldbooting after recharging the battery. The latter one often causes some troubles with the Uni.

Balur said:
I don't think its the driver, since 3 different ROMs, and no one else has complained about such thingcs in any of those ROM's, also it does work sometimes but thats maybe 1 in 20 reboots.
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I had a same problem.

Yep.. I hate this, i have the same problem and i havent found any solutions

WiFi also dead but on a HTC Artemis
Hi Guys,
I have the same problem but on my HTC Artemis aka XDA Orbit. Only occurred when I was flashing with different ROMS. Even when i flashed original ROM still same thing.
I did read on the forum somewhere that the issue was due to the device not having a valid mac address.
Anyone shed any light on this matter?
There are tools out there for other HTC devices to get Wifi back but not sure if they will work on the uni as they dont work for the artemis.

i was able to get my wif working bygoing into the wireless manager then network cards and had to change it so they all were set to connect to the internet

Balur said:
Hey guys, I've been having a problem with the wifi on my universal for awhile, it just won't turn on, antenna stays off, no scanning, it's just off.
Going into the Wireless lan settings in the control panel "Wireless LAN OFF" is displayed, click "Turn on WLAN" it thinks for a few moments then returns to off with nothing changed.
Does anyone know if this is fixable? It doesn't appera to be a software issue, as it has continued on 3 diffreent ROMs... so i'm not sure how to proceed
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hi @ all
this tread is a bit "past" but now i got the problem mentioned by balur. i used google and the forum search, but i was not able to find a solution. i hope smb. can help me, because i need the wifi on friday!

I solved the problem of Wi-Fi turning off by going to ActiveSync - Connection Settings and enabling "Allow wireless connection on device when connected to the desktop" option.

Wifi Stopped Functioning after flashing Roms
I have had similar wifi problems with my uni,
My uni was working perfectly for a long while when using "Tomal's 7.7" with Radio 1.18 . . . since then I tried testing with "T-Mobile official ROM AKU3.3" where the flash process when without a hitch.
However I had to change roms again since the T-Mobile rom wasn't very good. but i never got as far as testing the wifi
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I then tried to flash Tomal's 8.5 Beta, I ran into problems, and was stuck at the bootloader, I tried unlocking the uni with mtty, But i had copied and pasted the commands, and it kept on returning errors, after disconnecting and connecting with mtty again i tried typing in the commands and successfully unbricked my uni.
I attempted to flash Tomal's 8.5 Beta again, this time it worked without a hitch, but then I couldn't turn on wifi.
Wifi cannot be turned "on" from the comm manager or from WLAN. It just remains "off".
So I tried flashing back to Tomal 7.7 and wifi still didn't turn on.
Then I tried flashing Tomal 8.5 Beta again and still no wifi.
I've now tried flashing Radio 1.15 and - still no wifi
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I havn't the foggiest why wifi isn't functioning at all. Have I messed things up when I copied and pasted the commands into mtty?
Or did flashing the T-Mobile rom cause the problem?

No WIFI
Same here. I've tried 2 different upgrades now and the WIFI simply will not turn on. I've tried all the tricks in this thread, still no WIFI. anyone any ideas?

yason said:
I solved the problem of Wi-Fi turning off by going to ActiveSync - Connection Settings and enabling "Allow wireless connection on device when connected to the desktop" option.
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Thanks a bunch, this works for me.

Hi, I have a Qtek 9000 and a still have the same problem: Wifi wont´t turn on!

Wifi won't turn on - April 2009
Hi, I have a Qtek 9000 and a still have the same problem: Wifi wont´t turn on!
Any one has the solution.

rntip said:
Hi, I have a Qtek 9000 and a still have the same problem: Wifi wont´t turn on!
Any one has the solution.
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Welcome to the forum
Try doing a hard reset or flashing another ROM
Good luck and don´t forget to vote!

can't turn on WLAN

Hello everybody,
first of all - thank you all: helmi, xplode, all pdaviet guys, and others - you're making magic with BA roms, really thank you.
Please help me, I have an annoying problem: most of the times I try, I can't turn on WLAN. Rarely, somehow I manage to turn it on, but it happens very rarely, and this is driving me crazy.
I don't know whether it is a rom problem, or something else.
I have tried almost all roms available, because i read explode somewhere said that his last rom solved this problem...but nothing.
Something curious: this is the third BA i own, and I saw this problem before, but somehow i could turn WLAN on (I'd press the WLAN icon in comm manager many times, etc.), but on this BA it's just almost impossible to turn WLAN on.
Any ideas, please?

You need to go to the COMM manager, then go to Settings (down the bottom) > WLAN settings.
Then press "Turn on WLAN". If it doesnt come on after that, go back to COMM Manager then press wireless button.

thank you for the advice, but I'm aware of that trick - It does not help.
I used it on other BA's, and it was working, however, on this one it does not (most of the times).
Namely, I would think the WLAN module is simply dead, but then, sometimes, (unfortunately quire rarely) I manage to turn it on with the above procedure - first in comm manager, then settings, "turn wlan on", then comm manager again...
I don't get it, is it the ROM, or just my BA?

i'm using BA_ROM_CE_OS_5.2.19716__Build_19716.1.1.0_PV_DVH__16MB_Ram_16MB_PP as it is the only one that supports the new Wifiv2 driver

Do the search for "dead wlan due to erased eeprom"

Flyboy:
tried, but nothing. reflashed ba with BA_ROM_CE_OS_5.2.19716__Build_19716.1.1.0_PV_DVH__ 16MB, (the version without ram - although I don't understand what's the difference), then cold boot with no yes,yes...), installed wlan v2, but nothing, can't turn wlan on. Thank you anyway...
wit:
hmm...interesting, I assume you meant the hermes subforum topic (Dead wlan due to erased eeprom? *SOLVED*), but it's quite hard to follow, as it is for hermes... Also, posting a question there would not be liked by drummer10630, I mean he's great, helped many people, but for our BA the procedure is not the same, so he couldn't help me...
Anyway thank you all who read this, especially for your much needed help, I appreciate it.

after flash try cold boot with no NO,yes... just format the storage!!!

flyboy, tried that too, but no success.
I think I'll have to give up, I'm depressed.
****.

Bump.
Anyone else had any success stories they can post? I am in the same boat as pooksee1802.
WiFi will turn on, detect the network, go through all the settings but never complete the connection. It will connect maybe once in 20 attempts. It isn't that it simply doesn't work or is definitely broken, its just that it very rarely completes the connection. When it does complete the connection it works fine until the next time you need to connect.

i have the same issue...tried everything...no can do
wifi goes up, find the access point, requesting network key, then it retry connecting till dead by itself
i found a weird thing : whatever I set it to using Open + WEP, after tap "connect", it goes back to WPA-PSK + TKIP thing...
really annoying

Built in wifi is missing driver.

Hi, I apologize if I miss out a detail or two, so here goes:
I had my first mogul broken, and had it replaced by a Refurb by Asurion. Big mistake. I get the Refurb, activate it, and I go to switch on the wlan switch (I live in a place with no signal, and it's nice just to lie down in bed to AIM rather than grab a laptop).
Anyways, I figured something must be wrong, and I upgraded my ROM (I did this on the first Mogul as well, no problems) to the Radio 3.46. So I try that, and I try the wifi switch. Wireless does not turn on, so I go into the wifi app, and it says the driver is not loaded. So I searched here and PPCGeeks, and found an article about changing a driver entry in the Registry, so I did that and then softreset, and driver still not loaded.
So I flashed again to the latest leak (3.56 series now), and same error: the driver was not loaded. I then thought that I could have overlooked something, and flashed again to the March 2008 official released ROM, and that didn't work, it just says the Wireless is Off, even if the switch is in the On position.
So I'm curious, does anybody have any ideas on how I can go about this? I'm willing to try anything, provided I don't have to open the phone, to get it working. I'm prepared to send it back to Sprint assuming they'll accept it, but I find it rather disappointing to pay for insurance and get a phone that lacks Wifi, which is the main reason I chose it over the Touch.
Thanks,
Bashew

Weird. I started installing a few Wifi related apps, and found WifiFoFum, and it had an option in its Tools menu, something about Powering On, so I pressed that, and it detected my home router. However, WinMo won't find my router at all... so I don't know. I am currently back in the 3.56 ROM by the way.
Add: I just now went into Windows Mobile Wifi app, and it had an option to Turn On Wifi, I clicked it, and clicked Scan for Networks, and it didn't find any, even though I'm within kicking distance of my router. (Only comparison I can think of)
Well, it looks as if when I keep clicking "Turn Wifi On", the wifi turns on, shows my networks, then dies. When I repeat, it shows the networks and dies again. It's as if WinMo keeps Turning Wifi off by itself.

search around the Titan Upgrading ect... threads. i remember seeing quite a bit in there about getting the wifi working correctly. i think it was supposedly a defect in some of the 6800s.

HTC HD2 WiFi standby...help

I still don't know,my HTC HD2 have serious problem or i just need some software or fixes:
1.When i'm conected on WiFi and i browse the web od do something other on internet after 15-20 minutes i lose my conection and then i must turn on/off WiFi to recconect and then i'm on line again.( i was at 1.43 ROM now i have 1.48 ROM still have same problem )
2.Also i don't know how to set my WiFi enable when phone is at standby mode.I have some program BsB Tweaks.. but nothing happens when i enable that.Example i talk at skype for some minutes and then i see my screen is off and my connection is down too then i must press wake up button and to wait for reconnect .HELP

stefan.snoop said:
I still don't know,my HTC HD2 have serious problem or i just need some software or fixes:
1.When i'm conected on WiFi and i browse the web od do something other on internet after 15-20 minutes i lose my conection and then i must turn on/off WiFi to recconect and then i'm on line again.( i was at 1.43 ROM now i have 1.48 ROM still have same problem )
2.Also i don't know how to set my WiFi enable when phone is at standby mode.I have some program BsB Tweaks.. but nothing happens when i enable that.Example i talk at skype for some minutes and then i see my screen is off and my connection is down too then i must press wake up button and to wait for reconnect .HELP
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To problem No.2 :
Try instal this cab WifiNoStandby and then restart the phone. Information about this cab you may find here. It works in my Leo.

Tnx man for the answer i'll install that WiFiNoStandby.
NOW I JUST NEED ANSWER TO THE 1RST PROBLEM
1.When i'm conected on WiFi and i browse the web od do something other on internet after 15-20 minutes i lose my conection and then i must turn on/off WiFi to recconect and then i'm on line again.( i was at 1.43 ROM now i have 1.48 ROM still have same problem )
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BUZZ
any answer to my question?
1.When i'm conected on WiFi and i browse the web od do something other on internet after 15-20 minutes i lose my conection and then i must turn on/off WiFi to recconect and then i'm on line again.( i was at 1.43 ROM now i have 1.48 ROM still have same problem )

geralt said:
To problem No.2 :
Try instal this cab WifiNoStandby and then restart the phone. Information about this cab you may find here. It works in my Leo.
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I was just gonna say that myself

johncmolyneux said:
I was just gonna say that myself
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any solution for my 1 problem??
1.When i'm conected on WiFi and i browse the web od do something other on internet after 15-20 minutes i lose my conection and then i must turn on/off WiFi to recconect and then i'm on line again.( i was at 1.43 ROM now i have 1.48 ROM still have same problem )

stefan.snoop said:
1.When i'm conected on WiFi and i browse the web od do something other on internet after 15-20 minutes i lose my conection and then i must turn on/off WiFi to recconect and then i'm on line again.( i was at 1.43 ROM now i have 1.48 ROM still have same problem )
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I don't know about that issue myself, so if I came across that same problem I'd have to use the search option. Did you try and see if anyone else has had the same problem?

i try to find something but i cant' find that someone else have the same problem.

wow man! reviving a thread from mid-2010! you have every right to revive it because it is your thread and you couldn't find a solution to your first problem.
but i am confused! its been more than 6 months since you reported the problem. how come you haven't tried a newer ROM? v1.43 and v1.48 are very very very old! latest is v3.14, try it and let us know if it fixes your problem. if you have a T-Mobile HD2 or a branded HD2 (vodafone, etc), then choose a latest official ROM appropriately.
good luck!

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wow man! reviving a thread from mid-2010! you have every right to revive it because it is your thread and you couldn't find a solution to your first problem.
but i am confused! its been more than 6 months since you reported the problem. how come you haven't tried a newer ROM? v1.43 and v1.48 are very very very old! latest is v3.14, try it and let us know if it fixes your problem. if you have a T-Mobile HD2 or a branded HD2 (vodafone, etc), then choose a latest official ROM appropriately.
good luck!
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that was when i open thread now i have 3.14 ROM also i was at 1.72 ROM ...but still the same maybe i need to try with android.iIf i don't find any solution i'll try that

aah ok so you have tried the latest ROMs...so you see how it can help us and save all of our time if you post more information instead of copy/pasting the old version of the question from mid-2010?
here are some more things to try to isolate the cause of the problem:
1. try your device on some OTHER wifi network, e.g. at your friend's house or in a coffee shop, etc. does the wifi hang on ANY wifi network or just the one at your house, for example...?
2. when the wifi dies, leave it DEAD, do not disconnect/reconnect wifi. try to ping your HD2 from your desktop/laptop, assuming all devices and computers that you own are on the same wifi network. tell us what happens.
3. same as step 2, there are some programs for windows mobile that you can run on your HD2 to see your device's IP assignments, etc. such tools can also be used to ping your desktop/laptop from your HD2. i think one program that can do such things is "network browser". tell us what it shows regarding network card information BEFORE your wifi dies as well as AFTER your wifi dies. also tell us if you can ping your desktop/laptop from your HD2 after your wifi appears dead.
4. does it make any improvement if you run your wifi on "best performance" instead of "best battery". note that "best battery" is the default setting which can cause reception issues in case the wifi signal is weak.
5. yes! certainly try android, it should help isolate the problem further to confirm/deny if it is a hardware problem. but you should know that your device's MAC address will be DIFFERENT if you install android (this is because both the SD and NAND versions of android and MAGLDR currently available have no automatic way to read the actual MAC address from your device's firmware). this might cause your router to behave BETTER if the problem lies somewhere in the router's configuration. it might solve the problem for you, but you will have to shift permanently to android just to fix the wifi issue and you might never find out what router setting was affecting windows mobile if the problem really was the router settings. tricky isn't it?

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aah ok so you have tried the latest ROMs...so you see how it can help us and save all of our time if you post more information instead of copy/pasting the old version of the question from mid-2010?
here are some more things to try to isolate the cause of the problem:
1. try your device on some OTHER wifi network, e.g. at your friend's house or in a coffee shop, etc. does the wifi hang on ANY wifi network or just the one at your house, for example...?
2. when the wifi dies, leave it DEAD, do not disconnect/reconnect wifi. try to ping your HD2 from your desktop/laptop, assuming all devices and computers that you own are on the same wifi network. tell us what happens.
3. same as step 2, there are some programs for windows mobile that you can run on your HD2 to see your device's IP assignments, etc. such tools can also be used to ping your desktop/laptop from your HD2. i think one program that can do such things is "network browser". tell us what it shows regarding network card information BEFORE your wifi dies as well as AFTER your wifi dies. also tell us if you can ping your desktop/laptop from your HD2 after your wifi appears dead.
4. does it make any improvement if you run your wifi on "best performance" instead of "best battery". note that "best battery" is the default setting which can cause reception issues in case the wifi signal is weak.
5. yes! certainly try android, it should help isolate the problem further to confirm/deny if it is a hardware problem. but you should know that your device's MAC address will be DIFFERENT if you install android (this is because both the SD and NAND versions of android and MAGLDR currently available have no automatic way to read the actual MAC address from your device's firmware). this might cause your router to behave BETTER if the problem lies somewhere in the router's configuration. it might solve the problem for you, but you will have to shift permanently to android just to fix the wifi issue and you might never find out what router setting was affecting windows mobile if the problem really was the router settings. tricky isn't it?
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Ok thank you so much man i'll try all of this solution and i'll write again tnx again

Hey
I have the same problem with my HD2. I cant load any pages after 5mins of being connected to WiFi. Disconnecting and connecting again works for the first 5mins but then you need to do it again. Very annoying.
If I changed the battery saving settings in the WiFi options, it seemed like it helped sometimes.
I searched alot on the inet, but I couldn't get it to work properly.
I sent a message to htc.com support and they told me i had to perform a hard reset and upgrade to the newest official rom. I did this but none helped.
Now I've sent it for repair under warranty. I'll let you know if they fixed it when I get it back. I'm not sure if there is any other sollution, but I hope they will fix it for me.
Regarding the previous post about how to isolate the problem I will tell you how my device responded to these situations:
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1. try your device on some OTHER wifi network, e.g. at your friend's house or in a coffee shop, etc. does the wifi hang on ANY wifi network or just the one at your house, for example...?
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I've tried it at a few of my friends houses, but all gave me the same problem
Can't help you on step 2&3 since I sent my device away for repair
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4. does it make any improvement if you run your wifi on "best performance" instead of "best battery". note that "best battery" is the default setting which can cause reception issues in case the wifi signal is weak.
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"Best performance" seemed to extend the time on which my WiFi would die. So I think this definetely has something to do with the problem. However I tried alot and nothing really solved it. Tapping 'Renew IP adress' a few times seemed to help too.
I read on the net about battery managing for WiFi on mobile phones in general, and for other devices who could choose the option to block the auto managing the problem was solved. Our HD2 however doesn't have this option.
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5. yes! certainly try android, it should help isolate the problem further to confirm/deny if it is a hardware problem. but you should know that your device's MAC address will be DIFFERENT if you install android (this is because both the SD and NAND versions of android and MAGLDR currently available have no automatic way to read the actual MAC address from your device's firmware). this might cause your router to behave BETTER if the problem lies somewhere in the router's configuration. it might solve the problem for you, but you will have to shift permanently to android just to fix the wifi issue and you might never find out what router setting was affecting windows mobile if the problem really was the router settings. tricky isn't it?
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I have tried alot of android builds (NAND & SD) but all had the same problem. I didn't spend much time figuring out what I could do about it while in android but by connecting the regular way the problem occured quite fast.

[Q] new nook, can't set up, wifi problem

hello,
i just buy a nook and i start to be worried.
I only want to set it up first but i can go further the 3rd step "choose a network to use".
I am fully charged, my wifi is "open" i choose it, it state "remembered" but the continue with set up is still grey.
I restarted it 3 times yet but without success...
any trick to help
thanks in advance

Try going to the list of WiFi networks.
Press long (one second) on your network.
A menu comes up, select "Forgot".
Go back to the list of WiFi networks.
Select your WiFi network again.

i did it, same mess
another idea ?

Sorry, go to a café and try somebody else's network.
So you have software version 1.12? That was supposed to fix some WiFi problems.
Hmm, unless you are past registering then you probably can't see the version.

unfortunately it is not so easy to get connected somewhere else.
another clue ?

Hi,
I agree, you should try on another wifi point. Some device are not compatible with some routers...

You could try to manually update to 1.1.2, as its known to solve wifi problems. Follow the instructions at http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/Software-Updates-NOOK-Simple-Touch/379003175/ -> Get Version 1.1.2 Today

thanks, the update solve the problem