I've searched the forum using "free wifi" and variants and so far haven't found the guidance I need -- thank you for your patience...
I recently bought/returned a blackberry wifi device when I found out that you can't just turn it on and surf the web using your home or cafe' wifi node. Rather you have to subscribe to a data plan and pay just to access your own home wifi node.
What about the Prophet? Can you just turn it on, configure it to your local wifi setting, and surf the web via wifi without a data plan with any provider?
Secondly (and please excuse my ignorance), does "push email" mean sending email from the unit, rather than, say, using a webmail page to send email?
...and related to this: can the Prophet just plain send email using a client installed within the Prophet, via any-old-wifi node?
Thanks for your kind understanding...!!
well wi-fi means you can connect to wireless networks and psuh email is a sistem of always on email where the e-mail is actively transfered.
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Hi, I'm hoping someone may be able to help:
I'm running Windows Mobile 5 on an O2 XDA Exec
I connect my device to the internet using 802.11b connecting to a wireless access point
I configured email for two email accounts,
One is a POP3 account and the other is a hotmail account
I've been able to send/receive emails from my mobile device as expected...up until today that is...
Just today I'm now no longer able to send/receive emails
I now get the following message on my device on attempting to send/receive emails
Cannot Connect
Cannot connect with current connection settings.
To change your connection settings, tap Settings
<Settings>
This message repeats itself. It appears the device is polling for a connection
Having done some reading on the topic
(here http://www.pocketpcmag.com/_archives/Sep04/VPNConnection.aspx) it appears that
somehow my connection settings are messed up.
Has anyone come across this problem and come up with a fix
I've always had the "My ISP" option set on both
"network management" settings (i.e. connections>advanced>select networks)
and this has been working fine up until today.
So for both the options in "network management", i.e.
"Programs that automatically connect
to the internet should connect using"
and
"Programs that automatically connect
to a private network should connect using"
I have "My ISP" as the connection setting
For reference, I'm able to establish a wireless connection to the internet
using the device and browse as expected (I'm using the Opera browser).
I've read the guide here (http://www.pocketpcmag.com/_archives/Sep04/VPNConnection.aspx) so understand why I might want to use the "My Work Network" connection option. I have no requirement for this so have set both connection options to "My ISP" and this has been working as
expected up until now...
By the way, on top of this MSN Messenger refuses to sign in (Pocket MSN sign-in failed)
and since this is linked to my hotmail email settings, I'm not able to send/receive any hotmail
Many thanks
Funnily enough had the same issue with mine today!!
Exactly the same - MSN, Email and Internet sites (like google wouldnt work)...however (as I have Orange M5000) the Orange WAP internet sites were fine.
I did so many things to try and get it to work (Not sure which one actually did it to be honest)
But I used the reg hack to keep data connected - that was the first to be disabled so now it connects then disconnects.
I also use Phone Alarm - This was causing me lots of problems so if you've got it check the options. With phone alarm i had entered my SIM PIN code - no good this had to be disabled - In fact phone alarm is now just switching profiles and is working fine as long as no security PINs are on or data connection monitoring/logging. Also just made sure for "Orange World" (My default Network) that the internet access point was correct.
...to be honest thats all I can think of - but its working now.
They are complicated devices and mine has given me more headaches in my first week than the 10 months i had with the Blue Angel (M2000)...still shouldnt complain too much the M5000 was a free upgrade.
Hope you get it sorted
Matt
I've set up mail2web account and configured activesync on my mobile with mail2web settings for push mail.
I've been unable to get any mail "Pushed" to my device that way when I'm connect with WIFI. I have to go to acivesync on mobile and click on "Sync" and only then do the emails get downloaded to the device.
I've been searching through the archive and I actually found people saying you cannot use Wifi with pushmail. But also found replies of some claim they are getting their mail pushed while being connected only with Wifi and not GPRS.
Keep in mind at this time my device doesn't have GPRS so I have no other choice but to use Wifi. More so, it would seem very idiotic to program pushmail to specifically not work through Wifi. After all why not? Wifi is a lot faster, and if you're at the office or an hotspot somewhere it would seem much more logical to get the mail with Wifi than with slow GPRS. but I wouldn't be surprised if MS didn't think about that.
push mail won't work with WIFI
use cellular line and it works straight away
Or use Blackberry or Goodlink or any other push e-mail solution.
You can also move to the Nokia implementation using ActiveSync for push-email on the E61 and that will work with WiFi :twisted:
I think push email does work on Wifi.
The only thing is that my GPRS connection pops up automaticly. But when I want to send a large email, i need to disconnect GPRS several times in order to send it over Wifi
arjan
This irritated me as well, but I've found that if you modify the ActiveSync schedule to sync every 5 minutes instead of "as items arrive" you can connect to Exchange servers over WiFi.
You won't get true push email, but it's still better than nothing
check out the mobile team blog. Push on activesync is hardcoded to use cellular only. nothing you can do will get it to work on wifi.
Hi, if both GPRS and WIFI are present which wins? Does WM6 choose the faster connections, ie wifi to surf the web and receive emails?
Are there any settings for this? Many thanks
i'm interested in this too.
I flashed my Hermes with WM6 xesterday, and updated it today with the GPRSSettings via .cab-file.
20minutes ago i recognized the G in my titlebar, an it showed up that WM6 has established a 3G Connection for about 55minutes... does it cost anything if i'm just connected to the 3G network? or do i have to pay for transfered bytes only?
greetings
garfield
I think we only pay for what you download? So gprs can be connected for hours but if you only download one email and view one web page you pay for how many mbs you download.
yes, but what if i set up an emailaccount in the messaging-application, set it up to check my server every 15minutes, and haven't got any wifi connection available. Is there a way to limit my phone to wifi when checking for emails, without removing my GPRS settings? (because i need them for MMS i think)
Sorry, i don't know. Hoping someone can answer my first question:
"Hi, if both GPRS and WIFI are present which wins? Does WM6 choose the faster connections, ie wifi to surf the web and receive emails?
Are there any settings for this? Many thanks"
now I'm not really sure, and probably you've seen it already, but in case not the first post in the following thread might help
The beauty is that Windows mobile knows it needs to use the "GPRS Internet", only when other connections are not present.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=309108
Well this one has got me well and truly stumped!!! Hopefully one of you guys can help out with this....
I have set up my e-mail, standard pop3 account... I can access and send mails through my ISP mail via GPRS, 3G, HSPDA no problem... I can even send and recieve mails when using WiFi at work no problem, however I get the standard windows mobile 'Messages cannot be downloaded to your mobile device...' timeout error ONLY when trying to conect to mail through my home WiFi network or when internet sharing through activesync... I have no problem accessing the web at home using WiFi or Internet Sharing just e-mail... and just to make things even more unclear any other PC or laptop has no problem at all with my e-mail when connected to my home WiFi network!!!
Any ideas, hints, tips or suggestions greatly appreciated
When I click on send/recieve, the phone always switches to 3G to collect email. Even when WIFI is active. No other application does this, they all are happy to use Wifi (including that weather thing).
In fact if I manually disable 3G, activate Wifi and then try to collect mail, there is an error. Is this HTC 'protecting' their customers from doing a 'send' in case they don't have smtp rights...?? A bit annoying when you have authenticated smtp set up specifically for this situation.
So... anyone know how can I get the phone to simply use WIFI for email send/receive if available and otherwise turn on the 3G? For roaming this is quite important...
Eigertop said:
When I click on send/recieve, the phone always switches to 3G to collect email. Even when WIFI is active. No other application does this, they all are happy to use Wifi (including that weather thing).
In fact if I manually disable 3G, activate Wifi and then try to collect mail, there is an error. Is this HTC 'protecting' their customers from doing a 'send' in case they don't have smtp rights...?? A bit annoying when you have authenticated smtp set up specifically for this situation.
So... anyone know how can I get the phone to simply use WIFI for email send/receive if available and otherwise turn on the 3G? For roaming this is quite important...
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Have you got the DNS server set correctly in the WiFi settings? When I'd failed to do this my HD Mini insisted on connecting to 3G all the time. Once I realised and corrected this, I can send and receive email on WiFi with no problems.
I assume you connect to the WiFi router before starting the email send/receive process? Just a thought!
mkstevo said:
Have you got the DNS server set correctly in the WiFi settings? When I'd failed to do this my HD Mini insisted on connecting to 3G all the time. Once I realised and corrected this, I can send and receive email on WiFi with no problems.
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I can update the weather, browse the internet etc - all over Wifi with 3G turned off. But as soon as I do a send/receive, it wants to use the 3G. As far as I can see, the connection settings are correct (else I could do those other things) but its interesting to hear that you are able to send/receive over Wifi.
mkstevo said:
I assume you connect to the WiFi router before starting the email send/receive process? Just a thought!
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Yes - thanks for checking! I also have checked that the wifi is active and working (e.g. by browsing to a webpage in Opera) before the send/receive - but it still keeps switching on the 3G when I do this.
I use Gmail on my HD Mini, via POP. I can't think of anything useful to suggest really.
Only:
Is the mail service you are trying to connect to available via WiFi? Is there any chance that the mail service requires use of the 3G modem for authentication purposes? If you were using your mobile network email service, it might only provide this via the 3G service.
Is the POP3 protocol set to only use the 3G (GPRS) modem? I think this might be found under Settings/Menu/All Settings/Connections/Manage Existing Connections.
Good luck!
i've got the same problem. i can't send/receive email's with wifi.
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i've got the same problem. i can't send/receive email's with wifi.
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Very strange... What exactly is the problem?