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I just bought the new T-Mobile (USA) MDA a couple days ago, a version of the HTC Wizard.
I have been able to connect with GPRS/EDGE, and seem to be getting EDGE speed, which is nice (my first EDGE phone).
However, no such luck with Wi-fi.
At my house, I can easily connect, at all times, with a few different wi-fi networks, with my wi-fi enabled laptop, and with my older PPC--an IPAQ 2210, with Spectec SDIO Wi-Fi card, can browse the web via Wi-Fi, etc.
The MDA does connect to Wi-FI, appears to be connected to it. (After turning it on in Connection Manager, of course.) But I cannot access any web sites with it. On trying to do so with PIE, I always get the error message:
"The page cannot be displayed or downloaded because the connection was lost, Check the connection and try again later."
I have not once been able to access one web site via Wi-Fi, with the MDA.
Can anyone help with this?
Thank you.
I ahve the same problem and have not figured out how to solve this...
Can anyone help us?
same problem here, also with t-mobile as provider. can it be a problem related to t-mobile???
me said:
I just bought the new T-Mobile (USA) MDA a couple days ago, a version of the HTC Wizard.
I have been able to connect with GPRS/EDGE, and seem to be getting EDGE speed, which is nice (my first EDGE phone).
However, no such luck with Wi-fi.
At my house, I can easily connect, at all times, with a few different wi-fi networks, with my wi-fi enabled laptop, and with my older PPC--an IPAQ 2210, with Spectec SDIO Wi-Fi card, can browse the web via Wi-Fi, etc.
The MDA does connect to Wi-FI, appears to be connected to it. (After turning it on in Connection Manager, of course.) But I cannot access any web sites with it. On trying to do so with PIE, I always get the error message:
"The page cannot be displayed or downloaded because the connection was lost, Check the connection and try again later."
I have not once been able to access one web site via Wi-Fi, with the MDA.
Can anyone help with this?
Thank you.
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I have exactly the same problem
I guess you could try going under "Settings" "Connections" "Network Card" and make sure your network card is set to connect to "The Internet"
Select your wireless card and then make sure the drop down says "The Internet" and hit ok.
Also, make sure your GPRS Connection settings aren't setup to use T-Mobile's proxy. When your gprs is setup to use a proxy for web browsing, PIE will attempt to use the proxy with any connection. And by proxy, I'm not talking about an APN or anything.
Are you running security on your router? If so try shutting it off to test or try to connect to someone elses WiFi network to test.
wagz said:
I guess you could try going under "Settings" "Connections" "Network Card" and make sure your network card is set to connect to "The Internet"
Select your wireless card and then make sure the drop down says "The Internet" and hit ok.
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I spoke with a TMob customer service rep about this a couple weeks ago, and this is basically what he told me to do. A T-Mobile HotSpot (Starbucks, etc) should work without making any changes. But if you want to use your own WiFi connection, you have to do the following:
Start Menu -> Settings -> Connections Tab -> Connections Icon
Select Advanced Tab -> Select Networks
Change first dropdown to "My Work Network".
Click OK, OK.
Then when you want to roam with GPRS/EDGE again, you have to change it back to "T-Mobile GPRS".
Very annoying to say the least. If anyone knows a better way to do this, I'd love to hear about it.
This works for me:
Start Menu -> Settings -> Connections Tab -> Connections Icon
Select Advanced Tab -> Select Networks
Change the first dropdown to My Work Network
Change the second dropdown to T-Mobile GPRS
Make sure My Work Network is set to connect to the internet, but has NO proxy settings.
Make sure T-Mobile GRPS is set to connect to the internet, but HAS proxy settings.
Magic!
frycow, you rock!!
That worked perfectly!! I hated that I had to keep switching networks whenever I wanted to go online via GPRS or wifi!!
Thanks!!!
frycow,
wow. that sounds great. but I can't get it working. could you take a couple minutes to walk me (and I'm sure others too) through your exact settings? especially the proxy settings.
thanks!
frycow is a freakin champ....that did the trick!! I've been WAITING to get this working!!
AHHHH, AND IT FINALLY GOT MY POCKET MSN TO START WORKING TOO!!!! Still doesn't work on GPRS, but it certainly works on Wi-Fi!! I suppose the last thing would be to get it working on both!! regardless, this is SWEET!!
I can´t get it working :evil:
When I Change the first dropdown to My Work Network and after that tryn to sync without having wifi enabled, the device does not connect with GPRS..., solutions...
frycow, hazchem, djswivel:
Could one of you help out Paltkugen and I? Both of us can't get it working. If you could let us know the specific settings, including the proxy settings, I would really appreciate it. Its so frustrating to know it works for some people, but not being able to get it going.
Thanks!
I did EXACTLY what fry posted....follow this carefully
Start Menu -> Settings -> Connections Tab -> Connections Icon
Select Advanced Tab -> Select Networks
Change the first dropdown to My Work Network
Change the second dropdown to T-Mobile GPRS
Click Edit on the My Work Network dropdown -> Proxy Settings Tab
Check the first box (This network connects to the internet), but NOT the second (This network uses a proxy server to connect to the internet)
Now do the same for the T-Mobile GRPS settins in the edit menu, only check both boxes this time. Then type in 216.155.165.50 as the proxy server. From there you should be good.
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I did EXACTLY what fry posted....follow this carefully
Start Menu -> Settings -> Connections Tab -> Connections Icon
Select Advanced Tab -> Select Networks
Change the first dropdown to My Work Network
Change the second dropdown to T-Mobile GPRS
Click Edit on the My Work Network dropdown -> Proxy Settings Tab
Check the first box (This network connects to the internet), but NOT the second (This network uses a proxy server to connect to the internet)
Now do the same for the T-Mobile GRPS settins in the edit menu, only check both boxes this time. Then type in 216.155.165.50 as the proxy server. From there you should be good.
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That is exactly what I did too. Just tried it again and I can't use GPRS to surf. I have Wifi turned off. GPRS is not connected. I open PIE and go to some URL (google.com). GPRS starts connecting and successfully connects to T-Mobile GPRS.
Then, for about 30-60 seconds, the status bar says "Locating". Then an alert pops up that says "The page cannot be displayed or downloaded because the connection was lost. Check the connection and try again later."
Next, I turn on WiFi. It conects to my local WiFi network. It is still connected to T-Mobile GPRS too. I go back to PIE. As soon as I try to goto a URL, the GPRS connection drops, and again it says "Locating..." for a while. Then the same alert pops up again.
So now that GPRS isn't connected and just WiFi, I try going to the URL again. Same results.
Next I try turning off WiFi. Now there are no connections. I restart WiFi and there is just a WiFi connection. Same results in PIE.
I thought maybe the proxy is the problem, so I turned off the proxy in GPRS. When I do this, the checkbox "This network connects to the internet" won't stay checked. Even if I check it and click ok, when I go back it is unchecked. And when I did this, I couldn't even connect with GPRS. And with WiFi on, it would connect to Wifi, but going to a page would immediately pop up an alert that says "Cannot Connect with current connection settings. To change you connection settings, tap Settings."
I added the proxy back in and then tried changing the GPRS access point name from wap.voicestream.com to internet2.voicestream.com and internet3.voicestream.com. internet2 wouldn't even make a connection, but internet3 did. however, i still couldn't locate pages in PIE. So I changed it back to wap. I think my unlimited GPRS plan is configured the VPN way, so I remember having to use internet2 or internet3 in the past.
Could the proxy server not be working right for me? Is it possible that I cannot locate the proxy because I'm configured in a non-standard way (with a different access point - internet3) than most?
I think I'll call tmo and see if I can get changed to the regular AP (wap). I'm not using VPN stuff right now anyway. If anyone has other ideas, please let me know.
Thanks again!
I think i have a work around. but involes changing it back and forth when switching btwn wifi and gprs..
created two connections.
one with proxy and one without.
im only able to surf gprs with proxy.
when connecting via GPRS set both networks to connect to PROXY.
when using WiFi, set both networks to connect using NOPROXY.
that should work. at least it worked for me. tried only 2 pages and it loaded for both. GPRS used myvoicestream and wifi google.
yowzator said:
I have Wifi turned off. GPRS is not connected. I open PIE and go to some URL (google.com). GPRS starts connecting and successfully connects to T-Mobile GPRS.
Then, for about 30-60 seconds, the status bar says "Locating". Then an alert pops up that says "The page cannot be displayed or downloaded because the connection was lost. Check the connection and try again later."
Next, I turn on WiFi. It conects to my local WiFi network. It is still connected to T-Mobile GPRS too. I go back to PIE. As soon as I try to goto a URL, the GPRS connection drops, and again it says "Locating..." for a while. Then the same alert pops up again.
So now that GPRS isn't connected and just WiFi, I try going to the URL again. Same results.
Next I try turning off WiFi. Now there are no connections. I restart WiFi and there is just a WiFi connection. Same results in PIE.
I thought maybe the proxy is the problem, so I turned off the proxy in GPRS. When I do this, the checkbox "This network connects to the internet" won't stay checked. Even if I check it and click ok, when I go back it is unchecked. And when I did this, I couldn't even connect with GPRS. And with WiFi on, it would connect to Wifi, but going to a page would immediately pop up an alert that says "Cannot Connect with current connection settings. To change you connection settings, tap Settings."
I added the proxy back in and then tried changing the GPRS access point name from wap.voicestream.com to internet2.voicestream.com and internet3.voicestream.com. internet2 wouldn't even make a connection, but internet3 did. however, i still couldn't locate pages in PIE. So I changed it back to wap. I think my unlimited GPRS plan is configured the VPN way, so I remember having to use internet2 or internet3 in the past.
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Earlier today I had been trying to get VM Net Browser or Resco File Explorer to work, and they *were* working, albeit very sporadically. Sometimes I could see whole windows network complete with shared files and directories, other times I could browse to my computer and it wouldn't show anything as being shared. Looking for a solution, i found this thread.
I followed the recommendations of the previous posts and got exactly the same results as yowzator, including the weird thing with the "This network connects to the internet" checkbox unchecking. My GPRS access point is also named wap.voicestream.com - not sure if that matters.
However, I know that I was having at least partial wi-fi success before trying this fix or I wouldn't be able to have seen my home network. So I gave up on this fix and put everything back to the default - GPRS for programs that automatically connect to the internet, no proxy, and My Work Network for programs that automatically connect toa private network, with "This network connects to the internet" unchecked because it's impossible to check it and expect it to stay checked.
I tried surfing around to a few pages with wifi only (connections shows me connected to my network, I turned off the phone icon in the comm settings, and tapping on the connectivity icon on the taskbar didn't have GPRS listed) and amazingly, some of them worked - though the "locating" process seemed to take a while, they sometimes seemed to load faster than with GPRS (especially if I let my MDA go to sleep and then turn it back on again).
And then they don't work again, without me doing anything. So I don't think the fix we've been trying is a true fix to the problem - if it was then then pages would *never* load with the proxy disabled. Right?
I've been wondering if the "modem" tab under My Work Network is supposed to be blank . . . even if it's using wifi it seems like a poor UI design to not have a checkbox or something saying "this connection is for wifi and not dialup".
I am using the 2.17 ROM update. My wireless router is a D-link DI-624 extreme g. I'm using WEP encryption.
I am crying . . . tears . . . of confusion.
SOLUTION!?
This works for me (suggested in another thread):
1. Add the following to the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\COMM\TIACXWLN1\PARMS:
DWORD dot11SupportedRateMaskG=8
(Note that there is already a key in the registry called "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\COMM\TIACXWLN1\PARMS: DWORD dot11SupportedRateMask=1" - you should leave this alone)
2. Do a soft reset.
3. Go to your wi-fi settings -> Power Mode tab -> Best Performance (without this step it didn't work for me)
4. Turn on wi-fi and connect to anything in internet explorer. It should seem blazing fast compared to GPRS.
Note that this assumes you haven't done any of the fixes in this thread. That is to say, leave it with GPRS for programs that automatically connect to the internet (with no proxy), and My Work Network for programs that automatically connect to a private network, with "This network connects to the internet" unchecked because it's impossible to check it and expect it to stay checked.
So far (for a few minutes anyway) this is working for me! Even Resco File Explorer seems to mostly work - I can map my PC's shared folders and see my stuff reliably, as far as I can tell. VM Net Browser is still wonky though.
The thread this solution comes from is http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=38898&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc
Hi,
tried that solution
(I have a thread below)
still falls over on "locate".
I have no home network so I have never got anything working - connects fine on a public hotspot, but as I say, fails on locate.
I've had enough - may either phone T-mobile pay CS - something I really don't want to do out of principle - or just send teh phone back.
any new info on this? can seem to get it to work.
i have configures it many ways as suggested above. only time i was able to browse on wifi was with no proxie was set up. i connect through another network, (the mda automatically hooks you up to all avalible networks) but that only lasted a few minutes.
is there even a chance i could someone at tmobile even help me??? anyone here call them and get got service/help with getting it to work?
thanks
skot
When I look at the list of connected networks, I see these:
T-Mobile GPRS (GPRS)
[my wifi] (Wi-Fi)
The wifi connection is set as "connects to: The Internet".
Sometimes when I go to check email, it'll connect to GPRS even though I have a wifi connection. Why doesn't it use the wifi? How can I force it to use wifi instead of GPRS?
t-mobile with the 2.17 ROM, 2.07 radio.
Bump....I'd like to know the same thing.
Assuming you will never want to use GPRS....if so, write down the settings
Go to Start>Connections>Connections>Delete GPRS
At least that's what I think I did
Make sure that both your wireless lan card and wireless connection are set to connet to the internet. I had my phone wifi set as connecting to "the internet" but when I clicked on my home wireless connection in the list of available access points it was set to connect to "work". Hopes this helps.
I am wanting to know the answer to this problem also... I dont have edge or Gprs and I want to be able to check my pop & pop3 email using Wifi..
Thanks!
Does anyone know how to solve this problem???
Hi,
I've just got a T-Mobile Vario. It connects fine on GPRS and PIE navigates to web pages.
I then try to connect to a free WiFi hotspot (I have no home wifi network to test on).
It *connects* fine. However, when I try to navigate to a web page it hangs on the "Locate" message, then times out.
I have searched the forum and read similar problems but with home networks not public hotspots- for example:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=46118
I tried the solutions suggested there but with no luck. Has anyone had similar problems?
I *really* need to get WiFi working (by the end of the weekend hopefully) as thats what I got the device for in the first place.
I am a WiFi virgin so any pointers will help.
ipl 1.06
spl 1.06
gsm 1.12.10
os 1.6.2.4
protocol version 4.0.13.23
ExtROM 1.6.2.105
Cingular 8125 WiFi fails
I have the same results. My router assigns my device an IP address with WiFi on, but I get the message "...the connection was lost." whenever I try to surf internet. If anyone understands how to set it up, we'd appreciate instruction that works (I'd like a Cingular user if possible) but I would also like to learn what the settings mean. Anyone have a link to network setup information? I have a WiFi network in my home which works for my wife's laptop and my old PDA. This 8125 is bugging me.
working now...
OK, as soon as I posted and went back to the PDA the WiFi connection now works - gremlins again... I didn't change anything or even soft reset - it just connected. I wonder if it was because the GPRS connection ended... I'll try turning off my automatic e-mail checking and post again. BTW, I am using the suggestion of the first Network being "work - no proxy" and the second being "MediaNet - proxy"
Your problem doesn't seem the same as mine.
I have no home network.
My vario, on a public hotspot, always "connects" but always fails on "locate".
you need to make sure the connection is not using a proxy server.
go into settings
connections
then manage existing connections
untick the checkbox on the proxy settings tab that says this connection uses a proxy (or words to that effect)
now you should be able to connect to the network as long as their is no security in place to stop you.
good luck
R
Hi,
I have no "manage existing connections"
under settings->connections.
I go into connections which gives <tasks> and <Advanced> tabs
Under Advanced> I have <select networks>
This screen "Network Management" has two drop downs
1 states "Programs that automatically connect to the internet should connect using"
"T-Mobile Internet" is selected
If I edit and look at proxy settings it has:
"This network connects to the internet" ticked
the proxy server box is empty
If I edit the modem tab it has Cellular Line (GPRS) selected
Dropdown 2 has
Programs that automatically connect to a private network should connect using:
the dropdown is filled with "My Work Network"
By default the "connects to the internet" box is empty. I have filled this in previously with no luck.
Modem is empty as are all the other entries.
I have swapped the order of the dropdowns, I have made both "My Work network" and both "T-Mobile Internet" with no luck.
I have tried the suggestions on the thread I referenced above - again with no luck.
To repeat I can get the "connection" up. When I select the network it states connection is "good" yet when I try to surf to a page it craps out on the "Locate" message.
Is it failing to find a DNS server on the wifi link?
I'm just guessing as I know v little about WiFi as I have never used it before
TIA for any further contributions
I just wanted to say I have this same problem and have not been able to solve it yet. I can't tell whether to use GPRS while using Internet, or whether I should have the connection set to "Work" or "Internet" or what.
I have tried with 3 unprotected wireless networks already and have gotten the same results with each. I suspect it may be due to DNS. Hopefully it is not the phone itself.
Hi mat,
Well it can't be that you *must* use GPRS whilst surfing - thats what WIFI is for!
I suspect (no real evidence)T-Mobile have somehow crippled the OS to make it difficult to work out how to get free hotspot access working properly. Looking at their site they say CS do not "support" WIFI access problems - how convenient!!!!!
Although I am a WIFI virgin/idiot, I am not a *total* idiot and would have been able to get it working if it was completely straightforward.
To add ammunition to this opinion, I do not have a T-Zone account (I should have but it hasn't been set up correctly). Anyway I tried to connect though a t-zone and it worked straightaway presenting me with the login page. I could also download data - the terms and conditions.
However, obviously I couldn't surf to totally check it out as I couldn't login.
I wish someone would provide a definitive solution as it is really irritating me now!!!!!
Why would it be hanging on "locate"? I imagine it must be because it cannot look up the IP address through the free WIFI link. I made the same suggestion as you did earlier something to do with the DNS setup.
Thats as far as I can get!!!!!
After previously owning a HTC Touch Pro, I am a very happy HD2-user
I've setup 2 email-accounts; 1 hotmail (using Windows Live) and 1 Planet email. Both work fine using GPRS/3G but they don't use Wifi when enabled. Wifi works fine for other things like Opera, weather etc. Important to know is that hotmail never worked through Wifi, even not on my Touch Pro.
I had to set the 'connection' from my Planet-account to 'Vodafone Live' in order to work. It was originally set to 'Internet'. But when set to 'Internet' I can't get any mail.
Can someone please tell me how I have to setup my email-accounts so they work through both GPRS/3G and Wifi?
same problem here! I set up two email accounts on my HD2. when at home, I disconnect my 3G connection, connect to my wifi router, Internet browsing, weather update use the wifi connection, but as soon as I update my emails, the phone connects to 3G and use that connection instead! This is my third HTC phone, but this the first time I encounter this behaviour. It's really annoying. Is there a workaround?
Hm, strange. I have three E-Mail Accounts which I check. Therefore it doesnt matter if I use WiFi or 3G. If Iam connected via WiFi it works like 3G. If not 3G starts automatically.
ox_eye said:
Hm, strange. I have three E-Mail Accounts which I check. Therefore it doesnt matter if I use WiFi or 3G. If Iam connected via WiFi it works like 3G. If not 3G starts automatically.
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Yeah, well that's exactly what I'd like to have! Instead, 3G starts automatically even if already connected via wifi. The good news is, there must be a solution since it works the way it should on your phone.
Got it!
I spent a nearly sleepless night tearing my hair out over this but I finally found the cause (and the solution)
Before going into details, just a small warning, being French and living in France I own a HD2 with a French Orange Rom (and you can trust Orange to make life more complicated for you), so, I have a French version of Windows Mobile. I will try to translate as well as I can the different steps, but the actual wording may be slightly different on your phones.
OK, first thing is, I remembered that Windows Mobile lets you decide if a connection or a network card connects to the Internet or to Work/Office, I had already made sure that my 3G connection was marked as Internet and I thought that may be my Network Card for WiFi was configured on Bureau (Work) instead of Internet.
It was! By the way the card to check is "Broadcomm 802.11 DHD Network Adapter". I changed it to Internet and I tried to sync emails again. I was pretty confident but that was short lived as my phone immediately started a 3G connection.
Here we go again...
I thought about the way Outlook Express on desktops lets you decide which connection should be used for each specific mail account, and I searched a similar option here. And I found it!
The culprit was indeed the default provided (Thanks Orange...) : Orange World instead of Internet. I changed the setting to Internet (no need to delete the account) and it worked!
Now, how to change the setting (That's the part where I get to use my translator skills...)
E-Mail (no translation required) -> Click the account to modify -> "Modifier les paramètres du compte" (Change account settings) -> Suivant(next) -> next -> next -> next
So, you clicked next 4 times and should be on the screen where you specify your SMTP server. We are almost done.
There is a text box and two check boxes AND (when you minimize the soft keyboard) a link to "Paramètres de serveur avancés" (Advanced server settings)
Click it, you can check SSL if your provider requires it but more important you can select what network to use!
In my case it was set to Orange World, hence the 3G connection every time I wanted to check my emails. Change it to Internet and here you go! No more 3G connection when WiFi connected
By the way, in order for this to work, you have to make sure the WiFi network card is configured for Internet access (see beginning of post)
PS: If the way I translated the diffrent items is too far off the actual thing, please let me know how it should be and I will edit my post.
Thanks very much for your info!
I was thinking of the same thing, so this was the first thing I checked. BUT (!) when I select 'Internet' , my email doesn't synchronize at all; it says connection error, please check your connection settings.
How can I see where 'Internet' connects to? I think there lies my problem...
mrobers said:
After previously owning a HTC Touch Pro, I am a very happy HD2-user
I've setup 2 email-accounts; 1 hotmail (using Windows Live) and 1 Planet email. Both work fine using GPRS/3G but they don't use Wifi when enabled. Wifi works fine for other things like Opera, weather etc. Important to know is that hotmail never worked through Wifi, even not on my Touch Pro.
I had to set the 'connection' from my Planet-account to 'Vodafone Live' in order to work. It was originally set to 'Internet'. But when set to 'Internet' I can't get any mail.
Can someone please tell me how I have to setup my email-accounts so they work through both GPRS/3G and Wifi?
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Hi mrobers, it seems that in your case you had already figured out how to choose a connection but I would bet that you are missing the network card trick. So, set your account to Internet again and check your network card.
To do this you have to go to
Settings -> Connections -> Wifi (check activate) -> "Wireless Networks" button -> Network Cards Tab -> "Broadcomm 802.11 DHD Network Adapter" and pick Internet in the drop down list at the top of the screen
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Hi mrobers, it seems that in your case you had already figured out how to choose a connection but I would bet that you are missing the network card trick. So, set your account to Internet again and check your network card.
To do this you have to go to
Settings -> Connections -> Wifi (check activate) -> "Wireless Networks" button -> Network Cards Tab -> "Broadcomm 802.11 DHD Network Adapter" and pick Internet in the drop down list at the top of the screen
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Thanks for the tip! I just checked my settings and it seems my 'Broadcomm 802.11 DHD Network Adapter' was already set to 'Internet' but my 'Broadcomm 802.11 Network Adapter' was set to 'Work'. I changed that and now have to test it at home tonight.
Keep your fingers crossed
Well...Don't rejoice too soon! I just tried setting both to Work, and now that I changed the mail account setting to Internet, it still works for me over WiFi. As you had already set it to Internet to no avail...Anyway I'll keep my fingers crossed for you !
One last thing, on my previous phone, I've had a very similar problem.
I use my phone at the office for syncing with Outlook, every time I did that, activesync would alter the proxy settings and add the adress of the proxy we use at my workplace.
After I disconnected the phone, the settings remained and I was not able to use my WiFi connection until I unchecked the proxy checkbox.
Can you check that as well? (Settings -> Connections -> Connections -> Proxy configuration)
And I was sooooo happy
But I am still going to try this at home tonight...
I've already found out a few days ago about the proxy-settings; I work at Heineken and had the same experience after connecting it to my work-laptop through Activesync to synchronize my calender with Lotus Notes. I changed it back and it doesn't come back!
Update : It didn't work
Tried several settings but can't find out why. If I set my email-settings to 'Vodafone Live!' then I can sync through 3G, if I set it to 'Internet' then I can sync through Wifi. But never automatically
What do you mean by automatically? And from your first post I had gathered that you couldn't sync via wifi even after setting to Internet, but in your last post you seem to say the opposite.
Is the situation as follows?
Email set to Vodadone: sync OK with 3G and KO with wifi
Email set to Internet : sync OK with WiFi and KO with 3G
Exactly! You make things so simple
I'm sorry I didn't make myself clear in my startpost...
OK, another thought then.
We already made sure that your WiFi network card is set to Internet, but have you checked your Vodafone Connection? It has to have the "Connect to Internet" checkbox checked.
HTC Settings -> Menu -> More -> Connections -> Connections -> Manage my proxy server (For Vodafone) -> Is it checked for Internet access?
Good idea! Just checked and the option is selected. There is also a proxyserver setup for my Vodafone-connection. Could this cause the problem? I could disable the proxy-server from Vodafone tonight and see what happens...
OK, I think you are on to something...
I'm starting to feel like Dr House ;-)
Let's see where we are
Email set to Vodadone: sync OK with 3G and KO with wifi
This is normal, it's the setup I had and which prevented me from syncing via wifi. And it means that your proxy server accepts POP or IMAP connections which is both a good news (you can get mail!) and a bad news (see later)
Email set to Internet : sync OK with WiFi and KO with 3G
This is not normal, and that's what we have to find a solution for. What bothers me is that if your proxy lets you connect in the first case, I see no rational reason for not doing the same when you select Internet for your mail account...
Anyway, you don't have to wait for tonight to do some tests, because the problem lies with your vodafone connection, not with your wifi.
In order to have the expected behaviour (Wifi first, 3G second when both are available), you have to set your account to Internet (actually it's worth a try to set it to work and see what happens right now!) let's do this and if it still doesn't work, I suggest you proceed as follows:
1 - write down the parameters of your proxy (don't forget to check the advanced settings as well)
2 - Uncheck the proxy
3 - See if you still can connect to Internet with IE or Opera
4 - Try a mail sync
5 - If it works, then great, dont' touch anything!
6 - If it doesn't work set it back to what it was before step 1
7 - Hopefully, we will come up with something else!
Hi, I have a similar problem but the other way arround.
I set all my network options to the 3G line ( My Work network isn't active). I connect to the 3G internet and everything seems to be working: Opera, Stocks, Weater; but the mail can't connect or sync.
But if I'm at home and if I turn on the WiFi, everything from the above list works including mail.
The mail I'm using is Yahoo mail and the 3G is the Vodafone NL. Right now it's a puzzle.
I had a problem you are describing some time ago, but now it seems to be reversed.
Did anyone had this and solved it?
RIGHT, JUST WHEN I GAVE UP FINDING A SOLUTION BY MYSELF I ACTUALLY FOUND IT. just disabled the vodafone proxy. Everything is perfect.
****, I was too late to see your update
I solved my problem (before reading your answer) by disabling my Vodafone proxy. Everything now works as designed; I'm one happy HD2 owner
Thank you all - especially pat12 - for thinking with me!
nice! works for me too.. sorry I know nothing about proxies, but why would vodafone specify a proxy with their settings if we don't need one..? And why does it work with and without proxy settings?
duplicate post, please delete
I have been trying for a long time trying to figure out a way to use Samsung Omnia Pro b7610 wifi connection for all applications which require internet connection like windows update, widgets, browsing internet. No matter what i do, it doesnt work, although I managed to somehow use wifi for browsing internet by using IE but no other service. When I go to "Manage my connection", it shows me no option for making a wifi connection, it only shows make/edit modem connection, VPN, proxy settings and if i go to advance settings it shows my GPRS connections only for editing, if I want to make a new connection, it asks me for dialing properties only related to modem.
Please help me out, what should I do. Another thing on the top bar where all the icons are displayed for network, battery, there is an "E" in a box, as far as I think it is my GPRS connection/data connection, but when I click on this icon it takes me to network settings where there is no option for disabling it, like it does in case of wifi icon.
Regards
Inder
when you create/edit your gprs setting, you need to make sure in the "select a modem", you are using GPRS. Then you will need to setup your access point. I.E., Tmobile would be either internet2.voicestream.com or wap.voicestream.com.
i have all the GPRS settings, which my service provider sent me and I saved them. It shows all the info like access point, user name, password but my problem is not this, I do not want to use GPRS at all, instead I want my wifi to be my default connection for all internet related tasks, I want to disable GPRS.
The icon for GPRS at top task bar which is "E" in a box, does not disappear no matter what I do, I want to pay for GPRS charges for accessing internet instead I want to use wifi for this purpose, please help me out to disable this E icon, when I click on it, it takes to network settings, where all the settings are like Select band, select network -manual/automatic, wifi, 3g- which I have turned off, no GPRS enable or disable function.
My problem is simple, i want to use wifi as a default connection like we do on our PC/laptop, so that all the applications which need internet access can use wifi instead of GPRS or data connection.
Regards
i have managed the same problem with a freeware named NoData
there you can enable & disable GPRS/WAP connections
google for 'modaco nodata'