so i've already posted a topic on my wifi not working at coffee shops or restaurants and i received some replies saying that i should do power cycle/flight mode, etc...
none of the options work for me.. and i've realized that it's not only the restaurants ,but it's everywhere...
my x10 works well with my home wifi router..but it doesn't work at
1) restaurant/coffee shop free internet
2) when my computer is made into hotspot using connectify
AND
3) my university wifi which doesn't need any wep password etc..
4) work wifi even though i had ssid, wep etc.etc.
the problem with my phone is that when connected it's supposed to take me to a page where i'm supposed to agree to some terms or sign in using my id/password (for univ)
but it just hangs and like 2 mins later says the page cannot be displayed..
now it's really really pissing me off because i thought this was supposed to be a smartphone and i cancelled my data plan because I was supposed to get internet 24/7 through school wifi!
but instead, i can't use my phone for anything other than just calling and texting.. it's no better than a regular phone.. just eats up more battery... etc..
i can't get any apps from the market, can't update any i've got already.. can't do anything with internet (cuz i'm not going back home for like another 4 mths)
i have a regular browser that came with x10... and i have 020 UK generic firmware installed on x10a
i really hope someone can help me out with my problem...
i was researching and.. it's different from eduroam stuff..
cuz my university network, coffee shop/restaurant networks.. they are ALL open network..
i read on sgs forum that fennec allows loading those pages (login/click terms of conditions.etc) but fennec can only be installed on 2.0 or more.. and x10's still at 1.6
so how do you all get your wifi??? i'm so mad with this phone
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Hey,
In my country (Holland) my provider says in their policy that I cant use my phone as a modem for my laptop, or they will shut me down. However, I have tried this several times, and its so easy with my touch hd (1 press) that i want to keep using it.
So does anyone know a way how to mask my internet traffic, so my provider wont know its coming from a laptop? Wont really matter in bandwidth usage, because right now im downloading 200+ mb torrents on my HD aswell
Greetings,
Snuur
try using pdanet that was designed for exactly this reason
http://www.junefabrics.com/pdanet/download.php
ok thanks for your reply but on their website i cant find anything about masking my internet traffic. so far it only does what my phone alreadycdoes right now. or am i wrong?
I think internet connection sharing is much safer in this case.
PDANET is specifically made to mask traffic, thats it's main feature...
i've been using pdnet for 3g tether to my laptop but it's way too slow and disconnects on me every few minutes? anyone has a better suggestion? i tried wifi tether, it doesn't work with 3g internet
thanks
Wif tether works just fine for me its what I am using now .
Post in applications next time, and what do you mean it doesn't work? It works great with me. A bluetooth tether application is up and running too now.
i discovered, that it resets my connections (like jabber, etc) when the screen is off...
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i discovered, that it resets my connections (like jabber, etc) when the screen is off...
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PDAnet? There's got to be a setting for that..or a way to keep the screen on.
i read that if you turn off the wifi on your laptop, the connection works better on pdanet.
i tried that, and ever since, i havent had any problems with it. the only problem is that now pdanet is now payware....
wifi tether doesnt work for me. i have a Rogers Dream rooted, installed wifi tether, and it just says "*(paraphrasing) unable to start tether"
[b]Attn: Kevwo[/b]
Why the heck do you keep sending me Pm's when you have PMs locked out so I can't even fricking reply. I go to all the work to answer your question and then hit send only to get an error back saying Kevwo has Pm's Blocked.
" Admins" sorry for the rant, and OP, sorry for the thread hijack, its really hot and humid hear and this just took me from the edge of loosing my mind to jumping off the cliff and completely loosing it.
Well Kevwo, enough of your rant.
Here is the shortened version of what I typed up to reply to you.
I am not aware of any Apps to SD apps that work, I have installed several and nothing worked right. I guess we will have to wait till a real ROM can be flashed on the Dream, then we will have access to all the cool apps. Hell I can't even get WiFi tether to work and I needed it to work badly.
O/T Ramble
I am leaving on Friday to go Camping, I want to be able to get on line at the camp site, might even setup a live web cam feed for the site. (Its our Fiero Club Camping event)
lol sorry about that
i guess i should read the pop-ups
has anyone tried using an older version of wifi tether? instead of 1.51 i tried 0.97 and that seems tow ork
so going to alaska to work for 3 months with my dad and brother. Brother says he cannot use his HTC HD2 up there with T-mobiles network so they will allow us to get unlock codes for them and then we will use AT&T's Unlimited talk and text but we would like to see if there is a way to use the Wifi on our phones to surf the web on either browsers. We would be doing small things like checking our email and bank accounts.
Any help would be appricatied
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so going to alaska to work for 3 months with my dad and brother. Brother says he cannot use his HTC HD2 up there with T-mobiles network so they will allow us to get unlock codes for them and then we will use AT&T's Unlimited talk and text but we would like to see if there is a way to use the Wifi on our phones to surf the web on either browsers. We would be doing small things like checking our email and bank accounts.
Any help would be appricatied
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Absolutely, as long as you're within range of a wifi network that you have access to (i.e. one at your home/office or a public access point like starbucks, stc). You don't have to have a data plan to use the wifi, if that's what you're wondering
Another thing to remember if you have a nationwide plan with TMO using other towers is usually not a problem.
At home I use an AT&T tower about 30% of the time, I live in the boonies , so a nationwide plan has no roaming charges no matter who's tower you are using ...
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Another thing to remember if you have a nationwide plan with TMO using other towers is usually not a problem.
At home I use an AT&T tower about 30% of the time, I live in the boonies , so a nationwide plan has no roaming charges no matter who's tower you are using ...
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haha I wish that it would even get a bit of service. Brother is already there and he says he can't even make a call without losing service. T-Mobile said they will suspend service for 3 months or how ever long it takes and will add it to our 2 year contract.
And so he trys using Wifi which the building he stays in has and when he goes into opera or internet explorer he gets an error, trying to find the error from him and will post. Does anybody know if their is settings that need to be changed. He is checking this by turning off the phone radio and only connecting to wifi. He does not want to be charged extra by AT&T, thanks for your help.
we do have custom roms on our HD2's. FYI
EDIT:Error for Opera Could not locate remote server
You tried to access the address http://www.htc.com/ which is currrently unavailable. Please make sure that the web address (URL) is correctly spelled and punctuated, then try reloading the page.
rlacsamana1989 said:
haha I wish that it would even get a bit of service. Brother is already there and he says he can't even make a call without losing service. T-Mobile said they will suspend service for 3 months or how ever long it takes and will add it to our 2 year contract.
And so he trys using Wifi which the building he stays in has and when he goes into opera or internet explorer he gets an error, trying to find the error from him and will post. Does anybody know if their is settings that need to be changed. He is checking this by turning off the phone radio and only connecting to wifi. He does not want to be charged extra by AT&T, thanks for your help.
we do have custom roms on our HD2's. FYI
EDIT:Error for Opera Could not locate remote server
You tried to access the address http://www.htc.com/ which is currrently unavailable. Please make sure that the web address (URL) is correctly spelled and punctuated, then try reloading the page.
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Sounds like the phone is not getting everything it needs from the access point, some type of misconfiguration, needs to make sure he is getting and IP address , gateway and DNS servers .... should browse over wifi without using the phone radio with no problem, do it all the time at home ...
But if you are just going to be web browsing, turning off the phone radio does save some battery ...
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Sounds like the phone is not getting everything it needs from the access point, some type of misconfiguration, needs to make sure he is getting and IP address , gateway and DNS servers .... should browse over wifi without using the phone radio with no problem, do it all the time at home ...
But if you are just going to be web browsing, turning off the phone radio does save some battery ...
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So I basically found out that the network adapters were set to manual config and I should set them to automatic. Which I did and was able to connect to recieve my mail and go on the web via wifi with radio turned off but this is at my home which is my belkin.
I then tried calling him and having him set it up (he's not so tech savy) and he was connected to linksys and it still gave him the errors, He is going to the office of the company he works for to see if he can get the password for the other wifi network that is on the list. He sees people on their laptops browsing internet. So maybe i'll just buy a little Netbook for going up there.
Thanks for all your help you guys.
I have been taking advantage of the all you can eat data on the 3 network UK. They currently allow you upto 80gb data transfere in one month on your phone. Up till now it has been working great but since last night, 30th Sept it refuses to connect for wireless tether. Normal internet on the phone is fine, I am using it now to post this. Even with apps from the Market, such as Wireless Tether, Barnacle and Open Garden wifi, the same problem still persists. I have even tried to connect on a risky open network with no password but the same could not connect message is displayed. I have tried going back onto Roms where I had no problems with tether and still can't connect. I have task 29 and loaded everthing from scratch and still the same. I have also cleaned my similar, nothing seems to work.
Has 3 UK changed the apn settings for tethering as they offer this on another plan they have or perhaps the solution is more simple to fix.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Hi,
Mate I'm exactly in the same problem and I'm hating 3. I used to tether and use internet using apps yesterday and today I'm facing this DISASTER!
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Hi,
Mate I'm exactly in the same problem and I'm hating 3. I used to tether and use internet using apps yesterday and today I'm facing this DISASTER!
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They probably have it User Agent filtered. So there servers see that the User Agent is of desktop origin and not mobile. You may have to google around for a way around it. Im sure there has gotta be one. Im starting to hate how all these cell phone companies wanna charge for tethering. Data is data, period. How can using my laptop to browse the web be any more costly to the cell provider? If anything it would use more data, but if there is a cap then thats my problem not anyone else's. -.- why is everything about money all the time?!
I looked around for a few answers but sadly most postings with a similar question did not have replies...
I bought my dad an Optimus 7 a few months ago and on his current phone plan he doesn't pay for data so he relies a lot on wi-fi at home and his second home- Starbucks.
He claims after I forced the Mango update to his phone 2 weeks ago that he can no longer connect to free wi-fi at Starbucks yet when he goes home the phone has no issues connecting to wi-fi there instantly. He says it was fine before I updated. Mind you, he is the least tech saavy person I know. Perhaps he is missing a step. He says he goes to connect to Starbucks but no web brower page will open.
Does anyone know if this is an issue? I'm trying to avoid a trip to see him just to try to fix this.
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I looked around for a few answers but sadly most postings with a similar question did not have replies...
I bought my dad an Optimus 7 a few months ago and on his current phone plan he doesn't pay for data so he relies a lot on wi-fi at home and his second home- Starbucks.
He claims after I forced the Mango update to his phone 2 weeks ago that he can no longer connect to free wi-fi at Starbucks yet when he goes home the phone has no issues connecting to wi-fi there instantly. He says it was fine before I updated. Mind you, he is the least tech saavy person I know. Perhaps he is missing a step. He says he goes to connect to Starbucks but no web brower page will open.
Does anyone know if this is an issue? I'm trying to avoid a trip to see him just to try to fix this.
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Normally, the wifi at starbucks forces a browser login before internet access is allowed. Are you sure he is actually trying to pull up a page in IE before trying anything else, and not just trying to check email or using an app that pulls data?
Maybe Starbucks WiFi is only available to iThings users.
Starbucks in the UK works for me. In fact they're now offering it free without a Starbucks card.
As an earlier post says, you need to login first. If he's going to a https page, for some reason that doesn't work to redirect to the Starbucks login page. Best thing to do is have him go to Google or something. If you can go with him one time, pin / bookmark the login page.
Well I tried doing it myself on his phone. I can see the wi-fi connection listed. I hit connect. It begins to connect.. slowly then says it's connected. Moments later a webpage opens automatically which is the Starbucks page (where normally you would agreed to it's terms and conditions first).
Except it doesnt give you the option to accept and check the box. Instead its the Starbucks page with an error message on the bottom saying that it cannot connect basically and you can all a specific phone # to help. We called it and it takes you to Bell Canada tech support. We spoke to them about the problem and they said they provide the wi-fi service to Starbucks here I guess in Toronto.
They checked their connections apparently on their end, said they were fine and claim the issue to be our end with the phone.
Now here's the funny thing. We walked over to 2 other places nearby with free wi-fi and I could connect on his phone to both without an issue. We also connected to my wi-fi at my place. So it ONLY will not connect to Starbucks but appears to connect to other wi-fi spots.
This one stumps me for sure. But I know for a fact before Mango he could connect to Starbucks fine.