Wi-FI finder using gps application
Is there a gps prog that will show you your nearest wifi hotspot on the go?
touchmyhd said:
Wi-FI finder using gps application
Is there a gps prog that will show you your nearest wifi hotspot on the go?
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Not seen one. Interesting idea - I think you mean like a speed camera application add-on for one of the GPS applications ?
Never heard of one. Most of the wifi finding applications will record the GPS details for later mapping. I have WiFiFoFum for finding wifi nets but I don't bother with its GPS function.
You can do it with TomTom...
Searsh for POI wifi hotspot, it's working well
Wififofum2
go to
http://www.aspecto-software.com/rw/applications/wififofum/index.html
its an amazing program that will do exactly as you ask, and works fine with the HD and GPS location finding
to add the hotspots simply take the co ordiates from Wififofum and import them as POI for TT or whatever your program of choice is for sat nav
Obviously you need to visit the location to get the locations in a log/lat coordinate but once you have done it once you have it for life
I was watching the Gadget Show last night (TV show in UK) and they mentioned a WiFi hotspot finder for the iPhone. It was only a couple of £ and it made me think - I need something like that for my HD!
keroin said:
You can do it with TomTom...
Searsh for POI wifi hotspot, it's working well
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excellent added free wifi POI's from http://www.pocketgpsworld.com to my tomtom, now it tells me my nearest hotspot inc mcdonalds = YES! ,
I am thinking of signing upto
http://www.btopenzone.com/buy/per_minute.jsp
15 per min wifi and is used by many companys in uk, anyone used this?
Wefi ?
You could try wefi
http://www.wefi.com/
Sorry I know this problem probably has been brought up many times. But here I just want to make a total one and collect all the feedbacks from N1 users regarding to the wifi sleep issue with N1.
Let's just make it simple: Every N1 owner PLEASE DO test out the wifi connection when your phone goes to sleep as there are MANY people suffering from this problem all over the world. Especially the later buyers since February this year, almost every phone is potential to this problem.
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Diagnosis:
1. Set the wifi sleep setting to "never" in the wifi advanced setting menu.
2. Turn on Last.fm app(or Pandora, but Last.fm is most effective and responsive one to test it out), leave the phone on wifi and turn off the phone screen or let it goes to sleep.
3. The symptom is the app will stop streaming shortly afterwards(with Pandora stops maybe after one song, for which I suggest everyone test it for at least 15 minutes). Also most likely you will stop getting any email notification or anything requires data connection. And you might not be able to ping your phone or the ping responses VERY slow as well.
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Background:
This problem was recorded from earliest almost 6,7 months ago and has affected both AT&T and T-Mobile versions(with reports of the same issue on other versions sold outside US). So far, it's suspected that the problem mostly likely lies in the lower level architecture of the phone(either software or hardware) because the problem still exists even after people has replaced the stock ROM with the custom ROM. Another proof is that people get problem with brand new phone and also the replacement phone. Another note is the problem has been found both before FROYO update and after. At this moment, there's no official fix(some Google employee blatantly brushed the issue away and asked N1 users to get over it, check out the link below for original conversation) for this issue except a work around thanks to wifi fixer app developer.
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This issue is often times neglected by N1 users because usually people don't use the phone on wifi all the time or they simply switch between 3g and wifi. But for people who use wifi a lot or use VOIP, it could be a real deal breaker.
So here I just hope everybody could test your phone out and see if you have this issue or not. Please report how your result turns out in this thread. Also, for further and more detailed discussion and cases, please check this out:
http://www.google.com/support/forum...52&hl=en&fid=01a47ff5b0a92d5200048be07b6cb5c1
You are more than welcome to add your experience to the discussion above so hopefully it can wake google up.
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UPDATE:
So Broadcom just released a wifi driver fix several days ago which may solve this issue. According to the record, phones with non-zero MAC address suffer from problem.
The driver has been incorporated into the latest Cyanogenmod(either RC or nightly build). People are reporting it fixes the problem while in some other cases, the problem still exists even after the fix, even for people who's MAC address starts with 00.
Last.fm works fine with the screen off here, always has done. I even turned off mobile data to be sure it's not switching over to that.
This is with the wifi set to sleep with the screen off (ie. the default setting).
i've been using wifi fixer and since i installed it, i haven't had a single wifi disconnect on my home network(it seems to be a network dependent issue as i never have issues on other networks)
Jep4444 said:
i've been using wifi fixer and since i installed it, i haven't had a single wifi disconnect on my home network(it seems to be a network dependent issue as i never have issues on other networks)
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But you did have the problem before you installed wifi fixer, right?
Rusty! said:
Last.fm works fine with the screen off here, always has done. I even turned off mobile data to be sure it's not switching over to that.
This is with the wifi set to sleep with the screen off (ie. the default setting).
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yeah, the point here is that many phones have the wifi sleep policy issue(doesn't work).
Indeed, however mine does, so this thread will need both sides of the argument
No problems on my Nexus One, running latest CM 6 nightly build.
I bought it couple months ago from eBay, so I'm not sure which shipment it is from.
Only issue I'm having after upgrading to Froyo is that my phone won't connect to my home network by itself when in range.
I have to go into Wifi Buddy and manually connect. This never happened on 2.1, but magically started after the FRF50 update, and never fixed itself in the next couple of builds.
Forge94 said:
Only issue I'm having after upgrading to Froyo is that my phone won't connect to my home network by itself when in range.
I have to go into Wifi Buddy and manually connect. This never happened on 2.1, but magically started after the FRF50 update, and never fixed itself in the next couple of builds.
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I have always had this same issue! Maybe its something to do with my home wifi? I am yet to test it on froyo.
I am mostly connected to wifi with no sleep issue.
I have kind of the same issue at home, I recently replaced my wireless router, I never had problems connecting to the old one it would just stop broadcasting constantly but my N1 would always connect automatically. With the new router my N1 keeps saying the connection is disabled and I have to connect manually. This never happens at work, it always connect automatically so it seems to have something to do with the router settings but I have no idea what.
No problems here. Last.FM works fine for me on WiFi when screen is off. I also get notifications. Running FroYo rooted with locked bootloader
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Divster said:
I have always had this same issue! Maybe its something to do with my home wifi? I am yet to test it on froyo.
I am mostly connected to wifi with no sleep issue.
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i am having the same problem, when i go out of range from my wireless and then back in range, the n1 just says scanning and never re-connects.
that said, using a channel lower than 11 on my router did seem to help with the sleep issue.
hbkmog said:
But you did have the problem before you installed wifi fixer, right?
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sorta, i never had the issue on any network besides my home one
I've also been having the disconnect problem with my N1. Maybe it would help if people whose sleep policy is actually working could post what wifi router/AP/whatever they are using. Also, if possible the first for identifiers of their MAC address. I read on one of the Google posts someone with a MAC address starting with 38:E7 having problems. The MAC for my phone is the same. For what it's worth I'm using a D-Link DIR-655 router and a Speedtouch 716 v5 WL and am experiencing the disconnect on both.
I've had the issue with 2 N1 tested on 3 different routers. I've read that it is related to the low power mode the N1 uses while sleeping not playing nice with routers. Not all N1 show the problem, apparently only the most recent ones. I've called google support and was told google knows about the issue and is working on it, but I am a bit cynical and I'll believe it when I see a fix.
Wifi-fixer fixed my problem only after I disabled Sipdroid which was interfering with it.
Mac adress: 38:E7: D8
I'll post my router model later when I get home.
Divster said:
I have always had this same issue! Maybe its something to do with my home wifi? I am yet to test it on froyo.
I am mostly connected to wifi with no sleep issue.
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williec30 said:
i am having the same problem, when i go out of range from my wireless and then back in range, the n1 just says scanning and never re-connects.
that said, using a channel lower than 11 on my router did seem to help with the sleep issue.
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as a quick update... i installed wifi-fixer and things have been much better. will report back if things start to derail again.
cabreca said:
I've also been having the disconnect problem with my N1. Maybe it would help if people whose sleep policy is actually working could post what wifi router/AP/whatever they are using. Also, if possible the first for identifiers of their MAC address. I read on one of the Google posts someone with a MAC address starting with 38:E7 having problems. The MAC for my phone is the same. For what it's worth I'm using a D-Link DIR-655 router and a Speedtouch 716 v5 WL and am experiencing the disconnect on both.
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D-Link DIR-615 with DD-WRT v14684, phone's MAC starts 00:23
It's weird because most of the time I don't have this problem. My WiFi stays connected all night long to WiFi. But once in a while it does disconnect and switch to 3g. I think its certain routers, because I didn't have this problem for first 3 months on my old router, now it happens with my new router.
My phone never has trouble reconnecting back to WiFi. Everyday when I come home from work, as I walk up my driveway the phone has already automatically connected to WiFi. I've made sure about this one since I read this problem all over.
I bought my Nexus One directly from Google when it came out for AT&T. It certainly has the wifi issue and it is very annoying. My expectation is that the phone jump on my wifi network when in range as all of my other phones have done. Instead I have to manually engage the phone to get on wifi. SUCKS!
this is the biggest problem for me with my n1.
although the wifi does stay awake, it slows right down..
if i ping my phone, the response time increases when the phone is asleep, but doesnt time out.
if i ftp a file from my laptop to my phone, the speed drops from 1mb/sec to 100kbps/sec when the phone is asleep.
i have found the app "fix my wifi" solves the problem of waking the phone after a few hours of sleep and finding the wifi has failed. if only there was a way of getting the speed to stay the same.
Morning guys n gals
So Im trying to set a location setup through tasker, but I have noticed this problem with google maps as well. My point is, with wifi on, and connected to my home router, my phone thinks I am living a few blocks up the road. Is there any way I can set something, either in my router or phone, to tell it that I am at my address, when connected to this wifi?
Thoughts on this:
GPS has nothing to do with it, when its enabled and outside its spot on
Phone towers have nothing to do with this, the phone tower thinks I am somewhere else unrelated
Its purely based off wifi, and the 'accuracy' bubble is outside my home range
Thanks people
I got a Kindle Fire for Christmas, and a few days later bought an Asus RT-N16 (it has DD-WRT on it) to use for WiFi for it (we have 2 other APs in the house, but they're not close enough to my bed to use the tablet in bed, which was something that I wanted to do).
It was working perfectly up until the day before yesterday. Now the Fire won't connect to the SSID at all. Sometimes it doesn't even recognize that the SSID is there at all. Even the WiFi Analyzer app sometimes won't see the SSID.
I'd think it was an AP problem, but going to the AP's configuration page shows that the radio is, indeed, on, and I can pick up my phone (HTC HD2 w/CyanogenMod 7) and connect and use the network perfectly.
Any thoughts?
I have the same issue I think. I have a wifi extender set up in my apartment out back because the main ap from the house doesnt provide a good signal in my apt. Other devices can have them both set up and switch accordingly, but my fire with CM7 installed will constantly only use the main one unless I forget it temporarily.
Not the best solution but a temp workaround.
Corey
If you are on stock than you go to wirless networks and then advenced settings and change it to Japan i had The same problem
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cryancaire said:
I have the same issue I think. I have a wifi extender set up in my apartment out back because the main ap from the house doesnt provide a good signal in my apt. Other devices can have them both set up and switch accordingly, but my fire with CM7 installed will constantly only use the main one unless I forget it temporarily.
Not the best solution but a temp workaround.
Corey
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That's not the problem I'm having.
Even if I forget everything but the "target" SSID, it still won't connect at all, ever.
The only way I can get it to connect to this AP is to set the AP to G-only and turn security off.
My phone continues to connect flawlessly in all situations, however...
I don't really consider this a "solution" since no security is...no security...but I guess it'll have to do because as soon as I turn encryption back on the tablet just doesn't connect again.
QuBe2 said:
If you are on stock than you go to wirless networks and then advenced settings and change it to Japan i had The same problem
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I changed it to use all 14 channels, and I even tried forcing the AP to a certain channel that I knew the device would connect to, and the problem still did not disapper.
I would think the GPS and a network connection would be good enough to triangulate where you are. I'm tired of the nag screen. I tried to Google for an answer but didn't find anything that exactly answered my question. Maybe when Google mapped out street view, they were also sniffing for Wi-Fi access points, and their names with locations? Just a theory.
Mine will work with Wireless off. Just tried it. Location settings to just GPS, Wifi turned off, map worked perfectly. Didn't try to navigate, but it should be the same.
Mine works fine without WiFi. It asked me once and I skipped it and it hasn't showed again.
Maybe because each WiFi router has the ability to send its location. If you were in a building without GPS signal you could still have location.
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Yeah I know you can skip it, but if the program senses you're on a mobile network, and the GPS is on, I don't know why it still wants to have Wi-Fi on.
Just did a test with a couple mapping apps. If I am in an airport or mall without WiFi on it can't tell which store or gate I am at. With the WiFi on it can tell exactly what store or gate I am near. Maybe they use WiFi to pinpoint. Oh and I did have GPS on at all times but without the added WiFi location it was either not good enough signal or no GPS signal... Who knows maybe they are just watching us.
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I think it's just that WiFi will always be more exact than data. You're accessing the Interwebz through one point rather than through your carrier.
Yeah but you're not connected to anything on Wi-Fi, it just has to be on.
There's a database of found access points out there. Your phone can triangulate its position far more accurately if it uses the available wifi access points to do so, especially indoors. Like oscar said, it doesn't need to be connected to wifi. It only needs wifi activated in order to "see" what access points are nearby.
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