Hi
I have a wifi AP at home, and one at work, Both use WPA-PSK with mac addy auth. SSID Visible cause sh1te WM2003SE OS cant cope with hidden SSID.
Get a whole load of oddities from the XDA IIs. Both SSID's and keys are listed in the wifi setup on the device. What I would expect is that if I switch the device on when I am within range of the AP @ work, it connects to it no fuss, likewise, when I drive home, switch XDA on it connects, no fuss, unfortunately this is not usually the case. The following are in order of likelyness to occur!
Problem 1
Sometimes I switch it on, and it sits there searching for eons, never finds AP. If I disable and then re-enable wifi on the XDA then it connects.
Problem 2
Sometimes, the XDA will tell me that its connected to my home network when I am at work - it isn't!
Problem 3
Sometimes I switch it on, it connects to the AP, but no net connectivity - looking. Using PPC Ipconfig, I see that device never managed to get an IP addy. Stop, start wifi problem resolves
Problem 3
Occasionally, the PPC forgets the shared secret, and I have to re-input it, start/stop wifi before it will connect to the AP
Problem 4
Sometimes, it just BLUNTLY REFUSES to connect to the AP if I do the above. In this case I try all the above with a soft reset as well. If that fails then I need remove all the wifi AP's, soft reset, wait (ages) for it to see a new AP, enter the PSK then it will connect.
It also struggles to connect to other APs (wifi hotspots). Things work a whole lot better when there is just one AP involved (i,e not work and home).
Prob 4 occurs once/week, prob 1 occurs every day, others somewhere between. All problems are of course COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE for a product that has been released to the consumer.
Nigel
Hello Veledron,
I've a similar problem: at our company WLAN is set up to reqire WPA and authentication with user certificates. Since it is not possible to import user certificates in Windows Mobile 2003 SE "out of the box" I found out how to do that - it is described here
http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/crtimprt.html
a little bit difficould procedure, but it worked - I can see my personal company certificate in the private-certificate store of my MDAIII.
The problem is, that I can't get a connection. WLAN-Manager says "connected", but I can't receive an IP-address - and in the logs of our Cisco-APs I can't see anything from my PDA. What also is a little bit strange for me: the MDAIII does not remember the setting "authentication with certificates", it always switches to "authentication using PEAP"...
any idea?
thanks
Gerald
Hi Veledron & gekap
I too have similiar problem with my netgear router at home. It seems that everytime it connect to the network it will just keep scanning eventhough it prompt that it already connected. It been 2 days and still i cannot manage to connect
Hopefully there is a solution to this problem.
Regardz
shark
There is.... Turn off AP, or move device to location where it is out of range, remove all WiFi profiles from device, hard reset, turn on router. wait (ages) for device to realize that there is a wifi ap nearby, enter PSK, all is well.
There seems to be no pattern to the WiFi failures, I have to do the above maybe twice a week to get it to connect. When the device gets itsself into a poor state this is the only way.
You cant delete an active profile, and the profile list only appears when wifi is turned on (stupid!) hence the need to turn off the AP.
Nigel
Hi Guys,
I manage to solve my wifi problem,
i just add the XDA IIs mac address to my netgear router plus assigned a reserve ip address based on it mac address and was able to connect successfully with no problem. Hope this solution helps.
Regardz
Sharkz
Hi,
thanks for the tips, but all of them are not a solution for me. I do not have any problems connecting to WLANs using WEP or to unencrypted WLANs, but i guess that there are problems with WPA in the PDA2K. I think the guys of you who have succussful connected to a WLAN using WPA have done that using WPA-PSK, not WPA with TKIP as encryption-method and PEAP or certificates as authentication method over 802.1x.
In our company TKIP is mandatory, and it is necessary to use certificates for authentication - this can be done with either EAP-TLS (so called "smartcard or certificate" in the setup-menu of the PDA-2k) or using PEAP. I've troubleshooted this a lot, and I can't see any authentication packet coming to our Cisco-APs from the PDA2K using this methods (I've turned on advanced logging on the APs to see any little bit...).
I fear the worst, that the WLAN-driver of the PDA2K does not support TKIP! Of course WPA is supportet from Windows 2003 Mobile SE, but in my opinion that is not enough - the card driver down the OS must also support the whole WPA-Standard, and it seems to me that the PDA2K driver does only support WPA-PSK. I found an article which can be an explanation of the problem:
http://www.socketforum.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2924
So I've 2 questions to you:
.) which driver version is installed on your PDA2Ks? (you can find that in the registry under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Drivers\Wavedev - I've: Common: 0.04.01, Device: 1.06.01 GER, DriverVersion: 0.08.00, Patch: 1.00)
.) has anyone of you ever connected to a WLAN using WPA (not WPA-PSK!)?
thanks
Gerald
i just upgraded to shaps latest wm6 rom. the wifi works at first; but when i came back from school, it wont connect anymore. it gives the error 'cannot connect to the networ and service provider settings and try again. i tried setting my router to an open network. but it still wont connect. i tried it on a different router. it gives the same error. did a hard reset twice. connects as soon as i finish hard reset. but after like i come back from school. it gives the same error. i even re-flashed the rom this morning and it was working. i just got in now and its still giving me the same error. can someone help me please??
Check that your mac address is still ok and you are getting an ip address. There is a thread on here for fixing dead WLAN if your mac address is blank.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=322225
markafreeman said:
Check that your mac address is still ok and you are getting an ip address. There is a thread on here for fixing dead WLAN if your mac address is blank.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=322225
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yes. my desktop makes use of a wifi adapter to connect to it. and its working fine.
Be sure the Proxy's are disabled for connections using the phones WAN. here is a cab to allow you to turn it on & off easily.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=59995&d=1196392341
not sure if this is gona help, but when i had wifi problems i found that going to settings, wireless lan, then the power mode tab and changing the power save mode from best battery to best performance fixed my wifi issues.
get your email address out of your login name
Try removing the network connection settings and let it redetect the network.
I'm having a bit of a problem connecting to BT Openzone hotspots with the Galaxy Nexus.
(For the record, these are the proper hotspots that you can connect to if you are a customer of Vodafone and not the annoying BT Fon hotspots with the same name).
I am allocated an IP address, however I can't get to the login page, as I have a feeling that BT can't determine what type of device I am using.
I get the following error message:
"Connection Problem
The connection to the server timed out"
I still have my Nexus One and that works without any fault.
Anyone else able to test this?
I can't connect to my university's wifi network (eduroam, PAE). Although I use the exact same settings and certificates as my notebook and also compared it to other android users, there is just no way to connect sucessfully: "Authentification failed"
Has anyone managed to do so?
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I can't connect to my university's wifi network (eduroam, PAE). Although I use the exact same settings and certificates as my notebook and also compared it to other android users, there is just no way to connect sucessfully: "Authentification failed"
Has anyone managed to do so?
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I have no problems connecting to eduroam network. I use TTLS on the first step and PAP on the second verification step. Don't know if every eduroam network is the same though, but in the Netherlands, it works.
Hmm, thank you. Do you also have the strange behaviour that the 2nd pass authentification is reseted when reentering the network configuration?
I read that there was such a strange behaviour back with gingerbread and some accesspoints, but that should already have been fixed in anroid 4?
Hi, I've got a problem with Remote Desktop Mobile.
It works well when I use computer’s local IP address - 192.168.1.15.
Then I opened the 3389 port so I could connect from 3G(to test it out I used WiFi first). Then I put the internet IP. The problem is, it doesn't want to connect. It says it's connecting, but it's taking too long. Finally, on my tp2 it says:
"Cannot connect. Likely reasons are:
1. The remote computer is not set up for this.
2. Reached the maximum number of connections
3. A network error occurred while connecting.
The first and second ones are lies.
I also tried using Hamachi. The same problem occurred.
So what may be the problem?
Thanks in advance.