Xda IIs & WLAN/GPRS issues

[mike.brunner]

Upgraded from Xda II to Xda IIs end January and initially WLAN worked fine, but no GPRS. Went though process of creating GPRS connection (with O2 Support) and now cannot get IE to connect through WLAN. It always tries GPRS! Has anyone experienced this and/or got a solution?
:(

[wth]

Mike,
You will need to give us some more info on your settings.
If its an O2 unit with original firmwware if you back stuff up try a hard reset to get default settings back and ensure GPRS works then add the WLAN.

I live in Caldecote just outside Cambridge if you get really stuck we could meet up and you can try and copy my settings and check your SIM has GPRS enabled using mine that kind of thing.

Cheers Wayne

[mike.brunner]

Many thanks Wayne. I'll do a backup and hard reset (with trembling hand no doubt) and see where I get to before getting back to you. Many thanks for the offer of help. I'm in Barrington, so it's not a million miles to come to talk if necessary. :)

[pab]

you might already know this mike and if so at least it may be of help to others.
if your gprs connection is active then it doesn't matter wheather the wireless lan is on or off, internet explorer will always connect to gprs.
switch off gprs by clickiing on (in my case O2) your service providers icon and if "mobile web" is highlighted then click on it to switch it off.

[mike.brunner]

Thanks, but I'd tried that and more. Eventually, as Wayne suggested, I did the dreaded hard reset and restored everything from scratch. I now have WLan working on my home LAN, but as I have such lousy GSM/GPRS coverage here I haven't yet tried to see if the GPRS side is now going to work. That's for tomorrow and where I started in the first place when I found it wasn't working! :?

Thank everyone for the suggestions.

[rphanan]

Hello Mike

I had the same problem, and after thorough search I found the solution:

start->settings->connections -> advanced

select networks : both drop-down boxes are set to
"my work network"

This prevents the automatic gprs connections.

If you want gprs you can use the wireless manager
(start->programs->wireless manager)
and there tap the red gprs icon

In other words RTFM.... :)

Here is the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=13869&highlight=wifi +gprs

Hanan
Hanan