Mini & Wifi Issue.

[madbart]

I have an XDA mini and a Sandisk SD WiFi card.
When I load the drivers and insert the card it works fine.
After about 20 minutes of use i disconnect and remove the card.

My issue is that when i re insert the card a couple of hours later or the next day the card will not initialize. I have to do a soft reset to get the card going again.

Anyone have any clues or ways to resolve this?????

[katsj]

That is true! It happened to me! But you dont need to soft reset your jam! You only have to go to the AP Browser of your card add again your access point and press apply and it will be fine! My sandisk wifi+256 works better with 1.06 than with 1.03! The good thing is that when you turn wireless off it wont turn off your bluetooth too as it used to do with version 1.03 ;)

[madbart]

what do you mean by AP browser?

[katsj]

Just click on the wifi Antenna located on the lower right of jam's screen and then click on AP Browser

[madbart]

The card does not initialize.....i don't get the antenna coming up. :?

[ddrddr]

i have the same problem
if i boot w/ another sd card, it doesn't recognize the wifi card
or after i switch a number of cards, same problem
works fine after soft reset tho

[madbart]

I have discovered the root of the problem and it seems that when i have 2 applications loaded i need to soft reset to get the wif going again. They programs are SPB Software house's GPRS monitor and weather applications. When i remove these the card works fine....as soon as they are installed again they kill my card.

[katsj]

I use both those programs (SPB pocket plus 2.1) and GPRS monitor and my card works fine all the time!

[madbart]

I use pocket plus 2.5.
I have done a hard reset and reloaded everything and the some thing occurs. I will try it again this evening and see how i go.

[katsj]

try 2.1! I had many problems with 2.5

[madbart]

the main reason for me using 2.5 as opposed to 2.1 is that it allows the integration of the gprs monitor and the weather into it tabs.

Without it the apps simply take up too much real estate on the screen.

[bamse]

This may be the cure to the card not initializing on a soft reset:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=18327&highlight=bluetooth+today+timeout

Kind of the same problem but with the built-in bluetooth.

[mjheathcote]

I seem to be having problems with the SanDisk wifi card too.
I loaded the drivers from Sandisk, inserted the card and it appeared to work okay at first.
Later when I inserted the card all I have now is a pop up box "unable to connect to the wireless card Netcard. Is it inserted?" The card little red light does not illuminate at all.
I have done a soft reset, reloaded the drivers, and removed spb pocket plus 2.5. I still have however the spb GPRS monitor.
Short of a hard reset i am stuck.
Could the card be dead?
I have a MDA Compact with UK T-mobile ROM etc.
Thanks,
Mike.

[madbart]

I removed 2.5 and installed 2.1 and seems to work fine now.
Keeping in mind that i did a hard reset and reloaded all my software.

[mjheathcote]

After a hard reset and no other software, still no joy :cry:
Phoned Sandisk technical support, and after half an hour of reloading drivers etc the conclusion was the card had died :(
So it is being returned for repair/replacement.

Interestingly Sandisk tech. said that the card would be discontinued shortly due to the number of pda's with built-in wifi. Also no drivers would be developed for WM2003 SE or any future software versions :evil:

[kjeldran]

The problem is when you use the phone application either incoming or outgoing, the wifi card drivers dont get initialized again so a soft reset is needed. The wifi drivers and phone appl drivers dont interact well with each other.

What i do is i kill the phone application using some taskmanger temporarily, insert the wifi card then you will see the led blinks on the wifi card (works most of the time) after which relaunch the phone application. So no reset needed.

[mitchello]

I use my Sandisk WiFi everyday, and don't have the problem you describe (touchwood). I do all of the things you said, and have no problems. I use GPRS Monitor 2.3.0 too (constantly running).

I use driver v3.00.04. Have you tried a hard reset and progressive install of all your apps to see the cause? (yes, it is a pain)