Wifi Goes To Sleep

[divadh]

Hello.

I just got an O2 XDA IIs for Christmas. Great bit of kit, but there is one annoyance I'm having at the moment which maybe someone can shed some light on.

When I turn the device on I connect to my Wifi network and the net connection is working fine, but if I leave it for more than a few minutes without using the connection then it seems to lose connectivity. Browsing to a page in PocketIE produces a "This page cannot be found" error. The only solution is to disable/enable the wifi connection or turn off/on the device to get the connection back.

I should mention that the device has been upgraded to the latest UK O2 rom 1.40. and that power saving settings for WiFi is set to the minimum.

Does anyone have any hints to stop this happening?

Thanks, David.

[z_rudy]

Although I think the powersaving setting isn't related, try setting to to Medium. I think I used to do this when I first got my BA.

Other than that, are you leaving your BA device completely? It could be entering sleep mode? Do you have to set your network (Start -> Settings -> Connections -> Connections -> Advanced -> Select network) when you turn on the Wifi? If yes, then set it again while it is off.

And could it be your Wifi access point dropping idle connections? Is it new? first try? or you've been using it from before?

Apart from all that, I'd suggest that you switch to i-mate 1.40 ROM or T-Mobile 1.42. Customize the device as you wish. Many people don't like the O2 customizations since they slow down the PPC.