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tgigreeny
4th February 2006, 12:50 AM
Okay, any help on this would be massively appreciated!

I have an XDA IIs, and a Belkin Wireless Pre-N Router. After some initial farting around the two now talk happily to one another and I can browse the web on my lovely black brick.

So far so good.

Now for the bad part. My girlfriend just got an XDA Mini S.

Using the exact same settings as the IIs, the phone won't connect. It finds my wireless network, and I chose connect to The Internet (same as on the IIs). No joy. In wireless settings the status of the connection simply says Availalbe. Then I hit connect, it says connecting, then it goes right back to available.

Here's what I've tried with no joy...

* Phoning O2. They have no idea, say there's no official ROM update either and it ain't their problem. Grrr.

* Tried disabled all security and firewall.

* Tried WEP and WPA security with the right keys entered in the Mini S. (Can get the IIs to work on all of these)

* Turned of MAC filtering.

* Turned on MAC filtering with the Mini S MAC address on the allow list.

* Updated the firmware on the router to the very latest (December 05) version

* Hard reset the phone, reinstalling in 'personal' mode, then in 'basic' mode.

* Tried connecting to Work instead of the Internet. (Obviously not going to work but I'm getting desparate by this point)

* Turned the routers protected mode to Off and to On

* Set up the router as a basic access point with no security or firewall at all.

* Tried manually assigning an IP address to the phone.

All to no avail. I've seen others with similar problems elsewhere here and on the web with no joy. Its a real pain as she only got the phone for the wireless capabilities and my flipping PSP is better at the job than her brand new PDA!

She's threatening to break something (possibly parts of the chief exec of O2s anatomy) unless I can fix it. As I don't want to have to visit her in Durham prison for the next few years does anyone have any suggestions!

Please!

PS noted that aside from the obvious differences in Windows Mobile versions between my IIs and her Mini S; my wireless network adapter is listed as "tiacxwln Compatible Wireless Ethernet" and her's is listed as "SDIO WLAN Wireless Adapter". Its the only setup difference I can find.

wilesd
4th February 2006, 10:54 AM
Try changing wireless settings from best battery to best performance

tgigreeny
4th February 2006, 11:56 AM
Forgot to mention - I've already tried that one. Thanks for the suggestion though!

steewb
4th February 2006, 04:40 PM
I found a registry hack elsewhere here to make the wizard connect in G-Mode. If i tried it, it wouldn't connect to all accesspoints i tried.
Perhaps this helps you, try to change between b/g mode.

tgigreeny
4th February 2006, 05:05 PM
Thanks for that. I have tried the router in both b and g mode as well as mixed with no luck.

Will have a look for the reg hack and see if that makes any differerece.

tgigreeny
4th February 2006, 05:23 PM
You genius steewb!

Installed the cab file with the reg hacks for g mode, reset and it worked. Hurrah!

Thank you so much.

(Incidentally I also turned ACK on the router off - though I doubt this made a difference. Just thought I'd mention it if anyone else was having problems and wanted to try it).

Incidentally the Mini S seems to get better wireless reception than my IIs. Might have to convince my girlfriend to swap phone with me now.

thchan
3rd October 2006, 10:04 AM
Actually, I had the same wifi problem with my Wizard connecting to Belkin pre-N router. Turning off QoS and Ack solved the issue. So I suspect you might have solved this by turning QoS/Ack off. Try turning it back on and see if the problem comes back.

smiley_thing69
3rd October 2006, 02:54 PM
You genius steewb!
Installed the cab file with the reg hacks for g mode, reset and it worked. Hurrah!


Hi.

Any chance you could send me the cab file you used, or a link to where we can find it please?

Cheers

Rob

Dr Spoons
13th December 2006, 08:46 PM
boys boys boys......

firm gives me a Mini s (treo can't view office docs) i don't want mini s cos I like Treo - then a mate says "you'll love it IT HAS WIRELESS...." could i get it working? could I ****.. 4 days many hours...... Applied the reg hack to enable g (could have been enabled anyways 02 says g in the spec but i figured it can't hurt)

then i find this post and read tgigreeny's excellent update (man that's a concentrated effort and many hours) ...... well would you believe it I too have a belkin pre-N AND I tried everything too, everything except flicking the router configs ..... and yes I am now the proud owner of a mobile online web connection.


shall be dancing naked round the house this evening mini s in hand.

Happy?

Dam right - thanks fellas great post. one happy camper ;)

bbobeckyj
30th December 2006, 03:54 AM
I have the same problem with my wanadoo wireless. I can't find any Ack. option on my config. pages. Please could anyone point me in the right direction

shogunmark
30th December 2006, 05:13 AM
shall be dancing naked round the house this evening mini s in hand.


please tell me you are referring to your phone... :D

bbobeckyj
3rd January 2007, 04:08 PM
I have the same problem with my wanadoo wireless. I can't find any Ack. option on my config. pages. Please could anyone point me in the right direction

as is mentioned many time in this forum, i decided to READ anything remotely similar to my problem and found a few references to the (o2) wizard having problems with wpa security. so i turned that off! and then my pc wouldn't connect! after a quick heart attack i solved that and now i am connected on both. Many thanks to all who posted in the networking forum.

CHEFTOM19
4th May 2010, 05:34 PM
where can i find this hack for my mini s i have the same trouble and it is driving me crazy.

aphexZero
8th May 2010, 12:02 AM
please tell me you are referring to your phone... :D

It's still a brick!