WIFI connection issues with Prophet (spv M600)

[cedrick]

Hi all,

I have a big problem with my Prophet and its WIFI, I didn't manage to connect to anything.

First, I had the Orange French rom.
When i tried to connect to my hotspot with WPA protection, although the prophet could see the hotspot, try to connect to it, connection seemed to stay blocked... status was "connected to network" but no IP given (DHCP is activated on my hotpot).

Then I read that WPA wasn't well supported by WM5 so i put a WEP encryption on my hotspot. This time the prophet connect and an IP address appeared in wifi sttings, but connection reseted all the time... connected, not connected, connected again, not connected...
impossible to stabilise the connection.

I tried on another hotspot without encryption, and same thing, connection reseting again and again... :cry:

Now I've just tried with the last dopod rom which I've found right here, but no change, the wifi connection is impossible.

I'm kinda lost, dunno what's going wrong with something that should work without any problems...
Does someone ever seen something like this?
Could it be a material failure?

Thanks a lot for your help!!! :wink:

Cedrick

[cedrick]

It was a hardware disfunction, replaced today with another prophet which works fine :o

[meisterlampe2000]

Hello,

I Just got my XDA Neo (o2Germany) 2 days ago and because i´ve read about the Dopod Rom beeing faster, i upgraded immediatly.

The Problem now is the bad Wireless performance, i never get a good connection - Still if i am right next to the Router/Accesspoint...

Did i understand you right that this is a Hardware failure ?
Can I correct this with a different Rom ?

The Problem is that i cannot give it back to o2 now, because of the Dopod Rom - Maybe i have to try the Downgrade Method presented yesterday...

Can you give some more information about Wlan performance ??

THX !!

[cedrick]

Hi,

First of all, did you try the wireless connection with your first original rom?

And what do you mean by "never get a good connection", could you explain that point? does the prophet connect and disconnect?
You must know that wifi performance are kinda poor on this device from what I heard and what I saw... you'll never get something like your laptop for example.

But I'll do some test at home and see how it's going now that I can really connect (I never could before, so I never really tried :wink:)

Anyway, in my case it was clearly hardware as I have the problem on my Orange rom, then I had the same problem with the Dopod one.
Now I just received a new prophet, and it worked fine on the first try with the Orange rom...
I'd like to try with the Dopod again but until they find a way to downgrade, i won't take the irsk... or maybe yes, i dunno :P

[meisterlampe2000]

First of all: Thank you for answering so quick !!!

Yes i can connect, and i can also Use Opera, Internet Explorer and so on...

But i think it is really slow, i never got the connection far away from "poor" ...

Even the original o2 Xda neo rom was not better...

I will have to try some different Roms when downgrading will be made possible i think.

[cedrick]

you said your o2 rom wasn't better? is that right?

it is slow for me too (right now i'm on my prophet over wifi)... but i don't think the rom would make a big difference, i mean, the dopod us supposed to be the fastest...

I think the device itself have a poor wifi...

could you confirm that your o2 rom was as poor as the dopod or did i get it wrong?
maybe you could also test your connection speed too.

[meisterlampe2000]

If you tell me how i can test the Connection, i can do for sure !

I did not "really" test the o2-rom, i started the XDA and after Windows was ready, i saw it is quite slow in the menue - wireless was detected and i connected but signal quality was exactly the same bad thing i have now.

Edit: TXRATE is "Auto", after 2 Minutes or so it drops to 2Mbps

[cedrick]

408 Kb/s is what I get when I run a basic speed test.

that ain't bad... and I t ink pocket IE is quite slow too...
We are not on a PC after all, the proc speed also affect the connection speed.

I think that it's already nice to have wifi on a little device like this :)

[meisterlampe2000]

I`ll do a DSL-Speedtest, i think this is what you did, too ?

EDIT:

Downloading is very fast can you give me a clue wehre i can exactly see the speed?

[cedrick]

exactly :D

[meisterlampe2000]

Mhm, after a new Hardreset a interruped the *.cab file installs with the first reboot - The System is much faster now. The Wireless Quality is not better but i can Download and Phone via Skype without any Problems and interruptions.I Think my System had an overload, now it is fast and it works.

I will test the wireless range tomorrow...