WIFI encryption dead?

[starik]

I have a wiress router at home that i used with PDA2k. Surfing net over TKIP-PSK encrypted connection worked fine for many months.

One day, there was some problem connecting or it hung up (dont remember exactly), so i popped out battery and put it back in ... and since that day, i cannot make a TKIP-PSK connection with the phone to anything. If i set up router as OPEN point (no passwd), the f**king phone connects!

I did:

1. reset router
2. reflashed router.
3. Hard reset phone
4. Reflashed phone with WM2003 and older radio rom.
5. Reflashed WM05
6. Reflashed Wm2003 and latest radio rom
7. Tried different router.

No results!

I live in apartment building and cant leave my router in the open. Other encryption modes supported by PDA2k dont work either.

I DONT GET IT!!! HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT SH*T STOPPED WORKING? If some hardware chip died, WIFI wouldnt work at all! But it works for non-encrypted connections!!

[xan]

Unbelievable sad story. Everything points for some hv failure, but I just don't believe it. Try some more routers.

[_TB_TB_]

Try reflashing to older radio ROM. It may help.......

[fraser]

But it works for non-encrypted connections!!
The crypto stuff is done on-board the wifi IIRC, so that's possible.

I once heard of people having problems on the phone when using the keyboard for the encyption key. The recommendation was to use the on-screen keyboard to ensure the key is entered correctly. Might be worth a try, but try it with the most basic encryption settings i.e. wep to keep things simple. Make sure you disable EAP in the phone settings.

The problem could be within the storage space within the Wifi hardware. It has it's own registers for the actual settings. If some were in nvram that maintained it's state, then corruption to these would be bad.

A last resort might be to take of the battery for a few days to completely drain the backup battery. If there are any volatile storage areas maintained by this that are not cleared during a hard reset, then a complete power down will reset them. One of the problems with this phone is that you cannot fully switch it off.

Take the last two paragraphs with a pinch of salt; I've never looked into the hardware on these phones in any great detail, so it's all guesswork.

[starik]

ok , i'll try a full powerdown.

i have windows 2005.

just to confirm : i will only lose the RAMdisk with temp files? the rest of the stuff is in the flash?

[fraser]

Yes, that's correct.

[starik]

well, i finally got around to draining the backup battery.

any kind of encryption/password authentication over WIFI no longer works.

time to buy a new pda phone.

[mikebb00]

I have a wiress router at home that i used with PDA2k. Surfing net over TKIP-PSK encrypted connection worked fine for many months.

One day, there was some problem connecting or it hung up (dont remember exactly), so i popped out battery and put it back in ... and since that day, i cannot make a TKIP-PSK connection with the phone to anything. If i set up router as OPEN point (no passwd), the f**king phone connects!

I did:

1. reset router
2. reflashed router.
3. Hard reset phone
4. Reflashed phone with WM2003 and older radio rom.
5. Reflashed WM05
6. Reflashed Wm2003 and latest radio rom
7. Tried different router.

No results!

I live in apartment building and cant leave my router in the open. Other encryption modes supported by PDA2k dont work either.

I DONT GET IT!!! HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT SH*T STOPPED WORKING? If some hardware chip died, WIFI wouldnt work at all! But it works for non-encrypted connections!!

I'm in the same boat with my SX66, the SD slot no longer appears to recognized memory (pny or sandisk). I re-flashed the ROM to factory default and still doesn't recognize memory modules.

How do you drain the backup battery? I haven't done this yet...

Mike

[fraser]

well, i finally got around to draining the backup battery.

any kind of encryption/password authentication over WIFI no longer works.

time to buy a new pda phone.
Did you ever try it with another router at all? Might be worth trying as I didn't notice you mentioning it.

[_TB_TB_]

I did:

1. reset router
2. reflashed router.
7. Tried different router.

No results!

See above;P

[dychu75]

Had the same problem with my set(wm5). Did not know why, could not log into my wep network. After hardreset , and leaving the phone alone for 10 mins, it was functional again . Thought i just voice out .