How to get Windows Live to connect over Wifi?

[Packrat]

I am using vp3gs 3.61 rom with windows live messenger version 10.6.0031.2600. no matter what I do it won't connect on my WPA-PSK enabled router. I can connect fine to the internet.

Any special setup I need to do to get it to work?

Thanks for any help.

EDIT

Could someone on ATT disable the phone and use WIFI only and see if you can connect to LIVE?

[tytnguy]

I am using 10.6.0031.1600(older than yours) but I am able to connect to live services using the wifi with WPA-PSK.
I am using my own cooked rom.
Search in all the forums I remember some people had the simillar issues and had some 'workarounds'
Sorry I do not really remember.

[joel32137]

I too also had a problem with .2600, reverted to .1600 and all is good over wifi. By the way, I'm using WPA TKIP on my wifi.

[Packrat]

Tried that one too and still get the "there was a problem signing you in to messenger" error after checking internet connectivity.

[simon_darley]

try these ideas.

1 ensure your wifi settings are to internet and not work

2 ensure you dnt have the ip address set up in exceptions (these ips are only for intranet)

3 turn off your phone entirely. soft reset your phone. check that wifi is still internet and not work.

4 turn on wifi only. check that u have normal internet access. emails and hotmail etc work ok. then open messenger and sign in.

5 if you have to, use wlm switch user command and relogin.


this should work. once u have run and got it working, you can turn your phone back on and it should continue to use wifi and not 3g

s.

[Packrat]

try these ideas.

1 ensure your wifi settings are to internet and not work

2 ensure you dnt have the ip address set up in exceptions (these ips are only for intranet)

3 turn off your phone entirely. soft reset your phone. check that wifi is still internet and not work.

4 turn on wifi only. check that u have normal internet access. emails and hotmail etc work ok. then open messenger and sign in.

5 if you have to, use wlm switch user command and relogin.


this should work. once u have run and got it working, you can turn your phone back on and it should continue to use wifi and not 3g

s.

Still times out on checking internet connection.
I get email and internet fine. but no WLM.

[Packrat]

I am using ATT. What should there be under Connections?
I have tried 2 My ISP and Media.net on My ISP it times out automatically, on Media.net it takes a while to time out.

Also did a hard reset to make sure that it wasnt anything I had installed. With the stock rom I still get the time out.

[simon_darley]

the proxy server u r using will b blocking that port.

I use telstra in australia, internet and push email works with proxy on, but wlm doesnt.

so i just turn off proxy and everything works except some of the telstra stuff which i dont want anyway.

proxy tends to give a garden firewall of their preferred content.

dunno how to deal with att, but suggest one of your connections should allow you to bypass the proxy styled firewall garden of att.


soz i dont have it to help u further, except to point u towards the proxy manager.

[simon_darley]

just to reiterate and emphasis the telstra proxy manager controls over rides and screws up 3g/next G connections AND my wifi.

only by turning this proxy manager off can i use wifi and 3g fully.

[Packrat]

Thanks, there is a cab that disables the proxy on the att phone, so I disabled it, but that didnt help either.

[kopibean]

Hi, does anyone have the cab or installer for the latest WLM 10.6.0031.2600? Can someone post it or make it available for download? Thanks a million :)

[Packrat]

Is anyone who has ATT able to use Windows Live Messenger?

[Packrat]

Okay since WLM obviously doesnt work over wifi. How do you guys setup your outlook to get Hotmail?

[Memnoch30]

Is anyone who has ATT able to use Windows Live Messenger?

Absolutely. I use it all the time. Mostly through 3G but sometimes through my home wireless network. Never had a problem.

[Packrat]

Memnoch30, what version of WLM you using and do you have it set any special way in connections to use WIFI?

[Packrat]

Well it seems I am not the only one having this problem, I got an interesting PM stating another person has the same problem as I do. If someone else could do me a favor, turn off the phone in comm manager, but keep wifi on. Can you still connect to Live???

[Packrat]

Anyone? Thanks in advance

[Kayser]

Hi
Just try to keep the Red button pressed ~3s (it will cancel the GPRS connection) then Messenger will use the wifi one (i do like that since i use pocket msn).

[Packrat]

Hi
Just try to keep the Red button pressed ~3s (it will cancel the GPRS connection) then Messenger will use the wifi one (i do like that since i use pocket msn).

Doesn't work for me, all that does is close out Live messenger.

anything else I need to try?

[Packrat]

It doesnt work even if I turn off GPRS and leave wifi only.

[Packrat]

Still doesnt work for me and I have tried everything. Anyone have this working with WIFI ONLY???

[foaf]

I got the same problem. Can connect fine over 3g, gprs. But not through WiFi only or USB direct connect to a PC. Internet is fine. But no Windows Live :( I'm on T-Mobile UK.

Edit: I then tested while abroad, turned off the data connection and only had WiFi working. And it worked. Perhaps my experience is only when through direct USB cable.

[Pumpiron579]

Try to reinstall WLM over your previous version. Even if it is the same version. I had done that a couple of times since I flash roms quit often and it worked for me.