The battle for wifi

[olly666]

Hi guys. If you don't remember me - here's my story in a nutshell. I got a 8525 about a week ago. Since day one I tried and tried and tried but never managed to get the wifi working... (as you can imagine I am beyond desperate at this point)

Anyway last night I got thinking and decided to give it another stab. I hard reset, messed with the settings again...and this time manage to get a little further. My phone is now showing me as "connect to network", only problem is I get a message saying "Cannot connect with current connection settings. To change connection settings, tap Settings." each time I try to access anything internet related. I know I'm close especially since I'm actually connected now, I think it's just AT&T's rom doing everything it can to get me to use their networks (I'm on T-Mobile and don't have a dataplan anyway...).

Anyway can you guys think of what the problem might be? I'm so close I can taste it! Thanks.....

[olly666]

Bump... Anyone home?

[Jc61990]

where did you get your 8525? my wifi on my 8525 works perfectly fine, have u tried upgrading to WM6?

[olly666]

I have WM6 already. I got it off ebay. Everything is perfectly fine with it, it just doesn't want to use the wifi connection to get online.

[kareeem]

Try a hard rest.

[Jc61990]

my 1st 8525 i got off ebay, and it worked great up until a few weeks ago, when the screen stopped functioning it just turned white, i called AT&T and they sent me a new 1 i just got it this morning and now, i cant make calls >.> it will ring then my phone will say i have no service when i have full service and the call will end. but my wifi is fine... did u use the WM6 upgrade that was released by AT&T

[olly666]

No thanks re: the hard reset. I've already done that... If I can't figure this out I'm going to sell my phone and steer clear of ppc phones. I like it, but I bought it for wifi and this is just getting ridiculous. I have tried everything. I've spent hours and hours on this. I've reset my router god knows how many times, played with security settings, reset my phone over and over to start over.....

The worst part now is that I know it's connected. The wifi aspect is fine. It's just the stupid phone not wanting to use the wifi connection for the internet.

Maybe someone with a 8525 and a Linksys router can post ALL of their wireless related settings for me.

Ekh :(

[olly666]

Yes I used the AT&T update.....

[Jc61990]

i use wifi and my linksys router, the 8525's range isnt that great u need to be within a few feet of the router to get good reception, im about 30 feet from mine and i get 2 Wifi signal bars and an ok speed. but try this

Start > Programs > Proxy Manager > Disable Proxy


then try to use your wifi, then go back and restore the proxy when your done, i think some 1 told me to do that because att uses that so u can use their internet service or sumthin

[olly666]

Thanks but I'm way ahead of you. I've already tried every piece of advice I've come across on xda. My last hope is someone elses detailed settings.

[Jc61990]

is your network passworded by a WEP or TKIP ?

[olly666]

It's WPA... My device has the password, and I added the MAC to my router table. It's connecting to the router/wifi...

[olly666]

...it's just that my device won't use the connection

[olly666]

* Sigh * Looks like another one of my please help me posts has gone dead...again...

[bamse]

...it's just that my device won't use the connection

Your problem may be one of the following:
1. The wifi connection is specified as connecting to "work" and programs are set to use an internet connection.
2. The wifi connection is specified as connecting to "internet" and programs are set to use a work connection.

[olly666]

Nope that's not it. But it does remind me of something so thanks. I deleted all the connections seeing as I don't have a dataplan... I made a new connection called "Wifi". BUT, it's not like I can specify any connection for it so it's just blank (no connection specified). By this I mean the options for a connection are:
bluetooth, cellular line, cellular line (GPRS, 3G), Generic IrDA, Hanes...COM1. No option for wireless...

Does that help?

[Hissing Syd]

Check that your router is set to allow connections by devices with 802.11b, which the Hermes uses. Most default to 802.11g only.

[olly666]

It's set for b and g

[olly666]

Helloooo...?

[olly666]

People, I have WIFI!!! :D:):p

Thanks to everyone who tried to give a helping hand... It's really appreciated.

For future reference to those who are suffering from the same problem - this is what seemed to fix it... I entered google into IE via it's IP address rather than it's name (open command prompt, ping google.com...). To my surprise the page quickly loaded. I then instantly realized that the problem was with the DNS settings. I opened up "Wi-Fi" in settings, went to the "Network Adapters" tab at the bottom and entered in the DNS addresses for "IEEE 802.11b/g...". If you need help with this just PM me (I consider myself somewhat of an expert on this topic now).

I thought I was never going to get online. There IS a god!

[mthomas]

the wifi connection is setup in a different place.It is setup by going to comm mgr>settings>wirelesslan>powermode [best perf]>leap[blank ]>enroll[blank ]>menu>network cards[at this point i would delete my existing wireless network settings asthey could be incorrect]>network adaptors [set=the internet]>...802.11b/g[note, device connects to either] [set to use server assig ed] >ok[as many times as needed to get back to comm mgr.

you should now be set for device to use wifi to connect to internet. turn on wifi, follow prompts to enter password, etc. If this fails, it could be your encryption setting on your router. try weppsk. i recall some issues there. also forget about mac address,etc. Let the software do its own thing. i doubt if anyone really cares about your wifi network, and if they do, you probably wont stop them for long anyway. Set router to show ssid for the initial connection at least. This way, you will be prompted to set up the connection.

I hope this works. I do not know if it is a problem for the device to have no cell connections setup or not. It will default to wifi if it is available. You may need to experiment with this if the above does not work. I have turned off my cell connection with bandswitch to force device to use wifi only in the past. I have never tried to use device with no cell data connection in the settings.

[olly666]

Thanks, but if you see the post just before yours, I figured it out and explained everything... ;)

[Bhups]

Hey peeps... I got a problem with this as well :'(

I'm trying to connect to my Buffalo WZR2-G300N Router with WPA-PSK TKIP settings and it doesn't even want to accept it.

It sees the AP and shows it available, it tries to connect to it when I tell it to, but it just goes back to Available.

any ideas?