WIFI Turning on by itslef with seitch in off position

[jjlwork]

I know this is not supposed to be able to happen, but on two occasions today and since upgrading to new radio and DCD 3.0 my wifi has turned on and detected networks with the wifi switch set to off, not sure why this is happening and I can not duplicate it on demand, trying to turn on wifi with the switch of via comm manager still does not work. Trying to find some kind of pattern but it has only happened twice.

Perhaps with the new radio there is a way to turn it on and off via software, or perhaps my switch is malfuntioning.

[etexter]

I had a similar experience as well.

I noticed it when I soft reset (not all the time, but 1/10 maybe?) and when trying to activesync, it would sometimes turn on.

[jjlwork]

I wish there was a way to figure it out, this means that it should be possible turn on wifi via software doesn't it?

Now that you mention it one of the times it came on was right after a soft reset.

[bradleyem]

Yep, this is becoming a well known problem.....well, for me not a big problem, just a slight annoyance....in the new ROM/Radio. It must have something to do with the radio, because I never experienced this in any other ROM. I'm wondering if WLAN may be turning on when there are short lapses in carrier coverage, and when an app (like activesync....I sync my e-mail using outlook)is trying to be connected to data (the internet). :confused: I just turn it back off when it turns on by itself. It doesn't ever seem to turn OFF by itself when I'm actually using WLAN.

EDIT:

one thing that may support my theory is that when you do a soft reset, it takes a bit to connect to the carrier network, and this just happens to be one of the times that WLAN turns itself back on..


And yeah, the battery usage definately sucks....plus when WLAN is turned on, and you're not connected to an access point, you could have data throughput issues as it keeps trying to see if it can connect through WLAN and/or radio......

[jjlwork]

I need it fixed :), I didn't catch it earlier and my battery lost 85% today wihtout me even using my phone. Normally I get 2 full days I haven't really used my phone today and was fully charged this morning now I am at 15%, very poor performance for my typical use.

[louderjw]

I am running dcd's 3.0.1 on my XV6800 and noticed that the wifi will turn on with the switch in the off position. It has happened to me a half dozen times or so. It only does it while I am on a call. Any suggestions? Has a solution been found yet? Any help is appreciated!

[PaulM-D]

Same here, but has only happened a of of times.

I am running dcd's 3.0.1 on my XV6800 and noticed that the wifi will turn on with the switch in the off position. It has happened to me a half dozen times or so. It only does it while I am on a call. Any suggestions? Has a solution been found yet? Any help is appreciated!

[cdoggwsu]

It only appears to happen while in a call for me as well...it happened with no additional software installed at that point so I'm certain it has something to do with the rom itself...I'm guessing the new radio but who knows for sure...

[llmo128]

i know what it is guy its wifirouter setting changes it makes all phones with this app will have the same deal!

[cdoggwsu]

i know what it is guy its wifirouter setting changes it makes all phones with this app will have the same deal!

Except that I've never installed WiFiRouter...

[jjlwork]

I don't have WifiRouter either.

[pflatlyne]

Except that I've never installed WiFiRouter...

And I hvae never had the problem. (and I do run wmwifirouter)

[codyppc]

i saw this when the kitchen first came out as well. i also saw that it wanted to connect to a roaming alot more than it should as well.

sprint will tell you to set you phone roaming settings to "sprint only" the phones and ROMs come with "automatic" enabled.

my sprint buddy told me long ago to change this from auto to sprint only. soft reset. let it conect to a good sprint connection. then switch back to "auto" and soft reset.

i haven't did this for a year or so, but when i started seeing the roaming icon after many of the soft resets i thought about it. since i did this i haven't seen the roaming nor the wifi bug.

i think it is the theory that when you softreset the phone set on auto looks for the first tower, which could be a roaming tower. this takes a little too long to conect. in this longer than normal connection time when something like activesync wants to connect and has no internet connection it will enable wifi to connect if it has to.

i have noticed in the past with other ROM's as well that if your phone is in flight mode and you soft reset. as soon as activesync tries to connect and cant it will turn on wifi.

try this. turn on flight mode. soft reset. open active sync and hit sync. you'll see.

so for the record... this is not a dcd bug, but rather a windows mobile bug. wm 5 and 6. the best fix is to set it to sprint only or do the trick i stated above.

[c@rL0$]

Are any of you running the HTC Home Plugin with the weather patch?

Because I installed it on my XV6800 and on a soft reset the WiFi was acting wacky. As if it was looking for a signal.

All I did to correct this issue was to disable automatic roam / download of the weather.

[jjlwork]

Well what I noticed so far is this, mostly happens after a soft reset, but sometimes it does it at random. Only happens when I have DCD 3.0.1, I am not seeing it with any other custom rom and I think I have tried them all. I have not had any roaming icons or the like and with telus customizations on you have two options for network, there is standard and automatic.

The only reason I hold on to it being dcd 3.0.1 is that no other version 3.35rom I've installed has done it, the ones I have installed off the top of my head are the stock sprint rom, DCD 3.0, 3.0.1, no2chem 5053, and two others that I can't remember as well as my own stripped down version of the stock sprint rom.

[c@rL0$]

Well what I noticed so far is this, mostly happens after a soft reset, but sometimes it does it at random. Only happens when I have DCD 3.0.1, I am not seeing it with any other custom rom and I think I have tried them all. I have not had any roaming icons or the like and with telus customizations on you have two options for network, there is standard and automatic.

The only reason I hold on to it being dcd 3.0.1 is that no other version 3.35rom I've installed has done it, the ones I have installed off the top of my head are the stock sprint rom, DCD 3.0, 3.0.1, no2chem 5053, and two others that I can't remember as well as my own stripped down version of the stock sprint rom.

Did you have this issue with your Stock ROM?

[cdoggwsu]

I only ran the stock 3.35 rom for about a day but I seem to recall it happened then as well. I didn't think it was necessarily DCD's rom but was an issue with the new radio. I'll try the steps cody recommended and see if that does the trick.

[kennyidaho]

i know what it is guy its wifirouter setting changes it makes all phones with this app will have the same deal!

Nor have I.

[1999TL]

I just switched to sprint only, and after a soft reset, the wifi did not turn on as usual.

[jjlwork]

Did you have this issue with your Stock ROM?


No I did not, however I also did not have it on there very long. I flash often, and I am constantly tweaking, "My name is jjlwork have a flashing problem" lo

Interestingly enough I am able to reproduce by following cody's instructions with the flight mode -> soft reset -> activesync

[jjlwork]

So I installed No2Chem 5055 yesterday to make sure I am not imagining something is there when it is not and I am not seeing the random wifi comming on with his rom, so I still stand firm that there is something happening in DCD's rom that is causing wifi to come on.

In both roms I can reproduce it by turning the flight mode on soft resetting and going to activesync, but in DCDs rom it happens simply by soft reseting about 30-60% of time without following that proceedure as well as at random intervals here and there during the day, I've seen it come on up to five times a day all by itself.

[kennyidaho]

Mine does it at random. Most of the time after ending a call.

[fvultee]

I tried WMWifiRouter and walkinghotspot. Both uninstalled, however the problem persisted. I just fixed it (at least on my phone), and here's the solution. Go to Network Cards and make sure that you don't have a hard set IP, default gateway, and DNS server. Make sure that you have "Use Server Assigned IP address" on your IEEE 802.11b/g Compatible Wi-Fi Adapter entry.