Hello everyone,
My Nokia Lumia 520 can flawlessly connect to password-protected WiFi networks, such as my home network.
However, my phone has trouble connecting to no-password, public WiFi hotspots. In theory:
In Settings, under WiFi, my phone displays available WiFi networks.
A public WiFi hotspot is displayed as "Open".
I tap on the public WiFi hotspot to connect to it.
The phone reports "Attention Required".
Shortly afterwards, the phone auto-launches a browser displaying the hotspot's Terms.
I accept the hotspot's Terms. I now have Internet access!
However, I am usually stuck in Step 4. My phone does not auto-launch the hotspot's Terms! In this situation, I do not know how to proceed to Step 5.
Internet Explorer does not work until the hotspot's Terms are accepted. What should I do?
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Ok, this was working fine on the original AT&T ROM, but since I flashed to dutty's ROM, I cant get it to work. How do I force the phone to use wifi for net access when wifi is turned on, as opposed to medianet? Currently, I have to keep manually switching from medianet to "my work connection" in connection settings.
You can use Kaiser Tweak to set it to disconnect the GPRS connection after a set amount of minutes of inactivity. Then, when you enable WiFi, it should connect ONLY to WiFi.
I think the OP needs to sort out his "work" and his "internet" instead of just trying to turn off radio data.
I have medianet set to internet and my wifi set to work...not really clear what "work" is....just want to automatically use wifi when wifi is connected, and cant find the option to do that.
Anybody???
I did set both connections to "work".
Additionally I added my tmobile gprs connection to the work profile.
All seems to work great.
I can acces my network shares over wifi and connect to the internet. When no wifi is available it connects via gprs.
I keep getting confused on this same issue. i installed the same rom we are talking about. it shows up for me when setting up email accounts. with my wifi turned on, it still tries to go out the 3g connection. I want it to use wifi if that is what is turned on and i think that was working on the death star rom. For the drop down that says "The Internet" I basically want that to point to wifi if on then fall back to 3g. How do we do that?
It should not be named "work".
So whats the solution here?
Under Connections....Select which networks are automatically used:
Programs that connect to the internet should connect using ???
I can either choose Medianet or my work network, I'd like for it to use wifi when available, how is this done?
Programs that connect to a private network should connect using ???
I have this set to my work network.
Easy Solution to 'Auto Wifi"
Buy an Iphone, works seemlessly, and you get a browser too which works, something these HTC phones havn't had in 3 years.
The easiest way to force wifi (since gprs can be acting as a ***** ), is to keep wlan enabled and to install the NOGPRS.cab (aka the modaco nodata plugin) which allows you to disable (but keep) the gprs settings and which you can toggle on (and back off) when needed.
Great little app, saves much annoyance!
Is there an easy way to toggle wi-fi on/off, that can be assigned to an icon or button? At the moment I have to open Comm Manager each time and do it from there.
Rob F
I bought a HTC tilt but I cant figure out the wifi settings. Its from the states, and its branded AT&T. THe phone itself is unlocked and ive been using it on the fido network for the past week. Everything works fine but i cant figure out how to get the wifi to work. It wont connect to the internet or my wireless network.
bumpppppppppppp
step1: turn wifi on via comm manager
step2: hit settings, wireless lan
step3: choose ur network from the list
step4: follow the settings and fill out the WEP key given by your network
step5: connect!
Same problem for me.
I have done eaxctly as described above but despite showing as connected the phone will not access the internet through wifi.
Same sort of thing here, using both standard t-mobile rom and newest HTC rom, my wireless connects, i get an ip from my router, but i am unaible to browse the web
in settings/wi-fi/network adapters/connects to:the internet
settings/connections/advanced/select networks/both options:my isp
also tried setting both options to "work"
any clues anyone?
click start, settings, connections, wlan, and change the power mode from battery to performance
Morning all,
I just got a touch diamond2, this is my first fone with wifi. a couple of questions!
when i'm at home or whereever and connect through wifi this has no impact on download limits within my fone contract?
Does the fone automatically no to use wifi for the internet connection when one is connected?
my fone doesn't stay connected to my home network, it finds it and connects ok but then a min or so later it says 'not connected, networks available'?
any help appreciated
Cheers
Gazza
Hi,
Using WiFi connections at home will not contribute to your mobile data plan. Wi-Fi data does not go over the cellular networks, and therefore is not part of your contract plan. This also means that you can use VoIP, streaming video, and other services over Wi-Fi, whereas you may not be able to over your mobile data plan.
The phone will not switch automatically between Mobile Data and Wi-Fi. You would need to close the Mobile Data connection, and re-start with Wi-Fi every time you wanted to switch.
Your mobile phone WiFi connection may be entering a power-saving mode when idle; To disable this, download the Advanced Config Tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=418151 and install it. Open the Advanced Config Tool and look for the Network settings. The bottom two options should be "Turn off Wi-Fi if no activity" and "Wi-Fi Auto off timeout" Change these as appropriate.
Hope this helps!
Hi, here are my answers based on my experience:
1) When connected to a WiFi network (eg. home, work,school etc) your phone operator is not in the position to charge you anything.You'll be charged only if using your operator GPRS,3g etc services. If you want to avoid Operator connections use Nodata.cab or make the right settings in Advanced config or HD Tweak.
2) Once Wifi connection established, it should have the priority on other data connections.
3) Wifi connection stability depends on radio and ROM you're using, my solution is to to set "Maximum Performance" in the Power Management tab under Wifi Settings. Not doing this leads to instable or even "fake" connections: windows says you're connected but no data traffic occur This is the only workaround I know, any other suggestion is super-welcome!
Cheers
All I get at work is "Wifi Connected, but no internet". How can I re-direct?
Hi everyone,
I have been happily using my rooted NC (1.1+Autonooter3) for the last two weeks or so... At home, NC connects to my WiFi network without any problems. However, at work I have to force it to do one thing to be able to connect, and I dont know how to do that...
Specifically, at work, we have an open campus WiFi network that I normally use with my iPod Touch, MBP, etc. On my MBP, when you connect to the network and start a browser, a new page opens and asks for a username/password and provides access. On iPod Touch, as soon as I connect to the network, a pop up screen (not safari) asks for a user name/password and it remembers it for a while (e.g., I dont have to enter it again for a while even if the device is off for an extended amount of time). When I try to use my NC under the same network, it connects, receives an IP address, but after "testing" period, it displays "no internet" (because I am not asked to enter my credentials). Opening a browser doesn't bring up a page to enter them either. At only one (1) occasion, while waiting for the WiFi to connect I saw a message "the network is attempting to re-direct, do you want to allow it" (or something along those lines) and a pop up asked for a user name /password and the connection worked. However, I have no way of getting that message (tried many many times since), and it simply doesn't show up.
Is there any way that I can enable "re-directing" for that particular network so that I can enter my username and password to use it? Is there an alternative approach (e.g., having the browser to ask the first time it starts?
Thanks in advance!
Long version:
-I am running a media server for my family (as well as NAS/printer/etc sharing) so I need an internet connection and WiFi on the server at all times.
-I live in an area where the internet is.... unreliable... going out for 15+ minutes on a near-monthly basis, and for shorter periods every few days.
-When I am in one of these long outages (and since nobody can use the internet they all want to watch content on the media server, which for some reason requires an internet connection to stream over the local network) I was planning to just USB/BT tether my Note9 to the server until the outage ended...
But...
Every time I tether it, in less than 15 minutes, often less than 5, despite me toggling WiFi to "Off" the phone has decided to turn wifi back on and reconnect to the network with no internet connection, terminating my cellular data session. WiFi tethering is not an option since I need the server to remain on the wifi network to serve media to... cantankerous... retired senior citizens who refuse to learn to download media themselves for offline viewing......
Tl;Dr:
How can I force the Note9 to stay on mobile data and not reconnect to WiFi untill I tell it to? (being a note9 it is, of course, Stock and un-rootable)
Try with mobile data always active under Developer options
Could be this setting in connection
Wi fi
Advanced
paul_59 said:
Could be this setting in connection
Wi fi
Advanced
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That's the one! Also change location settings so that it doesn't use wifi for location tracking, because that will also turn on wifi if it's set to use the chip.
Thank you, I didn't realize that the Note9 actually kept track of where I use Wifi like that - when the wifi works that's actually a great feature to save battery when I'm away from home/work (I'll have to see if there's a program to make a quick-toggle)