Background:
ROM Used - Wolfs TW Gingerbread | Unlock the full Performance | get 4.0.4 now: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192988
Also used 4.0.4 Stock update
Addons Used - Sony Home Launcher v2.0.A.0.22
http://www.mediafire.com/?4khhnle8lyysp
All files and updates sucessfull. No errors.
Problem:
Wi-Fi only connects to SSIDs that are visible. When using 2.1, there was no problem connecting to a hidden SSID. I'd rather not have to down grade to 2.1, but I'd rather that than leaving my SSID visible. I'm using a D-Link DIR-655 with WPA2 AES encryption.
I haven't been able to find this specific problem in the forums so I'm hoping someone can help. How do I correct this problem?
I hate bumping this but this problem is hard to find a solution for.
So I found an app that enables you to connect to hidden wi-fi. It's called HiddenSSID Enabler in the Android Market.
(I don't have enough posts to post the link.)
The problem seems to stem from this post in Google Code. It's been an apparent problem since around 2008.
(Issue #1041 in the Android Google Code page.)
Enable connection to hidden SSID:
1. Download/install above mentioned app.
2. Make sure your Wi-Fi connection is currently visible and you are connected to it.
3. Open HiddenSSID Enabler.
4a. Enter the name of your SSID.
4b. It will appear as if nothing has changed or been done. Don't worry, this is supposed to happen.
5. Disable Wi-Fi on your phone.
6. Go to your Wi-Fi AP or Router and make your SSID hidden/invisible.
7. Enable Wi-Fi on your phone and it should connect.
8. Wipe hands on pants, enjoy favourite beverage.
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Hi everybody. Now that I have rooted my mini I could install Barnacle wifi tethering for connecting to my laptop. But after long trials I am still not able to connect my phone with my laptop.
Can anybody with prior experience help me in this regard
For wired tethering I use Easytether which works great.
I havent tryed yet, but try setting the WLAN interface to "tiwlan0" and/or try skipping wpa_supplicant
Regards
Bin4ry
Bin4ry said:
I havent tryed yet, but try setting the WLAN interface to "tiwlan0" and/or try skipping wpa_supplicant
Regards
Bin4ry
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Wonderful. It is connected with your suggestions. Many thanks.
Partha
Thanks, I also got this to work. What I wonder now is if it is possible to have security for this tether. When we choose skip wpa_supplicant then the security is disabled and it is an open network. When traveling and visiting public places I would be somewhat uncomfortable to have this open network. Barnacle does provide the WEP security option, but in order for this app to work with the x10 mini we need to choose skip wpa_supplicant which opens up the network to all. Any ideas?
I had to change WAN-setting & disable security too to even find the WiFi network.
However, when I connect it doesn't work. I see the in Barnacle "traffic"-pane that my computer sends requests when I try to load a webpage in the browser. But the down-traffic won't increase. Anyone know the next step in troubleshooting?
i left all the settings stock except turned on skip wpa supplicant. mine works great i ran ping- t all night and only lost 15 packs 0% loss, which is less loss than my friends cable internet.
when i first got it working i was using a mix of settings and i had to hit associate every 5 min or my laptop would stop having access to the internet but still remain connected to the network. so i just reinstalled it and it works great now.
This feature is one of the main reason why i bought an android device.
Edit:
after a few more days of pissing about with barnacle i realized that it cuts out when ever the phone is not being charged and falls a sleep and as long as i keep the phone awake its fine. the solution i came to was to open music player and play a song with the volume off and that keeps the phone from going into sleep mode. i know there's supposed to be a setting to stop wifi from turning off while in sleep but i have a branded rom and it doesn't appear i have the option. hope this helps someone.
There are two versions out there, 0.4.2 and 0.5.0. What version do you guys run?
anyone share the settings for barnacle wifi tethering. Its not working in my rooted x10 mini.
nate340 said:
i left all the settings stock except turned on skip wpa supplicant. mine works great i ran ping- t all night and only lost 15 packs 0% loss, which is less loss than my friends cable internet.
when i first got it working i was using a mix of settings and i had to hit associate every 5 min or my laptop would stop having access to the internet but still remain connected to the network. so i just reinstalled it and it works great now.
This feature is one of the main reason why i bought an android device.
Edit:
after a few more days of pissing about with barnacle i realized that it cuts out when ever the phone is not being charged and falls a sleep and as long as i keep the phone awake its fine. the solution i came to was to open music player and play a song with the volume off and that keeps the phone from going into sleep mode. i know there's supposed to be a setting to stop wifi from turning off while in sleep but i have a branded rom and it doesn't appear i have the option. hope this helps someone.
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You can disable wifi sleeping on Settings -> Wireless controls -> Wi-fi settings. Push menu button and choose 'Advance'
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nuire said:
I had to change WAN-setting & disable security too to even find the WiFi network.
However, when I connect it doesn't work. I see the in Barnacle "traffic"-pane that my computer sends requests when I try to load a webpage in the browser. But the down-traffic won't increase. Anyone know the next step in troubleshooting?
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I have the exact same problem and have tried everything listed here Anyone find a solution??
It works for me now using Barnacle Wifi Tether 0.6.7 and a SE X10 mini 2.1. Had the same problem before. Now my settings are:
Wireless Encryption: Wep Enabled (with hex password code)
Channel: 6
"Skip wpa_supplicant" - unchecked
Wan: tiwlan0
Hi all.
BarnacleWifi worked fine for two weeks but until I setup new android vertion 2.1.1.A.0.6 he doesn't.
Anyone try it with this one ?
Regards,
Devilo.
Edit: I can see the network on windows7 but when I try to connect, it freeze on "Identification" and I never have ip adress
DHCP doesn't work.
Same here :-(.
It finaly works on my mini with 2.1.1.A.0.6 firmware.
On MiniCM-1.0.0-Alpha2, Froyo Cyanogen 6.1 port for the mini "Rom"
Dont forget skip WPA supplicant.
Regards
Devilo.
On X10 mini Barnacle works without skip wpa suplicant! After a few trys and som Observation I found the Problem. Every baconinginterval the adhoc Network have a other MAC. I try to set a fix BSSID in Barnacle but now i can't find the Network so i undo it.
After some Trys i found a workaround:
1. Start Barnacle
2. Press Associate
3. Try to connect with your Computer
4. After entering password, your Computer try to connect, press 1 time again Associate
My Settings are:
WEP Encyrpting: Enabled
Skip wpa_supplicant: Disabled
Auto Associate: Disabled
WAN: rmnet0
still not conneting
It's still not working on my x10mp 2.1.1.A.0.6 firmware. My PC (Debian or Win7 have the same problem) still doesn't connect.
Barnacle on phone is showing no errors. PC is finding the wireless network but can't connect. Looks like it does not get an answer from phone (no IP address assigned).
I surely have tried all the advices from this forum and any google search gave me.
Same problem here guys - this was the reason for rooting my x10 mini
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same here..
And I haven't found any solutions yet ... thankful for any suggestions ...
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Kick for this thread, looking for a solution...
I didn't get much response on my previous question about proxy support for the stock rom, so I was wondering if any of the alternate roms include it. I would very much like to have access to the internet at work, but the school district requires loggon through a proxy server (content filter) before you can access the WiFi network. I realize that port restrictions that the district places on the network will likely prevent me from accessing the market, gmail, or voice search. But at school, I would most like to just access flash based educational website for kids.
Any thoughts on this? The district is moving toward ipads as the tablet platform of choice because of the lack of proxy support with Android. But the ipads lack of support for flash really hinders what I want a tablet to be able to do for me. (Yes, I want my cake and eat it too!) Is this too much to ask?
I connect my gtab to my schools wirelesss that is using 802.1x EAP for wireless security. I had to install a mod that changed the settings app and allowed advanced wireless settings. That allowed me to put in the authentication type, domain name, password, etc. Once connected, I ran a mod that set it back to the original settings apps. I asked in your previous post as to whether you are having problems actually getting on the wireless or once on, you can't bet by the web filter. We use websense here. Once I got on the wireless, there was an websense authentication dialog that popped up. Once I put my domain\username and password in, it works fine.
It won't even let me connect to the district network because I don't have anywhere to enter the proxy settings in the wifi set up box.
Assuming you have Pershoot's or Clemsyn's Kernel (or one of the better ROMs), you need something like ASProxy. I use it at work all the time and it does the job. There is a free program called TransParentProxy which is more limited but does allow you to quickly test settings without spending any money.
I do not see a proxy settings in the wpa_supplicant.conf file. My understanding of this file is it lists all possible settings settings available for Wi-Fi configurations.
# This file describes configuration file format and lists all available option.
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Previously I've only needed to access a proxy after connecting to the network. Perhaps you have run into a problem getting connected to your network using the tablets Wi-Fi settings manager. So connecting to the network might be your first step and then connecting to the proxy your 2nd.
I found the free Wifi Advanced Config Editor (WifiACE on the Android Market) to have a GUI to easily configure advanced Wi-Fi settings not found in the tablet's settings. I realized when trying to set up an advanced configuration I needed to create a new connection in the tablets WiFi Settings with the security of NONE to avoid having some of the wrong settings configured by default. Then using the information from the my network admin I manually set the options via the WifACE GUI, un-checking NONE, and bingo I got connected.
I recommend WiFiACe with one caveat: make sure you have a way (like adb) working and know how to backup, delete, and restore files and that you make a back up of all wpa_supplicant.conf files on your tablet.
My caveat comes because my first reboot after I got connected to the Enterprise network at work the Wifi would not start or run. It would only display "error" and do nothing. Several reboots later it still wouldn't start and without Wi-Fi running there is no way to make configuration changes either through WifiACE or the tablets Wi-Fi Settings. I had to use the adb shell to delete the newly configured wap_supplicant.conf and create a new connection via the tablets Wi-Fi Settings and then make the necessary changes through WifiACE. Once that was done it ran and connected. Now after multiple reboots it still works and connects. Without the ability to delete the file I'm afraid I would have had to re-flash my tablet to get Wi-Fi to work again.
I don't think you've ever mentioned what ROM you're running. If you're running stock, you will have a very difficult time, in fact it may be impossible. If you're running a different mod, there's hope. Now, assuming that you got ClockWordMod (CWM) installed, you can probably be successful in at least connecting to the wireless. If you don't have CWM installed, here's a good place to start:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865245
Once you have CWM installed, go to this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=857939
This will give you the zips for installing a differernt wireless config tool that will allow you to put in the 802.1x EAP config. Once you can successfully connect, you back out the the tool you installed.
I'm having a very interesting problem with the WiFi on my Eris. Basically what happens is that I can connect to a wireless network and use it for about 3 min, after that it still shows that it is still connected, but nothing will load in the browser, Facebook, etc. Is there a way to fix this or is it an internal problem with the phone?
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zx2ner88 said:
I'm having a very interesting problem with the WiFi on my Eris. Basically what happens is that I can connect to a wireless network and use it for about 3 min, after that it still shows that it is still connected, but nothing will load in the browser, Facebook, etc. Is there a way to fix this or is it an internal problem with the phone?
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It's more likely something that you can fix on the router. What router is it? Is the firmware up to date? Are you using any security (WEP, WPA or WPA2)? Which channel are you broadcasting on? Is it set to bgn, bg, or g only?
Also, are you rooted and, if so, which ROM are you running?
Just a few quick things I have noticed about the Eris and WiFi:
- the Eris tends to have issues with routers set to WPA security and TKIP encryption. If you can, it's better to use WPA2 (which uses AES), but if WPA2 is not available, see if you can set WPA to AES only, and not TKIP or TKIP/AES.
- if you are not broadcasting the SSID, try setting it to broadcast and leave it there. Hiding the SSID does not make your router any more secure than a router where the SSID is broadcast
I routinely access both a G mode (by SMC as provided by cable provider) and N mode routers - using both WEP (yup ....) and WPA2-TKIP with SSID broadcast on, and the Eris locked on easily & stay connected with no problems whatsoever - true of some of the newest Froyo and GB Roms released lately.
If SSID is turned off, then it's a NO go as it won't even connect.
Do you have any firewall and/or security suite apps running alongside the router that might be blocking the connection? Check the logs - also verify DHCP and ipconfig settings on your pc ?
It appeared possible that some sort of energy star/saver settings being flipped on after a set period of being in-active? (It's been mentioned elsewhere, check your wi-fi sleep policy on whether it's enabled "When screen turns off"? under Advanced / Menu on the phone (wireless & networks > wif-fi setttings)
Try changing it, disabled & re-enabled it to see if the changes help - is this on a particular ROM release or across several Roms? I'm running GSB v3.5 and it's flawless.
I use wep at home, but the network is open at my work and I have the problem there as well. The Rom I use is tenzo xtr, but I've had this problem on other roms as well. The sleep policy is set to never sleep
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I have the same problem. Been that way for the last few builds of any gingerbread rom. The one I am using know MacRom was the only one I never had problems with but this new release I know have drop off problems again
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My Eris' radio receiver (Baseband version) is 2.42.01.04.27 - which is supposed to be the latest release from VZW.
I'm currently on CS's latest CM7-V9 GB ROM and I haven't experience any wifi or signal dropoff/reception issues - and I barely get a working 3G signal (bouncing back-n-forth to 1X on the status bar) otherwise when I'm home (switched to CM7 from GSB b/c I had minor issues w. foreign/Asian characters not displaying properly when I used Google Translate.)
Might be worth a try - I did a full system data/cache/dalvik wipe and also SD card reformat - after moving/backing up NAND & Titanium folders, etc. to a backup HDD first - basically starting clear & clean before setting up the ROM to flash to avoid any issues with market/apps or traces of old data on the SD card.
And, yes - I did noticed wifi connectivity with at least one of the "other" GB roms for the Eris - apparently tied to CM7 itself and not necessary unique (like those SMS/MMS, Exchange server & even GPS issues. What's consistent is that it is not uniform or across the board, some users finding issues & bugs while others are reporting little or no problems at all. Just wondering if it's b/c we are pushing the edge of "envelope" too far & beyond its original designed limitations (Android 1.5 to 1.6) now to 2.3.4. Overall speaking, when I eased back the overclocking speed to very moderate level above 528 Mhz & use conservative tweaks, I tend to run into fewer problems if any - just my extra 2 cents worth.
Yup done everything you just mentioned to no success. I guess I will live with it or go to a froyo rom. Either way hoping to believing the world of Eris soon.
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Hello Zx2ner88,
If you have tested your device with multiple wifi connections to rule out the actual wifi disconnecting then the next step would be to address the device. If you have the most recent software (Settings>About Phone>System Updates) and a simply battery pull does not assist the next thing to do would be a factory reset. Please keep in mind this will erase everything from the device so if desired please backup. You can do this reset by navigating to Settings>Privacy>Factory Reset>Reset Phone> and Erase Everything. After the reset you will have to reprogram by following the prompts and choosing option 1. Please retest wifi after reset. Thank you.
Im using na 16gb wifi only flyer
i was using stock gingerbread
and updated to honeycomb build
when i was using gingerbread my wifi connection was fine
but after i updated ( i tried every honeycomb roms in here)
wifi connection gets disconnect and re connect every few minute
i found out that when i set the password (router) this problems
continue.. When i disable the password wifi connection had
no problem.. But i need to set up the passworld..
Those anyone know how to solve this problem?
Hey. I had the same issue as well. I just recently got mine and I searched and found this. I'm not taking credit for this since it's not mine, but it helped me fix my issues.
1. Go to Settings > Wireless & networks > Wi-Fi settings.
2. Long press the network you are currently connected to.
3. Press Modify network.
4. Scroll to IP settings and select Static.
5. Keep everything else the same, and press Save.
Someone also said that he was using an older router, like me, and so he bought a new one and it worked. But this is a FAR cheaper fix for those of us without $$.
I have a problem with VPN. Read a lot around, learned that I can't use PPTP in i5500 ('cause of a bug in Gingerbread, they say), but instead should use only L2TP. (I found nothing said about OpenVPN, so I guessed I could try it as well, since there's already the option of it in the menu.) Well, now I managed to configure my VPNs and managed to create connections to some services. OpenVPN vpns just disconnect when applied. While L2TP vpns connect OK (and stay connected until I disconnect them), but I can't use internet at all, regardless of what app I'm using. Any idea why this happens? Is it my phone, or is it a VPN issue of Gingerbread? I'm using the latest stable CM7.2RC3+ v2.8 ROM release.
Does anybody has any solution or any outside link related to this issue?