P990 Preffered Internet Connections

Posted by Muzikfreakah
Is there a way to prioritize this everytime you want to access the net via email, rss feed, browser etc..

I would want it to be in this order:
1.) Wifi
2.) Gprs

and if connected to the PC it will connect via passthrough over the PC.

So it will now ask me to choose which connection I want to use before I connect, and if wifi is disable and I choose wifi, it will automatically turn on wifi and look for available wireless networks.

Is this possible?

Posted by pp2686
Go to INTERNET ACCOUNTS (Tools -> Control Panel -> Connections -> Internet Accounts)

You see two tabs ACCOUNTS and GROUPS.

You define your GPRS/WiFi/Bluetooth connection in the ACCOUNTS page. Each connection is a separate Connection Account. Test each one and make sure they work.

Then go to GROUPS page and create a new GROUP ACCOUNT (let's call MY CONNECTIONS). Then you ADD NEW ACCOUNT to the group.

You can then choose the PRIORITY of each Connection Account by tapping on it. In your case it'll be

WiFi
GPRS

Then make the MY CONNECTIONS group account as the Preferred Group.

Now when your application looks for internet connection, the phone will try the connection in the order of your list ... in your case, it would try to hook on to WiFi first ... if it doesn't find the WiFi then it automatically try GPRS.

I have mine setup to connect to

Bluetooth PAN (thru Shared Internet Connection on my laptop)
Home WiFi
GPRS

Works like magic.

Posted by tonyitalian
ok i have already done what you have mentioned above, but in my case each time i want to use the internetm it still tries for priority 1 and keeps trying priority 1 till it fails a number of times, but it never tries priority 2 and therefore cannot connect. So , i have to keep changing the priorty i want to use each time to be always priority number 1.
why is that???
can anyone help

Posted by tonyitalian
anyone help me out here??? plsss

Posted by tonyitalian
anyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pls plsssssss

Posted by tonyitalian
isnt anyone else facing the same problem??
pls i need help

Posted by tonyitalian
help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by joel80
If you have an open wifi nearby but the network maby doesn't use DHCP or it's dns isn't correctly configured you might get this problem. The phone connects to the network by the network cant connect to internet.

edit: And no, you can't make the phone activate wifi automaticly. Wifi has to be on standby to be able to see if there is a wifi-spot to connect to.

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[ This Message was edited by: joel80 on 2006-09-15 15:41 ]

Posted by tonyitalian
yeh i think tats exactly what happens! but then whats the solution for this problem? is there anyway to fix this? what abt magic profiles pro? maybe the profiles could change automatically with location and with that interent account priorities aswell. Coz it wud be a pain to change the priority order for internet accounts as you goto different wifi spots.........

Posted by Paul McLaren
Magic profiles pro is not currently avaliable for UIQ3. Is it going to be ported?

Posted by tonyitalian
yeh i know its not available yet....sad

Posted by BigFeat
I'm starting to think that this may be a programming blooper on the part of SE's finest. It does continue to connect to the first priority on the list and doesn't appear to seek down the list. I would prefer to choose which item in my group that it connects to instead of using this priority list. Some programs don't provide you a choice to use anything other then GPRS. Not sure how to remedy this.

Posted by tonyitalian
only magic profiles pro can help! i really hope they incorporate the connections manager tab in the program whenever they release it for uip 3

Posted by djsaad1
I am not really understanding the problem. Why does the phone connect to a wireless network when you didnt tell it to? Does this network just happen to have the same wireless name as your home network? If so why not switch the home network name?

Posted by tonyitalian
djsaad.. do u have a 990 yet?

Posted by shabazali
when you switch on your wifi or wlan it should automaticly connect you via that when you turn it on and press connect if you want to use grps simply switch of your wlan or wifi and it will use gprs, if you always have wlan activated its the first thing its going to use. hope this helps.

Posted by BigFeat
Is there any data on how much time will be spent on each connection on the priority list before it trickles down to the next one? What is the point of a priority list if it doesn't go down the list? Maybe I'm misreading what is happening with this.

For example, I go to RSS feeds and choose the "internet" group as my preferred account. The "internet" group has a total of 5 connections in it. I have my home WiFi network as the primary connection on that list. So if I'm away from home, the RSS feeds never update. That's because it keeps looking for the first connection item in that group, but never trickles down to the next on the list. I have to manually choose the connection that I want it to connect to for the time being. So my RSS feeds are no longer updated per my scheduled times anymore. It has to be done manually with a specific connection depending on where I am and what I want to use (i.e. WiFi or GPRS).

Posted by djsaad1
I have my home wifi as one of my accounts and its the number one priority. If i am away from home it automaticly connects to the internet through tzones which is my gprs. Now if i find a wireless network in the area and connect to it, it will use that as my connection and not use tzones. The only way it would use the wlan when i am away from home and didnt specify to use wlan is if there is a wireless network in the area that has the same name as mine does at home.

[ This Message was edited by: djsaad1 on 2006-09-20 23:58 ]

Posted by hemantbhele
i having the same problem as bigfeat. I have home wifi as the 1st priority followed by gprs and then bluetooth however after failing to connect to the homewifi it never switches to gprs and gives me a connection error. Any help....thanks

Posted by shabazali
what you need to do is switch of your wifi or wlan then it will use the gprs.