Problems connecting to Wifi, need help please.

[cparknson]

Oh ya, they have setup instructions on the website for the I-phone's, palm's, and a couple others I think. I do know the latest I-phone software update has made the connection really buggy for a lot of them. But no, trying the same steps as the I-phone's, or any of the others they list does not work, nor does trying to pull a little bit of everything out of each to try different combo's. None of the files you have to download for any of the other systems want to open on the droid, or run. Says something that its not compatible or something along those lines.

I'd say I've asked about 30 or so people with droids now and I've not found anyone yet that's gotten it to connect. I'm starting to wonder if those files for each system on their website are the problem, cause with a laptop, you won't connect till you download it and I can't get one they have listed to load properly without saying its the wrong format. They have about any system you could think of listed with step by step instructions except the android.

Is the droid similar system wise to the linux, mac, or any of those other op. systems as far as its base programing goes? If it is I'll play with trying to get that one to work more on the droid.

[MPTP]

Sorry to hear about all the trouble. Since no one has figured it out yet you probably need to install a certificate in order to get it to work. That is something I know nothing about as I've never had to do it before.

Unfortunately it won't be as easy as just copying the certificate over to the phone and installing it. A friend of mine went through this process and said it wasn't easy. I will try to get him on the phone sometime tonight or this weekend to see if he can tell me all the hoops he had to jump through in order to make it work.

[vegainey]

I am familiar with the Cisco VPN Client you are using, and it is not supported on a non-rooted Android (yet).

You can track it as Issue 3902 ere:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3902

[cparknson]

Well its good to know I'm not just an idiot and too stupid to figure out how to use my phone. It does suck that the phone's not capable of it though. That's a pretty major thing to not be capable of. Wish I'd known that before hand. I guess I'll look into what it takes to hook up to it if I root my droid but I'm not too crazy about doing that. I guess I will if I have to though cause I need it bad.

MPTP, if you hear anything about this from your friend I'd appreciate it if you could let me know.

[MPTP]

I talked to my friend briefly today and his story is remarkably similar to yours. Tried and tried, nothing would work so he gave up until he saw another in his building with a working Droid. That man referred him to their "resident Android expert" and my friend left his phone with him. Picked it up later in the day with working wifi.

Apparently the phone had to be rooted and he's using "some free VPN software from the market." I checked the market and assume he's using VPN connections but I didn't think to ask at the time. He did say that his ability to stay connected was relatively poor and was unsure if that was because of the phone or method of connection.

My friend is currently out of his home state and won't be back to his office for another week or two, but I did ask him if he could grab the Android guy and get him to email or fax me some directions. Hopefully I can pass those along since this stuff is kinda over my head.

[cparknson]

Thanks, that would be great. I'd really like to get it going and if I have to root the phone so be it. Really didn't want to do that cause its all a little over my head. I'm a finance major not a not a computer programing major. Plus, like I've read on here, if you have to read about what rooting your phone is and does then you probably don't have a lot business doing it. LOL And that is defiantly me there. Guess I am gonna have to though to get the functionality out of my phone that I need because the only app I've seen to use it requires that your phone be rooted.

As for your friend saying that it drops the connection a lot, if the wifi he's hooking up to is anything like SIU's cisco system then its probably got a lot to do with their system. I absolutely hate theirs. It is very very spotty and if you just close the lid on your laptop for a second it disconnects and you have to punch in your user ID and password all over again. Its very annoying but its all we got so I've got to figure something out.

[alex1moss7]

I have a related problem. I have several preferred wifi networks -- home, office, a few when traveling routinely to same places. But:

At both home and office, Droid sees *other* wifi networks that are not mine and tries to connect to those. I can't delete them unless Droid says they are "out of range," the whole point is that they are in range but not mine and I don't want to connect to them, don't have their passwords, can't use them anyway, etc.

At same time, my *preferred* networks show up as "remembered but not in range," when in fact I'm sitting right next to the router (at both home and work, same issue). There's no issue w/ the wifi signal -- I can connect to same router w/ other devices, and I have routinely been able to connect to same router w/ Droid in past, it's just routinely inconsistent in whether it sees that the router is actually there.

So:
1. How do I get Droid to ignore connections it sees but I don't want it to use?
2. How do I get Droid to see connections that have routinely worked, no settings have changed, I'm sitting right there, and Droid doesn't see them?

Thanks.

[Vitticeps]

[QUOTE]So:
1. How do I get Droid to ignore connections it sees but I don't want it to use?

Can't. It is showing you all connections in range. It wont attempt to connect to secured networks automatically, it will just list them until you select one to connect to.

2. How do I get Droid to see connections that have routinely worked, no settings have changed, I'm sitting right there, and Droid doesn't see them?

If your network isn't showing up in the list then there is something else going on. If you are truly sitting "right next to the router", move away. Being too close is actually not a good thing. Also, try refreshing the list, try turning wifi off and back on, try rebooting the phone, try rebooting the router. Cover all the bases.

[alex1moss7]

My router *is* showing up in the list, but it is showing up as *not connected, out of range.* When I select it, the only option is to *delete* (b/c it's not "in range"). So I've done that, recreated the connection, it connects at that point. So the router / droid connection does work. But: each time I come back to office, that same wifi connection shows up as *not connected, out of range." Same thing w/ my saved connection at home. Delete & recreate is fine, but once created, somehow it doesn't connect...sometimes, and sometimes it does. I'm baffled.

[earthcub]

I don't understand why this is an issue but I'm using the exact same settings on the Droid that I'm using on the iPhone. The iPhone connects flawlessly but the Droid won't. It's and L2TP connection with a secret. I'd sure like to know what the difference is...