I bought an I730 off of ebay that came with WM5 installed. For about a month, the WiFi worked really great. I could connect to just about any unsecured hotspot with no trouble. I could also connect to both of my Wireless Access Points here at the house one on channel 11 and one on Channel 6. All security is turned off.

Then one morning, after I left it on the wall charger with the WiFi on overnight, I noticed that it was connected to the Access Point that has a weak signal, even though the other one was only ten feet away. A nearby laptop was still connected to the stronger signaled Access Point. I hadn't made any changes to the phone for three days before this happened.

Ever since then, the wifi hasn't been very good. It connects to the weak signaled one quickly and with no trouble, but won't connect to the stronger signaled one, and just shows "Available, Connecting, then back to Available."

Same with the public hotspots that have no security on them. I can see them, but I just can't connect.

Here is what I have done so far:

Hard Reset the Phone
Used MRailings hack cab
Increased Max TCP Connect Retransmissions to 10 from the default of 2
Reduced the WiFi scanning time to 30 seconds from the default of one minute.


Since one WAP works and the other doesn't, I have compared the two looking for a clue:
Updated the Netgear WGR614v6 firmware and then rolled it back.
Made sure that both routers had as close to the same settings as possible.
Studied the working one. It is a Buffalo router running Tomato firmware, so there is a lot to see, vs. the Netgear where there isn't much.
No firewalls running in either router.
Turned DHCP on and off while assigning IP addresses as needed -- non-connecting router will not assign phone an IP address.
Changed the Buffalo to Short Preamble means to connection by the phone and chaning it back to Long works fine. No setting for that on the Netgear.

Meanwhile the laptop connects just fine to the hotspots and both routers. I have noticed that it takes about 20 seconds of trying before it connects to the stronger signaled Netgear, though. It's an old "b" type DLink card in the lasptop and I am using the driver to connect rather than the Zero Wireless thingy in XP.

I think this is kind of weird. If the Wifi circuit was burned out or even if it was getting weak one would think that the sensitivity would go down and it would only connect to strong signals.

I hate to say this, but I haven't been able to get wi-fi to work reliably in over 2 years of owning this phone.

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My first i730 WiFi stopped working as well... before it died a slow death to other causes. I've seen other people post something similar. I think that maybe the wifi was prone to crapping out. . .
If you're able to connect to one AP but not another, perhaps the profile for that AP is corrupt. Go into the Wifi connections manager and delete the profile that corresponds to that AP and delete it. Then let the phone re-detect it. Sometimes similar security protocols will confuse things.
Mark
Mark

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Because my Wifi isn't working anywhere except home and because have Page Plus which means that I can use QNC for free, I have been using the QNC more often.

I noticed the other day, that QNC couldn't hold on to a connection very well even when I show one or two bars. Almost every time a surfed to a new page, the phone had to redial.

I'm thinking battery? Now that I'm thinking about it, when everything was working right, the battery was getting pretty warm when connected to Wifi even when on the charger. That is why I added the Access Point that I can't connect to anymore, to make it's life easier. It sure made life easier for the laptop.

Now almost nothing -- not cold, but no where near as hot as it was.

I'm thinking I toasted it. The voltage may be right, so everything looks right when I charge, but if it can't put out the power, then maybe it could be causing these problems?

But I can't see that the battery would have anything to do with things when plugged into the charger?