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[MDA Compact II General] funkus:
Ok i have purchased one of the 256 wifi cards, i should have it to test soon, but its not a perfect solution since they are soo rare right now, so alot of people cant get hold of them. (ebay had 1 left by the looks)

Having said that the extra 256mb may come in handy since ill be swapping out the 2gb sdio to use it. If it works ill be verry happy and hopefully someone will have sucess using the workaround with another card.

Ill also try the card using the 'Qtek style unbranded rom' that dave put together including the workaround. The comms manager is nice to have on the desktop for easily turning wifi, bluetooth, sync and sound on/off.

Thanks again everyone, :D

Ps Anna can u email me the drivers ect that you use to

funkus at hotmail.co.uk

PS: Is it 'March 2006' yet? :lol:
[MDA Compact II General] Anna@MDA:
Hi Funkus - and @ others: Let me know if you want to try them too,

the mystery files are on their way.

BTW: I already contacted the manufacturer of this special GPS card to work on a driver for our device if this is possible - after all it helped with another GPS receiver.

I also will contact T-mobile in this case. In my opinion they "forgot" to equip the MDA compact II with this feature but I gave up to be surprised of(/about?) what Windows programmers produce ;-)

Have a nice bank holiday tomorrow,

AnnaOnWeb
[MDA Compact II General] tomtomtim:
Anna

Sorry I have not posted a follow-up yet - I had to go out of town for a while.

I have now tried this:

1. Hard-reset the device so there was nothing on it at all apart from T-Mobile S/W

2. Installed GPS Info.2577.cab and soft-reset

3. Installed Pegas.2577.CAB (Sandisk WM2003 Driver) and soft reset again

4. Didn't work :(

So I tried this:

1. Hard-reset the device so there was nothing on it at all - I then reset with the stylus during the 3-second countdown to prevent the T-Mobile script from running.

2. Re-installed GPS Info.2577.cab and soft-reset

3. Re-installed Pegas.2577.CAB (Sandisk WM2003 Driver) and soft reset again

4. Still didn't work :evil:

I also tried installing the Socket Communications WiFi + 256Mb driver - but it would not install an a WM5 device.

I'm fresh out of ideas now - Wondering if anyone else has been able to replicate Anna's success? Funkus perhaps?

P.S. Thanks for the tip about SPB Backup - What a life-saver :)

TTT
[MDA Compact II General] funkus:
I will hopefully have my card to try tomorrow, will post asap
[MDA Compact II General] funkus:
Can everybody say the words 'Multiple wireless networks detected' ?

Anna's workaround works, i can confirm this, we owe her many thanks.

-hard reset-('clear storage' in system settings works)

1 installed gps info,

2 installed the sandisk driver

-restarted ppc-

3 selected sandisk in network cards

4 set andvanced netwok connections to 'my work network' in both

5 Plugged it in

6 IT WORKED

@ Tomtom tim are you sure you followed these steps?

Thanks again anna :D
[MDA Compact II General] kolsch:
Hello all, first off.

great news, for those with a sandisk card.

As one of the many who thought a nice small spectec card would work (and was completely disappointed), I am wondering if a similar methodology might work with either the spectec drivers...
[MDA Compact II General] funkus:
(apologies for Copy n' pasting form nother forum but i just answered the same question on modaco so im not gunna retype it)

1. The 256/wifi card from Sandisk works with the workaround

2. Socket Wireless LAN SDIO Card Reportedly Works using the workaround (see details on page 2 for more info)

Link

3. The Spectec sdw820 does not, i have tried the workaround but it wont seem to work.

However, my Spectec card may be faulty, as could anyones, SDIO's are infamous for being unreliable and easy to break so people should keep trying the workaround on xda with different cards including the spectec ones, and im positive that a few more will work, hopefully some that are more readily available, and maybe smaller.

(That being said the Sandisk 256/wifi may be large/less available but it does give me extra storage space in absence of my 2gb sdio. Lots of things to consider.)

Please post any questions you have, and we'll do our best to help you out also any success stories will help others.

Ive been asked for the files anna gave so here they are:

(Registered users only)

(@ admin/mods:these files are unedited drivers for devices that are alread available to the public to download, i have checked the forum guidelines and cannot see any reason why posting theses files would be wrong, but if this is against the rules i will remove the files)
[MDA Compact II General] Anna@MDA:
@ funkus: cgrtltns.fun - I mean congratualtions, Funkus.

I am very happy that this workaround worked for you!

Thank you for providing the files here - you must have done some rechereche and I did not dare to publish them here without being sure not to be sued by the manufacturers.

@tomtomtim - sorry that it did not work for you. Why did you make restrictions to the connect rate? I only removed the encryption on first attempt to be sure to get it working and afterwards I switched to encrypted comm again. Sometimes I need to soft reset the MDA to get the card working after insert.

What was annoying too: You have to set preferences in the Wifi Driver itself AND chosing the right network - both should be set on "company network" - In German "Firmennetzwerk" I don´t know how it is called in the menue on an English device. And you have to set "company network" to be able to connect to the Internet. Why does Bill Gates want preferences to be set for the same purpose in different menues? Tz, tz I will never understand this.

Good, that spb backup was helpful for you. I am now trying "missing sync for winmobile" for syncing between a Mac and the MDA. It helped me a lot because I have more than 700 addresses which get lost or doubled sometimes.

Have a good nite and good luck with surfing on WaveLan!

Anna
[MDA Compact II General] windmillhills:
WIFI on T-mobile MDA II works with Sandisk SD card SDWSDB000

I can confirm the good news that this evening I have got my t-mobile MDA II compact to connect to my home WIFI network.

The access point is a 3COM 3CRWE754G72-A. It works when set on all modes (ie 11b, 11g, both and long range).

The SD WIFI card is the Sandisk SDWSDB0000 (without memory) which I picked up on eBay for £25.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8825011837

I followed the instructions given in this thread and the similar one on Modaco http://www.modaco.com/WiFi-SDIO-on-MDA-Compact-II-charmer-t237112.html

I did need to turn off the wireless encryption first to get the connection but was then able to turn it back on.

Many many thanks to FUNKUS, German Anna and everyone else for all their work here. We now know that WIFI is possible on the MDA Compact II. I will now follow up some earlier e-mails to Spectec (makers of the SDW820 WIFI SDIO card) to see if they can get a fix from this also.

Thank you.
[MDA Compact II General] Anna@MDA:
NEWS-NEWS-NEWS!!! - forget the workaround!

Hi all,

today I istalled the ROM-Update for the German t-mobile MDA compact II. It has a comm manager again, which I need to make syncing with my Mac much easier. It seems to be faster than the older release too.

Find it here:

http://www.t-mobile.de/business/downloads/start/?area=34&handy=291&product=27000592

I only installed the WiFi-Driver pegas.2577 - and it is working flawlessly!

Be careful when installing the Update - I tried to use spb-backup for restoring my data, but this does not work - right now I am busy installing my software "by hand"... And with this WindowsM5-piece I already got used to BSODs.. and restarts...

If somebody is interested: There is a new beta-version of activesync #4.2. I have not tried that yet, I will wait for one which supports WiFi (as <4-releases did).

Have luck with the new ROM update - cu on WLan!

Anna
[MDA Compact II General] smou:
hi anna!

about the new rom: http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=51057

gruß :wink:
[MDA Compact II General] Anna@MDA:
hmm ... to be honest...

... I missed the ROM update and did not care about it - "never change a running system"

Because of the sync prob with my Mac I tried it today and found out htat this WiFi-workaround is obosolete now.

@t-mobile´s SW developers: Thanks a lot!

Cu + Gruß

Anna
[MDA Compact II General] funkus:
Can you confirm the lanuage of the rom anna?, I presume German because there is no news on the english t-mobile website

http://t-mobile.iris-global.com/download_manager_mda_com2.html <-- Uk site

Although

'Next Release:

March 2006 '

Now says

'Next Release:

TBC'

<-insert specuation here

ie. surely if its using .net libs translating it would be simple enough so they probably will release a uk version.[/url]
[MDA Compact II General] Anna@MDA:
Hi Funkus,

my ROM update is a genuine German only, I could not chose a different language. I did not remove the German t-mobie branding because I like the smart dialing function and it is convenient to have the device pre-configured for t-mobile/t-online.

I tried the link in your post and the file and the instructions for installation and they looked much alike to mine. You should try that, but be careful when restoring your data - with spb backup it did not work.

Have luck with it - cu

Anna
[MDA Compact II General] dave106:
Did you check the file name, its the new aku2 rom on there now!
[MDA Compact II General] funkus:
no i didnt see that!

:oops:

Ill try SDIO compatability tomorrow, i cant believe i missed that!
[MDA Compact II General] smyrosnik:
Any news about the compatibility of the Spectec sdio card and the Charmer?

The card works fine in WM2003se but no news about that.

Another problem is that I am living in a residence hall with MAC address specific access. So , I can't conect to the internet with my Spectec. Is there anyway to change the mac address of the WIfi card?
[MDA Compact II General] funkus:
I believe changing the mac address on normal network cards is possible so in theory it should be on an sdio.

However its probably better to begin a separate thread on that especially since it is frowned upon. (have you spoken to you're uni it support group and asked if an ecception can be made for you're mobile device? they might understand and saves you the hassle)

Will post on new roms abiilities tomorrow, I've been living in a hell of 56k modems and expensive dialups
[MDA Compact II General] funkus:
(apologies for copying my reply from the brother thread to this one on modaco, I know two threads on the same problem is awkward but readers should check both threads as they are not identical )

As far as I can tell, the sdw820 spectec card will not work on the new t-mobile rom, infact the small 'i' icon that i sometimes saw on the old rom has now stopped appearing altogether.

Ill attempt to borrow another device to check that my spectec card isn't faulty as this seems odd. but I doubt the spectec card will ever work on this device.

However

As anna has said the older Sandisk 256 & wifi now works fawlessly (without annas workaround), so any card that worked with the 'gpsinfo' workaround should now be fully compatible.

Good news for some, but still not a perfect solution since these sandisk cards are expensive, large and getting rarer by the second.

Keep trying and Post details on any working cards to help those who cannot find the older models.
[MDA Compact II General] Anna@MDA:
@smyrosnik + funkus

afaik it is not possible to change the MAC-Address of a network device. It is bound to the hardware. I you want to get admittance to a network only via MAC-address the admin has to authorize you.

Sorry, funkus, that your Spectec-Card does not work... You did a good job to keep this thread alive - to give others at least a hint to solve the prob. At least, I am very happy with my solution now, and if I had another card I would try it. Again - how about my offer to send it to me, and I´ll try to get it work.

At my new freelance job I got a nickname: "The Sorceress - at least better than witch" - when I am around, computer-probs dissolve in haze anyhow ;-)

Have a nice evening,

AnnaOnWeb
[MDA Compact II General] garyeuph:
So, all i need to do with a samsung SDIO WIFi card is to put it in with the new ROM and it will work? Or do I still need to download and install some other drivers?

Many thanks in advance

Gary
[MDA Compact II General] Anna@MDA:
Hi Gary,

thats what happend to me: I installled the new ROM and the original WiFi-Driver, and it worked. Give it a try.

If you still have the older ROM (Nov. 2005, 1.13 or so..I forgot) try my workaround.

---

Got my new HTC Charmer today (had a hardware defect) an just restored my data and system files with spb backup - that took me 3*3 Minutes for saving and another 5 for restoring. (As I already said: When you install the new ROM, this software did NOT work). Be careful.

Have luck with the installation,

Best regards

Anna
[MDA Compact II General] garyeuph:
Wow

I have my wireles connection working (New Rom and just the pegasus drivers) - unfortunately, I cannot get it to work with WPA-PSK, only when I unsecure my wireless router.

Actually, when trying to insert my passwork via the 'AP browser' it insists that I must use a Hex key - but my password isnt in Hex..........

Will keep trying, but thnks for all the hard work in this forum!

Gary
[MDA Compact II General] kyle_mda:
TUTORIAL or step by step

Dear anna@MDA+MDA MOB

I am writting in response to your extensive forum topic on " MDA + wifi " with it been pages long anf bit here n bit their its hard to pick ip clearly...

Ill just intraduce myself then ask you my question...

Im kyle blythe-white from Leeds/UK and i have just saved ages for a unlocked MDA Compact II and desperatly wish to have WIFI due to mass of wifi connections in my city...

May i ask you a quick forum favour. could you write or even add images ( upto you ) , write a almost tutorial or step by step guide on what to buy and what to download and HOW to install everything to work..

This would be most appreciated by me and im sure 100 of other bidding MDA users missing out on T-MOBILES lazy selfish arse actions...

Thanks alot your a true legends..

Kyle

p.s what card is cheapest and works with what you tell me :) thnx
[MDA Compact II General] rishi2504:
Please refer to my earlier posts in the same thread.

I have downloaded the latest ROM update from T-Mobile and I do not need the GPS driver file anymore.

1. I am using the Socket SDIO Wi-Fi card

2. WM5.0 Driver for this card( got it directly from Socket as they supply only WM 2003 drivers with the card)

3. Wi-Fi Companion.

That's it .No tweaking required.If you can manage to get the card, contact me.I shall mail you all the relevant software.Here is the preview link for this card - http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/socket-sdio-wifi.php

Cheers,

Rishi.
[MDA Compact II General] jamesMDA:
Socket cards

Is this a discountiued card like this:

http://www.socketcom.com/support/support_discontinued.asp?Type=WiFi

(scroll to the last card)

Or can I still buy one directly form socket like this one:

http://www.socketcom.com/product/WL6217-664.asp

I would be really grateful for the help with this, also can you give me the exact model number of your card so I can hunt around?

Cheers,

James
[MDA Compact II General] rishi2504:
May be the first one...am not sure though....but definitely not the second one...

I am presently away from home...shall send you the model number after 25th of October.....
[MDA Compact II General] jamesMDA:
I contacted socket about this and this is what they said:

Is this to be believed? Has anyone got the P300 wifi card?
[MDA Compact II General] smyrali:
Hey James, have you informed them about Charmer's known wifi sdio problems ?

I think tha their answer is very typical "...will work perfectly with the HTC device running WM 5.0..". I think that they don't know anything about Charmer's incompatibility.

P.S: this wifi card is very nice though...(like spectec)
[MDA Compact II General] rishi2504:
Hi James ,

Here is my model number - Socket SD Wi-Fi card , 8510-00215A.

Let me know if you can find the card( you may get it cheap as it is discontinued now), I shall mail you the software and driver.

Cheers,

Rishi
[MDA Compact II General] alen:
I Need To Change My Phone From German To Enligsh

hey...i see that you've been able to change your phone from German to English..I've have my phone for about a month now and I can't seem to change it to English and it's hard for me to use it..so if you can help me and know how to change it Please let me know on this site. THANK YOU!:)
[MDA Compact II General] rishi2504:
Charmer+SD Wifi card +1 GB Memory card

Hi ,

I have a 6 month old Charmer with SD Wifi card and 1 GB Sandisk Memory card for sale.Pls. PM me if anyone is interested, with an offer price.

All accessories will be supplied, the phone is in completely working condition.

Cheers,

Rishi.
[MDA Compact II General] MP-Cyber:
MDA Compact II A Spectec SDW 820

HI.

bought am sdio wifi card and card me in MDAc II malfunctions.Will advise somebody?Thank you.
[MDA Compact II General] jipof:
MDA compact II works with Socket P300

Hi all and thanks for putting this forum together, that's really helpful.

I bought the Socket P300 after reading rishi2504, and I confirm that it works. I have the WiFi connection working perfectly.

The only problem that I see is that I can not enable or disable it other than by unplugging it... Not really convenient. The WiFi icon don't appears in my CommManager, and the wifi companion can not do the job either. I guess there is something wrong with the registry, but could not figure out what...

If you have any idea, it is welcome...

Jipof
[MDA Compact II General] compactII:
Guys, hi to all.

Because I bought the MDA Compact II with the prospect of using a wifi sdio card and then I found out that there are some incompatibility issues, I 've found all the info in this thread very useful.

I'm upon deciding which wifi sdio card I should buy. In fact, I am thinking about this one and I want to know if anyone of you has actually tried it. Furthermore, if you have any other working suggestions, I'm all ears! (if you can't provide link here, please send me PM)

Thank you all in advance! Keep up the good work in the forum! :)
[MDA Compact II General] compactII:
Seems like I'm the only one who cares about using wifi in his MDA anymore. :p

So probably, I'll give it a try and I'll hope that it's gonna work. :rolleyes:

Wish me luck...
[MDA Compact II General] FulesMacko:
Problem

Hi all,

I have a HTC Charmer, (T-Mobile Compact II HUN), ROM: 2.6.2.27 WWE, and I bought a WiFI card. That: http://www.mobis.com.tw/sw-02.htm I put the card in SDIO and the card do nothing. I don't no why.

Install:

Install driver from CD.

Soft reset.

Put the card. (and do nohing :( )

Than I did a hard reset, and did it again and nothing. :(

Do they have any idea?

Bye, from Hungary
[MDA Compact II General] Anna@MDA:
@Fules.. from Hungary

Hi,

I have not been on this forum for a while because the probs have been solved so far.

As far as I understand your prob: You have to configure your card under menue "Preferneces" (my own is German - I have to guess - should be right below "Programmes") and then via "Connections". Add a new connection there with your WiFi-card. If there is a special menue point installed with your WiFi card follow the instructions there too.

This requires basic knowledge in configuring (WLan-)Networks and I can not be of further help. The configuration depends on the router´s address range you want to connect to.

If you are not experienced in this I can not help you anyhow, but otherwise:

If you insert your card (possibly after restarting) and the power LED on your card is not blinking there must be a hardware failure.

The only thing I could do for you is: send the card to me, I will try to configure it in my own network and give you the appropiate steps and settings to get it running, send it back. (Send PM if interested and 1x postage expenses :-)

Because a "blonde ...itch" as I was called here already has some ambition to get everything running here including the washing machine, etc. it would be a pleasure to be of help to get your card running.

Have a nice evening,

CU,

Anna
[MDA Compact II General] wojtek2005:
Hi all. I have same combination of devices: Compact II (from Poland, Era - in near future T-mobile) + JustMobile SDIO 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Card and the same problem - nothing is working. I've installed branded drivers (near summer) and WiFi card worked, but only once. A lot of tries do nothing. I have report, that device cannot connect with host. I found new drivers on producers site, but after installing it I haven't even possibility of connect. I'm thinking about another card, but which one? Thank you for cooperation.
[MDA Compact II General] jonny_boy27:
Big thanks to anna for the gps driver workaround - worked a treat with my cheapo-ten-quid-from-ebay sdio wifi card. alas, there is no wireless connection utility with the version of wm5 supplied by t-mobile. any idea how to unlock this feature/ any suggestions for 3-rd party software to do this?
[MDA Compact II General] towinguk:
Read this CAREFULLY

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=279908

IT work for ME with ckeapo card from ebay
[MDA Compact II General] DJuzla:
hi everyone,

i'm interested about few things about sdio wifi card...

In one of these days i'm expecting my new "i-mate jam",so becose there is no integrated wifi adapter,i'm gonna buy sdio wifi card for it.

can someone tell me is there any sdio wifi card that might work on i-mate jam for sure(i think i-mate comes with wm2003),but that card must be small (short,actually.as short as possible),like "spectec"(is there any smaller?),but not like its uncompatibility :)

waiting for answers...

thank you...
[MDA Compact II General] rviktor:
novovovooooo
[MDA Compact II General] JMes:
Charmer and Just Mobile WiFi Card

Just to report that it works with my Charmer
[MDA Compact II General] charm-:
Hi there, just got a T-Mobile MDA Compact II and read all this thread. I really wanna have wifi with it and wanna buy a low budget wifi sdio card. Is there any progress about this cause the last post was in 2007.

Wanna know what I must do to have wifi on MDA Compact II.

Thank you.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xfrancis14:
Getting insane battery drain. Bbs says it's from com.android.browser any idea how to disable it?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RASTAVIPER:
If you are rooted, just disable it with rootappdelete or any other similar application.

Unleashed by my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xfrancis14:
But how do I even know which application or what to disable? Cause 4.4 doesn't even have browser anymore it just has chrome
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RASTAVIPER:
Maybe it's this 3rd entry from system apps?

Unleashed by my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xfrancis14:
Strange.. I just checked and that's not even on my list
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xfrancis14:
Anyone?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opssemnik:
disable location,disable google now, remove your account, clear cache and data of play store / play services, re add it again. and do a test.

worked for me.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Perseus the Python:
i want to root my galaxy note 2, how do i do this?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sora9009:
here we have search function.don't you know that?

4.1.2 root

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1896696

4.3 root

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2540761

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2573576
[Moto X Q&A] lowvolt1:
Does anyone know where the phone.apk would be located? Or even the exact name?

I have looked in system/app and system/app-priv and haven't found anything except dialer.apk. if I go into my .apk freezer it populates a list and com.android.phone shows up. I am thinking this is what I am looking for. But I can't find it elsewhere.

Any help would be great.

Thanks

via my slapped KIT KAT moto X rockin on Verizon