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[Nook Color General] graymulligan:
I don't get this one at all. There are plenty of tablets with 3g connectivity, and oh by the way, they all cost 2-3 times as much.

I don't need cellular access on my ereader/tablet, and I'm more than willing to take the 350 in savings to avoid it.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] snekoza:
Hi, in case this has been already solved I apologize in advance, however I searched all the post on this and could't find real solution to my problem and from what I have read I am not alone...

The think is that if I install any build of Androud to my Leo everything works perfect except the WiFi connection - after enabling WiFi and pointing it to my router it recognizes it, accepts the password (WPA-PSK protection) and then after some time of getting IP it never connects and it goes on and on.

I tried every single thing I have found all around this forum and many others, unfortunatelly nothing could make it work (forcing static IP, opening the network without protection, changing networks SSID, leaving WiFi on and restarting, etc.)

It is really pitty as I really like the way Androind moves on HD2, but as I use the Wifi a lot to unload a bit my data plan I cannot stick with it at the moment. So, is there any real solution to this problem?

Thank you in advance.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] wangshuokevn:
I have the same problem. But the connection is fine when I was under Winmo.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Macelangelo77:
The only time I've experienced a similar issue was when I upgraded to a new kernel, without pushing the new modules. What builds and kernel are you using?

Sincerely,

Mac
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] white-energy:
Try updating your builds or just modifying the mac adresses
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hatchy77:
I already have this issue when upgrading or changing build. I resolved the problem with Airplane Mode. switch on/switch off. Let us know the result. ^^
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] lamario:
I was having the same problem. It wouldnt connect to my home network, but it would connect to every other network. Turns out my router was too old. I recently got a new router and it works fine. Also, when I had my G1, it also wouldnt connect to my home network via wifi, but it does with the new router.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] snekoza:
On WinMo no problem.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] snekoza:
As I wrote before, I tried many different builds with no succes. At the moment I installed MCCM SE V3.4(FroyoStone Sense)[kernel hastarin r8.5]. As I have nothing to save I do everytime clean install on reformated card.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] snekoza:
IMHO the router is not the problem even it's a bit outdated - Linksys WRT54GL - as I tried to connect to friend's network, I also created AP from my notebook - with the same result.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] snekoza:
The Airplane mode you toggle in WinMo or Android? I tried it in WinMo - no success.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mac-nukem:
oh yes...

... I know this kind of problem.

Tried so many builds of Froyo. Most wlan-stable was indeed MCCM SE V3.4(FroyoStone Sense)[kernel hastarin r8.5] - with this build I had no wifi drops or hsdpa drops.

From today on I try the MDJ FroYo HD v.4.1[kernel:MDJ S7.3HD]. Most time it holds the connection, but sometimes when waking up from stand-by I have to disconnect and reconnect wifi.

Router: Linksys WRT54G.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] snekoza:
Thanks for the answer, unfortunatelly I have nothing to drop as I cannot connect. On the other hand either EDGE and HSDPA works like charm - solid connection.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hatchy77:
Into Android my friend ;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] behappy:
I also had this problem. It's easily solved by loging into your router and setting up the access list (under adv wireless settings on mine). You can add the device in with its specific mac address and by doing this I was instantly able to use wifi.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Monrad:
It's not an issue with mac address filtering. I know this issue because I have the same problem with the wifi router at the office. I can connect without any problem at home but It just won't work at the office.

DHCP server assigns an IP, but if you try to ping any IP outside LAN you'll get network unreachable.

I didn't have time to test a bit more, but I'll try to change the mac address of my wlan in order to test if the problem relies in there. The idea is to assign the same MAC Adress I have on WinMo. This will be very useful also to people with 2 HTC HD2 using the same ROM and Kernel.

BTW, I'm not using MAC Address filtering, this issue has nothing to do with it.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hassohd2:
I have the same problem here ..

Please help me buddy!

thank you in advance

hassohd2
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ross@hyperquantum.com.au:
I tried this switching in and out of Airplane mode in Android with varying degrees of success. The problem itself seems intermittent for me - sometimes I get a decent amount of time with successful access and sometimes I don't. Similarly a reboot (of Android) may or may not work for me. I am using kernel version 2.6.32.15-gd09adbb gcc version 4.4.0 and is dated Thu Dec 30 19:14:35 CET 2010 for me. I notice I am more inclined to have an issue with Market even than with Firefox. Also it is more of a problem now than with a previous kernel version (but it had problems too if I recall correctly). I upgraded because I am having difficulties with getting the USB link to work under Android (but that problem is still there). It did seem to work well for the first few hours after the upgrade, but since then...

I did notice that under MS WM, the MAC address is quite different to that recorded by my DHCP server (a unix box the other side of my wireless router) for Android. The Android one looked like it was a stock standard number sequence, so fabricated. I wonder where that is set on the phone?

I also noticed that the phone does not have the usual (for Linux) resolv.conf file that often gets configured by the DHCP connection process. Further, entering a host IP in the /etc/hosts file does not necessarily mean that a command like ping will find it every time. Of recent I have not been checking that - I have been using the IP address of my unix box to do ping tests to. The network does (of course) shut down when the phone goes into sleep mode, but does wake up, even responding to a ping from the unix box. Running up Market, though, seems to kill the connection every time now (but a weather update won't).

A further observation: if I get the Wi-Fi network connection to reset itself (straight forward when the lease expires), it is hard to get it to reset itself until after the next lease expiry for some reason.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ross@hyperquantum.com.au:
I did some further tests. I don't have a pipe (|) key on my HTC HD2 that works so the following commands are a little long winded.

localhost / # getprop > /data/tmp/props

localhost / # grep dns /data/tmp/props

[net.change]: [net.dnschange]

[dhccp.eth0.dns1]: [192.168.10.1]

[dhccp.eth0.dns2]: []

[dhccp.eth0.dns3]: []

[dhccp.eth0.dns4]: []

[net.dns1]: [192.168.10.1]

[net.dnschange]: [49]

localhost / #

Now 192.168.10.1 is my (Unix) DNS server.

When I do the following on the phone

localhost / # nslookup 192.168.10.1

(or even localhost / # nslookup cicada or even the fqdn of the server)

and I tail -f /var/tmp/named.log on the server (where I set up logging for queries and resolver categories for this test)

I see no action at all on the server and on the phone I get

localhost / # nslookup 192.168.10.1

Server: 192.168.10.1

Address 1: 192.168.10.1

Name: 192.168.10.1

Address 1: 192.168.10.1

localhost / #

localhost / # nslookup cicada

Server: 192.168.10.1

Address 1: 192.168.10.1

nslookup: can't resolve 'cicada'

localhost / #

and the same for the FQDN.

The DNS server does not even see the request for forward or reverse lookup, strangely enough. But it is seeing the requests from other machines with logs to the reverse lookup from those other machines looking like:

10-Jan-2011 22:21:57.953 queries: info: client 192.168.10.20#38971: query: 1.10.168.192.in-addr.arpa IN PTR +

So, not only does the wi-fi link drop when Market is run, the DNS is behaving strangely to terminal based testing. Further, an update of the weather does not show any traffic in the DNS server log (at least for the logging level I have set up) even though the weather does get updated. It makes me wonder what DNS it is really using.

The other avenue I want to check is DHCP time-out, which I have been keeping an eye on (it does seem to time out and not update, but there are also other issues that suggest the problem is not a time-out one). That will have to be another day at this stage, though.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Richy99:
what channel is the router using for wifi?
[Android Apps and Games] scary alien:
v1.3 just published: now supports set-on-boot feature!

Just a quick thread bump to let everyone know that I've updated the app to version 1.3 that now includes a set-on-boot / run-on-boot option.

Select this option via the menu (menu -> More -> Set on Boot -> select True or False).

Enjoy!
[Android Apps and Games] TuxDude:
Nice app - will give it a shot :)
[Android Apps and Games] scary alien:
version 1.4 just uploaded to the Market

All,

Just wanted to let everyone know that v1.4 is out and includes the ability to monitor for a low-battery condition.

You can set a percentage threshold at which the LED will be turned on (or not) to a selected color and optionally have it blink.

I've also added five new colors to select from for setting the LED to the various battery states.

Here's the change log:

version 1.4:

* supported optional low-battery status indicator:

- action: none, LED on, LED blink

- threshold: 10%, 20%, 30%, or 40%

- LED color

* supported new LED colors in addition to the original red, green, blue, yellow, and OFF:

- dark orange

- orange

- dark violet

- dark green

- deep sky blue

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] XIMAD Inc.:
Thanks! Good app!
[Android Apps and Games] scary alien:
v1.6 just uploaded: now works w/SMS text notifications

All,

Just a quick thread-bump to let everyone know about the latest release of the app: version 1.6 now works with SMS text notifications!

So now, you should be able to run the app all of the time and still get notified when a text message comes in.

The timeliness of the seeing the SMS notification is still dependent on the polling interval you are using, but app steps aside when the SMS notification comes in and then resumes when its been acknowledged (by reading the text) or cleared (by the notification pull-down's Clear button).

Please note that the app doesn't actually control the color or blinking status of the SMS text notification, my app just allows it to come in and been seen--so I cannot change its color or behavior (sorry).

I also added the option / ability to make the LEDs blink (or stay on like before) for the charging / discharging / charged state like the functionality I added for the low-battery condition in v1.4.

Anyway, I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday!

Enjoy the app and its recent changes--I very much appreciate everyone's feedback and support!

By the way, I am going to try to move all of the configuration stuff currently in the menus to the "shared preferences" settings (that will look like the Settings configuration menu we all know and love).
[Android Apps and Games] cowboyboats:
I wonder if it's at all possible to notify of a possible wake lock?

Swyped from my Cyanogen Evo
[Android Apps and Games] scary alien:
Wow! Thanks for melting my brain ;) :p ... after reading through this (http://source.android.com/porting/power_management.html#androidPowerWakeLocks).

Didn't know too much about wake locks before this (or even afterwards, lol).

Interesting idea...not sure if I could monitor for these (there is no obvious broadcast action event that is sent-out for wake-locks that I could listen for).

Thanks for the suggestion...I'll keep this in mind for the future though.
[Android Apps and Games] cowboyboats:
Sorry, I was thinking if it could notify of low battery then it might be possible to add a feature that would notify high voltage discharge while screen was off. Since roms should under volt while the screen is off. Maybe a feature our something but I may not fully understand it

Swyped from my Cyanogen Evo
[Android Apps and Games] scary alien:
v1.7 just uploaded to Market (very useful fixes and improvements)

version 1.7 changes include:

- added strategy to auto-recover from Android auto-killing the app's service; should make the app much more stable and without unwanted shutdowns

- replaced multiple menu settings w/standard Settings/Preferences menu item

- dynamically determine battery status directory (I did this to see if the app would work on more phones (with mixed success); should allow for users that don't see that the app was written for the Droid X to at least see if it will work on their phone (does not appear to work on a stock HTC Evo 4G, HTC Droid Eris))

- re-instituted screen lock to portrait mode to prevent orientation change from causing FCs

- fixed integer parsing issue causing some reported crashes (probably just experienced by non-Droid X phones)

- added option for 3 minute polling-interval

- added larger range for low-battery percentage threshold

- fixed issue where LED would not blink when charging

Anyway, if you have any issues, comments, questions, etc., please contact me at scary.alien@gmail.com.

Cheers and have a great New Year!
[Android Apps and Games] Coderedpl:
Is it possible to add an option so the app stops monitoring when the battery is fully charged?
[Android Apps and Games] scary alien:
Sure...but let me make sure I totally understand... Would you want to stop monitoring and exit or stop lighting the LED when charged? (I'd have to keep monitoring to see that its still charged).

By the way, are you rooted? I've been testing a version this past weekend that will light the LED while the screen is on (only for rooted phones, I'm afraid).

edit: sorry, I do see that you are rooted...cool :cool: you are going to like the next version. ;)

I'm also testing a "Suspend" checkbox on the main screen so you can pause the display of the LED and monitoring while its checked. This is kind of a preliminary step towards being able to set a scheduled "turn off LED" time and duration (i.e., for at night when you don't want to see the LED lit).

The next version will also be much more responsive towards things like SMS/text notifications (the app won't always have to wait until the top of the next polling interval to "see" when some events like SMS messages coming in or preferences being changed--this will allow you to have longer polling-intervals without loss of functionality).

Let me know...I'm always looking for new ideas. :)

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] shaggoth:
can't find it on the market :( any help?
[Android Apps and Games] scary alien:
Did you use one "t" or two? It should be available since it theoretically works on 1.5 and up. Let me know if you still can't find it. Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] shaggoth:
sorry i didnt saw its just for droids (( my fault
[Android Apps and Games] scary alien:
v1.8 just published to the Market

All,

I've just published version 1.8 to the Market and updated the first post with information and screenshots... Lots of new features and improvements. Change log for 1.8 includes:

- supported new experimental features:

* ability to keep LED on while the screen is on (root only)

* support white LED color when used with the "LED is Always ON" experimental (root-only) feature/setting

- updated w/better strategy for dynamically locating battery state and LED notification files to TRY to support non-Motorola Droid phones

- added 'Suspend' feature to turn off LED and pause battery status monitoring until resumed (un-checked)

- added strategy to make app more timely/responsive to SMS text notifications and preference/setting changes

- fixed set-on-boot and charging-color preference mis-match and other minor preference/settings issues (this was causing a few folks issues...if you still have an issue, try an un-install and fresh re-install--this will clear-out the saved preferences)

- supported amber LED color in addition to the original red/green/blue LED colors (for phones that support an amber LED color)

Anyway, this version should be much more stable and responsive than the prior versions (although v1.7 was pretty solid, :D).

Enjoy, and please visit https://sites.google.com/site/scaryalienware/battmonx for full details and screen shots. Shoot me an email at scary.alien@gmail.com for any issues, comments, questions, etc.

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] jason600:
Nice app.

One small problem, running on a Milestone with CM6, every time I try to access the low battery settings, it force closes.

I've sent a crash log (using the report option when it force closes), hope it helps.
[Android Apps and Games] scary alien:
Jason,

Thank you very much for both the feedback and the crash report (I'll take a look at it in a sec...).

You are my first Milestone user as far as I know...(cool!).

I don't have any idea what could be up wit the low-battery logic--there's nothing really special w/regard to that.... I'll get back with you as soon as I can.

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] scary alien:
Jason,

I sent you a PM about the crash report--couldn't find anything that directly referenced my code, so I'm thinking that its related to the nested preference menus. Let me know about exactly what you were setting for the low-battery configuration (or if it was just launching or exiting the low-battery settings that caused the issue). If I have to, I'll move that menu option one level back/up and see if that helps (I can send you a test .apk if you are willing).

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] jason600:
Thanks for the quick reply Scary Alien.

I go to preferences, click 'set led colours and action', then scroll to bottom, click 'low battery settings' and it immediately force quits.

I'll PM you me email for the .apk

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] scary alien:
FYI for any who care... Jason's been helping me debug my app on his Milestone running a CyanogenMod ROM (not sure which one), but we've narrowed-down the issue to something that CyanogenMod is doing (at least for now) since the v1.8 app does work okay when he returns to stock Android.

I also wanted to take this opportunity to publicly thank Jason for all of his help. He has been tremendously helpful and knowledgeable and has been wonderful to work with. Kudos and cheers to Jason!

There have also been many others (KiLo Gramz, Dakota W, David F, Veronika K, Christopher H, Jim F, Lee K, Missy D, to name just a few) that have emailed me with information, help and/or offers of help and you all have been integral in making this app better. Thank you all!
[Android Apps and Games] datboiro:
Hey Scary, I want to use this app, but I'm wondering how much coding would be required on your part to make this a complete LED notification tool? i.e. setting it to use your colors to notify of "all" system notifications. I kinda' like Blink but it has something missing to keep it from feeling complete. Seems as if we take your app and merge it with Blink we Droid users would have an all around solution for our LED notification needs... thanks for listening.
[Android Apps and Games] scary alien:
datboiro,

Thank you for the feedback. I just recently started thinking about doing this (and even started looking that public domain source that the author of Gmail Notifier has published). It should be fairly straightforward to incorporate those things, provided I can figure-out how to monitor for their notification intents (like I know is available for Gmail for example). I'm keeping my eyes and ears out, but haven't researched the details for other app's notifications.

I'm not yet familiar with Blink (I've heard of it) and other notification apps, so I don't know if they change the LED to different colors based on the notification type (i.e., one color or behavior for Gmail, another for SMS text, etc.). Is this what you had in mind?

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] scary alien:
v2.2 uploaded to the Market

Uploaded version 2.2 of the app to the Market last night. Here's the highlights:

- added more strategies for making the app more responsive when screen off & unplugged (I implemented a partial wakelock for one minute after the screen is turned off and unplugged from power source)

- added 'Set LED Colors by Percent Charged' feature (i.e., you can assign a different color to each 10% range of battery percent-charged)

- added 'Rainbow Mode' (under Fun Stuff) to cycle through the various LED colors

- added 'Keep CPU On' feature to allow you keep the CPU awake/on when the screen is turned off (this is only true when monitoring is active);

*** Warning *** use of this option will consume more battery!

- added preset-color buttons to LED color tester (easier to test main colors)

Hope you enjoy this new version.

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] scary alien:
v2.3 just uploaded to the Market

New version just published.

Here's the change log:

Version 2.3 - 14-Mar-2011:

- support option to display status bar notification icon with battery percent charged

- support option to turn off use of LED battery state indication

- more accurate app behavior for Moto Droid-class phones via 1% charge delta vs. original 10% delta

- support blink action for monitor-by-percent charged mode (screen off only)

- additional logic to try to support other phones like Sony Ericsson Xperia x10 family

- lots of app cleanup; re-organized preferences / settings menus

Check it out and let me know what you think!

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] :
Excellent App, unique idea and works great !!
[Android Apps and Games] freiflug11:
please upload the apk.

can´t find it in market.

Thanks ;)
[Android Apps and Games] scary alien:
Did you make sure you used two t's? (BattMonX)...let me know if you still have problems finding it. I hope you enjoy the app and find it useful. Please let me know if you have any questions.

New version 2.4 with some new goodies / features coming soon (hopefully this weekend).

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] freiflug11:
yes, two tt´s.

seems like its not available in German market

:(
[Android Apps and Games] scary alien:
I hesitate to mention this, but I'm pretty sure my app has been re-hosted on lots of 3rd-party Market sites... Don't pay for it though...this puppy is free to all :).

Also, my v2.4 version should (hopefully) be published this weekend, so keep your eye out for that version too.

Cheers!