X3i: wifi drop out after 30-45 minutes?

[Darth Sparky]

I just wanted to tell everyone about my experiences with my X3i. I too get occasional drops. They are much more frequent when the signal is lower. I never get drops from my living room where I get 4 green bars but I get frequent drops from my bedroom where I get 2 yellow bars. A rescan or turning off wifi then turning it back on always solves it for me. I've never had to do a reset, hard or soft, to solve this problem.

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[Ras]

Hi,

I see that the patch is for the X3, does this apply to the X3i as well? It is not clear to my exactly what the patch does/fixes. Has anyone tried this patch on their X3i? What was the result?

Thanks!

[level]

I just got my replace-unit.
Rev. A00
wifi is working fine so far....25 min, no disconnection............ yet

[level]

yep, it's confirmed.
my old unit was bugged.
it was made in china
Rev. A02

the replacement unit works fine and it connected to router within 10 secs.

[JakeP]

What do you mean by th ROM version. Which version is the one without any wifi bugs? If I ever upgrdae my OS, will Wifi stop working?

[joelw135]

I installed the patch on my X3i, it mite be my imagination, but Wi-Fi seems faster.

[benf]

Originally posted by joelw135
I installed the patch on my X3i, it mite be my imagination, but Wi-Fi seems faster.

Thats funny.. This patch is for localization/language updates only:

"Dell AXIM X3 Drivers Patch (112403) This patch contains the localization update of Wireless Lan driver UI/help files for following languages: German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese"

[aviationwiz]

Originally posted by joelw135
I installed the patch on my X3i, it mite be my imagination, but Wi-Fi seems faster.

I don't think it's your imagination. It seems faster to connect to my WiFi for me.

Originally posted by benf
Thats funny.. This patch is for localization/language updates only

there are two different patches. that is the one for the language update. the other one restricts certain channels for the wifi antenna.

i am using a d-link di-614+ along with the motorola cable modem and have had no trouble. the cable modem was added today, but even before that was added i still never got dropped in my home network using this router. my WEP is set to 64bit.

had anyone tried changing the settings on their X3i to give more performance, but less battery life? that might be the problem.

[joelw135]

There are actually 3 patches. One takes care of battery problems, and a few other things. Here is the link from Dell Community Forum.

All X3 USERS,

Here is the latest rom update for the AXIM X3.The fixes include:

1. Backup battery driver status update issue, which may cause long backup battery charging time. 2. Codec relative drivers problem, which may conflit and cause system lockup. 3. Serial Port driver issue, which cause serial keyboard detection sometimes failed. 4. Enhanced display performance by optimizing the display driver. 5. USB file transfering issues, which may cause file transfer fails.

Click the link below to download this file. If you search the Dell file library you may need to click on previous versions from the file dowload page to get to the English version.


ROM update

[aviationwiz]

I think that is what most people are talking about. That's what I was talking about at least.

[benf]

Does this include X3i users as well?

[aviationwiz]

Yes, the update should be applied for X3i users.

[GMGQ]

I just got my X3i about 1.5weeks ago (loving iti). And I haven't noticed any of the problems that I've read about on here (i.e. wi-fi dropping out, locking up, slow wi-fi connecting, etc etc).

Having said that, I'm still curious if it the new ROM update will make a difference (optimized display driver wouldn't hurt?). Is it possible to back up my current ROM, so that I can have a backup in case I want to go back to it? TIA

[Gigi]

I got my X3i replacement a few days ago, and it is worse than the first one!!! Last night, I connected for less than 5 minutes before seeing the dreaded padlock and 169....IP number!!! This is extremely frustrating and now I'm not so sure what part my router plays in all of this since it's the same one as before.:rolling: