Dell X50V : Wifi ON/OFF button on left ; won't turn Wifi ON

[vinniemak]

Hi,

I like to switch ON & OFF the Wifi (802.11b) to preserve battery. So I use it just to be on the internet and like to turn Wifi off...pretty normal so far.

The top button on the left which turns Wifi ON & OFF doesn't seem to work correctly. If I hit the switch, I get a message which states, hit the button again to get connected to Wireless in 5 seconds, I hit it immediately and it just doesn't turn on Wifi.

I usually click the "broken" Wifi icon on the bottom right and turn it on manually, but would be nice if the button kicked it on & off.

I believe, since I installed Omega One Battery Pack Pro 1.1, this seems to be the issue. I had hard booted recently ; the wireless button worked great...but has been dead for a while...

Any assistance would be appreciated.

[Rudism]

Could it be that your wifi button is in bluetooth-only mode?

I find that the button will only enable the wireless service(s) that it was most recently used to disable.

For example, when you turn on bluetooth manually (leaving wifi off), and then use the button to disable bluetooth, the next time you use the button to enable wireless, it will only enable bluetooth.

If that's not the case then it could simply be some corruption of your registry or something that would require some digging or a hard reset to fix.

[Ricardo_Faria]

Hi,

Dear Friend, I had the same problem with the same software...
After kick of this software... no more problems remains.

Ricardo



I like to switch ON & OFF the Wifi (802.11b) to preserve battery. So I use it just to be on the internet and like to turn Wifi off...pretty normal so far.

The top button on the left which turns Wifi ON & OFF doesn't seem to work correctly. If I hit the switch, I get a message which states, hit the button again to get connected to Wireless in 5 seconds, I hit it immediately and it just doesn't turn on Wifi.

I usually click the "broken" Wifi icon on the bottom right and turn it on manually, but would be nice if the button kicked it on & off.



I believe, since I installed Omega One Battery Pack Pro 1.1, this seems to be the issue. I had hard booted recently ; the wireless button worked great...but has been dead for a while...

Any assistance would be appreciated.[/QUOTE]

[vinniemak]

Ricardo..thanks man...I do like the little itzy bitzy icons that Battery Pro leaves behind. I will dump it ; what's better to use instead?? Pocket Breeze or something else??

[ricebw]

Simply disable PowerButtons and both will work fine again. BatteryPack Pro is a nice piece of software -- no need to dump it!'

Ricardo..thanks man...I do like the little itzy bitzy icons that Battery Pro leaves behind. I will dump it ; what's better to use instead?? Pocket Breeze or something else??

[SeDkY]

In registry go at :
HKLM/SOFTWARE/HTC/WirelessOnOff

Here you can configure, what do the button ;)

[vinniemak]

Thanks...ricebw...I was gonna throw $ 30bucks off the window (i.e by dumping off Omega One Battery Pro. As a matter of fact, I HARD RESET and have the ON/OFF button for WiFi working again (i.e that basically killed Battery Pro and other programs). I installed all others in like a half hour, but I will reinstall BatteryPack Pro, as you're right, I liked it since it has a zillion little icons that you click and run applications + battery & memory life etc.

SeDKY..will try the registry option if PowerButtons disable doesn't work.

Thanks for all your assistance.

Vinnie
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