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Tilt Wifi Turns off When Screen Does
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Posted by: Gumbochief_00

Anyone know how to change this?

When I have wifi on, if the screen goes into powersave mode, the wifi turns itself off. Bluetooth and the main radio continue to function.

Annoying as I am using a wifi connection at an overseas airport (telephone radio off) and everytime it goes into powersave, the push email no longer functions.

I have moved the wifi power slider to "Best Performance" but it has not made a difference.

Posted by: Blowfish64

I'm sure there's a free way to do this, but the programs that I know are able to do this are PhoneAlarm and Comm Manager Pro. They work by activating the wifi driver directly, rather than utilizing the "power-saving" features built into the standard Comm Manager. CMP does it automatically; in PA you have to specify that it use the driver in the config file.

Posted by: blessd24

There is definetly no easy setting in the phone. This has been true on the 8125 and the 8525 so far.

I guess they figure you don't want to be draining your battery.

Posted by: Gumbochief_00

Quote:

Originally Posted by blessd24

There is definetly no easy setting in the phone. This has been true on the 8125 and the 8525 so far.

I guess they figure you don't want to be draining your battery.

While getting wifi to work at all on my PDA2K was always a pain, it did not turn off based on the screen.

Guess I will just have to adjust.

Thanks

Posted by: ilvla2

It's there to save battery life, WiFi takes a lot of juice.

Posted by: player911

There should be a power-saving checkbox in the WiFi Settings. If not I know you can enable it through a registry hack.

Posted by: Gumbochief_00

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilvla2

It's there to save battery life, WiFi takes a lot of juice.

I realize that. However, there should be an option to disable this behavior.

Posted by: Greywolfmm

I wish WiFi would stay on, too.

Posted by: Blowfish64

As I said, try the two programs I mentioned.

Posted by: ilvla2

Are there any free programs or registry edits to do that?

Posted by: RF9

All previous WM PDAs I've had would let you turn off the screen backlight but leave the device on (not in standby.) For some reason the Tilt doesn't have this mode, it's standby or on.

On those I'd just disable the auto-standby and have it blank the screen. This was good enough for periods of time when i wanted wifi to stay on.

I'm going hunting through the registry now, I'll let you know what I find.

Posted by: ilvla2

Awesome, thanks RF!