Unduly Noted

Pdanet disconnects or drops connection every few minutes

by Andre on Mar.26, 2009, under iPhone/iPod

UPDATE: This app is very flakey for iphone os 3.0. Check out an alternative method here.

UPDATE:
The commenter from below brought it to my attention that the new Supreme prefs no longer has this option for weather icon. Give this a try and leave a comment to let me know if it works for your phone.
SSH into your iphone (cyberduck for mac os x is an easy way) and go to /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/
look for the file: com.ashman.WeatherIcon.plist
Delete it and replace with the attached from my working phone here.
Reboot and try pdanet.
If it works let me know. If you don’t even have the com.ashman.WeatherIcon.plist file let me know as well

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OLD METHOD BELOW
So you have jailbroken your iphone and installed/purchased pdanet. You have also installed a ton of other apps off of Cydia and can’t even remember anymore what you did. For some reason your darn connection keeps dropping every 5 - 10 - 15 minutes. Solution, download Supreme Preferences from Cydia (This will replace your current preferences/settings icons). Open it up and go to theĀ Supreme Preferences at the bottom. Next go to Applications, next Weather Icon, next Refresh Every, and touch the Off. Apparently this goes out and syncs the weather icon with theĀ appropriate one. Mine was set to 15 mins and sure enough every 15 pdanet would kick me. When I was having this problem the pdanet people wrote me and told me that something must be making a connection (and apparently that kills the pdanet connection). Anyway, shutting the weather icon refresh off fixes it.

EDIT: I’ve just started getting a bad connection again after doing nothing. Doing some serious testing to figure it out. It seems my AIM will work but webbrowsing won’t. Completely random as well, not like the above problem. If I close my browser it will sometimes work a little bit and then stop. At first I thoght it was DNS. It’s prob just my machine though and I need to iron it out and test with another machine. Will keep you posted. This just started last friday(4-17-09), let me know if it just started for you as well.

EDIT2: (4-22-09)
iTunes restore/jailbreak and only installing pdanet still does not work. It crashes after 5 min of use. Writing the developers to see whats up. Keep you posted.

EDIT3: (4-22-09)
Seems to be working now (not crashing). No idea what it was or why it was crashing. Running little snitch and I don’t see anything unusual. Let me know if it is crashing on you. I will keep you posted if it keeps working.

EDIT4:(4-23-09)
Worked great last night although I did not open too many tabs or try skype etc. Still crashing for anyone?

EDIT5: (5-5-09)
Forgot to mention that the developer emailed me back (rather quickly) and pretty much hinted that the crashing was an isolated problem on my phone. I’m guessing the dang thing was overheating. Anyway. He gave me a link to the beta version which I have been running and seems to work great.


8 Comments for this entry

  • Craig

    Unduly noted, thank you!!! this worked… I’ve been successfully connected now for almost an hour… no drop outs, no reconnecting -hassle free.

    Thanks a billion for helping me surf uninterrupted via my iphones 3G connection on my mac :)

  • chris

    after i saw this link i thought i had the answer id been looking for, for about a month now, but alas no. i downloaded supreme prefs, but it seems the weather icon has been removed!? can anyone help pleeaaaase!?

    chris

  • pottas

    hi i downloaded the wether thing and ssh in to my phone but couldnt see the 1 i was overwriting so deleted the 1 that looked simlar to it but it didnt work is there any more solutions please cheers dan

  • pottas

    hi i dont have the com.ashman what should i do any help pls.

  • Lex

    Look at
    /User/Library/Preferences/com.ashman.WeatherIcon.plist

  • Andre

    Thanks Lex, i no longer use pdanet and actually have ditched the iPhone all together (for the time being). I’ll write a post soon on my replacement phone.

  • max

    where you enable the debug usb mode.. alos click stay alive

  • James

    I had this issue a lot, another user suggested i disable wifi on my laptop when using pdanet. this did the trick, no more disconnects.

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