Dell Venue Pro WIFI bug provides early test for Microsoft’s update system

November 9, 2010 | By Surur

Reports are coming in that the Dell Venue Pro is having an issue connecting to secure networks.

BGR notes:

Affected users report that when they attempt to connect to a secured Wi-Fi network using the standard Wi-Fi utility, they receive the following message: “your phone couldn’t reach the Wi-Fi network”. Users report no such problem when connecting to unprotected wireless networks.

These issues are of course exactly the type meant to be avoided by Microsoft taking more direct responsibly for the software and hardware of the devices, and will provide an early test for Microsoft’s update implementation.

Are any other Windows Phone 7 users having this same issue? Let us know below.

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http://www.facebook.com/haasb Blake Haas

I have a dell venue pro and i have ZERO problems connecting to secure WIFI networks.

GP007

That's good to know, maybe it's not just the OS or phone side but a combo of different things that are effecting this for some people?

http://www.facebook.com/hos238 Jonathan Alligood

funny thing i get the same message with my Focus when i try to access my home network with WPA-AES.
xma1e

not entirely correct, Dell may have different drivers to the HTC or Samsung so it could still be software
Jim

I have a Samsung Focus for less than a week now. I think it connected fine when I first set it up. Today I noticed the wifi icon was not doing anything so I tried to connnect and got this error.
Nick

My wife and I both bought the Samsung Focus, and neither of us can connect to our home Wifi Network running WPA2 (AES). Our computers and Tivo have no problem connecting. My Windows 6 phone connected fine. Neither Samsung works. Any clue about what to change on the router to make this work?

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