reachability

copied the reachability-test from apple, but the linker gives a failure

i have tried to use the reachability-project published by apple to detect a reachability in an own example. i copied the most initialization, but i get this failure in the linker: Ld build/switchViews.build/Debug-iphoneos/test.build/Objects-normal/armv6/test normal armv6 cd /Users/uid04100/Documents/TEST setenv IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARG...

Looking for Reachability (2.0) Use Case Validation

There is so much info out there on using Apple's Reachability example, and so much is conflicting. I'm trying to find out of I'm using it (Reachability 2.0) correctly below. My App use case is this: If an internet connection is available through any means (wifi, LAN, Edge, 3G, etc.) a UIButton ("See More") is visible on various views. If...

iPhone SDK : Asynchronous Connection Retry Mechanism

Hi All, I have implemented the usual Asynchronous connection mode in one of my apps and it works fine. The error handling is also happening properly. I also have implemented the Reachability API by Apple. I would like to have for example 5 retires to be done when there is a network failure. Kindly suggest me a good way to implement t...

Can I prevent iPhone from using 3G under any circumstances?

I'm writing a travel guide related app that will download large databases (60meg) potentially overseas, with the reachability code I can tell when a host is reachable via wifi or 3g BUT I'm worried that if for some reason the wifi connection breaks for a minute or so as some DSL connections are likely to do on occasion the iphone will sw...

Large Memory Leak Using Reachability

Using Instruments on the device it detects a 3.50 KB memory leak using Apple's Reachability 2.0 code in my app. The Leaked Object is GeneralBlock-3584. The leaks tool points to the following code: - (BOOL) startNotifer { BOOL retVal = NO; SCNetworkReachabilityContext context = {0, self, NULL, NULL, NULL}; if(SCNetworkReac...

Reachability on iPhone app with a false positive - will it get past apple?!

I am using this code... Reachability *r = [Reachability reachabilityWithHostName:@"www.maxqdata.com"]; NetworkStatus internetStatus = [r currentReachabilityStatus]; if ((internetStatus != ReachableViaWiFi) && (internetStatus != ReachableViaWWAN)) { UIAlertView *myAlert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"No Internet Connection" mes...

how to fetch a Google Data API feed only over the cellular connection, avoiding any WiFi connection in Iphone App?

hai to all I am developing Iphone App ,in that I should connect to cellular network using pdp-ip0 . avoiding any wi-fi connection (if there also).And using this cellular data network only I need to fetch the data from URL .could any one please help me how to do that .I have seen reachability code .But it only testing the network connect...

is it possible to test the network connection is via cellular data network in Iphone app

is it possible to test the network connection is via cellular data network in Iphone app ...

How to determine if an iOS device has a cellular radio?

Is it possible, without including an exhaustive list of models in the code, to determine if an iOS device includes a cellular radio? I am working on adding a check for host reachability to an app, and I'd like the failure message to be appropriate for the device. For example: A network connection is not available. Please join a Wi-F...

Another "wait_fences: failed to receive reply" Question (UIAlertView)

There are a number of questions regarding the "wait_fences: failed to receive reply" on this forum already, but none of the proposed solutions work for me (although they did help me to mitigate it). When my app starts up, I do a reachability check, and if I can't reach the host I'm looking for, I pop up a UIAlertView. Initially I was do...

Reachability or connectionDidFailWithError?

I have implemented connectionDidFailWithError to alert the user of any errors that happen in the network connections like time out, no internet connection etc. It gives me correct notification when no internet connection is available. So do I still need to implement Apple's reachability code? ...

Checking Internet connection with Reachability 2.2

We are trying to display an alert view when there is no connection and we are using the reachability 2.2 classes from apple. The problem we are running into is that at the start of the program we are always getting an alert view that there is no internet connection but we are connected to the internet. Is there a correct way to check for...

Reachability problem with notifications on a separate thread

Hello, I make use of Apples Reachability class and it works if I keep it on the main thread(bad approach). If I instead move it to a separate thread the notification is never called. In didFinishLaunchingWithOptions i call the following: [NSThread detachNewThreadSelector:@selector(checkConnection) toTarget:self withObject: nil]; che...

How to implement Reachability for iphone application

Hi all, I am developing an iphone application which uses internet.So in order to handle the network connection errors i would like to use reachability,but from apple site api reference it states that build and runtime requires iOS4 but i am developing application for iphone 2g which only supports upto iphone os 3.1.3.So any one could he...

Is Apple's current Reachability class backwards-compatible with iOS 3.1?

I'm implementing Apple's Reachibility class into my application. The app's base SDK is iOS 4.0, and its deployment target is iOS 3.1. I do not have a 3.1 device to test with, so can anyone tell me if it is backwards compatible? The documents for Reachability say that iOS 4.0 is required, so if it does indeed need a minimum of 4.0, how c...

iPhone app detecting wifi network while running in the background

Hi, does anyone know if there is a way for an iPhone app to continuously detect the presence of WiFi networks while running in the background? What are the limitations? Cheers, Marko ...

Reachability Guide for iOS 4

Has anyone found a halfway decent guide to implementing Reachability on iOS4? I have yet to find one. Thanks in advance! ...

iPhone Reachability of multiple hosts from NSNetServices

Hi, in my iPhone app I list some hosts that publish themselves via bonjour (NSNetService). The user is able to save those hosts to a favorites list. What I want to do is to check if those hosts are reachable via LAN or if they are offline. To do this I am observing ReachabilityChangedNotifications in my ViewController: [[NSNotificatio...

Where should I perform a Reachability check?

I want to check for a valid network connection. I followed Apple's Reachability example and put my check in applicationDidFinishLaunching #pragma mark - #pragma mark Application lifecycle - (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions { if(getenv("NSZombieEn...

Application Failed to Launch in Time, even with a background thread

I am checking network reachability in applicationDidFinishLaunching: [self performSelectorInBackground:@selector(performReachabilityCheck) withObject:nil]; Background thread -(void)performReachabilityCheck{ NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init]; internetReach = [[Reachability reachabilityForInternetC...