Question

I recently installed the Windows Phone 8.1 emulators to try some existing apps out on them and ran into this problem: DeviceNetworkInformation.IsCellularDataEnabled (in the Microsoft.Phone.Net.NetworkInformation namespace) is always returning false.

public void UpdateDataEnabled()
{
    _dataEnabled = DeviceNetworkInformation.IsCellularDataEnabled 
        || DeviceNetworkInformation.IsWiFiEnabled;
}

DeviceNetworkInformation.IsCellularDataEnabled = false

I know the connection is actually working because I'm still able to perform HTTP requests. If I run this same exact code in the 8.0.x emulators I don't have any problems.

I also tried updating the project and all libraries to Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1 apps to see if that would resolve the issue and no luck. I checked all the capabilities and ID_CAP_NETWORKING was still checked as well.

The emulator is tested and working if I write a pure Windows Phone 8.1 XAML app using Windows 8 method of obtaining network status. It's just not working for my Silverlight apps.

I was under the impression that Windows Phone Silverlight apps should continue to function on Windows Phone 8.1 devices. Am I overlooking something?

Was it helpful?

Solution

I have the same problem and i did what verdesrobert and Rishabh876 suggested. Its only emulator problem so i add condition to check out if app is running on emulator

    public bool IsNetworkAvailable()
    {
        if (DeviceNetworkInformation.IsNetworkAvailable)
        {
            if (Microsoft.Devices.Environment.DeviceType == DeviceType.Emulator)
            {
                return true;
            }
            else if ((DeviceNetworkInformation.IsWiFiEnabled || DeviceNetworkInformation.IsCellularDataEnabled) && NetworkInterface.NetworkInterfaceType != NetworkInterfaceType.None)
            {
                return true;
            }
        }
        return false;
    }

I dont like that workaround much so if anyone has better solution let me know.

OTHER TIPS

It seems that the WP8.1 emulator is giving that information only to WP8.1 apps.
I'm pretty sure that the 7.1 apps will work properly on WP8.1 Devices.

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