Bizarre N95-1 Networking Problem - and it's all Steve's Fault ;-) — Nokia N95 and N95 8GB

neilhoskins 07 Jul 2008, 12:10

A while back I moved the feed for The Smartphones Show from podcasting to 'Video Centre'. Although this is a more elegant way of viewing video podcasts, you have to download manually as there's no scheduler. So this morning, I set it to download Smartphones Show #62 and got on with my cornflakes. So far so good.

So I get to work, and the phone won't even see the work AP, let alone connect to it. The bluetooth connection to PC Suite on my desktop is there, but doesn't seem 100% somehow. So I reboot the router several times, reboot the phone several times, all to no effect.

Come lunchtime, I watch episode #62 while munching my marmite sandwich (actually it was that vegemite rubbish, 'cos they didn't have any marmite that day). When finished, I go to 'my videos' (annoying how you can't delete from 'internet videos'😉 and, all of a sudden, the AP is back, rock-solid, with VoipFone registered and everything.

I see two possibilities here. (1) Video Centre somehow didn't "let go" of my home AP and locked something up. (2) Smartphones show #62 is possessed by a malevolent spirit.

[edit 15:16] but then again I suppose there could be an option (3), coincidence, because it's started playing up again.

waxup 07 Jul 2008, 16:06

If I am in the Opera broswer and then close it and try to reconnect any application to the same AP that Opera was using, the phone won't even recognize it. I have to wait a good minute before the phone will refresh the AP list and allow me to reselect that AP. This happens both through the application and the WLAN wizard. It might be an issue with terminating active connections, who knows. It definately can become annoying.

kontraband 08 Jul 2008, 09:35

yeah, I also have issues with AP's dissappearing... then reappearing... midly annoying mostly.

I wouldnt blame Steve tho, I think its clear the issue is with you and your freaky vegimite sarnies! 😉

Marmite FTW!!