Unregistered wrote:This is my first smart phone and I must say, the experience has been less than satisfactory. I recently upgraded to version 31.xx and it royally fucked up things.1. Smartconnect doesn't work? I don't know how it is supposed to work. I created a group called testgroup, added my 3g and wifi connection into the group. Then went to opera and tried to surf net. Status in smartconnect tells me that the group is connected but it is not making any effort to connect to my wifi or 3g.
Nevermind that it doesn't work. I went to destinations and added a few group called mytest, then moved the testgroup from smartconnect to mytest. I tried to get opera and email to connect via that, but failed. Same thing happened. It just connects to the group but group thingy doesn't connect out using 3g or wifi. I deleted from smartconnect. All hell broke loose.
Because Opera was still running, I think the phone somehow assumed testgroup to be still there. I managed to delete the entry from smartconnect. Then I went to destination, it said mytest has -1 access points. LOL? Ok nevermind, I try to delete. the moment I try to open mytest, it hangs, probably because of the -1 thing. Had to hard-reset the phone with *#7370# or something like that and reinstall everything back.
Why are you even USING SmartConnect for Opera - not a wonder things are going Royally t*ts up for you when you are mixing Destinations, AND SmartConnect!
All that SmartConnect has been added for, is those errant few programs that don't actually support "Destinations" as built in to FP2 devices anyway.
I appreciate you might not understand the difference, and be frustrated by the overlap as it were, but nevertheless, going ballistic about your issue, when all it comes down to is a lack of knowledge and understanding on your own part, is not justifiable.
Opera does not need SmartConnect. If you have correctly configured your "Destinations" (and it won't be now, that's for sure), then that is all you need Opera to utilise.
SmartConnect is so that you may create your own pseudo-access point, which is actually a 'group' for those applications that can't use "Destinations" and the one after the other attempt at connections, instead.
What you describe above is EXACTLY what one would expect to happen, when having done what you have mate.
So don't blame the phone.
If you want info on how to configure Destinations and SmartConnect though, just ask here, and I'll be happy to walk you through it.
Unregistered wrote:2. Today I got automated sms from my server monitoring systems but the sms list shows 2 random contacts instead of the server monitor's number. To my shock, my whole fucking contact list is jumbled up. Every contact has 3 or 4 numbers. Every number is shared by a few contacts in no particular order. Basically I no longer know how the fuck to call anyone because everything is cross linked. Had to delete everything, and recover from outlook. Oh btw, it fucked up my outlook contacts when I tried to sync, then i deleted outlook contacts and restored from a backup before it worked.
I genuinely believe your not telling us all here... Did this just happen all by itself, or after a Sync of some sort, whether it be experimenting with Ovi Sync, Outlook or whatever...?
I've NEVER, not ever heard of what you describe happening following a Firmware update, though I have heard of UDP not managing to keep ANY data at all. But never mess it all up like this.
But be fair - what Android or iPhone even HAS UDP like Nokias do... with them, if you wipe, you have to do a re-sync. There is no data protection on Firmware updates in the same way as best I know.
So it sounds to us like a sync has gone wrong - and if so, I can tell you horror stories of this, on virtually any phone platform I have ever owned - Windows Mobile being the worst.
If you followed instructions, despite UDP, you should have made a Contacts Backup before updating. You can even easily do this on the phone itself, to memory card.
And if so, once you realised you had an issue, a simple delete of all current contacts, and then one click Restore from backup, would have fixed it for you in mere seconds.
Again your yelling when you haven't followed instructions?
Unregistered wrote:3. Long emails still kill email software. It simply disconnects and doesn't download any more mails beyond that point if I choose to use imap directly. It only works if I use the nokia messenging thing but that is super fucking slow. Reading a mail in html will take at least 30 seconds to retrieve.
I use Nokia messaging fine here for all my myriad Email needs, and to be fair, whilst I won't even say I particularly like it loads, nevertheless, it does what is required, and I use it with my full Google Apps domain.
Unregistered wrote:4. TSMobiles doesnt' seem to hang the phone after patch 31.xx. That is the only unconfirmed good thing I noticed.
Don't even know what TSMobiles is, but hey, one piece of good news, is, er, good news!
Unregistered wrote:SAD. Fuck nokia. I should have gotten an iphone if not for my dislike for lack of multitask.
Nope, you should have got an iPhone because it sounds like you like to yell about other people's mistakes, and had you of gotten an iPhone, you could have had so much more to then yell about...
Grins. :hello:
Like I say though, if you need help with Destinations and SC, let us know...