3g/2g setting and data roaming

2009-11-01 Thread Andrea Borgia
Hi. A question for people with a N900 and a 3G subscription, H3G preferably: can you set the network mode (3g vs 2g vs dual) *separately* for voice and data? H3G Italy does not have perfect UMTS coverage so they give free roaming, but only for voice calls, while data traffic on other network is o

Re: 3g/2g setting and data roaming

2009-11-01 Thread Andrea Borgia
Kai Thomsen ha scritto: > As far as I can see it in the Phone settings you cannot set the network > mode seperately for voice and data. What you can do though is prevent > automatic Data Roaming. You can switch between "always ask" and "always > allow". Is it considered "roaming" if the network d

Re: 3g/2g setting and data roaming

2009-11-01 Thread Andrea Borgia
Kai Thomsen ha scritto: > So is it really the case that they charge you again in Italy > for EDGE if you have a 3G data plan? We'll see hopefully at the end of the coming week, once the MNP procedure is carried out. For option "Naviga 3", the official pricelist states: "the offer can be used und

Re: N900 GPS Problems

2009-12-01 Thread Andrea Borgia
Aniello Del Sorbo ha scritto: > Do not compare these GPS chips with the ones in specialized navigators > as they tend to be much more optimized and they usually store some I am comparing it to the N810, which also has A-GPS to the best of my knowledge. In that case, a fix IS possible (in the ord

Re: N900 Questions from a new user

2009-12-07 Thread Andrea Borgia
Tim Ashman wrote: > 1. GPS/Maps seems to suck. First I don't have a phone data plan and I'm not > getting one. WiFi for me. So when I turn on GPS I leave the Assisted part > off (network) I can not ever get the gps to actually lock. I've left it on > for hours without touching it and it n

Re: Contact imports

2009-12-08 Thread Andrea Borgia
Ramu wrote: > N900 allows importing contacts through Bluetooth. ... provided that the other phone supports mass exporting of contacts, a Nokia 2600 for example won't sync anything. A. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.mae

Re: Problems with Backup Application on Nokia N900

2009-12-14 Thread Andrea Borgia
So Ju ha scritto: > What I would like to know is if this is a known bug which eventually > has consequences that it would be better to reflash to avoid data > loss in the future or if it could be even a hardware failure. Anybody > who experienced this problem too? Maybe you should check bugzilla,

Re: Does anyone see this?

2009-12-16 Thread Andrea Borgia
Thomas Waelti ha scritto: > Not only did I see your post, but I can confirm your problem, as I have the > same: > My own emails sent to the list never arrive in my mailing list inboxes, even > though I have the settings in the subscriper page set as you describe. > Anyone else with that problem?

Re: possible bug in N900 Maemo 5 desktop ??

2010-01-01 Thread Andrea Borgia
Alessio Stella wrote: > page with a second list of icons and I found out that this second > list of icons was on top of the first list, causing an annoying > justapposition where the first icons were not clicckable, and we This is a known bug: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6361 _

Re: Switch automatically to WLAN (if available) AND back

2010-01-02 Thread Andrea Borgia
Rainer Dorsch wrote: > my N900 has an option in the connection manager to switch automatically to > WLAN if it is available. Now I am wondering if it can also automatically > switch back to the GPRS/IUMTS network, if WLAN is not available anymore. It will do just that, if you enable auto-connec

Re: Deactivate buggy portrait mode on N900

2010-01-18 Thread Andrea Borgia
- Original message - > since last week, I can use my N900 in portrait mode after using the phone app > in portrait mode and hanging up. However, it is Seems like you hit a bug in the transition from portrait to landscape: afaik it is not yet possible to use the application manager in po

Re: About alarms.

2010-01-26 Thread Andrea Borgia
- Original message - > G'day, > > I've got two questions concerning different kinds of alarms on > Fremantle: See here: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5784 ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailma

Re: Bad experience with N900 onboard GPS.

2010-02-12 Thread Andrea Borgia
Bernard Tyers wrote: > Can anyone else comment? Am I the only one? You're not the only one and bugs.maemo.org has a few entries on this issue. There's a diagnostic tool called, aptly, "location-test" which can be used among other things to force the GPS subsystem to acquire the lock using only a

Re: N900 as an internet device

2010-03-08 Thread Andrea Borgia
Luke Reeves wrote: > Couldn't the N900 share a 3G connection to multiple laptops as an access > point though? There is some work in this area, please check out this discussion on t.m.o.: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=30916 HTH, Andrea. ___ mae