my internet connection keeps hanging. tytn on orange uk

[gibster]

hey,

i have a tytn that doesn't have any orange customisation (for the first time i almost wish it did!).

for some reason my umts/gprs connection seems to hang. it looks like it's still connected but it isn't. sometimes it's just a case of resetting the connection in comm manager and at it's work i have to soft reset!

anyone else suffer this? if so, how did you fix it?


cheers

[ieee1394]

I'd say everyone suffers from it. The reason it's not reported/discussed/solved is because most people don't require constant data connectivity and therefore never discover the problem.

I just posted about this problem yesterday:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=297002

So far it seems to be a problem related to WM itself since it affects different devices.

[gibster]

thanks for the response, but maybe I should make myself clearer.

i've had an spv m500 and m600 and never experienced this.

when I say it hang I don't mean after a significant amount of time. this happens about every 10 minutes! as you can imagine this is incredibly frustrating!

[marisa4755]

Does it do this if you select gsm only rather than auto?

[gibster]

may be a silly question, but how do I change it?

[MikeChannon]

may be a silly question, but how do I change it?

Start>Settings>Personal>Phone Icon>Band Tab and here you can choose GSM and certain bands only instead of auto.

Mike

[marisa4755]

if you find this does help, then you might want to look at

http://commmgrpro.com/_wsn/page3.html

which is a little app which will switch from band to band from your today screen.

[gibster]

thanks marisa! a neat little app!

anyway, it seems to not hang on gsm. is 3G unstable? or is it my device?

[marisa4755]

Lots and lots of people seem to have one kind of problem or another with 3G.

I personally think that these devices have problems with switching from one to the other as signals become stronger & weaker, and that's when connections get dropped etc.

I discovered this when trying to use MSN messenger to give me a kind of push email on hotmail. It worked, but only while logged in to messenger, and when the connection dropped, so did the log in!

So, now I'm always connected by gsm, and when I really want to download something quickly etc etc, I switch over to 3g and then back again.

A bit tedious, but at least I know that when I think I'm connected I am!

[gibster]

good answer! it's kinda what i'm thinking now! hell, if the thing is in my pocket should I really care that the d/l speed is whack! like you said I think in future i'll gsm when my device is not in my hands and 3G when i'm browsing!

thanks a lot for the heads up on that app and your advice!

[marisa4755]

No probs, I've solved most of my issues through this forum, now on the Hermes, and before on the XDA IIi. You'll find it does wonders for your battery life too!