Guest andyh Posted December 13, 2003 Report Share Posted December 13, 2003 Hi, First day with my new E200 and everything seems great so far. One curiousity though, once it makes a GPRS connection the little G doesn't ever seem to go away! On the old SPV pressing hang-up would drop the connection and the G would go, I'm slightly concerned this phone is keeping it alive. While I guess there isn't any data being transferred I guess the battery is going to suffer! Is this expected behaviour? I did see a menu option somewhere that had a 1 min idle time setting before it would drop the connection, is this related? Cheers, Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Vector Posted December 13, 2003 Report Share Posted December 13, 2003 if you hold down the "home" button on the keypad of the phone a menu will pop up with an option to disconnect GPRS, just select that and the little G will go away :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest andyh Posted December 14, 2003 Report Share Posted December 14, 2003 Brilliant! So what's the thinking behind this feature then? And what's the difference between "disconnect GPRS" and "detach GPRS" ? Cheers, A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Vector Posted December 14, 2003 Report Share Posted December 14, 2003 There is a thread about it somewhere in this forum, try a search , and i'm not sure what the difference between detach GPRS and disconnect GPRS is.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sonborj Posted December 15, 2003 Report Share Posted December 15, 2003 i guess the problem with the G not vanishing is the ROM version, even with the Tanager the G sign vanishes when i use an old ROM version, upon changing ROM, the G wont vanish easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest b0x Posted December 16, 2003 Report Share Posted December 16, 2003 iirc detach removes your gprs link (not active link) from the network and needs a hard reboot to allow you to use gprs again. Disconnect just unlinks the current connection (little g goes, big g stays). jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest explosive Posted December 20, 2003 Report Share Posted December 20, 2003 so does the G symbol on top of the phone means that the GPRS is on? if its true does having it on means hammering the battery life? How do we turn it off? thanx, newbie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest explosive Posted December 20, 2003 Report Share Posted December 20, 2003 if i detach the gprs...how do i turn it on again? box: is what you mean by hard reboot to turn the phone off and sweitch it on again? will that surely attach the gprs again? thanx in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest martin Posted December 20, 2003 Report Share Posted December 20, 2003 I assume that Orange have not included a GPRS attach in the menu :? You should also be able to GPRS attach by turning radio off & on (or airplane mode on and off). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest b0x Posted December 20, 2003 Report Share Posted December 20, 2003 if i detach the gprs...how do i turn it on again? box: is what you mean by hard reboot to turn the phone off and sweitch it on again? will that surely attach the gprs again? Yes, sorry, turning it off and on again is how i reattach. Martins Flight mode trick sounds like it should work too! jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest explosive Posted December 21, 2003 Report Share Posted December 21, 2003 thanx to both of you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest meatgrinder Posted December 21, 2003 Report Share Posted December 21, 2003 that has to be the most asked qs around :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest X-mania Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Thanks guys - my Q. already answered! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mr t Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 but shouldn't it disconnect by itself? (I say disconnect not detach!) it shouldn't be up to the user to manaually disconnect everytime? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest b0x Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Not according to microsoft :) Generally, gprs is per MB, whether you're connected or not is irrelevant to your bill - that's certainly the case with orange. Of course you then get people hogging all the available gprs slots... but that's a story for another day jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mr t Posted December 24, 2003 Report Share Posted December 24, 2003 I've only two problems with that... a) An inherent distrusted of Microsoft OS's when it comes to the secret sending of data :) Battery life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mattie01 Posted December 24, 2003 Report Share Posted December 24, 2003 if you hold down the home key, and select disconnect GPRS this will break your connection while still leaving gprs avalible but not connected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pondrew Posted December 26, 2003 Report Share Posted December 26, 2003 but shouldn't it disconnect by itself? (I say disconnect not detach!) it shouldn't be up to the user to manaually disconnect everytime? Actually, with the original SPV there were complaints that you couldn't stay signed in on MSN Messenger when you locked the phone (pressing the red handset button disconnects gprs hence disconnects messenger). The gprs staying connected is to ensure gprs can be maintained for applications like messenger even when the phones locked... I think it was a good move. Oh, and this is in no way related to any problems the SPV or E100 had with delayed disconnection when pressing the red handset (the E200 doesn't share much in common with the older phones). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chithouse Posted August 26, 2004 Report Share Posted August 26, 2004 even if i detach gprs and the "g" goes away, every time i turn off my phone and turn it on again the "g" comes back. is there a way to get rid of the "g" symbol permanently until i actually want it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Samsonite Posted August 26, 2004 Report Share Posted August 26, 2004 Chithouse - the large G is indicating that you are in a GPRS coverage area. You are not 'connected' with just the big G visible in the top of the screen. only when the smaller G by the signal strength is visible are you 'connected ' and costing money. If you Detach GPRS, the big will go away but come back on each reset. If you keep detaching, you will not be able to determine if you have GPRS coverage when you need it. Geddit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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