Re: [Help Needed] How do I spot which application is causing my N900 to connect to the internet?
 

@eitama some of us also want to reach your phone from the PC anytime.

in that case, we need the phone to be connected and reachable all the time.

But for me is not clear what is the behaviour of that option

Re: [Help Needed] How do I spot which application is causing my N900 to connect to the internet?
 

I was thinking more of "netstat -pac". Netstat needs to be running when the connection is made. Halt the capture "ctl-c" right afterwards and scan up through the output or pipe it to a file.

Re: [Help Needed] How do I spot which application is causing my N900 to connect to the internet?
 

Eitama, here is the thread about the lotus connection.

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=49759

UDP or TCP I don't remember but I would like to get rid of it.

Somebody smarter with time at hand might be so kind to port a Little Snitch Like firewall that intercepts ET phone home :rolleyes:

Re: [Help Needed] How do I spot which application is causing my N900 to connect to the internet?
 

Oh Gabby! Why have you been so silent so forth???
I think you are right!
Thank Nicolai and Gabby!

I think this solved my problem, I am not sure this is the behavior I would expect from the phone. Maybe i'll open a bug.

Cheers :)

Re: [Help Needed] How do I spot which application is causing my N900 to connect to the internet?
 

My understanding of Maemo is that no app silently causes a new connection to be made. Apps use existing connections.

In order for such connections to exist there is an option to "Auto Connect" to "Any Connection". This is done at an interval specified by the user, 5 minutes for example.

In such a configuration, even with no apps running, your phone would connect to a 3g internet connection if there is no wifi.

Your phone seems to be functioning properly. Maybe you should configure it to Always Ask or WLAN.

Re: [Help Needed] How do I spot which application is causing my N900 to connect to the internet?
 

Till now I also thought that this is expected behavior and was using the same Autoconnect/Autodisconnect combo as you. But after reading nicolai's answer I just checked with the User Guide and it looks to me now that phone is not connecting to Internet only when needed, but it scans for available network and connects to it every time the interval you have set in Autoconnect had passed.
Because modest e-mail on my device is set to check new mail every 1 hour and autoconnect is set to 1 hour I always though it is the e-mail that requires connection.
Now I changed Autoconnect to "Never" and will have to wait to see if N900 establishes connection when some application requests it.
I am interested how other users have set up their devices and what are the results.

Sorry for the long offtopic - may be shall start another topic?

Re: [Help Needed] How do I spot which application is causing my N900 to connect to the internet?
 

I don't think it's offtopic, it's exactly the topic!
And I don't mind the phone scanning every 5 minutes for wifi networks, but only connecting if it's needed.
Connecting ANYWAY is stupid.
And the same as applications can cause the connections window to appear, i want them to be able to cause the phone to connect to what ever is available with Any Connection chosen.

At least now I know why it's happening (:
I changed it to never, and problem solved.

Re: [Help Needed] How do I spot which application is causing my N900 to connect to the internet?
 

@eitama
I come from 6+ years using Symbian and expectations of connecting behavior are same as yours. I really prefer being always connected, but it is the battery drain that makes this impossible. So with battery not able to sustain 2-3 days of normal usage for such a device "connect on request/disconnect when idle" pattern is far more sensible fro me.

Re: [Help Needed] How do I spot which application is causing my N900 to connect to the internet?
 

Maybe the Never option in the interval dropdown will act just like that, I can't check right now as I tried installing nitdroid, and now my phone won't boot (; need to reflash.

Re: [Help Needed] How do I spot which application is causing my N900 to connect to the internet?
 

@eitama
I have set it to "Autoconnect"&"Never". After several hours I will be able to tell if there are connections initiated by apps.