Wayfinder Woes
 

When using Wayfinder in the car, it keeps obscuring the maps when it finds a wifi network, with a dialog listing the connections and asking if you wish to connect. Leaning forward and stabbing at cancel puts it on the brink of being illegal in the UK. Dangerous, certainly.
You can avoid this dialog by putting the N810 in offline mode. Ths also disables the bluetooth connection and thus any outboard GPS receiver. Duh!
In offline mode, when it senses a wifi network within range it brings up a dialog asking if you wish to exit offline mode! And obscures the screen again. Duh! And thus makes it itself possibly illegal, certyainly dangerous again.
I'm bemused by this behaviour - imagine if your light switch kept asking if you wanted to turn the light on after you'd switched it off!
How can I disable this idiocy?

Re: Wayfinder Woes
 

My guess would be that you have the wifi searching on. You can easily disable this in the connection settings and putting connect automatically to none or the search interval to never, then it should not try to connect to any wlan unless you especially open the select connection menu.

Re: Wayfinder Woes
 

thanks but I have always set it never to search. it still throws up the idiot boxes though.

Re: Wayfinder Woes
 

i also find that the connectivity setting 'connect automatically' does not include 'never', even though the help implies it should. Help!

Re: Wayfinder Woes
 

I'd like an answer to this too :)

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Maybe I should post this query in the Newbies section?

Re: Wayfinder Woes
 

I use wayfinder in the Uk too. have you got the traffic info and speed camera updates turned on as these will require an internet connection. I pair mine with my phone and do not get the network connection box when connected via my phone.

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I don't get the network connection box after I set it to never connect automatically and not to search.

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As I said, mine doesn't show the menu item for none. Thus I can't set it not to search so even though I have it set to never connect automatically, when it comes across a wifi connection, it asks me if I want to exit offline mode.

I'll have to write off the sat nav and buy a Tom Tom, I guess, but after spending £75 on Wayfinder, I feel pretty let down.

I've never come across a device for which there is so little support. It's a brilliant trick by Nokia - sort of Ryanair customer relations:-)

Re: Wayfinder Woes
 

I was wrong, you are right, there is not a 'never connect' option - I have mine set to connect automatically to wlan connections, but as i have it set to never search under general and idle timeout to 10 minutes, it never tries to connect to a network automatically. It used to before the timeout (which I did for battery saving, which worked).
That said I do have a tomtom, the performance is much better, especially the time to pick up a signal which is near enough to instant. The performance of the internal GPS makes it more like a novelty item, and the price of an external GPS and the wayfinder maps puts it higher than many standalone GPSs (in fact just the price of wayfinder).

Having said that, had I already paid for the wayfinder service I may be tempted to fiddle with the settings a bit more.