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	jaeezzy	2010-03-05 , 22:14
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Originally Posted by wilsonf1

Sup!

I live in the UK, am on o2 with my n900 and am off to Austria tomorrow for some snowboarding action.

Question is, i dont wanna use my data intensive n900 and get spanked by the operator for doing so!

So, can i set the internet to ONLY connect via wifi? If so thats good as the hotel has wifi!

But what im not sure about is GPS - is there anything I can do with the GPS/maps to kinda see where I am on the journey or anything - WITHOUT it connecting to mobile web and taking half my year salary with it!! I still dont quite understand what features use the GPS and what uses the internet

Cheers!!

You can set n900 to use either just WiFi, Data, any connection that is available or ask you whenever it needs connection. Go to Settings->Internet Connections->Connect automatically and then choose WLAN in your case.
For GPS again in Settings->Location and under Network positioning uncheck the Enable check box this will disable positioning using data/WLAN connection and internal GPS is used which takes quite sometime to get lock and from what I have read in this forum it is advisable to enable the Location desktop widget from the edit mode by going to Add widget coz the maps application gives up looking for GPS fix quite early so you need to turn on the Location widget which from what I have read looks for 5 minutes.and needs to keep turned on again until you get the fix.

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