Thread: [Announce] AutoDisconnect - Automatically disconnect idle connections
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2010-06-03 , 08:41
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#356
Originally Posted by Dr.MZ View Post
I have now asked in another forum once if someone has installed the new firmware PR1.2 and also the internal RRS uses widget with the automatically connects. But just does not use AutoDisconnect.

With him, the RRS widget still automatically connects to the Internet.
So it is probably still a bug in the latest version AutoDisconnect be included.
So since you didn't seem to have read my response to your message :

Originally Posted by calvin_42
I will investigate this problem. But I don't think I can reproduce it. Don't forget that on the N900, the applications don't make the device connect to the Internet (See https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7180).

The AutoConnect feature is interesting indeed. Can you confirm that :

- if an app want to refresh data every 2 hours let's say at 1PM, 3PM, 5PM.
- If your phone is only connected from 4PM to 4.15PM

=> the app will be updated at 4.15PM ?

I think it's the case with MFE but I have no idea for the other apps. So if it's not the case, an AutoConnect feature seems to be hard to implement (you cannot choose the update time on every app).
I had to run a few tests myself using the RSS Widget, after having uninstalled AutoDisconnect. So as I already said to you, the RSS widget won't update automatically if the device is not connected, with or without AutoDisconnect. Moreover an AutoConnect feature won't change anything, because the user case above doesn't work.

So if you want the RSS Widget to be updated every hour, the only way is to be connected. AutoDisconnect isn't bugged, but since its functionality is to disconnect your device.. not very hard to understand why the update doesn't work anymore. It won't reconnect by itself to Internet, because that how the n900 has been designed. See #7180.

Cheers.
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