Hi,

I`m currently on a T-Mobile traffic dataplan, Im planing to change that to 1G / month but until this is possible I want Maemo only to search for Updates and stuff If I explicit ask for it or I`m on wifi.

Currently If I turn my connection on in the background the apt-worker instandly beginns to do stuff. I guess at least a "apt-get update" this cause up to 100% load for a short period and of course traffic. Each time 100 - 500 Kb wich is quite alot if you pay per 100KB block.

Is there any way to skip all this "Im online now prcedure..." until I`m on a Wifi net ?

In the last 8 days It summed up to 12 MB just for messengers going online and the "going online checking overhead"

Or as alternative toggeling off manual system updates completely ?

Are there some scripts which configure this behavior of the device after a connection is established ?


Thanks alot.

plz

these thing is happening to me too

and it is worst if you have other repos enabled too...

could an option be added to the updater to control apt-worker to work only on wifi, manual or fully auto?

if you connect just to check on something just something very little and suddenly apt-worker crashes your phone and starts downloading...
you are not getting the data out of the cloud and your phone gets stubborn... and loughs at you and your iphone friends!

or only happens to me!? :P

any idea
many thx!

You could expand the time between an automatic update and the other. Look at the wiki
http://wiki.maemo.org

or this post:

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=905885&postcount=2

if you are referring to the Application Manager trying to do update, then you can try the following:
1. look up forum user Qole here, and enable his repository
2. open the application manager and install the 'gconf-editor'
3. run the gconf-editor, within the editor, go to the section /apps/hildon/update-notifier and change the key 'check_interval' to some large value. Mine is set to 1440000(ie. meaning next check will be in 1440000 seconds)

note: gconf-editor is a powerful tool, please use it carefully

good luck,

cheers,

ps: this way gives you a GUI, method states in the wiki(as refferred by m750) definitely works.

or a sneaky way round it -

Disable all repos on the normal app manager, and use fapman