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its set to "update via any connection"!

Hey all

Since I have come to Ireland for the summer from the USA I have noticed that not much of anything works on wifi with my n900. No widgets (omweather, facebook, ap,), no email, and Nokia applications, Ovi, and System software update repositories WILL fail to refresh unless there is a sim connection. I had to wait for me to get my sim with o2 in order for all of the above items worked once I got here. Now every morning I can only get my email to automatically refresh when I manually connect to my 02 network. When on wifi (eircom for me) here in Ireland, it will not work for me. I too am looking for a solution to this. I have tried messing with the ports on my router and still can't get anything working. As stated before though, the other day I was in a local booky here watching some dog races when I connected to their eircom wifi, then suprisingly I just started automatically recieving emails. So this leads me to believe that it is not the n900 but settings within the wifi routers or ISP settings. Sorry I can't help more, but this is what I can say with certainty.

Hey Raubtier,

What I would suggest is to delete your email account, reboot, access your gmail via a desktop just to get gmail up to speed with you, then setup gmail again on your n900. This really should work

thx- ok, i`ll try that, but what do you mean with "just to get gmail up to speed with you"?

I had a similar problem before 1.2 and in my process of switching from nokia messaging( which had all my email accounts together)... to just setting up every one of my accounts individually, there seemed to be some confusion on the part of the servers with gmail. I was getting emails that had already been viewed as unread and even some double sent... just seemed like a traffic jam so to speak. I went to gmail on my laptop and just checked my mail there ( for the first time in about 3 mos) and deleted a couple of emails and since then everything was fine. Not saying that it is absolutely necessary, just seemed like a good idea at the time, and there is nothing wrong with being sure and careful right? Hope this helps

one observation i made:

when i set the refresh interval to "15" min it changes nothing. but if i start surfing the web, the automatic refresh works..so it seems that it cannot build up an internet connection to refresh by itself, although the omweather app does this perfectly. however the blue notification light doesnt flash, the sms ringtone went off though...really weird..

update: couldnt reproduce that error again, if i surf the web it refreshes.

i deleted the gmail account and set it up again on the n900, didnt help, it seems that unlike omweather, it is unable to connect to the internet, refresh and close the internet connection again.

anyone else that could help??

I have the very same problem.

The E-mail application just can't establish Internet connection so it won't sync e-mail if the connection is not already active.

There's nothing you can do (set) about it. Nokia says it's not a bug because they expect you to have the connection always active.

thats a joke...right!? so basically its inferior to a simple weather
app?!?!?!?!?!?!

Same for me.
My email updates unlogically, when updating manually it doesnt get te mails it should get (send by me where I'm on the cc or distribution list).
I have the idea this started after the update - pretty sure actually.
Dont have a solution; sorry.

Ronald.