The Long Dark Tech-Time of the Soul

This is a technology focused blog that describes my trials and tribulations with techonlogy which, no matter what brave new world is promised to be just around the corner, nearly always fails to live up to expectations.

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

DeviceScape ate my WiFi!

I've previously used Devicescape's Windows Mobile client to reasonable effect, then one day my phone started having some connection issues, to the point where I couldn't use WiFi at all even when not using Devicescape. As an only occasional user of HotSpots it was mostly an inconvenience but I eventually persuaded myself to do a complete reset of my phone - wiping all files clean and starting from scratch. I wasn't actually expecting much to happen but it did actually completely cure all my device issues.

No today, a few months later I finally got around to reinstalling Devicescape, partly because I just addded a new Fon device at my office, and partly because my friend just got a new Nokia phone with Wifi and it got me thinking I hadn't been using my phone's WiFi much and I had a recollection it should be easier, in theory with Devicescape.

Well what do you know - within the day my phone is messed up all over again and I can no longer use WiFi. Initially it was fine but as soon as I had to reset the device I got a warning at boot time that a Devicescape module wasn't available, and after that I couldn't connect to WiFi any more - with or without Devicescape. I uninstalled Devicescape and still have the same problem - so I'm assuming the uninstall is broken too. The only thing I can think of is that installing onto an external card, vs. internal memory is somehow incompatible with the app. So I'm going to try to install one more time on internal memory and if that fails I guess I'm going to have to do the big old reset-clear memory trick. Oy, and just when I'd got the phone back to where I like it again...

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hello,

I'm sorry to hear about your problems with Devicescape on your mobile phone; we're very interested to find out more about what is going on there as we've not heard of anybody else having that experience with Windows Mobile.

We have a number of people in the office, including our CEO, who use Windows Mobile phones with Devicescape installed on them every day.

Also, installing to a memory card should be OK (it is how I have the SDA I use for testing & demos setup). That said, the boot message does sound as though for some reason the card was not available at boot time.

If you'd be willing, please send me an email with more details about the device (john@devicescape.com).

John...
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System Architect,
Devicescape Software, Inc.

9:23 AM  

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