Fring has a very critical bug: it tries to connect automatically to a random connection when you open it, including GPRS and WAP. With WAP it does not work and hangs. I opened a ticket at the Fring support site already and they mailed me that they are working on a fix to be available “in the near future”. In the meantime you must be careful not to start Fring when there is no WLAN available and to close it when you leave a WLAN area.
When you were not carefully enough and it tries to connect to a WAP access point, you can solve this issue for now by the following steps:
- Go to an area with WLAN, make sure that you can connect to the hotspot. Createan access point for it, if there is not already one.
- Change the profile to Offline (Menu->System->Profile).
- Open Fring, wait until it states that the connection failed and offers to search for alternatives.
- Choose Search WLAN. It will fiddle around and normally (hopefully) find the hotspot that is available and to which you can connect.
- Select this hotspot for connection. The next time, Fring will connect to it.
- Make sure to exit Fring when you leave the WLAN area.
It took me a while to find this out – and it is really very anoying when you can not stop this damn thing from trying to connect to somewhere it can’t connect to. I hope the bugfix comes out very soon.
11/July/2008 at 10:09 am
fring just trying to reconnect on my iphone – doesn’t matter that there is any type of connections or not. just exit is possible.