[Announce] fAPN for N900

[frals]

fAPN is a graphical front end for adding a new GPRS APN which you then can edit in Settings -> Internet Connections - for example to have a separate APN for MMS or corporate access.

I've uploaded fAPN version 0.5 to extras-testing and would like to have some testers (and voters! ;)).

http://maemo.org/packages/view/fapn/

Thanks for reading! :)

http://mms.frals.se/fapn.html


KNOWN PROBLEMS:

[koivjann]

This is very good application.

If you have made APN with X-terminal command so remove those also with X-terminal.

If you have changed the name with N900 settings so the name with removal must be the same original name as when you made the APN.

Thanks Frals

[EIPI]

I did not realize that Maemo 5 took away the ability to specify more than one GPRS connection. I had 2 setup on my N800 (Maemo 4) when I used to tether to my phone (one apn for wap, and the other for full internet access)

[nashith]

Works great, I didn't know it wasn't easy to add new APNs until I tried, good thing "there is an APP for that" ;) hehe

[FormerPalmUser]

Doesn't work for me !

With fAPN I could add a new APN but I couldn't find the new APN in the n900 settings - I'm looking for it in Internetconnections. Am I doing something wrong ?

My n900 is a german version with the actual firmware 44.1

Looking forward for any hints - Thanks!

[frals]

Doesn't work for me !

With fAPN I could add a new APN but I couldn't find the new APN in the n900 settings - I'm looking for it in Internetconnections. Am I doing something wrong ?

My n900 is a german version with the actual firmware 44.1

Looking forward for any hints - Thanks!

Could you PM (or email, link on my name above) me the output of:
gconftool-2 -R /system/osso/connectivity/IAP with any sensitive data masked out (ie passwords)?

Thanks for testing!

[FormerPalmUser]

Could you PM (or email, link on my name above) me the output of:
gconftool-2 -R /system/osso/connectivity/IAP with any sensitive data masked out (ie passwords)?

Thanks for testing!

Done!

Thanks for programming !

UPDATE:
without dots in the Name of the APN it's working great!:)

[frals]

The "dots in name" issue has been resolved in 0.5 which is working its way to -testing right now :)

[frals]

Would *love* 4 more testers (preferably voters ;)) as the 10 day quarantine is soon over. :)

http://maemo.org/packages/package_instance/view/fremantle_extras-testing_free_armel/fapn/0.5

[ziller]

Is there any way to affect the priority of the access points? (I tried dumping the gconf settings and googling for documentation, but couldn't find anything helpful.)

My problem is that every time I leave my wifi network, the n900 picks up my Orange MMS APN instead of Orange Internet (I have connect automatically set to any connection) and I cannot use that APN for anything else than MMS, obviously. So I have to keep manually selecting Orange Internet every time I leave the house or work (or wake up and find out that the phone had dropped out of wifi over night and switched to MMS apn).


It's even more annoying when I'm outside and I lose connection to the GPRS and the phone tries to connect to the MMS APN instead and after establishing a connection decides to stay on that and I'm completely unaware that I'm actually not "online" anymore.


Oh, and not even setting connect automatically to "Orange Internet" only helps! The phone still defaults to my MMS APN when establishing an automatic connection and wifi is not available.

I assume this has something to do with the fact that in /system/osso/connectivity/ui/auto_connect/65_gprs network types is set to [GPRS], so it just picks the first GPRS apn? But why would "Orange MMS" be higher up than "Orange Internet"... I don't understand the sorting method here. Unless if user added access points always rank higher.

(In which case I'll create a third apn myself and duplicate Orange Internet settings there :p)



EDIT: And it really is like that. An APN with user_added=1 ranks higher than a one without. So creating a third APN with the original Internet settings worked - it is now the default APN when no wifi is available.

Should I file a bug for this or is this known behaviour? Or maybe even the purpose of the user_added flag?

[frals]

The user_added flag is something I made up so I could filter which IAP's to list in the UI, and prevent the user from removing the default access point. :)

I think it just takes any access point, without caring which one it is - but if you are getting consistent results with the latest one added being chosen by default that's a good thing I guess :)

Basically I think it comes down to the ICD not being designed for having more than one GPRS APN, which brings some unpredictable behavior ;)

Thanks for reporting your findings! :)

[ziller]

Ah, good to know. I was already about to start experimenting with removing the flag or assigning the flag to the default one... :)


My results were pretty consistent indeed: I tried a few dozen times either shutting down my wifi ap or disconnecting my gprs connection and then producing some activity that required an internet connection. With connection mode set to "always ask", "any" or GPRS (it shows my apn name but what it really means is "gprs"), the phone always connected to the apn added as last - which was the mms apn.

After I created another internet apn and repeated the tests, it is that new apn that always defaults. So apparently it is like that - the priority is the (reverse) order they were added in.


This probably doesn't count as a bug, since it was never meant to have more than one APN anyway...but could file a complaint for a missing APN sorting mechanism I guess.

[frals]

Ah, good to know. I was already about to start experimenting with removing the flag or assigning the flag to the default one... :)


My results were pretty consistent indeed: I tried a few dozen times either shutting down my wifi ap or disconnecting my gprs connection and then producing some activity that required an internet connection. With connection mode set to "always ask", "any" or GPRS (it shows my apn name but what it really means is "gprs"), the phone always connected to the apn added as last - which was the mms apn.

After I created another internet apn and repeated the tests, it is that new apn that always defaults. So apparently it is like that - the priority is the (reverse) order they were added in.


This probably doesn't count as a bug, since it was never meant to have more than one APN anyway...but could file a complaint for a missing APN sorting mechanism I guess.

Cool, it's a decent enough workaround at least :)

Regarding bug... I guess it's related; https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5791 :)

[ziller]

Probably a "fixed in harmattan", but...
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8460

[RevdKathy]

I've added a new APN for my standard internet and I'll let yo know how it goes. Hopefully it will solve the 'nuisance factor' and be one less thing to worry about. :)

[KevinSass]

fAPN is a graphical front end for adding a new GPRS APN which you then can edit in Settings -> Internet Connections - for example to have a separate APN for MMS or corporate access.

I've uploaded fAPN version 0.5 to extras-testing and would like to have some testers (and voters! ;)).

http://maemo.org/packages/view/fapn/

Thanks for reading! :)

http://mms.frals.se/fapn.html


KNOWN PROBLEMS:




Hi...
I'm only able to choose my providers intert "Denmark, Telia Internet"... How to change the APN cuz it says fail and check apn..?

Thax, and nice ap bte.. :)

[frals]

Hi...
I'm only able to choose my providers intert "Denmark, Telia Internet"... How to change the APN cuz it says fail and check apn..?

Thax, and nice ap bte.. :)

I'm sorry but I don't understand what the problem is with fAPN - is this maybe meant for the fMMS thread (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=39737)?

[konvctd]

works great for me :) thanks for the great app!

[KevinSass]

Hi...
I'm only able to choose my providers intert "Denmark, Telia Internet"... How to change the APN cuz it says fail and check apn..?

Thax, and nice ap bte.. :)

Can't find a solution there..
I'm using the settings from this link, but is not working..
I can sen but it says: fail to download message..

Telia settings
http://wiki.maemo.org/MMS#Telia

i've watch a lot of videos, but nothing works...
What to do :/

[Xizor]

Ah, good to know. I was already about to start experimenting with removing the flag or assigning the flag to the default one... :)

My results were pretty consistent indeed: I tried a few dozen times either shutting down my wifi ap or disconnecting my gprs connection and then producing some activity that required an internet connection. With connection mode set to "always ask", "any" or GPRS (it shows my apn name but what it really means is "gprs"), the phone always connected to the apn added as last - which was the mms apn.

After I created another internet apn and repeated the tests, it is that new apn that always defaults. So apparently it is like that - the priority is the (reverse) order they were added in.

This probably doesn't count as a bug, since it was never meant to have more than one APN anyway...but could file a complaint for a missing APN sorting mechanism I guess.

I tried this approach, but no matter in what order I add the MMS APN and the new duplicate APN for the original packet connection, the other apps (browser, mail, etc) try to use the MMS APN. :(

[stayloa]

This was bugging me with fAPN too - mine would connect to my new MMS profile whenever searching for a connection. I did however follow the advice on here and by making a clone of my normal internet apn, the n900 now connects to the clone automatically. So this is definitely a workaround.

I did post on fMMS too as it would be handy for fMMS to be able to connect to the mms apn and then disconnect again after sending/receiving or after exiting the program. Do you think this is possible?

[RevdKathy]

This was bugging me with fAPN too - mine would connect to my new MMS profile whenever searching for a connection. I did however follow the advice on here and by making a clone of my normal internet apn, the n900 now connects to the clone automatically. So this is definitely a workaround.

I did post on fMMS too as it would be handy for fMMS to be able to connect to the mms apn and then disconnect again after sending/receiving or after exiting the program. Do you think this is possible?

Nope, the workaround seems to work very well for some people, and not remotely for other of us. I now have several 'clones' of my original, and have also rewritten the original. And yet I still find every connection if made to the MMS apn.

[hlchoo]

I am having the same problem with only able to choose O2 MMS and not O2 Mobile Web. I tried the methods discussed here but no luck so far. I also tried deleting both APN and adding them again, tried alphabetical (renaming O2 Mobile Web to Mobile Web so that it is above O2 MMS) but didn't work either.

Any help?

Thanks.

Edit: OK, after playing around with it even more, I managed to finally set O2 Mobile Web back as default. I basically deleted all, added O2 MMS, O2 Mobile Web, and Mobile Web from fAPN. After that when I open Internet Connections, O2 MMS was selected. I simply then delete O2 MMS from fAPN and check again on Internet Connection settings whichever is the default one. I then set the settings for that to O2 Mobile Web, and rename the other to O2 MMS and the settings. All's well so far. Hope I make sense!

[missmetal]

Hi There
Before realising it was a known issue that the N900 could only have 1 APN, I installed fMMS and fAPN.

After trying to get it to work how I would expect it to work, like send an MMS easily and then connect back to my default internet APN. I decided to uninstall fAPN and try again.

However, for some reason my default internet connection 'Rogers' now has my MMS settings. No matter how many times I change them, it keeps returning the MMS settings back to the Rogers Internet settings and visa versa.

Is there a way to return these settings back to the 'factory settings' so to speak? Its as if some cron is running that keeps swapping them around.

Thanks, and apologies if I've missed earlier reports of this.

[frals]

If you only have your 'Rogers' access point in "Internet Connections" just editing it there should help. fAPN does not mess with any settings like that automatically, it only adds/removes access points to/from the list :)

[rkelly]

fAPN is behaving strangely for me.

I originally added two APNs.

Then when I tried to add a third, it overwrote one of the first two (new APN had correct name, but kept the settings of one of the old ones)

I didn't realize I lost one of the original APNs until today. When I tried to add it back, it again overwrote one of the existing ones.

I'm effectively only able to manage two APNs with fAPN.

The following command is currently showing four APNs, yet only two show up in Internet Connections:
gconftool-2 -R /system/osso/connectivity/IAP | grep gprs_accesspoint

The final strange thing is that even if I have two fAPN-created APNs in Internet Connections, when I reopen fAPN, only one is available for deletion.

Tried removing and reinstalling fAPN, but it didn't help.

Thanks,
Richard

[gomcotiger]

Can we have different internet connection connected at the same time..

e.g. for sending mms I need MMS access point and for browsing I need INTERNET access point..

problem is this - if I need to send a MMS when browsing , I need to disconnect from INTERNET access point to connect to MMS to send mms.. or Internet access point get disconnect automatically when I try to connect to MMS..

I want to connect both of these at the same time.


This is possible in all Symbian based mobile

[skreo56]

Hi,

We have a new supplier in France since the 12/01/2012 :Free Mobile.
And I've been asked to setup my N900, and then to create 2 APNs, one for Internet purpose and the other one for MMS purpose.
So far, I ve been able to create them with fAPN :).

The point is, I'm supposed to set a Mobile Country Code (MMC) and Mobile Network Code (MNC) for each of them. and also a URL for the Multimedia Message Service Center (MMSC)

And when I go to Parameters - >internet Connections, and I try to edit any of these two new APN items, I'm actually allowed to change the name's connection, and the APN name (So far, I think I don't need any user name and password). But MMC, MNC fand MMSC field are nowhere to found. Not even in the advanced setting section which only deals with proxy matters.

Did I miss something somewhere or have I got to install something else :confused:

Yours sincerely

[skreo56]

Ooops...:o
wouldn 't "/etc/operator_settings" be the answer? ...