More phone annoyance
Jan. 15th, 2011 09:37 pmWhen I sleep I have the radio on. It's been a habit for probably the last twenty years. In particular, I have ABC Newsradio going, which effectively means BBC World Service retransmission. Without this I have a very hard time getting to sleep.
This past week Newsradio has instead been retransmitting ABC Queensland local radio. Not particularly unreasonable, they do this whenever there's a major natural disaster going.
Unfortunately for me, though, this is not the soothing voices I'm used to, so I can't get to sleep while it's on.
So I installed "TuneIn" on my Desire, hooked up the speakers, and had it stream BBC World Service. Over WiFi of course, because I'm not crazy and don't have some sort of "unlimited" data service on the phone.
And what I discovered this morning is that it's still using 3G data to stream the audio. This should not be, but presumably the WiFi is occasionally dropping out, so it's falling back to 3G and sticking with it.
Thus I have had to re-enable Locale and add a plugin to control 3G data service. Now, when the handset is close to home, it'll turn on WiFi and shut down 3G data. Here's hoping it bloody well works!
This past week Newsradio has instead been retransmitting ABC Queensland local radio. Not particularly unreasonable, they do this whenever there's a major natural disaster going.
Unfortunately for me, though, this is not the soothing voices I'm used to, so I can't get to sleep while it's on.
So I installed "TuneIn" on my Desire, hooked up the speakers, and had it stream BBC World Service. Over WiFi of course, because I'm not crazy and don't have some sort of "unlimited" data service on the phone.
And what I discovered this morning is that it's still using 3G data to stream the audio. This should not be, but presumably the WiFi is occasionally dropping out, so it's falling back to 3G and sticking with it.
Thus I have had to re-enable Locale and add a plugin to control 3G data service. Now, when the handset is close to home, it'll turn on WiFi and shut down 3G data. Here's hoping it bloody well works!