Anyone else getting this ? I'm on O2 Simplicity tariff. Is the built-in nav flaky ? Last Sunday I went on a trip, satnav locked in and off I went. Within a few miles I had "connection problem" and " data connection lost" and no matter what I did it never came right until I got home. hmmm. Got settings from O2. Worked ok at home when I didn't need it. Went on another trip today and it did it again. Complete waste of time. I'm driving along the main A38 road 4 miles from Plymouth and my 3gs worked fine right beside the SG2. Anyone know if a pucker satnav like co-pilot works ok?

If this is the best it can do then it's going back.

edit: my daughter's got an Sg2 also, and alerted me to this. Turn off wifi and try and get on t'internet through 3g, edge or whatever. Will come up with "wifi settings" menu. How do you get it to go online without wifi on ?

Copilot is what I use and it's very good. It's about £19.99 from the market

Richard

Yes CP is very good and I have it on the iphone. I would still be interested to know if anyone elses built-in sat nav or data connection drops out. I find I can go quite a way, then try to change destination and that's where the trouble starts - "getting route" or something similar and it just spins. Try it. Just spoken to O2 shop in town and the manager there is going to try his out as I've described. He's become a bit of a pal of mine over the months. His and my gut feeling is that it's a Samsung problem with antenna and/or gps on the phone.

I think you just need to enable mobile data, it's trying to use wifi and I assume you're using google maps. This is precaching your route at home on wifi and when you try and change it en route it can't get a data connection. The gps is probably still working fine. If you use an offline satnav system (I would reccomend sygic aura or whatever it's called now) it won't need a data connection just gps. Using google maps is mostly done online so make sure you have a good data plan in place.

Mark, you were absolutely on the money there. If you browse to another Sg2 forum you will find my problems and how everything was solved there. They involved wifi, data connection and gps problems. All rectified now and the phone is flying along. All stemmed from having the wrong APN settings which affects wifi and gps on the sg2. If anyone wants, I can repost my message here.

Once again, thanks Mark, appreciated your input.:D

And Richard, thank you too. I may well get copilot as it was great on the iphone although my initial reaction to Sygic is very good too.

Can you tell me how to get a '3G' or 'H' connection on this phone? I can only get 'G' and it's dog slow, even though my other phones had no problem. I've played around in the wireless and network settings but still can't sort it.

Got to settings - mobile networks and use packet data.

Can you tell me how to get a '3G' or 'H' connection on this phone? I can only get 'G' and it's dog slow, even though my other phones had no problem. I've played around in the wireless and network settings but still can't sort it.

You'll have to go one step further in Mobile Networks - In Network Mode ensure GSM/WCDMA is selected. If you can't get 3G it means you're only using GSM.