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Norweigian Mystery
Apr. 22nd, 2018 12:49 pmWe had a great trip to Amsterdam this past week: it was a fun & fascinating place, and I'd return in a heartbeat.
Norway had some interesting aspects of its own...
Our flights took us from JFK in the US to Amsterdam via Oslo, Norway. The airport was very, very nice, but the food was very expensive: a simple lunch for the three of us went over $75 USD. The more interesting thing though was what it did to my mobile phone.
As we approached Oslo to land, my phone's wifi stopped working. I don't mean it suddenly wasn't communicating to the wifi access point, or that it couldn't get access to a wifi access point: it stopped working. The wifi portion of my mobile phone shut down and refused to restart. Any effort to activate my phone's wifi was met with a single pop-up message: "Error". Since I had an international plan with Verizon Wireless, I still had phone, txt & data services via the telephone network, but I could not activate its wifi.
Multiple reboots solved nothing. Any attempt to turn on wifi was met with the same error message. I was severely bummed: not having wifi ability while in Europe meant potentially burning through my regular data plan fairly quickly, and at a surcharge of $10/day.
As we flew out of Norway a few hours later and somewhere over the North Sea, my mobile phone spontaneously activated its wifi services and all was well again. Huh. Brief operating system issue, I thought.
While we were in Amsterdam, the wifi worked beautifully, as did all other mobile phone services. But when we flew home via Oslo, I once again had the same wifi system failure as we approached Oslo. And it resolved itself again as we departed Oslo.
My mobile phone's wifi service shuts down & refuses to start only in Norweigian airspace. Why?
Michael & Kent both have Samsung phones: they had no problem starting wifi, seeing & using the local wifi hotspots. Kent's uses the same Verizon Wireless plan I do.
So far, my Google searches have come up empty as I try to understand what is going on. It's an Asus A006 runing Android 7.0, latest patched August 1, 2017. If you have any ideas why/how a portion of a mobile phone would be automatically disabled like this in Norway, please let me know.
Norway had some interesting aspects of its own...
Our flights took us from JFK in the US to Amsterdam via Oslo, Norway. The airport was very, very nice, but the food was very expensive: a simple lunch for the three of us went over $75 USD. The more interesting thing though was what it did to my mobile phone.
As we approached Oslo to land, my phone's wifi stopped working. I don't mean it suddenly wasn't communicating to the wifi access point, or that it couldn't get access to a wifi access point: it stopped working. The wifi portion of my mobile phone shut down and refused to restart. Any effort to activate my phone's wifi was met with a single pop-up message: "Error". Since I had an international plan with Verizon Wireless, I still had phone, txt & data services via the telephone network, but I could not activate its wifi.
Multiple reboots solved nothing. Any attempt to turn on wifi was met with the same error message. I was severely bummed: not having wifi ability while in Europe meant potentially burning through my regular data plan fairly quickly, and at a surcharge of $10/day.
As we flew out of Norway a few hours later and somewhere over the North Sea, my mobile phone spontaneously activated its wifi services and all was well again. Huh. Brief operating system issue, I thought.
While we were in Amsterdam, the wifi worked beautifully, as did all other mobile phone services. But when we flew home via Oslo, I once again had the same wifi system failure as we approached Oslo. And it resolved itself again as we departed Oslo.
My mobile phone's wifi service shuts down & refuses to start only in Norweigian airspace. Why?
Michael & Kent both have Samsung phones: they had no problem starting wifi, seeing & using the local wifi hotspots. Kent's uses the same Verizon Wireless plan I do.
So far, my Google searches have come up empty as I try to understand what is going on. It's an Asus A006 runing Android 7.0, latest patched August 1, 2017. If you have any ideas why/how a portion of a mobile phone would be automatically disabled like this in Norway, please let me know.
