https://bjarvis.dreamwidth.org/ Are We Having Fun Yet? - Dreamwidth Studios Sun, 22 Apr 2018 20:01:26 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios bjarvis personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/911025/358045 https://bjarvis.dreamwidth.org/ 89 100 https://bjarvis.dreamwidth.org/1627572.html Sun, 22 Apr 2018 20:01:26 GMT https://bjarvis.dreamwidth.org/1627572.html We had a great trip to Amsterdam this past week: it was a fun & fascinating place, and I'd return in a heartbeat.<br /><br />Norway had some interesting aspects of its own...<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />My mobile phone's wifi service shuts down & refuses to start only in Norweigian airspace. Why?<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bjarvis&ditemid=1627572" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bjarvis.dreamwidth.org/1627572.html mobile phone norway travel public 0