
SmartConnect
In the Download! application on your Nokia E71, you’ll likely find an application called SmartConnect. This is a brilliant application that Nokia has hooked us E71 owners up with for free that makes it easy to setup Access Point priority groups! However, the installation is a bit tricky, so here’s what to do:
First up, you want to go into your Application Manager, options, settings, and make sure the ‘online certificate checking’ is set to ‘on’. This will allow the SmartConnect application to check to verify that you have an E71 and that you should get the app for free. This is a very important step - if you don’t allow it to check for a license, the application will install, but whenever you try to use the access point, you’ll get a nasty message that it’s not licensed.
Now, after the installation, you’ll be prompted to reboot your phone, and then you can setup your access points. This is especially cool if you have multiple WiFi networks (work, home, etc), as you can give them a priority, followed by your cellular data connection, if they’re not found. You can name your new SmartConnect access point anything you’d like, and it will show up as an access point to all of your applications.
In real life, when you go to use that access point, say in the browser, the SmartConnect application will try the different access points that you have configured, in the order you’ve placed them. That means, it can try all of your WiFi hotspots before automatically falling back to cellular, without needing you to prompt it repeatedly! Brilliant.
NOTE: If you installed the application and are still having the ‘No License’ issue, you need to uninstall the application, and then open your File Browser. Navigate to the drive that you installed the application to (either phone memory or your memory card) and find the ‘Other’ folder. Inside, there should be a ‘Birdstep’ folder - delete that. Now, reboot your phone, go into the Download! app, click options - refresh content. Make sure that you’ve enabled online certificate checking, and then you can reinstall SmartConnect from your Download! app, and it should automatically ask if it can get online to verify your certificate.
Enjoy the new simplified access point feature, now!