Internet Explorer Stopped Working

Wesmaster · #1 12-10-2006, 04:38 PM

I have a Cingular 8525 and after about 3 weeks Internet Explorer just stopped connecting to the Internet. If I open Opera or Outlook they both can connect while IE cannot find the internet during the same time. This happens on either GPRS or WI-FI. Anyone know how to "reset" IE without doing a hard reset?

JIMNOLAND · #2 12-10-2006, 07:27 PM

What does it do? What are you connection setting? you should be on myISP and look in to open DNS this wont kelp you connect but, you will connect faster. google it. I use 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 for an alt

Wesmaster · #3 12-10-2006, 08:19 PM

It just says "Connecting..." and then "Locating..." for 30 seconds before it says that you have no internet connection. I am using "My ISP" and the advanced settings are set to "use server-assigned address" so there is no manually set DNS. I tried your DNS address and it did the same thing (not that you said it would matter, just FYI).

BrainC · #4 12-11-2006, 04:07 PM

Hmm, that's odd...did you try a soft-reset?

Also, if you have Opera installed and working, why would you want IE? Isn't Opera much better?

Wesmaster · #5 12-12-2006, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by BrainC

Hmm, that's odd...did you try a soft-reset?

Also, if you have Opera installed and working, why would you want IE? Isn't Opera much better?

I've soft-reset many times since then.

I liked the way IE displayed certain pages but I discovered "desktop" view mode in Opera yesterday so that solved that problem. IE does appear to load quicker (maybe that will change once I officially "register" Opera). I just don't like something not working the way it should.

A new problem showed up today that might be related. Although Opera is set as the default browser I cannot open links in Outlook email. They immediately pop up an error saying that the file cannot be opened (it's actually pretty long error message). I think this might be related. I'm going to research this now.

BrainC · #6 12-12-2006, 11:14 AM

Other questions I should have asked:

1) Did the problem start when you installed Opera, or was everything working fine with Opera and IE for a while, then suddenly it all went downhill?

2) Did you try reinstalling Opera to see if that solved the problem?

3) Finally, could it be that the trial version is limiting something, and once registered (or uninstalled) everything will be happy again?

Just some things to consider...

JIMNOLAND · #7 12-12-2006, 11:16 AM

Are you in a 3G area?

Wesmaster · #8 12-12-2006, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by BrainC

Other questions I should have asked:

1) It probably started 5+ days after Opera was installed. I used both of them for almost a week before I was forced to use Opera.

2) Yes, and it didn't solve the problem.

3) Not sure.

Wesmaster · #9 12-12-2006, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by JIMNOLAND

Are you in a 3G area?

Yes, 98% of the time.

Wesmaster · #10 01-05-2007, 12:12 PM

Anyone?

thcmonkey · #11 01-12-2007, 12:42 AM

It's because opera's set as your default browser. Same thing happens on xp pro when you download another web browser and set it as default then remove it (more so with not being able to open links in outlook). Not sure what's caused it in your case but it sounds very similar, reinstall opera and don't make it default and both should work fine.

Monkey.

Wesmaster · #12 01-12-2007, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by thcmonkey

reinstall opera and don't make it default and both should work fine.

I had already reinstalled Opera. Anyway, I did a hard-reset last week to fix all of my problems and I think now that I set up the phone exactly how I want it from the beginning things will work better. I think that installing and uninstalling different software ended up causing the problem.