Galaxy S7 not connecting any more !

[dvhttn]

That gets us no where.
Yes I restated and booted every thing before I even posted on here. both are on the same network.

Good. That's answered a couple of questions.

... What do you think the result of pinging a phone that says waiting for connection on it will be and How do you ping anyway. I said I had little technical or product knowledge. ...

You need to know the ip address of your phone (in the wifi advanced settings usually - depends on your installed SW). Then from a 'cmd' window on the PC type 'ping <ip address>. What that tells you is if the PC can actually communicate with the phone. If they can't that would explain MPE not talking.

.... Have you had any training in communicating with the public? ...

Extensively. But I like them to answer the questions I've asked or else it's actually very difficult to help them. Plus of course the natural 'terseness' of emails/forum postings/PCs generally sometimes makes it seem people are being rude/don't care when the opposite is true.

BTW: I'm just another MPE user and nothing to do with FJ or the other moderators!

.... I will repeat the question again for you and if you don't know just say so. What is the Nightly version and why did it likely to have worked with it and not the standard version?

No I don't know. The 'nightly' versions contains all the latest bug fixes/changes that FJ has made to the code so it could have been something he did. There is a 'changelog' that comes up straight after installation but that doesn't say anything specific. It could just have been the process of updating the MPE version that did the trick. You know how Windows can act sometimes.

Anyhow, glad you're sorted.

[Steve M]

It was a short lived successes back to the original problem.

What now?

[dvhttn]

It was a short lived successes back to the original problem.

What now?

Back to previous questions. Can you 'ping' the phone from your PC when they won't connect? Can the phone 'browse the internet' when it won't connect to your PC?

I used to get problems like this when I first started to use MPE but started to use 'assign ip to mac address' on my router to make sure my phone had the same ip address at home and that sorted out those problems. It would depend on whether our router supported 'assign ip to mac' though. You'd need to check the documentation for it. And it's not necessarily what's wrong with yours ....

[Steve M]

have no idea how to "PING" yes phone and PC can use the internet when on the same network.
also have a problem with conecting over USB now.

[dvhttn]

have no idea how to "PING" yes phone and PC can use the internet when on the same network.
also have a problem with conecting over USB now.

'ping' explained above - plus you'll get plenty of hits if you Google it. Can you assign 'ip to mac' on your router at all?

USB - try different cable(s) and USB port(s) to verify that that isn't the issue. Check that you have the latest Samsung USB drivers installed on your PC.