Camera Remote Connection Difficulties

[Felix]

I have a X-T1 that I would like to remotely control from my Android phone. Unfortunately, extabilshing the connection is most unreliable for me. Sometime it works and on other days I have no success.

 

Is there a secret to establishing the communication reliably every time?

[Antony]

Make sure you are disconnected from your wifi network first, and it's more reliable if you only use one device to connect with.

[andrewlee]

I usually have the same problem.

 

I found that either renaming the phone or the camera name seems to make it work again (temporarily).

 

My XT1's camera name is something like "Fujifilm XT-1111111" now haha.

[Bavari]

I have a problem with Geotagging of the Android App and my X-E2. Location appeard as sent but is not available in EXIF. I think there is a problem since Android updated to Lollipop.

[Patrick FR]

According to the Spanish site Fujistas, the latest Android Lollipop ver. 5.1 fixes the connectivity problems with Fujfilm Apps.

[marcelo_valente]

I haven't upgraded my phone yet. The bad side of Android. Anyway, I renamed the camera and the phone so they connect easily. You do have to be disconnected from any Wi-Fi as said before.

It does take a while to connect.

I do wonder how the geo tagging works. I never figured out.

 

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[Felix]

Thank you all for the feedback. I am still running Android 5.0, so am looking forward to the update. Renaming the camera seems to do the trick. Unfortunately, it means that I have to go through these girations each time I switch between cameras. 

 

Until the new version of Android is available for my phone, it may be the best to stick to the old fashioned cable release.