[geomez]

I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 and have downloaded the Image Sync app. I can connect to the camera from within the phone's wifi settings. The problem is that when I start the app, it wants to go through the wifi connection process itself before allowing me to use remote capture and playback. I go through the connecting process through the app, but once the SSID and password are input, I get the spinning "thinking" wheel, before getting the notification that it cannot connect.

I have troubleshoot the issue by disconnecting via the phone's wifi settings and then trying it through the app. I have also tried to change the SSID and password. Nothing works. I have been able to use the Image Sync app with the K-1 using my wife's Moto X.

Has anyone else had these issues? Any troubleshooting suggestions?

[Adam]

Open the app, then use your phone's native Wi-Fi menu to connect to the camera. Once you've done so, go back to the app and tap on the button that says "continue without connecting". You will then in fact be connected and you'll gain access to live view and file transfers.

A little bug to be sure.

I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 and have downloaded the Image Sync app. I can connect to the camera from within the phone's wifi settings. The problem is that when I start the app, it wants to go through the wifi connection process itself before allowing me to use remote capture and playback. I go through the connecting process through the app, but once the SSID and password are input, I get the spinning "thinking" wheel, before getting the notification that it cannot connect.

I have troubleshoot the issue by disconnecting via the phone's wifi settings and then trying it through the app. I have also tried to change the SSID and password. Nothing works. I have been able to use the Image Sync app with the K-1 using my wife's Moto X.

Has anyone else had these issues? Any troubleshooting suggestions?

Mine, a Sony Xperia Z5 compact, connects in the phones wifi menu. Then I start the app. If I press the Ricoh WG-M2 /Pentax K-1 button I will not get lucky, instead I directly press Start application w/o a connection. I then press the camera symbol at the bottom. Now it works.

[geomez]

Open the app, then use your phones native Wi-Fi menu to connect to the camera. Once you've done so, to back to the app and tap on the button that says "continue without connecting". You will then in fact be connected and you'll gain access to live view and file transfers.

A little bug to be sure.

Worked just as you said. Thanks Adam!

[Adam]

Worked just as you said. Thanks Adam!

Awesome! I hope that Ricoh manages to fix this behavior in an update.

What I miss from the flucard is the lack of zoom in the app. Very useful for when checking focus.

Is it me that cant find it?

[probez]

Hello, I'm a new french Pentax user (thanks to the K1) and I'm also running into issues with the Image Sync app.
I own both a LG G3 and G4, the G3 hasn't been updated to Android 6 and works perfectly (liveview and everything) but I cannot connect to the camera with the G4 (updated to Android 6)
I tried the technique given by Adam but unfortunately it didn't work for me, or only partially. I can shoot a pic by pressing the virtual shutter but I have no access to camera settings, live view or file transfer.
Is anyone running into the same issues ?

[butkolrpi]

Try turning off data. I have a Nexus 6 and was pulling my hair out. It works great on my pixel c (wifi only).....turned off data on the phone and it works.

[clackers]

Try turning off data. I have a Nexus 6 and was pulling my hair out. It works great on my pixel c (wifi only).....turned off data on the phone and it works.

I think turning off the Network Smart Switch on your phone will do the same thing. What that tries to do for you is detect whether you're currently on the internet (you're not when you're connected to the camera) and switch to a method that *will* get you on the internet (your carrier, for instance).


Like autofocus, it can't read your mind.

[probez]

Indeed the Network smart switch did the trick (simply cutting off mobile data too), the G3 had no sim card, that's probably why it was working.
Thanks a lot for the advice, I can finally use my G4 !

[clackers]

Indeed the Network smart switch did the trick (simply cutting off mobile data too), the G3 had no sim card, that's probably why it was working.
Thanks a lot for the advice, I can finally use my G4 !

Glad to have helped.

[GeneV]

Once this connection glitch was solved, how has the K1 worked on WiFi? I say that having just spent a frustrating evening with the K3/Flu while trying to use my iPhone to compensate for the lack of a tilting rear screen.

WiFi is extremely useful when it works, but the Flucard has always seemed a bit unstable, and browser crashes are common for me on the iPhone. Even cameras with lots of stable WiFi built in, like the newer Sony NEX models, have gone through multiple major firmware revisions to finally get a remote control system that does what it needs to do. I'm hoping Ricoh built on the experiences of others.

I find it to work really good. Way better than flucard. Also the disance between me and the camera is now useful. Tested up to 15 yards without any lag.

[Eyewanders]

I find it to work really good. Way better than flucard. Also the disance between me and the camera is now useful. Tested up to 15 yards without any lag.

That's good news.

[clackers]

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WiFi is extremely useful when it works, but the Flucard has always seemed a bit unstable, and browser crashes are common for me on the iPhone.

I didn't find the browser crashing with the Flucard in my K-S1, Genev ... perhaps Chrome was better behaved than Safari on iOS.

The K-1 and ImageSync was fine for me when I did a lot of testing last night.

Remote shooting didn't work while I had the output to a 7" monitor on a tripod stand by HDMI, but I figured it was always going to be one or the other.