[MeeGo Harmattan] PR 1.3 v40.2012.21-3.001.19 update is now rolling-out

It seems that the PR1.3 update is now rolling-out - v40.2012.21-3.001.19 it's around 204.8 MB check yours, I can't do it because I dont have the N9 anymore (will get one again if this update is valuable)

[MeeGo Harmattan] PR1.2 update is now live !

What an amazing day, PR1.2 as i predicted yesterday is now live for the N9 !

The update is about 284MB

If you're not getting yours OTA (over the air), try this or wait a couple of days ;)

[MeeGo Harmattan] PR 1.2 Harmattan Update Changelog (Available) For Nokia N950

Hey Hey what we've got here? a changelog for the PR1.2 but regarding the N950 !

- New languages (Persian, Hebrew, Kazakh, Thai, Vietnamese)
- Software update notifications for content in Nokia Store
- Face recognition for gallery and face tags for Facebook

- Support for folders in the application view

- Mail for Exchange global address book lookup
- Mail thread support in the Email client
- Extended copy-paste support
- Dropbox In accounts Menu

- Media sharing with DLNA compatible devices

- Improved browser history view
- Compass support in Maps
- QtWebKit update to version 2.2
- New font taken into use
- Front camera support
- Video editing support in the Gallery application

- MeeGotouch Framework
- Visual hint for differentiating swipe close gesture from normal swipes
- Timestamps shown in notifications
- Notifications sorted by timestamps

- Improvements in Event Feed area

- Music controls in Lock screen
- New feedbacks added to MeeGoTouch theme.
- Kernel updated to be in sync with the upstream kernel version 2.6.32.48


Connectivity

- Android NDEF Push Protocol disabled
- NFC polling enabled in lock screen
- Separate switch for controlling mobile background connections while roaming


Camera

- Self Timer support
- Composition grid + on/off control


Calendar

- Better handling of To-Do lists, recurring events and timezones
- Private flag support for events
- Support for read-only events
- Ability to forward/reply/reply-all for received events


Clock

- Clock alarm becomes silent by flipping the device face down instead of snoozing
- Updated time picker


Gallery

- People view added to the grid toolbar
- Improved multiple selection indication in grid view


Music Player

- Audiobook and podcast support
- Ability to create playlists
- Ability to delete music files from music player library views via object menu
- Possibility to see songs that are on the current play queue

Thanks lovemynokia for screenshots ;)

[MeeGo Harmattan] [How to] Bring back your dead N9 to life !

If you bricked your N9 as i did the past week, and want it back to life from the dead Nokia Logo then you can use the following method for restoring system after some dangerous experiments with applications.

My guide is based on ubuntu live cd (the best and safest method yet) as i have Win 7 64bits and i just can't run properly the tools needed to flash the N9 (if you want steps to do it on windows OS, be sure to look into maemotalk forums)...so :

In few steps :

1- Get (not really necessary) the latest ubuntu build (i did it with ubuntu 9 and it worked just fine), Once you've finished downloading your file, you'll need to create a CD or USB drive (the advantage of running a live cd is that you won't need to install anything on your PC) and then run it (see step 3 from this page).

2- Get the maemo flasher released for Harmattan (in my case i did choose the flasher_3.12.1_i386.deb version of it as i'll use ubuntu live cd) and install it !

3- Get the firmware image for your device, I used NaviFirm from http://www.symbian-toys.com/navifirm.aspx to get the appropriate firmware for my N9 (you can search your Firmware with the help of the product code of your N9 which you can find on the back of the micro SIM holder) you're not forced to download all files but ones checked by default, the most important file is the Mcu LEGACY one (something like : DFL61_HARMATTAN_2X.2011.44-2_PR_LEGACY_XXX.bin)

Ps : It'll be convenient to rename it to something easy like your name for example : saad.bin

You want to do a warm-flash ( I have not tried a cold-flash, so do that at your own risk ) of your device.

There are detailed instructions at the maemo wiki, http://wiki.maemo.org/Flasher but you won't probably need them as only what's left to you to do is to place files you've just downloaded to Desktop.

5- Place downloaded files to desktop.

6- Run Xterm, then type :

cd Desktop

Then sudo flasher -F FIRMWAREIMAGE.bin -f -R

Where  FIRMWAREIMAGE.bin is the name you gave to your firmware image... in my case the command will be :

sudo flasher -F saad.bin -f -R

Plug your N9 (it must be switched off already) and wait the magic till your device reboot ;)

It worked fine, but still, do at your own risk !

Additional type : Do a hard reset after that as you could have some old nasty files staying on the system ;)

If you have questions drop them in comments section :)

[MeeGo Harmattan] The default N9 font will change to bigger and better !

This is a pre-warning of one change that will take place in an future software update of the Nokia N9: the default font, "Nokia Pure Text", will be updated as well. This might have an impact on some of your application UIs.

The typeface of Nokia Pure Text itself will not change, but the font metrics will. The most significant change is that by default, the text will take approximately 20% more space vertically, i.e. the height of the "bounding box" of text items will increase.

The current height of the font is actually a bit too small. E.g., some of the diacritic/accent marks or descenders do not fit to the bounding box. Fixing this is important especially for non-european languages using non-latin script. The picture below shows how the same text labels render on two different software releases, PR1.0/PR1.1 on the left and the new version of the font on the right:



Whether this has any impact on your application, depends on how the UI layout has been built. In many cases, there is no impact or the change does not really matter. These cases are e.g.:

• Short text labels centered on top of other graphical items (like buttons)
• Lists and other pannable areas where the size anyway varies.
• By using margins and other buffer, you have anyway prepared for changes in the size of the text items e.g. for localization purposes.

But you might see some small surprises if your layout directly depends on the height of the bounding box of the text items. In Qt Quick terms, that would be the Label.height or Text.height properties.

In many cases, the best approach is to design the UI so that you expect the size of the text to vary both horizontally and vertically, that is needed anyway if you provide localizations for different languages.

Typically, that requires leaving enough margins or other space or placing text in pannable areas.

Via : developer.nokia.com

[MeeGo Harmattan] PR 1.1 Update for Nokia N9 is available via Nokia Software Updater !

Yeah, if you're tired of waiting of the -based on country and carrier- PR1.1 OTA update for your Nokia N9, you can use your PC instead with the help of Nokia Software Updater :

The update for Nokia N9 is quite huge (1.1GB) because NSU is downloading the whole firmware instead of just the necessary update (when you do it OTA, the file size is about 200MB++).

PS : after installing NSU, don't forget to update it, and then connect your N9 with the sync mode when prompted ;)

[MeeGo Harmattan] PR1.1 (20.2011.40-4) software update for the Nokia N9 is live!

Device software update 20.2011.40-4 (aka PR1.1) for the Nokia N9 is out. Already now, you should get a notification about the update. If you can't see it, you can check it manually by going to Settings / Applications / Manage applications / Updates tab, and tapping on the Refresh button.

It is a 218,6 MB Over-The-Air update, so using Wi-Fi connection is advised. After downloading, the installation may take up to 40 minutes.

This software update brings music controls on the Lock screen, improved multitasking and memory management, NFC tag reading, as well as more than 300 smaller enhancements, improvements and fixes. Following the N950, the N9 now also gets Swype keyboard, and swiping down to quickly close an application is now enabled by default. In addition to this, the camera gets color filters and there are improvements in WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity.

The official non-detailed changelog (If you want a much more detailed changelog check out my post over here !) :

The first regions and operators have already been targeted, with others to follow in the coming days. So do not despair, if the update is not yet available for your phone.    

The changes and improvements include: 

• NFC tag reading
• Music controls on lock screen
• Photo and video shooting with colour filters
• More powerful multitasking
• Swype for faster typing
• Faster MfE, syncing only the active folders
• Noise cancellation reduces background noise so your friends hear you better
• Swipe down to close apps easily; now on by default
• New notifications for the standby screen, such as charging and calendar
• Multiple smaller improvements to operating system 

Maemo PR 1.3.1 Security Update Coming Soon !

Recently, Nokia has been in touch with some CSSU devs and the council about
a Fremantle software update.  As the version number implies, this is a
simple fix for the DigiNotar issue and a fixed security control panel
applet.

The update should be released in a few days.  Non-CSSU users can update
immediately.  If you ever want to install CSSU, the installer will work fine
on PR1.3.1.

Nokia has also agreed that the patches may be redistributed by the community
and can be used in CSSU and Cordia.

CSSU users should not try to update their devices (the update will not show
up in Application Manager.  The patches will be pulled into the CSSU right
after they are released for PR 1.3 so the CSSU can be right back on track.
As of version 16.8, the CSSU will include these security fixes.
*
Again, please do not try the PR 1.3.1 update if you're using the CSSU (using
apt-get or similar methods).*

Via : lists.maemo.org 

It's live now !

Will install it later on ;)

[Sneak Peek] What's coming to your N9 Firmware Update

Konttori (the Coach for Harmattan Applications Framework) hinted in a recent post about upcoming update for our beloved N9 and we can read "around 3500 improvements (fixes or features) to be in the release" (PR1.1 and PR1.2 combined i guess) , i didn't want to post about that until having some "facts" about what can we expect really to be addressed, and here we are with some of them, but first of all, you should know there'll be like 3 future firmware updates for the N9 in the future PR1.1, PR1.2 and PR1.3, maybe more, but that's for know and it's enough to use the device for daily use for 2 years ;) 

Anyway, 308 task or features were completed for 1.1, you should know that PR1.1 is all about being faster, stronger, better. It succeeded on all metrics, reliability, use time, performance, long period use. All metrics for 1.1 are simply outstanding based on Konttori comments and hints !

- Low power mode enhancemens, battery charging and silent profile are now shown in there.
- Tons of NFC and connectivity improvements.
- Performance enhancements.
- Visual tuneups (e.g. toolbar has a shadow now).
- Splash screen has been taken to wider use.
- Color management is less nervous than before (neutral sRGB space color palette is now used always, except in clearly outdoor situations, when oversaturation is applied to adjust how eye desaturates content in brightness).

- Lock screen music controls has been added (It's in the top of the screen and at least I'm pleased with how nicely a nuance the controls look. Currently playing song is on big friendly letters, replacing clock when you are playing music). 

- Swype keyboard has been added. 

- Keyboard switching is very smooth with swipe gesture.
- Battery notification was tuned for 1.1 and should come every 2 minutes while in call, every 5 minutes when display on and every 30 minutes when display off.
- Turning device to landscape is supported allover UI it seems.
- Double tap was re-tuned a bit for 1.1. It's a bit more reliable again.
- Tons of exchange fixes
- Facebook starts faster and has tons of fixes in both 1.1 and 1.2. I'd say it's bearable in 1.1.
- wifi in general has been improved by leaps and bounds in 1.1.
- Magnifier works in 1.1 much better than in 1.0.
- Swipe-to-close is enabled by default in 1.1
- Top status bar lag has been fixed
- Browser has been improved heavily for 1.1, but not on the UX front. 1.2 has some feature improvements.
- LED bug that has been fixed for 1.1.
- 1.1 also includes a battery charging indicator in low power mode (LPM)
- A lot of work has been put to better interoperability of BT with cars
- pulseaudio issue has been fixed
- We have automerge contacts support in 1.1, although it has some usability issues. Anyway, zillion times nicer than not having automerge at all. 
- Silence by turning device down works in 1.1
- quicklaunchbar is quite a bit better in 1.1 already. you don't need to swipe-hold to open it, just a quick, but small swipe from bottom will do.

For the PR1.2 it is officially feature enhancement release, so, it contains a lot of new things. :

- Universal copy paste is coming in.
- Swipe-to-close and more logical and visual in 1.2.
- Implementation of decoder enhancements for h264
- Folders will come in 1.2 to home screen. And it's not only apps that need it. If you start using bookmarks a bit more, it's really irritating to not to have bookmarks. Guys in Oulu say that the work should be complete for the feature, so it's about 3 weeks to have decent polish on it. It's one of the "big" features of 1.2
- 1.2 has some sweet camera improvements though (but no comments on what, sorry)
- Lock screen has the support for full screen avatars for incoming call. 1.2 at the earliest
- Deeper integration of maps with the core applications (contacts and favorites)
- Skype video call nor 3G video call support not sure about the later
- PR1.2 changes the swipe down to function as direct close without going to recents/multi-tasking view. Other changes are not going to be made, as they would break the generic swipe logic too much.
- Manage Applications option has been added to the Applications list
- Separated Flash option in Camera UI
- LED Flash icon in Video Recorder UI
- New style for the buttons
- New “Color Profile” setting in Display options
- Face Recognition support in Gallery
- Insert Faces in Photos


Not sure yet if this could make is way on a future update :

- More games will definitely come, but none is HD, as the screen is WVGA 
- Somebody should do numeric T9.
- Not sure if the birthday support is coming or not. I think it is, but not sure
- No comments on video call (included skype)
- Bigger avatar on calls perhaps coming in 1.2
- Push notifications (on mentions and retweets in the Twitter app) were supposed to come
- Contacts as shortcuts is possible, simple to be done, but not in the books at the moment. Please write to nokia care about that. And create a bug.
- Java support is not going to come officially.
- Flash support may come.
- Voice control was in the cards, but we eventually dropped it. Not coming, sorry.
- upcoming calendar notifications has been discussed a lot. I can't remember why it's not there, but there was some reason for it...
- Browser toolbar in landscape should indeed be at the bottom. We are planning to get it to autohide in 1.2, but no promises (it's not on the top of the to-do list)
-  Video player won't have usability improvements. Better get a 3rd party app for those. It takes probably 200 LOC with qml and qt-mobility/gstreamer to create a better video player (usability wise) than the currently shipping one. It would be a nice hobby project for somebody. Don't get me wrong, it's perfectly OK video player if you have 10 videos, but it certainly doesn't work well enough if you have a lot of videos.
- 3G video support will ever come. We always considered it as a forgotten technology (and hence favor VOIP-alike video conferencing solutions).
- VPN should be coming soon.
- Contact shortcuts were planned for home screen to be as launcher icon shortcuts. We decided to postpone that to until folder support for launcher items is complete. It's now complete, but there won't be enough time to complete the contacts side of the support for 1.2. Perhaps in 1.3.  

[MeeGo Harmattan] N9 Product Codes !

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Via : pastebin

Community SSU features to look forward to !

Here we go with some patches that try to improve the user experience and look and feel of the Maemo 5 UI that will be merged into the Community SSU :

Blurless desaturation: With this feature enabled, the background of dialogs, menus, the launcher and the switcher won't get all blurry - instead, they keep their sharpness, but are darkened and desaturated.

Bigger task switcher: You can choose between the Maemo 5 default layout, the single-column "big" task switcher and the two-column task switcher.

Rotation around the Z axis: This one makes the screen rotation look much more natural, just like on the MeeGo Handset UX. Instead of rotating around the X and Y axis, this makes the transitions from/to portrait mode rotate around the Z axis.





Forced auto-rotation for all apps: By default, hildon-desktop obeys the preferences of application windows and whether or not they support portrait mode. With this option enabled, hildon-desktop ignores those preferences and instead assumes every application can be auto-rotated. There's no support for the home screen, launcher or switcher, as these things are more complicated to support in portrait mode.




Ps : all those features are disabled by default, and need to be enabled explicitly in transitions.ini. For some of these options, a restart (of the device or hildon-desktop) is required

You can follow the changelog of CSSU over here ;)

Via : thpmaemo 

Maemo 5 gets community OS updates !

The Maemo Community Council and Mohammad Abu-Garbeyyeh are pleased to announce the launch of the Maemo 5 Community SSU project. It is currently in a testing and elaboration phase, and your help is required.

What is it?

Seamless Software Update (SSU), is the term Nokia used to brand the over-the-air updates of Maemo.
Community Seamless Software Update (CSSU) is being developed by the Maemo community, for the Maemo community. It aims to deliver fixes which can't be delivered easily through Extras, such as core N900 packages. It won't, however, bundle software which can be installed through the Extras repositories.
It's got a presence in various Maemo forums:

• IRC: #maemo-ssu on FreeNode
• Bugs: Bugzilla, product: Extras > Maemo 5 Community SSU
• Wiki: Community SSU
• Talk: In-development Community SSU

Who is it for?

Long-term: all N900 users.
Now: power-users, developers, Nokia/Maemo/MeeGo engineers, testers, documentation writers and those willing to risk a re-flash in order to help.

How do I install it?

1. Make sure you're running PR1.3, Nokia's last official Maemo 5 update. To see if you have PR1.3, go into "Settings > About product", you should see under "Version" it has the numbers beginning with "20.2010.36".
2. Go to wiki.maemo.org/Community_SSU using your N900 browser.
3. Click on the "Install" arrow next to "Testing".
4. Hildon Application Manager (HAM) will launch and will prompt with you a series of messages and warnings. Click continue and let it install the community package.
5. Once done, close HAM and go into the applications menu. Look for, and launch, for "Community SSU". This will then automatically run through a series of scripts to ensure HAM will now be using community repository for updates.
6. HAM will re-open and present a system upgrade called "Maemo 5 Community SSU". Once installed, your device will reboot.

These instructions are also in the wiki.

More to read ! 

Nokia N900 PR 1.3 (20.2010.36-2) Update Available !

Oh yeah, the PR 1.3 Update is now live and available ! And guess what ! The update adds support for PC Ovi Suite to access and sync files and messages between your Nokia N900 and desktop ! Finally !



The Update is available OTA and take about 84,4Mb the changelog is very huge (you can see it in "details" panel before you update if you want), and as mentioned earlier, the update contains many tweaks and improvements to the N900 user experience and aligns the Qt application and UI framework with the planned version for the MeeGo 1.1 platfrom (Qt 4.7). Qt Mobility 1.0.2 APIs for mobile development are also included (according to maemoteam)

What are you waiting for? Go and give your N900 a fresh start ! I'm updating mine right now ;)

PR1.3 : user-noticeable changes !

Our friends over maemofanatics.com have managed to get an unofficial user-based impressions about the recently leaked upcoming N900 firmware, In addition to the 100+ bug fixes, some UI elements have been updated, as well as an apparently new driver to interact with the PowerVR SGX530 GPU, here are some of the user-noticeable changes that should come with PR1.3 :

- MicroB (browser), Modest (e-mail) and hildon-desktop (desktop UI) have been updated and will provide a much faster experience, less glitching and reduced process pegging.

- Universal Contact Search has improved response time for displaying results.

- Audio playback no longer causes abnormal high processor usage, and pause/resume playback after a call is much more predictable and works as it should. In addition, the mediaplayer widget ‘play’ button now works.

- Portrait mode transition is faster for all applications that support rotation. Feels “constant” and much more deliberate.

- Accounts being forced to error-offline during new network connection has been fixed.

- Several fixes to Mail for Exchange. Unknown if Google syncing has been addressed.

- You can now enter a lowercase letter at the beginning of a sentence.

- Camera and image browsing has less “chop” and stuttering. Feels much more fluid.

- Delay added to screen unlocking during alarm or phone call. Reduces unwanted input.

PR 1.3 update is quite close : Enabling dual boot between Maemo and Meego !

The PR 1.3 update is quite close now, and with that you can easily dual boot between Maemo and Meego on your N900. There is also a possibility of developing applications supporting both operating systems, based on Qt and Qt Mobility APIs on the Maemo side. It means that you can develop once in PC with Qt Creator, and test your applications on both Maemo and MeeGo, directly on your N900 device!

Via : meego.com

PR1.2 Features you might have missed !

PR 1.2 as now available (for everyone) everyone is searching for change and bugfixes for this "long" awaited update...

Things you should know and should not miss from this update is :

1. Video calling

Not direct. Cannot call phone to phone. Only use through skype and Gtalk.

2. New emoticons support for Skype.

3. Native web browsing in Portrait (with access to bookmarks and "back" button).

(To activate go to "Options/Settings" to enable rotation.)

4. Integrated FaceBook chat. (You need your facebook user name to log in.)

5. New Share option via File Manager (no need for petrovich)

6. Better interface for Ovi maps (and now open maps by clicking on a contacts address)

7. Keyboard mapping changed. Pressing and holding a key allows the "blue" symbols to be used (no more holding the blue arrow key).

8. Calendar no longer opens up at 4am every morning. Bug fixed. (Birthdays disappearing in calendar widget)

Also swiping the screen top to bottom (and the other way around) has a cool smooth transition between months. Previously you had a sharp transition when swiped left to right.

9. USSD codes now work. (try any USSD provided by your operator)

10. Email. Move Messages from folder to folder or to your N900's local storage. (Hit "Inbox" at the top bar and "Move messages")

- Search Email - Type anywhere in the email window and watch results show up.

- Highlight Text in Email. Hold shift and use your finger/stylus to highlight text. No longer have to hit reply to have the option to copy text. Fantastic.

- Delete email from the "new email" balloon pop up directly

11. Search apps catalogue dynamically (results show as you type a letter).

Also works with:

- Uninstall apps menu

- Music Files

- File Dialog

12. Mark and Delete/Share Multiple Conversations/Emails/Images.

Now you can attach multiple images to emails without doing one at a time. Hit the top bar and select "Share" or "Delete". Now you can click and higlight multiple items.

13. Re-arrange the menu as you like.

Press and hold any icon in the Menu to initiate this.

13. Get rid of "SMS" option to landline numbers.

Go to Contacts, and hit the top bar and settings.

14. Join Chat room?

If you go to Conversations there's an option via the top bar to join chat room. It only accepts "addresses".

15. Data Counter

Settings/Phone now allows you to view home network data counter as well as roaming data counter.

16. Video night mode introduced

17. Browser

- Shift + up key (takes u to top of the page)

- Shift + down key (takes u to the far bottom of page).

- Rearrangement of controls

- Back button now instantly takes you back without showing a "desktop" view of previously visited pages.
(holding it down however does show you the previous desktop view)

18. Volume. You can finally adjust the volume when the phone is locked. Great for listening to music.

Also volume control is smoother. no more choppiness when increasing/decreasing volume.

19. Red Eye Removal added to "edit image" in the gallery.

20. Main camera now has two additional resolutions available (1.5MB and 3MB medium). Allowing for small images to be take for email etc.

21. Notifications (miss calls/text mssgs etc) show on lock screen without unlocking phone.

24. EAP-TTLS+PAP authentication for WiFi is supported.

25. On screen keyboard has had a makeover.

Any thing else? You can follow this topic and see the full changelog ;)

PR1.2 firmware UK release today, and global release tomorrow Wednesday, May 26 !

There’s a number of changes that you can expect:

Loads of new games and apps in the Ovi Store

Gaming fans can now get their hands on all sorts of new titles including Jurassic 3D Rollercoaster, Zen-bound, Angry Birds (level pack), Sygic, Kroll, Weatherbug and GoGadget. Bear in mind that these games won’t show up in the Ovi Store until you have upgraded to PR 1.2.

It’s one for the socialites among you

Facebook IM Chat is now bundled in, and the updated email service allows you to accept or decline event invitations right from your inbox. And what do you think of video calling, allowing users face-to-face chatting anywhere.

A freshened Ovi Maps interface

This updated UI should make it easier for you to find your way around, and there’s also a change to the menu system UI, with the first level now customisable…
On top of all that, your N900 can now browse the web in portrait mode and make video calls.

Via : http://blogs.nokia.com/nseries/

PR 1.2 for Nokia N900 leaked ! (Links and changelog Inside)

Great news this morning !

Download links :

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5526521/Maemo_5_PR1.2_Joshv06

http://rapidshare.com/files/382571020/RX-51_2009SE_10.2010.12-9_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.rar

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JTHRXCJS

http://www.mediafire.com/?gznnfzeylqk

I highly recommand that you wait till it's official before you brick your N900 ;)

Key changes/improvements that come with this release include:

• A revamped virtual keyboard. Screenshot via OptX.

• Longpress to enter numbers/symbols on the keyboard.
• The ability to rearrange icons,  no ‘more’ button in the menu.
• Changes to the camera UI, and a night mode for both photos and video.
• Qt 4.6.2 is now pre-installed.

• The web browser now features a button to activate the portrait mode and a few more option while in the portrait mode.
• The browser benchmark also seems to have shot up from 8687 to 10141 with this leaked release.
• USSD codes now work.
• Type to search for apps in the Application Manager.
• Another addition is an email widget as well for the desktop. Screenshot via qwerty12.

• Updates to the Ovi Maps application, but no voice navigation yet.

There is even a video showing off some of the changes outlined above :

What can we realistically expect : QA about Nokia N900, Maemo 5, Meego and Harmattan !

In case you don't know, there's an interesting wiki page on wiki.maemo.org that was created following a lot of hot-topic questions being asked without answer which resulted in a general bad mood on Talk.

The purpose of the page is to compile known information and open questions into one and easy to read source from :

Quim Gil (qgil) : Job title - Open source advocate, Maemo Devices @ Nokia.
Ari Jaaksi (jaaksi) : Job title - Vice President of Maemo Software @ Nokia.
Urho Konttori (konttori) : Job title - Project Manager @ Nokia.
Tomas Junnonen (tomasj) : Job title - Developer @ Nokia.
Peter Schneider (peterschneider): Job title - Head of the global marketing team for Maemo Devices @ Nokia.
Valtteri Halla (valhalla) : Job title - Director, Nokia Meego @ Nokia.


Here's some examples :

The MeeGo project has announced support for the N900. What does it really mean for my N900 ?

What that blog post talks about is MeeGo vanilla support announced by the MeeGo project. This is not Harmattan support with Harmattan apps by Nokia. It's Nokia and not the MeeGo project who has the word on Nokia deliveries.

Still, N900 users concerned about "the future of the N900" now know that their hardware is in the real track for future support. More answers to come as the Harmattan alpha release approaches.

Source : Quim Gil (Nokia)

MeeGo will come with a reference UX and reference OSS apps. If someone is expecting official Nokia apps then this is another story. The story of 'Harmattan running in the N900'. We have dicussed this. Nothing new on that front.

Source : Quim Gil (Nokia)

That said, please do not take this yet as a commitment to fully productise MeeGo on N900. I am quite confident that we will end up having a really good developer distro for N900 already but committing to stabilise a consumer-grade MeeGo 1.0 (first half this year) for N900 is another story. That is a product business decision beyond my scope. Also, we do not yet know about MeeGo 1 release content. I am not yet sure if I would be personally ready to let my Maemo5 go for the first MeeGo release in my daily N900 use.

Source : Valtteri Halla (Nokia)

Making MeeGo work on the N900 is costing money already now. There is a team working on this as we speak, and as MeeGo first code release is taking shape.

The N900 was announced as official ARM hardware platform for MeeGo. This means that you can expect an open source operating system working on the N900 with a MeeGo API allowing you to install and run MeeGo applications.

The open source evolution path of the N900 is quite clear and looking good

What Nokia hasn't announced yet is the commercial evolution path beyond the Maemo 5 official updates that it is granted that will keep coming. Yes, this is the same old question "Harmattan / MeeGo officially supported for the N900" and the same answer still prevails.

Source : Quim Gil (Nokia)

Will Harmattan/Meego be supported on the N900 for the average consumer and not just for for developers ? 

Put this MeeGo support in perspective:

- From unstable to stable, if MeeGo doesn't make developers happy it will never make users happy. Developer happiness is a requird milestone no matter what.

- Leaving aside the Nokia-centric perspective, if MeeGo doesn't make users happy by own merits it will give a hard time to device vendors making happy their customers. So again user happiness is basically a milestone for MeeGo no matter what.

Sure, still this doesn't answer the question of Nokia's Harmattan official support and Nokia proprietary apps, but maybe these two axis help you figuring out worst case scenarios.

Sources : Quim Gil (Nokia)

What Nokia hasn't announced yet is the commercial evolution path beyond the Maemo 5 official updates that it is granted that will keep coming. Yes, this is the same old question "Harmattan / MeeGo officially supported for the N900" and the same answer still prevails.

Source : Quim Gil (Nokia)

Why can't Nokia promise the N900 will get MeeGo ?

Intel and Nokia are still discussing the last details about the MeeGo architecture. In technical terms this means that still today nobody knows what exactly the MeeGo OS will consist of. Imagine a month ago, two months ago, three...

... (You have to consider) the jump from Maemo 5 to Harmattan/MeeGo, which represents a deep change in the OS plus a total rewrite of the applications.

Still, the chance is there. The sooner you demand an answer the easiest is to get a conservative silence. The closer we get to Harmattan / MeeGo stable releases the easiest is to give accurate technical and business answers.

Source : Quim Gil (Nokia)

Why is Ovi Suite still not working with Maemo 5 ?

Improving all the time. N900 is still young, and as a new platform not everything works. Symbian has been around for years, so it is further in many areas.

Source : Ari Jaaksi (Nokia)

From mobiletablets.blogspot.com :

Nokia N900 supports a range of Ovi services including Ovi Store, Contacts on Ovi, Ovi Share, Nokia Messaging, and Ovi Maps. Comes with Music and other services that require platform-wide support of DRM will be supported in our MeeGo-based devices which we intend to provide with Microsoft PlayReady-based DRM technology. Naturally, we'll be working to increase support for all Ovi services as we go forward with MeeGo.

Source : Peter Schneider (Nokia)

What are the officially-confirmed major feature in future Maemo 5 release ?

- PR1.2

1. QT 4.6

Source : [Confirmed by Qgil, Trolltech, etc.]

2. Live wallpaper

Source : Bug 3910

3. Customizable single menu, no more "More"

Source : Bug 5349


- PR1.3

1. QT Mobility

Source : Urho Konttori (Nokia)

I am confused. What is Harmattan and what is MeeGo ? What is the difference between both ? Do they share common features ?

So what’s with (Harmattan)? (Harmattan) will be MeeGo compatible.....consider (Harmattan) already a MeeGo instance.


Source : Ari Jaaksi (Nokia)


Harmattan is the name of the software program that comes after Fremantle / Maemo 5. In the Maemo Summit we already announced it as "Maemo 6" in order to bring a clear signal about the major update, change of toolkit, etc.


Now MeeGo comes to the picture. "Maemo 6" will not be used by Nokia as a brand since all the marketing effort around the software platform will be around MeeGo.


To be clear: this is not about "ditching" or "abandoning" any platform. The Harmattan program keeps working with the same plans than last week, no matter the name of the product they will deliver. Maemo 6 and Moblin 2.x merge and have a successor called MeeGo. Current Maemo people will look at it and will say "looks like his mother!". Current Moblin people will look at it and will say "looks like his father!" (or choose your preferred gender) Of course you will see changes compared to Maemo 5, but these changes were coming anyway with Maemo 6.


What does this mean exactly for Harmattan/MeeGo? It means different things for different people:


- For end users nothing really changes, apart from a name most of them were not aware of anyway.

- For application developers not much changes. Harmattan's developer offering is based on Qt 4.6 + Qt Creator, Web Runtime + Aptana. Same for MeeGo and by the way same for Symbian. Harmattan might have extended APIs unique to Nokia devices (e.g. Ovi APIs), but we'll see and this is part of the MeeGo flexibility anyway. Wait for the SDKs to be released and then we can discuss in more detail. There will be also the APIs available for those willing to use them, provided directly by other open source components in the platform (e.g. GStreamer). Developers will be of course free to use them, at the expense of loosing compatibility with Symbian, and with MeeGo... depends on the component and to be seen as soon as there is a detailed MeeGo architecture public. Then there will be the obvious difference in packaging (deb still for Harmattan, rpm for MeeGo) but this won't be the big issue and anyway compatibility with Symbian implies specific packaging as well.

- For those caring about the platform in depth, Harmattan =! MeeGo. If we would make Harmattan identical to MeeGo then we would need to postpone dates and, really not for a good reason. Not a reason for application developers (the API is there anyway) and not a good reason for end users, who could not care less about packaging and some obscure middleware components. This is the only reason making Ari Jaaksi refer to Harmattan as a "MeeGo instance" instead of just "MeeGo product".

This is why we are dropping the "Maemo 6" brand while keeping all the Harmattan development full speed and in the same direction that it was.


Source : Quim Gil (Nokia)

Harmattan and MeeGo come with a whole Qt based application and UI framework and a Qt style API. Maemo 5 is a different story, with a GTK+ based applications and UI framework and GNOME style API.


This is what makes Harmattan quite close to MeeGo in platform terms, while Maemo 5 is really something different. That said you can reach very similar APIs with Maemo 5, and you can also add more libraries to Maemo 5 in order to fine tune the compatibility. You can also do so with Symbian, yet you don't have problems seeing that it's pointless to call Symbian MeeGo.


We can discuss this in more details once we have a MeeGo and a Harmattan list of components to compare.

PS: about the packaging... we are talking here about API compatibility.


Source : Quim Gil (Nokia)


1. There is Nokia Maemo 5 / Fremantle now. The next release would have been Nokia Maemo 6 / Harmattan. Now, it is called Meego / Harmattan instead, but it's still the same Harmattan that it was going to be. This would be way clearer if they didn't rebrand it as MeeGo yet, but they wanted to get the marketing behind that brand already. You can think of Harmattan as half MeeGo. The next release after Harmattan will be Nokia's first full MeeGo.


2. You need to understand the layers, which together form an operating system. It may be difficult if you come from Windows/OS X world because they both only have one user interface. UI and applications, however are only the top of the OS pyramid. Underneath them there are a lot of stuff that actually make it all tick. That's what Meego is about, providing a common base for user interfaces and applications to be built on. When you think of Meego in general, think of everything you as an end user don't see.


3. What you actually see, the UI, applications, services etc. can and will vary depending on who made the Meego device. LG's UI may look totally different from Nokia UI. You'll only see Ovi applications and services on Nokia devices. These manufacturer specific applications on top of Meego won't necessarily be open source either. But the base on which they are built on is the same.


Source (NON OFFICIAL) : jas


(Harmattan) will be compatible with MeeGo.. but it is not MeeGo.


(Harmattan) will still use Deb.. MeeGo uses RPM.


Source (NON OFFICIAL) : fatalsaint

 More to read !

Changelog Of Upcoming N900 firmware update 10.2010.09-3 ?

 As posted yesterday, a major update for our lovely N900 may see the sun in the upcoming weeks (beginning of April?) and some speculations already around what would we expect are rolling, i read over sygysweb that, what it seems, the changelog is already available, check it out !

CHANGES BETWEEN 3.2010.02-8 AND 10.2010.09-3
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PACKAGES CHANGED SINCE THE PREVIOUS RELEASE

+alarmd 1.1.16+0m5
+apt 0.7.20.2maemo13.1+0m5
+base-files 3.1.osso2+3.1.10.osso25+0m5
+bash 2.05b-2-26osso8+0m5
+bluez 4.60-0maemo1.4+0m5
+browser-eal 0.5.5-6.1+0m5
+cairo 1.8.8-0maemo1+0m5
+clinkc 2.0-0osso17+0m5
+clutter 0.8.2-0maemo66+0m5
+dbus 1.2.14-0maemo4+0m5
+dbus-glib 0.78-0maemo7+0m5
+desktop-file-utils 0.12-2osso7+0m5
+dnsmasq 2.45-1+lenny1+maemo3+0m5
+dosfstools 3.0.1-1maemo6+0m5
+dpkg 1.14.25maemo3+0m5
+dsme 0.60.44+0m5
+eds-backend-telepathy 0.4.62-1+0m5
+evolution-data-server 1.4.2.1-20100226+0m5
+farsight2 0.0.17-0maemo13+0m5
+gcc-4.2 4.2.1-4maemo12+0m5
+gconf2 2.16.0-2osso6.2+0m5
+gdigicam 0.3.5.1+0m5
+glib2.0 2.20.3-1maemo4+0m5
+glibc 2.5.1-1eglibc23+0m5
+gnome-menus 2.23.3-2maemo+0m5
+gssdp 0.7.1-0maemo2+0m5
+gst-openmax 0.10.0.6~1-0maemo17+0m5
+gst-plugins-bad0.10 0.10.14-git265-0maemo10+0m5
+gst-plugins-base0.10 0.10.25-0maemo14+0m5
+gst-plugins-good0.10 0.10.16-git276-0maemo14+0m5
+gstreamer0.10 0.10.25-0maemo4+0m5
+gstreamer0.10-plugins-camera 0.79-1+0m5
+gtk+2.0 2:2.14.7-1maemo29+0m5
+gtkhtml3.14 3.24.4-osso18+0m5
+gupnp 0.13.2-0maemo2+0m5
+gupnp-av 0.5.2-0maemo2+0m5
+gupnp-igd 0.1.4-0maemo3+0m5
+hal 0.5.12~git20090219-0maemo7+0m5
+hildon-application-manager 1:2.2.60-1+0m5
+hildon-application-manager-l10n-public 6.0+r7611+0m5
+hildon-control-panel 1:2.2.27-2+0m5
+hildon-control-panel-l10n-public 6.0+r7640+0m5
+hildon-desktop 1:2.2.135-2+0m5
+hildon-fm-l10n-public 6.0+r7483+0m5
+hildon-games-wrapper 1.9.4-5+0m5
+hildon-home 0.3.66-2+0m5
+hildon-input-method 1:2.1.46-1+0m5
+hildon-input-method-framework 1:2.1.56-1+0m5
+hildon-input-method-l10n-public 6.0+r7520+0m5
+hildon-libs-l10n-public 6.0+r7510+0m5
+hildon-status-menu 0.3.34+0m5
+hildon-theme-layout-5 0.15.0-1+0m5
+hildon-thumbnail 3.0.44+0m5
+ke-recv-l10n-public 6.0+r7611+0m5
+kernel 2.6.28-20100903+0m5
+libcanberra 0.14-0maemo4+0m5
+libcomapp 1.8.03-01+0m5
+libconbtui 1.4.3+0m5
+libconic 0.24+0m5
+libdsme 0.60.30+0m5
+libexif 0.6.17-1maemo3+0m5
+libffi 3.0.7-2maemo2+0m5
+libgtkadi 0.7.13-1+0m5
+libgtkmozembed 1.8.7-2.1+0m5
+libhildon 2.2.15-1+0m5
+libhildondesktop 2.1.40+0m5
+libhildonfm 1:2.28.17+0m5
+libhildonmime 2.1.5-1+0m5
+libical 1.43-101+0m5
+libmafw 0.2.2010.06-1+0m5
+libmlocknice 0.1+0m5
+libmodest-dbus-client 4:3.2.5-0+0m5
+libnice 1:0.0.9-0maemo8.0rtc+0m5
+libosso 2.31-1+0m5
+librtcom-telepathy-glib 0.1.49+0m5
+libsoup2.4 2.26.3-0maemo3+0m5
+libunwind 0.99+git20080421-2+0m5
+libwidgetutils 1.4.1-6+0m5
+libwww-perl 5.803-4osso1+0m5
+loudmouth 1.4.1-0osso10+0m5
+maemo-af-desktop-l10n-public 6.0+r7640+0m5
+maemo-maf 5.0+3+0m5
+maemo-mmf 5.0+3+0m5
+maemopad 2.6-3
+maemo-version 5.0update5+0m5
+mafw-gst-renderer 0.2.2010.07-2+0m5
+mafw-iradio-source 0.2.2010.06-1+0m5
+mafw-shared 0.2.2010.06-1+0m5
+mafw-test-gui 0.2.2010.06-1+0m5
+mafw-tracker-source 0.2.2010.06-1+0m5
+mafw-upnp-source 0.2.2010.07-2+0m5
+matchbox-window-manager-2 0.2.89-1+0m5
+mce-dev 1.8.17+0m5
+microb-eal 2.9.5-1.15+0m5
+microb-engine 20091230-1.9.2-6.8+0m5
+mini-rc 0.2.67+0m5
+modest 3.2.13-3+0m5
+obexd 0.18-0maemo5+0m5
+ohm 0.1.2-0maemo33+0m5
+osso-af-utils 2.12-1+0m5
+osso-app-killer 1.33-3+0m5
+osso-filemanager-l10n-public 6.0+r7611+0m5
+osso-games-startup 1.7.49-1+0m5
+osso-gnome-vfs2 2.16.3-2osso11+0m5
+osso-gwobex 0.64+0m5
+osso-rss-feed-reader 1.8.03-3+0m5
+osso-rss-feed-reader-applet 1.7.03-1+0m5
+osso-rss-feed-reader-lib 1.8.01-1+0m5
+osso-system-lock-l10n-public 6.0+r7585+0m5
+osso-uri-l10n-public 6.0+r7510+0m5
+pango1.0 1.24.2-0maemo4+0m5
+pixman 0.16.2-4+0m5
+poppler 0.4.5-5.1etch3maemo1+0m5
+posix-locales 2.7.2-1maemo7-binonly0+0m5
+pulseaudio 0.9.15-1maemo38+0m5
+qt4-x11 4.6.2~git20100224-0maemo1+0m5
+rtcom-eventlogger 1.3-4+0m5
+rtcom-eventlogger-plugins 1.4-1+0m5
+rtcom-eventlogger-ui 1.4-2+0m5
+sapwood 3.1.1-10+0m5
+sqlite3 3.6.14-1maemo3+0m5
+telepathy-farsight 0.0.13-0maemo5+0m5
+telepathy-gabble 0.8.11-0maemo2+0m5
+telepathy-mission-control 5.2.7-0maemo6+0m5
+tetex-bin 3.0-30maemo2+0m5
+tiff 1:3.8.2-11maemo5+0m5
+tinymail 1.1.90-svn4193+0m5
+totem-pl-parser 2.27.2-1maemo2+0m5
+tracker 0.6.95-25maemo1+0m5
+upstart 0.3.8-64+0m5
+wpeditor 3.53-1+0m5
+xkeyboard-config 1.5-2maemo15+0m5
+xorg-server 2:1.6.99.1-0osso20090208.108+0m5
+xserver-xorg-video-fbdev 1:0.4.0-180+0m5

BUGS RESOLVED

Connectivity
* 1635 Eduroam (EAP-TTLS+PAP) WiFi auth
* 4789 ipctest.c input_cb seems to pass a reference to a freed pointer to sscanf
* 5550 Not enough memory in target location" when receiving image from Nokia SU-1B using Bluetooth
* 6502 Control Panel: Cannot change Network mode when Network selection is "Automatic"
* 7843 BH-103 - Annoying Beeps when calling or receiving a phone call or SMS
* 8004 PR1.1 has introduced a battery drain bug (not wifi related)
* 8133 dnsmasq segfaults when connecting to a certain WLAN AP
* 9057 Wifi wont connect to Dlink DI-524 using WEP
* 9117 Wrong IAP set for SFR (France)

Core
* 6088 Very low touchscreen sensivitivity in the area near the left edge of the screen
* 6450 libglslcompiler crashes when fragment shader contains a for-loop
* 7029 Device reboots when trying to connect to WIFI due to Oops in rate_control_get_rate()
* 8268 Unable to authenticate on light.webmoney.ru with user's SSL certificate.

Desktop platform
* 1163 GtkCellRendererText: Can not edit with virtual keyboard
* 2501 Hardware keyboard doesn't switch Input language when pressing Ctrl+Space
* 3659 Changing icon theme requires reboot to be applied correctly
* 4579 HildonWindowClipboardOperation is completely undocumented
* 4608 HildonBanner does not except NULL value for deprecated icon argument
* 4619 Panning and selecting are mutually exclusive
* 4638 HildonPannableArea description should mention mov-mode property
* 4640 hildon_touch_selector_get_active_iter() needed.
* 4658 Documentation: HildonTouchSelectorEntry is unclear about auto-completion/text column
* 4695 HildonAnimationActor defines are passively documented in function descriptions
*get_set_theme_size() has wrong style when created via GtkBuilder
* 4845 Remove Scratchboxism in libosso packaging
* 4851 libosso assumes that all ARM platforms has VFP instructions.
*get
* 5284 HildonPannableArea: size-request-policy property should be deprecated
* 5388 Allow keyboard input to jump to an entry in a list ("type ahead")
* 5421 keys when long pressed should give the blue symbol/number
* 5496 HildonTouchSelector: No hint that there are more items
* 5609 Displays very small fonts (happened once)
* 5716 Popup menus with rounded corners missing transparency
* 5838 Certain directory entries are duplicated (listed twice / doubled)
* 6017 Clicking the dashboard icon highlights it but does not open the dashboard
* 6060 Application manager finishing an installation in background blocks keyboard input
* 6069 Documentation missing on HildonNote vs "Cancel" button
* 6099 Incremental search function is case sensitive for "select objects" dialogue in html form elements like drop-down menus
* 6193 Browser: Tap is treated as input even if device was in standby mode (screen off)
* 6233 HildonPickerButton opens HildonPickerDialog dialog in landscape mode
* 6268 The required #include directives are not documented for Hildon
* 6361 base' and 'more' applications are visible sametime (messed)
* 6494 Can't change desktop Background
*get is around
* 6931 After installation of software last icon in "More..." view has default icon instead of own one
* 7126 Notification messages not displayed when optional "category" not set
* 7285 VKB has strange behavior when using the browser in portrait mode
* 7694 FN/Shift Locks get disabled by inserting a symbol with Sym
* 7852 After every boot the phone switches to the default theme
*e tops last application when on the desktop
* 8069 Cannot see the track time after black fill covers the white time font
* 8390 Fast search on the desktop doesn't work with cyrillic (Ру��кий) layout
*get HildonAnimationActor
* 8958 portrait layout for receiving call shown in landscape mode (-> no Reject button)
* 9059 Status bar icons shown on top of the virtual keyboard.
* 9194 hildon_pannable_area_scroll_to example is wrong (pointer instead of struct)
* 9552 Polish virtual keyboard: Cannot enter CAPITAL chars with diacritical signs

Development platform
*elines
* 7743 libalarm API reference lacks details on time fields
* 8415 MADDE: Cannot install to different directory than the default
* 9430 MADDE: 'mad pkg-config' doesn't recognize comma separated values

Location
* 6284 Documentation in header files inaccurate - what unit does altitude have?

Multimedia
* 5524 PulseAudio clients are muted and hang on exit when media player is playing music
* 5554 Embedded windows media stream (ASF) at omroep.nl doesn't work
* 6365 maemo-xinput-sounds uses all available CPU
* 6506 Hardware keys do not change volume when status menu in foreground & browser in background
* 6792 FM radio transmitter does not play while USB cord is connected
* 6868 Pulseaudio uses cpu constantly after a phone call.
* 7082 mafw-dbus-daemon killed by podcast
* 7133 Shuffle all songs often plays a non-random sequence after the first song
* 7271 Can't change FM TX radio station name
*eos unwatchable
* 7552 fmtx_client should pad station names shorter than 8 chars with spaces
* 7642 Playback of MP3 files might be cut-off at the end after seeking in file
* 8011 Changing volume without unlocking the phone no longer works
* 8172 PR 1.1 Regression: MP4 files with chapters hang playback
* 8396 FM Transmitter displays gibberish text in Radio player

Synchronization
* 6582 exchange sync cant handle certificate exceptions
* 6703 MfE calendar sync causes dummy email sync account to appear
* 8552 URLs in emails from Exchange are parsed incorrectly

System software
* 5530 Device autolock switches on the display
* 5674 Autobuilder fails to use opt-ified packages
* 6746 USB mass storage enabled when connected while device is off
* 7432 /opt and /home/user not cleared after firmware reflash

UI Specification
* 5420 Don't show hildon banner every tap when browsing UPnP shares
* 5516 Image Viewer: Dealing with "occupied" images is confusing
* 7054 Cannot set "Regional Settings" to "English (Australia)" or "English (New Zealand)"

Browser
* 1800 tapping browser rss icon lists two RSS feeds, one from an iframe
* 1801 tapping browser rss icon should list ATOM feed, not just RSS
* 5485 "restart" button after finishing download not localized (in Finnish)
* 5526 Type-to-find behaviour is inconsistent and suboptimal in browser
* 5684 History images do not match actual URLs under them
* 5705 Browser drawing issue in web pages with (multiple?) Flash applets
* 5783 Smooth scrolling not active using arrow keys until current page tapped
* 5829 "Select user name" dialog not finger friendly
* 5945 URL proposals in browser disappear after some hours
* 6066 Sticky shift & Fn not working for Flash text input fields: Impossible to use special characters palette
* 6184 Find on page causes page to reload
* 6269 Can't reuse the name of a bookmark that has been deleted
* 6342 Use Volume hardware key for adjust the device volume instead of zooming a website
* 6396 Zooming is not working right away when link clicked from desktop
* 6598 Browser should display passwords one character at a time like other applications
* 6743 Screen sometimes flickers when scrolling through bookmarks triggers rubber banding
* 6819 High CPU usage for 15 seconds after page loaded (Deleting History helps)
* 7174 specifying "DejaVu Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace,Freemono fonts break pre
* 7235 g_mozilla_parse_env_proxy limits proxy server names to about 20 characters [http_proxy]
* 7335 Browser shows strong font kerning bugs (esp. when zooming)
*e
* 7566 Browser toolbar steals text focus in fullscreen mode when "Auto focus address field" is enabled
* 7567 Browser toolbar steals text focus in fullscreen mode with remapped arrow keys
* 7568 Sites in history overview that were loaded in portrait mode appear distorted
* 7620 Browser process opens ports on all interfaces.
* 7806 Browser crashes while sending a comment to Maemo.org
* 7890 Clicking on webcal:// link does nothing (not even an error dialog)
* 8010 browser repaints after switching from contacts
* 8104 Browser portrait mode makes it stop working after a while
* 8117 Browser doesn't show progress indicator when user selects url from urlbar completion list
* 8252 Browser addressbar refreshes/blanks shortly after new window opens
* 8276 Imported SSL Certificates not recognized after PR1.1
* 8362 Some combination of Maemo 5 + Nokia N900 results in improper onChange callbacks in the maemo browser
* 8385 New browser windows' contents are not updated when page loads in background
* 8606 Cannot scroll web bookmark folders if more than 5 folders
* 8683 Browser crashes when browsing some websites
* 8763 Back yields grayed page
* 8784 Browser crashes while changing system theme
* 8920 MicroB loses first keystroke
* 9362 Page view "unstable" (due to animated GIFs?)
* 9365 Maemo Browser does not honor CSS serif font specifications
* 9460 Disable show images leads to failure in opening links in a new window
* 9555 Only the address bar is visible on the bottom panel

Calendar
* 6431 Alarm setting for Birthday is removed after adding photo to contact
* 6909 Calendar launches automatically at 4:00 each night
* 8169 exported .ics calendars have bad line format (LF for empty lines)
* 8175 Exported calendars lack PRODID properties
* 8463 libcalendar produces AALARM properties containing unescaped CRLF which prevents OSX synchronisation
* 8678 Overdue tasks should be displayed as today's
* 8889 New event in calendar causes crash when using bg_BG locales
* 9048 "Internal Error: Application 'Calendar' closed when importing ics file

Chat & Call & SMS
* 5357 Does not accept GSM (USSD) Codes starting with *#
* 6201 libnice violates Debian packaging policy for description of package "libnice0"
* 6300 :/ in http:// is converted into an emoticon in some cases
* 6641 Sofia-SIP throws 500 Internal Server Error
* 6692 Unable to set a Google Talk account to Away
* 6733 gmail status set to away when skype status set to invisible
* 6769 Can't answer a phone call with a short caller ID
* 6857 USSD codes are not recognized in chat
* 6936 Caller voice gets minced after some time when taking call via SIP
* 7052 Unable to see the sender's phone number used for a received sms
* 7212 Sent text messages are shown as unsent
* 7227 Contact names do not resolve correctly when country code is prefixed.
* 7375 account-plugin-butterfly - delete contacts doesn't work
* 7470 N900 does not support Skype Voicemail Settings
* 7856 Recent Call entries are shown in conversations
* 7886 Tapping 'Task Manager' shows 'Clear Conversation' option while in a conversation
* 7933 Conversation IM window is not responding when Select contact dialog is displayed in background
* 8428 Carrier doesn't stop attempting to send USSD codes that aren't received (automated balance receipt)
* 8441 Messages don't change to "read" status after being read
* 8454 Placing a call in portrait mode gets desktop stuck in portrait mode upon exit.
* 8573 Conversation doesn't respect aspect ratio in avatars
* 8581 Reduce XMPP data packets to save battery
* 8854 Jabber opens unnecessary proxy connections
* 9005 XMPP lacks option to require TLS (vulnerable to MITM attacks)
* 9231 'Open contact card' broken for newly sent SMS

Contacts
* 2962 Not able to open Maps application with contacts location as a search string
* 5510 Contact merge of number dialed manually via Skype fails due to internal error
* 6503 only 2 Lines of Notes are visible in Contacts
* 6945 Skype: merged contact has duplicate phone number
* 7515 List of countries not shown on tapping the country picker button
* 8022 Making a SIP call crashes osso-addressbook
* 8159 Missing direct shortcut to use SIP/Skype again in Recent Calls list
* 8495 "SIP audio" buttons active with no SIP accounts active
* 9010 Merging contacts, unable to select neither as an option in conflict field

Desktop Widgets
* 5894 Play track button doesn't work
*get
*get suddenly starts music after Phone call ends
* 8002 Being offline, RSS Reader tries to connect for refresh unconditionally

Email
* 3387 Modest doesn't fetch GMX IMAP mail (issuing LIST "" instead of LIST "*")
* 4834 Remove deprecated GTK+ symbols
* 4876 Remove libgnomeui dependency
* 4889 Use single GTK+ includes
* 4976 Add option in modest to add/not add new contact when replying to mail
* 5161 Fix some compilation warnings in GNOME version
* 5266 Remove unneeded modest_osso_load_state () calls
* 5267 Remove unused modest-osso-autosave-callbacks.[c/h] files
* 5341 Can't disable email notification - makes notification unusable if you receive lots of mail
* 5417 Delete button greyed out when opening from notification popup
* 5503 Failed outgoing mails when using Nokia Messaging and Exchange
* 5634 Deleted IMAP messages are not expunged
* 5836 POP3 TCP connection is left open leading to locking issues
* 5870 Long emails can't be read - distorted output on screen after scrolling
* 6027 Only require libmodest-dbus-client in maemo platform
* 6048 Volume hardware key works only once; afterwards "Unable to zoom" in list of mail accounts, list of mail folders, New Mail editor
* 6279 Modest is very slow at loading images
* 6541 Polish Subject line violates RFC ("Odp." prefix)
* 6575 Tapping new Email notification does not bring up email message
* 6700 Semicolon in To field should be ignored when sending a message
* 6702 email application does not see folders on imap4 with namespace
* 7139 Replying to an email with non-ascii chars in From cuts name short
* 7485 Email message viewer window refreshes a second time when email opened from Notification icon
* 7718 Unable to save attachment from e-mail without e-mail body
* 8230 cannot move message anywhere
* 8574 Subfolders of Zimbra IMAP server not appearing/not available
* 8604 Type-to-find behaviour is inconsistent and suboptimal in modest

Games
* 3748 Erroneous "Game not started yet" message
* 5276 hildon-games-wrapper crashes in hgw_conf_request_string if gconf key has no value
* 5868 Games do not respect master volume ("sound effects" enabled though)
* 5869 Chess game over dialog button is unreadable in some themes
* 6616 Mahjong: �amigłówka (Confounding cross) does not display high score time in Polish

Images and Camera
* 4053 Confusing behaviour when saving to a file that matches an existing directory
* 6194 Shutter release button does not always work
* 6372 Sometimes photos are not deleted if you delete directly after taking them
* 7060 Sometimes photos are very green
* 7160 Camera app hardcodes and requires FAT partition
* 7394 Some photos are missing EXIF DateTimeOriginal data
* 7758 Daily image counter in photo filenames not incrementing in some cases
* 8087 Photo autorotation issue
* 8310 Image Viewer shows only black screen
* 8698 camera does not have the night mode function
* 8877 Volume buttons should work in camera window when lens cover is not opened

Map
* 5337 Ovi Maps gives up finding GPS lock too soon
* 5391 Virtual keyboard doesn't appear in Maps
* 5905 ovi maps brings up "Select connection" dialog relentlessly
* 9532 Search: can input numbers and other "blue" characters only with -holding- "alt" key

Media player
* 5318 Missing "Remove from Playlist" option
* 5522 Plays next radio station when current station cuts out / has playback issues
* 5805 Album art disappears when next song is played and you unlock the device
*
* 7124 media player loses cover art if song changes while screen is locked
*eo
* 7353 RDS station name should not contain album (esp. when its unknown)
* 7464 mediaplayer treats youtube mp4 urls as audio streams
* 7536 Can't search album titles (GtkIconView) by typing on keyboard
* 7634 Media player volume bar doesn't work when a browser with youtube played is opened in background.
* 7995 Internet radio (ogg) stream metadata not displayed
* 8035 Selecting song in media player doesn't cause song to play
* 8043 AVI Streaming broken. Local playback works fine.
* 8129 Cannot play podcast m4v-file due to issue with qtdemux
* 8189 Strange black box icon in media player's album list
* 8499 Music stops when "low battery" hildon banner is displayed
*eo streams but KMPlayer can
* 8653 Media Player crashed when viewing UPNP contents.
* 9020 Media player crashes when trying to search in ''All songs''
*eo shown, only audio, when streaming over upnp

RSS feed reader
* 304 Automatic proxy configuration URL not obeyed by RSS feed reader

Settings and Maintenance
* 5546 In Certificate manager, "Authorities" title is shown two times
* 5560 Application manager shows "ai_ib_unable_edit" instead of proper, localised string when it has a repository of which it cannot change the details of
* 5746 symlink /var/cache/apt/archives to /home/apt-archives
* 7446 Unlocking SIM card from control panel fails
* 7483 "Enter code for unlocking SIM card"" button visible even if phone is not SIM locked
* 8194 General locale settings for new users does not set the correct locale for text input
* 8696 Search results window is not responding when search dialog is displayed in background
* 9229 Upgrade from PR1.1 to PR1.1.1 produces 'Operation failed' error

Utilities
* 4852 Remove Scratchboxism in wpeditor packaging
* not update after plane journey
* 5824 Maximum number of pseudo terminals too low (4)
* 6351 Context menu isn't thumbable/hildonized - options too small
* 6481 Buenos Aires, Argentina time off by 1 hour
* 6553 Calculator should remember mode setting
* 6882 Deletes file to move if destination filename already exists and choosing to not overwrite
* 8115 Having a modal dialog in background, Alarm dialog blocks entire UI

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