[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.  

Nokia to ship Qt 4.6 with PR1.2, replace Qt 4.5

Some welcome news for all Qt on Maemo developers out there: Nokia intends to deploy the currently in Beta Qt 4.6 to all devices via software update — most probably already with the next major update PR1.2. Currently, Qt 4.6 (available from extras-devel) is completely optified and resides in /opt/qt4-maemo5. That will change with PR1.2, where it will move to the rootfs, replacing the community-supported Qt 4.5. What does this mean for Qt applications?

- Qt 4.6 applications : If all goes well, nothing needs to be done. Deployed applications should pick up the libraries in /usr. You might need to edit your build scripts so they won’t look in /opt/qt4-maemo5/bin if you’re using qmake.

- Qt 4.5 applications : This one is trickier. Qt 4.6 is neither API nor ABI compatible with Qt 4.5. This means that you’ll need at least a recompile, and probably also source code modifications if you’re doing anything Maemo5-specific. Qt 4.5 applications on device will stop working until there is a Qt 4.6-based update available.

So all you Qt 4.5 users out there, install libqt4-maemo5-dev in scratchbox and start porting.

Via : sjaensch.org

Coming Soon in the Next N900's Major Update ! Have a look at PR1.2 SDK !

It seems that the PR1.2 SDK has been put up, so you can expect what you'll get in the next n900's firmware ^^

1- Virtual keyboard has been redone.

2- Menu is now rearrangable, and there is no more "More..."  

3- Clear device is back in Settings.  

4- The gap in the menus and status bar have been removed (top gap) - Edit: Might be SDK specific since the status bar isn't exactly the same as on the device.  

5- Browser now has a back button, history view is accessible using the gesture.  

6- Enable rotation is now an option in Settings (Browser).  

7- Volume buttons can be set to change volume only in browser.  

8- User Guide accessible in the browser from a main menu shortcut.  

9- Media player has a play button icon instead of the moving bars (bottom right area)  

10- Ovi Store link in "Change background" and "Themes" area.  

11- Browser seems much much snappier, scrolling is quick and rendering is uber quick! Not sure if this is related to the much faster processor but the gecko engine was updated.

12- File manager has a share option for all files.  

13- Video call option can now be enabled in contacts, SMSs to landlines can be disabled, voicemail number can be set.  

Stay tuned over this thread !

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
===============================================

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

Via : www.sygysweb.nl

[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 ;)

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 !

[How To] Overclock your N900's CPU over 600Mhz?

As posted yesterday, maemo (great) community have managed to set up CPU clock speed over 600Mhz, let's see how to do it in a few simplified steps :

1- Make sure your battery is fully charged !

2- Download one of those modded Kernels (choose the speed you want to use) :

125 - 900mhz kernel. (Tested to give best results in terms of speed for a normal usage situation).

125 - 825mhz kernel.

125 - 800mhz kernel.

125 - 750mhz kernel.

125 - 700mhz kernel. (Probably the safest to try if your only looking for a slight speed increase)

125 - 600mhz kernel.

125 - 930mhz , 500mhz DSP (stock 430mhz DSP)

Or download the full package over here !

3- Make sure you put the kernel file into the maemo flasher folder on your pc so the flasher can find the file, in windows it's usually at C:\Program Files\maemo\flasher-3.5

4- Set up your N900 to flashing mode :

+ Switch off the N900
+ Press and hold down the 'u' key
+ Connect a USB cable between the N900 and host PC while holding down the 'u' key
+ When the USB cable is connected, it powers the N900 and sets it to flashing mode
+ When the USB icon appears in the upper right-hand corner, the N900 is in flashing mode
+ Release the 'u' key
.
Ps : more about flashing procedure over here

5- Run maemo flasher as admin (Still on windows) then run the command :

flasher-3.5.exe -k zImage-900mhz -f -R

(Of course, note that you'll have to change the zimage-900mhz to whatever kernel your using ie zimage-800mhz or zimage-700mhz)

6- it should take approx 10 seconds max, you're done !

Please note you do this at your own risk and there are risks involved, please do research before flashing your kernel on your N900 and only do this if you are sure you know what you're doing , if you don't i advise not doing it at all. 

By using the custom overclocked kernels, you agree that you take full responsibility if there is any damage caused by the flash.

In most cases, the N900 will not die and should be at least able to be reflashed to the stock kernel if it is unstable overclocked.

These modded Kernels will make the about page say unknown for the hardware and software, so personally, i'll wait for the PR1.2 before overclocking mine :) 

Update :

You'll just need to do some additional steps to bring it back so that you can still normally use automatic firmware updates in the future:

- launch X Terminal
- type sudo gainroot (you need the rootsh package installed)
- type apt-get install --reinstall mp-fremantle-generic-pr
- if asked for confirmation press Y and Enter
- when done reboot the N900 

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 ;)

Alarmed : Scheduling App (supports automatic GPRS data counter resetting)

Alarmed is a small (???) App that acts as a GUI front-end to maemos alarmd scheduler back-end. It's written in python and uses the PySide bindings to Qt. (PySide is under heavy development at the moment and is both unstable and unreliable. A major new release is expected within weeks or months which will fix some of the knows issues with Alarmed.)

Alarmed enables you to do things like:

- Set a command to be executed at specific intervals (every minute, hourly, on specific weekdays, on last day of month etc...)
- Set recurring alarms
- Reset the GPRS data counter at a specific day every month or at the end of the month
- More stuff like this

 

 

WARNING: This is very much alpha: It crashes, has bugs, and it might do weird things (including - however unlikely - completely bricking your device). Do NOT use it if you expect it to work properly. Also read everything in this post before installing it! All of the known issues I can't do anything about except possibly workaround, as they're caused by bugs in PySide and pymaemo.

Planned future features:

- Support for intervals in seconds/minutes/hours etc.
- Better list of current items (waiting for new PySide release because of missing functions)
- Built-in functions for switching to the "General" or "Silent" profiles respectively
- Check if command is valid, possibly support for command line arguments
- Built-in function for sending SMS/Email

Known issues/bugs:

- Long startup time: Due to the current PySide implementation (boost). Will get much better once the new release is out (called Shiboken).
- Segfault (crash) after opening "New Event" or "Edit" three times or more: Bug in PySide, sorry
- Slightly weird banners: Bug in PR1.1 Qt, will be fixed in PR1.2 Qt.
- Adding a D-Bus call does not work: Bug in pymaemo, can't do anything about that.
- Command exec does not support command line arguments. Restriction in alarmd. You'll need to write a script and put it somewhere to execute a command with arguments.

More details over here !

[MeeGo Harmattan] TweakUp your media sharing experience !

As you know, due to the aim of getting the N9 DLNA-certified, developers had to introduce some restrictions.

One of the most annoying limitation from an end user point of view is that you can’t share arbitrary videos or music which you may have put on your device.

Another, though minor, issue is that it’s not possible to change the name shown in UPnP or DLNA clients on the network.

If your phone is on PR1.2, TweakUp enables you to tweak some of the N9's media sharing options, such as


- Enabling/disabling audio transcoding
- Setting the name of the device on the network
- Sharing of all media files, even those without DLNA profiles
- Enabling/disabling uploading
- Setting a home access point

Maenotify : last missed calls and sms on the screen when it's locked !

Like in the upcoming PR1.2, maenotify shows the last three missed calls/sms (with names of contact) when the device is locked, without requiring to unlock it.

Nice huh? ;)

[MeeGo Harmattan] Things that drive me crazy on the N9 !

Hi Guys, happy new year !

This post is simply about some features that if correctly implemented, it'll make the N9 more reliable and productive utility ! And Frankly, coming from an N8 and an N900, i'm badly missing some essential features that need to be reconsidered by Nokia folks and management team and some nasty bugs that make other alternatives more reliable for daily tasks, i mean why should have an N9 with those bugs if my N8 and N900 (and iPhone 4) just work as expected?!

I'll list the most critical ones that annoy me, you can check out bugzilla and fill your own bugs or feature requests ;) Some feature request were stated as "wontfix", you'll find reasons after bug description !

By priority !

* Call Bug : Blank Seconds (Bug 118)

* Make phone and sms applications on High priority processes (Bug : 533)

* No graphical equalizer or Bass boost setting on music player (Bug : 504)


* Nokia Suite support for N9 : (Bug 117)

Agreed. Nokia Link does not provide some features that Nokia Suite provided.
Unfortunately, Nokia Suite support is not planned for N9. However, your
feedback has been put forward to the management.

I would recommend you to directly use WLAN on your phone to download maps.
As for the sending/viewing text messages, phone is the way to go :)


* No support for zip/rar files (Bug 308)

* Emails bugs :

- Remove notification of new email when marked read on the server ( bug : 152 )
- Messageserver with high CPU utilization and mail is not sync'd ( bug : 198 )
- Email Client doesn't recognize phone numbers ( bug : 502 )
- Email file manager don't find a file i want to attach ( bug : 503 )
- Back to homescreen when Delete email from the lockscreen pop up (Bug 403)
- search on server support missing (Bug : 506)

* Flash support and web browser enhancements...

* Automatic Contact birthdays Sync on calendar (Bug 158)

Thanks for the report. It has been already fixed internally and will be available in future updates.


* Better use of the notification light (Bug 389) :

Thanks for your feedback.

Unfortunately this is the behavior by design that LED notifications would be
redundant and just consume power. Of course it could be useful to have led
notifications if Low Power Mode(LPM) is disabled, but there are no plans to
change this intentional behavior. Most people will be happy with LPM. Thanks.

* Skype & video call (Bug 309) :

Thanks for your feedback. But unfortunately, there are no plans to support

* Smart dialing (Bug 505) :


Search application is actually pretty fast and list you all the possible
options. Also the contacts icon is just beside the dialler and does not any
additional traversal. Unfortunately there are no plans to change this behavior
by design. However thanks for your valuable input.

* No sharing option available in the Music Player (bug : 92) :

Thanks for your feedback. This behavior is intentional as we do not intend to
encourage the distribution of music files from our apps.


* Play Video, Music and Pictures to DLNA clients/TVs (Bug 405)




* Get rid of "SMS" option to landlines numbers (Bug 404)



* Tapping on a message in search results doesn't open the message itself  ( bug : 124 )


* Facebook/Twitter notifications (Bug 310)

Ps : Some of bugs listed above are already fixed or under consideration, let's hope the most critical ones will be a part of the next PR1.2 as really the experience was a lot iPhone-like dumbed (even more) and if i want a dumbed "smart"phone, thanks i have already an iPhone and with a lot of application and tweaks that keep me forgetting its limitations...

And you? Are you facing some nasty bugs that annoy your user experience? Or Having some feature requests? Vote for the existing ones or create your owns, share your experience :)

[MeeGo Harmattan] The beginning of the end for the N9 : Harmattan Bugzilla Closed for New Bugs !

N9 Developer states the following :

In November 2011, we opened a public Bugzilla to interact with the N9 user community and receive end user bug reports and enhancement requests. To this date, we have received over 1100 bug reports. We thank you for the active contribution.

At this point of the product lifecycle, we have identified the major issues to be addressed in the upcoming software updates beyond the PR1.2 release. While we will continue to address issues already reported, we are unable to accept any new requests in Bugzilla.

The Harmattan Bugzilla will remain as read only for some time. However, we will continue to process the bug reports already in Bugzilla.

We kindly request you to continue further Harmattan developer discussions, bugs and other topics under developer.nokia.com. We hope to receive your continued support and help us further improve the quality of N9 software.

In a word ! DAMN !

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/

[Leaks] N9 (N950) PR1.2 upcoming update Screenshots !

As stated here, PR 1.2 is more about new features (more than fixes) and here we go with some leaks at what we should get ;)

Added a button to manage applications

The buttons have a new style

On display there is a new option settings Colour Profile

Settings Gallery has a new option for face recognition

 menu to display an image color change and has a new option "Insert face"

video recording interface has added an icon to turn on/off the LED flash

The camera interface now has separates flash options

Via : phonesfera

[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 ;)

[How To] Use Automatic Firmware Updates With An Overclocked N900 !

Unless you're living under rocks, you know already How to overclock the N900 but as i stated that these modded Kernels will make the about page say unknown for the hardware and software, so personally, i'll wait for the PR1.2 before overclocking mine...

Forget about that !

You'll just need to do some additional steps to bring it back so that you can still normally use automatic firmware updates in the future:

- launch X Terminal
- type sudo gainroot (you need the rootsh package installed)
- type apt-get install --reinstall mp-fremantle-generic-pr
- if asked for confirmation press Y and Enter
- when done reboot the N900

Now the Settings/About window will show correct version information and firmware updates will work as usual !

Via : my-symbian