This is wierd. Most of the time, with the N93 closed, I press the power button but then have to 'open the fold' to select a new profile. Yet sometimes, and only sometimes, I immediately get the chance to select a new profile in the external display!
Why some times and not others? Any clues?
Steve
With mine i can usually select the profile on the front display, sometimes i have to open the phone. The new firmware didn't change that.
When my N93 is closed, a short press of the power key, as far as I can tell, always brings up the profile menu (on the external display).
When you don't see it, do you have some other app running/active (Visual Radio, Music player, or anything)?
Nope. It just happens sometimes. I think it's a S60/N93 bug, personally.... but I'd love to be proved wrong.....
Steve
I also get this! It happens once in a while but it's really really annoying because even though it says Open flip to continue, it's still working as normal... which means if you hold it down, it'll change profiles to whatever your first one is.
The first time I had it, I tried closing everything, changing themes, changing profiles and restarting... that got it to work.
When I had it today though, I couldn't get rid of it for ages... changed themes several times, restarted several times, etc... but I also did things like keep the phone lid closed whilst turning on, only to turn it on when it said that I needed to open it to unlock, etc... and that did it.
As for f/w version- I'm running 11. I wonder if it still exists in 20.
Also, wasn't running any programs at the time. I thought it might be because I was using the media player...
The problem still exists with the new version, but it doesn't happen very often anymore.
I have had my N93 for a few months now. The power button always worked fine, when I pressed it it always displayed the profile menu on the ouside (2 lines of text, controlable with the outer joystick). It absolutely never failed.
After these few months I noticed the phone got slow without any warning. One day it just simply woke up slow. I mean slow. The menu button could take as long as 2 minutes to take me to the menu. Starting a new SMS message could take as much as 1 minute. And various other slow operations like activating the camera and many others like redrawing (which made the display look corrupt).
I took a look at the process list and it was huge. I took out the memory card and restarted. It seemed fast again (not as fast as when I bought it, but much faster anyway). I formatted the card (all applications on it were lost including various games and tools). Never mind, it was for a good cause.
It worked ok for a few days (no significant delays in operation), then it started to get slow again. Not as slow as before, but slower anyway. I remembered how it seemed fast to me when I bought it when compared to my (previous) 6630 (more than twice the speed when going through menus and messages). So I compared them again, the 6630 won.
So I checked for a firmware upgrade. No use, I already had the most recent (20.0.058). Nevertheless something had to be done. I upgraded the firmware anyway (to the same version, so not really an upgrade).
After it was complete I was again amazed with how faster (than my 6630) it is. It seemed to completely recover speed up to the original (the fastest I had ever see it go) even with the memory card inserted. I was happy.
This feeling lasted for about 2 days, since I have just now discovered that I got the power button bug. I am now unable to display the profile menu on the outside screen. And, as already described in this thread, when I do it it is being operated on the inside (the external joystick doesn't work). This is very anoying since I had already grown acustumed to it in movies and the like.
I don't know what to do. It seems like you guys already gave up, since the latest post dates back to 2006. I checked the version I installed, and it is also the 20.0.058. Maybe I'll take it to the shop tomorrow, the waranty is still valid.
I had been strugling all night to get the the profile menu to work on the outside display. I tried averything I could remember, from modifying profiles to changing themes. This process also included about 30 restart operations under all kinds of different combinations of things I could remember. This was very frustrating, so after all that experimentation I wrote the previous post (a few minutes ago).
I was getting ready to go to bed and I was powering down the phone. The flip was closed, and I already knew that the profile menu was operating inside, so I just pressed the power button twice (because I knew from experience that that shuts down the phone) and it turned off as expected. I then had this strange feeling... I hadn't tried this exact combination before (selecting the shutdown option with the flip closed). I always opened it to see what was inside. What if... ?
So I went back and turned on the phone again (with the flip closed). After the startup I pressed the power button. Can you guess what happened? The profile menu was shown on the outer display! I canceled and did it again to see if I just got lucky or something. Nope, not luck. The menu was there. I turned the phone off and then back on and the profile menu still shows on the outer screen when I press the power button. It never failed.
I got suspicious and repeated the experiments with an opened flip. The menu was displayed on the inside, of course. After several such successful experiments I went back to closed flip experiments. They all worked fine! I tried several other combinations of open/closed flip and it always worked perfectly!
I am happy again.