hi i recently got my self a n97 sim free, but i cant figure out how to answer a call with the green touch button? when i get a incoming call i have two arrows scrolling accros the screen in which i can answer but if i press the green button nothing happens? but if i unlock the phone and press the green button it works:con?
answer call?
Ditto.
In fac, got a call today, and was fiddling around trying to unlock it, eventually did that, but was frantically pressing all the buttons on the screen.
At the same time I unlocked it, I also hit the screen - but at that time, the option to 'reject call' came live, so accidentally pressed that and so cut off the call.
Seems a fiddly way to answer an incoming call? Wonder how many more calls I'm going to lose that way? Anyone know of a quick and easy way to answer incoming?
To answer a call you swipe your finger across the screen from left to right on the green bar and to unlock the phone you swipe from right to left on the red bar. You would have thought this would be in the manual, but they don't tell you how to answer calls!!
Funny and people thought the guy on engadget was over reacting on how to answer a call....here is how it works:
Someone calls you and you simply want to answer: swipe green arrow to the right.
Someone calls you and you want to do something OTHER than answer the call: swipe blue arrow left and THEN decide on what to do.
I too had "difficulties" the first few times that I had to answer a call.
Contributing to the difficulty
1. NO CASE -- so this vibrating thing in your pocket is going OFF!
2. Too many buttons switches on the sides of the N97 so you're gingerly holding it to keep from starting the camera applet accidentally.
3. When you finally have it in your hand (while the screen rotation is trying to figure out which way is up), the little animated bars are going two different directions with it still vibrating.
4. You're in a hurry in the first place so the call doesn't roll over to Voice Mail.
TALK ABOUT DISTRACTIONS!
yea i get how to answer the call with the swipe finger option, but i dont understand why the green button is there if u cant answer a call with it? the red end call button works:con? and the green button works when unlocked but im not goin to have it unlocked all the time in my pocket:con? might just be a bug?
if you seriously need to swipe the arrow SIMPLY to answer a call then nokia is plain stupid. you should just be able to press the green button like on the 5800. even when the screen is locked, green answers the call, and you dont have to unlock the phone first. how utterly stupid of nokia.
RogerPodacter wrote:if you seriously need to swipe the arrow SIMPLY to answer a call then nokia is plain stupid. you should just be able to press the green button like on the 5800. even when the screen is locked, green answers the call, and you dont have to unlock the phone first. how utterly stupid of nokia.
i totally agree i just hope this is fixed with firmware
This confused me too - the only time I can remember looking in the manual for instructions on answering a phone!
But now I see the logic behind it; you can answer the phone without unlocking it first but don't accidentally answer while fumbling to get it out of your pocket.
Halon wrote:This confused me too - the only time I can remember looking in the manual for instructions on answering a phone!But now I see the logic behind it; you can answer the phone without unlocking it first but don't accidentally answer while fumbling to get it out of your pocket.
Agree, however i think they "over thought it." Two simple touch buttons on the touch screen would be easier to deal with and make more sense intuitively than sliding arrows.
1 button tap to answer
1 button tap to ignore -> leads to decline call, decline and send message, etc
jim_0068 wrote:Agree, however i think they "over thought it." Two simple touch buttons on the touch screen would be easier to deal with and make more sense intuitively than sliding arrows.1 button tap to answer
1 button tap to ignore -> leads to decline call, decline and send message, etc
Using that system you could easily accidentally tap either of the buttons when the phone is still in the pocket, or when you are removing it from your pocket. The side motion is less likely to be activated unintentionally.
I agree. I think the idea of the slide is that you have to make a substantive action to answer - this is a resistive-touch screen and so could be answered without you even knowing it had rung if it was in your pocket. The addition of the blue slide to offer more options is a bonus.
I may be going soft but the more I think about this the more I like it.
Agree that with the resistive screen there is less possiblity of accidentally with the sliding arrows but as people have seen, it isn't as intuitive.
Does anyone else find it annoying that once you've taken the call, the phone auto locks again😡
:banghead: This was frustrating as straight after the call I had to text someone, yet once the conversation ended, the phone locked and screen went black.
Had to slide the lock... the amount of times I have to slide the lock is ridiculous!! Nokia should have given the option of auto-locking or manual locking the phone😡
my iphone works the same way i believe; not sure about other phones.
I got no problems with answering calls. Figured it out in 3 seconds. And sliding is not so bad. I had many cases then i accidentaly answered calls while having phone in my pocket. I think this problem gone now 😊