There's no new freeware, anywhere. There's nothing happening on forums.
Nothing new on BetaLabs. No new firmware news. Nothing.
I'm bored.
I'm bored
davecozens wrote:There's no new freeware, anywhere. There's nothing happening on forums.
Nothing new on BetaLabs. No new firmware news. Nothing.I'm bored.
LOL! Know that feeling. Just waiting for v20 firmware now really.
Did you download the Cityman App yet? that'll keep you amused for, oh, 5 minutes?!?! 😉
Anyway, you can busy yourself by coming up with that Traffic Widget! 😉
not seen the cityman app... got a link?
(saw the cityman "case"😉
I think this is the calm before the v2x firmware 'storm'.
You could always polish the scratches out of your lens cover... I'll get me coat 😃
davecozens wrote:not seen the cityman app... got a link?(saw the cityman "case"😉
http://blogs.nokia.com/nseries/index.php/2009/09/07/nokia-cityman-competition/
You can also download a PDF so you can build your own Cityman and enter a competition 😊
Just a thought...
Have you all got the latest YouTube v2.2.17 installed?
It allows you to view in full screen and has a Central Bar for navigation of videos, instead of the sidebar right.
Download here:-
http://www.applicationsnokian97.com/youtube-2-2-17-for-nokia-n97/
Just a thought! :idea:
I totally agree, bored bored bored. Might need to buy a new gadget soon if things don't pick up. 😃
davecozens wrote:There's no new freeware, anywhere. There's nothing happening on forums.
Nothing new on BetaLabs. No new firmware news. Nothing.I'm bored.
It appears that Nokia has "perfected" the ideal cell phone lifecycle.
Research has shown that the main reason that people change from one cell phone to another is not due to the phone wearing out (which occurs on an industry average of 18 months), but when they "get bored with it".
Imagine...with customers getting bored in less than 3 months, Nokia will have to come out with a new model on this interval instead of annually--hence the N900!
We should have known that something was up with the N97 when nearly all of the demonstration videos of the N97 spent 90%+ of their time demonstrating how to move "widgets" around the home screen.
I'm not just bored with my N97--I'm tired of doing resets and reinstalling things from scratch multiple times in an effort to just get things working like they were advertised.
Add to that the disappointment that the basic software with the N97 doesn't even come close to the functionality of the software my 9300 had.
Gee whiz...!
Children, children, children.
There's still things you can do with your toy...
Have you got the latest version of Fring (v3.40(28))?
or the calendar widget with homescreen, comingNext, now on version 1.20.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/comingnext/
See... you can still play... :bebored:
That ones been linked from my freeware site for ages now...
Don't need fring, get 8 hours of calls on my tarriff...
I think I'm just disillusioned with the phone cos of hardware issues so I'm just not as enthused as I was about my n95.
They'd best do something staggeringly good in october...
davecozens wrote:I'm bored.
Well here's something that should liven up your evening. I've started having major problems with my N97 now. Two months late, mind, but this is one of those times where the phrase "Better late than never" certainly doesn't apply! 😡
Start of last week saw the dreaded "won't boot up with a microSD card inserted" problem develop. After reading on the forums, I backed up the music from my card, formatted it with the phone and put my music back on it. Sure enough, it started booting fine again.
During the week, Nokia Photos decided to set all of my sent and received messages to the same date and time every time I synch'd my phone, which is pretty much useless for me!
Saturday, it wouldn't let me download a video from the BBC iPlayer so I decided to restart the phone and try again... it wouldn't come back on, even without the microSD card removed. Just had a white screen, with "Nokia" written on it, staring back at me. I had to do the vulcan neck pinch on it to get it working again. After a couple of hours of sorting out settings and apps, it was back to normal again (with an extra 30Mb free on C:\ - "Sorted!" I thought).
Today I tried to load the Daily Dilbert app and it just presented me with a white screen. "FFS" I thought, so I restarted... and bam! It's done it again! Hard reset the phone again and tried to restore a complete backup from my memory card (which I'd made after the last time, in case it happened again). Three hours it was sat at "Preparing to restore..." before I gave up!
I figure that it's something on the Mass Memory that's causing the problems because it's the only thing that I haven't formatted recently. I'm currently in the process of backing up everything from mass memory and the memory card to my PC, before formatting each and every drive and starting from scratch!
Firmware v20 can't come sooner...
Doesn't liven up my evening, but it's sure as hell spoiling yours... 😞
I've only ever had to moan about hardware issues.
Last "hard" reset--I went through the trouble to format the E: drive (Mass Memory).
Because nothing has been solved, I still have not reloaded any music (a two-hour process for the 2.1 GB of songs).
I've even been putting off buying programs for my N97--since if I have to return it for a replacement, I'd have to go through all the trouble of getting new activation codes.
Thus...things are at a stand-still until Nokia comes out with v20 firmware and we all see if "the third time's a charm".
You know if we had a decent e-book reader we could at least read while waiting for the firmware fixes. I've tried Steve Litchfield's "kluge" shoe-horning of an alternate Mobireader version and I've even tried the iSilo trial, but neither of those is as functional as Mobireader was on my 9300.
davecozens wrote:That ones been linked from my freeware site for ages now...Don't need fring, get 8 hours of calls on my tarriff...
I think I'm just disillusioned with the phone cos of hardware issues so I'm just not as enthused as I was about my n95.
They'd best do something staggeringly good in october...
Oh well... I tried my best. Sorry!
I know what you mean about it going quiet on the N97 front.
Nothing happening, or new, on any of the sites I visit.
Perhaps, as mentioned, this is the lull before the storm when version 2.0 is unleashed upon us in all its glory and we experience an epiphany into what Nokia intended for the N97 all along...
or it could be just another giant balls up!
Hey, ho!
davecozens wrote:There's no new freeware, anywhere. There's nothing happening on forums.
Nothing new on BetaLabs. No new firmware news. Nothing.I'm bored.
Same. Was just writing down all the things i need to restore eg apps themes, Access point settings etc before I do a full *#7370* reset and then maybe a product code change or just a reinstall of everything.
I've got the phantom C: drive muncher, despite clearing apps from C:, clearing cache, privacy data and emptying out SMS messages and anything else I can delete from C: there is something that has eaten up around 15-20MB and now I end up getting memory errors at around 4MB free, despite not even running Nokia Messaging and other things that tend to eat up C:
"phantom C: drive muncher"
That's a very good description.
After my last hard reset and reinstallation, taking great pains to put things on the E: drive, I had a nice 41.1 MB on C:.
Then something came along and I'm down to 32.7 MB.
I've purged the browser cache and used X-browser with the safetys off and can't find what took it away.
Maybe the drive needs to be defragged?
Maybe it's an OS memory leak?
rdcinhou wrote:Maybe the drive needs to be defragged?
Maybe it's an OS memory leak?
Sounds like it could be the case.
Just did a product code change to Euro 1 from UK Sim Free, knowing my luck v12 will be out this week.
Used NSS after a factory reset and didnt get the much mentioned white screen which was a result, although the phone did switch off and sit there charging instead so I had to turn it back on.
Well, here's my �0.02p's worth...
The phone has been really annoying me today, you know the usual...not tidying up after it self, leaving the cap off the toothpaste, not rinsing breakfast bowls caked with Weetabix...
Seriously, the lock key has been driving me mad. Press it down to unlock, and the screen goes blank, press it again and it lights up, but it locked, and this cycle keeps going. Have to 'unlock' it about five times.
The new email indicator still stays on top right corner even after reading all my new emails.
Flip it open, and the screen takes a-g-e-s to come to life.
Anyone know when the new FW is out? And with a vested interest in Apple / Mac now if V20 or V2.0 whatever it's called, know if it will address the iSync issue?
Some days it works really well. Other days, I'm just frustrated.
davecozens wrote:There's no new freeware, anywhere. There's nothing happening on forums.
Nothing new on BetaLabs. No new firmware news. Nothing.I'm bored.
Did you check out the theme effects thread over on Symbian Freaks?
This has kept me busy/entertained for days.........
Barrie
I think the problem is, we are all too used to symbian and nokia's, it has got boring, even the change to touch hasn't made the N97/symbian sparkle and a firmware update won't cure that.
Me, I sold my N97 and bought an iPhone 3gs, (although I still have an E52 as well)
I don't regret it at all, it does what it says on the box, and it just feels modern, new and shiny, and it syncs with my Mac. The email client is fantastic, I actually use it more than mail on my Macbook now.
I have been using Symbian phones since the 7650 in 2002, but in their current guise the E52 will be the last one I will own.
I am sure general consumers will keep Symbian alive, but for a tech geeks (until the next versions of Symbian arrive), the future is Apple, Android and Maemo
you could be right... my n97 just isn't fun any more...
biggest problem for me right now is I just CBA to install anything this side of the new firmware. plus at some point i'll be getting the phone replaced again on account of lens scratches...
but even so, the ecosystem is just really quiet. I mean tumbleweed quiet.
it's really disconcerting...
Has anyone banged their head against the latest Nokia Messaging - IM Beta yet?
Then again, it was released yesterday so it's old news.
matthewrleech wrote:Has anyone banged their head against the latest Nokia Messaging - IM Beta yet?Then again, it was released yesterday so it's old news.
D'oh! It's not for the N97 😃
I've got few scratches on my screen which are annoying me. Do you reckon I'll be able to wangle a new phone on the account of my scratched lense? What's the best way to go about it?
I reckon I'll be excited about the phone again if I can get a nice shiny screen back 😃
I'm not entirely sure how I got mine replaced, truth be told.
I've made a lot of fuss. In a lot of directions. I've emailed various important looking Nokia emails: -
[email][email protected][/email]
[email][email protected][/email]
[email][email protected][/email]
[email][email protected][/email];
[email][email protected][/email]
I've used the online contact forms on the Nokia website and I started the petition.
I had calls out of the blue from both the Nokia helpline and Anovo. Anovo eventually sent me a shiny new phone, but not without trying to fob me off with a refurb first.
So now I have a 2 week old N97, with a scratched lens instead of a 3 month old N97 with a scratched lens. Doesn't really seem worth the effort until the lens issue is sorted...
*sigh*