[lgkahn1]

installed n97 v 2.0 nam version

installed great.. didnt even delete all apps or loose most settings..

some issues

1. the fm transmitter app seems to be gone.. although in settings you can set the channel etc. and you can enable it from the music player.  But the music player is not the only apI use it from ... what gives.. doesnt nokia think we use the fm transmitter for anything else..

2. performance.. maybe to save memory or something but multi-tasking is not as smooth.. when i run the audible book player at the same time while garmin is running it stutter every few minutes.. this did not happen with older f/w... it doesnt happen with garmin and the music player so does anyone know how to raise the priority off apps so i can raise it for the audible player.. fm transmitter seems stronger than old f/w maybe they raised the output power.

some big files in the install directory on c drive you can delete liek ms exchange 2 meg and other directories have the preinstalled **bleep** like spore, etc. that you can remove to get another 3 or meg free.

need to use xplore that lets you look in the private directory..

[lgkahn1]

also not sure how to get sip working.. gizmo will still not install...

[rasmus]

- SIP aka 'Internet Calling' is missing...Again.  Could have sworn I heard that Nokia Rep in a video saying it was added back in.

- Skype - where is it? give me the link, i would love to download it.  What kiils me is this is a working available app that is being held back for some silly reason and the only ones it affects are the users whom bough the phone. 

- Need to reboot phone to load Music file to be added from removable Storage - it does not seem to do its own search for music, nor could I find the 'search for music' option on the context menu.

- MP4 (h.264) video files only play audio - strange part is that a thumbnail is generated of the video. Why Real Player and not VLC or MPlayer....RP is garbage, so 1992.  It would be nice to have a video player that plays video from this decade.

- Still no way to remove Boingo and all those useless apps to free up the precious space on C Drive.

- Not a big deal, but it seems that some ring tones are gone - like the simple 'ring ring' tune.

- Ovi store is better - but it would be nice you could get more than 11 items per page.

- Still no soft keyboard we saw way back in February?

- On the home screen, all the status icons on the top right are still all gimped together in a messy tangle (wifi, bt, gps, mail icon, voicemail etc) - cant these be spread out like on the apps menu? It looks terrible!

- All these new widgets there was so much talk about?

- In the apps folder there are normal sized icons as before then HUGE icons like facebook - whats up with that? 

- HTML mail still not supported in the Mail Client - and OVI Mail is terrible and not an option, not to mention going through a 3rd party to retrieve mail makes no sense.  Cant we just get a slightly improved mail client? it is almost 2010 after all.

- Home screen - why not use a little more of the usable space such that the info displayed has a little more room to actually be relevant and readable, seems to be a lot of wasted space. like the separate clock/date/profile.  Surely there is a tighter way to display everything.  The profile can be changed by hitting the power button....

- Calendar Widget - why not show the next few events even if they are two or three days away instead of displaying "next entry on XXX" - sort of makes it pointless the way it is.

- Maps - why not throw us N97 users a bone and give us a free licence for OVI maps for say a year to make up for the wool that was pulled over our eyes when we all purchased this expensive 'flagship' phone that still does not have the advertised options on it.  The way i see it, a phone is good for 1 year, and I'm going on month 5 where today after the upgrade does it seem we're coming out of BETA.

- Camera lens still gouges itself, so I am afraid to open the cover to test the camera unless I really really need to take a photo. 

[lgkahn1]

actually i spoke too soon.. i did get sip working.. it is integrated into the phone you just have to manually configure it.. see my other posting..

[delbarto]

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rasmus wrote:

- HTML mail still not supported in the Mail Client - and OVI Mail is terrible and not an option, not to mention going through a 3rd party to retrieve mail makes no sense.  Cant we just get a slightly improved mail client? it is almost 2010 after all.

- Home screen - why not use a little more of the usable space such that the info displayed has a little more room to actually be relevant and readable, seems to be a lot of wasted space. like the separate clock/date/profile.  Surely there is a tighter way to display everything.  The profile can be changed by hitting the power button....

- Calendar Widget - why not show the next few events even if they are two or three days away instead of displaying "next entry on XXX" - sort of makes it pointless the way it is.

- Maps - why not throw us N97 users a bone and give us a free licence for OVI maps for say a year to make up for the wool that was pulled over our eyes when we all purchased this expensive 'flagship' phone that still does not have the advertised options on it.  The way i see it, a phone is good for 1 year, and I'm going on month 5 where today after the upgrade does it seem we're coming out of BETA.

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Like my thoughts...

[joelang]

Accuweathers screwed

[marcbyron]

V2 is nice. I love the new scrolling. Very iPhone like.

What's still not working are the photos that are not showing up. I can find them using file explorer, but they are not showing up using the photo app or photo browser.

Also, I still can't remove broken images

[tpharaoh]

So you got SIP working?  I saw the manual conf there before, but still didn't do anything... so now it has an internet call option?

backing up, will upgrade soon

[lgkahn1]

photos are working on mine.. I had this same problem on my sons 5800 to resolve it

1. backup the images and video directories from phone memory ,, e drive and any micro sd card you have to computer

2. delete the images and vidoe directories  and reboot phone..

3. run images app an dnothing should be there. take a picture and run again see if it works if not do a hard reset..

4. if it is working put the diretories back on the phone .. reboot and run the photo app again it should find them.

[j2001m]

on a small note ovi store is now not working right you can only move up and down using the bar un-like beofre when you was able to use the full screen

[jeanf8043]

Bloody well put! Couldn't have put it better myself. Well done.

[lgkahn1]

probably needs a new version as it already had knetic scrolling built. in .. interesting does this means app that already had it are broken in general.. no because photo browser still works.

[rasmus]

I'll be the first to admit - the scrolling is great. Period.

To wait 5 months for a phone to scroll properly is insanity.  I think everyones expectations are so shot that we are happy with the menus scrolling correctly.  Thats not a feature folks - that should be there from day 1.  I am more concerned what is in those menus and I am not impressed.

Now that we can navigate around the phone lets see some of these 'connecting the world' features one might expect in one of the most expensive business phones on the market: SIP, Skype, HTML Email, a fast browser, a camera that does not mutilate itself.  The only thing i am starting to feel connected with is Android, WinMo and Apple.

Alas, as usual my rant i am sure will fall on deaf ears.  Next time I'll speak with the only power I have, who gets what is in my pocket book. 

[houz]

rasmus totally agree with you!

[notty72]

wheres the option to delete songs in music its gone its also a bit of a pain to edit things such as artists as if there is more than one song you have to edit the artist on each of the songs you used to be able to edit the artist and it would change it in all the songs but now have to do each song.

[marcbyron]

lgkahn.

I backed up all photos to my PC. Deleting the images didn't work at first. I removed the video and images folders from both the E-Drive and memory card, restarted the phone and went back to the photo app. All thumbnails were still there, but the images were not.

Then I did a hard reset and restored the photos from the PC back to the phone. Now they are all in the "Downloads" photo and all have today's date. All original date information was lost.

Any idea of how to revert back to the original dates the photos were taken?

[navio1973]

As first impression, it is faster.

@Rasmus: Good job about the your list, specially about the sip and skype.

I saw that there some new settings in settings->connectivity->admin. settings but it could be nice to know for what they are useful.

Someone tried vlingo?

[danniiffxi]

ok so to sum up everyones comments on this page...

the scrolling is nice, but thats all nokia really fixed lol

i have V11 on mine,, skype works fine and Vlingo works perfectly aswell!!

i dont see much point in updating

Message Edited by danniiffxi on 27-Oct-2009 11:06 PM

[soldierwbeard]

Voip does not work for me.I tried to manually configure but there is no way to add a profile to net settings....So i feel like a bit cheated.My wife's nokia n95 has native voip and even with v2 firmware i dont..

[rasmus]

soldierwbeard: see my post on the manual:

/discussions/board/message?board.id=smartphones&thread.id=172997