Re: N9/N950 Contacts/IM - Get help & give feedback here
 

Thanks for participating on the forums like this. I've had the N9 for about 4 days and I'm liking it alot (coming from an N900).

One thing I do miss is having shortcuts to specific contacts on the desktop that easily show if they are online or not (like the N900 had for Gtalk, Skype, etc). Any chance we will see contacts shortcuts with status indicators in the apps or notifications screens (a photo icon, overlayed with a green dot for 'online' status, for example) in a future update so I don't have to leave a window open in task switcher to see them?

Re: N9/N950 Contacts/IM - Get help & give feedback here
 

Hey Drekkie, thanks for the feedback

as far as I know, the feature you're requesting might come to a later update, but not an immediate one (again, this is not an official statement from Nokia :) ). However, doing a third party app which does just that should be trivial:
1. List all the contacts (a simple QContactFetchRequest does that), showing for each contact the QContactAvatar and the QContactDisplayLabel
2. When the user selects a contact, create a desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications (you'll also find the bookmarks created from the browser there), that calls openContactCard(contact.localId) on com.nokia.contacts

Low hanging fruit for a third party app developer :)

Re: N9/N950 Contacts/IM - Get help & give feedback here
 

I was thinking of getting started with QT and you may have given me my first project (but please don't let my "learning experience" stop a more seasoned developer from doing this before then lol).

Thanks for the info.

Re: N9/N950 Contacts/IM - Get help & give feedback here
 

Hey! Thanks so much for setting up a thread like this, its great to know that you guys take into account community feedback.

Anyways, I too have migrated from the n900 to the n9. Absolutely love it, but I was wondering, back on the n900, if you had Skype setup on the phone, it gave you the option to call any number in your contacts via Skype. It seems on the N9, only contacts you have added on Skype will show up as callable via Skype... as opposed to any number you have in your contacts. Am I missing something in the setup, or is this not possible via the N9?

Thanks

Re: N9/N950 Contacts/IM - Get help & give feedback here
 

Hmm, I have a skype (and a sip) account, and contacts with a phone number are callable via skype. The contact card shows a first button for "normal" calling/texting, and then I have a section called "Services" which has two buttons, one for calling via skype and one via sip. I'm not running "1.0" but the update that you'll receive later this year, however I'm pretty sure it was also like that in 1.0. Maybe someone can confirm? Maybe also check in the setting of your skype account (on the N9, in the "Accounts" app) if there's a knob there to activate that.

Many of the people behind the N9 are open source hackers, so community is our element :-) We are happy to act on feedback as far as our internal restrictions allow.

Re: N9/N950 Contacts/IM - Get help & give feedback here
 

Thanks for the quick response! I double checked the knobs in the accounts setting area, and phone lines are indeed enabled. However for my friends who do not have a skype account, there is no option under services to skype call them at all. That option only shows up if that person has skype or I've saved their number on my skype account.

Re: N9/N950 Contacts/IM - Get help & give feedback here
 

Option to call a contact on landline or mobile via skype is only available for numbers saved in international format (e.g. +49 for Germany followed by the actual number less the leading "0").

Re: N9/N950 Contacts/IM - Get help & give feedback here
 

AHA! picky! that seems to do the trick... adding the + in front of all numbers. thanks! :D

Re: N9/N950 Contacts/IM - Get help & give feedback here
 

Ahh, ok. I had noticed the filter from before. So what I'd wish is a setting under Settings -> Applications -> Contacts called "Default filter" or something ;)

Hmm, that just feels wrong? But ok, if that is how it's meant to be... Long press just gives me the option to empty call log, delete that entry, and it shows the duration of that call.

I can accept (and even agree) that this is the correct behaviour for the "recent calls"-filter. But on the "Received calls" I don't understand how it can be right to leave out many calls? Hmm. Sometimes I need to know who I have talked to at a certain time, not what was the last time I talked to him/her.

Thank you very much if you could get some attention to this problem. The N900 didn't support this at all, but other than that all the phones I have tried this on worked flawlessly. Never any problems.

And since N9 obviously supports this feature, I'm quite sure it's a real bug that it's not working, not just a missing feature :)

Other than that, thanks for a very, very nice phone! I feel that I'm quite demanding when it comes to phones, but this is by far the closest to perfect I have ever been.

Thanks for the awesome work, both with the phone and here in this thread!

Re: N9/N950 Contacts/IM - Get help & give feedback here
 

Hi

I'm not sure whether this is the right place to ask, but for some contacts only the phone number is shown in recent calls, messages etc, instead of the name. I think it's only for contacts that got imported from Skype, as "phone only" contacts show up with their names.

Thanks