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qwazix

2011-10-30 00:29

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nyxtopouli (Post 1113730)

Does anyone know if Greek keyboard is an available option to select for multi virtual keyboards

No it's not, but you can check my signature :)

cincibluer6

2011-10-30 00:36

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

Quote:

Originally Posted by afaq (Post 1115757)

classic nokia ringtone has been jazzed up. i also left it as my default but then again the rest are pretty lame.

Is it the dubstep version? I have it on my N900 right now and it's not bad.

jonnyl

2011-10-30 00:40

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

No it isn't the dubstep version.

It's just a little different.

toki	2011-10-30 00:45

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

i dunno if this has been brought up or if it happens to anyone else.. but when receiving text messages, at times there is a delay.. sometimes i dont receive the msg till an hr later... iv had times it took almost 8hrs for me to receive the text message
i know its not my carrier as everyone else is fine.. it probz happens to 1/10 text messages a day..

any help?

qwazix

2011-10-30 00:47

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

Quote:

Originally Posted by ifox (Post 1113465)

Hello all.

Let me start by saying that I currently use a 16gb iPhone 4s. I had all of the iPhones with a 6 month use of a samsung focus between the iPhone 4 and 4s as I lost the 4 in a cab and needed something till the newest iPhone came out. I also had a bang and olufsen serene before the first iPhone so I appreciate having something that is well designed and somewhat rare, That said the iPhone 4s works very well and I have no complaints except that I recently held the N9 and was quite taken with it.

Now I am considering returning my iPhone 4s and getting the N9 but I have some questions. I have read through all of the posts here and these are the things that are of interest:

I drive a porsche and inside it is a PCM (porsche communications management) that allows me to use the phone through a bluetooth connection. I have read others post with issues of NOT being able to have access to the phones directory. Is this true? Does it work on some systems and not others? If not then is there no way to scroll through my phone book through the cars interface?

How is the use of the speaker phone to conduct calls as I have heard the speaker is rather quiet.

How are the alerts? I really appreciate well done clear alerts that are not song based and the serene I had did this beautifully with super cool noises.

I guess thats all I really want to know. I found the phone to feel and look amazing and I understand that sometimes one has to live with quirks in order to have something unique. If what matters most to me in use is: Make phone calls, robust messaging capabilities, internet and pictures, and facebook will I be happy coming from a 4s? Also does anyone know if Shazam will be available?

LAST question... I read that iTunes will sync your photos and contacts and music ... is this true and is it easily done?>

Thank you very much,

X-

Hello!

The N9 is a very different beast from the i4S. I can try it on my car radio and report back tomorrow, although I don't unfortunately drive a porsche so you could never be sure. The speaker is good enough, and it is on the bottom of the phone so it does not get muffled in your pocket. It is definitely louder than that of a galaxy S and softer than the N900 and the king of the hill the N95.

As for the messaging and call capabilities there is really no competitor (maybe mango could come near it but not yet). Messages are all integrated and it is the same if you receive a call or message on skype or cellular or gtalk, so you don't need to have open apps to use various messaging services. I'm sure more plugins will come to support more protocols, as was the case with the N900.

About iTunes support I have no idea, but you can just transfer your music as you would with a flash drive, and windows media player, banshee, Rhythmbox etc can sync to a mass storage device fine, I assume iTunes can do that too. I don't know about the contacts, but you can sync with google just fine with mail for exchange, it is a two step thing though rather than one.

I have the N9 only for a day so I cannot comment anymore on it, but the software is an improvement of N900's maemo, which I know pretty well, and while it has it's drawbacks, it is a software that is addictive to use, with an outstanding user interface. Those assets were improved even more in Harmattan and I would recommend it, given that you say you are prepared to face some quirks.

EDIT: Now I saw you pulled the trigger! Welcome to our community and have fun. Tip: the most fun comes from things this device will do that we never expected it to do. I bet there will be tons of them

toki	2011-10-30 00:54

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

oh! and iv got problems with the GPS.. when in drive, or checking in.. it will detect where i am at first, but after a minute or so it gets confused on where i am and thinks im a few hundred kilometres away.. then nokia drive just sits there with the occasion of finding where i am, telling me to take next turn and then suddenly im all the way on woop woop again

whats wrong with my GPS?
the first time i used it it was fine.. but now its playng up

warrentaye

2011-10-30 01:26

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

Quote:

Originally Posted by toki (Post 1115777)

Try taking off the gps powersave feature, see if that helps

zfarooq

2011-10-30 04:28

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

Quote:

Originally Posted by strongm (Post 1114839)

One or two people have reported problems using a mini SIM cut down to micro SIM in the N9 when the mini SIM carried the large format contact area.

This link shows examples of the comparative sizes to illustrate what I'm talking about

In theory it shouldn't matter, as far as I am aware, since the actual electronic contact area remains the same. But can anyone report success with cutting down such a mini SIM for the N9 (rather than examples of success for the iPhone)? I ask because my current mini SIM is of the large format

i have had no problem mine is from Tmobile in the US and I cut it down. No issues

shockr

2011-10-30 05:26

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

Is it possible to add more GPRS connections? I can't seem to find a way to do this. Every time I try to add a new network using Settings > Internet connection > Create new connection, I can only create wireless networks.

NovaG

2011-10-30 06:16

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

fAPN can add additional 3G APNs

shockr

2011-10-30 10:28

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

The link doesn't work for me. It keeps timing out. :(

afaq	2011-10-30 11:33

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

Does anyone know the default security code?

I have not set one but woke up this morning and the phone was locked. Tried 12345 but it didnt work.

toki	2011-10-30 11:51

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

did u set up the 'track and protect'? if so.. its the password u entered for that.. that is ur security code (i panicked like crazy when it happened to me lol)

and my gps thing is set to connect whenever it needs to.. but it doesnt always pick up where i am

smegheadz

2011-10-30 11:51

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

Quote:

Originally Posted by afaq (Post 1115892)

Does anyone know the default security code?

I have not set one but woke up this morning and the phone was locked. Tried 12345 but it didnt work.

all zeros? don't you usually have to set that to activate it? or is it in the documentation or in/on the box?

toki	2011-10-30 11:57

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

Quote:

Originally Posted by warrentaye (Post 1115787)

Try taking off the gps powersave feature, see if that helps

whats the gps powersave feature? from what i can see in my settings iv got gps to be on automatically whenever it needs

afaq	2011-10-30 12:01

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

Quote:

Originally Posted by toki (Post 1115901)

Tried the track and protect password and it didnt work :(

Update: Tried all these combos and they dont work

12345
123456
0000
00000

smegheadz

2011-10-30 12:12

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

Quote:

Originally Posted by afaq (Post 1115906)

Tried the track and protect password and it didnt work :(

Update: Tried all these combos and they dont work

12345
123456
0000
00000

is your's branded by an operator? have you tried blank?

caa	2011-10-30 12:16

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

I still have issues on my N9: random reboots, freezes etc, various applications.

Product variant is 059J1V4. Version is 10.2011.34-1_PR_001 .

I can't download anything at all from Ovi Store, error message is "unable to continue installation due to unresolved error".

I've tried clearing the device settings and files, but it hasn't helped.

I may have to return it, unless anyone knows of a fix for this issue. :confused:

afaq	2011-10-30 12:17

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

Quote:

Originally Posted by smegheadz (Post 1115909)

is your's branded by an operator? have you tried blank?

Fixed it.

This is so odd. My pin set for Track and Protect was e.g. (making this up now) 987654 and this didnt unlock the phone. but the pin i usually use is 2 digits longer. e.g. 98765432 (8 digits). This was too long for the password to be set but i typed it in anyway. So when I hit forgot password on track and protect it gave me the first 6 digits of that password. Which of course didnt unlock my phone BUT did give me access to the website for track and protect.

So i tried entering the 8 digit passcode and it worked. How odd and strange is this? Find it quite ridiculous.

Thanks for the help guys

smegheadz

2011-10-30 12:33

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

Quote:

Originally Posted by caa (Post 1115911)

what did you install and enable? it's most likely related. anything that was alpha or beta? dev mode enabled? etc.

trollo

2011-10-30 12:58

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

Quote:

Originally Posted by marrat (Post 1109913)

I had the same [twitter not connecting] problem on the first day I got my N9... .. I ended up doing a hard-reset (Clear device)... since then (was a week ago) everything is working fine in that regards...

I found that the Twitter client would not connect the first time if I was connected through WiFi - in fact using WireShark it was apparent the client was not even making the attempt. I switched to the 3G network and it connected first go. After that it would connect OK with WiFi.

It still gives me "unable to load trending topic" though on the search screen, WiFi or 3G.

smegheadz

2011-10-30 13:01

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

Quote:

Originally Posted by afaq (Post 1115666)

Followed the steps exactly and i only see "My Calendar". Rest are all set to viewable (on the pc) but dont appear on the N9. Are there any settings in google calendar I need to change?

thanks

try doing what was posted here.

qwazix

2011-10-30 13:04

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

The "unable to continue installation due to unresolved error" was due to low battery in my situation. I just don't know why some apps throw unresolved error and some others clearly state that the battery is low. Anyway when I plugged the charger everything installed fine

By the way my compass thumbnail is NOT live like in this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...RFvd40I#t=128s

slai	2011-10-30 13:09

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

Yeah my compass thumb nail isnt active like in that video either. I think I read somewhere that they made a snapshot instead of having it run live in the tiles, for some reason. May be untrue.

caa	2011-10-30 13:37

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Quote:

Originally Posted by smegheadz (Post 1115917)

what did you install and enable? it's most likely related. anything that was alpha or beta? dev mode enabled? etc.

Thanks for replying, the crashing started before I installed anything, just using the browser and built in apps, so perhaps it is network or hardware related? (I am on O2 in the UK)

I tried installing the following from the store (nothing in beta AFAIK):

Filebox (installed after a few attempts) but is no longer visible
Compass (installed after a few attempts)

Both the above showed some kind of download error.

No other applications would install: Recorder, Battery Usage, Nokia City Scene, Finger Drums, Spotify, SreenshotMee etc. All say 'download error' then when trying again, fails with the same error: "unable to continue installation due to unresolved error".

I've tried this on both wifi and 3g.

I'm attaching some poor quality photos, as I can't even take screenshots.

Note I can't remove the application by holding down the icon and clicking the 'x' for the compass app, I get a "Can't delete OK" dialogue box.

I only enabled dev mode later to see if it would let me uninstall things, but it didn't help, enabling/disabling it doesn't make a difference.

Thanks for any help :)

eurobrsg

2011-10-30 21:15

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

Quote:

Originally Posted by randomdood (Post 1115143)

does anybody else have the following issue?:
plug in headphones, start music app, music still comes through loud speakers, re insert headphone (sometimes takes 2 times), and it plays through the headphones.

I have the same problem, but no matter how many time I reinsert the headphones they will not work. Not sure if it's my Bose earphones or the headphone jack.:mad:

toki	2011-10-30 21:33

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

yeh happened to me once... i just didnt push the headphones in far enough.. it needed that extra force

mikhas

2011-10-30 21:45

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

Quote:

Originally Posted by kjmackey (Post 1115448)

I ran my N9 for 9 days, 4 hours and some number of minutes (information courtesy of the Battery Usage app). From time to time there was some lag, particularly starting applications.

A lot of email (3 accounts), multiple calendar sync (with CalDAV), SMS, RSS and Facebook feeds to the notification screen, maps, web browsing, music (using FLAC as the encoding format), video (mostly downloaded using CuteTube), the above mentioned Battery Usage app running all the time, oh yeah - and some phone calls. WiFi, Bluetooth on always. Usually a half dozen apps running all the time (clock, calendar, battery usage among others).

Finally it seemed like it just got gummed up (how's that for a technical term?) so I shut it down and restarted (probably only the third restart in the time I've had it.) Smooth as glass again.

As yet I haven't turned Developer Mode on.

I'm not in the habit of rebooting my phone often - I used to let the N900 run for a l-o-n-g time. Anyone else seen anything like this?

Check memory consumption and check especially how much dirty memory (=non-recoverable until app exists) is consumed.

qwazix

2011-10-30 22:21

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

does anyone know if it is possible to create contact shortcuts in the app grid? Maybe by editing some .desktop files?

charbar

2011-10-30 23:22

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

is there a way to change the default search engine on the browser to be google instead of bing? :X

i feel like you can't do anything with this browser!

Audrius

2011-10-30 23:37

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

Quote:

Originally Posted by charbar (Post 1116147)

is there a way to change the default search engine on the browser to be google instead of bing? :X

i feel like you can't do anything with this browser!

settings<applications<web<search engine

phishbone

2011-10-31 00:03

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

I've got 2 problems thus far:

Not sure if this is a problem with Nokia link or the media player application on the N9, but it doesn't seem to pick up changes to playlists.

I've twice deleted all music and playlists, only for Nokia link to tell me that the device doesn't have enough room onboard. The N9 itself reports plenty of room, so I'm not sure where Nokia link is getting its data.

The second issue is MfE. The error message implies that it can't connect to the server, but the server is reachable from my home network.

Any help is appreciated.

Saturn

2011-10-31 00:12

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

Quote:

Originally Posted by qwazix (Post 1116131)

does anyone know if it is possible to create contact shortcuts in the app grid? Maybe by editing some .desktop files?

some info: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...9&postcount=92

Drekkie

2011-10-31 00:24

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

Quote:

Originally Posted by strongm (Post 1114839)

I had the same concern. I have a 3+year old US t-mobile mini sim I was going to attempt to cut myself. The chip does not look like the ones in the link but like this:

http://share.ovi.com/media/Drekkie.m.../Drekkie.10001

I took it to the T-mobile store where they had not heard of the N9 so they just put it in a sim cutter to try it (so if they messed up then at least they would replace it for me). It works fine.

EDIT: that's a pic of the cut sim in the N9 holder.

toki	2011-10-31 01:12

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

i havnt once dropped my phone.. and now i have a dent...

thankfully that the colour is bled through the whole material, but unthankfully you can still notice the dent...

and iv noticed a few other random dents...
my phone is either in my pocket or on the desk...

this policarbonate material isnt very durable at all...

qwazix

2011-10-31 02:05

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

That is really tempting me to dig out qtCreator... Next weekend maybe.

ste-phan

2011-10-31 03:01

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

Quote:

Originally Posted by ifox (Post 1115704)

I returned my 4s and it was right choice no doubt.
X-

Did you use the iPhone for a long time?

Please tell me about the differences in display, if you can observe any.

ste-phan

2011-10-31 03:12

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

Quote:

Originally Posted by toki (Post 1116166)

It is durable in a sense that it will protect the inner parts of the telephone adequately. (inner parts, not the screen)

Actually dents are not that bad - the device is way too slippery and that will problem will increase once the matt surface wears off due to daily use.
It will turn into a semi-glossy one with some battle scars here and there.

Only the upcoming white version will start looking pretty ugly soon due to dirt residing in many micro scratches.

anis_ber

2011-10-31 03:38

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

is there any chance to get medical apps on N9
I need eocrates for instance

Thx for the help

charbar

2011-10-31 03:52

Re: N9 owners: answer questions & get help!

for those of you in the states and have tmobile, I walked into the store yesterday, asked if they have micro-sims and the guy gave me one for free. so doesn't hurt trying to walk into a store first before you cut your sim down.

and actually the guy for a second thought he ran out of micro-sims and was about to cut down my current sim for me, but then he remembered he had some in the back.

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