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Re: OVI STORE is open for business

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Originally Posted by bbns (Post 465451)

Just downloaded Angry Bird! Very addictive!

TRUE! i love playing it..

Re: OVI STORE is open for bussiness

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Originally Posted by reviver (Post 465046)

Alright, I came up with first improvement idea. The download system seriously needs a queue:D

I have your solution. Open many windows and get ready to press all the download buttons once each is done :D Doesn't work too bad for me in the mean time while they develop something :D:D

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xploder doesn't seem to have sound and is a bit laggy, but looks like a fun concept with a need for a little tweak :-)

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Not every 3rd party theme have a switch to unlock. Is it a bug?

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the World City theme had yellow colour scheme when i installed it as in hilighted text, loading bars, fonts, lock screen etc. but just in front of my very eyes i watched it all change to blue by itself. is this a design or a bug?

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I just opened Pendulum and banner and watched them both play out at the same time in task view...

I am so glad I got this phone.

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Originally Posted by nex (Post 465441)

Some nice little fun apps in there by offscr mostly. Couple of themes too (Harmony BlkWhite, Alpine).

I like the way you can browse the store on the web and have it send an sms to your phone with a direct link to an app you want. Then on the phone you can to click on it, login (leave a browser open so the cookie remains for the next one), then download, then wait for app manager to install it.

Frankly I realized this would take a while to check out all the 10+ apps I wanted to, so I ended up doing the following (in case anyone is interested)

1) using Modify Headers extension in Firefox on desktop changed my User-Agent to the N900 one (found easily on various sites)
2) Use that to make ovi store think my desktop is a N900, so it gave me the Download link
3) Downloaded all the .install files for all the apps still on the desktop, then opened them up in a text editor to get the package names
4) Finally pasted all of those in an root ssh session to the phone, in apt-get install <package1> <package2> <package3> etc
5) Took 2 minutes or so to download and install 10 apps including big themes.

I wonder if there's an easier way to select many apps for installation that I missed rather than go through all this.

Sidenote, rootfs is full again :(

You should be aware that apt-get stores the downloaded debs at (note, the application manager doesn't):
/var/cache/apt/archives/

It's safe to clean them after installation either by
rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
or (simply)
apt-get clean

This should free some space if you haven't done it already.

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How do you access the store? I updated and have the new pretty store interface, but see none of the games or the snow ball :(

I tried going straight to the store via the web, but still says "coming soon".

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just google ovi store on n900 browser and use link from there to access it or type out store.ovi.mobi
default bookmark and desktop icon dont work yet

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Originally Posted by ed00 (Post 465392)

just type on ur browser http://store.ovi.com (its Ovi beta). Dont use link thats on ur mobile its still give u "coming soon". And when u click to download any application its automatically going to open ur App.Manager and will create link in ur Application catalogs folder to Ovi just like any other out there (nokia system, maemo, extra,..etc) and then proceed to download app.

Thanks! Worked!