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Re: maemo Games: Zen Bound for N900

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Originally Posted by dimkit (Post 718712)

For all of you , who are facing problem with the installation .
JUST BE PATIENT. When you press the dowload button , it takes some time about 2 or 3 minutes , for the application manager to open ...
In order to check that the download has started, just open conky and check if the rootfs space is reducing.

Or just open menu -> downloads and you see the progress of the download.

Re: maemo Games: Zen Bound for N900

That means that MicroB is handling the download, not Application Manager... And the reason it is not using the MyDocs cache... Interesting approach.

Re: maemo Games: Zen Bound for N900

i just managed to download it two times. god dammit with this sht. is there any bug report aboout this download window not popping up for downloads?

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And yes it said on second time that rootfs is too full so again nokia has manage to fck this up on too many levels. btw. is it really so that i can't change my credit card details only then when i choose to buy something?

Now i try to enjoy this game. We can just wait and see how new angry users start to come here asking why they can install this. oh my dear.

Re: maemo Games: Zen Bound for N900

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Originally Posted by f2thak (Post 718628)

game doesnt show in 'games' category but in recommended??

I went to Games and then sorted by Best Sellers, and it shows 2 games. Angry Birds Level Pack 1, and Zen Bound

Re: maemo Games: Zen Bound for N900

hehe MicroB downloaded ~47 MB and the AppManager says 13Kb :D

Re: maemo Games: Zen Bound for N900

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Originally Posted by Bundyo (Post 718742)

That means that MicroB is handling the download, not Application Manager... And the reason it is not using the MyDocs cache... Interesting approach.

Interesting approach? IMHO it's yet ANOTHER failure of OVI and the Maemo team. I've tried to stick with Maemo for so long now, made it to the top community members page by trying to give so much to the community, and have to encounter Nokia major failures again and again. Are these guys a bunch of incompetents? Freakish engineers with zero interest in end-user experience? I'm willing to buy these games (got Angy Birds Level 1, love it), but they make me fail again and again

The OVI store:

Is many months too late
Deceived everybody when it stopped paid apps earlier in the year
Has a confusing and mainly unusable navigation
Stopped accepting my registered credit card that worked well months ago and only accepts it after registering it with the same exact data again.
Has no way to properly handle large downloads such as Zen bound - I got the same error as the ones posted above, about /var/tmp being full. App manager never came up.

At work, I've done iPhone/iPad development during the last two months. While I still don't like the closed, paternal approach of Apple at all, at least they get the technical things and user experience done right. Nokia, WAKE UP!

Re: maemo Games: Zen Bound for N900

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Originally Posted by twaelti (Post 718815)

Is many months too late
Deceived everybody when it stopped paid apps earlier in the year
Has a confusing and mainly unusable navigation
Stopped accepting my registered credit card that worked well months ago and only accepts it after registering it with the same exact data again.
Has no way to properly handle large downloads such as Zen bound - I got the same error as the ones posted above, about /var/tmp being full. App manager never came up.

"Interesting approach" was my way of saying "plainly stupid"... ;)

Re: maemo Games: Zen Bound for N900

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Originally Posted by Bundyo (Post 718742)

That means that MicroB is handling the download, not Application Manager... And the reason it is not using the MyDocs cache... Interesting approach.

It's probably not put in the repository because of how insecure the Ovi repository is. I'm not joking: It took me 10 seconds to make HAM show packages from the Ovi store (I didn't even need to build my own version for this) because I closed my Ovi account due to the My Nokia **** and the arrogance of their "it'd be in your best interests" fill-this-survey-in email I recieved.

Still... I'm not sure the deb approach is any better... as has been said before, debs are easy to redistribute and HAM will at least clean up the cache after install.

Re: maemo Games: Zen Bound for N900

The problem is that the file is being downloaded to rootfs. Who doesn't have 46MB free will not be able to download it.

** Editted because this might be used for piracy.

Re: maemo Games: Zen Bound for N900

Both things are a problem, not detecting the same download on second click is at least one more. Not presenting any visual clue to the user while downloading is major usability fail.