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So, that leaves the "it's hard to do" as argument. It can't be harder than unmounting the sd card when the user removes it (I sure hope you don't need to turn off the devices to do so?!). |
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My question is not so much "Why didn't you implement mass storage on the Jolla Phone?" That would be a silly question. Your phone, your cost, your priorities. I understand you mention quite a few general technical difficulties, including problems that come from wrong handling. I also understand, though, that those difficulties never got in the way of implementing mass storage on any previous device based on Maemo/MeeGo back in the days. So I assume these difficulties were resolved in a way that made mass storage a good solution for the consumer - in spite of unresolved issues that you know of, but that never seemed to have troubled people. My question, therefore, is: "What is the main difference between N900/N9 and earlier Nokia tablets and the Jolla Phone that made mass storage a viable option then, but kept you from implementing it now?" - I only want to understand why existing solutions to whatever problems that come with mass storage don't work any more. (At least that's the impression I get: That its too complex at this stage of the project to implement mass storage when MTP can cover at least some of its use cases.) I'm sorry but even after re-reading all your posts, I didn't find the answer. |
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I've seen FAT brought up a few times, but I wonder if Jolla is wise to avoid it since that's one of the Microsoft patents that they used against Android - though that might be finally coming to an end.
Just a random, unconfirmed thought. |
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Anyone with a Iphone 5 or a galaxy note 3 that can compare browsers. How much slower is jolla browser?
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It needs a FAT partition (which was done on N900 and N9), which fragments storage on the device. Issues with file permissions and security, back-ups, restoring to factory settings etc... The current btrfs layout gives us huge benefits there that would not be possible if we needed to have some rogue FAT partition. It needs to unmount/remount it every time mass-storage is enabled. This means every application that might need to handle data on that partition needs to be able to deal with it disappearing. That is a huge job. Just try to take pictures with mass-storage enabled in N9, will just not work for example. Although that is a minor annoyance. It is an example of what can happen. More evil things happen also. It also meant killing apps in the background to enable it, which could cause data loss. It also meant sometimes it could not be enabled depending on what applications are open. Not to mention data loss issues/crashes with applications that don't handle it, 3rd party application not knowing what to do when the fs disappears. Not to mention all the data loss issues that exist with mass-storage currently. You know the remove safely button in windows? A number where never solved for the N900/N9 but it shipped nonetheless since there was not really a better alternative at the time. And although MTP has its own set of issues it actually covers the same use case. We might have some mass-storage exports in a later stage as I stated (like for the SD card) however we cannot guarantee file exchange functionality on the same level as with MTP. But bitching about missing mass storage because Apple cannot keep breaking industry standards because it wants to push its own vendor lock in is not productive and is not going to get you anywhere. Don't shoot the messenger. |
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Not sure how someone can claim N900 had this sorted, search for read only file system in here, lots and lots of posts/threads
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Here goes nothing... Can anyone give any help installing this on OS X
https://github.com/phatina/simple-mtpfs I can try to configure, but it gives me the error about libmtp not found. I installed libmtp through Macports. I have no idea how to install it otherwise. I'm not a programmer but I'll gladly throw commands at Terminal if I just get my Jolla to work on OS X. |
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If the Jolla store has 47 applications now, even before the device goes on general sale, that's roughly 20% of what the 770 ever had during its lifetime and about 10% of what was ever available for the N800/N810. (Of course, we're not even counting compatible applications from 3rd party Android stores here, some which seem to be really popular with Jolla users.) Had somebody told me back then, I wouldn't have believed him. :) |
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I'm with you about Apple, but couldn't care less about if and how any phone works with Apple products. Anyway, no further questions here, thank you. |
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I trust Jolla has the mass storage mode on the features to complete list. |
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-email address I wish to use in outgoing email "from" and "reply-to" field -username and pw to IMAP server (SSL) -username and pw to SMTP server (SSL) These are not anyway related to each other or server names/addresses. They work fine with several different devices. Current Jolla email account dialog has -server userames and passwords and addresses -name at the top under "Email", changing with some way -"Account information" field I fail to understand what is "email address" in current dialog (not been able to send anything), but hopefully the update clears things. |
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If you guys can help me get this thing to work and successfully mount a Jolla to the desktop, that will greatly help all OS X users and we can stop "bitching" ;) |
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I see security is not taken seriously around here. For shame. |
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Edit: srsly it's like the question "can we root/jailbreak aliendalvik" you decide what you do with this phone, if you want, you can have,much better control here |
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Mind you, I'm a Slackware user. Have been since 1996. But I now run OS X 10.9 and use VMWare to run my other OS's. I'm sure you guys can use some virtualization and test beyond a distro I've personally haven't used (although, that shouldn't really matter) and test other major OS's and versions. Not saying it didn't happen (testing) but I'm only able to go by what's confirmed so far. This kind of stuff is important to a wide group of possible consumers. This opens up the gate for other OS relevant questions. |
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Also connected my Jolla to Windows XP at work and got a shitstrom of weird security notices, but I think thats just the usual insanity from the IT people who do that stuff where I work. |
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edit: Sailfish browser vs Android Firefox on Xperia Z. Now Sailfish browser pretty much beat the crap out of androids firefox when loading pages, sailfish browser beat firefox almost everytime with somewhere around 3-5 seconds faster loading, there was few times when firefox took even more than 5 seconds and 1 time when firefox was faster. However sailfish browser doesn't resize the text so i have to zoom and scroll horizontally if theres something to read. |
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I find real world use render times to be roughly same with Firefox and Sailfish browser. Close enough that definite comparison would require too much effort for me to care.Not really suprising considering that both are (AFIK) Gecko based.
The main problems with Sailfish browser are lack of landscape, oversimplifield handling of 'extra functionality' (history, boolmarks, etc) and buggy clicking. The last one got helluva lot better after last update, but the last time I tried there were still moments when I was left cliking a link without any effect. It's extremly annoying when it happens and the only cure seems to be to close the browser and reload it. |
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should be chrome vs sailfish
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But Ubuntu 13.10 64bit not so lucky. Error: "Kaikkea kohteen ”Sailfish” sisältöä ei voitu näyttää: Kansioluetteloa ei saatu: -1: Unspecified error" (sorry only for Finnish) |
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Just a little question that came to me a couple of seconds ago: is there a way to have a terminal app without having to enable full developer mode? I'd like to have it at hand should I need to type a quick command in a terminal (I'm used to do that on my linux pc, if needed) but I don't have any programming skill so I wouldn't need to fully root my device, on the contrary, I'd like to avoid doing that without actually needing it. Is there a terminal app in Harbour?
EDIT: Just to clarify, I don't have my Jolla yet, or I would check this by myself :p |
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Is there extras-devel for sailfish somewhere (with build-essentials?) or the shop is the only repo? |
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