Applications not appearing in phone!
 

Maybe I'm just a complete ***** or something, but I've recently downloaded some stuff from applications and they are not appearing on my phone, (no icon), I try and look for them in my File Manager and it's freezing.

Any advice anybody? I appreciate your help community:)

Re: Applications not appearing in phone!
 

Hi Diavoli - can you list what you downloaded and where you got them from (Ovi, or which repository etc)

Some of them, for example Mplayer, have no gui and require extra apps to use their functionality.

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Well from OVI, Rubix Cube, Mirror Ball, Candle, angry birds, but just from the Application Download, I tried downloading Flashlight and Mplayer movie Player, so maybe that's what it is, but I'd assume flashlight to work, or even touchsearch hasn't appeared

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hmmmm, have you added any menu changers like mymenu or catorise? as they change what goes in what menu?

Rubix/mirror ball etc should all appear happily in the menu - note they do normally have a blue icon for a while. either waiting or rebooting fixes it.

Have you tried a reboot, just to check that first?

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Restart your phone and if they do not appear try to install for example angry bird again.

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also touchsearch is a desktop widget, so will not appear in the menu (i think! - not used it) - when you edit your desktop, click to add a widget and it should be in that menu.

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All those I have, it's now just Mplayer, flashlight, and touchsearch, which I've recently tried to download from from applications, maybe I have to do it from OVI instead now?

A reboot means just to take out the battery?

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ok well, Mplayer - you need KMPlayer to play files - mplayer is a hidden back end application.
Flashlight i'm not sure but will check.

Will also check touchsearch, but pretty sure it is a widget.

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Just turn the phone off, wait a few seconds and turn it back on :)

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OK Well

Mplayer - sorted (As you wont see it)

Flashlight - when you install the details field says "The applet is only visible if the lens cover is open"
Edit - It should ask you to use it when you open the camera lens, or give you the choice - check this thread out
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...shlight&page=6

Touchsearch - lol i can't find it either, working on it!

Edit - Touchsearch -
just rebooting to test :)

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Touchsearch is a desktop widget, it won't appear in the more apps section.

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or in the more apps section lol, think for some reason it needs a reboot? :) - but i have said it is a widget a few times before :P

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Oh okay, so Mplayer I see where you use it now in KMPlayer...lol...I know I know...I did add the widget for touchsearch, that just appeared but it doesn't show up in the "Add Widget" list. I guess I'm just not familiar with how most of the things on the phone will work with other applications. Sorry guys, and thanks for the help...You know what, I see a difference in my phone now since the reboot, I guess I've had it on for such a long time, that it acts like a real computer, need to turn it off from time to time to update everything properly. I never realized I've never turned it off...lol

Still don't see flashlight...lol oh well

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ok, touch search automatically appears after a reboot :)

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i'm trying to figure out the flashlight now :) - hehehe, lol - would be good if these things where sanity tested before release :)

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aghhhh, really can't get it to work :(

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Open camera cover and close camera application and tap status bar area (battery etc.) there should be now button for flashlight

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flashlight only shows in the quick drop down setting menu when lens cover is open. but have noticed if you have added things to this like reboot and other options sometimes the option does not show as it has no room to show.

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flashlight only appears in the status-bar pop-up (the thing when you tap on the status-bar at top of your desktops xD) when the camera-lense is already opened. (logically - because it uses the leds which are covered by the lense... so it wouldn't make sense when it's closed)
flashlight is just an additional button in the status-bar pop-up. ^^

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Found it!!!!
Open the camera lens (Load camera up) -
press the screen in the middle to bring up the status bar -
Press the menu button to get back to your desktop
then press the status bar! (Batter 3g status area thingy!) - the icon appears in there!

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lol we all got same info about the same time

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lol 3 people! hehe ty - thankfully just about figured it out before i saw yours hehe :)

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is the app store workin mine keeps freezing at download?

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just worked for me 5 mins ago :)

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OMG, this is the coolest thing ever, I can't believe how Bright this light is...simply unbelievable....WOW what phone/tablet...ok whatever it is...HAHA, thanks guy...Umm another dumb question? Mplayer? you need the movie in your phone? you can't stream stuff from the web right?

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Hehehe :)

(p.s. - each thread has a thank you button next to it :) - if you want to pay thanks to people you can use that!)

movies etc, yup thats right there are lots and lots of threads on here about getting videos to your phone.

If you are in the UK, you can also download from the BBC iplayer, i have it working fine :)

got 3 dvd's on it too, great for train rides.

Mplayer with kmplayer works fine, but for me, the standard player is good enough.

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technically you can watch youtube etc, the main issue with web videos is what software they use, lots of sites use flash, and the version 9.4 on the N900 just can't handle it. Maybe soon we could get the newer version 10, but for now downloading or youtube are doable.

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I guess the best would be to use something for Ninja Video, that would be cool as well...are you saying that you can try and surf the web using Mplayer???

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You can test video with these files:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=39034
Just download them directly to N900 and use default media player. They should work.

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no sorry, player is used to play the files on your n900 - it is not used by the web browser.

You can activate mplayer either with a GUI (Graphical interface) like kmplayer, or via terminal, but not via MicroB

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Thanks guys, I tried Iron Man 2 tralier but seems like the audio is off...

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but you can play (for example) youtube videos with kmplayer too.
you just have to change the part /watch?v= to /v/ :
youtube.com/watch?v=number -> youtube.com/v/number

with kmplayer you have the choice between the default player, mplayer and npp...
BUT the buffering and overall-performance is just bad.
watch your flash-content with microb - as far as it is supported yet. ^^

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There is also the 'Youtube query' generator from the menu.
For Diablo, kmplayer flash performance was on-par with mircrob, but indeed now it seem to lag behind in buffering. It may be that current flash uses more CPU in the main thread and therefore blocking the data flow and microb does the downloading threaded, or maybe it buffers more before giving it to the plugin. Have to experiment with this a bit.