End of Nokia Sync Dec 5th
 

I got this email...

Important: Termination of Nokia Sync and Impact to You


Dear Nokia mobile phone customer,

We wanted to let you know of important changes affecting people who use Nokia Sync on Nokia Series 40, N9 and Symbian phones. Nokia Sync is the service that synchronises your contacts, calendar appointments and notes between your phone and the cloud.

We are planning to discontinue the Nokia Sync service on 5 December 2014. After 5 December 2014, you will not be able to access your data through the Nokia Sync service. We strongly encourage you to export and/or migrate your data from the service before this date.

Beginning today, you can use the following options to ensure you can continue to access your data. This includes the option to export your data so it can be imported into other services, or migrate your data to secure, cloud-based services from Microsoft.


Option 1: Export
Option 2: Migrate


In the interest of information privacy, all data that is stored in Nokia Sync will be destroyed following termination of the Nokia Sync service.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any further questions, please see our CARE support site CARE Nokia Sync.

Thank you,
Services Team at Microsoft Devices

Re: End of Nokia Sync Dec 5th
 

Well as long as the data is being destroyed am not too fussed.

Re: End of Nokia Sync Dec 5th
 

There you go. How foresightful of me to uninstall all Nokia specific services, eh? ;)

Honestly, how could anyone use a service with a company name in its name is beyond me. Nokia Sync, Nokia Messaging, Google Talk, Google Mail, Ubuntu One... all in the same bucket.

Re: End of Nokia Sync Dec 5th
 

I received this same email.

But on the pichlo made;

I recently posted something about why people will tend to not switch between Android/iOS, they've already spent a lot of money toward whatever platform they use, and there isn't a way like in the olden days of computers, where if you had an Atari ST or Commodore Amiga you could sell the computer with the software library. And you can't exactly sell your gmail account (tied to your android device where anything you buy on the Play Store is).

He totally didn't comprehend what I was saying and went off on some tangent about how you can't sell your gmail account and that google already makes money off of your email and that's what is being purchased... talk about missing the point ha ha.

But yes, I don't know why people use gmail, especially for non-personal things.

Re: End of Nokia Sync Dec 5th
 

Does this mean nokia maps won't work any more on n9, because it also asks for nokia account credentials before being able to use maps.

Re: End of Nokia Sync Dec 5th
 

It has toi work offline like before but its important that you download all the maps you need und actualize the navigation language before 5.12.
I have all maps on my N9

Re: End of Nokia Sync Dec 5th
 

According to this email, they are only ending Nokia Sync. It has nothing to do with your Nokia account (other than that is how you access your Nokia Sync account). Although I am sure other services are not far behind, all other services attached to your Nokia account should work fine.

Re: End of Nokia Sync Dec 5th
 

Tiny bit shot of 2015 which was promised at the launch of N9, suprsingly tiny.

Re: End of Nokia Sync Dec 5th
 

As long as Maps are working, it's fine by me.

Yes.. We need only Nokia maps...
No problem if this die to me :)
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;) bad english :)

Re: End of Nokia Sync Dec 5th
 

Nokia Maps wasn't part of the deal with microsoft... http://readwrite.com/2013/09/03/what...ia-acquisition

Re: End of Nokia Sync Dec 5th
 

This is in 2 days time, so I'm wondering if I need to worry about keeping my phone working? Especially given a scenario where I need to re-flash it at some point in the near future.

I'm fine losing basic contacts data that are synced (well it's mildly irritating but I'll live), but should I worry about the basic ability to do anything once it's freshly flashed and booted up 1st time if I do this in a few months? Will the store work so I can re-download the basic games I like?

Sorry if this is a bit of a repeat question but I've spent the last 30mins searching the forums for this thread, most threads have people just carrying on as normal.

I have a worrying feeling now that MS only care about winmo/lumia that without direct action by me by a deadline, I may reach a point where I can't flash/boot/install anything because I didn't prepare my n950 for community .deb repos or dual boot with the ability to dd off partition images as backup etc.

Any advice?

- Damion

PS I used to frequent these forums a couple of years back and worked on qemu-i386&wine on n900&n950 so had a better idea of what is going on, but got utterly bogged down with work. So I'm feeling quite lost at the moment.

Re: End of Nokia Sync Dec 5th
 

Microsoft: Opera Mobile Store will replace Nokia Store as the default app store for Nokia feature phones, Symbian and Nokia X smartphones (beginning from first quarter 2015).

Me: Can you tell me which store will host app contents for Nokia N9 Meego 1.3 Harmattan please?

Microsoft: As noted in the announcement, S40, S60, Nokia X, Symbian, and Asha will be supported going forward in the Opera Store. However, Meego (N9) will not be supported by Opera.

Me: So what do I do if I need to factory reset my N9 and reinstall my apps?

Microsoft: The N9 device will not be supported once the Nokia Store closes.

Do your reflash now or suffer sideloading Nokia apps later.

Re: End of Nokia Sync Dec 5th
 

i got the perfect phone from them and i almost copied all apps from store so... XD
Next im gonna backup all the maps so they can go for sure to ... XD

//AAAA, and im gonna keep my N9 until someone will port Cortana.

Re: End of Nokia Sync Dec 5th
 

I think that people should consider this situation when thinking about buying the Nokia N1 - it is the very same Nokia that abandoned its customers for a ton of money from Microsoft.

Re: End of Nokia Sync Dec 5th
 

Wasn't there a promise/contractual thing to support all older phones until 2016?

Re: End of Nokia Sync Dec 5th
 

Past behaviour is always the best predictor of future behaviour.
.
What I wonder is everything in Finland like that ? Surely not ?
I mean, does every marriage in Finland dissolve after three years,
return the spouse and upgrade to version 2.1 hardware
before the warranty expires, etc ?
x
How is it that Nokia seems to be the flag-bearer for treachery ?
Did the people of intense betray-the-customer mindsets
just congregate inside the Nokia organization - for fun ?
x
Or did Nokia have some sort of recruitment campaign
years ago - send us your c.v. and summarize in 1000 words
and no more than seven paragraphs how -you- would
betray the market base profitably and mercilessly ?

Re: End of Nokia Sync Dec 5th
 

Any source for that? Would be nice if they kept the store open as long as possible for the N9. N900 I don't recall ever using it.

We'll have to find time to backup debs before they shut it down of anything we have not on openrepos. Thank goodness for openrepos

I hope in the event Jolla goes out of business (hopelly not for many years) they have a more friendly community handoff.