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Why is typing * and # into phone app WONT FIX in next firmware?

These are control codes required by many providers in germany

The 'bug' here seems to be the QA release policy by nokia. While i understand and appreciate the that bugfixes involving significant progamming are QA tested as part of a whole system, this bug breaks phone for those german providers I have used. If this is simply due to application rejection of dialing characters, I suggest a fasttrack to address trivial application bugs that make device sales impossible.

Am i incorrect in thinking that this is a trivial fix, without deeper problems?

I am really not a phone guy, feel free to vote this down, tell me to jump in a lake, or point me to the relevant discussion thread. thanks
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Wait, what?
This bug is resolved as FIXED
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It's not a trivial fix. These codes are not dialed like ordinary phone numbers and expect a response string from the server that get's decoded and displayed to the user. Similar to SMS.

See here for a temporary solution (for USSD):
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=445223
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Originally Posted by MrGrim View Post
Wait, what?
This bug is resolved as FIXED
FIXED state means nothing for Nokia endusers
According to this reply The only meaning of that is that someone in Nokia thinks they have a solution for problem. It doesn't mean that you'll see this problem fixed in nearest software update or even in any other update.
Just wait and use community-created USSD dialer for now.
 
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Even then, the bug report reads as USSD code haven't been fixed internally yet. Just some other types of * and # numbers.
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"Fixed" means it was fixed internally.
"Closed" means fix is available for end users.
 

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Originally Posted by irmin View Post
FIXED state means nothing for Nokia endusers
According to this reply The only meaning of that is that someone in Nokia thinks they have a solution for problem. It doesn't mean that you'll see this problem fixed in nearest software update or even in any other update.
Just wait and use community-created USSD dialer for now.
That post simply explains that a bug is not CLOSED until release, so it is possible for it to be FIXED yet the solution inaccessible. I guess it is technically possible that nokia not patch this until next year, but i see no reason for that
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