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same problem in my n900 (latest version)

Happy New Year everyone! I'd hoped to get more done on Flip over the holiday break than I actually did, but I did manage to resolve a few minor issues (I think I've got the audio stuff sorted out a bit more finally, but I want to do some really vigorous testing first).

I've also been hard at work building a new (quite different) theme now that the main one is pretty much set (and I needed another complete theme before I could start working on the theme browser!). I won't have things as completed as I'd liked to, but maybe in the next few days if I get some time to finish it up I'll throw together a little "preview package" so you can try it out.

Also for the Maemo 5/N900 people out there, a fellow coder/developer buddy of mine managed to get himself an N900 over the holidays so I'm going to see if I can convince him to drop by and help me do some troubleshooting/debugging to get this up and running on there for you!

Thanks!

Jolouis, when you get to working on the Night Theme, I noticed that there is no "am/pm" indicator. Thanks!

Not sure if this can do this or how hard this would be, but ....

I was looking at the description of FlipClock and thinking it be cool to have it as an alarm clock. I was thinking maybe it could make use of something like camkeyd to turn off the alarm, and perhaps use the zoom keys for a snooze. (Thinking if you push zoom one way it could give you five minutes, and if you push it the other way it could give you 10) Maybe even have a setting to set a custom snooze.

Maybe use the power button to light the screen on for a few moments. That way if you want to see the time at night you just press it....?

I haven't install this yet, but can this app do anything along those lines? If not how hard would it be to implement something like that?

Bazz, FlipClock is an awesome alarm clock! A separate alarm can be set for each day of the week. Besides alarm sounds it will play your favorite mp3 songs. When the alarm comes on, it starts at a low volume and slowly increases over a 60 second period. The daytime theme is the mechanical flip clock from the 1970's. The night theme resembles a jumbo LED display that is color selectable. Once an alarm is set on my N800, FlipClock will execute even when my device is turned off. The developer, Jolouis, releases a new version for us on a regular basis and has incorporated many of our suggestions. More display themes are in the works.

Very cool! Now I'm gonna have to install it. Do I still need to install the dependencies manually, or is it a nice package? Do you know if it is optified?
Thanks

Bazz, As far as I know it is a single install from extras. I do not know if it is optified. You don't say if you have an N900 or N8xx. The N900 version has some major bugs for now (see earlier threads of this post).

Bazz, as Den's already pointed out, most of the features your describing are already included into Flip in some way or form (they hardware keys act a little bit differently, but the customizable settings and Insomnaic mode/insomniac lock/etc provide a lot of the functionality you were asking about already without requiring you to be awake enough to find hardware keys to press ;-) )

I had some issues with the extras repository, but there should at least be a base version in there now... so install from extras, that should grab the dependencies, and then if the extras version isn't up to the latest then just install the latest one from the garage page (link is on the first post of this thread).

If you're running an N900 Flip is basically dead in the water at the moment as I have had many reports saying it simply crashes all the time, but don't have a device myself to test/debug with. I am working on it though as a developer friend of mine just got one over the holidays and is willing to give me a hand troubleshooting.

I do apologize for getting a bit behind in my work/releases here guys, but don't think I've forgotten... I have been working on a new theme that I quite enjoy, and will keep you up to date on both the progress of that and the move towards a 1.0 release.

Oh, and btw Flip is designed and built specifically for the tablets... it'll compile and run on anything, but it is optimized for tablet usage both in power/processing functionality and in interface design/interactivity...

Thanks!

Cool! Well I guess I'll have to wait for now. I'm using a n900. Cant wait to try it.... Thanks!!!

Jolouis, I got an idea for a new theme display. A minimized theme that would put a tiny digital time display just to the right of the "Home" applet text at the top left of the screen. Basically it would be a tiny version of the "Night" theme.