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pr 1.1 and flip clock wont start (n900).

http://pastebin.com/f4c4d36c6

Jolouis, I think this is a great app and one I do want to use as my alarm clock. Is there anyway of forcing the alarm to come out of the speakers as I like to fall asleep listening to music on my headphone, I'll then miss the alarm as it's in my headphone that I'll have pulled out of my ears while sleeping..

Funky bug

Finally I uploaded some music on my N810. My alarm is set to play randomly from my music folder.

Often, but not always, the alarm starts at the maximum volume setting for about a second, and then continues with a very low, gradiently increasing, volume.

Instead of being gently awakened, I'm shocked, wide-eyed frantically reaching for the mute button.

Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce the issue at will.

Is this working with the n900 yet? I installed it before, but couldn't get it to run.

works better than it used to on n900, until you press a button on the bottom of the screen; or just randomly; it will crash...... looks F@*@ing sweet but

PLEASE GET APP WORKING FOR N900
THANKS
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Two quick comments:

1) You mention alarmd integration -- why is this good? What's the benefit? If you can come up with a short description for the general user, it also belongs in the application details of the package...
2) When I run FlipClock I get a screen that shows a minimized mouse pointer for a bit, and then FlipClock exits. Since I am not sure if it has installed correctly, I've uninstalled.

2) It would help if you mentioned what device and software you were trying to install it on. Perhaps we could help you determine if it was installed correctly.

1) alarmd is the maemo alarm subsystem. Being integrated with alarmd means that if you set an alarm, it will still go off even if FlipClock isn't running and even if the device is turned off (it will turn on and sound the alarm). I believe that there is a setting (config file) that can turn this off so alarms only work when FlipClock is running.

Hey All!

Sorry I've been off on other projects, swamped with stuff in the personal and work side of things and just not had a lot of time lately to be on here and working on Flip! However, I bring awesome news with me today... Spenc3 and I sat down and had a Flip Hackfest last week with his N900 and finally got the thing working properly, so for anyone who's got an N900 and wants Flip, the latest version in Extras-Testing for Maemo5 should now at least run and work!

I will also update the package that's on the garage page, just incase you want to manually install... though the extras-testing one will pull in dependencies properly for you so it's the better way to go.

Spenc3 is working on helping me re-organize the SVN and clean things up, but once he's got that taken care of then the two of us are going to have some more time to bang out features and things. We didn't get to do full testing on the N900 yet, so some things still might not work properly, but the app will at least run now and we couldn't get any more random/unexpected crashes so that's a plus! Feedback is welcome as always!

For the Maemo4 people, I'm working on new themes and small things stuff, but got distracted by another project and many other things in life that suddenly started happening. Now that we have the N900 thing sorted out and a second programmer on board I'm hoping that we'll be able to wrap up for a 1.0 proper stable release soon!

Thanks all!!

That's great news!

And before I go... question answering time, since I've been away for a while and don't want you guys thinking I've forgotten about ya!

sampieter - It's a gstreamer stupid issue. The problem is I can't set the volume on a PIPE (audio playback) until the PIPE is actually playing... so if your song doesn't have any silence at the beginning, or if the CPU is running a bit slow on the tablet, the music will play before the volume drops... I'll make a note to set the system volume to 0 and leave it there until the stream itself starts getting louder. I've noticed this myself a few times randomly in the mornings with different songs...

murts - Forced option for headphone/speaker/auto... I could do that... I'll add it to the "todo" list... That was one of my original gripes with the build in alarm app (that I couldn't get it to play anything BUT the built-in speaker), but I can understand the usage scenario...

Thanks!