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2006-06-30 , 19:38
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Anyone got their 2gig card working on the NEW OS? I'm afraid to do it again after it gave me a white screen.
 
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Originally Posted by Bowie
I'm watching full-screen, TV-quality, paper-smooth 30FPS, high-bitrate MPEG goodness here played directly off the MMC card. Glitchless!

For the unbathed, always encode with low resolution and high bitrate. You'll manage about 120MB per hour of video... Thats like 8 hours of video on a 1GB MMC card.
What resolution are you using Bowie? I had issues playing video at 352 x 208 at 30 fps, but was able to get it working at 15 fps.
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2006-06-30 , 19:44
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Originally Posted by Milhouse
Have to agree - the beta was remarkably short lived (5 weeks?)

Note sure if this happens for others, but after restoring my backup (settings and bookmarks) from the Beta OS, if I reboot my 770 (which is running the "final" image) the word "BETA" appears in the system tray for a few seconds, then disappears. It's a minor bug, but irritating and once again raises a question mark about Nokia QA...
The beta text never showed up for me. Anyone else having the same problem as Milhouse?
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2006-06-30 , 21:11
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Originally Posted by Milhouse
That is really poor - there has been no feedback from Nokia on bug #621, makes you wonder why we bother testing for them (and in this case, even providing a solution).
Yeah, it might suck for users with 2GB cards that they have to use two 1GB partitions, but personally I'd rather Nokia didn't rush in a kernel patch a week before the final release! Software testing takes time and last minute "small" changes always cause the most pain.

Glad they held off - introduce it at a later date.

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2006-06-30 , 21:56
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Originally Posted by aflegg
Yeah, it might suck for users with 2GB cards that they have to use two 1GB partitions
The problem is actually worse than that - you can't use a MMC bigger than 1GB period. No matter what geometry or partition size.

I'd bet there will be a new kernel (for the impatient) available within the week that will solve this problem.

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2006-06-30 , 22:08
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#46
Originally Posted by dattani98
VM still only allows for upto 64MB and NOT 1GB as they promised.
My god, why on earth would you want 1 GB of swap space!?

I don't use swap at all, and I have very few problems, usually when I have the javascript-enabled gmail open in a browser (that's why I usually use the javascript-disabled version - much lighter!).

64 MB of swap should be enough for everybody.
 
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2006-06-30 , 22:12
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I wouldnt want to use 1GB of swap! But 128MB would be ideal. This is what I had before and my unit hardly ever crashed. I've kinda got used to that!

Besides - what's good for one person wont necessarily be good for another. Its nice to have the option to select VM according to ones needs.
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2006-06-30 , 22:27
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#48
Originally Posted by aflegg
Yeah, it might suck for users with 2GB cards that they have to use two 1GB partitions, but personally I'd rather Nokia didn't rush in a kernel patch a week before the final release! Software testing takes time and last minute "small" changes always cause the most pain.
You're right of course - a last minute change can (and usually does) result in more problems than it's worth.

Unfortunately anyone with a 2GB card has 2GB of memory they can't use at all.

The frustrating thing is that the bug/enhancement is receiving no attention from Nokia, so we don't even know what their plans are for the future. If they posted a comment along the lines of "Taking ownership, too late for initial release but will patch into a later update" then great. Instead, chuff all. Not good.

(Oh, and Opera [OS 2006 release] just died on me for no reason while browsing this site - bah!)
 
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2006-06-30 , 22:56
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Originally Posted by dattani98
Besides - what's good for one person wont necessarily be good for another. Its nice to have the option to select VM according to ones needs.
Yup, but does anyone remember the old rule of thumb for swap - 1.5 times the amount of memory? Just a WAG, but I'd bet you've probably never used more than half of that 128MB swap.

BTW, I think the comment about 1GB swap is a poorly worded statement on Nokia's part. The text in question reads:

"Option for extended virtual memory (RS-MMC up to 1 GB)"

I suspect this is really supposed to be two different lines of specifications, and wasn't intended to mean 1GB swap is possible - just that (a) you can have virtual memory, and (b) the 770 is limited to 1GB MMC expansion.

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2006-07-01 , 04:44
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Originally Posted by NokNok770
Anyone got their 2gig card working on the NEW OS? I'm afraid to do it again after it gave me a white screen.
Don't bother. I tried it too, and it seems this is a new way to brick your 770. It's never crashed like this before (screen fades to white).

Hopefully a new toolchain will fix this.

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