Bookmark on Homescreen widget?

Hi,
When I add a bookmark to the homescreen, it just displays a default icon, How do I get it to display the favicon of the site I favorited? (C7)

Have the same issue, irritating that the phone shows no indication of which bookmark the icon stands for. All you have is 4....99 shortcuts with the same internet icon and no text

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Homescreen widgets for nokia 5230 help

I want to know if there its any way to add homescreen widgets on nokia 5230 like that of c6 00 or n97
all these phones have the same hardware then why c6 00 and n97 has widgets but not 5230 .
Please help I need that feature desperately.
Thank you in advance.

Try to long press the screen. Or else try (options) that is present in the homescreen and then select edit homescreen. Try and reply.
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N97 Mini Homescreen Widgets

Hello
Where can I find replacement homesceen widgets to install on my M97 Mini? In particular I want the RSS feed widget.
The story is:
I used the RSS widget to bring up my Toodledo tasklist on the homescreen. Unfortunately, I messed up the address, and crashed the web feeds. The only way to resolve this was to do a hard reset, which actually tidied up a lot of rubbish off the phone, but seems to have lost some of the homescreen widgets. Ironically, the RSS widget is one of the missing ones, and I can't get my tasklist on my homescreen.

Maybe you need to recreate the web feed again in the native browser, e.g. the BBC News feed in the following way.
select Menu > Web > Options > Go to > Web feeds
select Options > Web feed options > New feed
Set Title = BBC News, Address = http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml, Automatic updates = (desired update interval)
After creating the above web feed, it should be found with name "BBC News" in the Add Content widget list.
If you still cannot find the web feed, it might be that the web feed is already added to the home screen, in that case you cannot see or select it from the list. Try removing the home screen widgets and check if the web feed widget appears in the list after that. Try also creating the feed with another name, in case the old "BBC News" widget name is still in use (even though not visible on the home screen).

N8 using bookmarks on shortcuts widget

HI, you can on the homescreen use the widget to put 4 links too applications or bookmarks or folders. Now i encountered the problem that i wanted to put in 4 bookmarks on in that widget. But the problem is it shows exactly the same icon for every bookmark. So there is nu visual que to see which bookmark i put where. Except clicking on them.
Am i missing something? Is it possible to make a distinction between the bookmarks? Ofc people might think, just bloody remember which bookmark you put where. But let's assume i dont remember.
p.s. sorry for the bad english

Yeah that's certainly a problem needs fixing. I say email nokia about that, hopefully they will do something about that. and don't worry about your english, its pretty good.
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Belle - how to disable text of homescreen widget/i...

Is tnere a way to do this?
There is nothing useful in this ''feature''...
In fact it is an eye sore and defeats the purpose of the homescreen shortcut/widget fezture..It completely breaks the Ui and good looking themes become UGLY!!!..The readability is practcally nil as it is too smsll..It is a complete distraction as it partially covers the icon bcos of which the purpose of quickly using an app by the icon is completely defeatec...The people who thought of this shud hv thought of providing a switch on/off homescreen icon text under phone display settings...
Another such brilliance can be seen in tne removal setting inbox view as tne default for messages (not just for new messages)...and the forced popup for notifications...
These are complete UI breakers that disrupt use of the phone
Requeseting Nokia to take notice and provide a soln in their next patch for belle (HOPE there will b one but probably wud not bet on it :-))
But wud like to say that Belle is a gr8 update...and such irrtants do take the shine off it...
Tnx

You described exactly how to do it. Simply connect the device and then deselect the option to launch iTunes when the device is connected.
There is also an option in Edit > Preferences > Devices to prevent iDevices from syncing automatically.

Delete bookmarks on homescreen

i added many bookmarks on my ipad homescreen, how can i delete them?

The same way you remove an app. Hold down on the icon until it begins to wiggle. Then tap the X to remove the bookmark/shortcut.

Oversized homescreen widgets on N8

Does somebody had the same problem?
My homdscreen widgets are suddenly gets oversized, i mean some of the letters and pictures are beyond out of the widget box, i had an info that it happen after installed an spb weather widget, and i did.
Does anyone know how to make this get back to normal.
It's really annoying.
Many thanks for the reply.
Efion
Bangil, Indonesia

is there any way to fix it by myself, i mean some minor repair on the private or resource folder?

Nokia N8 Social Widget gone after reset

Hi, I recently reinstall the nokia n8 fw but after installing it the nokia social widget gone from the homescreen but present in application when I try to put social widget manually to homescreen then it is not present in the homescreen widget list please help

Hi, I recently reinstall the nokia n8 fw but after installing it the nokia social widget gone from the homescreen but present in application when I try to put social widget manually to homescreen then it is not present in the homescreen widget list please help.,
after downloading from the give web..
it just give that
uable to install
please help me as soon as poss..
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The Bookmark Doohickey has gotta go

Alright, gotta get it off my chest: the Bookmark Doodad drives me nuts! I realize this request belongs to NI's vendor's vendor, but here goes:
Quite often, my browser will completely freeze for a few seconds. It catches me off guard every time, but it's always the same thing: I briefly hovered over the Bookmark Doodad, and it freezes while downloading then crunching the popup menu.
The usability issue is a gotcha for both users and non-users of the Doodad:
Users must hover and wait for the menu to show up. If the menu showed up with a click, time is saved.
Non users (and users!) may accidentally hover over the pop-up, only to have it briefly freeze the browser and then display the unwanted menu
In a nutshell, I'm exaggerating when I say it's gotta go, but I really wish the menu would show up with a "click" rather than a "hover" to clean up usability issues for everyone.
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Alternative suggestion #1: simply use the same bookmark mechanism for the Idea Exchange as the Forums to smooth over another divergence between the two platforms.
Alternative suggestion #2: This is probably the only thing you can do Laura, make the [+ Bookmark] picture smaller to minimize the "risk" of hovering
Alternative suggestion #1: simply use the same bookmark mechanism for the Idea Exchange as the Forums to smooth over another divergence between the two platforms.
Alternative suggestion #2: This is probably the only thing you can do Laura, make the [+ Bookmark] picture smaller to minimize the "risk" of hovering
The Bookmark Doodad:
a.lia-user-name-link[href="/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/88938"] {color: black;} a.lia-user-name-link[href="/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/88938"]:after {content: '';} .jrd-sig {height: 80px; overflow: visible;} .jrd-sig-deploy {float:left; opacity:0.2;} .jrd-sig-img {float:right; opacity:0.2;} .jrd-sig-img:hover {opacity:0.8;} .jrd-sig-deploy:hover {opacity:0.8;}
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Laura F. wrote:
Does anyone actually use any of the bookmarks in the widget? Certainly no one participating in this thread I can tell.
Well, I performed a search for "forums.ni.com" on del.icio.us (the most popular service provider listed among the 298 bookmark providers).
To answer your question - yes! People use del.icio.us to bookmark sites on the forums. There was one in July 2007, two in October 2008, and two in November 2009!
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Although, erm, none of those links are to the Idea Exchange...
Although, erm, none of those links are to the Idea Exchange...
a.lia-user-name-link[href="/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/88938"] {color: black;} a.lia-user-name-link[href="/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/88938"]:after {content: '';} .jrd-sig {height: 80px; overflow: visible;} .jrd-sig-deploy {float:left; opacity:0.2;} .jrd-sig-img {float:right; opacity:0.2;} .jrd-sig-img:hover {opacity:0.8;} .jrd-sig-deploy:hover {opacity:0.8;}

N97 - live email/push mail with widget?

Hi I am wondering if there is a live email push function, with a homescreen widget for the N97.
Nokia push mail from Nokia Messaging works (although I'm not sure how much this will cost on a vodafone contract) once the trial period expires, it doesn't have a homescreen widget.
The inbuilt email widget is great, apart from it doesn't appear to have a regular connect/sync function making it a bit pointless as a home page widget.

I am using both the built in email client and the Nokia Messaging push client and both works great and you can tap on the email widget on the home screen and choose your favorate account and you will see both clients on the options and I tried them both and they work great ! but for the nokia messaging push service its not so fast and smooth, some emails tok one day to reach and others never showed on my phone (I am using the Yaho and Hotmail ), the Yahoo is little better and more smooththan Hotmail ! as you know this service is still on Beta and needs improvement.
For the built in client, I set Auto Retreival to check my email every 10 minutes using the POP protocol and its working great without any problem (the phone will give you sound alert, the breath light will blink, and the email sign will show at the top corner of the screen, and the new emeail will show on the email widget area !

Wishlist for Next Belle Update

I absolutely love my Nokia 701 running Belle! And while it may be the best phone I've ever had, I'd really like to see the improvements listed below as part of a future software update.
1. Improved Keyboard/Predictive Text
It's hard to type like a speed demon on this keyboard. The reason is predictive text automatically guesses the word you are trying to type - often times incorrectly. You can always turn it off, but that can cause problems as well. It would be a huge help if predictive text works the way it does in other phone OS's. They give you a choice of 4 to 5 words that the word you are typing could possibly be. And you choose which one you want, instead of the phone guessing for you. I find typing to be faster and more accurate when using such a system.
2. Improved Wifi Stability
Others have mentioned this issue on different Belle handsets, so I'm leaning toward this being a software issue. Wifi reception is poor on my Nokia 701 Belle when compared to my old E71 or N8. Frequent disconnects are the norm, even with powersave disabled.
3. Wifi Indicator in Status Bar
The current indicator has 2 visual settings - On and Off. It would be helpful if one could see the signal strength right in the status bar, without having to open the notification area and clicking on wifi connections.
4. Improved E-mail Client
- With the ability to choose which IMAP folder you want sent mail, junk, trash etc to sync to. Right now when I send mail, it automatically goes into the phone's Sent folder, instead of the Sent folder on the IMAP server. To add to the inconvenience, there is no way to move items in that Sent folder of your phone directly into the proper one on the server. The only workaround I've found is to BCC myself, then move that BCC'ed email into the proper Sent folder on the server. That's way too many steps.
- Sent mail to show the recipient, instead of just the sender. What good is it to show the sender anyway? I know who is sending the mail...ME
- The ability to "view" attachments. This isn't the same as downloading and opening attachments. Iphone's, Android's and even Symbian's own Mobile Documents app all have the ability to view an attachment without downloading the complete file. It's quicker and I find it renders the attachment more accurately.
-The ability to have more than one Exchange ActiveSync account for supporting multiple calendars.
5. Expired Certificate's
Please please please find a solution for this. The workaround of setting the phone back to an older date no longer works. Checking "all" under Software Installation & turning off the online certificate check does nothing to help either.
6. Calendar Widget
Needs more than just your next upcoming event. At least 3 or more upcoming events would be very helpful.
7. Profiles Widget
To activate any new profile settings you created, you have to click the widget, then click All Profile Settings, then click the profile you want, then click Activate, then back out of it. That's 5 clicks for something that should only take 2. It would be much easier if the profile you created was in the same list as the four default profiles that come with the phone.

Ok, let's try to keep this thread alive.
Updated my C7-00 to belle over a week ago now, and toying with it I'm now writing my wishlist under this thread also. And will do the same probably to many other threads until I see some "official" thread started by Nokia's employees where they actually want to hear what we would like belle to be. And comment in there.
And here's a free advice to Nokia staff, even I really hate to tell someone how to do they job.
Somebody should take a pen and punch of paper. Browse this forum and whenever see a wish for feature, write it down and mark every support for it. Same as if some feature is wished to be gone. When done, make a list of all the features supported/unsupported in konsensus, and even those that started a debate.
Then, take the list to R&D with instructions to make wanted features happen, to ditch unwanted features and make controversial features optional. Easy as a pie.
My humble list:
- Different size widgets. Clock, calendar, email etc.
- Bookmarks available as a shortcut on homescreen
- "Mosaic" view for homescreens, so we can go to directly desired homescreen and not have to swipe through all the homescreens between. Minimize all futile work.
- Automated and adjustable online mode for homescreen widgets. Or atleast manual version which we had in Anna. I could let widgets to keep connections active all the time, or manually put off the mobile data and wifi, but I shouldn't have to do that and I don't want to do that. Because I would have to put them on again for every time I want to surf the net. Having to do that, it only misses the ancient tone of 56k modem dialing tone to make the feel of regression perfect.
- When I exit email-app, it really closes, and not stay on in the background. I don't need email-app to stay on in the background, 'cause I use the email-widget to check my mail. Now, when entering to any received mail and then moving it to a folder or deleting it throws me back to homescreen and leaves the email-app on. And I have enter it again to shut it off, or close it through open application menu.
Plus every other succestion made by others that would increase my possibilities to modify, customize, adjust and personalize my phone by my needs and desire.
I really like the new smoothness of my phone. Occasional freezes which I had with Anna are practically gone so improvements there. Ability to place shortcuts and widgets more freely on homescreens is a very wellcome feature. Fact that widgets CAN come in many sizes is a big improvement.

N97 Content / Wigets

My N97 comes with a list of content I can add to the front screen - this includes things like Facebook etc - how do I get more things added to the list of content I can add?
The sownload content item in the list just takes me to th OVI site....

Hi, various homescreen widgets can be found on the web, BBC iPlayer, and Calender outlook are two I use and just keep checking Ovi store for new things being added. Also any app at all can be added to one of the shortcut widgets. For Quick access to a number of sites/apps I use opera mini 5 beta and snaptu as items on shortcut widget, they in turn when opened give immediate access to 9 preset bookmarks on opera mini5 and 20+ on snaptu.
Hope this helps
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Posting Ovi Store Reviews = Nokia Account TERMINAT...

Here's the short version of my story, which is directly summarized in the subject above (and yes, my account is being terminated against my will).
1. create nokia account, use it to sign in to Ovi Store
2. post reviews for applications
3. have at least 6 of your reviews flagged with the "report issue" link
4. recieve notification that your account is terminated.
Q: "Why did you post so many reviews that were flagged using 'report issue'"?
A: My reviews were non-abusive. One such 'removed' review simply stated that 'Compass Touch' was a nice application and 'did what it said on the tin'.
Q: "Why not alert Nokia that reviews were being removed unjustly early in the process and avoid this final terminal fate"?
A: I tried. review removal notifications are sent via email, from the address [email protected]. Replying to this address resulted in email delivery failure notices: the account is dead and undeliverable.
Q: "So why not contact Nokia Customer Care directly"?
A: I did. After a multitude of emails I gave up: they are idiots. I never got them to understand that my issue was with REVIEWS being removed rather than APPLICATIONS being removed. The email chain has some of the most expressive and distressed language I have ever written.
Q: "Wait, so the account is closed. What does that mean"?
A: It means that I cannot buy more apps from the Ovi Store. In 3 months I spent $75 at the Ovi Store and now that revenue stream is cut off by Nokia themselves. All applications I have purchased are now irreversibly detached from association with any Nokia Account and I cannot re-register for an account with my username OR my email address for 6 months.
Q: "Big deal, 6 months, so what"?
A: Well, it is a big deal. Now I will almost certainly not buy anything ever again directly from the Ovi Store (loss of revenues to Nokia). If I do, I certainly won't post reviews of any apps (loss of quality control and PR for Nokia). Also note that I am developing 3 applications for S60v5 at the moment - and I am seriously finding it difficult to see a future for these applications on the Ovi Store.
Q: "Who cares if you don't post reviews anymore, your reviews were abusive"
A: No, they weren't. I can't stress that enough. My reviews were far from abusive and most of the reviews that were flagged were short, accurate and POSITIVE reviews. Moreover, as a user I was PENALIZED for posting MEANINGFUL REVIEWS. We've all seen the gobs and gobs of **bleep** reviews on the Ovi Store, right? The poor language, the obvious and crude Nokia bashing, the iPhone fanboy posts? If legitimate users with meaningful things to say are penalized for posting proper reviews, all we will have left are those **bleep** reviews that never belonged there in the first place.
Q: "Wait, what apps are you developing anyway"?
A: They aren't ready for public consumption, but will be released under the GPL when I am done. 'Bibliotouch' will be a free ebook reader with automatic bookmarking and social reviews that ties into the Gutenburg Project for free Public Domain books. 'NighPhone WebApps' will be an 'appstore' of sorts, providing an interface to search, test, and install widgets to launch iPhone WebApps on your Nokia device - complete with social reviews and 2 levels of installations (local bookmarks and local widget generation/installation). Finally 'NagNagNag' will be a Location Based Service that watches where you spend your time and allows for location based time budgeting, allowing you to setup alarms such as [nag me if i work more than 50 hours a week] or [nag me if i don't visit family at least once a season].
Q: "Hey those are good ideas for apps, can I steal the ideas and make them myself"?
A: Sure. Go for it. I'm still gonna write them myself too, and release them as open source projects, so do whatever you want to. Just be forewarned that Ovi Store might be a horrible horrible horrible place to distribute them.
-bit
N95-1 ---> N97-NAM ---> N900 ---> E7-00 + N900 (I use them both)
(N95 was pretty good, N97 had potential but utterly failed to deliver, N900 is absurdly good. Those of you wondering, "should I try N900/Maemo/MeeGo"? The answer is a resounding YES)

ravidavi wrote:
While I do feel bad for the author, after reading the initial post one big question stuck out in my mind: "Why on earth are you paying money to the Ovi Store?"
The store has been around for months, and there have been literally HUNDREDS of posts across the internet about people losing money. In addition, the customer service is abysmal and lawsuit-worthy,
[...snip...]
Again, while I do feel that you were booted out unfairly, bitflung you should look at this as an opportunity. At least you got out after only being $75 in the hole.
The Ovi store is like a Casino. The house always wins, and the customer should go in expecting to lose everything they went in with.
Ravi
fair enough. of course, if the store would ever be anything other than a money trap it would require early adopters. that's me. i still drive the first hybrid available in the USA (predates the prius, btw - Honda Insight). still own an original N95-1 (though i will sell it once my N97 gets voip support). etc etc etc.
I guess what i'm saying is, though lots of people have had issues i was still game for using the ovi store. if i had an issue with purchasing a single app and ended up loosing $1.99, i'd be aggravated. instead, i'm blown away: my whole account has been terminated. that's a whole different breed of broken. as an early adopter, this is the first time i feel truly stung by the flaws of a service provider. even my N95-1, with all of its problems, remains as functional today as it was last year. ovi store? not so much. it's like having my N95-1 suddenly disappear, or better yet like the N95-1 suddenly started rejecting my SIM card saying, "all those calls to your family look like prank calls to me, so i've terminated your mobile contract with AT&T".
anyway - surly i won't be spending any money at the ovi store again for quite some time (seems i can't even create a new account now because my mobile # is attached to the terminated account still).
-bit
N95-1 ---> N97-NAM ---> N900 ---> E7-00 + N900 (I use them both)
(N95 was pretty good, N97 had potential but utterly failed to deliver, N900 is absurdly good. Those of you wondering, "should I try N900/Maemo/MeeGo"? The answer is a resounding YES)

Disappointed with Symbian Belle! Pros vs Cons

I accept that I'm probably in the minority here, as a lot of you seem to be banging on about how great Belle is, but I personally dislike it! In fact, I would go as far as saying I HATE Symbian Belle, after coming from Symbian Anna!
First of all, I'd like to point out that I do appreciate the good points of Belle. I like the fact that they finally sorted out a few issues which plagued earlier Symbian^3 versions. However, some of the major issues seem to have been left unchecked, whilst I feel other aspects have been changed unnecessarily.
After 15 months of owning a Nokia N8, I kind of expected all of the bugs to have been worked out by now, but it seems that 15 months later we are still complaining about many of the issues which we complained about on day one!
I could also live with some of the minor annoyances I have found with Belle, but some are just so frustrating that I often wonder why the hell they decided to change it, especially when it didn't need to be changed in the first place! The clock and the music player homescreen widget are two such features I feel didn't need to be altered, yet they did so anyway just for the sake of it...
After just 24 hours of updating to Belle, I've decided that if I can't find a way back to Anna (I hear that a Nokia service centre can perform the downgrade), then I'm getting rid of my N8. As much as I love my N8 to bits, I cannot live with it with an interface that I am unhappy with, especially when Anna felt like second nature to me! My beloved handset has been altered, and this is no longer the phone I sent the last 15 months using
Here's what I like about Belle:
* Extra homescreens - For me, three was always plenty, but I can see why other people would prefer to have more. However, it would be nice to have three as the default, rather than four, as I am left with an unused screen which is unnecessary for my use
* The ability to rearrange homescreen widgets more freely - I like this feature, and it's something I initially thought was going to be a feature of Symbian^3 when the N8 was first released. Being able to finally place shortcuts anywhere on the screen is very useful, and more intuitive than having to have rows of four
* The dropdown menu - This is a nice touch, and puts all of the most important on / off features in one place (such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth etc). However, I wish that this was a one-touch operation, rather than a touch & flick gesture
* Speed - General transitions and navigation are so much more faster now! As it should have been to begin with...
Anything else which I like (like the faster browser and vertical QWERTY keyboard) are throwbacks from Anna, so I won't mention them here as they don't relate directly to Belle
Here's a list of the things I dislike about Belle:
* Redesigned homescreen widgets - Was there really any need to redesign the primary homescreen widgets, such as the clock / calendar / profile menu group, and music player? On Anna, these were nice neat little widgets which occupied two rows between them - Now the music player widget takes up half the screen, and the clock / calendar / profile group has been disbanded into separate widgets which all take up extra space! Why was this necessary?
* Redesigned digital clock - I don't like the new-look digital clock on the homescreen, and I especially don't like the new screensaver digital clock! At least give us a choice of Anna / Belle designs, so we can choose which one we prefer! I much prefer the original screensaver clock design, and I would rather have the original clock / calendar / profile menu group back in place of separate widgets for each!
* The new text messaging interface - More specifically, the text messaging menu. For some reason, Nokia have assumed that everybody texts using the Conversations feature, and has relegated everything else to a secondary menu option to show the various text message folders. To me this is a big no-no! I like to be organised, but I don't want to keep having to switch to folder view whenever I want to manage my texts, especially when this used to be the default view when I hit the text messaging button!
* New navigation icons and icon locations - Using Belle has become a cryptic guessing game! Navigation icons seem to have been moved around, and the icons changed. More time is spent deciphering what the icons are and what they do, rather than being quick and easy. For a Symbian newcomer, I'm sure they'll pick it up easily, but for a Symbian veteran coming from Symbian^3 / Anna to Belle, they just cause confusion! I'm scared to touch a new icon in case it does something undesired!
* Lack of default application folders - I know, I know, there's the ability to create folders, but who the hell decided that removing default application folders was a good idea in the first place? All of my nicely organised applications have been scattered into one main group! Again, for what logistical reason?
* Headphones no longer work - Like many people, I prefer to use my own choice of headphones, rather than those basic ones that come bundled with the N8. However, after updating to Belle, I find that my headphones no longer work! The sound is not diverted to the 3.5mm jack, and music just plays through the device speaker rather than the headphones which are plugged in. I tried them out on other devices, and they work fine, and they worked fine before I updated to Belle, so this is obviousy an issue which needs to be addressed
* Homescreen wallpaper pictures obscured by navigation bar - Previously, the pictures I use as my homescreen wallpapers fit nicely between the navigation bar along the bottom, and the info bar along the top. With Belle this is no longer the case, where the picture is extended, and these two bars obscure the image below (the navigation bar happens to be semi-transparent, but that's beside the point)
* Application screen button right above the physical button - I honestly don't see the point in having a button in the bottom left corner which does the exact same thing as the physical button on the N8 which is situated directly below it.
* Profile ordering - On previous Symbian handsets, and also previously with Symbian^3 / Anna, it was possible to order your profiles however you wanted. There was also more than four default profiles. However, with Belle it seems that if you rename any of those first four, they retain their position, regardless of alphabetisation. For example, if you created a fifth profile called "Silent (Office)", it would appear in fifth place, rather than directly beneath "Silent" as you would expect
* Renaming the default "Silent" profile conflicts with the dropdown menu function - If you rename the default "Silent" profile to something else (Ie, "Loud"), and also change the profile settings (such as turning the volume right up), then this renders the silence feature in the dropdown menu redundant! You can still select the "Silent" function from the dropdown menu, but it will activate / deactivate whatever profile occupies that second slot, regardless of whether you have it set as silent or something else
* The camera interface - Once again, an example of moving icons when they didn't need to be moved! I used to find that the location of the various camera settings was perfect with Anna, but now they're all along the bottom. Why did they need to be moved? This is perhaps just nitpicking, and doesn't really bother me as much as other changes, but I see no reason why some things need to be changed for the sake of changing things!
Things that needed to be fixed, and still haven't:
* Calculator - In this day and age a smartphone should have an advanced calculator, similar to many hi-end scientific calculators. At the very least, a basic calculator shoud have a "clear screen" button! We shouldn't have to exit the application and relaunch it in order to do a new calculation!
* The music player - Artists and Albums should be separate. End of! If youre choosing a new ringtone, you can browse by either Song, Artist, or Album, so why isn't this the same for the music player? This has annoyed me ever since I first got my N8, but seems like something Nokia are reluctant to fix, despite complaints from the majority of users. Also, why is there still no user-definable equaliser?

bumblebirra wrote:
GeminiPhoenix, you make plenty of valid points, but I think you need to try to give Belle a chance and then you might start noticing small things like the ability to simply delete any unwanted homescreens, and then it might begin to grow on you. I can understand your frustration at what you feel have been unnecessary changes (to Belle itself) but... well, I guess it must have been a MAJORLY serious age-old problem that forced you to risk the upgrade.
Your complaints about the Belle widgets are all justified and hopefully Nokia are listening and will do something about them in due course.
Even though I'd like more widgets, and more implementations of various settings into widgets, I find Belle to be be intuitive enough to make it an enjoyable experience - no less than Anna anyway.
I agree, Nokia should give the option to revert back to previous operating systems.
If I loved Anna so much, I wouldn't have cared less for latest and fastest software for my device. It would have taken a very serious problem to make me take the risk of changing it.
I admit I may have jumped the gun on one or two issues, and I have since discovered how to delete unwanted homescreens. However, this just proves that the option is well hidden away in a very specific place, where I would have probably not looked had someone not directed me to it. Therefore I formerly retract that issue from my list, but I will add that I feel such options should be more visible, especially as we don't have a user manual to flick through and we're expected to just figure this stuff out on our own!
I have also discovered that the Wi-Fi needs to be prioritised in order to automatically connect when in range of my home network. Again, this is not made clear, and the required settings are hidden away in an obscure folder where most normal people wouldn't think to look... I also retract this from my list
As for the "age-old problem" - This thread should answer everything:
/t5/Messaging-Email-Browsing-and/Urgent-help-required-N8-refuses-to-send-text-messages-after-6/td-p/...
It was indeed a serious problem, and the only way to fix it was to update to the newest software version. No doubt the problem will occur again in a few months time, and I'll have to do the same again...
However, where I initially aimed to fix one problem, Belle has posed several new ones, such as the headphones no longer working, and the text messaging interface being rearranged based on the assumption that everyone texts using the Conversations feature. Two things I use every single day, and pretty much everywhere I go.
I am also glad that you support my complaints about the widgets, so thank you. I know they're only minor issues, but they're the most used, and I fail to understand why they decided to change certain ones. The whole widget system overhaul is great, but it's ruined by the larger widgets which formerly used to be much more compact. For example, the music player and eMail widgets are the largest and most waste of space, whereas the clock / calendar / profile cluster was perfect, so why separate them so that they take up twice as much space on the homescreen?
I too hope they're paying attention, and I have openly shared my thoughts with the Nokia team via Twitter. I would suggest everyone else does the same if they feel the same way
I liked Anna. Whlist I did miss the old PR 1.2 icons, and disliked the coloured blobs, I could live with it. I thought Belle would be more of the same, with just a few tweaks here and there to things that needed fixing, but it seems like something entirely different. At the very least, I expected certain things to stay the same, with the improvements being under-the-hood so to speak
As I have said before, certain aspects didn't need touching. They were perfectly fine as they were. Belle would function just as well if they had've left the widgets as they were. I appreciate that they've done a lot of work making certain aspects run faster, but some things weren't broken, so why try to fix them? Even more frustrating is the fact that other issues have yet again been ignored, such as the terrible music player interface, which almost everybody wants changing back to something similar to the S60 v5.0 era

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