Issues, dissatisfaction or pleased?

[Devil]

I created this poll in order to try getting a good perspective on the actual damage which is done here, and with damage i mean how much people are experiencing problems with the N900.

See options above.

[pr0xyfl00d3r]

how bout a "still waiting"

[ossipena]

what about pleased+issues?

[davedickson]

how bout a "still waiting"

LOL :D or "cancelled because I'm so pi**ed off"

[nilchak]

or "Moved on to the HTC HD2" like many in these forums say.

[Devil]

The target i am focussing at is creating an insight into what percentages of N900's have issues.

For the people who are still in doubt for buying the device could make a more balanced decision on whether to buy it or not.

Hope this is a goal which serves some.

Therefore i have not included options as still waiting, still in doubt, switched, cancelled, pleased till a certain extend, etc etc.

[RevdKathy]

Pleased enough to be trying out posting from it! so far apart from failing with the playlists it's all been good. Lots more to work out tomorrow.

[ShutUpYouFace]

Pleased with mine.. Haven't found any faults..Installed a few apps including firefox.. I really like the browser(s).. I love the fact that it has SSH.. Easily able to connect to my various servers...

And the built in FM Transmitter - Ingenious!

[Devil]

bump

bearded ugly'ers must post !

[MountainX]

Not a single problem (apart from a known bug with the GPS).

Everything works as it should :)

[maemojedi]

Top notch stuff

simple

[sadfist]

I'm pretty pleased overall. I do have some spots on my LCD so I'm gonna have to swap the device, not a big deal.

Software-wise, the media player is definitely on the funky side. Definitely usable, but funky performance sometimes with skipping/stuttering being the worst offender. You also can't search in album view which is ******ed. The type to filter search works great in song view (and artist view I think). Today I started watching a movie, then left the media player for a moment. When I went back to resume the movie it said format not supported (tried it again just now and after about 5 seconds of the knight rider-ish lights the movie resumed, I have restarted the device and refreshed the media library since the last time I tried to play it).

The email app (at least for me, using an IMAP server) is pretty terrible, but usable. It's slow, especially loading images in HTML messages. This also worsens the performance of other underperforming apps (ie. the media player). The other thing which is super annoying is that it doesn't put sent messages or drafts on the server. To be fixed in Harmattan :-/

I'm sure apps will get streamlined and work better as time goes on (or people will make/port better ones). I love the device and the platform, but I really don't want to be hyping up the Maemo 6 device next year because of how it fixes all the problems from the N900/Maemo 5.

EDIT: The reason for this post being primarily negative is to counteract all the people saying it's "perfect" or has no problems. It's definitely a bit rough and people should be aware of what they're getting into. Everyone already knows all the awesome things the N900 is capable of (or is claimed to be capable of).

[bbns]

pretty much everyone mentioned the good sides so here I am gonna focus on the 'potential improvement side':

graphics:
N900 comes with decent sgx: unfortunately with such high resolution screen, there are some tearing problem if you have noticed that sometimes a few pixels of buttons / texts might be randomly missing. N900 has more overhead to draw each pixel than say iPhone in nature due to the number of total pixels. I don't know that is good or bad.

linux friendly but ...:
first question I have received is how to flash the device. For me it's like cake but for others it's not. It recalls me the age of Win95 when general public often has trouble to reinstall their Windows...

customer support
if you bought N900, you can't rely on Nokia support to help you because they don't know what maemo is. I bet people here are more well trained. I know this device is not for everyone. But that's not enough for new comers or new developers: They are spoiled!

this device is defintely more potential than any other phones. But you need to know how to tame it first.

[Corwin]

Thank you all for your posts, this is most interesting.
I wonder if there are really only 26 owners on this forum ;) I would suggest changing the thread title to something like

'Poll for N900 owners: Issues, dissatisfaction or pleased?'

I think that might lure a lot more people in :)

[TheUnlockr.com]

So first off, I love this device :) BUT I have a lot of issues and wanted to know if anyone else has the same problems or if my unit is defective (please let it be defective lol).
So besides all the awesome goodness that is the N900, here are MY issues so far (after about a week of use). I put them in order from greatest frustration onwards...

1. Worst battery life ever lol - Don't get me wrong I love the phone and I did use it way too much when I first got it, but I have purposely not used it very much some days just to test the battery life with "moderate use" and it still goes from fully charged to completely dead in under 5-6 hours... and yes I have the latest firmware and Wifi, Bluetooth, FM transmitter are all off during the entire time. I even turn off the internet connection as soon as I'm done using it. This has got to be my biggest complaint and I was curious if anyone else has this same issue or if my unit is defective (again please let it be defective lol).
Talked to Mugen Power and another company and they are working on an extended battery as we speak, should be ready in about 3 weeks they said, but I'm hoping they have a model that doesn't require a new back cover so my N900 doesn't get any larger than it already is, I like the size).

2. Sometimes tells me I have insufficient memory available when I don't have anything running and my memory monitor widget says only 180MBs are being used of my 1GB... seems to happen if the phone has been on the charger all night and I try to use it in the morning. Have to turn off and on to resolve the issue. And sometimes (randomly) the screen goes blank and I have to click the top button and click End Current Task to get it back.

3. My IMAP email (Gmail) is horribly slow (think I saw someone else report this too so guess its not just me). I actually stopped using it and started using my Gmail in the internet browser instead...

4. When apps are installed and then uninstalled, a lot of their files are left behind. For example, when I install Irreco and create a remote, and then uninstall it and then even FLASH the device using the Nokia Software Updater and then reinstall Irreco, my remote I created appears at start up. So not only does uninstalling an app not remove all the files from that app but even flashing the device doesn't fully erase everything. Other apps have done this as well, I fear this could cause issues later on after you have been installing a lot of apps.
Truthfully though maybe I just don't know how to fully wipe the device (I assumed the flash would do this for me, but it even keeps all of my contacts etc so I cant flash it to start over like I would like). Does anyone know how to COMPLETELY set the device back to out of box state? What files need to be deleted before I do the NSU Flash so I can start from scratch? (Yes I even go into the file manager and click Format on the N900 folder).

5. Media Player skips occasionally - not horrible but happens sometimes.

Another Issue but I think this is T-Mobile and not the phone (they are putting up 3.5 in my area and the phone even pops up with 3.5 in the status bar occassionally, no speed increase, but proof its being worked on).
6. Signal strength is worse than my previous phone on the same network. In places I used to have 2 bars I have zero now and it also seems to jump from 2G to 2.5G to 3G to 3.5G with varying signal bars randomly when I'm even laying on the couch over a period of 30 minutes...

I know that seems like a lot of bad lol But after reading what I just wrote it seems more and more apparent to me that I need to send my device in for a replacement. Just figured Id check here before I do and see if I'm not the only one.

Thanks guys!

[RevdKathy]

Wow? Battery issues? Mines been going for 10 hours today, including 7 hours on a dodgy cell-signal, a good chunk of playing and configuring and d/l about 4mb of email during the day. It's still over half full. What are you using it for?

[nuknuk]

NOT WORKING MIC fu&&^%ed.

[bugelrex]

1. Worst battery life ever lol - Don't get me wrong I love the phone and I did use it way too much when I first got it, but I have purposely not used it very much some days just to test the battery life with "moderate use" and it still goes from fully charged to completely dead in under 5-6 hours...

Have you tried to switch to use GSM/Edge only, just to see if its an issue searching for 3G draining the battery?

[TheUnlockr.com]

Wow? Battery issues? Mines been going for 10 hours today, including 7 hours on a dodgy cell-signal, a good chunk of playing and configuring and d/l about 4mb of email during the day. It's still over half full. What are you using it for?

Really?! Well when I first got it I was "excited" lol And I was surfing on it constantly etc and it would die in about 3-4 hours of hardcore use.
It lasts almost 6 hours if I barely use it, check a site once in a while, make maybe 2 phone calls, send some texts. Trust me I go through a lot of phones and I understand that battery life goes down with my crazy amount of use I usually do, but this is ridiculous...

If you use the N900 "hardcore" how long does it last you?

[TheUnlockr.com]

Have you tried to switch to use GSM/Edge only, just to see if its an issue searching for 3G draining the battery?

Not yet, I'll try that, but I did switch to 3G only and it has signal almost all the time so I would assume it could find 3G fine. I guess the issue could be that it is using a lot of power being on 3G? But that is an issue in itself, should be able to stay on 3G without causing an issue, who wants a phone they have to keep on EDGE constantly, right?

Also I've been turning off the internet connection so it is picking up 3G but no internet signal (cept when I use it I manually turn it on then turn if off again when done) and still it dies in 6 hours... weird.

I'm assuming from your responses so far though that it seems it's just me with the crappy battery life...

[sk299]

Thought it was the best thing i had ever bought (fue minor issues but nothing that wont get sorted with updates) but then i tried to phone my gf and realised my mic doesent work, have never been so depressed.

[nuknuk]

Thought it was the best thing i had ever bought (fue minor issues but nothing that wont get sorted with updates) but then i tried to phone my gf and realised my mic doesent work, have never been so depressed.

I know how you feel have you called the NOKIA
joke line yet

[RevdKathy]

Maybe my 'hardcore' use is less hard than other people's. ;) But for me, the battery is as good as any other phone/device. It's certainly going to get through the day without a top-up. I have the top-up kit in place as I suspect things like heavy camera use wil drain it. But no problem for e.

[sk299]

I know how you feel have you called the NOKIA
joke line yet

Yeah thats my bigest complaint against nokia there customer services havent got a clue.

[nuknuk]

So what are you going to do ,or what are nokia going to do.

[JayMontano]

Too early to say, though pleased so far. Basics all work - call/text and it doesn't require resetting 1000000 times to start like my n97.

Love bounce because I can actually showcase to mates something cool on a Nokia phone. Haven't been able to really do that since having proper xenon with N82.

Battery not bad, survived 9 hours - with a couple of hours of just constant online/photo taking. Battery didn't die, I made it to a charger point in time.

[hypnotik]

pretty pleased but:

* mail for exchange doesnt work for me
* ovi maps is a piece of garbage (locks up, can't find location, etc)

[sk299]

So what are you going to do ,or what are nokia going to do.

I should be called tomorow by a maemo expert who will probly tell me what i already know then hopefully get me a relacement quick because soon i will be going away for two months.

[nuknuk]

I should be called tomorow by a maemo expert who will probly tell me what i already know then hopefully get me a relacement quick because soon i will be going away for two months.

They said to me to send it back and they would repair it and would have to wait 10 days :mad:so i said you can go get f&^^%%^%^ed :D i told them i wanted a replacement they where due to call today but nowt as yet surpise surprise.

[Devil]

please keep on voting, this is going very well !!

[Enyibinakata]

Exceeds my expectation. Its like a mini computer. bbc live playing in background as I type. Best in the game in my opinion. oops man utd just scored - Rooney arghhh

[Rushmore]

Still great device, but:

Battery life:

Based on just four days of use, the N900 lasts less than the Droid by about three hours. Both devices had all radios on, but I actually used the Droid 3G and it has a 9% bigger display. Droid has a 60mah bigger battery, but should not equate to three hours more life. I do not leave open apps on the N900.

I turned off the N900 3G today, since no 3G from Tmo here, but I had to increase my wifi to the medium selection due to inconsistent signal.

Wifi:

In spite of showing full bars, the wifi connection resulted in videos always stopping dead at about 30 seconds in- in the same room as the router. Changing to medium power settings fixed this, so I guess the "full bars" have nothing to do with this.

FM radio and transmitter:

Receiver is weaker than the N-gage

Transmitter appears to only be usable if adjacent to the receiver.

[sadfist]

To the guys with battery issues: What widgets do you have on the desktop? They seem to be battery drainers. Last night my phone survived just as well as the night I described in the battery issues thread except I removed the facebook widget and left transmission running and downloaded an 800mb avi.

[chrisp7]

How can ANYONE say they havent had any software problems??? The N900 is RIDDLED with software bugs. Typical Nokia.

[chris975d]

I've had the N900 for 2 days now, and I have to say I like the potential of the device, but do not think it's ready for the masses. I've had numerous problems with it, and am going to try to reflash the firmware to see if that helps, if not, I will be selling it in the next few days.

Problems:
Constant rebooting--stopped counting at 20 reboots over the past 2 days. Doesn't seem related to any specific program or task, although most frequently happens when opening or closing the keyboard.

Will constantly drop connection with my wifi network and unable to connect to internet, when every other wifi device maintains connection and continues to access internet. This has happened on both work and home networks, which have different routers, so it's not a specific brand of router problem. Once it has dropped the wifi connection, the only way to fix it is to go into the settings, delete the wifi network, and set it up as a new connection again.

email/exchange client is slow and almost unusable. Like mentioned above, I just use Gmail in the browser instead of the email client. It's much faster this way.

Random cpu loads near 100%. Again, doesn't seem to be program specific, and can even happen with just the browser running, but cpu load will almost max out randomly, and slow the device to a crawl until the load drops.

Overall, I do like what was attempted with this device, and I think/hope most of this can be fixed with software/firmware updates, but this device doesn't seem to be on par with the software quality I see from my iPhone 3GS or my Motorola Droid. All 3 of these devices have essentially the exact same hardware (cpu & gpu), but the Maemo platform seems SO much slower than iPhone OS and Android 2.0, and the other 2 devices, in my experience, run circles around the n900 and are worlds faster in things like email, browser speed, switching between programs, and running multiple programs simultaneously than the Maemo platform right now. My iPhone is jailbroken by the way, so I am able to see the true multi-tasking capability of this hardware setup, and it's able to do it flawlessly, without too big of an impact on battery life. I don't understand why the same basic hardware in my n900 seems so taxed by mulitple programs, unless it's just very inefficiently code in the software. I would rate the 3 devices containing the same hardware as follows: iPhone 3GS--best overall smartphone for the masses (even for the "power-users" once jailbroken), n900--lots of potential, but right now, just a enthusiasts/hackers "toy/experiment", Droid---best compromise between these 2. Has good usability, but is also fairly "open" out of the box and not locked down. (good for those put off by having to jailbreak their device).

Edit: Forgot to add battery info.
Battery has been a big disappointment so far. Most of my Nokia battery experience has great, as they always seem to somehow maximize battery efficiency. But out of the 3 devices I listed, the n900 and iPhone 3GS essentially tie for the worst battery life. In my experience, the Droid's battery is, so far, amazing compared to my 3GS, it can last a full day with heavy usage and still have charge the next morning on the nights I've forgotten to recharge it. My iPhone and n900 cannot make it a full day with moderate usage without needing to be charged.

[MountainX]

Based on just four days of use, the N900 lasts less than the Droid by about three hours.

Exactly the opposite for me. N900 lasts all day easily with everything turned on. Droid only lasts all day if I turn functions (such as GPS) off.

[RevdKathy]

How can ANYONE say they havent had any software problems??? The N900 is RIDDLED with software bugs. Typical Nokia.

Cos I haven't had any problems? you want me tlie to you to support your claim that 'everyone' has probles. Not going to do it. Maybe I got lucky.

[kanishou]

So first off, I love this device :) BUT I have a lot of issues and wanted to know if anyone else has the same problems or if my unit is defective (please let it be defective lol).
So besides all the awesome goodness that is the N900, here are MY issues so far (after about a week of use). I put them in order from greatest frustration onwards...

1. Worst battery life ever lol - Don't get me wrong I love the phone and I did use it way too much when I first got it, but I have purposely not used it very much some days just to test the battery life with "moderate use" and it still goes from fully charged to completely dead in under 5-6 hours... and yes I have the latest firmware and Wifi, Bluetooth, FM transmitter are all off during the entire time. I even turn off the internet connection as soon as I'm done using it. This has got to be my biggest complaint and I was curious if anyone else has this same issue or if my unit is defective (again please let it be defective lol).
Talked to Mugen Power and another company and they are working on an extended battery as we speak, should be ready in about 3 weeks they said, but I'm hoping they have a model that doesn't require a new back cover so my N900 doesn't get any larger than it already is, I like the size).

2. Sometimes tells me I have insufficient memory available when I don't have anything running and my memory monitor widget says only 180MBs are being used of my 1GB... seems to happen if the phone has been on the charger all night and I try to use it in the morning. Have to turn off and on to resolve the issue. And sometimes (randomly) the screen goes blank and I have to click the top button and click End Current Task to get it back.

3. My IMAP email (Gmail) is horribly slow (think I saw someone else report this too so guess its not just me). I actually stopped using it and started using my Gmail in the internet browser instead...

4. When apps are installed and then uninstalled, a lot of their files are left behind. For example, when I install Irreco and create a remote, and then uninstall it and then even FLASH the device using the Nokia Software Updater and then reinstall Irreco, my remote I created appears at start up. So not only does uninstalling an app not remove all the files from that app but even flashing the device doesn't fully erase everything. Other apps have done this as well, I fear this could cause issues later on after you have been installing a lot of apps.
Truthfully though maybe I just don't know how to fully wipe the device (I assumed the flash would do this for me, but it even keeps all of my contacts etc so I cant flash it to start over like I would like). Does anyone know how to COMPLETELY set the device back to out of box state? What files need to be deleted before I do the NSU Flash so I can start from scratch? (Yes I even go into the file manager and click Format on the N900 folder).

5. Media Player skips occasionally - not horrible but happens sometimes.

Another Issue but I think this is T-Mobile and not the phone (they are putting up 3.5 in my area and the phone even pops up with 3.5 in the status bar occassionally, no speed increase, but proof its being worked on).
6. Signal strength is worse than my previous phone on the same network. In places I used to have 2 bars I have zero now and it also seems to jump from 2G to 2.5G to 3G to 3.5G with varying signal bars randomly when I'm even laying on the couch over a period of 30 minutes...

I know that seems like a lot of bad lol But after reading what I just wrote it seems more and more apparent to me that I need to send my device in for a replacement. Just figured Id check here before I do and see if I'm not the only one.

Thanks guys!

Those issues sound a lot more like third party applications / add-ons acting up rather than defective hardware.

The battery issue can't be answered easily, as that depends entirely on how much and what for you use it. Third party applications and especially widgets/plugins might cause issues. With frequent use, a couple of hours sounds about right. In standby, six hours would be completely wrong. But everything in-between is a sliding scale.

Files left behind after uninstalling or flashing should only be configuration files in your user directory. You can wipe those by wiping your user directory (including hidden files), but that shouldn't be necessary at all.

[chrisp7]

Cos I haven't had any problems? you want me tlie to you to support your claim that 'everyone' has probles. Not going to do it. Maybe I got lucky.

I simply dont believe you, sorry. Maybe your tolerance is far below mine but I doubt it.

[Enyibinakata]

How can ANYONE say they havent had any software problems??? The N900 is RIDDLED with software bugs. Typical Nokia.


I have not had such problems. Apart from inability to stream windows media its been excellent, no single reboot.
Good battery.

[RevdKathy]

I simply dont believe you, sorry. Maybe your tolerance is far below mine but I doubt it.

Thank you so much for calling me a liar. I hate to disabuse you of your delusion that everyone must be unhappy because you are, but my n900 is just fine. Still working exactly as I expected it to, and not a single thing has gone wrong. Like, apparently, over 60% ofthe respondents to your poll.

*touches all the wood she can reach*

[Enyibinakata]

I am very much impressed with the multitasking. I was streaming bbc live earlier and browsing at the same time. The n900 is much like a computer to me. At only £349 (thanks to discount coupons), this is quite a bargain. I cant wait to startmcranking out apps for this black BEAST

[Enyibinakata]

Thank you so much for calling me a liar. I hate to disabuse you of your delusion that everyone must be unhappy because you are, but my n900 is just fine. Still working exactly as I expected it to, and not a single thing has gone wrong.

*touches all the wood she can reach*

I am with you on that. Could we be so lucky ?

[MontyBravo]

%70. Thats not a great figure.

lol!

[RevdKathy]

%70. Thats not a great figure.

lol!

I guess it would depend on your tolerance. Since there's no way of indicating whether the other 30% have been major issues or a single unplaned reboot or hang... 70% with no problems at all is pretty good.

[mahousaru]

Remember to take into account signal strength for 3G in terms of battery drain. One of the rooms where I work will kill my N95 8GB if it has Fring on in ~5 hours where it normally lasts 12 hours....

But in terms of my N900, I've got the following widgets activated:

Calendar
Facebook
RSS
Weather
Location
CPU and Mem
Media and Google (but I don't think they suck power)

Got mail via exchange and imap to ovi with default settings and Skype.

Light usage* over the course of the day from 7am till nearly 12.00am and I had a sliver of red left on the battery bar :)

*Very little web browsing, mostly checking my exchange mail when I was away from the desk. Actually mostly I was fiddling with it coz it my new baby and showing it off to people.

[Rushmore]

Exactly the opposite for me. N900 lasts all day easily with everything turned on. Droid only lasts all day if I turn functions (such as GPS) off.


That is wild. I disable all apps using task killer on Droid, but some still pop back up. Been using Flash a lot on the N900, so that is probably the difference. Droid does not have to deal with it.

I got rid of widgets, since they seem an unnecessary battery drain. I prefer the app shortcuts. Use em' when you need em' and less power drain.

[sadfist]

I guess it would depend on your tolerance. Since there's no way of indicating whether the other 30% have been major issues or a single unplaned reboot or hang... 70% with no problems at all is pretty good.

Also, some people consider problems to be things like the slow, crude email client, not necessarily crashing/rebooting. I'd take the poll with a grain of salt.

[RevdKathy]

Also, some people consider problems to be things like the slow, crude email client, not necessarily crashing/rebooting. I'd take the poll with a grain of salt.

I'd have assumed people with that sort of problem would have chosen "It's not what I expected" - as in that's how it's supposed to work but they find it clunky and cumbersome. My last phones were a n95 and a c905 - the email on n900 is a doddle after that.

[sadfist]

I'd have assumed people with that sort of problem would have chosen "It's not what I expected" - as in that's how it's supposed to work but they find it clunky and cumbersome. My last phones were a n95 and a c905 - the email on n900 is a doddle after that.

Good point, but I would guess most people would pick the pleased option over the not what I expected option since it kind of implies you don't like the device/OS. The question is really too complicated for a 5 choice poll. :D

[Devil]

seems that with a complicated device there are a lot of complications.

some people are pleased and some just definetly arent.

Some related to real malfunctions, inappropriate behaviour of the device, or you could call this defect units. Other people, a lot, seem to like the device but have common issues such as battery life and software bug issues.

If i buy one i don't want to have to keep tweaking it and reinstalling, getting bugs such as rebooting and i do want to get a good battery life out of it, one way or the other. don't expect it to run 20 apps on the background and still give good battery life but something reasonable i would well.. at least expect from a phone.

[olighak]

I created this poll in order to try getting a good perspective on the actual damage which is done here, and with damage i mean how much people are experiencing problems with the N900.

See options above.

What about software AND hardware issues? I don´t think I have any yet, but there are some that have both.

[micalil]

pleased 100%.

my n900 is behaving well, no instability and no random reboot. It *has* glitches, but nothing really important.

heavy terminal use, using extras-dangerous repos and hopping between two sims and one of them is an h3g one.

[marauder]

I sold my N800 tablet to upgrade to the N900. I enjoyed my N800 even though it was quite bigger, heavier, had no phone capabilities and no hardware keyboard, but it was nontheless great for browsing when no pc was available.

Now I've had my N900 for about one week, I have played around a little with it. Overall I am happy about the device and how it performs (multitasking and browsing is just great, so much better than N800 and N97 I've had for a month), but there are some bugs that I hope will be solved with the next firmware updates.

The issues I have found up to now are:

battery: I usually manage to get a full day with moderate use of wifi/3G connection enabled for a couple of hours, but a couple of times I saw the fully chaged battery get empty in less than 8 hours with the phone being idle. I could feel the battery get warm as if something was draining it fast, but no connection was active.
The second time this happened, I saw the battery starting to get empty, I rebooted the device and the draining of the battery stopped. I have the feeling that this is somehow software related (something hangs?)

wifi: occasionally the device will not find the wifi router (no, I'm not too far away). In this case I reboot the N900 and the router pops out again. This happened 2 times.

onscreen keyboard: occasionally the onscreen keyboard pops up, but it does not work, I have to close it reopen it and everything's fine. I know the hardware keyboard is better, but if I have to type something quick I prefer the onscreen one.

phone: my operator in Italy allows me to get some informations on my account (money left on account, data transferred etc.) by dialing # followed by a sequence of numbers, This has always worked on all phones except the N900. Any phone number that starts with the # simbol will give a "wrong number" error message. Trying to make the phone smarter Nokia raised an issue.

On top of this this, I think it would have been nice to be able to send sms messages from the phone menu, and reorganize (move/make new folders) the small "system" icons.

I do miss some of the applications that are available for the symbian platform... "handy safe" from epocware is one of these.

[marauder]

Another small issue... I am not able to set a sound file I uploaded to the phone (ringtone folder in sounds, where all the other ringtones are) as a ringtone in the profile menu, unless I change it's name to one of the preloaded ringtones.

If I change the name of one of the preloaded ringtones to something different, I will not find it when I try to set the ringtone in the profile menu.


Somebody else tried this?

[RevdKathy]

Another small issue... I am not able to set a sound file I uploaded to the phone (ringtone folder in sounds, where all the other ringtones are) as a ringtone in the profile menu, unless I change it's name to one of the preloaded ringtones.

If I change the name of one of the preloaded ringtones to something different, I will not find it when I try to set the ringtone in the profile menu.


Somebody else tried this?

menu> settings>profile... scroll down. Click on the tone you want to change, and choose 'add'... it should show our entire music library.

[Bollen]

In a way i can't accept all these problems with this device floating around this forum...was so much looking forward to get this phone/tablet then got it on thurs , but it was a dud (no screen display when booting device) sent it straight back on fri and now not sure to get a replacement or a refund.

[thinh]

what about pleased+issues?

+1, i'm pleased with it but clearly there's more work to be done but worth the wait indeed

[olighak]

I said pleased with N900 no problems.

That said, there are feature issues that I am sure the Maemo team is busy working on.

[msa]

It *has* glitches, but nothing really important.

so minor issues that will propably be fixed with patches over the time?

[Rivers]

Hi all, first post would just like to say i have had no real problems with my N900. I have chosen to reboot/restart after each install with minor glitches, I am refraining from installing every app out there as i am a realist and just want to get used to the device and use it as a mobile computer. N900 is 100% better than the N97 at browsing which i struggled with for 4 months. It is glitchy/jerky at times but the browser is extremely useable and i know will be improved with firmware. being able to view full web pages is great.

[RevdKathy]

Hi all, first post would just like to say i have had no real problems with my N900. I have chosen to reboot/restart after each install with minor glitches, I am refraining from installing every app out there as i am a realist and just want to get used to the device and use it as a mobile computer. N900 is 100% better than the N97 at browsing which i struggled with for 4 months. It is glitchy/jerky at times but the browser is extremely useable and i know will be improved with firmware. being able to view full web pages is great.

Are you channeling me?

Good, sensible post. :)

[Rivers]

Are you channeling me?

Good, sensible post. :)

thankyou : ) and a week on its even better it takes a while for you to adjust/morph with your device its now second nature flipping through open apps with little need to go back to app menu. truly a very competent web browser in your pocket and so much more will only get better with time
as a medium user probably 2 hours browsing have been out of the house since 8am and typing this out now at 7pm on same charge with 1 hour driving with FM transmitter on (which sounds great and very clear)

sorry dont get channeling you?! im a bit slow

[asilis]

I'm absolutely pleased with the device. I've been hardcore Nokia user for 12 years and this is definitely the best device ever used (but have used only week).

Of course, there are few glitches but hopefully they will be solved with software/firmware upgrades. What I have found by know:
- A-GPS is very, very slow to locate and somehow was not very precise, but external GPS unit (LD-3W) works perfect with N900
- Sometimes it slows when starting application, but cannot recognize any pattern yet.
- Mail for Exchange sometimes has a weird gaps and it is not yet clear why e-mail is not received on timely manner (I have set 5 minute timeframe for refresh as well as adjusted working hours).

There is some missing functionality from regular Nokia phone which I'm surprised, but hopefully it will be added:
- Only 3 profiles (General, Offline, Silent). Usually was more
- Couldn't find a way how to define specific ringtone to contact or group as well as how to create groups
- Callers log doesn't keep all the info. If you have missed call and return a call information about the missed call is gone. At least I couldn't find. I bet it is stored somewhere but software doesn't show
- Nokia Suite doesn't support fully the phone and Ovi Suite doesn't support at all.
- It is not possible to use Bluetooth connection to use N900 as modem for laptop (what I really loved to use with my E65)
- It is not possible to define data limitations for other e-mail configurations. I have configured my GMail account which has lot of e-mails since 2006 and it has retrieved only part of it with old stuff up to 2007. As soon as I delete some old e-mails, I receive another set of 'new' e-mails from 2007. Seems like it has limitation how much data allocate, but it is not configurable.
- you cannot define default calendar for new events if it is not the first one.
- Couldn't find voice calling.

From things I don't like:
- it is not possible to dial number with one touch (and without looking at the device) :)
- Shift is only on left side, so writing capital letters on left side is quite chalanging

.. otherwise I love the device and there are way more great stuff included.
Andris

[asilis]

Another thing - As soon as you add phone number, system adds the same number for sms sending. There is no way to delete sms number for landlines.