Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Do you have the PR 1.2 firmware installed? By your prompt I would guess not...

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

yeah, i'm sure. how can i check?

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

I am not sure but you can try:
This is what I get on mine:
It is odd that your prompt is not "Nokia-N900" ... it seems to include the version used on PR1.1 (Nokia-N900-51-1)

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Nokia-N900-51-1:~# dpkg-query -l *kernel*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii kernel 2.6.28-2010150 Flashable Linux kernel
ii kernel-flasher 2.6.28-2010150 Linux kernel updater
ii kernel-modules 2.6.28-2010150 Linux kernel modules
Nokia-N900-51-1:~#


thats the result

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

There is something very strange going on but I don't know what it is.

Assuming that all your other applications are running without issue for now I would suggest you download the libqtm-contacts package and install it directly - it may work and allow you to install mycontacts.

You can download the latest version here:
http://repository.maemo.org/pool/mae...emo1_armel.deb

Keep me posted

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

It works! thanks for all of your help. downloaded the deb, installed through xterminal. then installed my contacts! all is good, really good app, thanks!

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Hi Fcrochik,
I installed this yesterday and this is wonderful. Thank you.
I also wanted to add my request for the widget auto-restart.
Thanks

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

New Release just uploaded to the repository.

This is probably the most unstable release yet. Because so much has changed I decided to publish it anyway so YOU can help me test it.

The previous version is now on extras-testing so, if this version does not work for you, you can always install the previous one from there.

This new version includes support for telepathy accounts, in other words, finally you can start a skype conversation or call from mycontacts. But this is not all now you access all the IM-VOIP accounts you setup on your phone. I have successfully tested: skype, google voice (using theonering), google talk and sip. Please post about your experiences with other services on this thread.

Finally you can have just one button for each "phone number" and still call it anyway you want. You can define the "routing priorities" separately for "local calls", "international calls", "local sms" and international "sms". For example you can define that when calling an international number it should try skype first (if you are online), then "google voice/tor" (if you are online) and then skype out assuming that you have phone service. All user definable. Same thing with SMS you can have it use TOR if you are connected, then Fast SMS if you are holding the phone on portrait mode and finally the "default" sms.

When placing a call if you hold the "phone number button" a little longer you will get the "phone" application instead of initiating the call directly.

Tired already? Me too... but there is more: now you can start "skype out" and "google voice" calls directly from mycontacts.

By the way with this version you also get a button to send MMS (through fMMS).

This is not all but hopefully enough to get you to install this new version, right?

Make sure to check the "settings" and "online accounts" options on the menu.

Some Notes:

• You can still use VICaR to handle Calling cards (and/or skype out and google voice calls). VICaR will allow you more flexibility when handling SkypeOut or GoogleVoice but you can only setup it to handle one of them.
• As now the "online accounts" window will not show "TOR" contacts
• Placing calls through SkpeOut or Google Voice (dial out) takes about 20 seconds.
• The online accounts (skype, sip, ...) will show with "ugly" names on the "routing settings" to help me debug issues ... I will make them user friendly once we get to a stable release

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Felipe...qdo acha que vai conseguir suporte a mp3 e mp4(aac)?
Btw...I found the problem that prevented me from installing it, I have two facebook accounts set on my n900, that made the program crash everytime I tried to start it.

Good job anyway!

Rodrigo

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

fcrochik, could I ask why it shows Google Voice and TOR in the list of services you can add? o.O

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Sure....

TOR is epage's implementation of a "google voice" client as a telepathy account that will "request" a call using the internet (data plan). The Google Voice I implemented works in a different way: it just emulates you calling your google voice number to place a call.... mainly it just "pushes" the keys for you.

TOR can handle SMS while the "call out" version can't. I haven't tested but I would also assume that TOR is quicker to place a call.

If you don't use Google Voice to send/receive SMS (or just have google forward them to your phone number) then the "google voice call out" option may save you battery (it does not need any process running in the background) and will not require any kind of data connection.

The truth is that my implementation is a very low tech solution that was easy enough to implement and quite simple to use. TOR is a much more complex and robust solution... It is all about picking what works better for you...

And just because options are great: you can also set MyContacts to use VICaR to place a google voice call. It will do exactly the same thing that MyContacts does (call and send the DTMF tones) but will allow some fine tuning on what tones get sent.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

When using VICaR and Google Voice (Non-TOR option) you will be charged by your Mobile operator for calling your GV number. With TOR you are getting charged for data. So you can choose which one is suitable for your needs.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

I noticed a problem with custom ringtones for groups in the newest version of the app. When they stopped working i looked at the log. Here is what is in it:
As I can see from this line:"(CRT) Ring tone was changed. File is probably busy righ now.... not managing ring tone anymore" due to some problem MyContacts stopped managing ringtones. What can be the issue?

PS. Number xxxxxxx in one and same in every call.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Have you tried to change the "profile ring tone" while mycontacts was running?

That is what the application detected.

If you "shutdown" the application from the menu and start again everything should be "good" again... For now anytime you want to change the "default" ring tone you need to make sure to first shutdown mycontacts.

Let me know if restarting the application fixes the issue.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

fcrochik

Can i first say what a brilliant app this is. However, whenever i restart i lose the widget, you know the actual box with the Contacts and friends faces!

Looked through all the thread and cant see how to have that loaded on a desktop when the phone starts.

Help

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Thanks for the explanation. I was just wondering what the difference between the two was. Especially since Google Voice doesn't show up for SMS, but TOR did lol.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

OK....I give up... After such nice words I couldn't bring myself to say again that you just can't ... :)

I went looking and found an easy work around: create a file called mycontacts on /etc/event.d with these contents

Notes:

• Thanks venemo for the "script" (I just copied what he has for sticky notes).
• You have to create the file as root
• If you remove the "#" from the respwan line the application will restart automatically (you won't be able to get rid of it). With the "#" it will start every time you restart the phone and you will still be able to stop it by selecting "shutdown"
• By running the application like this you the application will not update the log file - I will change this on a future release.
• If you decide that you don't want mycontacts to start automatically you will need to remove the file manually... and if, for any reason, you decide to uninstall mycontacts you should first remove this file.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Just saw this post. It seems that soon enough you will have one more option for google voice calls on mycontacts. :)

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

May I recommend grouping them?

Like..

GV - Google Voice
GV - TOR
GV - qgvdial

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

I can only "rename" the ones that I implemented directly (right now only "google voice dial out")... I will also be able to name the "qgvdial" any way I want... all the others (including TOR) will use whatever is the "Display Name" assigned to the telepathy account - the beauty of telepathy is that I don't actually need to know what accounts are available so I don't want to have to hard code anything about them. I hope it makes sense...

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

It makes sense. Just trying to think of a way to better organize them, didn't know it was that complex. :)

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

If you mean changing ringtones in device profiles - no.

Restarting MyContacts restores normal operation of ringtone function. I will let you know if I find more info.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Thanks a lot for this great application!
One question though, do you happen to know where the contact thumbnails are saved on the N900? After syncing my Nokia 5800 with my N900, I have a couple of contacts with thumbnails. However these thumbnails do not show in my photogallery. I'd like to add new thumbnails to some of my other contacts, but do not know where to place them on the N900 to keep them from showing up in the gallery.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

I don't know where they are stored but it should not matter. You can copy the images to any folder on your n900, assign one by one to the contacts and then remove the images. The contact application will make a copy of them and cache them somewhere else.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Thanks for the reply, after I restarted MyContacts it worked like a charm :)

I do have 2 feature requests though.
1: Could you implement an option to change the groups? We have 5 groups now, but I only need 3 of them. Could you include an option in the widget to hide the empty groups?
2: I put 5 contacts in a particular group, but then wanted to add another contact who should be displayed first. This was impossible, so I had to delete the first 5 contacts so I could add the new one to be displayed first. Could you add an option to manually change the order?

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

I will add to the list...

In order to do so I need to find some place buttons - bottom of list on the right? I first thought about having some kind of drag and drop but that will not work because how you scroll...

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

I don't know if you've considered it. But how about a tap and replace? Similar to how the application launcher does it in PR 1.2.

Though that means you'd have to have some way to switch between tap to delete and tap to move.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Tell you the truth it is not the simplest thing to implement. I would start by either having the buttons or having a pop-up menu... Either one is easy enough to implement. What would you all prefer?

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Great app! Makes me love my N900 even more. One idea: would it be possible to make the contacts section of the widget to fold in/out when you press the group icon? That way you don't need an entire desktop for the widget, so less scrolling through desktops.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

In theory it is possible... I will play with the idea...

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Pop-up menu would be cleaner since the interface is already pretty crowded.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

New Release uploaded to extras-devel - 0.9.10

This release bring a few new features but a major "internal" cleanup.

The new features:

• Integration with qgvdial to places google voice calls.
• Call routing window now show "account" names and has some extra options
• The package now includes a script that will start mycontacts automatically every time the phone is rebooted.

MyContacts as now can initiate google voice calls 3 different ways: using TOR (telepathy), using qgvdial and calling your google voice number and sending the DTMF tones for you.


IMPORTANT: Make sure to review your "call routing settings" after installing this update

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

nice work dude.... one thing i need to confirm is the group ringtone funtionable? i open the folder but dun see any files. what format its supported?

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Thanks.

Yes. It is functional but it only accepts wav files. This is actually a phone constraint... if you want/need more information about we have plenty of other posts on this thread about the same subject.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

Some minor changes on this release. Mainly the way you use MyContacts to select a phone number for FastSMS has been improved: now when trying to select a phone number for a contact with more than one phone number you will be able to pick which phone number you want.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

when swiping through the 4 home screens, if i touch the 5 group buttons it changes the group, when i dont want it to,
apart from that im very happy that it is on my desktop after booting phone, would be nice if i didnt have to exit the main app after booting, but app is very nice now!
thanks for the hard work

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

I still have to find a fix for the group issue... The only one I found would delay switching groups and I did not like it. I will revisit the issue.

I also will add to my list to not show the "main window" when restarting the phone.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

MyContacts stopped handling ringtone for incoming call again. Same error: "(CRT) Ring tone was changed. File is probably busy righ now.... not managing ring tone anymore".

This time I am sure I have not done any changes for profile ringtones. What can be the reason for that behavior?

PS. Restart solves it.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

This exact message is only generated in one place and supposedly only when detects that the "ring tone" changed for the "current profile".

Would you mind sending me (PM) the log that contains this message?

On the next release I will include some more "debug" information about the "ring tone" being changed so we can track it down.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click
 

I am sorry, but I just updated to last version of MyContacts and log with the error is gone....If it happen again I will copy the log and send it to you.