Quick Feedback. Now successfully updated Canola2 2.0.0-beta5-maemo3 on the following NIT's and confirm working well on all three devices.
N800 & N810 with OS2008, Very Good!
N770 with OS2006 Great, but..
Slow to start up, not great with videos, as Nokia 770 hardware (& limited swap size?) struggle to support Canola UI and mplayer at the same time. (I tend to use mplayer on its own when playing movies on Nokia 770)
Users with devices running OS2006/2007 Please Note:
Underlying issue with filenames with accented characters in filename not being found by scanner are an issue. However as I explained in my blog post if the accents are removed from the filename (only) tracks play fine and now also supported accented tagging in version beta5 meamo3.
Regarding canola-tuning 0.3.0-maemo2 and Video Thumb and Album Cover. Everything fine on N800/810 with OS2008 but on Nokia 770 and OS2006 for some reason album cover does not seem to start, Video Thumb works fine. (earlier versions of album cover worked?)
---edit--- I had a doahh moment, don't forget to be connected to Internet when using album cover app to update album covers. The program does not start if Internet is not connected and does not currently give any reason why. That was my problem, everything fine on all NITs
after all those "problem" installations, i just wanted to tell you that since i started installing canola2 on my n810 at the end of january, i never encountered a single problem while updating (knocking on wood). I never had to to use the commandline (knocking on tree) and never had any suspicious characters on any title (shacking the entire forest )
I am just completely astonished how you keep this development speed still supporting "3" plattforms
Anyway the new zoom feature in the photo-section is really wonderfull, as i am a photo geek and love to zoom around to see details on pictures taken from my family. Is there a chance (i know screen only but...) to use the +/- on top of our device for a seamless / smooth zoom in / out (just like ps3 photo-browser if known). When using those buttons it would not be necessary to show the onscreen menu in the photo section so one could watch his photos without distraction of the onscreen display poping up and away while zooming. The existing zoom "steps" via onscreen should of course remain. We can use +/- for volume in music and as the buttons are not used when playing music and watching pictures (cannot change volume in picture mode what doesn't disturb me), i thought this would be a nice addition.
Ah yes and two more things: rotation left and right and perhaps remember the selected rotation / picture orientation, if it is not the default one (still have old pics from camera without sensor). As you probably store thumbs in a database, you can perhaps add this information so you even don't have to rewrite the original pic...
Not sure if it's an error: when selecting shuffle during music playback and selecting next, my song starts from beginning but does not change. Back seems to go back but not to a random song...
As always, keep up this wonderfull work, the team is always able to amaze again...
Cheers from Germany (reason for bad english sorry) MiBi
About the freezing, I haven't received bugs about that yet, but if you can find a way.
but it really seems even more that there's something happening now and then in the installation (not for everyone) like corrupted packages being accepted as good by the application installer resulting on broken installations... that leads to problems.
So, did you install other applications before installing canola on your last reflash?
Yes, I did install a number of other applications prior to installing Canola. I suspect that either one of them broke something that caused problems for Canola or, as you suggested, the Application Manager accepted a packaged that had been corrupted during transfer.
I am experiencing a problem with the new beta 5. It some how manages to only find the music on one of my sd cards. The sdhc card for some reason never returns any valid music files on a library refresh. The last version i was using found all of my music just fine. Any ideas on how i might address this problem?
Did you check if everything is fine in other applications (just to make sure is not a "damaged" disk or something? Sometimes a small corrupted file in the disk can break us... maybe between the installation disk got corrupted... and the scanner is not able to see it. If it folder is set to watch (the V on the eye) and nothing is appearing... we will try to help you, but all other users that have reported it had some issues in the disk, or the memory not with canola.
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