Hey everyone,

I recently bought the N900 and I really enjoy the interface, but I'm having some problems. I've read some threads on this website and I've found that the community members and posts are all really helpful and polite so I decided I would post my issues here and see if anyone has had similar problems and/or has solutions for them.

1. The media player widget gives trouble sometimes. The 'Play' button stops working.

2. I have no idea how to remove songs from a created playlist. (Creating a playlist in and of itself is difficult enough)

3. There is no commonly used IM service or client available for the phone. I have no idea what Jabber or SIP are. Noone I know has Google Talk or Ovi. I read about telepathy-haze/butterfly, but I honestly don't understand what has to be done. I downloaded aMSN but that application has so many bugs, it's ridiculous (stops the media player widget, cannot scroll down IM contacts, cannot turn off alerts, slows down the phone...just to name a few)

4. When i change my theme (mine only came with 2 themes btw), the outline for the contact shortcuts i have on my screen remains the colour of the previous theme.

5. If the phone rings in your pocket and you attempt to take it out to answer, the chances of pressing the end button are quite high. This has no solution but I just wanted to voice it.

6. The speaker volume, when I adjust it during a call, does not remain at the level that I put it at when another call comes in. As in, i answer the phone, turn up the volume to hear the person better, hang up, get another call, answer it, and have to turn up the volume again because it did not remain where i put it the last time.

....and, finally, one of the most annoying problems.....

7. The phone (or maybe its the PC Suite movie manager) does not support and cannot convert alot of my movies (especially *.avi). I don't understand why. As a matter of fact, in PC Suite, the movie manager is sometimes the only function that doesn't recognize that there is a phone attached. Every other one does however. This one was driving me crazy.

Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated.

I just put avi files without any converting and they play just fine.

Hey! MSN/Live support is coming, but it's still a bit buggy. I've tried it out, and I'd recommend staying away until it appears in Extras. The most annoying bug is that it loads contacts that you deleted ages ago (this is to do with the way the servers work). But the way it integrates into conversations and contacts is slick - very much looking forward to it

Until then, I've stuck to Pidgin. It's more feature-complete and less buggy IMHO (although it's not as slick).

Wrto item 7. Use Format Factory to convert any video so that it plays on the N900. Check my thread here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=37081

Hey, for Pidgin...can I just go on the website from my N900 and download it? or is there some extra step i should know about?

It already exists in the Maemo extras-repository I believe.
Maybe still in the testing but I'm sure I downloaded it from one of those

Jabber/XMPP - a very usable open IM protocol that also supports transports so that one can actually use other IM services through it... Example: MSN, ICQ, Yahoo.
Google Talk is also Jabber/XMPP based. Not sure about Ovi but might be as well.

SIP - Session Initiation Protocol - this is an open protocol for establishing and handling VoIP calls

Looks like it requires a system infected with microsoft products.

tablet-encode is crossplatform

Adding haze is not that difficult, but has dangers. It's within the Extras-Devel catalog. See this:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-devel

I added it only to add telephony-haze, and plan to touch nothing else in there. Use caution. I did it because I felt seriously limited with the protocols that it shipped with.

As for #5: Instead of being an end button how about a slider to end a call? Not as quick as a button but less likely to be acidentilly activated.

Is the phone application open source?