Deaconclgi 13 hours ago in reply to cddiede
There are more bug fixes than you can shake a can of Raid at! My N900 is smoother and faster than ever before. Problem is, people complained about "buggy" PR1.2 and then when a lot of bugs are fixed, they complain about "lack of new features" PR1.3 while forgetting that most of their previous complaints have been resolved. I am seeing better CPU/GPU management, faster email fetching, better UI rotation and speed, faster and more stable browsing, clearer youtube playback, almost no pulse audio stuttering when multitasking, UI NOT freezing like on 1.2 when using the application manager, less stuttering when recording video and quicker autofocus (OC kernel causes more stuttering) and better ram management. All of these are worthy updates that make using the N900 more enjoyable. A lot of complaints also stem from the fact that almost no 2 N900 setups are alike, we all customized our devices to the edge and some people have issues, missing settings or "don't notice any improvement over my pr1.2 hildon hack" In all fairness, we can't expect Nokia to fix problems that we may have caused by our own hackery so I am MORE than excited to see Nokia tighten up and fix core Maemo elements. We can build our new hacks on a faster and more stable codebase. Now...let us get ahold of more Meego bits and get QTmobile and Quick porting! Here's looking at you Meego Flash 10.1....
Thank you Nokia for fixing the bugs and keeping the N900 compatible with the Symbian and Meego QT development framework.Thanks to the OP for this topic.
I need 2 regular Nokia phone feature, but still missing in PR1.3. I will thanks Nokia if they implement them.
1. USSD code is still not working e.g. **21*xxxxxxxx# (not support in PR1.3). We used it for callforwarding in Hong Kong and I believe it applied to many countries. This feature was available in my first mobile phone 10 years ago!!
2. Google Contact Sync. Can someone confirm if this one is working in PR1.3? This has been a standard in rest of Nokia phone in past few years.
Nokia, please read this!!
wait, what?
am I doing something wrong because I use both of those daily?
2. From what I understand, MfE is ok to sync for first time, but not subsquence. I didn't test on PR1.3 but I don't see anything from the changelog people posted
personally i think that from to be a little happy whit the update (at least i can see nokia dont totally forget the n900) to have to say thanks to nokia there is a veeeery long way, i dont feel any change in my phone after the update, all working exactly same and to think that a full army of programers works more than 6 months to give us only this ridiculous update makes me very sad, a lot of singles person in this comunity give us more usefull aplications only working some weeks, you dont must to forget that for me, for example more than 90% of the aplications i use are created for people of this comunity, not for nokia.
went i can see more than 1000 aplications in ovistore, maps working like other nokia models, flash 10, video calls, and a lot of other stuf can find in any cheaper phone, then i would say thanks to nokia, but for now this post is to say THANKS to Matan, NononoYes, Nicolai, MohammedAG, D-livil, and a lot more of people that deserve it more.
dont know why, after upgrading to PR1.3, I can feels the N900 is more smoother (without swappolube running) on its GUI when under heavy loads, like web browsing, playing musics and running the damn slow application manager in background.
Thanks devs for this tuning update.
Now testing the out of the box pr1.3 w/o all the habitual performance enhancing utilities and tweaks.
Counting missed calls due to multitasking load, counting the uptime until reboot required to get things going smoothly again. Will evaluate later, but this could be a winner. (aprt from bluetooth peripheral support, pr1.2 was amazingly and uniquely feature complete to me)
So far, bat life seems very ok.
Also big thanks to devs of Swappolube and others to show Nokia the way while on pr1.2.
