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unrealbr
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karkelo
Unfortunately my 5800 (firmware version 50.0.005) freezes after filling in the account information, while trying to fetch the posts. Only solution: removing the battery.
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Karmenlv
im up to… getting an app to WP on my n97 mini xD
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futusaber
0.7.3 Released
This release is primarily targeted toward non-touch phone users, as the improvements are mostly related to keyboard navigation. Another week of developing has brought the following new features:
- At least 97% of the UI should be navigable with the keyboard now, please report any problems you might have. We will also be doing some testing next week to be sure everything is working.
- Long comments can be scrolled with the keyboard
- Focus and scrolling are kept in sync better in lists
- Key presses in platform dialogs shouldn’t leak through to the application as they did before
- list items are smaller on low resolution devices, so you can see more at onceThe E71 deadlock which was in our previous release has been worked around. We are real sorry about this one, but it seemed to be a rather obscure Qt bug we were facing. Hopefully it wont be encountered by anyone anymore!
While working at keyboard support, we noticed that the image upload selection list truly is broken on Symbian. This shows the difficulty of developing for multiple platforms, as we didn’t realize the extent of the breakage until now, as Maemo builds were working fine. Fixing the image selection view will be high on our priority list next week.
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S60 Smart Installer: WordPress_0_7_3_selfsigned_installer.sis (initial install)
S60 SIS package: WordPress_0_7_3_selfsigned.sis (upgrade)N900: Install wordpress from extras-devel
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futusaber
First preview release towards E-series support – 0.7.2
We’ve been working on re-enabling support for non-touch devices for about a week now, and have come far enough to release. Version 0.7.2 includes the following changes:
- Improved keyboard navigation support
- Improved low resolution display support
- Some minor UI tweaks
- Some optimizations in refreshing (rebuilt post category view)Keyboard navigation and low resolution support are still work in progress. You might still get stuck in some views, and some parts of the UI are too big, but mostly it is functional.
NB! With one specific Symbian device, we ran into a seemingly random deadlock situation, which went away eventually. Your phone might deadlock shortly after starting the application, forcing you to remove the battery to reboot. This should not harm your phone, but you could loose any unsaved data. You have been warned!
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he S60 build is availble as a self-signed SIS package, and a smart installer which will automatically install the Qt dependencies if needed. The maemo build is available from the extras-devel repository.
S60 Smart Installer: WordPress_0_7_2_selfsigned_installer.sis (initial install)
S60 SIS package: WordPress_0_7_2_selfsigned.sis (upgrade)N900: Install wordpress from extras-devel
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gordon tant
just installed this update, one instant thing is layout, this has changed a bit.
A couple of things I also noticed is missing, cursor control within the body text area, and highlighting a button – not all change colour.
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gerrymoth
Updated on my N900 and its not refreshing correctly and screen goes blank randomly.
I tried to refresh comments and it said it was refreshing pages, then fails to do anything?
When moving between blog accounts the comments completely disappear and I need to force close and open again before they appear.
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Hotzigetty
Updated. Can finally use the menu!! So far has been pretty good.
1) the autocomplete is on overdrive!!
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Jorge Lopez
Thanks for this update.
I can use the Menu now XD. Please how can I do use the keyboard shorcuts?
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Joao Luis
On the E71 with FW 500.x.x, it isn’t working, freezes the device after inserting , blog, user, password etc. and clicking on save…………. Have to remove battery to restart as nothing works. Had to hard reset and havent installed again, same thing. Given up!
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terom
Minor 0.7.1 Maintenance Release
We’ve pushed a small update to fix a couple UI issues on Symbian touchscreen devices, plus some improvements to how the location geo-tagging feature stores the coordinates in posts.
For Maemo users, we’ve also enabled Portrait mode in the UI, so you should be able to flip your N900 around (with the keyboard slider closed) to trade some width for height. It’s a fun little feature, but unfortunately there’s no on-screen keyboard in Portrait mode.
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The S60 build is availble as a self-signed SIS package, and a smart installer which will automatically install the Qt dependencies if needed. The maemo build is available from the extras-devel repository.
S60 Smart Installer: WordPress_0_7_1_selfsigned_installer.sis (initial install)
S60 SIS package: WordPress_0_7_1_selfsigned.sis (upgrade)N900: Install wordpress from extras-devel
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Hotzigetty
How can I remove the user data? Unable to delete or edit a blog. And I can’t find wordpress data in /home/user
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Hotzigetty
Yup. 1) When i try to switch between blogs it just goes to a blank screen and dies.
2) Sometimes it fails to sync local drafts with drafts online. same with status: I tried publishing a post, the status said published but it wasnt.
3) Tried removing one blog, again, the app shut down. after a day and few attempts to switch blogs, the blog i was trying to delete was finally removed.
4) hyperlinks and photo uploads show up as failed html comands online.
5) unable to add new blogs without the http:// .. (mentioned this because the post says that’s part of the changelog)
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Hotzigetty
Yup running 0.7.1 …
Yup raw html… WP 3, without any editing plugins..
anything i can do to enable logging and send you guys the data>?
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Michael Kean
I’ve just got it up and running on the Nokia E51 – an old phone by today’s standards with quite a small, portrait screen and number / navi pad only.
There are some usability issues on this phone. When first setting it up, there is no way to tell whether you’re on the save or cancel button, but eventually you can fluke it. (Down once gets to save, down again seems to get to cancel – got plenty of practise typing the URL and cred’s in…)
Occasionally a menu of options will appear, but quite often it’s not possible to navigate through this menu.
Dialog boxes such as enable XML can’t be clicked and the app has to be force exited.
Once it’s set up, it seems to be possible to write a new post without too much drama.
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Michael Kean
Edit to last: It appears that one or more required keys to operate this app are not supported on the E51′s keypad. The direction pad only works for up and down it seems. It’s possible, with persistence, to write a blog post; but it’s not possible to ‘publish’ it.
I’ll wait until my Bluetooth keyboard arrives and try again. In the mean time, here’s an example screenshot of the E51 and how it gets stuck
(Weird looking Picasa Image URL.)http://lh5.ggpht.com/_NLoFolZ2mFo/TD8YDlsbU4I/AAAAAAAAEm4/clczYapitYA/s400/MVC-247F.JPG
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Michael Kean
Aah
I read that about the E series, but I didn’t twig that the issue was non-touch related. I’ll wait… In the mean time I managed to get WordMobi to work, once your app told me I hadn’t turned on RPC XML. (WM just gave a cryptic error instead.) My main blog’s still a B2Evolution one so I’m a bit of a n00b on WordPress, and the ability to interact via Symbian is the catalyst for change. -
Ara
I can’t connect to my blog, http://krte.org on my Nokia 5530 Xpress Music. Anyone having the same problem? I don’t think the 5530 is the cause since it works with my wordpress.com blog.
I uninsalled and installed again twice. First said host not found and now says error downloading -
Andre
hi, i got my mum an n97 mini so she can use it on her bike travel through europe. we updated the firmware to 12.0.110 – now i understand we need to install the qt framework which is 10mb or did this already come with the 12.0.110 firmware? will we run in to some ram problems if we install this? and what do we have to be aware off? thanks for your help and for developing this client.
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futubanister
News for E71, E72, E63 and E75 owners
Hello all,
after getting your feedback especially regarding the support for keyboard phones we have decided that the next 3 weeks will be spent in making the E-series experience as good as possible – including
- keyboard navigation
- overall usability
- small screen layout
- keyboard shortcuts (I’m a fan of Opera Mini shortcut system – we might borrow some ideas from there)
- other necessary tweaks and bug fixesMe and futusaber will be posting weekly builds and the goal is to release the keyboard optimized small-screen build by the end of July.
Thanks for the patience dear E-series users – we haven’t forgotten you.
Edit: Removed E5 from the title – it’s not yet available so there are no owners. E75 is actually much more relevant.
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Joao Luis
Thanks guys, you’re the best. We sometimes feel left out with loads of apps when it comes to the E series phones.
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suyog
@Shilpesh, How and from where you got E5? either you must be working for Nokia or Eldar
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Jorge Lopez
Thanks guys !!!, for Nokia E7x is very important the vertical scroll or a new window for read the comments.
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terom
0.7.0 Release
So. Our previous development release was version 0.6.99. What version number comes after .99? We thought that 0.6.100 would be a little ugly, so we’re going to call this 0.7.0 instead. It isn’t a fully QA-verified dot-zero release, but we’re now a major step forward from 0.6.0.
Compared to 0.6.9x, we’ve done some fairly major changes to the UI code. For the more technically inclined, this means that we went back from a fullscreen QGraphicsView-based UI to a normal QWidget-based UI (with a QGraphicsView in the middle). For the rest of you, this just means good news, because the new UI looks (almost) exactly the same as the 0.6.9x UI, but it resolves a lot of our previous UI issues.
Maemo keyboard input works now. Sticky-shift, auto-caps, word completion, áccents, ümlauts, on-screen keyboard, etc.
Symbian keyboard input also works better, and a lot of other UI issues are gone.Looking back at our original Version 0.7 – what’s going to happen post, we’ve come a long way along with those targets:
* New UI? Check.
* Better backend in terms of UI updates? Check.
* Keyboard navigation? Sorry E71 users, but we’re not quite there yet
So, this 0.7.0 release represents what we believe to finally be a working implementation of our new UI/backend concept. No doubt, however, there are still many unpolished corners, so we’re going to be pushing new 0.7.x releases to fix these at the same pace we’ve been pushing the 0.6.9x releases.
As a bonus for N900 users, we’ve also included the first version of a new Geo-location tagging feature for blog posts in the maemo build. Note, however, that this requires a supporting plugin on the wordpress side, but said plugin unfortunately isn’t yet available.
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The S60 build is availble as a self-signed SIS package, requiring Qt 4.6.3 (QtMobility 1.0.1 is already included). The maemo build is available from the extras-devel repository.
S60: WordPress_0_7_0_selfsigned.sis
An updated Smart Installer build is not yet immediately available, but will be uploaded in the immediate future.
N900: Install wordpress from extras-devel
We’re looking to promote this 0.7.0 build (or a very close relative) to extras-testing in the immediate future as well.
Edit: Symbian Smart installer build: http://nokia.trac.wordpress.org/export/446/builds/symbian/testing/WordPress_0_7_0_selfsigned_installer.sis
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Micky
Sorry I can no longer help, and assist the development of WordPress for Symbian at this time due to selling my crippled N97.
Keep up the good work, and I hope to see you again once I own a Symbian^3 or 4 handset from Nokia.
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Joao Luis
“Keyboard navigation? Sorry E71 users, but we’re not quite there yet” Saddened to hear this, STILL! When can we expect an updated version for this OLD Nokia device? PLEASE!!!!!
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Jorge Lopez
I have a Nokia E72, now this version is wrong for this mobile.
I canot view any post and comments because the keyboard and track on mobile dont have any action.
Only can view the principal menu and the last comment registed.
thanks for your help.
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Perveraz
Nice job again! Now caps, áccents and others work fine.
But I’m still having the same problem uploading images, I’ve never succeded since I use the app. In the blog, it only appears the image icon, but never the image.
Please, can you help me find where is the issue with me? Is it working fine for each other users?Thanks again for your work!
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futusaber
0.6.99 Symbian Smart Installer build with bundled Qt Mobility
As promised, here is a symbian build of 0.6.99 with the Nokia smart installer and Qt Mobility 1.0.0 bundled. It will automatically install all the dependencies for you when necessary.
WordPress_0.6.99_selfsigned_installer_with_mobility.sisIt is a bigger file, and much slower to install than the regular version, so it’s not recommended for people who already have Qt and Qt Mobility installed.
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Anon
Did you guys read this already: http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2010/07/01/mobility-api-mandatory-update-for-symbian-apps-created-using-beta-nokia-qt-sdk/
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Ashfame
Also I think you can take advantage of this http://www.forum.nokia.com/Devices/Remote_device_access/
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terom
New 0.6.99 development build available
Hi!
We’ve been fixing some UI issues, so here’s a new update for Symbian/maemo, with many UI-visible changes:
* Feature: Fix the page/post text edit widgets to automatically resize themselves to display the entire text content
* Statistics: Fixed API key handling
* Statistics: Stats data is now only loaded when you open the Statistics view (better startup speed)
* Statistics: Update to reflect new UI style
* Blogs list: Update to use new UI style
* Maemo: more text edit focus issue workarounds (the blog-edit view should work now)
* Comment/Post/Page list view text/layout tweaks
* More robust error handling for RSD queriesThe issues with advanced text input (auto-capitalization, predictive text, sticky shift, dead keys like accents) on maemo are still unresolved.
The S60 build is availble as a self-signed SIS package, requiring QtMobility.sis and Qt 4.6.3. The maemo build is available from the extras-devel repository.
S60: WordPress_0.6.99_selfsigned.sis
N900: Install wordpress from extras-devel
Thanks for helping to test these builds, your feedback on bugs is very useful to us.
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Joao Luis
When can we expect to see a new one for S60v3, I have a Nokia E71 and still on the first version released for it weeks ago.
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Roger
When came a app to Sony Ericsson Satio?
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Guigo
I won ! And now I’ve installed de 0.6.99 but he always freezes my 5800.
The only way to come back it is removing the battery.
Any help ?
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Joao Luis 1:40 am on July 24, 2010 Permalink |
This one seems to have a component missing when installing, QT WEBKIT. Any ideas?
futusaber 8:49 am on July 26, 2010 Permalink |
As PD noted below, we messed up the links, sorry. The smart installer should take care of the dependencies, correct link here.
PD 7:55 am on July 26, 2010 Permalink |
Hallo, your links to files are exchanged
“WordPress_0_7_3_selfsigned_installer.sis” – http://nokia.trac.wordpress.org/export/531/builds/symbian/testing/WordPress_0_7_3_selfsigned.sis
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“WordPress_0_7_3_selfsigned.sis” – http://nokia.trac.wordpress.org/browser/builds/symbian/testing/WordPress_0_7_3_selfsigned_installer.sis?rev=531
futusaber 8:52 am on July 26, 2010 Permalink |
Thanks for noticing this! Unfortunately I don’t have the permissions to edit posts right now, but I’ll try to get the post corrected ASAP…
Joao Luis 1:23 pm on July 26, 2010 Permalink |
Ok just saw this, going to give it a go, will get back with reviews. Thanks PD
Joao Luis 1:41 pm on July 26, 2010 Permalink |
So far so good,downloading components and installing on E71. Hold thumbs.
Joao Luis 4:58 pm on July 26, 2010 Permalink |
Ok, one issue I see is recurring in two versions now. As you know some of us have bogs hosted with other hosts and not WordPress, I am one such person. Well in short I have WP 3.0 Installed on the control panel of my host company and use it as my app for posting / editing posts daily. Now for example on mine there is no API issued by WP but yes an API from AKISMET also 12 digits/letters. This API key doesn’t work on the app on my E71 so therefore cannot see any stats. The rest seems to work for now, still playing around with the app. More to follow.
terom 1:40 pm on July 28, 2010 Permalink |
If you have the wordpress.com Stats plugin installed on your self-hosted blog, and configured with your wordpress.com API Key, then it should in theory be possible to view your self-hosted blog’s stats using the mobile client – but we haven’t really tested this scenario, so it would be interesting to hear if it works or not.
You might be able to get it to work by fiddling with the Blog URL that you’ve entered in the app – in particular, by making sure that it’s the same as what your blog’s official URL is (as configurable in the wp-admin panel under Settings).
Hotzigetty 11:57 am on July 28, 2010 Permalink |
WRT image uploads, on the N900, I can only view a certain number of images. Can you guys check that out pls? I would like to be able to search/view my whole gallery for the images I want to upload.
Also, is it possible to view/search for gallery items already uploaded? That would be awesome!
futubanister 12:01 pm on July 28, 2010 Permalink |
Do you mean that the thumbnail is not shown, or that the image is not in the list at all? You can load the thumbnail by clicking the arrow icon, or pressing the “(arrow) right key” when the item is selected. We are working on improving this right now, and will be releasing a build latest on Friday with improvements related to this included.
Randall Gonzalez 3:52 am on July 31, 2010 Permalink |
with this new version, I still have the problem of navigating on the post’s text.. I’m I missing something? I have a E-72 and the only way to navigate on the post’s text is by using the left and right keys which makes it REALLY dificult to edit… to go to the middle of the post I’ll have to wait for the cursor to get there by pressing the left key, if I click up or down it navigates to other textboxes or buttons.
One again… is there something I’m missing or this is the way it suppose to be? I hope there is a workaround for this. Thanks.