MeeGo v1.1 for Handset

MeeGo v1.1 for Handset

Just a few months back, we opened the Day 1 Handset code for the development community and presented a first look at MeeGo Handset user experience development. We’ve made steady progress since then and today, as part of the MeeGo 1.1 release, we are providing a MeeGo 1.1 Handset UX release.

The MeeGo 1.1 Handset UX release is a technology snapshot including key handset technologies, such as cellular, connectivity, sensors, and mobile browsing, as well as a basic development UX for voice calling, SMS messaging, web browsing, music and video playback, photo viewing, and connection management.

With this project release, developers will be able to work on future device and user experience software development, while simultaneously participating in the MeeGo project to complete the Handset UX in the upcoming 1.2 release.

Additionally, at the end of this page, are some of the known issues you may encounter and workarounds to help you.

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Download the Nokia N900 platform image (MD5 Sum)

Follow the instructions on installing the image.

Download the Aava Mobile Intel Moorestown platform image (MD5 Sum)

Follow the instructions on installing the image.

This release includes software which has not been tested or verified. Any installation is solely at your own risk and may cause some of the safety and security mechanisms of the device not to function at all, or to operate unexpectedly. After installation your warranty no longer covers the use of this device. Continued use could cause harm to you personally, your device and/or lead to unexpected costs. If you do not understand or do not accept these risks, you are advised not to install any software on your device or to uninstall such software directly. If you continue using the device, you understand and agree that you do so at your own risk and will not hold any parties associated with MeeGo, including Nokia, its affiliates or contractors, liable for the operation of the device or costs generated through use of it.

The MeeGo Handset User Experience includes:

MeeGo Handset UX framework

MeeGo Handset UX framework is based on MeeGo Touch Framework and Qt technologies and provides capabilities for touch screen GUI application development, home, application Launcher, and application Switcher, to open and switch between applications.

MeeGo Handset Dialer

MeeGo Dialer application provides basic phone functions for making and receiving calls, with a simple call history and basic integration with Contacts for contact names and numbers.

MeeGo Handset SMS

MeeGo Short Message Service (SMS) application focuses on basic aspects of creating, sending, receiving, viewing, and deleting SMS messages.

MeeGo Handset Browser

MeeGo Handset Browser provides a basic browser application, with a mobile optimized browser engine powered by Mozilla technology. It supports bookmarks, cookies, plug-ins, add-ons, and the latest web protocols, as provided by the underlying Mozilla technology, such as: HTML, XHTML, XML, XSLT, XPath, DOM, CSS, RDF, MathML, and JavaScript. The browser also supports Flash plug-ins, once installed on the system.

MeeGo Handset Photos

MeeGo Handset Photos is a basic photo viewer application. You can open, delete, and view your photos. It supports image rotation to view in both portrait and landscape orientations. Other features include support for viewing photos in the form of thumbnails, photo lists, and photos in slide show mode. For management, we added features to support photo albums, search capabilities, and autogenerated album principles.

MeeGo Handset Video Player

MeeGo Handset Video Player is a basic video playback application. You will be able to play videos full screen and have on top, layered user controls and a timeline indicator as videos play. Additional features enable showing metadata, accompanied with some videos containing information, such as the names of Actor/Director and episode names.

MeeGo Handset Audio Player

MeeGo Handset Audio Player is a basic music playback application with play control features for previous, play/pause, next, shuffle, and repeat. It also shows the name of the current song and the play queue.

MeeGo Core OS

The MeeGo Handset image includes the MeeGo 1.1 Core OS. Check the release notes for details.

Supported Hardware

Nokia N900 ARM based platform

Aava Mobile Intel Moorestown platform DV2

Known Issues and Workarounds

General

When running MeeGo, using an external SDHC card, there are noticeable performance issues, if using anything less than a SDHC card with a data transfer speed (DTS) of 6MB/sec. Although you can use a SDHC card with less DTS then 6MB/sec, it is suggested that you acquire a Class 6 SDHC card, or better. Class 6 SDHC cards will provide you with the minimal sustained DTS of 6MB/sec.

Audio Player

In search results view, tapping on artist/album/song does not work

Description: In music player search view, tapping on matching artist/album in the results list does not present artist/album view as expected.

Workaround: No known workaround.

Bug 6206: [Audio player] No response when clicking on an artist/album/song in the search results view.

Play/pause button tap takes 3s to take effect

Description: In music player, when the play/pause button is tapped, it takes the music player 3s to take action (stop or start playing music).

Workaround: No known workaround.

Bug 7408: The sound will delay 3s when switching the mode between “play” and “pause”.

Music player and web browser applications cannot be launched at the same time

Description: Once music player is launched, a launching browser application just displays a blank screen.

Workaround: No known workaround.

Bug 8597: Unable to launch Music and Browser applications at the same time.

Dialer

Can not see time information in call history

Description: User cannot see detailed time information in call history.

Workaround: No known workaround.

Bug 2245: No time information in call history.

Cannot dial a number from a selected contact in people panel, call history, or favorites

Description: There is no ‘Call’ or ‘Send’ button when a contact is viewed from call history, the people panel, or favorites, hence the user cannot dial a number from these views.

Workaround: Invoke dialer directly and then navigate to contacts view to dial a number.

Bug 3474: [REG] No way to dial selected contact in recent, people, or favorite views.

Cannot initiate a second call when one is already in progress

Description: When one call is already in progress, if the user inputs a second number in dialer, the call cannot be completed as there is no button to initiate dialing.

Workaround: No known workaround.

Bug 3581: Cannot dial a second outgoing call, without holding the first outgoing call.

If the dialer is not open, incoming call cannot be answered

Description: If the dialer is not open when an incoming call arrives, the user cannot answer the call.

Workaround: No known workaround.

Bug 7074: Incoming call cannot be answered if the dialer is not open when the call is received.

Call button in call history does not invoke dialer to initiate call

Description: Call history view in dialer shows call button for each record line, but the button is not functional, so the user cannot dial a number.

Workaround: Long press on the call record (outside the call button area) then tap call, to initiate a call.

Bug 7467: Unable to make an outgoing call by pressing the call icon in call history.

Call button on people page in dialer is not functional

Description: Call button (icon) in people page is not functional, so the user cannot dial a number from the people page.

Workaround: Long press on the call record (outside the call button area) then tap call, to initiate a call.

Bug 7469: Unable to make an outgoing call by pressing the call icon in dialer people page.

Displayed name does not match the number dialed

Description: If the user initiates a call by typing in a number that already exists in the address book, while the call is active, the displayed name does not match the address book entry for the corresponding number.

Workaround: No known workaround.

Bug 7627: The name displayed in the active call bar matches a wrong number.

SMS

Cannot delete a single SMS thread from received SMS messages

Description: If the user tries to delete a selected SMS thread from their SMS messages, all the messages from that sender are deleted, instead of just the selected thread.

Workaround: No known workaround.

Bug 7422: The delete function in SMS is unable to delete just one message.

Class 0 message (SMS) is not displayed

Description: When a class 0 message (SMS) is sent from phonesim, it is not displayed in the UI.

Workaround: No known workaround.

Bug 7537: Unable to display class0 message.

Video Player

Recently played videos do not show up in ‘Recently Viewed’ list

Description: After a video is played, it does not show up in the ‘Recently Viewed’ category, as expected.

Workaround: No known workaround.

Bug 6637: The videos, in the “Recently viewed” category, are not correct.

Favorites view in the video player does not show video thumbnails

Description: In video player, the Favorites view does not show video thumbnails

Workaround: No known workaround.

Bug 6832: [REG] No label for the favorite videos.

If skip forward/backward is used during video playback, elapsed time display is wrong

Description: During video playback in the video player, if the user skips the video forward/backward, the elapsed time displayed by the video player, when playback is resumed in new position, is wrong.

Workaround: No known workaround.

Bug 7427: The passed time in the timeline is incorrect, after switching to play mode, from forward/backward.

Cannot drag playhead to seek to a position in video playback

Description: In video player, while a video is playing, the user cannot drag the playhead to skip forward/backward to the desired position.

Workaround: No known workaround.

Bug 7438: It is very hard to seek video by dragging the playhead in the timeline bar

Video player crashes if skipped backward to start position

Description: In video player, if the user skips backward to start position, the video player crashes.

Workaround: No known workaround.

Bug 8589: Video player crashes when the video reaches start position in backward playback mode.

Web Browser

Zoom in/out fails on Google Maps

Description: When viewing Google Maps (http://maps.google.com) from the web browser, tapping on the page does not zoom/in out as expected.

Workaround: No known workaround.

Bug 6829: GoogleMap zoom in/out fails.

Virtual keyboard fails to launch when the user taps on a text input field

Description: When the user taps on a text input field in a web page, the virtual keyboard does not launch as expected.

Workaround: Use hardware keyboard (if available).

Bug 7420:[REG] Unable to launch VKB in the webpage text input field of the browser (BMO591047).

Contextual menu is not functional in browser

Description: Tap-and-hold on a link does not pop up a contextual menu as expected (to open link in new tab, Save, Share etc.).

Workaround: No known workaround.

Bug 7555:[Theme] Popup layer is invisible when tapping-and-holding a URL or image

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