Re: 0.7.35 Feedback

On Aug 30, 2005, at 11:47 PM, Simon C wrote:

> - The new SMS feature brings down the data, but it is sorted and  
> displayed oddly.  I have 13 messages in my Inbox, and they aren't  
> displayed in the order they were received.  How should they be  
> displayed?  Also, the From: field shows '6245' for all the  
> messages.  That seems odd.
>
> Rebooting the phone didn't fix things, nor did restarting BitPim.   
> I resorted to removing my ,bitpim-files directory, and my  
> Preferences file, and then it worked again, until I next tried to  
> detect the phone.

Sorry - cut and paste problem when creating this feedback.  The  
rebooting and clean up comments above were related to using the  
Detect Phone option.

>
> So are you saying that removing the bitpim-files corrected the from  
> field problem? Was the from field displayed for outbox messages?
> I agree the order of the messages is odd, on windows they are not  
> sorted at all either, sorting by date would make sense as an  
> improvement to SMS.

I didn't have any saved or outbox messages.  I'll create some and try  
again.

>
> - In the Phonebook, if you select an entry, and edit that entry's  
> wallpaper, the list of image names correctly matches the images  
> from the phone.
>
> Is this better than before?

I'll load up an old version and compare.  I forget if this behavior  
was the same or not.

>
> If you change a wallpaper, and then replace the phonebook on the  
> phone, that wallpaper entry is not updated.  This is the same  
> behavior I experienced before that I was unable to fix.
>
> I noticed this during testing and Joe commented that this was a  
> problem with the 4650 as well, it appears to be a firmware issue  
> not a bitpim problem.
>

Interesting!

>
>  Also, and perhaps there needs to be some logic change here, but  
> you can select the names of the built-in images as wallpaper, but  
> since they aren't loaded to BitPim from the phone, you get a  
> picture of a yellow crown on a green background if you select any  
> of these wallpaper as background images.
> Maybe an "unable to display image" image?

I think that a message like that would be less confusing for the user  
than the current crown image.

Thanks,

John

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