Update to Nokia Social App
The Social network integration app and service from Nokia just received one of a few planned updates for the year 2011. Minor here is the sticking point because the changelog indicates there will be little to assuage the frustrations of current users of the service.
Changes include improvements to the contact card such that Facebook status’ are shown on the default page, better indication of which contacts in the phonebook are linked to online services.
The sharing service now allows for larger photos to be uploaded. Files up to 4Mb are now accepted in addition to the retweet option when using twitter.
The application is available via the Application update feature on your device. I’m sure current users would love to leave their feedback on the application so head on over to the Ovi blog and leave your opinions.
We will be publishing our own detailed views on the application and a bit of Symbian^3 first impressions in our upcoming reviews 
.
Keep a look out for them.
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info from Jay:
To get the update, you open the app and you MUST be signed in to one of your social accounts. One of my favourite things (sarcasm) about the social app is its persistence to FORGET your log in details. What the bloody hell is the Ovi sign in for if you’re making me sign in again to social networks I’ve signed into so many times already. Anyway, if you’re not signed in, clicking update will not do anything.
Steve Litchfield tweets that it takes it well into “good enough for most people” area. That just shows you how awful the previous iterations were if an update makes it barely good enough. I haven’t tried it yet, my connection is too damn slow to download it so I’ll give it a go another time.
-Jay M
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Thanks for the good news! Testing now…
where did you download it from?
I just logged on to my facebook account and the option to update appeared.
The screenshot they posted if it’s a real one, differs from what i see in my N8. the signal and battery bar are different and their icons appear next to their bars while on my phone (N8 PR1.0) they appear below the bars.
You can see a chat icon as well…
,,istn a screen from an n8/s^3 device…look at the middle from options&back
its definitely not available via the app update – its a direct web download instigated from the social app.
No surprises. Its still terrible.
unable to install..
same…
You should install Social 1.2.163 if you have had problems upgrading. You can download the client installer from the URL at:
http://bit.ly/d8Cu9D
If you have already installed, or upgraded to Social 1.2.157, you should download and install Social 1.2.163.
If you have Social 1.1.144, you should download and install Social 1.2.163.
If you upgraded to Social 1.3.143, please be patient…
realize un hack reset en mi nokia n8 y ahora no me sale la apss de aplicacion 1.0 que hago
ha, would have saved myself 10 minutes ranting if I actually looked to the side and see the story was already posted :p
btw, does the caption thing let you tag people or just make those oh so hilarious captions.
tagging was there before but you cant put any caption or ‘description’ for the picture. At least they now added it making the upload function complete so far, tagging, folder to upload to and now captions… or did they still miss anything?
social app only worked for me the first days after i bought it. still got the “sorry, please uninstall and reinstall communities” message terrible tried everything
- why can’t they give an update for that – 1.3 isn’t changing anything
Same happened with me. This helped me:
Restore factory settings with the option “delete data and restore”.
Then install Social 1.1, reboot, install Social 1.2, reboot, install Social 1.3.
It’s a horrible hassle, I know, but that’s how it is with Social. It’s an abortion of a software.
Thx for the reply.
Alright, i tried ‘delete and restore’. Social now is not responding at all, even worse, SW updates are not working anymore..
Then restored my backup- most strange restore ive ever seen (putting files on other places and not restoring everything what i asked for) and still problems with social ofcourse
Well im not gonna saddle you all up with this, just want to say that i never have seen so many people with problems and being pissed off..
The n8 is a briljant phone talking about hardware – i love it- only thing want to say to you all don’t try to much fixing software problems like the social app, it gives you more problems. have peace with it and wait till an perfect update (pr2.0?} which is coming out in the winter of 2014
I would like to try a hard reset but thats giving trouble with ovi store
after i downloaded the update it told me unable to install
also when you update, any contacts with more than one phone number change from having them all available to voice call to only letting you have one voice call number, it still shows for video call and messaging, but no voicecall. very annoying!
scrap that, you have to hold the voice call number, then it will bring the others up!
i’m using WiFi and it still wont let me update
what is going on
i want to update and it wont let me
Too bad some people are having some trouble updating the social app. Maybe i’m missing something, pretty much only use facebook and flickr. But what exactly is so bad bout the social app?
I find it pretty nice. With the new update facebook loads way faster than before. (clicking on the widget) Not sure but feels like they’ve made the icons slightly bigger in the facebook.
There is a solution to the install issue which appears to be connected with Voda firmware:
http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/t5/Nseries-and-S60-Smartphones/Nokia-Social-1-3-quot-Unable-to-Install-quot/m-p/900157/highlight/true#M251571
still not working it wont let me install 1.1 or 1.2 ? i need some help
You need to uninstall all versions of Social first. Have you done that?
I’m in the USA suffering the same problem. I’m about to give up.
nice update! More to come!
That design is just…blech.
Apparently, Nokia doesn’t use professional designers to design their software.
Anyone who elects to put light blue text on a gray background, along with jumbled/pressed together text, clearly hasn’t attended even a high school level art class.
If I showed a screen shot of that Social app to any of my old Graphic Design professors, they’d likely give it a C, maybe.
make one yourself or shut and deal with it like all of us are
Ah, the ‘Make your own’ argument.
It’s similar to when you criticize a film, and the film’s fans in response shout back, ‘Go and make your own film then’.
Come on, really, that’s weak beer.
If you think a particular make of car is not up to quality, do you expect the customers to go and build their own car?
they do and it gets rejected cause they already have model designers
but looks apps are different you can make your own and let people use it
and it doesn’t take long like a car to make
Stop it. Nokia really doesn’t deserve any bit of support in this argument. They really do make very poor choices in design department coming from a professional viewpoint.
And what the hell are you saying? “make one yourself if you don’t like it”. That it’s just absurd.
It is also comical how they preach about QT and how great it is, how fast is to develop with but still they use WRT and provide only very superficial improvements in six months of time.
Yep… GUI and designwise I really wish our old AVKON to hell. Even if this is WRT, it is just slow. And by the way, I really believe Johnny’d be quite capable to create a more pleasing and coherent user interface.
Though thats not a point.
You can’t check notifications in facebook.
Also, look at all that wasted space.
Why is there a giant blank button on the lower left hand side of the screenshot, while the Cancel button takes up the whole other half of that screen?
Look at all that other unused space on the upper right hand.
Holy cow, this is just a huge design fail.
Dont waste your time updating. This is absolute garage. Just use hi socially or opera mini.
Is this app written in Qt? If you compare Qt apps from nokia and other Qt apps written by outside developers, Nokia apps are horrible. Compare Nokia reader and Toshl. Whats wrong with the developers at Nokia. I would imagine Nokia is staffed with one arm mentally challenged individuals -no disrespected to the mentally challenged of course.
More or less all the Nokia apps suck, its just that simple
It’s made in WRT. For some reason Nokia themselves don’t use QT in some of their own applications even though they did state several months ago to developers to start using QT and only QT.
Qt on mobile really needs QML, which is only now becoming usable on mobile.
Now, QML is already fully functional on the desktop, so
[wishful thinking on]
There’s a great QML based social app all ready running on the simulator, waiting for the platform to mature enough to be deployed. This has taken longer than expected, so currently they’re updating apps like Social, but only throw-away style. I mean seriously, a green-to-blue gradient ?? That’s what I use when I can’t find a UI designer to make me a proper image (and I suckkkk at design so that means something).
[wishful thinking off]
Mine also says unable to install, and the guide on the nokia forum dosn’t help, so now my social dosn’t work at all
the intgration into the addressbook is good
but should have be done more early
but my expierence also differs from the screen
i just have a gray box with the latest message, no icon next to it.
would also like to have bigger profile-pictures taken from facebook into the adressbook!
and what is this ominous chat icon??
Dear Facebook,
Please port your Android app to S^3, so we can finally have something useful. Also, if you could add the calendar feature, that would be great. Thanks.
Sincerely,
Doug
Updated smoothly, but it says the service is unavailable every time I try to use it.
Typical.
Update was easy and without any problems.
After openig the app a popup apers that I have to make a update. Then I pushed the button “update” and after 2 minutes I had version 1.3.
To the point “bad disign”.
Maybe Johnny is right but for me Facebook is wired because I have 4 different versions.
1. the original website (a lot of strange points, like to find my friends).
2. facebook for mobile
3. facebook for touch
4. facebook from OVI
No of this versions is “perfect”
But maybe I’ve spend too much time for this strage Facebook-hype
I dont spend a lot of time using fb or twitter, so the Social app does what I need it to do.
Things I like about this update:
1) Some visual details are nice, the new “splash” screen. The facebook and twitter icons appear to be changed. I think some of the buttons appear different.
2) You can FINALLY retweet in Twitter!
Something else I noticed (it may have always worked this way) is when you are in the facebook or twitter portions of the app there is a little gear icon in the upper right. Pressing it will take you back to the main screen (just like pressing “Back” on the big bar at the bottom). Since this is a web runtime app, I dont think it supports long-press for alternate options. But… when Social is ported to QT wouldnt it make sense to make the little gear icon long press for options and press once for back? Im sure the big black bar at the bottom would go away then. Perhaps it was just a prelude to a QT port. It may rely on QT4.7, and therefore will not arrive until after the next firmware.
Still no notification , no different
Exactly. Nokia can integrate Social Networks to the OS’s native applications all they want but it doesn’t change the fact that the application is USELESS WITHOUT NOTIFICATIONS.
updated to v 1.3. But I dont get the option of LINK TO CONTACTS. Also the status does not update in the contact card