Nokia Bubbles bounces back onto your phone!
After being put on hold and the download link being taken down from Nokia Beta Labs for over a month, Nokia Bubbles is back!
The Nokia Bubbles team originally took it down as there were a lot of major issues with it, mainly due to it originally being developed on a beta version of QT which had bugs in its self!
If you are wondering, what is Nokia Bubbles, it basically allows you to use your Symbian^3 phone without the need to unlock it. So if you receive a text, all you need to do is touch the message bubble and drag to the message you want to open, or to change profile just touch the profile icon and drag to the one you want to change to, it’s as easy as that!
Ow and also it’s just fun to flick the bubbles around, it’s like being a kid again!
The latest version bings a few extra features, some of which the community asked for, including a settings dialog so you can activate and de-activate bubbles (was always on before), and now it is built on the latest, official version of Qt!
The things you can do with Nokia Bubbles include:
- Unlock the phone
- View new messages
- View/Respond to missed calls
- Control the music player
- Control the FM radio
- Change profile (profile timing also supported)
- Call/Message your three best friends
- Activate the backlight to use as a flashlight
- Change the background of the Bubbles screen
- NEW Set which bubbles are active
- Display when battery needs charging
- Display statistics about bubble speed and distance (just for fun)
Before you install, just make you you are aware of these known issues:
Known Issues
When selecting background images to be used please be patient and let the application load all the images before closing the selection view. Closing the view too early might cause device to jam. We have been investigating this issue but seems there might be some issues in QML side and we’ll investigate it further.
Friends bubble is selecting the number in the “Telephone” field in your contacts when you add a friend into the bubble. Unfortunately we cannot change the bubble to use “Mobile” field by using the Qt Mobility API.
Missed call bubble do not support VoIP calls yet.
Nokia C7 has some issues related to orientation switch with the current (phone) production software with bubbles. These issues are already being solved in coming (phone) software update releases.
To download, head over to the Beta Labs page either on your PC or on your phones directly.
Download: http://betalabs.nokia.com/apps/nokia-bubbles
(You need to register/be logged in to download)
Update:
A couple of people have asked how to change settings…
Hold your finger on anywhere there is no bubbles, and you get 3 options:
- Settings
- Enable/disable automatic background scrolling
(changes background every so often from the ones you have selected) - Change backgrounds
Just select the one you want!
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oh well its good that you can choose the ones you want now
hey guys, i was using this bubbles previous verion without any issues but i tried to update my fluently working thing to this latest version afted seen this post.,i followed the instructions to uninstall then reboot and after installing this newer version it automatically asking to download an 8 mb thing ,this is the major problem i noticed on my N8 ;-( ,when ever i tried to install some apps (not every apps!) it starts downloading huge files..(downloading 1/2 )
8…mb ……….
Always downloads will fail at the peak to finish download and shows installation cancelled .
i think itz because of the smart installer app ,when i am canceling download it says click the smart installer app to continue installation..
Waiting for a solution ,still i luvs my N8.,thnks lot in advance..
This sounds as if Qt is not downloading correctly? I’ve had some bad luck with the smart installer.
Firstly, although I have not tried this, you might have a go at restoring your Qt files to its original, “pristine” (as the author calls it) state : http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/item/12862_When_beta_testing_goes_bad.php
Else, I used these Qt 4.7.3 installers : http://geekifynokia.blogspot.com/2011/04/qt-473-available-for-download.html
I hope I’m allowed to post links…
hey !! Thnx maann.. It worked ! Great!
can anyone tell me how do i log in to beta labs? i used my same ovistore account but it wonyt log in. and how do i know which if i got the latest version of qt? i think i have cause i downloaded tht mini browser 2.0 which is in qt i think
the same login details should work, Nokia have single sign in for all their services now i think
when you install the app, it should download/install the newer version if you have one lower then the minimum it needs.
The clock is bigger. This screenshot is from a very old version.
thanks for confirming that
main pic updated to show current version with bigger clock
Does anyone have the sis without the smart installer ?
Thanks for the heads up. Been waiting for Bubbles to make its big comeback!
glad to see that they’re still supporting Bubbles and didn’t just shelf it
still have my old version installed, don’t have any issues with it
Don’t know if anyone of you experience this or not but nokia bubbles is interfering with my nokia sleeping screen. I’m not sure how to explain it so here goes…
Lock your phone into sleeping screen > Press menu button to activate bubbles > Press menu button again to go back to sleeping screen > Sleeping screen goes blank after awhile
i would report this on the beta labs page if you haven’t already, they are 2 beta applications, i’d be surprised if they didn’t clash!
At least the developers of both should either be the same team of people at beta labs or even if different teams, as they are in the same company, they can work together to iron out the issues.
Same here. Happens everytime when in landscape mode. Having a hard time using the Music player bubble while riving.
i have downloaded it to my c7 phone memory.
But where can i find this application?application folder not showing any bubble application?but application manager showing as it installed in phone memory.
Help me guys how to activate it?
lock phone as normal, then press power or menu button to activate bubbles, and to deactivate bubbles, press the power or menu button again!
if it still doesn’t work, just install it again, it may not have installed properly.
Reboot… then try again
now its working fine.but how to set background images on to bubbles?any ideas?
hold your finger on anywhere there is no bubbles, and u get 3 options:
- settings
- enable/disable scroll backgrounds
- change backgrounds
How do you get in to the settings?
see previous comment
Yesh! Pupples is back in the petalaps!
**I am a huge fan of Bauli “Pupples” Asikainen**
i have to Report Failures after install Bubbles – The Drummachine App doesnt work anymore, Ovistore doesnt start.
The Problem was verified for 3 People… I must DeadphoneFlash to Reset the QT-SW to Standard and reinstall all Updates – Work 1 Day for Complete reinstall all Apps and Configs.
Its Beta…but so beta than auch nicht!!!!
Don’t know about the rest of you but i don’t find myself using bubbles much after having it installed in my phone the past week. I’m just so used to that hardware slider to unlock my phone that i almost never touch the menu button at all.
I’ll be honest, i didn’t much either because I kept forgetting it’s there, but over the last couple of days I have, mainly to quickly change profile, and read messages, think the longer i have it the more i’ll use it!