Nokia Sleeping Screen beta updated. Use your own background images!
I love the always on clock in Symbian^3 during standby (and being AMOLED, doesn’t consume too much power). A beta labs app called sleep screen took it one step further with some beautiful, colourful graphics to add to your standby screens.
The app has received an update again, this time with your own pictures.
- The most wanted feature: use your own background images! It is now possible to add your own images from the photo gallery.
- “Add my own” tool will convert your photos & drawings to be suitable for Nokia Sleeping Screen
- Completely re-designed QML based settings view
- New experimental clock style
- There are now two selectable clock & notifications styles:
- original “colorful” style
- new “plain clock” style, which gives more room for the background images
- New pre-installed image themes and additional images to the old themes
- Follows phone orientation when keys are locked (i.e. now supports landscape)
I can’t try this out at the moment because I’m getting Ovi log in fail for a while now. I’ll update when I do.
Thanks to @Kobus_Nell and Rainbow_S3 for the tip
Ah pics updated on beta labs
Update 2: Demoed on N8 (cheers to @DhruvBhutani for mailing us a copy since Beta Labs sign in to Ovi still dead)
Add your own gallery view
Pic an image.
Tada
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- Nokia Sleeping Screen beta - update | WOMWorld/Nokia | August 21, 2011
Things just keep getting beta and beta
First anna, now this
I read on facebook that the new version of fmobi is coming today as well
also belle!!!!
u’r welcome
That kid looks scary !!
awesome, awesome, i was worried they forgot about this
should come pre-installed on all nok phones
and yeah the sample images are scary
lol
i hope using our own images isn’t limited to 1 image that is i hope it will rotate a set of images like it does with the previous version
Its not limited to one image, I have currently 5 rotating..
Hot damn! And just when Anna came out too!
I’m not able to open any Betalabs page. Could it be that the servers are swamped?
i can open the beta lab pages but cant log in. Nokia.com is down
yeah says “Internal Server Error”
Hmm, interesting. Ovi Store works find though.
Does anyone have the same problems as me ? cannot login to my account (not on ovi suite/betalabs/my device)
like Jay said in the article he is having the same problems
so am i :/
same here, i can open betalabs, but can’t login
“An error occurred while processing your request.”
wow, love this
harmattan version please!
Now this is how I call “Awesome”
It seems the login system is falling
Im unable to sign in into any nokia service, not even from ovi suite. guess the Anna update has stressed thier serviers or something.
Symbian is reviving
feel like little kid is learning the rules of bigger ecosystem…
more like the (bloated, long bearded and unstable?) big daddy!
What about nokia microsoft party 17 august? what news?
Nokia servers down in US. I cannot log-in to Ovi store. Must be getting ready to release Anna here.
Tweet from @DhruvBhutani: For people unable to download the new Sleeping Screen , use this link
http://t.co/8nNTkok
THANKS!!!!
Big thanks!
I really hope the beta labs team have a chance to create stuff like this and situations and big screen for windows phone and Meego. The things they come up with are excellent, and it would be a shame if they were not allowed to take some of these ideas to Windows phone and innovate there as well.
+1.
Nope, that’s M$ job now.
i’ve just tried it and it is AWESOME! Great app menu style, great night mode setting style, no any freeze and image converting just takes 6-7seconds
How do you make lanscape mode like the 4th picture? I can’t find any settings to do so =/
Oh. Sorry, didn’t see the part where it says “Follows phone orientation when keys are locked (i.e. now supports landscape)”.
Either way i guess i can’t find the ‘right’ images to put up. All my images turns out really ugly =( Guess i’ll just revert back to plain old no-theme for now..
The images that renders the best results i found being simple images with black backgrounds. For example some of the sample pictures that came with the N8, like the white jellyfish on black background, came out really well.
Its working (login)
and its been installed, and to answer my own question yes you can make a theme pack (i was worried that it may be individual images only) of your own images
the conversion process seems adequate i think they can improve upon it to use less pixels and to better detect colours (some images i tried simply showed up as black and white even though the image is red and white albeit a dark red)
Hi there!!! We have released Symbian Anna in all countries for all models and product codes now !!! Go to #0000# and update your firmware to Symbian Anna.Hope you like our firmware and awaiting comments !!!! thank you for your patience !!!We also released Microsoft communicator,adobe reader, Quick Office and internet Radio as a supplement software …. ENJOY!!!!
If you’re really nokia, please double check on product codes 059c6p9, 0599243 & 059D753. These are the product codes on my friend’s N8. Updates still not available for them yet.
did you go through ovi suite?
because mine says there’s an update but its just soo laggy that i can’t grab it
Question for users of Betalabs…Does anyone know why these apps/utilities are not available in the Ovi Store? I realize that it may be because it is beta (‘beta’labs), but at what point does it move from beta to the actual Ovi store? Just seems like a very nice tool, but it just seems incovenient to have to go another site and create an account in order to get this download.
Yup, it’s just for beta level stuff. The whole point is that people can give feedback and feature requests while they are developing. After the software is deemed mature enough, they “graduate” from Betalabs to Ovi Store (or straight to updater like Maps). I think they have a separate Betalabs app in there too.. and you can use the regular Ovi account to login afaik. Sleeping screen seems pretty finished already though.
@asdf…Thanks for the reply
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