Update for Nokia Social?
I saw AAS tweet yesterday about an update to Nokia Social. Lo and behold, yes it was there. Just go to software updater, click the ‘play’ button and it will download and install. You will need to restart the phone first though.
You know how much I’ve been ranting about Nokia Social in the past and well… It is still needs a lot of work. Scrolling stutters and freezes, it will randomly say a contact was linked to your friends to which there seems to be no way of escaping it.
In the next update to Nokia Social, perhaps it could uninstall itself from the phone and recommend free twitter/facebook alternatives. Or at least rename itself as the AntiSocial app.
Update: Seems leaving Nokia Social fix itself for an hour sorts it out. Why, why, why do I even need to do that, why can’t it work properly at once? Maybe it is just me, I seem to have an unlucky time with Nokia social on any S^3 handset.
Category: Applications, Nokia, Symbian
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Nokia AnitSocial, love it!
I believe this fixed the uploading from the gallery bug, that’s basically what I have it for so I’m glad it’s fixed
Jay I have a quick question;
Have you found a Nokia Phone without the purple tint because I can’t!
I have been through 5 Nokia N8′s and 2 E7′s and I can’t get a phone without it and I’ve really lost my patience with them now.
P.S Before anybody tells me to take the phone for a repair, 1 N8 went for repair 3 times to get it fixed it didn’t, they replaced it two more time I still had it swapped it for a E7 still had it swapped it for another E7 and guess what?…it still had it.
The purple tint comes after dropping your phone a punch of times , happened with my N9 after a hard drop and i also had it in my N8 before (same reason).
No, I don’t know weather you are trolling or not but just no that is not why you get the purple tint.
Mine doesn’t have a purple tint..
My C7 got the purple tint and a few dead pixels at the beginning. After taking it back to Nokia and with the display module replaced, the problem has gone.
My first N8 was fine, but when I had it replaced, it had a purple screen. I got it replaced and repaired last year several times but the screen was still purple. My mum’s C7 is also purple.
I am thinking about trying to get a new replacement this year, hopefully it will be new stock with a good screen and Belle preloaded (it is still not available in Australia).
My N8 has fallen a couple of times but I have never seen a purple tint at all….
Maybe it must be a region specific problem.. I suggest you try getting a N8 with a different regional code(product code) see if that solves your problem
Perfectly fine screen here on N8 India
LoL I think it’s just you. After the update, I find the Nokia Social been working great. They updated my contact right away. Yes…. it’s still far from fMobi or Facebook client for N9 but it’s improved a lot than before…..
I have Custom Firmware on my n8 and I can’t find the update on nokia suite or OTA update.
And for the purple tint issues, Nokia has avoided using the colours that will make the tint obvious since Symbian Anna.
Obviously the lockscreen analog clock in S^3 showed the most tint so it has been changed to a plain 2D clock in Anna. These hardware problems are not still fully solved with firmware updates.
I have 3 phones here that all have it pretty bad, on the lowest brightness setting on all 3 you can see LOADS of purple when you pull down the notification bar
If you want I’ll upload a pic somewhere so you can see how bad it is, it really makes me upset how much money and time I wasted trying to get a decent handset
Glad to know that the photo upload is finally fixed in Social. But I will stick to v1.4.481 as all I need is the old slim Social widget, and the photo upload ability.
The new widget is far too big and I will choose to open facinate rather than scrolling in it to see the updates.
I am confused – is this not the app that was available weeks ago? I got it when I got Belle. I looked online & there are tons of news articles about it today but it looks like the app I been using for weeks … my SW Update does not show anything but the Search update that I have not bothered to install …
i guess it wasnt installed on all units when belle was released because i never had it until today (had the old one)
Actually i like the new Nokia Social. Not saying its perfect but its much better. I like the new widget as well.
But its still no match for facinate, the only reason i’m using it instead of facinate is the link to phone contacts and that somehow facinate refuses to work for me (it doesnt post when i try to)
It lags on a fresh installation because it is busy combing your contacts, making links and downloading profile pics.
I really like Social now.
I still use facinate but what I cannot do on any of these clients is reply to messages natively, only social gives me that option
ah yeah i got the update and tried it out
works great had no issues at all
seems like you always get the short end of the stick Jay
this version stills lags. when u tab back arrow it gets exit directly with out going to all activity or other specific account.
Got the update last night, definite improvement.
Photo uploading sorted, and its definitely smoother in scrolling and operation.
Still going to use fMobi as my primary FB client for general bau social interactions.
downloaded file, but during installation I get this:
“unfortunately there was a problem getting your updates. you can use your N8-00 as normal. please try again later to complete the update.”
Any idea?
Cheers.
Miki
CAN’T FIND IT!
…im still on 1.3.236
after Update i can deinstall the Social App completly and win 10MB on C-Drive thats the best on this App =o)