Conversations App

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eve l

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I got the conversation app for my N82 and love it, but it's kind of annoying me as of late because it operates through the phonebook (at least, thats how I get to it. Go into the phonebook and scroll to the right twice) and takes forever to load.

Now, I know theres a way of exiting it so that it doesn't have to load next time you open it up, but I don't know what that is. Sometimes when I click "exit" (right button) it'll save the data so it doesn't have to load, sometimes it wont. With the red end call button, it always dumps the memory and has to load.

But heres whats funny: A few days ago I couldn't exit the app. In fact, I couldn't exit the phonebook or anything. The exit button (right button) didn't respond when you tried to close the program. It'd work to do anything else, just wouldn't close. As a result, I had to use the red (end) button to close the phonebook/conversation. When I did this, it saved everything and didn't have to load when I re-opened it! Every time it did this! I was quite happy, but after I turned my phone on and off since then it went back to normal. Oh, and when I exited it with the red button, it wasn't still running it the background. It was actually closed.

Any idea how I could get it back into that "bugged" mode, or if theres a reliable consistant way of keeping conversation quick to load?



Also, unrelated but any help would be great. I updated to the latest FW and now my phone doesn't make calls as fast. Not a big deal, but this is important to me because I like to callin for radio contests, and being able to hang up quickly and re-dial has won me a few prizes. Now theres a solid 5-7 second delay when I get a busy tone before I can call again. Thoughts?
 
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as for the conversations app just push the menu button to keep it running in the background. Thats what i've been doin all this time if im talkin to ppl
 
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as for your call problem i've never actually gotten a busy tone yet lol so sorry on that one
 
that's a very strange and unique problem that happened to you. honestly i've never heard of this happening. to help with part of your problem, if you rather have the threaded view open up first, change your shortcut to conversations rather than contacts. this will open right to the texts. and for the rare occasions when you have to look up a contact, you can just tab to the right once. i find this better setup as i go to text all the time, but i rarely look thru my phonebook since i use the speed dials for my frequent calls. plus the n82 has the 5 favorite contacts in the multi media menu.

now if you were on an Eseries phone like e71, the contacts app has a default view in the contact settings which can display different tabs upon opening as the default. choices are contacts, conversations, nokia chat, or even gizmo i think. basically whatever is installed that integrates into contacts shows up in this setting. but from my experience, Nseries phones dont have this setting.

anyway i dont know how that app was functioning like that for you. all i can say is to continue to try and use the exit button. or like another said, just press the menu button twice to minimize conversations to the background.
 
Okay, well I made conversation a shortcut but the problem still persists. When I open it, it takes 8-10 seconds to load. The app has no problem starting right away, it's just that it says "No Data" for 8-10 seconds and then the conversations pop up and start loading. It's kind of a pain in the *** to constantly have that delay.

Now, I've got 1000+ text messaged saved... could that be slowing it down? I like keeping a big history. Also, is there any chance the phone is saving all the texts to the memory card so it's taking longer to access them too?
 
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ok it can definately be the number of text messages that you have saved. As for saving text messages. The default setting for messages are the phones memory. If you go through settings you can change it to save through the memory card. How come you have so many messages saved anyways?
 
yes but if you use it right you will only have to load and wait this 8-10 seconds for the first time. then if you use the EXIT button when leaving the app, it will already be loaded the next time you click the app. it will open up with them already loaded. dont use the red end key to close the app, otherwise you will be waiting 10 seconds every single time.

even though you have a lot of messages, it still wont be slow, it will be instant when opening.
 
You're right, thank you :-)

I have a lot of messages because I don't delete them. I've got texts since I owned the phone, well, recieved ones anyway. I only recently found out that you could increase the "sent message" storage to 999 as well haha
 
Thing is, the sent messages only get stored for 30 days. This is a huge over-sight on Nokia's part as far as I am concerned.
 
nice glad its working for you. conversations has some quirky things that annoy some people. but if you get it all figured out, you wont wanna ever go back to the messaging app after learning the conversations tricks.

and i never knew i could change the sent messages storage time. it always pissed me off that they deleted them so quick.
 
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kinda stepping off topic but since you have so many messages saved, have you noticed any slowdown in performance with your phone doing anything else?
 
I used to love this app, but after building up to around 5 or 6 thousand texts the app became useless. It'd just display some sort of Out Of Memory message and not open anymore! So since updating my firmware to the new v30 I just haven't bothered to reinstall it, but I really do miss it!
 
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that's not true. I know a few ppl, including myself, that 'have it all figured out' but that doesn't stop the dumb app from using a separate T9 dictionary and causing word prediction inconsistencies as a result.

I wonder what's taking Nokia to figure it out. This should be part of the firmware by now, it has been over 1 year...
 
Pffft.. Nokia can't even get simple things like the time stamp on text messages right. Well, it's right on Conversations, but not on the old fashioned text message app. Idiots.
 
well that is really annoying about the t9 library. i wouldnt expect nokia to get it right, they drop the ball for a few years now on much more significant issues, i.e. call log icons, so i wouldnt count on it being fixed. since using the e71 qwerty i havent dealt with the t9 library anymore.

the last word about conversations updates was that there would be no more updates. it was said somewhere that they wont update the app at all. however that makes no sense because its still in beta, so at the very least i would think they have to kick it out into final release. so maybe there is still hope for an update. however i remember it being pretty "final" that the rumor was there would be no more updates. the app has so much potential though, they could really catch up to the other manufacturers if they nail conversations well.
 
My annoyance... unless I am being stupid (there is a good chance I am), when I get an incoming text message on my N82 and I select view/open it see the SMS in Messages. I read it and most of the time delete it. However, I have to delete it again in Conversations.
 
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