Minor update for Text Messenger, 0.0.9.0
In an ultra-agile way, Nokia Text Messenger for Windows Vista has now been updated to 0.0.9.0.
Changelog: improved recipient selection and maturity improvements.
Thanks for all the bug reports and improvement suggestions you have sent us!
Only problem is that many of us, using Vista have disabled the sidebar, since it is a nuisence and “concentration thief” during our daily work.
I sure would like a small stand-alone app. for texts that also worked in XP
Comment by Lars — February 28, 2008 @ 12:01 pm
Stil nog working (I got vista home premium 32bit)! Same problem, after installing the text messenger does not appear in the add gadget selection screen.
Comment by Bloep — February 28, 2008 @ 9:03 pm
I agree with Lars - many Vista users have disabled Vista Sidebar, more hassle with it than good use.
I find standalone applications much more useful and usable for everyday work.
It would be really good if you can make a small standalone Text Messenger application, independent of Vista Sidebar, just like all other Nokia applications…
I would definitelly use it a lot since I spend a lot of time in front of a computer.
Comment by Sergey — February 29, 2008 @ 9:29 am
Still not working here… Vista Home Premium, 32 bit, spanish. Nothing from Nokia appears on the new gadgets dialog box when trying to add another gadget.
Comment by Blue — March 1, 2008 @ 9:40 pm
Um, no, it still won’t work. PC Suite 6.85.14.1, Vista Ultimate x64, N95. Phone’s connected via Bluetooth, as PC Suite properly disaplays and handles it, but in the Gadget, all I see is “No phone connected”.
On a sidenote to Vista users who have the Sidebar disabled and asking for standalone app: know that Sidebar typically doesn’t require almost any resource to run, whereas a standalone application does. You might want to consider that. Besides, doing other stuffs simply hides it anyway by default, so it shouldn’t be syphoning any concentration…? O.o
Comment by Nohea — March 2, 2008 @ 2:44 pm
Working for me - still seems strange to have to run an .msi rather than a .gadget file - I can only think it has pre-requisites for the hooks in to PC Suite.
I’ve had my sidebar turned off for a while now - I find it slows things down a little, so tend to leave it closed. Am running with this open now to see how it runs. Will be interesting to see what it does with Sleep mode - that seems to break a lot of things!
Comment by Keith Spragg — March 3, 2008 @ 2:27 am
Works fine here, but the previous version did too so. I had to remove the old version from the sidebar, uninstall it from the gadget list and then install the new version before it worked though.
And stop this “I am not using the sidebar, nor is my friend, and by that anecdotal evidence noone is using the sidebar!”
Comment by Y. Odel — March 3, 2008 @ 5:39 am
Sure there are many people using the sidebar, but there are many people who don’t use the sidebar.
People without the sidebar can’t use this application, whereas everyone can use standalone application.
Not everyone wants to use a sidebar…
- “Sidebar typically doesn’t require almost any resource to run”
Well, have you ever visited task manager and saw how much memory AND time sidebar uses? Enable the column “CPU time”, that will show you total time for every process, and you will see that Vista sidebar uses a lot of memory AND time. Far more than a standalone application.
Vista sidebar is not good or efficient implementation of a sidebar, that’s all…
Comment by Sergey — March 3, 2008 @ 10:19 am
This new version crashes some times when mouse is over it. Earlier 0.0.8.x versio worked better.
Comment by Marko — March 3, 2008 @ 7:14 pm
If the Nokia TextMessenger gadget doesn’t work in your Vista in spanish open your documents folder -> AppData -> Local -> Microsoft -> Windows Sidebar -> Gadgets -> TextMessenger.gadget and then move the conteny of the “en-US” folder to the “TextMessenger.gadget” folder, one level up.
NOTE: The AppData folder is hidden, to see it pres alt, and in the menu bar go to “Folders options”, and in the view table check “Show files and folders hidden”. Sorry for my bad english.
Enjoy!
Comment by Marcos Garbagna — March 7, 2008 @ 1:00 am
Thanx! That did the trick, also for other language then Spanish! To make things a little clearer:
-Got to the map TextMessenger.gadget
-Open the map en-US
-Select all the contect
-And place the content one level DOWN, in the map TextMessenger.gadget.
Comment by bloep — March 7, 2008 @ 6:56 pm
The gadget does not appear even with the additional instructions from marcos and bloep. I’m running english Vista 64. BTW it took me a couple of seconds to figure out a map is a folder.
Comment by mikko — March 12, 2008 @ 3:46 pm
Maybe for the 64 bits version… Wait for the final edition (no beta) of the gadget… Nohea (#5) have the same problem and Vista X64 too…
Comment by Marcos Garbagna — March 23, 2008 @ 3:27 am
working for me after Marcos trick(tnx), but with wrong font and wrong layout, I guess… quite unreadable.
Comment by androne — March 25, 2008 @ 1:17 am
Very nice little tool. Didn’t work in the first place then followed Marcos Garbagna suggestion and now everything is OK. Well done!
Comment by Roberto Antoniotti — March 26, 2008 @ 10:01 am
Works OK, but on selecting create new message and inputing name it retrieves the landline number. It should show the mobile number of the contact for sending a text.
Comment by Paul — March 30, 2008 @ 1:12 pm
I tried to install the gadget on my Vista Ultimate SO but everytime when i enter on the gadget i obtain the following message
Line7 Object Expected
The gadget load my SMS but when i change the sms, enter, exit from gadget… every time i change “object” i recieve that message
Comment by Gian Paolo — April 11, 2008 @ 6:14 pm