Some Answers to Common Questions and Problems
Hi,
Thank you for many responses. Since there are many common questions and problems, we've decided to create a list of answers to them. Please check if you can find your answers below. This is the same content as the "Learn more" section in our main page.
1. Who in the forum are Nokia Photo Browser (NPB) team?
hokkane4, juhakaup, and nkaneko are the developers responding in this forum. Our posts have the blue "staff" emblem attached.
2. What is Photo Browser trying to achieve
We believe photo viewing should be a fun and pleasure
We'd like to see you launching NPB just to kill some time or to relax
We'd like to see you showing your photos to your friends using NPB
We'd like to see you taking more photos because you want to view them with NPB
3. "Not compatiple" warning appears while the installation
Please don't worry and just proceed with your installation. It will work fine. We'll try to fix it at some point in the future releases.
4. "Expired certificate" installation error for 5800 XpressMusic
Unfortunately, we cannot provide good solution to this as Photo Browser is not a part of the problem. You can find the latest updates on this problem in the following forum thread.
http://betalabs.nokia.com/foru
One of the solutions recommened in the thread is to execute the factory reset. Please be confirmed what will happen before you commit. It will really erase and reset.
5. Slow image loading, gray boxes, and blurry pictures
Please allow a few seconds for each picture to generate a thumbnail for the first time. While the thumbnail is not ready, Photo Browser shows either gray box or low resolution image (looks blurry in the single image view). Once generated, the picture will load very quickly from the next time.
The fastest way of getting thumbnail generated is to launch Photo Browser and just leave it for a while. Moving the grid causes CPU to be spent for rendering therefore delaying the generation to finish.
6. N96 takes forever to load images
We've been reported by some patient users that only a few images are loaded after 20 minutes. Unfortunately, we cannot make commitment to solve this problem. It may be because of the hardware it has. It may be because of the system software. And of course, it may be NPB.
We very much appreciate your feedbacks on how it works with the individual product. But please also understa
7. Menus, dialogue boxes, image information appear in the side way
It is definitely not the design intention. But we just chose not to delay the release trying to fix it. We'll try to fix it at some point in the future releases.
8. It's missing xxx function that is in the Gallery
Your suggestions for new functions are most appreciated. That's why we're making the releases in the Beta labs.
Having said that, please also be reminded that we're not exactly trying to create the replacement for the Gallery application, which is useful for general many purposes. Photo Browser is the experiment having focus on exploring how photo-viewing can create an exciting user experience.
Of course, this doesn't mean that Photo Browser should be strictly limited to looking at pictures. If it is fun and starts continuously from photo viewing, that means a great idea.
Please take this oppurtunity to read the topic 2 above as well.
9. Better zoom quality, view-by-group, and Bluetooth send
They have been popular request. And we have some ideas under trials. Hopefully, we can make them available at some point in future releases.