fMMS 1.0.0 aka “time to sleep i think…”

Finally! 1.0.0! Working it’s way to -testing as you read this! Link for QA: http://maemo.org/packages/package_instance/view/fremantle_extras-testing_free_armel/fmms/1.0.3/ There’s a new thread at talk.maemo.org for fMMS 1.0.0 and later; http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=643490#post643490. Everything you might need should be available in the above link, however I plan to follow up with a few posts going through the application in more detail. Thanks for reading, testing and commenting! Also, a big thank you to those of you who have donated! Comments Comment by Greg Roberts on 2010-05-05 09:11:08 +0200 Well done Frals! – :D :D Comment by simon on 2010-05-05 09:55:52 +0200 awesome work! very impressive that u managed to add a feature like mms when it apparantly was too complicated for the main dev team.

fMMS 0.9.13 aka “The light at the end of the tunnel”

Finally, the day of days! Today marks a milestone in fMMS development – I consider it ready for Extras. Baring any serious bugs in this release I’ll bump the version number up to 1.0.0 and promote it to -testing within the next few days. :) Looking back there are some things worth pointing out: Original brainstorm posted 2009-09-27 (here). Over 300 thumbs ups/down on the brainstorm (here). Original wiki-page containing the research of what was needed for MMS on the N900 (here). Some early IRC-logs from #maemo on FreeNode: http://wiki.maemo.org/Mms_implemention_conversation My N900 arrived on the 9th of December 2009. Was receiving SMS Push messages by the 30th of December (yes, took a while, I had exams the week after I got my device!

fMMS 0.9.0 aka “Getting really close now…”

So, since my last blog the two things standing between fMMS and extras have worked themselves out (almost, still waiting for PR1.2 to go live). I hereby like to present: fMMS 0.9.0 aka “Getting really close now…”. Quick overview of the features: Auto configuration of MMS APN. So, this will work for everyone in PR1.2 (assuming it’s like PR1.2 SDK), but you can get it to work now on a fresh fMMS install by copying /etc/operator_settings from PR1.2 SDK, but what it does is try to configure all MMS related options automatically. If you are coming from an earlier version of fMMS it *should* automatically copy over your settings from the current one, hopefully.

State of fMMS

Not been long since my last post, but one of the two things stopping me from promoting to -testing is now implemented. Thanks to all the great minds on IRC (#maemo on freenode, come visit!) and lizardo for translating my C-code to working python ctypes code (example).

The native addressbook widgets are all part of 0.7.0, as well as what should be perfect number <> contact matching and no more mistakes where it shows the wrong contact if the name was a subset of another name. Joy all around!

In the next release I’ve added some caching of name/avatar lookup which should lead to some load time improvements if you, like me, get most of your MMS from the same few persons. :)
Another fix in the next release is that ‘Havoc’ mode will work correctly with APN’s requiring username and password on connect. :)

Btw, 0.7.0 is available in -devel now!

Images of address book widgets after the break!

Improvements in fMMS

Been a while since my last post (and a server crash, hence the empty blog). I’ve recently uploaded fMMS 0.6.2 to extras-devel which has a ‘new’ configuration option: “Connection mode”. What it does is enable different ways fMMS treats connections and what it tries to do when a new MMS arrives. The options: Polite (Default behavior <0.6): Only switch to MMS connection if no connection is active, otherwise do nothing (pretty much) Rude: Force a disconnect of the active connection regardless of what it is, connect to MMS APN and then reconnect to the old one. Havoc: Try to bring up a connection to the MMS APN in parallel with whatever is active, this is what most other phones do.