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FrontView UIQ2 FAQ Product referenced: FrontView UIQ2 1.50 Document version: 1.50 This document is available for Download.
General
Display
Function
Positioning
Answers
General
Q: Why do I need FrontView?
A: Because you are bored with the flip closed standby view of your smartphone.
FrontView enhances both appearance and functionality in standby mode.
Features include configurable operator logo, geographical positioning, various system
information, cleanup of system resources, application shortcuts, and more.
Q: Which phones is FrontView compatible with?
A: FrontView can be installed and executed on smartphones running on Symbian 7.0 with UIQ 2.0 or higher.
Full functionality of the program requires a physical or virtual flip keypad.
Fully compatible handsets include the SonyEricsson P910, P900 and P800 phones.
Q: Can FrontView be started automatically?
A: Yes. The Autostart option can be set in Preferences/Function (off by default).
Q: Does FrontView drain the battery?
A: Any running program consumes energy and FrontView is not an exception.
When battery life is critical, you can disable several indicators from Preferences,
set the screensaver plug-in's autolock timeout to a low value,
or manually switch on the screensaver whenever you are done.
Display
Q: What does FrontView display in flip closed mode?
A: FrontView displays information in the form of text and icon indicators.
Text indicators include the Logo, the Position, and Time/Date.
Icon indicators present various system information.
Q: What is shown in the uppermost line?
A: Let's call it the Logo, as in normal standby mode the network operator's
name is displayed there. With FrontView you can also choose to display the current
To do item, or a Note that you specify. You can switch between these three options
by pressing the jog dial away. Depending on what is shown in the Logo, the [ C ] key
provides extra information.
Q: What is displayed in the second line?
A: It shows your current position.
FrontView determines your location by recording and analyzing GSM network data.
The process of area recognition is fully automated - you just need to give a meaningful name
for your current location when the program prompts you.
You can assign a name to your current position using the Area menu item or the [ OK ] key in flip closed mode.
Q: What are the icons at the bottom?
A:
The icons represent current values of various system parameters. These include
the number of background programs, amount of free RAM and drive space, battery duration,
network signal strength, and the probabilities of motion and area recognition.
For explanation and current values press the [ # ] key. The resulting information
window lists the indicator contents from left to right.
Q: How can I configure FrontView's appearance and behavior?
A: You can change display and function features in Preferences.
FrontView also follows what you have set in Control panel, like the time and date format.
Q: How can I change the flip closed background image?
A: On the P9x0 phones by default FrontView displays the theme background image.
You can choose to display a different image in Preferences/Display/Image
(this stands for the P800 as well).
Currently FrontView does not support image animation (which drains battery).
Q: How can I prevent displaying some indicators? How do I change colors?
A: In Preferences/Display, press on the Indicator list and select the item you want to change.
Then press on the Appearance selector and set the appearance option you want for the Indicator selected above.
The Text color item is active if you set "Fixed color" for an Indicator.
Choose "Not shown" for any indicator that you don't want to be displayed, including the icons.
Q: What do the red/green lines show in the bottom right icon?
A: The red line shows the probability of motion,
while the green line indicates the probability of area recognition.
Q: Does the battery duration means amount of talktime?
A: The battery indicator shows the overall duration of the battery in hours,
estimated from the current charge level and the recent energy consumption.
Function
Q: Can I dial from FrontView?
A: Just start entering the number you want to dial - the Dial window will come up.
The number can also be a one-digit speed dial code that you have assigned with the Phone application.
During the call FrontView can hide or show your own number if you specified so in Preferences
(except for speed dial codes).
Q: What does "Cleanup" do?
A: The Cleanup function maximizes the memory for running programs by closing
unused applications and compacting RAM. The process can also save battery life by
eliminating background program activity.
When invoking Cleanup from the flip open menu, you can configure which programs you
want to exclude from the cleanup.
Q: How can I quickly start other programs from FrontView?
A: There are several ways. One is to keep the Menu key pressed until you see a list of all available applications.
You can also define Shortcuts from the flip open menu.
Shortcuts are displayed by turning the jog dial up or down in flip closed mode.
Q: Is there a way to toggle the silent mode as in normal display?
A: Yes, keep the 'C' key pressed for about a second to switch the silent mode status.
Q: How can I quickly access the normal standby screen?
A: There are some options that the normal standby view offers but FrontView does not,
so occasionally you might want to switch to the normal view.
To do so, press the 'Back' key and set the option you want.
FrontView will automatically come up again after some idle time.
Q: How can I reinvoke FrontView after exiting to the normal standby view?
A: The most convenient way is to assign FrontView to the [ OK ] key.
You can configure this in Control panel - Application shortcuts.
Just select FrontView as the middle icon for flip closed mode.
Q: Why does the normal standby screen come up sometimes for a short time?
A: The main phone application automatically comes up after one minute idle time,
regardless of any application (for example FrontView) currently in the foreground.
FrontView can not prevent this behavior, but it eliminates the normal standby screen immediately after its appearance.
Q: Why FrontView does not come back after invoking the Call list?
A: FrontView becomes "suspended" whenever it exits to the Phone application.
This occurs when you press the 'Back' key, dial a phone number, invoke the Call list
or the Contacts application.
Suspension means that FrontView does not come back immediately after you finished with the Phone application,
but only after some idle time, or when you unlock the phone.
You can quickly recall FrontView from the suspended state by pressing the internet key,
if you checked the "Hotkey activation" option in Preferences.
Q: Why the lock and screensaver do not work?
A: In FrontView 1.50 and above the lock and screensaver functions are provided by the BigBen plug-in.
BigBen is a separate application that you can invoke from within FrontView.
To enable the lock and screensaver functions, download and install BigBen on your device.
Q: How can I set options for the lock and screensaver?
A: Open the Preferences dialog's Function tab, and press the Screensaver and Lock button.
Refer to the BigBen User Guide for available options.
Positioning
Q: How does positioning work in FrontView?
A: FrontView is continuously recording the GSM cells that are picked up by your phone.
From the accumulated data it tries to figure out whether you are moving around or staying at one place.
If you are likely to stay at one place, and the place can be properly characterized by a distribution of cells,
then FrontView saves the data for that place (an "area") and allows you to give it a meaningful name.
In contrast, when the cell distribution does not suggest that you have been staying at the same place for a prolonged time,
then FrontView concludes that you are moving.
The probability of motion is shown as a red line in the rightmost icon indicator.
Q: Can FrontView accurately report the position?
A: Short answer is: no. Precise positioning requires satellite GPS hardware.
FrontView uses sophisticated algorithms to estimate the position from GSM base station data
which, however, is much less accurate than GPS. Locations determined by FrontView must
therefore be considered as informative estimations only.
Q: How can I maximize the accuracy of positioning?
A: When you (re)name an area, you see the length of time the program thinks
you have been staying in the same place (the "Stay time").
Do not assign a name if the shown stay time is longer than the time you have
actually spent at the very same place.
Q: Why FrontView does not allow to name my position?
A:Your phone can pick up a number of GSM cells while staying in the very same place.
Consequently, your location can not be well characterized by just one cell.
FrontView does not let you bother with naming individual cells, only with areas that are well-characterized by cell identity combinations.
From the recorded cell distribution data FrontView estimates whether you are moving around or staying at one place.
If you are likely to stay at one place, then FrontView decides if that place can be characterized properly.
Reliable characterization of the location by cell fluctuations usually takes 10-40 minutes of recording time.
FrontView only offers giving the current location a name when reliability exceeds a threshold,
so this is the reason it takes time until the area can be named.
However, recognizing the same place later is much faster.
Q: Why does FrontView prompt me to rename the same area several times?
A:This happens when your phone is picking up a cell pattern slightly different
from what FrontView already recognizes. In such cases FrontView offers you to decide
if it's the very same or a nearby area. You tell that by giving the same or a different name.
If you give the same name then the existing recognition pattern for that area is modified,
providing a chance to better recognize it next time. Note that area recognition can not be
exact due to inevitable fluctuations in the incoming cell pattern.
Q: Why does FrontView show just the country as my current position?
A: FrontView needs time to collect positioning data. When data are insufficient,
only the country is shown. You will be prompted to name the current area as soon as
sufficient data have accumulated. Named areas are displayed when FrontView recognizes them.
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