| 30-10-2009 07:43 PM |
| Unregistered |
tough love?
obviously the guy who wrote article tough love does not hav ngage.or has not had his/her fone broken and lost all games that hav been paid 4...
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| 03-10-2009 05:48 PM |
| Unregistered |
I activated the Brain training game with the complimentary code that came with the phone and purchased an additional game, then the center select key on my N86 began to fall of.
I received a replacement handset from Orange, re-connected to my Maps licence and then tried to re-activate my n-gage games without success.
Rang Nokia care in the UK and they arranged for the purchased licence to be transferred to the new IMEI number, they also arranged to transfer the complimentary game as well.
The technician also explained that there is a limit on the number of times that the activation code can be transferred between handsets (something like 4 or 5 times). This is not really an issue if you change handsets every year or two but I can see this being a serious issue if you get your handset replaced a couple of times in a year under warantee, are Nokia really going to block the transfer in this case?
Cheers, Alun
N86-1 10.086 (Orange UK variant)
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| 03-10-2009 06:45 AM |
| Unregistered |
ive been conned
i am one of the many ppl that this situation has come upon me.i hav bought over 10 ngage games on my N85,and i hav restored my phone b4.but i had 2 install all my games back and put the verification codes again,but within 6months my fone broke(N85) and even tho under garantee,i just bought a N86 and thought that by using my memory card and MY NGAGE account i would b able 2 use my games again on my new N86,with my verification codes.im very dissapointed if this is the case.i hope NOKIA reads this.i am a great nokia fan and promote the brand where ever i am,ive had the 6110, 6600, N70, N80, N82, N85 and now finally N86...plz nokia...i hope they can link PEOPLES personal accounts with Ngage with the IMEI codes so we may hav our full games forever
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| 15-06-2008 03:22 PM |
| BeatebewCak |
broalmanone.com Did you heard about?
broalmanone.com
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| 23-05-2008 12:51 PM |
| ccraig |
i can confirm that restoring saved games data after a back up works using content copier,
youll need to install the n-gage app manually to overwrite the DISCOVER N_GAGE app before you proceed with a restore to get it to work otherwise you'll end up with both icons and the propper one wont open
so install n-gage to clean phone before you use a restore from content copier
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| 23-05-2008 12:12 PM |
| Rafe |
Just an update - Nokia Conversations has reported good news.
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We've dug in deeper and we've been told a fix is in the works for the recent N-Gage games transfer situation. This is excellent news and although initially it looks like it may need to be serviced through Nokia Care (as an interim solution), there is a longer-term fix in the works.
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See: http://conversations.nokia.com/home/...e-update-.html
Good to see a rapid reponse, hopefully more [official] details will be forthcoming, will be posting about this on the site shortly.
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| 23-05-2008 06:24 AM |
| Unregistered |
Oh, Great Idea, Crap Execution
Was really looking forward to playing with N-Gage on my N95 8GB :-(
I think the idea is great, but the way they are locking you in seems very 'Appleish', etc.
Maybe if the games were a bit cheaper, then more people would not mind having to buy again, when they change their handset.
Not A Happy Bunny
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| 22-05-2008 11:40 PM |
| Unregistered |
Tough love?
So you're doing Nokia a favour are you? Wouldn't that have been to voice it privately to your contacts at Nokia? If you have as much influence as you seem to think you have, they'd have paid attention.
Seems to me, you thought you'd bite that hands that have previously fed you, and stir up enough publicity to drive traffic to this site. Stories that knock N-Gage are cheap, and it's disappointing that you're trying to dress it up in some kind of tough love excuse. Tough love would be taking the decision to support the platform, accept it's not perfect yet, and keep chipping away in private discussions. You've ridden the wave long enough - I hope they never give you another interview or comp you any games or phones.
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| 22-05-2008 03:45 PM |
| Ratkat |
Quote:
Originally Posted by krisse
I'd understood that game saves are supposed to work if you restore them from a backup after a firmware update. Whether or not that actually happens is another matter!
One thing that is definitely true is that you cannot export game saves so even if you're willing to buy a game again on your new phone, you can't move your saves to it from the old phone.
We didn't mention the saves issue in the article because we felt the actual games were far more important, and wanted to focus on one thing at a time.
If Nokia fixes the game transfer issue, the saves issue is the next biggest thing for them to fix with N-Gage.
Ideally Nokia would let you upload your savegames to your account on their server, so that you could then restore the savegames at a later date if you need to. You can already upload your photos and videos to Nokia's server, why not game saves too?
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On devices with UDP (user data perservation) like the N82, save games work fine after firmware upgrade.
Makes no difference to me now though, there is no way I will be buying any more games on N-Gage until they allow the transfer of games between devices.
And if anyone has any sense they'll do the same.
There is only one way to solve this and that is to hit Nokia where it hurts by not buying games.
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| 22-05-2008 03:29 PM |
| krisse |
Quote:
Originally Posted by clad
krisse, I don't know if there was any article written for it but I've read on symbian freak's website (I am not sure about it) or or another website, that the game saves for the ngage won't work after a firmware upgrade and it is impossible for people to export the saves via the ngage application to the phone or computer. This would makes hours of playing a game in vain and completely pointless if this is the case since people will not be able to resume their game after a firmware upgrade!
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I'd understood that game saves are supposed to work if you restore them from a backup after a firmware update. Whether or not that actually happens is another matter!
One thing that is definitely true is that you cannot export game saves so even if you're willing to buy a game again on your new phone, you can't move your saves to it from the old phone.
We didn't mention the saves issue in the article because we felt the actual games were far more important, and wanted to focus on one thing at a time.
If Nokia fixes the game transfer issue, the saves issue is the next biggest thing for them to fix with N-Gage.
Ideally Nokia would let you upload your savegames to your account on their server, so that you could then restore the savegames at a later date if you need to. You can already upload your photos and videos to Nokia's server, why not game saves too?
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| 22-05-2008 03:21 PM |
| clad |
krisse, I don't know if there was any article written for it but I've read on symbian freak's website (I am not sure about it) or or another website, that the game saves for the ngage won't work after a firmware upgrade and it is impossible for people to export the saves via the ngage application to the phone or computer. This would makes hours of playing a game in vain and completely pointless if this is the case since people will not be able to resume their game after a firmware upgrade!
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| 22-05-2008 03:09 PM |
| clad |
Well i don't think if Nokia would make the game "logged" per username since this will allow people to install it on several handsets, thus making the company lose money. I think the only solution Nokia has is to log the game by SIMCARD number(can this be done?) because I personally don't think people would change their phone numbers each and everytime they changed their handsets - this seems to be the best solution as the ngage application would check the phone simcard and allow the player to play the game after verification.
If written press or magazines starts to write about this, their game sales would definitely be hurt as not many people will throw away money to buy a game which will only work on 1 of their handset!
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| 22-05-2008 03:00 PM |
| krisse |
Quote:
Originally Posted by Unregistered
I was reading at AllAboutSymbian about Nokia Maps 2. If I recall correctly, if you pay for this for the maximum (3 years) you will have the same problem as with the N-gage games. Since it's also being connected to the phone's IMEI. Or did I dream about this??
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No. Changing phones is not a problem with Nokia Maps
I've just checked with an expert and apparently the NM licence is linked to your SIM card, not your phone. If you want to use NM on another phone, you just put your SIM card in it and tell the other phone's NM app to "update licence".
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| 22-05-2008 02:44 PM |
| Almostdone |
No that is not the case with Nokia Maps, I know people who bought a 3 year license but changed their phones. You need to contact Nokia who will then cease the license on your current device and enable it on the new IMEI device.
Unless their policy has changed again... But I doubt it.
As mentioned the most likely reason is that Nokia can't do much about the licensing for the games because of the contractual obiligations to the software houses.
TBH I really don't care about ngage. It'll probably fail again...
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| 22-05-2008 02:05 PM |
| Unregistered |
I was reading at AllAboutSymbian about Nokia Maps 2. If I recall correctly, if you pay for this for the maximum (3 years) you will have the same problem as with the N-gage games. Since it's also being connected to the phone's IMEI. Or did I dream about this??
This should also be changed if they go ahead with their OVI portal. We could have a username for all these services (N-gage, Maps...) and we could move our software if we would like to...
Radu
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