Mike Rowehl: This is Mobility

Every once in a while apps just disappear when I’m using them on my 6680. I thought it was due to the pitifully small amount memory in the phone. I thought stuff just crashed. But today when entering in a calendar entry and the app went away on me, I realized that I had hit two buttons when typing after using a number. When you’re using T9 you get a number by holding down the corresponding number key for a few seconds. If you hit another button with that key still held down it consistenly crashes the running app on my phone. All the time. And only in T9, this doesn’t happen if I’m typing tripple tap.

I even made a little video of it in action: 6680 App Crash. I just though it was odd and wanted to share. It’s a 3gp video, so you should be able to view it on your 6680. Of course, due to the pitifully small amount of memory you’ll probably have to save it, let the browser error out with an out of mem, then manually go over to the gallery and pull it back up. But it’ll play after that. <sarcasm>SMOOTH! and simple, nice job Nokia!</sarcasm> Hopefully now that I understand what’s up I can be more careful when entering numbers and avoid some frusteration. Maybe it’ll help some of you out there with misbehaving 6680’s also. Odd bug to have pop up. Maybe I’m just searching for the wrong things, but I didn’t see mention of this anywhere online. Is this a known issue?

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