Three Days with a Phone

Gennady Buchatsky the Symbian wiz found a bug in Nokia S60 3rd edition FP2 used in Nokia 6120 Navigator, N78, N96, 5320 XpressMusic, 6650 and 6220). Gennady is the Symbian team leader for NewACT the company behind SYNCY and “orange forever“. One of the features allows full management of the phone’s data from the web.

He found out that Nokia has a bug in the S60 3rd edition feature pack 2 which causes problems when an application writes to the phone book using the following code:

Foo()
{
CContactDatabase * pDb = CContactDatabase::OpenL(); // opens default DB. 

pDb->CloseTables();
delete pDb;
pDb = NULL;
}

If the native phone book application is opened before the execution of this code, after the execution, when switching to the phone book application no contacts appear in the phone book and the application displayed “No contacts. Contacts from selected memories not available.”. Only after closing the phone book application and reopening it again all the contacts are displayed correctly.

Nokia has responded in an email as follows:

-------- 2008-07-09 10:41:00.0 GMT Vijay --------
Hi,

We are able to reproduce your error.This bug took us as a surprise.
It looks like some serious fix for 3.2.we will report to our internal
database and try to get fixed.

Thanks for using our services.

Kind Regards,
Forum Nokia ? Professional Support

-------- 2008-07-16 04:01:00.0 GMT Vijay --------
Hi,

We have already reported to our internal error database and it can
take some time.If this is fixed it will be released with new firmware
without any further notification.As there is nothing we can do about it.
I'm closing this issue.

Kind Regards,
Forum Nokia ? Professional Support

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