WordPress for BlackBerry 1.6 is just around the corner. We took the opportunity to update the app icon to focus on simplicity while still following BlackBerry’s UI guidelines. Have a peek:
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Kamal Gaur
I’m highly disappointed with the upgrade. My phone drafts seem to be lost and I need to find a way to undo this upgrade with the hopes of WordPress accessing the drafts folder again, or find another way to retrieve those drafts.
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Danilo
That’s weird, ‘Local drafts’ should be there. Make sure that permissions are all set to ‘allow’ by following the steps below:
- On your BlackBerry go to “Options > Advanced Options > Applications” (on newer devices go to Options->Applications). Scroll through the list, highlight and select “WordPress for BlackBerry”. Next, click on the app, and choose Edit Permissions and ensure they are set to “Allow”.
- Reboot the phone by removing and reinserting the battery.
If that doesn’t help, you can attach your device to your laptop, navigate to the app temp folders, and look through the files:
(1) Navigate to folder //store/home/user/wordpress/
(2) Navigate to folder //SDCard/BlackBerry/wordpress/-
Kamal Gaur
Danilo, I changed the Permissions to Allow, rebooted the phone, but still couldn’t access Local Drafts.
I also connected the phone to my laptop and looked for the folders you mentioned – couldn’t find either.
The only WordPress folder I could find was -
D:\BlackBerry\app_world\downloads\23b042aa\WordPress_for_BlackBerry
which contains the files
meta.app.rem,
WordPress.cod.rem, and
WordPress-1.cod.rem to WordPress-12.cod.rem.
However, when you open them using NotePad, they’re filled with gibberish.-
Danilo
The app doesn’t delete those folders on disk. You should have a file system structure like the one shown in the following picture: https://skitch.com/daniloercoli/89r5p/tmp-xmlrpc
The upgrade process doesn’t delete the blog folders/drafts.
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Kamal Gaur
I am able to see that file structure under Device Memory/home/user/wordpress.
However, the ‘tmp-xlmrpc’ folder you mention seems empty.
There is another folder next to it called ’263c86………adc2′ which contains 2 folders called ‘d’ and ‘p’.
‘d’ contains files marked with a Question Mark icon, numbered between 1 and 39, with a few files missing. When I try to open any file, it gives the error message “Unable to display file”.
‘p’ is empty.
There are also 4 files next to folders ‘d’ and ‘p’ called ‘blog’, ‘comments’, ‘gravatars’ and ‘short_ico’ – again, none of which, can be opened.-
Danilo
The folder called ‘tmp-xlmrpc’ is a temporary folder used when upload pictures to the blog. That folder should be empty. Drafts are not there.
Files within the folder called ‘d’ are the drafts of the blog. Each draft of your blog is stored in one file in that folder.
You can open those files by using NotePad on windows, or TextEdit/vi on mac/linux, and copy and clean the content.-
Kamal Gaur
Thank you, Danilo. It finally worked. Couldn’t have done it without your help!!
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Isaac Keyet
Added some screenshots to discuss around to #213, but thought I’d post them here as well so more people will see them and discuss!
It’d be cool to have the two WP Java apps looking similar!
Dan 7:14 am on April 24, 2012 Permalink |
Woah nice! The shadow really helps it stand out better.
Isaac Keyet 5:14 pm on April 24, 2012 Permalink |
Thanks for the tweet, too.
Like I said below, we can probably use something very similar for Android, although I think the shadow doesn’t really fit in.. And we want that slight “over the top” perspective for Android, too. Anyway, I’ll have a look but it’ll be somewhat similar I think.
Matt Thomas 3:09 pm on April 24, 2012 Permalink |
I really like the new flat icon. One thing I noticed is that it appears to have a standard 2-D drop shadow around the edges in addition to the 3-D shadow, which seems a little weird. Otherwise, good stuff.
Isaac Keyet 5:13 pm on April 24, 2012 Permalink |
If I remember correctly, this is a part of the guidelines. You’ll also notice that it has a slight radial gradient towards the edges of the logo on the inside – this is in line with the guidelines as well, making it “smokey”.
Bottom line: we can’t use these exact ones for other platforms, but if you approve of these we can do something very similar.
Matt Thomas 5:21 pm on April 24, 2012 Permalink |
Gotcha, maybe it’s for making them stand out against the background color. I’m cool with these.
Isaac Keyet 5:24 pm on April 24, 2012 Permalink |
Great. Then we’ll proceed. *evil laugh*
Martin 7:49 pm on April 25, 2012 Permalink |
Looks cool