Previous Orchid updates

Modified on Fri, Jan 26 at 4:06 PM

Navigation: Live traffic for Premium subscribers. Added speed limit, truck routing, and 3D maps.
Backup: Added new Micro SD card backup/restore tool
Music Player: Fixed playlist order
Messaging: Fixed duplicate message sending, Add support for vcard 4.0, Fixed crash on notifications
Contacts: Fixed contact loading, new option to fix contacts, and added vcard 4.0 support
Calendar: Fixed Keyboard moving Menu bar
Launcher: Fix problem with wallpaper not fully loading
Camera: Added Zoom feature
Software Update: Faster bug fixes, Increased firmware stability
Weather: Fixed search, radar, and weather detail bugs

This update removes the old Alarm, Calendar, Notes, and Voice Reminder. Do not download if you still have important data in the old apps. Any data left in the old apps will be lost!
New APNs: Fixed problem with not regaining service.
Calendar: Add export for specific event types, new events use selected day by default, bug fixes on export and holiday selection.
Clock: Bug fixes and notification improvements.
Launcher: Message, Camera, and Contacts keys can be customized on long press. New wallpapers.
Notes: Bug fixes to prevent accidental delete all while in edit mode.
Keyboard: Cursor location fix when using voice-to-text, bug fixes on punctuation and emoji variant selector.
Bug fixes for sub screen turning on occasionally.
Sound Recorder: Improvements on loading recordings.

More weather details and improved radar
Contacts: Ignore blank contacts when importing, apostrophe search bar crash
Dialer: New call screen shortcuts
Bug Report: Updated text
Messaging: Faster message import/export
Keyboard: Fix for space/next T9 settings
Launcher: fix D-pad shortcuts, Update Launcher clock, fix for selecting wallpaper from gallery
Ringtones now load during setup with SIM/SD card installed
Fix for call icon staying in notification bar

Added ability to select APN via keypad
Added new Total/Tracfone, Mint, Ultra, Wing, and Tello APNs
Changed Messaging audio-clip format to mp3 to work with iPhones
Fixed bug in Contacts preventing all contacts from being listed
Fixed bugs in SMS import/export feature
The Allow only from contacts feature now applies to both calls and texts
Added optional auto-responder for incoming SMS messages
Adjusted icon selection focus movement in main menu to loop around to beginning when the last item is selected
Fixed bug in Messaging that failed to update message sent status and prevented further messages from being sent
Misc Music Player improvements
Fixed Abc mode character insert bug for apostrophes, etc
Fixed QWERTY multi-language switching bug
Fixed context menu bug for selected SMS messages
Added a switch in Phone Settings to disable the external flashlight volume-key shortcut

Fix an issue on Verizon where an outgoing SMS message fails to send due to the phone attempting to send via 3G instead of over IP.
Fix the issue where the wrong Contact details are loaded when user taps a contact in list of matching contacts that are shown when dialing a number.
Fix issue where GPS and Location services stay active, even after Navigation has ended.
Fix missing sent/received color indications beside each message in a conversation in Messaging.

Reported bugs in this update

Voice-to-text input stops working in areas of poor connectivity and does not start working again until a reboot of the phone.
The on-screen QWERTY keyboard will immediately hide again if rotated to landscape and used in anything other than Messaging. It can be opened in Messaging and rotated back into Portrait by pressing the top-left physical key while it’s displayed.
Users can’t use the down d-pad key to directly select Send after composing a new text. Pressing the green Call/Send key or tapping the Send icon on-screen send it as usual.

Contacts

Fixed ability to CALL from contact detail view
Added support for company name field in the contact
Updated the search method to work like the dialer – simply tap each key once to spell the name or number you’re looking for. For example, to call my friend Bill, I would key in 245 for B-I-L and it’ll sort him right out in the list.
Added contact whitelisting. This allows you to restrict incoming calls to saved contacts only.

Dialer

Increased Call Log entry list to include the last 2,500 calls.
The screen will now light up on an incoming call.
Searching for a contact will also now match the company name field of a saved contact.

Keyboard

Center D-pad key (enter/select key) now functions as an Enter key in 123 mode.
Added ability to disable QWERTY touch mode to prevent it from showing when a text field is touched.
Fixed QWERTY-mode keyboard rotate. Use the upper-left menu key while the keyboard is displayed to rotate it.

Messaging

Added ability to attach a contact from within a conversation.
Updated group message sending to prompt for send method (as individual SMS or group MMS) only on first message sent. Your choice is then saved as the default for that conversation, but can be changed in the conversation menu.
Added ability to call message sender by selecting the message and pressing the CALL key.
Fixed a number of other potential crashes.

Navigation

Music Player