I have trouble with using my new C2 phone instead of my android Nokia, good quick typing ability is important, Sailfish OS lacks a good keyboard. Gboard works only in the android apps, not in jollas sms, mail, notes or the web browser, etc… Even MicroG doesn’t solve this problem…
MMS download is also lacking in the Norwegian (Telenor) mobile network, my C2 only receives SMS. (Unknown reason, -I wonder if it works in other areas?
There is okboard for swipe typing, but I don’t know if it works for C2
Is okboard the regular keyboard? I haven’t found any jolla-app with that name… The included app doesn’t catch swiping or correct spelling, only uses tapping typography… …
I have been using Nokia 808 since 2012, with Symbian and Delight OS, when the phone collapsed a few weeks ago I wanted to try a linux phone, and expected the Sailfish to be almost as good as old Symbian… both camera and the OS… But I have difficulties with it, even after almost thirty years of linux experience… installing Emacs and several other GNU applications doesn’t make the smartphone functionality sufficient. 
No, it is an app you can find in openrepos
How is that done, do you have an url, or a command-line for me to learn how to download this?
You have to install storeman. Its an rpm file. There is a tutorial on the openrepos page (google open repos storeman.) and prolly somewhere in the jolla forum. You might also wanna install chum thats the third appstore.
But the “okboard” doesnt work on the C2. At least on mine autocomplete doesn’t work.
Thanks for info, I installed chum and didn’t find okboard there, but some other apps. I’ll check out rpm installing and find Storeman too, then…
You need Okboard experimental for your C2, not the original one, I think.
Thanks for further advice, I got the storeman installed and now have tested both regular Okboard and the experimental, none of them look or work differently than the original keyboard when using norwegian, but now it works with swype in english… I guess there are very few, if any, Norwegian users of sailfishOS, sadly,…
If there is no norwegian dictionary file available it can not work. You could try creating your own…
OKboard needs to be taught new languages. The README.md file contains instructions, how to add a new one. One needs some language corpus to get word frequencies etc. So it may differ for you depending whether you expect to use Bokmål or Nynorsk.
At some point experimenting I built a Polish language db for myself. You might want to search the web, perhaps someone has already done this, and published it.
Search for support instructions on your operator website. SFOS receives the configuration SMS and automatically re-configures itself. For some reasons though such configurations might require adjustments. Sometimes a device reboot also helps. I had such problems with my network operator, too.
I have registered manually the mms base, but still it doesn’t work, maybe it is because of the twin SIMcard, so I’ll switch the two cards and see if it works on this phone with the main card.
Norwegian language is working ok on the phone and the keyboard except the lacking swype method… I shall try to add Norwegian dictionary to the Okboard if I find out how…
ok board comes with english and french and you need to install further languages separately.
which kinda explains why there are additional language packs.
i think the org okboard installation also mentions that it includes english and french only
maybe somebody can create a pack for you if you ask nicely. i remember one building a pack for hungarian. if you contact him …
I’m really curious what you use mms for.
I’ve never really used mms other than to test it, and now, since we have all these internet messengers, I wouldn’t even bother to test it.
What do you use it for?
Seriously? Are you not receiving or sending phone messages with attachments/images? I have not switched from sms entirely to facebook messenger/instagram/snapchat/tiktok/irc/mail…
Never. Almost all media and messaging goes through whatsapp and signal.
Sms messages are mainly notifications from various entities like the phone operator, cable operator, one time security codes, stuff like that.
But mms? I never use it and I don’t know anyone who does.
I did that, but recently i tried building for Turkish and somehow it didn’t work. Then the developer fixed something, but i still couldn’t build. One needs a list of words and then a corpus with many texts from Wikipedia and chats where it can learn which words follow which with which probability. I remember 4gb ram wasn’t enough, but zram helped. It took about 3 days then. Now i have 64gb ram so it would be faster
That is very different from what Norwegians do, particularily grownups and older people, but also youth. Whatsapp is not in use here, and I have never been a fan of meta or other tech giants… I have preferred Linux for almost thirty years.
MMS has a disadvantage that the network servers rescale images sent as attachments. Apart from Meta apps, you have an alternative in Signal, on whose protocols WhatApps has even been based.