Happy Holidays

Delicious background for your Jolla

Thank you all for an interesting year!

Review Jolla wishes you some great days and Happy New Year 2015. Last post for this year is a delicious ambience background we just baked below. See you!

Christmas Calendar - Day 9

Daily tips and backgrounds for Christmas

December 9th, we share you a tip fitting perfectly to what happened today - and maybe useful on the next time as well

Today's background for an ambience is a photo of Blue Jay, common in many countries in winter. Photo by Mdf

Christmas Calendar - Day 8

Daily tips and backgrounds for Christmas

December 8th, we share you a few basics for a better battery life on your Jolla phone

Today's background for an ambience is a photo of West Virginia Grist Mill in a Winter Snow Storm by ForestWander

Christmas Calendar - Day 7

Daily tips and backgrounds for Christmas

December 7th, you'll find out that Jolla phone has a nice feature in its multitasking for music apps.

Today's background for an ambience is a winter sunset view from Pennsylvania, photographed by Andrew Crouthamel

Christmas Calendar - Day 6

Daily tips and backgrounds for Christmas

December 6th, you'll find out it's a very special day for Finland

Today's background for an ambience is a fresh summer blow to the flag of Finland, photographed by Jaakko Wallenius

Christmas Calendar - Day 5

Daily tips and backgrounds for Christmas

December 5th, you'll find out how to shoot ambience backgrounds with your Jolla Camera application

Today's background for a Christmas ambience is cropped from this beautiful winter view by Triangiel

Christmas Calendar - Day 4

Daily tips and backgrounds for Christmas

December 4th, you'll find out how to organize your apps into folders on Jolla phone

Today's background for a Christmas ambience reminds us about Kiev, Ukraina. Beautiful image by Valerii Tkachenko

Christmas Calendar - Day 3

Daily tips and backgrounds for Christmas

December 3rd, you'll find out how to answer your friends text message (SMS) with instant message (IM) after checking if he/she is online.

Today's background for a Christmas ambience is Kirkkokatu street with Christmas lights in November in Oulu, Finland

Christmas Calendar - Day 2

Daily tips and backgrounds for Christmas

December 2nd, we have a simple guide to adjust your own pulley menu to access your most important apps straight forward after unlocking your Jolla phone

Today's background for a Christmas ambience is provided by "Tampere tunnetuksi ry", an organisation working for tourism of the largest inland city in Scandinavia

By the way, Jolla has an office in Tampere also

Jolla Phone official ringtones

Playable directly in your browser (most browsers)

Jolla includes personal ringtones to the ambience of each The Other Half, Jolla's extended back cover. Here you'll find the three previews and two full lenght ringtones published by Jolla so far, listen before buying:

PS: Our brand new facebook page shares Jolla Phone Reviews, like!

Jolla world cup 2014 team ambience

Ambience backgrounds for your favorite World cup teams on Jolla phone

These Background images are sized to fit as backgrounds for Jolla smartphone. I start this post with just a couple images for one of tonight's match pairs, and if people like these I'll add more - check back later

You can download the backgrounds to your Jolla simply by browsing to this page directly with your Sailfish Browser and clicking the images

[HowTo] Jolla Phone Ambience text color with Paint Shop Pro

Jolla Phone Ambience design, desired text color using Paint Shop Pro

Walkthrough for creating your own energy saving background with Paint Shop Pro in Windows. In this guide we create an energy saving black background with your desired font color. Selected color is used in Sailfish UI on Jolla Phone. Ok, open your Paint Shop Pro and follow the path:

1. Select New (CTRL+N). Create a new image:
1. Width 540
2. Height 1600
3. background color black (RGB 0,0,0)
2. Select New (CTRL+N). Create a second new image:
1. Width 1
2. Height 4
3. Backgrounf color black (RGB 0,0,0) 
3. Zoom in to the second image until you see the four pixels.
4. Change the color of the bottom pixel only:
1. Use tool "Paint Brush" with size 1 (all other tool values at 100)
2. Select you desired color to the brush (Materials -> Foregroung color)
3. Click on the bottom pixel
5. Select all (CTRL+A) and copy (CTRL+C)
6. Activate the first image by clicking it's window
7. Paste (CTRL+L) your selection (1x4 image) as a new layer to your background image (540x1600)

Additionally you can decorate your image with any greyscale photos, or create any colorful header to the top (use area of 113 px high on top for your header, colors used there doesn't affect to the text color).

Your image is ready. For some reason you can't save the image directly to Jolla Phone from Paint Shop Pro, so let's save it to the computer and move it to the phone:

1. Select Save As...
1. Name: [your image name]
2. Format: JPEG
3. Options: Compression factor 1
4. Target: Any folder in your computer
5. Save
6. (you see a warning about merging and a confirmation: select Yes)
2. Open the target folder in windows
3. Copy the image (CTRL+C)
4. Connect your Jolla to your PC with USB cable. Select "PC connection" from Jolla's screen.
5. Browse to phone folder: Pictures / Jolla
6. Paste the image to Sailfish / Phone Memory / Pictures / Jolla (CTRL+V)

For next, let's create a favourite ambience of the image. You can disconnect the USB cable now:

1. Start Gallery app in your Jolla.
2. Select "Photos" 
3. Tap on your new image.
   (note: at this point your display seems totally black)
4. Tap again. Image drops to the bottom and options become visible
5. Select "Create ambience" from Pulley menu
6. Flick right two times to return to the gallery menu
7. Select "Ambiences"
8. Tap on your new ambience (black square)
9. Tap on the star icon. The ambience is now favourited
10. Write a name and select your desired tones for your new ambience
11. Flick left to Save

We are ready. Your new ambience is available in your favourite ambience selection screen (accessible with Swipe left/right from the home screen or the lock screen).

Example Background

Tap twice for full size (540 x 1600) image. You can save this directly to Jolla Phone:

 Read more about the ambience design for Jolla Phone's different screens

Jolla HowTo: Make your own ambience with greyscale images

 The hedgehogs here are not the same

Move your mouse on top of the images to find out the invisible difference. In each of these greyscale images one pixel is colored. Jolla's automatic ambience creator finds the one, and makes it the text color instead of the (ugly) brown. Brown is used by Jolla when no colors are found, or color tone differences are too low.

How to make your own ambience with desired color?

1. Open an image with any good image manipulation program. Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop are great.
2. Reduce the saturation. Make it either a full greyscale image, or leave only some color left (max difference from greyscale is about 20 in RGB256 palette)
3. Crop / resize the image to FullHD portrait (1080 x 1920 px)
4. Zoom in to max zoom. Find this pixel close the center of the image: (539,962)
5. Color this pixel to your desired text color with at least 60 steps tone difference in RGB256 scale (for example: Grey 128,128,128 turns to red with values 188,128,128)
6. Connect your phone with PC connection
7. Save the image to the picture folder of Jolla
   (Sailfish -> Phone memory -> Pictures -> Camera/Jolla)
8. Open the image in the Jolla Gallery
9. Click the image to open the info view
10. Pull down (Pulley menu) and create an ambience

To find it in your quick ambience menu (swipe left/right)

1. Go back in the gallery and select ambiences
2. Click your new ambience and make it your favourite (activate the star)
3. Change any other properties, like ring tone etc. as you wish.
4. Save (swipe left). It should be there now.

Or pick a Jolla Hedgehog Ambience with your color

1. Click any small image above.
2. Right click to save the full size image to your computer
3. Advance from step 6 above

Pixel level zoom from one of the images above ->