Music playing on the Nokia 110?

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Hello

Today I bought myself a nokia 110, both as a detox measure, and as a copout untill the day I'm ready to switch with Android.

I like the phone (my first classic nokia), however I was surprised to see no music-playing feature on it. The music icon is absent from its position (6th in the menu as illustrated on the Nokia website), I tried loading some MP3s on the SD card and none would open...

This comes as a surprise, as the music features of the 110 are prominently advertised on the Nokia site: https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/nokia-110

So, could anyone, possibly someone from HMD, explain this?? Music was a big part of why I chose this phone.

Kartik Gada

This is weird. Not sure why this would happen. Try resetting the phone once and see if it gets fixed. Or else you will have to contact Support or go to the nokia care centre.

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I called the Darty helpdesk, and seemingly the version of the 110 sold in Europe lacks any music features, contrary to the version sold in central america for example.

If this is true, this is messed up. I heard HMD would be giving more focus to Europe in the future, they could start by fixing such incoherencies.

The phone was advertised worldwide as a modern-day xpressmusic/xseries phone basically, it would be weird to see it lack its foremost feature, were it only on the old continent.

Kartik Gada

Can you tell what is Darty? A retailer? And which country in Europe? I don't think HMD would remove a music feature depending on the region. Also, if they had to remove it then would they still keep the sd slot? I don't see any logic in this. Just reset the phone and see if it works. I hope it does. :)

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Darty is a retailer in France, owned by Fnac.

I guess the SD card had to remain because of the camera and video features,

I'll try resetting (if I can move all of my contacts to the sim card)

anyways, thanks

Kartik Gada

https://community.phones.nokia.com/discussion/comment/149580#Comment_149580

Ok so there is a possibility that the retailer doesn't know much. I am sure that there's just one type of Nokia 110 and it has mp3 support. 🙂

Wqiting for your reply after the reset. 😊

Kartik Gada

I just checked Nokia Mobile's france website and Nokia 110 isn't listed there. I would recommend you to check if the phone is original and not fake. Can you post the images?

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here's a photo of the phone

I looked up an unboxing on YouTube, and the packaging of mine is slightly different (all mentions of music are removed, the back-of-the-box Screenshot shows the camera instead)

However, When setting the go-to shortcuts menu, the music player appears in the option, but it wont make it appear in the menu whatsoever.

Also, the phone only has an option to reset the settings, which didn't change anything after doing it. There is no "hard reset"

Darty had almost the whole array of nokia feature phones in store (105, 110, 216, 2720, 3310, 800,230, 8110... and more I think), even though few are on nokia's french website.

EDIT: I found another unboxing, with the same packaging as mine, but which has music playing anyways: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBoUOoMoqls

Kartik Gada

https://community.phones.nokia.com/discussion/comment/149631#Comment_149631

Contact Nokia Care. They are the only ones left who can help you now.

cc: @singhnsk

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Well, I asked them, and they couldn't help me further (they suggested customizing the go-to menu to add music, but there wasn't a music checkbox)

Kartik Gada

You will have to ask them to fix it or just replace the phone. How can they not provide a feature which is clearly advertised. Ask them to either fix it or replace the phone.

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So, I spoke for the second time to Nokia Care, and they confirmed what I heard:

The Nokia 110 sold in Europe definitely doesn't have a music-playing app, or a MP3 codec. However, you can use the file explorer to play .AAC, .WAV and .MP3 files.

This is kind of inconvenient since you have to open musics one by one (no play all)

Replacing the phone would be of no use, since the replacement unit would for language reasons remain European.

Besides, the software cannot be flashed to another version.

Kartik Gada

That's a very inconvenient way to listen to music and if it is possible that way then why didn't they provide a music player in devices sold in Europe?

@HMDLaura Why would HMD want to do this? Also, all the marketing material and information available on website of different countries of europe do not even mention about the missing mp3 player.

@singhnsk Check this out and share your thoughts.

f82

Unfortunately I suspected and noticed this thing at first when I tried the phone at the store but I was waiting for other feedbacks about it; if you read carefully your local webpage about the 110 model you might notice that it might differ from the international webpage version where the "MP3" word is there but not in some (?) local EU pages where there's the "radio/FM" feature only named. This happened before also in other brand feature phones sharing the same hw. I can't know why this happened but I have my own explanation for it but I'd exclude the "error" possibility. As said another well known feature phone EU brand has not that feature itself.

I've read another comment where it's said mp3 music can be played by the file explorer but also saying the phone might lack the specific codec. How could it be possible? I don't have this phone model so I can't test but I tested other brand phone that have the same problem in the EU version.

.lionel.

I just bought the phone here in France, I confirm that the music player is not present in the menu and not advertised by the retailer either. I just tested to play MP3 from the file manager, it does not seem to work, I get an error message saying the format is not supported. WAV file playback works properly from the file manager, as well the selection of a WAV file as ringtone (from the FM, with the context menu). The music player limitation does not seem to concern all models sold in EU since here in Belgium the MP3 player is advertised: https://www.nokia.com/phones/fr_be/nokia-110

The limitation might be something linked to local taxes linked with MP3 player. I know that in France such a tax was introduced long ago (2007/8?).

It's a pity, would have been useful to play podcasts/music.

For info, my phone SKU is 16NKLB01A10.

f82

As imagined I was expecting that. I didn't know about a mp3 tax existing who knows. Anyway the lack of mp3 player together with some changes that came with the "newer" SoC might people think the old Nokia/HMD 130 model was a better product for some reasons and the music player would be one of them. Even if we are talking about the lowest end price target products, so expecting a lot would be wrong, but I hope also other model sold in some part of the world like the Nokia/HMD 125 or the Nokia/HMD 215 4g will be sold worldwide. And maybe a newer version of the Nokia/HMD 105 with a better case, keypad, screen, removing those games that seriously would be faster to move around the menu without their icons.

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regarding the codec: I might have made a mistake while typing that, I think it lacks mp3 playing altogether, but aac and midi and wav files can be played