Define “Upgrade”
Yesterday I “upgraded” the firmware on my N80 to 4.0707.0.7 from 4.0632.0.38 with NSU and spent a few hours removing all of the apps I didn’t want and then restoring all of my settings, data and apps. The actual process went fine, but my experience since then has been abysmal - even more so than other people’s experiences that I’ve been reading about.
- For the first time(s) since I’ve owned the N80, I’m experiencing freezes - and lots of them. Basically about one out of every five times my phone goes into sleep mode it freezes when I try to wake it up. I just get a white screen and can’t even power it off, so the battery has to come out. I’ve also gotten freezes while receiving SMS in sleep mode. Great! So what should I do - disable sleep mode and lose battery life? Format my phone and go through the pain of restoring all of my settings, data and apps again without even knowing whether or not it will help?
- Aside from the above, when sleep mode is enabled my phone forgoes the screensaver and slips right into sleep mode. Is it supposed to do that? I have no idea. Actually, I would love to skip the 10 minutes of screensaver and go right to sleep mode, but not if the phone freezes all the time as a result.
- I’m getting A LOT of web time-out errors while browsing via WLAN or EDGE (more so with EDGE).
- The Multimedia key long-press is assigned to Music Player and is no longer configurable. WTF?!? I love all of my shortcuts and it just so happens that the MM-key long-press is one of my most used ones! Now it’s useless to me as I seldom use my N80 as a music player. Why on earth would they reduce the number of configurable shortcuts?
There’s plenty more to report but you get the idea. So… Was this firmware tested? I’ve yet to find a change log online so I’m not sure what purpose this “upgrade” serves, but I can tell you that it’s a big step backwards. A bunch of pre-installed apps that had been removed from the 4.6032.0.38 firmware have come back and hog up a whole lot of your c drive. Beyond that I haven’t noticed any fixes of existing bugs (indicator light keeps blinking when a call is received in sleep mode, screen is jumbled when call is received in sleep mode, etc).
If you’re thinking of upgrading, you might want to wait for the next pass - which is a shame because of the compatibility issues with the new version of Rotate Me…
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Please see the comments sections for some notes on the freezing problem that I mentioned above.
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for the second point, i think it's for increasing the battery life time ;)
and i'm ok with you for your others points, i'm getting the same (and more) on mine...
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I wonder what causes the freezing bug on 4.0707.0.7 as I had no problems with previous fw. Looks like I'll be checking out Ultimate Portable's solution until SmartphoneWare releases 1.01.
Btw, there are reports that new fw v5.x is already available at Nokia internally so hopefully we'll see something good shortly.
As for the phone bypassing the screensaver and going straight to sleep, now that I know it's not related to freezing I think it's great! :)
I still want to see a configurable MM key and fixes to the other bugs I've found (including several minor ones I didn't mention here) though... ;)
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I've had the same experiece with back ups and I doubt I'll ever bother to try backup/restore again with any Nokia any time soon...
Just one thing that I'll note is that when you format your phone, it's much easier/less time-consuming to not format your MMC as well. You should delete all system folders and the device will automatically rebuild them but folders with your media can remain so you don't have to bother with transferring all of that data back and forth. For example, I left my three music folders, all of my images and videos, and my TomTom maps. It's just one less thing to think about while you restore all of your other data.
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