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New Firmware for Nokia’s 5800 XpressMusic shows up on the Updater

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

If you’re a 5800 owner who’s just woken up to a brand new day, sipping onto some steaming hot beverage or browsing through your RSS feeds, hear this one. The folks over at Nokia have dropped an update to the Firmware of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.

The update bumps up your phone to Firmware v11.0.008 from the previous Firmware v10.0.010 and brings in overall stability of the phone’s OS. The update should be available through the Nokia Software Updater, but I’ve come across a couple of people who’re reporting no activity at their end. So if you’re lucky enough for the update to show up at your desktop, remember to back up your data before proceeding.

A complete list of changes, courtesy of S60Inside.com:

  • Homepage is not defined for Vodafone Live!
  • Last word disappears when selecting receiver in SMS
  • My Nokia: phone displays “#” in front of Application name.
  • During Back-Up & Restore operation, calendar entries are not restored
  • Operator menu link within Welcome application
  • Invalid message pops up before playing the file received via Bluetooth.
  • Input Method, VKB just display number when selecting a WLAN access point which contains a password.
  • Chinese box HWR control buttons and FS HWR control bar are too small.
  • Unable to add image to Contact bar from Gallery when there is about 5 GB of data in memory card
  • In Arabic UI, in calendar, the arrows on the top are reversed in week view and day view
  • UI-rotation is too sensitive
  • Search: Google search service is missing in Search.
  • Contact could not display when switch numbers in Singtel 2-in-1 SIM card
  • Maps: Wrong layout of the strings in the Maps search and favorites views
  • Could not send new email if user name and password is not pre-defined
  • Phone drops from service when both A5/3 +GEA3 used simultaneously with WLAN
  • The Messaging application crashes a lot specially when replying or trying to send SMS you have to remove battery to be able to use the device again
  • License Manager for Maps is not integrated to SW
  • 5.0 Touch: Phonebook crashing when adding detail: Birthday, Anniversary
  • Web screen is messed up
  • Non stop Music Player “Library update”
  • Clock, Alarm is inactive when phone is power off.
  • APN Configuration Settings Update to be used for the Setting Wizard
  • Ex-Factory settings are wrong
  • UE unable to open Setting Wizard
  • StartUpSettings version updated.
  • Phone lost correct time during power off
  • USSD – “Call Control Send USSD” command
  • UE drops from 3G, then cannot sync to 3G cells
  • Browser: Flash objects causes problems while browsing

[Via MobileBurn]

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T-Mobile G1 gets a mystery update

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

It’s raining updates for the users of T-Mobile G1. While most of us are yet to lay our hands on the first Android phone, the lucky few who went ahead and bought it already have had to update the build OTA.

While the popular word is that the build number is RC28, one reader over at Engadget has come across a mystery RC29 update. His device now runs the RC29 after his device rebooted “a few times”, according to the post. Another user, however, required only one single reboot and only about 5 minutes of his time.

Have you come across such updates yet?

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Nokia’s N82 Firmware bumped up to v30

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Following the release of the version 30 of firmware for Nokia’s N95 and N95 8GB phones, Nokia has now made the same version of the firmware available for the N82. Steve, over at AAS, notices that the new firmware update brings similar improvements as compared to the two phones who initially got the updates, but they’re not necessarily identical. Improvements include more stable Flash Lite 3, Maps 2.0, new visualizations for the music player, increased speed and overall performance, less sensitive auto-screen rotation, Share Online 3.0 and various other bug fixes, improvements and better battery life.

Steve goes on to mention that the dim-display feature has not yet been fixed and the new UDP (User Data Preservation) feature sounds a lot comforting. However, from the comments on that article, it seems that the upgrade isn’t playing too fair with the users. So if you’re going to make the jump and play around, do let us know about the update in the comments.

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Apple delivers iPhone 2.1; fixes bugs and security holes

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Today, if you have connected your iPhone to the computer, you might have noticed that Apple has made the iPhone firmware version 2.1 available via iTunes. And if you haven’t already done that, well, now would be a good time. As promised by Steve Jobs at the company’s ‘Let’s Rock’ event recently, the 2.1 version was indeed released on Friday and promises fewer dropped calls, bug fixes, increased battery life and fixes security holes. Here’s a list of what seems to have been fixed with the update, according to Apple:

 

  • Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls
  • Significantly better battery life for most users
  • Dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
  • Improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts
  • Faster installation of 3rd party applications
  • Fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes for users with lots of third party applications
  • Improved performance in text messaging
  • Faster loading and searching of contacts
  • Improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display
  • Repeat alert up to two additional times for incoming text messages
  • Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts
  • Genius playlist creation
As always, the update is free for all iPhone users. Apple has detailed out how to upgrade the iPhone on their site. 
This update also fixed the Passcode lock flaw, which we wrote about earlier.

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Apple firmware update brings iPhone ‘bug fixes’

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Apple has released a new firmware update for the iPhone, OS 2.02.2, promising rather obliquely ‘bug fixes’. Apple being Apple isn’t saying what the bugs are and how they might need fixing, but more than a few commentators are pointing the finger at the 3G problems that seem to have plagued users.

If that was the update’s intention, then it doesn’t seem to have succeeded. Some iPhone users are reporting a slight improvement in their 3G connections, others are reporting the update is more the software equivalent of a chocolate teapot. Any iPhone users out there tried the update? And if so, what did you find?

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