Posted by Rifqi_Aziz
Updated for the third times to R1EA037 -- still got that "Continue Anyway" button on SEUS -- vibration function on my K850i finally returns.
Thanks God.
Now I'm a happy owner of Sofia, again.
Posted by darknoob
yep, 037 is very stable FW. but the quality of the camera in 031 is better
I hope new FW will come soon..
Posted by kmcgrane
Is there any difference between the Velvet blue firmware and the Luminous green firmware for the same firmware version? For example if have an original Velvet blue k850i, and have changed housing to Luminous Green, will i see and difference in firmware if i Reflash with Green firmware?
Cheers.
Posted by se_pete
On 2008-04-15 20:41:53, scoop wrote:
Guy i spoke with last night said the latest firmware for 3 uk was the RIEA037 and I should have been able to upgrade, however it didnt. So rang again today and they asked for my IMEI number and sent the firmware to me via FOTA, it took a while to upgrade but its now on the latest and running very well too. So basically if your stuck with 029 on 3UK ring the support line and say you are stuck on 029 firmware, they will ask you yr IMEI and then send you the firmware via a text message. If you dont recive the text from them just goto settings, general and update service. Then click search for updates, it will then allow you to download the latest update which you select yes to and let it do its stuff. The main file is about 5megs it downloads and then upgrades the firmware from that, takes about 20 mins to do but worth it.
This is excellent news - I've been stuck on 029 since Xmas when I got my phone. What's not so good is that it's not on SEUS yet - I don't fancy a 5 meg download over the air - I don't have any inclusive data on my tariff.
Pete.
Posted by james-a-d
I haven't noticed any benefits from this update, the only thing that's changed for me is my camera's gone back to taking useless flash-burnt pictures! GRRR!! >=[
I'm geting really fed up with this phone; back when i first saw it last year the big drawing point for me was the 5mp camera on a SE phone, but its hardly even given me one decent picture. Even on the last firmware where they fixed the flash-burn all the colours were still bleached and reds were pink, its been such a disappointment this phone, i really wanted to like it even when there was so much wrong with it, but now i cant wait to get rid of it... unfortunately im still stuck with it for 12 months! They'd better get a decent firmware out soon that gives us a camera worth what this phone sells for.
Posted by HotXRock
@james-a-d
I have read lots of feedback on K850 on Russian forums, some say that their phones have no problems, while others say they have these common problems and flashing to new firmwares doesn't help at all.
That's why I think that there are probably something like bad consignments of phones. I don't know how to say more exact, but this is the only reason I can suggest to explain why some people are having troubles and others are not. Really strange.
Personally, I don't have any specific problems with my phone and I'm happy with it. Okay, at least satisified.
[ This Message was edited by: HotXRock on 2008-04-17 15:10 ]
Posted by Duran
ups wrong thread=p
[ This Message was edited by: Duran on 2008-04-17 15:25 ]
Posted by sandy4464
Have i got a tale for you today!
So i decided to go out to town for the day, and take my trusty K850 with me, as you do. I drive into town, and when i get out, my pocket is vibrating, and there i am with a BROD scenario, i think it did it whilst in the car but didn't notice it, take the battery out, turn it back on, all fine. Go down the street, get a couple of e-mails, then it's off again, takes two vibrations till it come back on, then i send a text message to a friend, just as the message gets sent, off again, this time i have to take the battery out again, then back on, and it takes forever to turn on, the startup graphic take sabout 25 seconds to complete, like it goes a frame at a time, now i'm getting annoyed!
It eventually shows me the standby screen, then i guess i must have got a reply to my text just then, i don't know because it vibrated to inform me of a message, but before the message tone could sound, it went off again, takes two startup vibrations, but back to life, i leave it to subside, then go to see what the text was about, it takes me about 15 secs to even scroll down to the inbox when i get to messaging. also, it restarted before the message was saved in the inbox, but must have told my operator that i recieved it, great!
Then i get an email, a new friend on facebook (yes i'm that sad,
) anyways, so i go onto mobile facebook to accept the request, loads the page, about to click accept, and its off again. Another take the battery out jobbie. so its back again. I decide to turn it off, and remove my sim and memory card, clean off the contacts, and re-insert, it works for about 4 mins, doing nothing till it restarts. I've now had enough of this, i really felt the urge to throw the damn thing at the floor!
Luckily i had my trusty S500 to hand (as you do
) so i swapped the sims round.
So all in all that was 6 restarts in the space of an hour and a half, and in that time i managed to send one text, read one e-mail, and load one webpage.
Honestly, i have spent more time trying to turn my phone on, and watch it turn off on me than actually use the stupid thing.
I also seem to be in the minority with this FW, i might re-update and see what it does.
I'm trying to like this phone, and i do, but its testing my patience!
END OF RANT
Posted by SE-Naz
It seems the upgrades are not solving the problems, but are causing more problems...
This is one of the reasons I returned my handset as it was giving me so many issues had enough... I can't be asked going through all of that just to send a few tx and make calls.
Hope you get it sorted soon
Cheers
ENJOY
Posted by 1889
Seeing about all these problems with the K850, and after finally having mine go t*ts up on me, is making want to get rid of it for a Nokia 6300 more and more.
Posted by sandy4464
Right, i've re-updated, took the sim and memory cards out this time too, will see how it goes.
I do like the phone, the design's good, the cemera's good, compared to my S500 at least, and i am liking the A200 platform.
Using the S500 today, i can see there are little things, which i like in the K850.
It just seems as if SE have gone "Here you go, our flagship phone" and it begins to throw a wobbly when i use some of its features (i think its the push e-mail and rss feeds doing it tbh). They might as well go "Oh no! don't actually use the features, we said it had them, nothing about them working!"
Hopefully this'll fix it, i was planning on getting a P1i anyway, hoepfully that shouldn't give me this much jip.
Posted by shernon8
I used to get a little "H" icon and a "3G" icon after the signal bars on my K850i. i only get the "3G" now after updating to R1EAO37. is this a problem. has anyone else had this issue. "H" stands for HSDPA right? does this mean that my phone no longer connects to HSDPA and only connects to 3G.. help please....
Posted by The Barron
that happened to me too, after updating the option for connecting to the HDPSA network disappeared from the network settings menu
Posted by heara
hello, i cant update my phone is western- euro, how can i change my cda with kulankendi, do i have to flash all my phone or just change my cda, and what number do i have to put in?? please help!!!!
[ This Message was edited by: heara on 2008-04-17 18:26 ]
Posted by aloe
I have new prob whith my k850 when im useing my data connection it just brake down and then connect again and moore boots what the f**k is this there phones doesnt seem to get better i now after 12 year go for something better bye se
Posted by harry20larry
On 2008-04-17 12:18:45, darknoob wrote:
yep, 037 is very stable FW. but the quality of the camera in 031 is better
I hope new FW will come soon..
Don't understand that, it has the same cam driver, and as far as i know the cam software and driver are not very related to the rest of the phone.
Posted by vinhsotran
okay guys i need help, my menu button seems to not work properly, and everytime i click the down button, it automaticaly presses the menu button, i need help does anyone know what the problem could be?
Posted by NatroXz
Third day on 037, and still going without any signs of problems:-)
Posted by dentoters07
On 2008-04-17 19:15:54, harry20larry wrote:
On 2008-04-17 12:18:45, darknoob wrote:
yep, 037 is very stable FW. but the quality of the camera in 031 is better
I hope new FW will come soon..
Don't understand that, it has the same cam driver, and as far as i know the cam software and driver are not very related to the rest of the phone.
yeah, i know, right?? camdriver was not touched so picture quality on EA037 is just the same as EA031..
the only improvement is the speed.. btw, going on 3rd day with 037 and no random reboots yet..
Posted by The Barron
On 2008-04-17 20:00:43, vinhsotran wrote:
okay guys i need help, my menu button seems to not work properly, and everytime i click the down button, it automaticaly presses the menu button, i need help does anyone know what the problem could be?
thats a hardware problem, needs to go to an authorised dealer for repair, or sent back to operator or sent back to SE
Posted by vaggos13
Greetings from Greece. After 3 months of really problematic use (continuous reboots and freezings) yesterday I updated from 031 to 037. In one day I had 3 reboots and finally a BROD. I'd like a response from someone who's experienced BROD. Does SE replace or repair the phone? Shame on SE for their crappy-king phone... I've owned over 7 Ericsson- SE phones since 1998 and it's the 1st time I'm sooo disappointed of the brand... SHAME!!!
Posted by jcgibbins
anyone got 037 on vodafone yet ?? Am still waiting for it to come on SEUS !!!
Posted by kavy
Quick which way is the bandwagon?
I see all these problems and it raises alot of questions. I upgraded to 37 as well and it rocks, better cam, faster, better media player. What I am beginning to believe is that the carrier is responsible for alot of these problems with their bloatwear.
I know 6 people with 850's and none have had a single problem yet so its either the carrier, the hardware or the user I think we can rule out the software, because if this was so EVERYONE would be having issues.
Posted by jcgibbins
you see alot of people say this and my question is what did i do wrong ??
I used my phone in a normal way, txting etc etc and i got a BROD. I din't have loads of applications installed, I had a original theme, i played some games on it but this never caused it to restart.
TBH these phones should still be in testing stage, because there too unstable you cannot release a phone and say oh well you shouldn't do this and do that because you might break the firmware,phones are meant to be used not kept in a glass cabinet and looked there meant to be used day in day out and they should not break by someone using it in a normal fashion, not trying to test its limits etc because then you are asking for problems.
Posted by JiSm
Been on 037 for close to a week now and the battery is WAY better. My phone is connected to my watch 24/7 via bluetooth and I easily had an extra half day from it. Usually its huffin and puffin on day 4 but this time it lasted the whole day. I am very impressed.
Posted by heara
ok, i flash my phone with kk, and change my cda to 1200-4398 R11A, WESTERN-EURO, but still cannot update via seus, please help!!!
Posted by sniper_supra
I'm on ea037, unbranded.
No Brods, finally had the 'H', cam now seems faster, less blurred pics.
Maybe the faults are based on the phone carrier's firmware modification. Can somebody confirm it?
Posted by tyler_d
Hi all,
I just upgraded last night to R1EA037. The UI is now really speedy.
To the author of the firmware history, pls add this to R1EA037.
Bug fixes
- Java applications that use an Internet connection now displays the internet connection icon when connected.
(I was able to confirm this when I ran Opera Mini, the internet connection icon showed up).
Unfortunately, this still was not fixed:
Adding a theme that customises the Media Player causes the background to turn black if rotated into Landscape mode. This did not occur in previous firmwares.
Anyone having problems with their R1EA037?
[ This Message was edited by: tyler_d on 2008-04-18 03:22 ]
Posted by redvers
On 2008-04-18 01:22:39, heara wrote:
ok, i flash my phone with kk, and change my cda to 1200-4398 R11A, WESTERN-EURO, but still cannot update via seus, please help!!!
I've just tried to reflash with KK so I can change the CDA, but after two attempts (to make sure I really did have the CDA options checked, etc) it has actually failed to change the CDA. When you do a read info you'll see it's still the old CDA!!
Anyone else experienced this? I'm trying to set it to CDA 1202-5694 which is what my phone was set to before I fixed a BROD using Da Vinci / O2 firmware. Looks like I've wasted €8 credit
[ This Message was edited by: redvers on 2008-04-18 05:34 ]
Posted by HotXRock
After reading about all this issues, I may also suggest that these bugs come either from EROM, either from FS part of the firmware. Maybe there are phones with initially bad EROM or there is something wrong with FS on early firmwares, which is in fact not updated by SEUS. I flashed my phone 3 times: full flashing to R1CA037 Russia and R1EA031 ADRIATIC and updating via SEUS to R1EA037. Neither BROD nor frequent reboots.
[ This Message was edited by: HotXRock on 2008-04-18 06:27 ]
Posted by forward
With latest firmware the photo with flash is just brilliant...
and other functions all work normal...and I had twice the phone just turned off without restart in 031...but now since update still stable.
[ This Message was edited by: forward on 2008-04-18 06:49 ]
Posted by heara
On 2008-04-18 06:34:21, redvers wrote:
On 2008-04-18 01:22:39, heara wrote:
ok, i flash my phone with kk, and change my cda to 1200-4398 R11A, WESTERN-EURO, but still cannot update via seus, please help!!!
I've just tried to reflash with KK so I can change the CDA, but after two attempts (to make sure I really did have the CDA options checked, etc) it has actually failed to change the CDA. When you do a read info you'll see it's still the old CDA!!
Anyone else experienced this? I'm trying to set it to CDA 1202-5694 which is what my phone was set to before I fixed a BROD using Da Vinci / O2 firmware. Looks like I've wasted €8 credit
[ This Message was edited by: redvers on 2008-04-18 05:34 ]
same happen to me i dont know what to do, anyone help please..
Posted by harry20larry
On 2008-04-18 06:34:21, redvers wrote:
On 2008-04-18 01:22:39, heara wrote:
ok, i flash my phone with kk, and change my cda to 1200-4398 R11A, WESTERN-EURO, but still cannot update via seus, please help!!!
I've just tried to reflash with KK so I can change the CDA, but after two attempts (to make sure I really did have the CDA options checked, etc) it has actually failed to change the CDA. When you do a read info you'll see it's still the old CDA!!
Anyone else experienced this? I'm trying to set it to CDA 1202-5694 which is what my phone was set to before I fixed a BROD using Da Vinci / O2 firmware. Looks like I've wasted €8 credit
[ This Message was edited by: redvers on 2008-04-18 05:34 ]
I don't think KK does a full flash like da vinci, da vinci totally reinstalls the firmware as KK only does one bit. Try with da vinci, it worked for me
Posted by jbbrs
Kulankendi does a full flash and changes the CDA, that is how I changed the CDA on my k850. If you have problems with kulankendi contact the author on the gsmhosting forum, he might take a day to answer but he is usually a very nice guy and solves these problems.
Posted by vortigern
there seems to be confusion about what a BROD is again.
People are saying they got one, then restarted and it was fine.
From what I've been reading.. that's not a BROD - D=DEATH and requires a SE centre to bring it back to life.
Are people still getting these? .. or just the random reboots?
Posted by sandy4464
Well, mines just about dead now!
I say just about as it does turn on, but won't stay on for more then 2 seconds, however, if i put my ancienct Orange PAYG sim in, its ok. That might only be down to the fact that i have no credit on it anymore, so it can't do anything, stopping my push mail and rss feeds.
But if i can't use my current sim in it, its about as usefull as a towel at a nudist beach tbh!
For now i'm using my S500, and see if i can revive my poor K850
I also think it might be something wrong with EROM, as i've had the phone since release, it might not have always been ok. Faulty EROM is what killed my W850, which still sits in my bedside table as a handy paperweight!
Posted by apotts
On 2008-04-18 10:29:24, vortigern wrote:
From what I've been reading.. that's not a BROD - D=DEATH and requires a SE centre to bring it back to life.
Are people still getting these? .. or just the random reboots?
I never got any reboots - just straight into a BROD. Having to wait weeks for it to come back from repair, in the mean time I've had to use my old Samsung D900. I'd like to use an old SE, but my K750 keyboard doesn't respond and my S700 boots with a white screen.
For the remaining months I have to endure this POS, I will always carry a spare phone (I am often abroad for weeks at a time) as I cannot rely on it.
Posted by SE-Naz
@sandy4464
It could also be a faulty simcard... I know you have tried orange simcard... try a different one of the same network and see if you get any problems....
If not... Just ring up the network and get a replacement sent to you...
Cheers
ENJOY
Posted by sandy4464
On 2008-04-18 11:42:37, SE-Naz wrote:
It could also be a faulty simcard... I know you have tried orange simcard... try a different one of the same network and see if you get any problems....
If not... Just ring up the network and get a replacement sent to you...
I will give that a go, quite a few T-Mobile users round here.
Only thing is, i'm now using the same sim in my S500 with no problems, could it only be faulty in my K850?
Posted by SE-Naz
Quite possibly... it has a problem on the K850i... but would work fine on another handset...
Its happened to me, that is the reason I made this suggestion to you.
Cheers
ENJOY
Posted by sandy4464
I think i might give them a ring then.
Thanks, hopefully this may let me use my K850 once again.
Posted by SE-Naz
Try first to make sure...
Good luck!!!
Cheers
ENJOY
Posted by reAaa
so it's safe to update to 037? right now I'm still with the old 037 firmware for about 4 months
Posted by jcgibbins
make sure when using KK to flash you tick the Finalization Box, otherwise it will not do anything, i made that mistake but i contacted the guy on there forums and he gave me my credit back and i was able to get my phone working
Posted by sandy4464
Well, got my neighbours sim, and it seemed to work. So i was on the phone to T-Mobile, couldn't find my IMEI 1st, but anyway, just as i was going through the motions and they'd got sending me a new sim, guess what.
My K850, sat on my leg, restarts, again, and again, and again, evetually stuck on blue ring. This was using my old orange sim again, my neighbour did kinda need hers!
So its not the sim card, but i guess i'll be nice getting a new one anyway.
Going to try and re-update again.
I'm just waiting for pay day now, so i can go buy me a P1!
Posted by SE-Naz
Its a shame... I honestly don't like the K850i....
Maybe look to flash it with a third party software... as lots of people have had positive outcomes from that...
Cheers
ENJOY
Posted by vegetaleb
Don't upgrade to the new 037,several people are getting BROD faster than with 031!!! it will be a disaster
Stay with the ''old'' 037 it's still the unique FW BROD free
Posted by sandy4464
I might give it a go, what is there to loose!
Posted by reAaa
@vegetaleb
thanks for the info, I was doubting about updating today hehe, you made me change my mind again. I'll stick with 037 (old fw)
Posted by mariozlp
last night i've updated from 031 to 037. no problem at all. Event with 031 i hadn't problems. And in settings i still have the option hsdpa, but its useless here in greece.