W910i Firmware/Bug Overview

Posted by HiVolt
Man, its so fast now!!! the autorotate in walkman mode is sooo much better! Also when i close the slider and press unlock it does it right away before it lagged.

Posted by Ixalus
can anyone confirm that R1FA030 will work with Optus branded mobiles from Australia.

Maybe only the people who were able to update to R1EA033 can update to the new firmware.

I personally was unable to update to R1EA033.

Cheers.

Posted by alexlt
I really hope this new firmware to fix the bugs with Megabass and general low volume of the handset ...

Does anyone when will be released worldwide?? I'am in America bt

Posted by swordliger
To those who have updated to the R1FA030....is your phone branded ?

Usually unbranded ones get priority when it comes to updating firmwares

Ohh and also, hows the battery life performance? Better than the previous firmware?

[ This Message was edited by: swordliger on 2008-05-28 08:33 ]

Posted by not_me

On 2008-05-28 04:34:05, Ixalus wrote:
can anyone confirm that R1FA030 will work with Optus branded mobiles from Australia.

Maybe only the people who were able to update to R1EA033 can update to the new firmware.

I personally was unable to update to R1EA033.

Cheers.

I was unable to update to R1EA033 too, and I tried yesterday and it didn't worked, but today it did !! I have R1FA033 now !

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[ This Message was edited by: not_me on 2008-05-28 09:20 ]

Posted by tyranusaurus
hey guys, im new here

been reading this forum regularly since W910i was launched.. lol.. and i just updated to R1FA030.. gonna play around with it more, but it seems like theres no difference yet.. apparently those with APAC_ANZ firmwares can upgrade lol..

Posted by ghostfreak
Nice to hear it's out - will be debranding with this version once I get the handset!

Posted by tyranusaurus
R1FA030
- Released on SEUS on 28/05/2008

Performance
- JBenchmark 3D LQ: 411
- JBenchmark 3D HQ: 412

Software versions:
EROM: 1200-4341
SEMCBOOT: R6A008
LCD: 200708310
Camera: 1.7
Videocall camera: 3.2
Content: PA25
Java: 8.2.1
Text: BO

seems to me that the LQ performance increased but the HQ performance decreased a bit from R1EA033. free memory left after the JBenchmark test is lower than what i got last time when i did it for R1EA033. SEMCBOOT's software version is lower, videocall camera, content, java and text seems to be the only ones that are newer. i tried autorotate and closing the slide but it seems to be the same. first thing i noticed that seems to be faster is when u click on new message.. it instantly comes out. other than that, dont really see much difference.. gonna try some games out and see if its slower or faster (:

[ This Message was edited by: tyranusaurus on 2008-05-28 09:55 ]

Posted by ghostfreak

On 2008-05-28 10:54:32, tyranusaurus wrote:
R1FA030
- Released on SEUS on 28/05/2008

Performance
- JBenchmark 3D LQ: 411
- JBenchmark 3D HQ: 412

Software versions:
EROM: 1200-4341
SEMCBOOT: R6A008
LCD: 200708310
Camera: 1.7
Videocall camera: 3.2
Content: PA25
Java: 8.2.1
Text: BO

seems to me that the LQ performance increased but the HQ performance decreased a bit from R1EA033. free memory left after the JBenchmark test is lower than what i got last time when i did it for R1EA033. SEMCBOOT's software version is lower, videocall camera, content, java and text seems to be the only ones that are newer. i tried autorotate and closing the slide but it seems to be the same. first thing i noticed that seems to be faster is when u click on new message.. it instantly comes out. other than that, dont really see much difference.. gonna try some games out and see if its slower or faster (:

[ This Message was edited by: tyranusaurus on 2008-05-28 09:55 ]

Thanks for that, looking forward to any updates on this.

Posted by tyranusaurus
Just tried out some of the most demanding games that i have... PGR, NFS Prostreet (240X320 ver) and Asphalt GT 3 3D [all are 3D games]. first thing, first load of the games are noticeably slower, but second load and onwards its damn fast. when playing NFS:PS it still lags as much as R1EA033, but might be due to a bug in the game. Although, one thing that i notice in common with all 3 games, is that the cars are much sharper and the colours are richer! and PGR and Asphalt3 seems to have a slightly better performance and the graphics seem to be much improved.. some games like PGR's fonts seem to be smaller, and non-3D games seem much faster too and graphics are also improved. thats all for now, i'll see if i can find any more improvements

[ This Message was edited by: tyranusaurus on 2008-05-28 10:09 ]

[ This Message was edited by: tyranusaurus on 2008-05-28 10:11 ]

Posted by andrew.bell
I can now say this new firmware is out for UK - debranded - I am on Orange network with debranded red w910i.

I have yet to update it, it is updating now so can't comment just yet.

[ This Message was edited by: andrew.bell on 2008-05-28 10:12 ]

Posted by ghostfreak
Much appreciated screenshot andrew.bell!

Can I ask what network you're on?

Posted by andrew.bell

On 2008-05-28 11:11:04, ghostfreak wrote:
Much appreciated screenshot andrew.bell!

Can I ask what network you're on?

I am on Orange network UK - debranded - red w910i. Hope this helps!

Posted by not_me
I get this with R1FA030 :

JBenchmarkHD :
Smooth triangles : 36550
Textured triangles : 32254
Fill rate : 1392 kTexels
HQGamingTest : 168 (5.6 fps)
JBenchmark 3D HQ : 445
JBenchmark 3D LQ : 416
JBenchmark 2: 1050
JBenchmark 1: 7370

[ This Message was edited by: not_me on 2008-05-28 10:31 ]

Posted by tyranusaurus

On 2008-05-28 11:15:40, not_me wrote:
I get this with R1FA030 :
JBenchmark 3D HQ : 445
JBenchmark 3D HQ : 416

hmm.. which version of JBenchmark u using? mind sending me?

Posted by not_me
Jbenchmark 3D 3.1

Posted by tyranusaurus
R1FA030 - updated
- Released on SEUS on 28/05/2008

Performance
- JBenchmark 3D LQ: 471
- JBenchmark 3D HQ: 446

Software versions:
EROM: 1200-4341
SEMCBOOT: R6A008
LCD: 200708310
Camera: 1.7
Videocall camera: 3.2
Content: PA25
Java: 8.2.1
Text: BO

with the latest version of Jbenchmark 3.1.0 i get significantly better results

[EDIT]one thing tho, the results seem to vary.. the best i ever got for LQ is 483, but my HQ's 435 only.. wierd.. but the above results are my best pair so far

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[ This Message was edited by: tyranusaurus on 2008-05-28 11:17 ]

Posted by andrew.bell
Found a problem already. When playing music and I turn the volume up or down it crackles. It definatly did not do this on the older firmware.

Can anybody confirm this? My next phone is not going to be SE.

Posted by not_me

On 2008-05-28 11:31:32, andrew.bell wrote:
Found a problem already. When playing music and I turn the volume up or down it crackles. It definatly did not do this on the older firmware.

Can anybody confirm this? My next phone is not going to be SE.

Mine did always crackle a little bit when changing volume

Posted by tyranusaurus

trying it now..hopefully mine doesnt

Posted by not_me
I get this with R1FA030 :

JBenchmarkHD :
. Smooth triangles : 36550
. Textured triangles : 32254
. Fill rate : 1392 kTexels
. HQGamingTest : 168 (5.6 fps)
JBenchmark 3D HQ : 445 (14.83 fps)
JBenchmark 3D LQ : 416 (13.86 fps)
JBenchmark 2: 1050
JBenchmark 1: 7370

Edit : Did again hit the quote button instead of the edit button, just added average fps.

[ This Message was edited by: not_me on 2008-05-28 10:39 ]

Posted by tyranusaurus
Found this on Jbenchmark's site under results for Jbenchmark HD.. thats a hell lot of firmwares..

[edit] for the gaming test i got slightly less than u, 5.5fps, and it seems lower than the scores posted on the jbenchmark HD results..

SonyEricssonW910i/R1DA038
SonyEricssonW910i/R1CA039
SonyEricssonW910i/R1AB056
SonyEricssonW910i/R1EA030
SonyEricssonW910i/R1BA017
SonyEricssonW910i/R1CA031
SonyEricssonW910i/R1FA017
SonyEricssonW910i/R1BA012
SonyEricssonW910i/R1CA002
SonyEricssonW910i/R1CA029
SonyEricssonW910i/R3AA010

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[ This Message was edited by: tyranusaurus on 2008-05-28 10:38 ]

Posted by Brankar
For Generic Central-Euro is still R1EA033

Posted by tyranusaurus
hey man, just tried out with my earphones (standard HPM-70) and wtf man, the bass seems to be enhanced and sounds quite good.. changed volumes and theres no cackles.. can anyone verify that the sound quality seems to have improved?!!?

[EDIT] the response of the walkman is awesome.. very much improvement.. try it while playing music, press down on ur playlist.. i got 480 songs so that is freaking good..
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[ This Message was edited by: tyranusaurus on 2008-05-28 10:43 ]

Posted by andrew.bell

On 2008-05-28 11:40:42, tyranusaurus wrote:
hey man, just tried out with my earphones (standard HPM-70) and wtf man, the bass seems to be enhanced and sounds quite good.. changed volumes and theres no cackles.. can anyone verify that the sound quality seems to have improved?!!?

[EDIT] the response of the walkman is awesome.. very much improvement.. try it while playing music, press down on ur playlist.. i got 480 songs so that is freaking good..
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Happy W910i owner!(: Proud to be one of teh people with a problem-free first batch W910i xD

[ This Message was edited by: tyranusaurus on 2008-05-28 10:43 ]

Your doing this via the media manager not just playing songs through file manager? The songs work fine through file manager but media manager theres crackles.

Posted by tyranusaurus

On 2008-05-28 11:58:16, andrew.bell wrote:

Your doing this via the media manager not just playing songs through file manager? The songs work fine through file manager but media manager theres crackles.

without earphones no, with earphones theres no crackle at all when changing volumes, but i notice a bit at the background of the song tho.. but not really noticeable, rather occasional. [ONLY FOR FILE MANAGER]. walkman (aka. media manager)'s perfectly fine. lol. i use 5 bars for my music with earphones btw. sound quality's improved.

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[ This Message was edited by: tyranusaurus on 2008-05-28 11:14 ]

Posted by andrew.bell
KopStar is it possible you can update page 1? were lagging behind! just a tad lol! thanks!!!

Posted by tyranusaurus
KopStar u can use mine if u want

R1FA030 - updated
- Released on SEUS on 28/05/2008

Performance
- JBenchmark 3D LQ: 471
- JBenchmark 3D HQ: 446

Software versions:
EROM: 1200-4341
SEMCBOOT: R6A008
LCD: 200708310
Camera: 1.7
Videocall camera: 3.2
Content: PA25
Java: 8.2.1
Text: BO

Posted by tyranusaurus
hmm.. tried playing inconsolable (wma, 128kbps) with HPM-70 both in walkman (media manager) and file manager.. changing volumes seems to be perfectly fine for me, but i did notice the occasional slight cackle when the song is playing tho.. seems to be isolated to that song only... maybe SE enabled some kind of sharpening that causes some songs to cackle? playing in walkman the song seems to have much more bass and slightly more clarity than file manager and than R1EA033 ahaha.

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Happy W910i owner!(: Proud to be one of teh people with a problem-free first batch W910i xD

[ This Message was edited by: tyranusaurus on 2008-05-28 11:24 ]

Posted by Vongola-Sky
its look the same to me. D: except when playing music on the background it runs at normal speed is a great improvement. other then that all are normal. :S

Posted by KopStar
Cheers Tyranosaurus... I will!
If anyone has the details for R1EA033, it would be much appreciated...

Posted by not_me
Made all tests again for R1FA030 and got mostly even better results, don't understand though why this is variyng so much, had even ones only 188 points for JBenchmark 3D HQ, but there I did let the screen go off.

JBenchmarkHD :
. Smooth triangles : 36554
. Textured triangles : 32195
. Fill rate : 1414 kTexels
. HQGamingTest : 168 (5.6 fps)

JBenchmark 3D HQ : 467 (15.56 fps)
JBenchmark 3D LQ : 483 (16.1 fps)
JBenchmark 3D :
. Triangles ps : 37643
. KTexels ps : 1726

JBenchmark 2: 1134
. Image Manipulation : 307
. Text : 678
. Sprites : 602
. 3D Transform : 731
. User Interface : 20449

JBenchmark 1: 7504
. Text : 2059
. 2D Shapes : 1962
. 3D Shapes : 996
. Fillrate : 806
. Animation : 1685

Posted by fortuneleon
I've been lurking on this thread since I got my w910i. I think I've been through every generic version of the software so far, and the recurring theme has been the unprompted reboots of the phone.

I've still got that on R1FA030 (just happened. Uptime of about 6 hours!)

I also seem to have a new bug; the most recently used list of contacts that you see when sending a text message is no longer displaying in the correct order. I thought it wasn't updating at all, but the numbers are in the list, but no longer with the most recent number at the top.

Can anyone else confirm this, or is this just a user error (some setting somewhere?)

I'd actually gone back to my K790 for the last week I was so fed up with the w910i, but thought I'd give the new firmware a chance. I'll give it another day...

Posted by ghostfreak
When I get the handset (tomorrow now, damn eBay), will I wait to debrand it (as the new firmware isn't out yet on DaVinci) or just unlock and wait until it is released?

Posted by tyranusaurus
hmm yeah.. if i let the screen go off sometimes it'll affect the results. i noticed one thing also.. not every song has cackles.. only some.. hmm.. those with bass are enhanced tho.. but when i press resume it'll pause about 2 secs to load the playlist.. nvr happened before in previous firmwares tho.. other than that no probs, i done the tests just now, 3 times each, posting the results later(:

[EDIT] one thing tho, the speed search in teh walkman still aint fixed.. any letter that u press (from T onwards) will lead to the chinese songs.. lol..

@KopStar

i dont think R1EA033 had much changes, except maybe a bit faster here and there, but i dont think it really did anything much or have any major change. cheers!

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[ This Message was edited by: tyranusaurus on 2008-05-28 14:27 ]

[ This Message was edited by: tyranusaurus on 2008-05-28 14:32 ]

Posted by tyranusaurus
@fortuneleon

maybe change a new set at any SE centre? or if u have no choice do a master reset (all phone data will be lost. must backup first) but looking at ur case, i doubt it will work..

[ This Message was edited by: tyranusaurus on 2008-05-28 14:33 ]

Posted by fortuneleon
A new device might fix the restart issue, but the MRU issue is a new one.

Having looked in more details, it's ALL call and messaging logs, e.g. if I press the green key, no calls are listed that I've made since I updated the firmware.

Would be very interested to see if anyone else has this issue, as this is a MAJOR flaw.

Leon

Posted by tyranusaurus
@fortuneleon

hmm.. all calls? dont seem to happen to me. maybe its a bad set.. from all that ive read about the W910i, it seems to me that SE have some bad quality control.. im thankful that i got a perfect set anyway. lol

[EDIT]crap i cant post any more today so im posting it here. lol.
@0blivion

yeah bro.. finally someone agrees with me about the sound quality.. the megabass doesnt drown out the voice and its still damn clear.. ahaha!

test results are below, 3 tests in succession. screen kept on at all times

first one is JBenchmark HD, second one is JBenchmark 3D (all newest versions)

[ This Message was edited by: tyranusaurus on 2008-05-28 15:25 ]

Posted by fortuneleon

On 2008-05-28 15:41:25, tyranusaurus wrote:
@fortuneleon

hmm.. all calls? dont seem to happen to me. maybe its a bad set.. from all that ive read about the W910i, it seems to me that SE have some bad quality control.. im thankful that i got a perfect set anyway. lol

[EDIT]shit! my fone just restarted for no apparent reason. i didnt even touch it. lmao.
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[ This Message was edited by: tyranusaurus on 2008-05-28 14:42 ]

LOL! You'll need to change that signature! I had no problem with the caller lists before I changed the firmware. Luckily I have access to Emma3, so I can just reflash back to a previous version if required.

Posted by 0blivion
Hum, that's interesting... just updated from EA033, within 5 min it had restarted ...

For me the volume changing crackle is still there ( though it almost sounds like a click), however the sound Quality has drastically improved. The sound is louder and much clearer that before the update (the family agree). The bass levels have also been enhanced and are much more defined without drowning out the mid tones, and the drop off with the mega-bass at full volume is significantly less the previously. this is the same with both hpm-70 and 75.
Also the back speaker's sound has seemed to improve with its quality =P

tis all good.
Oh and my call logs are fine.

0blivion

Posted by bongcp45
On R1FA030 i noticed the crackle when volume up or down(on speaker & HPM-70), but it will not happen on Normal EQ, only tried Bass & Mega Bass(worse). This don't bother me much as I'm primarily using A2DP stereo headset for music.

Also noticed the Bass & Mega Bass EQ has an effect on A2DP as well now, previously it doesn't make any difference no matter which EQ I select.

Lastly, the potrait/landscape switching background problem is also fix in this release.

Posted by piflechien
equaliser has always worked with A2DP since R1CA029 dude

Posted by ZeusII

On 2008-05-27 19:53:48, ZeusII wrote:

On 2008-05-27 10:25:54, twwong wrote:
R1FA030 available!

mine says "update not avaliable" instead of offering me the option to reflash as always, so I supose it's going live for other regions (mine is from asia)

Updated right now ^^

really nice update... it's a pitty that my screen is broken >_<

Posted by bongcp45

On 2008-05-28 16:32:58, piflechien wrote:
equaliser has always worked with A2DP since R1CA029 dude

Is it? Well, might be that I'm using 3rd party A2DP that it didn't made any obvious difference until now.

Thanks for the info.

Posted by 0blivion
i found that the equaliser has an effect with A2DP and with pendulum and an 800w sub in a car boot it's very noticeable. However the volume controls didn't work.

has anyone else found that leaving the battery out for about 3 hours resets the date and time back to 01/01/2000. (i say 3 hours as its happens after i come out of my exams.)

oh and reset count is up to 4 times on the new firmware ( and yes I've done a master reset) in 1 hour.
0blivion

Posted by tyranusaurus
@0blivion

so sad to hear that. i had only 1 reasonless restart until now. no other problems. very minor crackling. so far very satisfied.

Posted by 0blivion
yeah it's a bit irritating, however is better than the restarts with the DA038 firmware, where the phone would not boot with my 8gb card in. Also the theme stays after a reset with the new firmware and the wallpaper bug with the media manager is fixed.

the sound Quality boost is much liked IMO.

Posted by Rookwise
Just updated one of my W910 and menu browsing seems much faster and almost no delay. There is still a slight delay when playing music in media and also via bluetooth.
Shame I wont be able to test anymore as my W910 wont be with me after tomorrow as I've sold it.
Will let the girlfriend play with hers after I've updated that one.

Posted by tyranusaurus
hmm.. i still have a problem carried over since R1EA033, whatever letter that i press (from T onwards) in the tracks list in walkman will go to the chinese songs.. but just now when i lent a friend's new white W910i with R1EA033 it is perfectly fine...and with the new firmware there is a slight delay for it to load the playlist when u press resume.. other than that, perfectly no problems.. and btw, does not taking out the battery when u do an update affect anything? doesnt seem to affect me tho lol. so, anyone else has the same track search problem? (but most dont cuz they dont have chinese songs lol)

Posted by Vongola-Sky
my phone restart 1 time yesterday twice in a row in the morning and total of 3 time. call suddenly cut off thrice today. i scare its might a new bug T_T