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K850 Firmware Overview |
darrengf
Joined: Dec 21, 2003
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Good Evening people, well i seem to have started a good conversation and im glad that it isnt just me and people have started to notice the same problem.
I have been reading the comments for most of the day and tried most of them as well, however i still get dark pics.
But i think we all should work for SE as there fault and test team. We have done a faster and much better job than there team has. We have identified the fault and are not far of a soloution. So SE any chance of a few jobs ?
What has also amazed me is that people have pure passion for the K850i and i total admire that.
Even though im negative currently about it, i still luv my phone and want the best from the phone now readig all these comments.
Now i have tried the keeping the button held down for longer which doesnt make any difference on my phone, comments from @ iwantin does make sense. I think that there is some role reversal of the picture taking. eg when in light the pic becomes dark and when in dark the pic is light.
So if SE are reading this we may have a soloution.
Turn the plans for the software the other way round and read the plans then back to front. 
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vbayma
Joined: Mar 30, 2006
Posts: 142
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Nice darreng...
Itīs really seemns weīre all sad abou these bugs and using our best to try to understand... what happens to cause this... Havenīt seen so good discucion of the same object looong time ago...
I Pray for God that SE can really fix it. Because after all the K850i is an increlibe phone. I had compared with a friend of mine that have an N95 8GB. Dosenīt have flash only poor led (worse than K850īs one) photos seens sharp but with no colors...
Off course to dont cause fight iīm not comparing the phones... just about photo etc... Two really diferent phones...
And yes i had tried the tip of our friend about holding the button before snap... didinīt worked either...
Maybe K850i is the most buggy SE phone o ever seen but i have faith that will be a major update in January/Febuary and corret mos of the issues before... They had done this before...Itīs doable... |
br@dley
Joined: Nov 25, 2007
Posts: 64
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I think the camera issues are a combination of things:
- Flash doesn't sync all the time.
- Poor design - bad positioning of light sensor. It's a phone, and people hold it differently than a camera. eg. sometimes I want to take pics in portrait but that is guaranteed to obstruct the sensor.
ps. I don't use the autofocus light. I hold the camera properly. Still I get dark pics every so often. I think there is some merit to waiting a while before taking the photo. However, the software should force you to wait if it needs time to adjust to the light... ?
I think the over-all performance is a bigger issue though. The K850i.. the Windows Vista of phones ! |
darrengf
Joined: Dec 21, 2003
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I dont know if people want to try the SEUS, As a few more people are now saying that the new firmware has been released.
R1DA038, and the camera ver 3.4 is an update from 2.9.
If people could feed back with the networks and branding if possible. |
Xeneelk63
Joined: Dec 28, 2007
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obentou
Joined: Sep 19, 2005
Posts: 364
From: Toronto
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Great. Now, tell us, any improvements or differences you see? Doesn't really help to post your device's update information. We need feedback! |
Xeneelk63
Joined: Dec 28, 2007
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darrengf
Joined: Dec 21, 2003
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I have just updated mine to R1DA038
Mine is a O2 Branded phone. So O2 have approved of the firmware
Even with the new firmware and new camera update, the pictures are still dark. This now goes to beleive that there are more things wrong that just the camera?
I also dont notice anything different to R1CA037. Menu speed hasnt changed, one of my mp4 videos is still 3-6 seconds out of sync when playing.
So what has SE dont in this software, any one?
*** one thing i can currenlty tell you, After updating the phone, my GPRS no longer works to connect to Esato and some other wap sites, my Feeds no longer update either.
Currently doing a master reset, so will let you know the outcome.
** Maseter reset fixed it to gprs not working **
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vortigern
Joined: Dec 10, 2007
Posts: 60
From: London
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@darrengf
I reckon there must be summin up with your phone... since the new firmware I can only get dark pics if there is something reflecting the autofocus light which is nearer than the subject... like my finger overhanging.
photos in the media viewer now slide a bit differently..... browsing the media player seems fast to me - maybe others have bad memory cards - I'm using the 1gb that came with my w880.
Web browsing is still slow to react, but menus do seem a little faster than on 029 - could be my imagination tho. |
darrengf
Joined: Dec 21, 2003
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@vortigern
Since after doing a master reset on the phone, the camera has took much better shots, brighter and clearer (Altho with the flash going of that many times im now got spots flashing before them)
The menus are faster when going through them and the media browsing is better.
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obentou
Joined: Sep 19, 2005
Posts: 364
From: Toronto
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Hmm, good to hear there are some positive results so far. I assume this isn't the "big" update that is claimed to come in January, is it?
What I think is that the phone will be fixed by a series of firmware releases... don't think a big chunky FW release is too practical, considering if new bugs arise, people will be quite pissed. Issuing a series of updates is more probable... is what I'm thinking. |
darrengf
Joined: Dec 21, 2003
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On 2007-12-28 01:40:56, obentou wrote:
Hmm, good to hear there are some positive results so far. I assume this isn't the "big" update that is claimed to come in January, is it?
What I think is that the phone will be fixed by a series of firmware releases... don't think a big chunky FW release is too practical, considering if new bugs arise, people will be quite pissed. Issuing a series of updates is more probable... is what I'm thinking.
The Media player had Def been improved. The speed slighly faster, but it now diaplays things with the correct numbers on now.
Before it would say track 001 003 and miss track 2 out for some reason, now it shows all the track numbers there in my own folders.
Feeling a little happier now
Still lots of improvements needed tho like can the firmwware improve on the build quality?
I dont know if this is the firmware or not, This firmware is dated 07.12.07
Another thing i can tell you is now when you write a sms the Aa box has changed.
Have a look
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Duran
Joined: Aug 25, 2006
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From: Netherlands
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^why would they change that?;p |
obentou
Joined: Sep 19, 2005
Posts: 364
From: Toronto
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Hmm, from the looks of it, that has changed, in addition to the T9 indicator being in a box rather than just the indicator itself. IMO, a welcome improvement to the UI which makes it a lot more appealing over its predecessors.
What we need to see now is speed improvements... there can be tons of eye-candy this phone offers, but it has to go hand-in-hand with speed. |
darrengf
Joined: Dec 21, 2003
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The speeds has improved.
The phone still takes ages to boot (not sure why this is)
But the phone it self arround menus are slightly faster, there was always a lag when doing a mms and after adding a pic the sms part would be very slow, this has improved slightly, It can now pretty much keep up with you on most of the words when typed.
I will lt other people see what they think.
I can also tell you that Symbol for SMS has changed, and when you receive a MMS, it is no different to the SMS symbol
The voice mail icon is also slightly more different but not much. So its symbols all round then
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