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P990 Firmware Thread | latest: ph:R7A001, org:R3B01, bt:R4F01 |
apolloa
Joined: Jul 27, 2005
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From: Dorset, UK
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Hi guy's, I'm really excited as I'm getting my nice new P990 tomorrow. Can you tell me what the latest Orange firmware verion is? I will have to update the phone before anything if it's the older version.
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a27aab
Joined: Nov 16, 2006
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apolloa
Hi. Nice to see you are Happy to recieve your P990i Tomorrow. Wish You the best. Regarding your question, Here is the Firmware Versions.
THESE ARE FOR A ORANGE BRANDED P990i.
PHONE:
CXC162037 R7A001
BLUETOOTH:
CXC162058 R4F01
ORGANIZER:
CXC162036 R3B01
Hope this answers your question. Any problems when you recieve your P990i, let me know and i will be Happy to help you out with it.
I have been a Proud Owner of a P990i for 3 to 4 Wks now. Its an AMAZING PHONE.
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apolloa
Joined: Jul 27, 2005
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From: Dorset, UK
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Thanks a27aab. That's the info I was after. I'll make a new thread if I get problems. I shall have to search through the existing ones for all the how to's and tricks you guy's have discovered. |
koto
Joined: Sep 18, 2006
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Congratulation apolloa. Hope you'll enjoy your phone as I and many others do. |
hragsarkissian
Joined: Apr 25, 2003
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From: Canada, Montreal
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if i had another phone just any, i would have thrown my P990i to the garbage. I think the biggest mistake is that i sold my P910i, and bought that crap P990i with its crappy software. All it does is crashing and restarting. everyday i have to turn it on and off in order to make things work. Its slowest phone i have ever owned. I hope the next firmware will fix all that, because its very dissapointing.
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bytes
Joined: Aug 24, 2006
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Just updated my R4 to R7. Looks like no new firmware (R9) yet.
Unlike my first P990 with chinese enabled, my second P990 with only english works like a charm. Yippee da do......loving it more |
bytes
Joined: Aug 24, 2006
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posting from my 990i at starbucks now working like a charm whoa
no crash no memory problem yet have not even restart phone
confirm the english set way Better than chinese enable sets |
HKSEuser
Joined: Sep 14, 2006
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R9 may have a chance for today since today is the start of the largest telecom event this year. The ITU Telelcom show in HK. |
siandy
Joined: Nov 20, 2006
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@bytes
this is what i want to know, so u have use both chinesse enable and world generic.... could you tell me there is any different with that? Mine is chinesse enabled and crash a lot.... should i swap it either? |
bytes
Joined: Aug 24, 2006
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@siandy;
I used to have the chinese enabled sets and it gave me lots of problems till I decided to let it go (sold off).
Yesterday, after much searching I deceided to get back the P990i english language set only and updated the firmware to world generic 2, got R7 installed now.
Here is what i believe. The chinese enabled sets comes in dual language and that takes up more ROM and becomes very noticeable when using handwriting. The speed was so very lagging and often had to "restart to improve performance".
Hence, when I decided to get the P990i back, I made very sure I got myself the english sets only.
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bytes
Joined: Aug 24, 2006
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R7 camera pic color accuracy not up to mark yet. Here's a comparison with K750i.
Below a pic taken with K750i.
Image taken with P990i with R7a
Notice the background color should be green, which was quite accurate from the K750i. Came out blue from P990i. Both uses exact same settings.
However the sharpness is much better from the P990i 
Hopefully the next firmware corrects this.
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siandy
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@ bytes
Thanks for explanation bytes... Now, i don't think i can swap it anywhere in here ( i mean in china ) i don't think there is generic world on the market... poor me.... lol.. maybe should wait for new fw and see... I think what you say about ROM is all true. Noticed that i just have only about 12MB left on startup... even open a single app would be very unstable. Do you think it's worth to add extra 30-40% to get the same phone again just to get better performance? Are you doing the same? or should i just get the invoice and let SE pay my lost... lol |
bytes
Joined: Aug 24, 2006
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@siandy;
sorry for your situation. In my case I did not have to pay anything more. Was just my luck, in fact the second set came with festival promo, ie extra 4 free accessories and cheaper than my first P990i. Long story short, I re-purchased the second set at the same price that I sold off my first set, plus freebies .
Depending on your own requirements, a 30-40% up to get the same phone may be worthwhile, really depends on you. In my case, I have had played the HTC Trinity aka Dopod D810 (WM5 aku3.2), played the Nokia N73 (S60 3rd edition) and the choice became very obvious to me. I guess I will use P990i till another P-replacement comes along later
Cheers
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spine6
Joined: Aug 07, 2005
Posts: 453
From: asia
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mates,i just saw a R6A firmware on the mall. Maybe they just released it for new delivered phone but not yet on the SUES.. |
Tazmo
Joined: Oct 24, 2006
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From: Boston
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You mean Organizer right? just making sure. Well I guess thats good news. |
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