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P990i Vodafone (UK) firmware |
jsheerin
Joined: Aug 04, 2004
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Thanks for the advice guys. Email already sent to the shop asking for replacement. I agree that it's a bit cheeky selling a voda branded phone advertised as 02. Does the SEUS only work with "vanilla" phones? |
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deskjet
Joined: Oct 09, 2006
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ok so how can I unlock my phone from Voda ? Looked at a few searches and they seem to refer to a special USB cable I need to buy. There must be a simpler way - surely I just need a code to enter on the keyboard?? Any ideas please. Thanks |
Marc_SE
Joined: Mar 30, 2006
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On 2006-10-08 14:10:05, jsheerin wrote:
Thanks for the advice guys. Email already sent to the shop asking for replacement. I agree that it's a bit cheeky selling a voda branded phone advertised as 02. Does the SEUS only work with "vanilla" phones?
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SEUS technically works with all handsets, it's just waiting for networks to approve the firmware that can be installed on your handset.
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On 2006-10-09 00:06:54, deskjet wrote:
ok so how can I unlock my phone from Voda ? Looked at a few searches and they seem to refer to a special USB cable I need to buy. There must be a simpler way - surely I just need a code to enter on the keyboard?? Any ideas please. Thanks
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Order the code from Vodafone. |
mamoulian
Joined: Jun 25, 2003
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@hongkongphooey69:
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| VF store here in Cardiff told me that they could do a firmware upgrade but would need to send phone away for 3 working days to do so |
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Well at least that sort of ties in with what I was told - that they have newer firmware but can't/won't distribute it through SEUS.
It took me so long to get hold of someone who even knew what firmware was, and SE don't publish release notes for their SEUS updates anyway, so I reckon there's zero chance of a Voda rep knowing what version they have or what is fixed in each update.
If they are to be believed and *do* have updated VF firmware (they've gone through an arduous process of adding their own startup/shutdown anims?), howcome they haven't put them on SEUS?
And howcome my phone which received last week has such old firmware - R7 was on SEUS near the start of Sept.
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mamoulian
Joined: Jun 25, 2003
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Well my 'brand new stock on Friday' phone arrived, and it looks exactly the same as the one I had - the same firmware versions as posted at the start of this thread.
Before restoring from my backup, I've had a little play with Opera whilst playing mp3s - so far no crash, its only been 15 mins use though.
I'll see how long it is before it decides to restart itself.
I'm wondering if they could have updated Opera without changing the firmware versions? Please see thread 'P990i Opera version' on this forum.
I've installed SwissManager (http://invitel.hu/zolea/cps/sm.htm) so I can keep an eye on free RAM - at the moment it says I have 1.3mb free, just with the standard menus, web, media player, connections manager and phone running.
Oh, whilst am typing this message - not touching the phone which is just playing mp3s with opera in the background - the free RAM dropped to <1mb, then just jumped up to 8.3mb.
Oh, thats because Opera has closed itself. With no warning.
Oh well :-/
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Guy H
Joined: Feb 19, 2004
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Swissmanager may have killed Opera. |
gseh88
Joined: Jun 27, 2006
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When I first got my Vodafone P990 a week ago, it displayed all the stability issues mentioned on these forum pages, crashing several times in the first hour of playing with it. Of course when I tried to update the firmware, SEUS said I had the latest version (not true, my firmware is as mentioned in the above posts) but I tried reflashing anyway and miracle of miracles, my phone was immediately transformed into a wonderfully stable device with not a single restart since. The only remaining issue seems to be memory management as playing a video will immediately slow the phone down to a crawl even after closing the apps via Task Manager or Swiss Manager when I've finished watching the videos. Thankfully I don't normally play videos! Otherwise, I think the P990 is outstanding. |
Gabster
Joined: Mar 08, 2003
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@gseh88 after the firmware upgrade, did the firmware stay the same as you had before? |
liamski
Joined: Mar 13, 2003
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I'm just about to upgrade my firmware from the typical Voda one listed above
Will report back in a while! Wish me luck! |
liamski
Joined: Mar 13, 2003
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Well, after SEUS update, no change to firmware.
Phone started up with 14meg of free ram
No crashes.... well, so far...
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gseh88
Joined: Jun 27, 2006
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On 2006-10-10 17:30:24, Gabster wrote:
@gseh88 after the firmware upgrade, did the firmware stay the same as you had before?
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@gabster There was no change in firmware but for whatever reason, performance was transformed. Having said that, today my phone has turned very sluggish with one performance restart after I tried playing a short video on it. Just hope I haven't put a curse on it by telling the world it was behaving well......... : ) |
jsheerin
Joined: Aug 04, 2004
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An update on my Voda branded phone on O2 Contract form mobileshop. They admitted to their error without any fuss and (after I had gone to the trouble of finding all the packaging and boxing it up to send back) they sent me a new non-branded one (R7A001). It has re-started a couple of times but is immeasurably better than the Voda one. Good luck to all of you on Voda in sorting things out! |
mamoulian
Joined: Jun 25, 2003
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A chap over in another forum said that he got a Voda update done at the SE stand at the smartphone show - he's now got:
Phone: CXC162037 R7A001
Bluetooth: CXC162058 R4F01
Organiser: CXC162036 R3B01
CDA: CDA162008/91 R3A01
Hooray!
So I got back on the phone to Voda... only took 20 mins this time to get someone knowing what I was talking about, after a couple of attempted fob-offs of course 
I was told that Vodafone do not want to use SEUS. I don't know why really, again I was talking to a customer services rep to-ing and fro-ing with the tech team so couldn't get a straight answer on that, but they don't want to.
I was told my options are to take it to either a Vodafone store with a service centre or an SE-approved service centre (who we hope has the VF firmware!) and they'll update it, or take it to any Vodafone store who will send it off to get updated - but that will take up to 7 days!
I don't know if there's any point in everyone phoning up to whinge - it seemed pretty clear cut that they don't want to use SEUS and I don't know if 50 customers lodging a complaint will do anything about that.
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gseh88
Joined: Jun 27, 2006
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Presumably it's because an SEUS update would delete the Vodafone startup screen and other Vodafone "souvenirs" they've left dotted around the menus? |
mamoulian
Joined: Jun 25, 2003
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Nope... they could put their Vodafone-branded version of the firmware on SEUS, then when SEUS detects we've got VF models it'll give us that one as opposed the the SE one (or the nothing it gives us now).
It would of course be released on SEUS a bit later than the SE vanilla version, but still quicker than going to your local service centre. If you've got one. I don't, within 2 hours drive, so its looking like 7 days. Pah.
Might actually lodge a complaint with VF anyway because I am annoyed. |
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