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K850 Firmware Overview |
deathchurch
Joined: Aug 10, 2006
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I agree give the phone time. k610 had to go back due to noisy speaker during calls, k750i had to go back as it kept restarting when receiving picture messages, k800i video was ok, then bad, then just alright, but went back as there was dust under the screen. So there is always problems with SE phones when they first come out, if anything we should be having a go at them about their testing procedure.. |
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CruSifiXken
Joined: Jul 06, 2005
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I have a standby clock... |
jmcomms
Joined: Mar 12, 2002
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I've been sent another K850i and it now has R1CA037 firmware. Will check tonight to see how it performs (at our annual awards, so the flash will be used heavily) and if a very minor update makes a difference.
So far so good.. tried taking photos in the dark (in a drawer) and the flash has fired on time 100% of the time.
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Mike Graham
Joined: Nov 01, 2007
Posts: 27
From: UK
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Really glad a new firmware is on the cards, as this one is shockingly bad. I still have my K800i, and keep using it from time to time, its so much better to use than the K850i.
Just got a Bluetooth DS980 wireless stereo headset for the phone, seems to work very well indeed, will report on any crashes etc.
Flash on my phone seems to work most of the time, just the odd time it goes funny.
My biggest problem is UI speed, it is soooo slow. Was just streaming music, and syncing more music with Win Media player, and the phone was just unusable. Hopefully with time the firmware will improve. Photo quality seems good, accelerometer feature is extremely pointless and doesn't work very well.
Another thing they should do is disable the soft touch buttons during calls, as I catch mine while on a call.
Other than that, good phone, sound quality is decent too. |
doohan
Joined: Dec 27, 2002
Posts: 163
From: Sydney, Australia
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Another small bug to report.
When browsing through the menu... i noticed the phone vibrates when selecting an icon... only noticed it ever so slightly with a 4-5 sec pause scrolling between the icons. Now... it seems this is the same feature the W810i had, however unlike the K850i... the W810i actually worked and worked well. Hopefully this will be fixed with the firmware revision.
Has anyone else noticed it?
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sandy4464
Joined: Jun 24, 2006
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From: Leicester
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I noticed this too, when i 1st got the phone i was like "yay, flash meu!" but it didn't seem to vibrate when you went through the icons, which i miss, but as doohan says, holding a navigation key down and rapidly scrolling through the icons, you can just about feel it, i hope this will be an included fix in the firmware update.
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daviep
Joined: Apr 04, 2005
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From: bonnie scotland
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cruSifixken-how did you manage to get the sleep mode clock? |
darrengf
Joined: Dec 21, 2003
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r1ca037 for the K850 I beleive was released Late Last week (25th aprox) However I dont think its out for updates yet?
this is what they released any way
s500 r8ba024
k530 r8bb001
k630 r1ca037
k770 r8ba024
k800 r8ba024
k810 r8ba024
k850 r1ca037
w580 r8ba024
w610 r8ba024
w660 r8bb001
w880 r8ba024
t650 r8bb001
z310 r8ba024
w200 r4ja011
v640 r1ca037
w910 r1ca037
z750 r1ca031
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CruSifiXken
Joined: Jul 06, 2005
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On 2007-11-01 19:17:48, daviep wrote:
cruSifixken-how did you manage to get the sleep mode clock?
Don't know, it's just there... 
I've got EU version, unbranded, maybe that's the reason? |
Sobo
Joined: May 28, 2007
Posts: 88
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is cruSifixken the only user from here who has the stanby clock available ?! 
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knuttt
Joined: Jul 13, 2006
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Well, my second phone is going back tomorrow. Got an upgrade from O2 a couple of weeks ago, had a few of the bugs mentioned already but was happy to wait for a FW update. Then Saturday morning it wouldn't start (apart from the flashing lights etc) so O2 agreed to a replacement. I had thought that it might have corrupted because I switched it off while the torch was still running.
Anyway, new phone arrived on Tuesday and seemed much more responsive so was pleased, though still a few bugs. The Wednesday afternoon I noticed tried to take a picture and found that the shutter wouldn't release, tried most things, charging, taking battery out etc but no luck. O2 agreed to replace it so hence another new one tomorrow.
Out of interest, last night I did a Master Reset to clear my data and what do you know, the shutter release started working, still sending it back though.
I asked about swapping to the dark side (well a black N95) but O2 aren't doing it, further investigation seems to only be available on Vodaphone (exclusive, so I'm told).
Lets hope the FW is released soon.
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LCARS-Expert
Joined: Aug 24, 2007
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On 2007-11-01 17:21:01, doohan wrote:
Another small bug to report.
When browsing through the menu... i noticed the phone vibrates when selecting an icon... only noticed it ever so slightly with a 4-5 sec pause scrolling between the icons. Now... it seems this is the same feature the W810i had, however unlike the K850i... the W810i actually worked and worked well. Hopefully this will be fixed with the firmware revision.
Has anyone else noticed it?
I noticed that flash menu vibrates when changing selection too, but, I don't think thats a bug, its written in the Flash menu's ActionScript, I guess.
Edit:
I wanted to post this earlier, don't know if you noticed video playback errors like this:
Little black square appeared in the video on 3 frames:
More black squares on the upper left of the image
You can clearly see black squares here:
These appeared for 4 frames, they aren't black and they aren't sopposed to be there either:
This is quite a lot of interferance there:
Black square again:
Not a black square but an error again:
Yellow and pinkish red squares appear:
A big gap there:
A small error here too:
To make some things clear:
- I viewed all of these videos on computer too and those errors didn't appear on any of them
- Every time I view those videos on my phone the same errors appear on the same frames
- The shots above were taken by pausing the video on the frame with error and by pressing the camera shutter button
- Every video is MP4 and it has 260kbps video stream and 40 or 48kbps mono audio stream
Anyone noticed anything like this?
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jawilson
Joined: Mar 30, 2005
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referring to my previous post, has anyone been able to play wmv's on their phone? |
CruSifiXken
Joined: Jul 06, 2005
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Here are some very crappy shots from my ancient webcam, it's very unclear...sorry  but you can see the clock with little imagination
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masterv
Joined: Jul 15, 2006
Posts: 55
From: Germany
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i got the standby clock, too.
http://www.esato.com/board/ui/yMC54r6L0S80hcgaey84.jpg |
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