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W910i Firmware/Bug Overview |
andrew.bell
Joined: Feb 20, 2008
Posts: 22
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Still no new firmware. Hopefully it will be soon. |
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Vongola-Sky
Joined: Apr 24, 2008
Posts: 27
From: Singapore
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i hope that is a new firmware in the new future. im suffering from my phone. LOL 
i love my w910i but still hope it can b more faster   w910i |
Rookwise
Joined: Mar 22, 2004
Posts: > 500
From: UK. Phone:Samsung Galaxy A54 5
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I'm getting quite annoyed with my 1 week old W910. Have been experiencing problems that were apparently fixed in earlier updates. 3 times today the phone has hung up automatically after 10 minutes during a call. It randomly disconnects from my SE HBH-GV435 while on a call. Constant freezing and rebooting. Internet browser hangs often is some of the things i've experienced. Oddly my girlfriends not had anything go wrong with hers which was bought on the same day.
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Ixalus
Joined: Dec 17, 2007
Posts: 17
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My phone just reset on me. Sigh. Absolutely useless. Don't even bother calling helpdesk, they don't know shit. Just ask you to update to the latest firmware using SEUS, and they think they're doing a favour sending you the link to SEUS. Like we don't know how to already. Shithouse. |
andrew.bell
Joined: Feb 20, 2008
Posts: 22
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On 2008-04-29 12:21:57, Ixalus wrote:
My phone just reset on me. Sigh. Absolutely useless. Don't even bother calling helpdesk, they don't know shit. Just ask you to update to the latest firmware using SEUS, and they think they're doing a favour sending you the link to SEUS. Like we don't know how to already. Shithouse.
They don't know what you don't know. Tell them you have tried SEUS and the phone still cuts out. Tell them you have had 4 or more phones and then tell them you would like to exchange the phone for a different sony erriccson phone. I am sure they will if thats what you want. I know these phones are a nice design but the firmware sux. |
superleeds27
Joined: Jun 04, 2004
Posts: > 500
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Mine doesn't cut out as much as it did, and the problem with it restarting rarely happens.
The phone functioning is still sluggish when playing music, and trying to operate the phone! |
Vongola-Sky
Joined: Apr 24, 2008
Posts: 27
From: Singapore
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On 2008-04-30 16:51:06, superleeds27 wrote:
Mine doesn't cut out as much as it did, and the problem with it restarting rarely happens.
The phone functioning is still sluggish when playing music, and trying to operate the phone!
i agree with superleeds. ya mayb latest firmware not so lag now but to me it is still quite sluggish to me. 
sry if i offend anyone
i love my w910i but still hope it can b more faster w910i |
heavydawson
Joined: Mar 04, 2008
Posts: 6
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R1EA030 finally available for Vodafone Ireland W910i. About time! |
TJC
Joined: Apr 01, 2008
Posts: 28
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After some extensive research, i have discovered that the battery life for the phone has been significantly reduced in latter SE firmwares. Reading dozens and dozens of reviews online from w910i owners, it seems that those that report poor battery life are on the latest R1EA030 or R1CA038/39 firmware. At first, I thought maybe there are different manufacturers for the w910i, but after talking to SEUS customer rep I was told that all w910i comes from essentially the same place.
To me, this is gay. In my opinion, mobility should be one of the top priorities for a mobile phone. If I am talking on it and worrying that it will run out of batteries and having to recharge it frequently then why don't i just use a landline phone?
When I was on R1CA029, the battery was giving me about a good 3 days with 2 hours of walkman and mild gaming daily (5days with mild use of walkman and gaming daily). Now I am on R1EA030 and I am getting less than 2 days (sometimes even less than 1) if i am using walkman the way I used to and receiving calls. Also, I have selected all the power saving options that i can find (ie bluetooth off, GSM only, brightness down...etc) but still no help. No matter how conservative i am in using my w910i i am losing an average 10~15% every 8 hours (even if i am in standby mode).
Another reason that not many people experienced a major drop in power is latter w910i handsets were shipped with R1CA038/39 or R1EA030 firmwares due to restart problems.
Yes, the R1EA030 firmware has made the scrolling of menus a bit faster and smoother, but it is no where helpful in the battery performance you lose as result of it. Sorry about my rant, but I am just frustrated that I often have to find a place to recharge my phone during an inconvenient time of the day, and there are no local service centers i can go to in North America to get my firwmare restored. If you don't mind, share your two cents about battery life.
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SilveR.
Joined: May 03, 2002
Posts: > 500
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With R1EA030 my Battery drains much faster than the old version.. They need release a new firmware to improve the battery.. mine only stands around 3days now.. firmware before R1EA030 could stay around 6days..
As I Know I can't see much different between the old and new firmware, only drawback is battery life is much worser...
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TJC
Joined: Apr 01, 2008
Posts: 28
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Thanks Silver for sharing your experience about the battery life. For those who do not understand why we are complaining about battery life issues in latter firmwares here is a personal example of mine. This is an example of how strong the battery was on my snowboarding trip:
*Firmware: R1CA029, Battery started at 100% fully charged
- Day 1: Left for trip at 4am
- Day 1: Listened to Walkman while snowboarding (7 hours)
- Day 1: Took pictures throughout trip (about 10 shots)
- Day 1: Made/Received short calls on the Mountain, and in the car (Less than 5 minutes, more than 5 calls)
- Day 1: Played games for 40 minutes in the car
- Day 1: Day ends battery at 40%, no charging
- Day 2: Took pictures at tour site (20 shots, used camera on and off 40mins)
- Day 2: Made/Received couple short calls in the car (Less than 5 minutes, more than 5 calls)
- Day 2: End of trip, got home at 10pm with the battery showing 4%remaining
**I went through these two days on a single charge. I know I can't get anywhere near this amount of battery power no matter how efficiently I use my w910i.
I understand people are not happy about the lag, and that was also the primary reason I upgraded to R1EA030 hoping for a solution. I would've never upgraded my firmware If I knew the tradeoff was permanetly lose 1/2 of the battery power capabilities. I just hope SE's next firmware solution is not "Lag free interface and charge your phone every 12 hours."
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Vongola-Sky
Joined: Apr 24, 2008
Posts: 27
From: Singapore
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I just hope SE's next firmware solution is not "Lag free interface and charge your phone every 12 hours."
LOL. lag free but charge more. lets all pray for a new firmware which is greatly well done n solve most of the bug n lag free plus longer batt life for all
i love my w910i but still hope it can b more faster w910i |
swordliger
Joined: Nov 05, 2007
Posts: 46
From: Melbourne, Australia
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Like TJC, I previously had the R1CA029 when i purchased the phone in November last year and has kept it till yesterday. The day before, the phone kept on restarting every 2 minutes or so, even if I left it on standby. So then i decided to update it, despite all those comments about the battery life.
Im now on the R1EA030, and so far I havent experienced any problems at all, infact i must say I'm quite happy i got rid of the stupid laggy R1CA029 and moved on to this firmware.
However for some reason, I'm not experiencing the battery draining bug? Battery life so far seems to be the same as the previous firmwares.
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nitrounit
Joined: Apr 10, 2008
Posts: 96
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i never had any issues with the phone (except if i press the wallkman button and shake 20 times the phone may restart,or when charging sometimes i can get a few bugs). but all the walkman not working and cannot acces games menu stuff i never had them, the phone does have bugs and may lag when walkman is playing music minimised but i cant say i have any major issues with my phone before and after update.
my phone is cellcom branded (IL)
i also hope there will be a new firmware released
 
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SilveR.
Joined: May 03, 2002
Posts: > 500
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Well, you will found out soon. When you have use the phone with this firmware..
I shall stay with "R1CA039 " or downgrade to it again with davinci, coz I'm going to travel soon.. Don't real want recharge it after only 2 or 3 days ..
R1CA039 was stable enough for me, no crashes at all, but R1CA029 was not real good at all..
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Posted: 2008-04-28 14:22
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