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Asterion76
Joined: Feb 12, 2007
Posts: 55
From: Rome, Italy
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Just made the update. Tomorrow I'll write my experience after a day with the phone. Good night nice people! |
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sniper_supra
Joined: Feb 16, 2008
Posts: 266
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Still nothing for APAC_ANZ?
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baconnugget
Joined: Jun 08, 2005
Posts: 429
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still a bit buggy but def worth the upgrade  |
EARNEST
Joined: Nov 18, 2006
Posts: 41
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maestronl, yeah, got it
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1889
Joined: Dec 09, 2007
Posts: 118
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Mine seems to be sorted now. I just took the battery out and turned the phone on again.
Is there a new option under Messaging>Settings? I'm sure General wasn't there before......? You can save messages to your memory card aswell. I've almost certain you couldn't do that before?
I like the touch vibrate thing. The click is quite good aswell.
Heres a few pics I've taken. All with the same settings. (Document, Daylight, everything else on the default).
http://img102.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00043yc9.jpg
http://img412.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00046do4.jpg
http://img412.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00048zl1.jpg
http://img412.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00050xq5.jpg
http://img155.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00051ww4.jpg
http://img102.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00053tb2.jpg
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puestadelsol
Joined: Mar 29, 2007
Posts: 310
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On 2008-02-22 00:31:50, Asterion76 wrote:
Just made the update. Tomorrow I'll write my experience after a day with the phone. Good night nice people!
Are you using Adriatic OR Central Europe? I don't still know if I will update the firmware. I'm frightening from new bugs. I'm generally satisfied with my phone, the only thing (but that's a big one) which disappoints me is the CAMERA quality. With document mose the picture are sharp, with twilight portrait colour are qiute good, but it's nearly impossible to make sharp pics with vivid colours indoors.
So EVERYBODY, WHO MADE THE UPDATE, Please check if the firmare update improves the CAMERA quality. And post some examples too!!!
I don't know if I should wait the BIG update. |
maestronl
Joined: Jun 23, 2007
Posts: 17
From: Netherlands
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@Earnest: Thanx! Now i'm pretty sure how it goes (although i was missing more for a while...)
@1889: The possibility to save messages to the Memorycard was in 037 also. However, here is a bug also  I have a flatfee HSDPA connection, and every week a Dutch radiostation is offering a podcast with a Dancemix thru RSS. This mix is about 60-70MB in size. However... when i want to download that mix (Messages > RSS, click the RSS download link), the phone decides it -must- resize in the phone memory. Even when i set message saving to memorycard. Although RSS is under Messages, it does ignore the save path set. So downloading those mixes isn't possible at all, since the phone memory is only about 35MB free. My email messages are saved on the card, which is nice.
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Public: For as far information is available, performing a Master Reset results in the disappearance of the option HSDPA in Settings > Mobile Networks > GSM/3G. No other malfunctions on this issue are reported by others than myself, however my phone is in the same state. If you can miss that HSDPA option, performing Master Resets seems to be safe
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EARNEST
Joined: Nov 18, 2006
Posts: 41
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also you can choose in contacts the default number of the person
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1889
Joined: Dec 09, 2007
Posts: 118
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@puestadelsol
Check my post above for some pics taken on the new firmware.
The one of the DVDs is good I think, as is the one of the blue hat, a little bit of flashburn though?
The ones of the yellow hat is rubbish though, the hat is a much brighter yellow than that. And the one of the discs is rubbish.
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EARNEST
Joined: Nov 18, 2006
Posts: 41
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damn., so how can u use HSDPA
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JiSm
Joined: Nov 08, 2007
Posts: 404
From: New Zealand
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HSPDA will still be available, but you just cant select it as preferred is all. Like setting 3G/GSM... it will fall back to GSM when out of 3g range and visa-versa. |
paul-d
Joined: Nov 22, 2007
Posts: 20
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I've updated from 038 on the O2 network, the phone seems faster but there are still a few problems;
If you go into your txt inbox and select 'mark several' then tick (I have found 20 or more messages) then delete all marked the phone screen goes blank but the keypad stays lit. It stays like this for about 10seconds before coming back on again but the txt's have not been deleted, this has happened every time I have tried it.
The media player has been sped up but it still takes a second or so to catch up if I am scrolling through songs quickly (I have a sandisk 8gb micro sd card that has 4gb of music on it). It is still a waste of time trying to multitask on this phone though while listening to music as its still slow.
I've never had a problem with any java app's or games on 037 or 038 and this f/w seems to be the same so no complaints there.
The camera doesn't appear to be hugely different although the macro focus does seem to be more stable now and not affected by a shaky hand as much as before.
The most impressive thing so far for me though is the battery life. I put the new firmware on at just gone 5:30pm and the battery was at 60% when this finished (it was not fully charged to start with). Since then I have taken about 13 pics, listened to a few songs, tried a few java games sent around 20 txts and had a 25min phone call and the battery is on 52%. This is a great improvement over the frankly terrible battery life 038 f/w offered.
All in all it was a worth while update, maybe not as groundbreaking as we may have liked but welcome none the less. |
maestronl
Joined: Jun 23, 2007
Posts: 17
From: Netherlands
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On 2008-02-22 00:59:18, EARNEST wrote:
damn., so how can u use HSDPA
That's no problem! Master Reset doesn't kill HSDPA support, i'm still downloading at over 1mbit on my MacBook with the K850i as modem. In the standby screen it shows 3G in a blue icon, where it should officially be a 'H' when on HSDPA. But this is cosmetic.
My phone didn't give me enough time to find out where the third option in the GSM/3G menu was for. I was hoping i could set the phone fixed on 3G/HSDPA. The reason is that handover between 3G and GSM isn't going smooth all the time at the T-Mobile NL network: This causes to be unreachable after switching till you make a outgoing call. But i saw people here who we're logging in to GSM which the HSDPA setting active. So this isn't it.
Neiter it isn't to set preferred access to the HSDPA network. Even with 037 my phone was connecting to the HSDPA network where available, falling back to GSM in uncovered areas.
@JiSm: You say the setting is to set preferred access to HSDPA. However, everywhere where is HSDPA coverage, the phone would switch to that network on R1CA037 also (if 3G was selected). This third setting seems quite meaningless, or am i missing something?
And yes, i have a 'worry-much-on-little-problems- day
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sniper_supra
Joined: Feb 16, 2008
Posts: 266
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it's so unfair, why no update for apac_anz yet?
what's going on?
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puestadelsol
Joined: Mar 29, 2007
Posts: 310
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@ 1889
Thanks. The photos are nice. But with document setting I'm already satisfied with the sharpness and details of photos taken.
I don't like all the other modes, because there are nearly no details in full size, even if you take pictures in 3MP resolution.
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