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P990 firmware organizer R4B03 discussion |
miguel82
Joined: Feb 14, 2006
Posts: 414
From: Portugal
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lol. hope will be this year! Yesterday i needed to take a lot of pictures for a work but i sold my old digital camara to buy a new one next mounth so i have to use the p990. I took about 150 fotos and while that the phone get stuck 4 times and for one time said camara malfuncion. Now a couple of hours ago i had another problem... i received about 4or 5 sms at the same time from a friend and later he said to me that sent them 1hour before. This is not the first or second time that happen. At least it happened about 6 or 7 times since i got the p990. |
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sidneymarius
Joined: Mar 13, 2007
Posts: 80
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oh i forgot, sometimes i cant send sms to others operators, i use Claro and i cant send sms to Telefonica or Nextel (sometimes). mabe is because nobody sells the p990 here? thats why the mms fails too? thanks.
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shaktinanda
Joined: Mar 04, 2007
Posts: 51
From: India
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Hey @sidneymarius
u know i face the same problems as u have mentioned. hope the next fw will rectify those things. i also would demand a good camera driver. the sharpness in 990i is far from the qulity that my 750i used to give.
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ares
Joined: Dec 11, 2003
Posts: > 500
From: Coimbra, Portugal
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miguel82, whats your operator??? vodafone??? i never i had problems with smsīs (iīm on Optimus)
regarding the camera, 100% agreed...its normally too soft, and sometimes it does hang
on other hand iīm pleased to finnaly say my phone does not restart by itself, after more than a month of intensive use, with flip and without flip, and even pushing at the limit (situations of nearly 0% RAM left).
SE w880 + Iphone 4 16gb |
miguel82
Joined: Feb 14, 2006
Posts: 414
From: Portugal
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vodafone and tmn. This time i had the tmn sim card on it. But its not operatorīs fault because it happens with vodafone too and sometimes im not receiving any sms and if i restart the phone then i recieve all the messages at the same time |
miguel82
Joined: Feb 14, 2006
Posts: 414
From: Portugal
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Ive seen some users with this issue too and its not the first phone that ive got that sometimes had this problem (with p800 and p900 i had that too with the firsts firmwares). For mine experience i think this happens because the OS get degraded very quick with just the simple use or the aplications that we install |
navinadv
Joined: Sep 07, 2006
Posts: 66
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On 2007-03-22 22:50:59, michael the mage wrote:
Now the only question remaining is: which year 
LOL.
What bugs me is that the P990 is suppsoed to be a Premium Business Device. Still it requires Firmware upgrades, 3rd Party Software (read as SMP) and 3rd party service (change to World Generic 1) to work.
I used to use an O2 Atom before the SE. I like th SE's format in that it has a proper tactile numeric keypad and touchscreen (I dont know another phone other than O2's Stealth that has this). The Jog dial and most of the buttons are where yo expect them to be and there are many nice things to be said about the P990 (the list is long) but all of this fails to impress when many phones (other than World Generic 1) are unstable. |
mode
Joined: Jan 12, 2007
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There are just 2 problems that remain with my P990 after the latest update. The 1st is 3rd party app-related namely SM Pro- the phone still reboots when i use the FC video viewer which doesn't happen all the time, but nevertheless. 2nd prob is the phone freezing (after a few days' heavy use without restarting the phone) when I take video shots, it wouldn't happen though if I restart the phone every now and then so this doesn't bother me much coz otherwise, the phone is solid with the latest fw. Suffice to say I used to have to babysit my P990 when I 1st bought it. Now I'm glad to say it takes care of itself. But there's still lots of room for improvement SE, still a few bugs to get rid of which I'm just not too bothered by. Someone else might be though so let's keep the updates coming shall we |
makbil
Joined: Oct 26, 2006
Posts: > 500
From: Istanbul
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While we are at it, the performance of Opera , in its current state, is just not acceptable. Its memory requirement is not compatible with the P990 and for this reason shuts down with kern-exec error 50% of the time.
There is still a great deal of memory leak, even with level 3 memory reclaim using SMP, the max available memory decreases a little every day, about 14.5 MB after boot to just over 10 MB after 5 days. Either the memory is not released properly or there is some OS cache that keeps getting larger.
Overall, there is a huge improvement in the P990 compared to its state in December, restarts are extremely rare now. However, it is still a good idea to manually restart the phone about once a week to take care of the memory problem.
PCSuite also needs a rework, especially the backup/restore and file manager modes. Since Intuvawe (the company that created m-Router) has gone bankrupt and is no longer supporting that program, SE may be looking for a new solution. I was having problems with connecting the P990 to my PC and was able to download a newer version of m-Router just before they shut down, this solved my problem.
P990i: A mistake, a curse and a disgrace  So I lowered my expectations and settled for a P1i. I couldn't keep my expectations so low for a long time so now I have an HTC Touch HD |
HjJ
Joined: Jul 02, 2004
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On 2007-03-24 09:34:17, makbil wrote:
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Overall, there is a huge improvement in the P990 compared to its state in December, restarts are extremely rare now. However, it is still a good idea to manually restart the phone about once a week to take care of the memory problem.
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Aren't you lucky. My P990i locks up at least three times a day, and I've got World Generic 1 and R9EC001. Every time I take it out of the charger, it is locked up. If I leave any programs running before closing the flip, it will lock up within a few hours. Most calls don't come through because the phone has crashed (I'm using a twin SIM and the other phone is ringing but not the P990i).
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peterwwood
Joined: Nov 14, 2006
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I also have the latest firmware and it crashes on me at least once a day. If the phone has to do too many things at once - too many phone calls, too many SMS it crashes. Its not really a business phone yet.
I am worried that Sony are working on a replacement handset and ignoring the current user base.
Afterall Prad have a cool phone the iPhone is due sooner and the P990 will look out dated very soon.
I really don;'t like being used as a guinea pig to beta test a major coproporations 'deisres' to make even more money. |
makbil
Joined: Oct 26, 2006
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From: Istanbul
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On 2007-03-24 10:53:44, HjJ wrote:
Most calls don't come through because the phone has crashed (I'm using a twin SIM and the other phone is ringing but not the P990i).
The way twin SIMs work, if one SIM is active the other one is automatically deactivated. I don't think it's possible to have both SIMs active and receiving/making calls simultaneously. Maybe that's the reason why calls to your P990 don't come through?
P990i: A mistake, a curse and a disgrace So I lowered my expectations and settled for a P1i. I couldn't keep my expectations so low for a long time so now I have an HTC Touch HD |
Dogmann
Joined: Jan 29, 2006
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From: London England
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@HjJ
Not being funny but i really don't think trying to run a twin Sim is doing you any favours and am pretty sure if you reverted to a single Sim at least some of your issues would be resolved.
Marc
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HjJ
Joined: Jul 02, 2004
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On 2007-03-24 14:44:32, Dogmann wrote:
@HjJ
Not being funny but i really don't think trying to run a twin Sim is doing you any favours and am pretty sure if you reverted to a single Sim at least some of your issues would be resolved.
Marc
Well, the way my twim SIM subscription works, both phones should ring and I can pick up the one closest to me. I can also call out from either phone at any one time, but not both at the same time. Text messaging is independent on the two phones. I have also tried another SIM from a different provider, with the same stability problems...
To prove my point: Every time the main phone rings and the P990i doesn't, I can't turn off my P990i because it is crashed.
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Dogmann
Joined: Jan 29, 2006
Posts: > 500
From: London England
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@Hij,
OK sorry my apologies i thought you meant one of those twin Sim adapters not two Sims supplied from your Network, can't believe I'm actually trying to defend a P990 what a strange thing for an SE hater to do LOL.
Marc
Blackberry Bold, V4.6.0.214, 8GB SDHC, Pin2553F455
Honoured to have Won Best Debater for the 2nd Year |
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Posted: 2007-03-23 00:56
So I lowered my expectations and settled for a P1i. I couldn't keep my expectations so low for a long time so now I have an HTC Touch HD 
