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P990 firmware organizer R4B03 discussion |
bytes
Joined: Aug 24, 2006
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Just updated to latest FW.
The only thing that bugs me is that I have got to re-install JabpLite each time although I did complete backup prior to update.
Definately no improvements noted on speed (just my feeling, like how others felt it to be faster)
RAM at boot up 16.2M
Else so far so good |
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Zulan
Joined: Jun 03, 2003
Posts: 88
From: Sweden
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I have just upgraded my unit and Blackberry connect 3.45 is working like before. |
Guy H
Joined: Feb 19, 2004
Posts: > 500
From: UK
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On 2007-02-09 04:28:14, andy8ball wrote:
@cadcad
Thanks, how do I do that?
The phone is completely unresponsive. The Vodafone start screen comes up and then the phone just freezes there.
Tried taking out the battery and sim card but nothing works!
Damn FW update!!!!
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Unless you were on the very old FW there was no need to update as there is no new FW for Vodafone handset available. |
ares
Joined: Dec 11, 2003
Posts: > 500
From: Coimbra, Portugal
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For people that say nothing has changed, just do this: make one or two reclaims (level 3) with SM Pro...then push the back button - what happened with last firmware was that it took some anoying time for the phone to load the activity menu app, that was terminated by SM Pro...now it takes two seconds max! So, for the guy wanting a timer to measure speed improvement, this is has objective has it can get, it is really much faster in some things. @Lisa, what do you think about this?
Like i said, not much, but my phone is more stable than ever, 0 reboots and 0 kernel errors so far, etc Hey, we were bitching some months ago because SE didnīt release incremental firmwares, it took so much time...right now they are much faster working on it, and we know R5 is around the corner
And i just donīt understand that guy that said he only can get 1 app on background, 2 max, heīs phone must be completly f**ked up 
Now, if only they released a new improved version of PC Suite, i guess the backup problems of many people might be solved
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makbil
Joined: Oct 26, 2006
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From: Istanbul
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On 2007-02-09 09:08:21, masseur wrote:
while I agree about the changelog and that SE should at least let us know anything that impacts the UI/performance/features etc, tell me any phone company, or indeed software company, that does not provide updates to their products after they hit the shelves.
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I'm not complaining about the availability of the update, but it's ridiculous that we should spend days trying to figure what the change was. The changelog should be available BEFORE the update so we can decide whether to update or not. Since SE can't provide a decent backup/restore program, after each update we have to spend a considerable amount of time reinstalling applications setting lost radio presets etc. SE might release a new fw update every week, which is good, but I certainly wouldn't be doing all these updates, if I don' have an issue regarding that particular fix I would wait for the next one and do them all together. Somehow SE seems to think that we live for the P990.
One final word, you still need SM, maybe Lisa & co. may consider opening courses for the SE programmers, good money there
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 |
davidgp
Joined: Jul 01, 2004
Posts: 53
From: Sweden
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Got it!
After a few minutes of language selection troubles, it runs smoothly. |
ares
Joined: Dec 11, 2003
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From: Coimbra, Portugal
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I agree changelog would be very good, specially now we have lots of updates...imagine if they launch R5 in a month! The UIQ3 phones now are like the PSP with constant updates lol
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lovegadgets
Joined: Oct 16, 2006
Posts: 39
From: Gadgetsville
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It's funny that some people are so determined to be negative.
As a reasonably intelligent person i can tell the diff betwen the speed straight after the last update and the new one.
I use my phone a lot and it is now faster, much faster than it's ever been before.
This update has improved my phone, no ifs, no buts!
P990i, 2gig stick, HCB-400 and a big bag full of cool stuff! |
god1_jason
Joined: Aug 02, 2002
Posts: 134
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can cda/8 update to this latest firmware? |
jalf
Joined: Jan 09, 2006
Posts: 189
From: Lisboa, Portugal
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Guys, last night i made the firmware update and it went at 56% more or less and then finished the update. for my surprise the main icons disappear when we choose them, and the phone was so slow! then i made a second firmware update and noticed that it went up to 100% (green bar on the screen phone)! and then installed tweak peaks and it went all smooth! now my p990 is ok!
so, i recommend to you guys to perform always a second update to force it to go up to 100%
hope this helps some of you |
rokm984
Joined: Feb 18, 2004
Posts: 23
From: Slovenia
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I'd love to upgrade my phone but the problem with backing up my phone is just to big to bother and because of that I still have the first FW.
What is the use of new FW if you can't back up the old one?
This is just ridiculous! :S |
deeablos
Joined: Nov 30, 2006
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I do not understand why ppl on this forum would say the UI is faster.
The Phone,Messages and Multimedia applications loads so slowly.
Try this, kill all apps and then load each of these applications from a fresh start.Like the last FW it is the same speed.
I have to agree with you guys that the overall stability is there.
But that is all I see.
Opera is still a hog on memory.
I can ONLY multitask 2 applications when it comes to running multimedia such playing music and surfing the net with opera.
I think this sucks
I hope ares is right with a new firmware coming out soon.
SE is playing with everyone when it comes to firmwares .... no changelogs , no announcements of improvements .......
That is just my 2 cents |
sternas
Joined: May 04, 2004
Posts: 18
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Run Sony-Er
Run... |
hamlyn
Joined: Jan 13, 2007
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On 2007-02-08 21:09:16, mkouk wrote:
just updated my P990, was on Vista so i was worried as hell as this is my first update after i installed them! everything went well, and the SE Update service worked perfectly...hmm maybe a little too perfectly
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I am on Vista as well and get the error "Could not locate a Java Virtual Machine" error. How did you get around that?
thanks
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ares
Joined: Dec 11, 2003
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From: Coimbra, Portugal
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On 2007-02-09 13:40:32, sternas wrote:
Run Sony-Er
Run...
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are you a robot??? you cantīsay anything else
@deeablos, i just loaded opera, media player with music, and documents to go with a 314kb file, swiss manager pro and Tweak, and i have 4% RAM free, all are running, and have not being terminated... |
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Posted: 2007-02-09 09:19
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 
