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P990 Firmware Thread | latest: ph:R7A001, org:R3B01, bt:R4F01 |
fixfox
Joined: Dec 18, 2004
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On 2006-10-19 19:16:56, antz88c wrote:
i gave up waiting. im free with kern errors and crashes. you know how i did it? sold my p990i and got an N93. 
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Ah.... you actually took my advice ..... that's cool!
I'm keeping my p990 ..., there's no way a nokia is replacing it.
[ This Message was edited by: fixfox on 2006-10-19 21:52 ] |
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nuke
Joined: Aug 02, 2004
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On 2006-10-19 19:16:56, antz88c wrote:
i gave up waiting. im free with kern errors and crashes. you know how i did it? sold my p990i and got an N93.
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@antz88c: Good for you. If you're comparing an N93 to a P990, you should definitely not spend your hard earned cash on a P990.
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slitchfield
Joined: Oct 17, 2003
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We had Lars from Sony Ericsson to the AllAboutSymbian pub meet on Monday night. I asked him about the firmware and he confirmed week 48 as the general release of a new ROM....
So another month or so to wait 8-(
Steve Litchfield
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scroitoru
Joined: Jul 11, 2003
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In a way I am glad they are taking the time to do this. Hopefully, this time the tests will be done proper and the bugs will be fixed once and for all.
I wouldn't want to implement a "cosmetic" fix every week...
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Gabster
Joined: Mar 08, 2003
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The only this SE might be setting themselves up for a fall...if stupid bugs still exist after this update then they are going to have frustrated consumers....this is going to be a very important firmware update for them and the future of the p990i |
ares
Joined: Dec 11, 2003
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On 2006-10-19 23:52:25, slitchfield wrote:
We had Lars from Sony Ericsson to the AllAboutSymbian pub meet on Monday night. I asked him about the firmware and he confirmed week 48 as the general release of a new ROM....
So another month or so to wait 8-(
Steve Litchfield
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did he give you details about what the new fw will bring us? namely, more ram at boot, improved memory management, opera update, etc? |
bytes
Joined: Aug 24, 2006
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Congrats antz88!!
I sold off my 990i couple of week back took a w810i while waiting for the N95. At least its not a full 12 months wait as compared to p990 he he ha ha. Will review both p990 and N95 but think SE already dampened my desire for p990 but will go for N95. As for coming firmware update, there is a limit what the firmware can do to improve performance and what a waste to such a highly anticipated and beautiful phone. Good luck to you antz88 |
antz88c
Joined: Aug 10, 2006
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thanks
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drgopoos
Joined: Dec 02, 2004
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this phone is freaking me;
i am on a 60hr long train journey across india. always online,listening to music , reading books and so on. it has not crashed once. it shut down once as i wanted to drain the battery full.
at home i used to have so much erros.
MAY BE I HAVE LERNED HOW TO USE THIS HANDSET.
JUST KNOW WHEN TO OPEN WHICH APPLICATION.
Gopu. |
silentparty
Joined: Sep 04, 2006
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On 2006-10-20 04:31:11, drgopoos wrote:
this phone is freaking me;
i am on a 60hr long train journey across india. always online,listening to music , reading books and so on. it has not crashed once. it shut down once as i wanted to drain the battery full.
at home i used to have so much erros.
MAY BE I HAVE LERNED HOW TO USE THIS HANDSET.
JUST KNOW WHEN TO OPEN WHICH APPLICATION.
Gopu.
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When to open which application?
Really, i'm sure you could avoid a lot of crashes and general bugginess by treating the P990 gingerly, but why should you have to?
Hell, even a Windows Mobile 5 device warns you if it's running out of memory and asks you nicely to close some apps. With the P990i it's reboot after reboot after reboot, or install swiss manager, a 3rd party app, just to get a stable phone. Stupidity.
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navinadv
Joined: Sep 07, 2006
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I have swiss manager and still had the phone hang up. Yes the number of incidences have gone down but on 3 occasaions since I installed swiss manager it has still crashed. Once I lost a photo op, once I could not take an incomming call and the third time I wanted to send a SMS and it crashed as soon as I opened the messaging option.
Still I am living with the P990 as it is the only phone that has a numeric keypad (as I need a phone first) and some sort graffitti - I use SMS a lot. I really wish it had better graffitti though like the O2 Atom's letter recogniser and transcriber.
I know many of you have listed most of the bugs we wished are fixed on the next update. |
slitchfield
Joined: Oct 17, 2003
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Yes, he indicated that the new firmware would address the RAM problems and that applications would use less memory. In other words that after booting there would be more RAM on the P990i.
Can't see why it's taking them so LONG though.... 8-(
Steve |
Jah
Joined: Jun 22, 2003
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On 2006-10-19 23:52:25, slitchfield wrote:
We had Lars from Sony Ericsson to the AllAboutSymbian pub meet on Monday night. I asked him about the firmware and he confirmed week 48 as the general release of a new ROM....
So another month or so to wait 8-(
Steve Litchfield
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Next year I won't miss the pub meet! Thanks for this good news. Could you post this info at My-symbian as well.
Join the 'dots' and see what happens |
drgopoos
Joined: Dec 02, 2004
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i know managing this phone is a very delicate thing toi do. but i dont much options either. it feels really bad having to live with all the bugs.
but i love se and i am compramising. i got n93 and sold it off in a weeks time.
then i was not ready for any compramise.
now i am waiting for week 48# |
chriswg85
Joined: Aug 16, 2004
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Well this new firmware definitely sounds like it should be great! Let's just hope it isn't a let-down. I think it is good that SE is taking their time on this one to hopefully get it right and keep us satisfied. It should be interesting to see whether or not they take any of our usability suggestions into account rather than just fixing bugs and memory issues. For example, customizeable shortcuts on the FO standby screen, allowing custom contact fields, disabling of animations, etc. That might be a good indication of SE's dedication to fully optimizing the device. But I would still be happy if they just fixed the RAM  . Only time will tell... |
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