Are Nokia going to bother updating the Firmware or what?

How the hell can they say standby is 8 days? fuck sake that is physically impossible. you could charge the N80 up, leave it to go on standby, not use it at all and the most it would last is 3 days i bet, at best.

i say we all:

charge our batteries to full
turn everything on (connect to a LAN, bluetooth on, 3g on, etc)
video the phone and take photogrphical evidence of how long it lasts
get a collection of this evidence somewhere and go for it!

then again, who am i kidding, it wouldnt do anything, and it would be too hard to organise!

Keydogg wrote:How the hell can they say standby is 8 days? fuck sake that is physically impossible. you could charge the N80 up, leave it to go on standby, not use it at all and the most it would last is 3 days i bet, at best.

i say we all:

charge our batteries to full
turn everything on (connect to a LAN, bluetooth on, 3g on, etc)
video the phone and take photogrphical evidence of how long it lasts
get a collection of this evidence somewhere and go for it!

then again, who am i kidding, it wouldnt do anything, and it would be too hard to organise!

Keydogg wrote:How the hell can they say standby is 8 days? fuck sake that is physically impossible. you could charge the N80 up, leave it to go on standby, not use it at all and the most it would last is 3 days i bet, at best.

You will probably find that the quoted standby time is for phone on GSM only. I know that my N73 last about twice as long on GSM as it does in "dual mode".

xerxes wrote:You will probably find that the quoted standby time is for phone on GSM only. I know that my N73 last about twice as long on GSM as it does in "dual mode".

the quoted standby time is for the phone under ideal condtions , which of course we all know a phone is never under ideal conditions, and I still know that the battery will not last long if it was, I did a test myself and reported here and got nowhere near 8 days, from what I remeber it lasted about 75 hours.

llolslim wrote:oh yeh .. I'd forgotten about our conversation about GPS.
I will hold out as well. Although I really would like decent sat-nav (voice/visual guide) software that doesn't require GPRS access.

If you live in Europe, Navicore 2006/1 is great. It works great and has many useful features:

• GPS navigation on your mobile phone
• Intuitively easy to use and very responsive operation
• Free traffic information and dynamic routing to avoid traffic jams
• Clear voice guidance and map display in 2D and 3D
• Speed camera warning system
• Handy pocket map and pedestrian navigation
• Easy and fast installation without network settings

Check it out: http://www.navicoretech.com/Consumer :icon14:

And this is compatible with the N80? According to their website it aint

i know that this question is asked many times but i think it is one of those questions that has to be asked every now and then.

Does any one know what the latest firmware for the N80 is?

my N80 has...

V 3.0617.0.6
03-05-2006
RM-93
Nokia N80 (85.01)

is this the latest firmware... if it is nokia still havent addressed the sms problem where half the words go missing from the left side of the screen...

thanks

I'm assuming the V 3.0618xxx firmware is specific to the 3 network only, or am i totally wrong?

Is firmware written for

a. networks
b. phone

Also on a totally seperate note...

I bought one of those long life batteries from ebay.de, waste of time. It performs far worse than the standard Nokia one.

w00t

T1p0 wrote:I'm assuming the V 3.0618xxx firmware is specific to the 3 network only, or am i totally wrong?

Is firmware written for

a. networks
b. phone

Also on a totally seperate note...

I bought one of those long life batteries from ebay.de, waste of time. It performs far worse than the standard Nokia one.

w00t

i would have to say that firmware is Phone based but dont quote me on that i have no real idea im still learning.

but i would think it would make more sence having firmware for the phone not the network

broadbent30 wrote:i would have to say that firmware is Phone based but dont quote me on that i have no real idea im still learning.

but i would think it would make more sence having firmware for the phone not the network

The basics of the firmware is the same, its just altered slightly for specific networks,

For example, with orange firmware in the photo app you have the option to upload your photo's to some sort of orange photo website and get prints.

the 318 firmware is indeed for the 3 network.

Cash wrote:

For example, with orange firmware in the photo app you have the option to upload your photo's to some sort of orange photo website and get prints.

Can this be disabled without changing the firmware?

hoponhiggo wrote:Can this be disabled without changing the firmware?

I thinks so, well at least some of the features, I read somewhere how to do this, but I cant remember where..will have to have a think.

I cant check on my phone because it is generic firmware

hoponhiggo wrote:Can this be disabled without changing the firmware?

Ok I found where I read it

Did anybody notice that under tools --> settings --> general, there is a setting which says 'delete operator settings', I tried it and nothing really happened - now its gone

But it seems it doesnt delete these settings, so unless you reflash to generic firmware then you are stuck with the operator crap.

ok thanks cash...it didnt seem to do anything on mine either. wish this V4 firmware would hurry up!!!

I did originaly uprage the firmware on my N80 but that broke last week (suprise), so now orange have sent me a new one with the v3.0617.0.6 firmware, but all the orange crap back!

hoponhiggo wrote:ok thanks cash...it didnt seem to do anything on mine either. wish this V4 firmware would hurry up!!!

I did originaly uprage the firmware on my N80 but that broke last week (suprise), so now orange have sent me a new one with the v3.0617.0.6 firmware, but all the orange crap back!

hoponhiggo wrote:ok thanks cash...it didnt seem to do anything on mine either. wish this V4 firmware would hurry up!!!

I did originaly uprage the firmware on my N80 but that broke last week (suprise), so now orange have sent me a new one with the v3.0617.0.6 firmware, but all the orange crap back!

You can still reflash with the same version firmware if you want ... I did it with my friends and he had latest orange firmware, now he has same version but its the generic firmware

llolslim wrote:did you upgrade yourself? If so did you use pheonix?

For me the answer is yes to both questions

i flashed my orange firmware to same version generic firmware, it gave me a warning in phoenix about something but i carried on anyway and it worked ok

Jaffa-cake wrote:i flashed my orange firmware to same version generic firmware, it gave me a warning in phoenix about something but i carried on anyway and it worked ok

Same when I flashed my friends orange N80

N80 would be great phone (3MP camera, Wi-Fi, ...). But Nokia really screawed up with firmware. Never more Nokia in my case!

XFG wrote:N80 would be great phone (3MP camera, Wi-Fi, ...). But Nokia really screawed up with firmware. Never more Nokia in ma case!