Nokia software updating now working on generic e61

kalimero wrote:Dude! Is possible to type "�" now?

I can type this caracter on my E61 which has a spanish keyboard layout (or so it looks like) and the first firmware. Strange that you can't type that on a swedish keyboard :con?

kalimero wrote:Dude! Is possible to type "�" now?

To quote a famous swedish artist "de funga". 😉

There are many variant of E61 e.g. one for UK, one for Singapore, one for Indonesia, etc. So if you're getting 'no updates' this means that your variant is not supported.

Johnnycw, don't worry, the software only update to the same variant e.g. chinese - > chinese, english -> english.

There are many variant of E61 e.g. one for UK, one for Singapore, one for Indonesia, etc. So if you're getting 'no updates' this means that your variant is not supported.

Johnnycw, don't worry, the software only update to the same variant e.g. chinese - > chinese, english -> english.

My SIM free UK handset crapped out on me during the update yesterday. During the update a message "update failed - try again?" came up, after trying again no luck.

Now all i get is blank screen and email light on permanently when switching it on, and you can't turn it off.

Guess it's off to a Nokia repair centre tomorrow...:frown:

i heard the new firmware is for Nokia (Euro), and for Asian model got chinese input (keyboard key have chinese "Zhong" on Chr key), many ppl have problem after upgraded the new firmware, like the keyboard mapping and chinese input

I have tried many times to get this update on my phone which is locked to '3'. They tell me that if the update is installed by myself the warranty is void, however Nokia's blurb say that they will cover the warranty if anything goes wrong with the update procedure so I decided to throw caution to the wind and give it a go. The update from the website does not work. It tells that no update could be found. The local Nokia service centre simply wiped my phone and reinstalled v1 which I was furious about but Nokia tell me that '3' have a special version of this update for their phones. '3' tell me that they can collect and return but this means 3 days without my phone.

Has anyone had any luck forcing the generic update onto locked '3' phones?

Marky

Interesting that 3 have a 'special' version of this update for their phones. Surely there is a way to just unlock the phone to do a generic update and then just reconfigure it to work on the 3 network. Who needs all that planet 3 nonsense anyways.

Anyone had any useful 3/unlocking/updating experiences?

I think I figured out why my generic unlocked E61 (RM-89 running firmware 1.06) won't upgrade to v2... because I have a Canadian SIM card in it and the software updater looks to see where the card is registered before proceeding with the update. If your chip is from an unsupported country like Canada, the firmware will not update. I tried my Swiss chip to no avail as well, since the E61 is not yet available there either. I guess the only solution is to borrow someone's "supported" chip, do the update, then stick mine back in. On the other hand, I have heard many complaints about the new firmware and have no real problems with the current version, so maybe I'll just sit on it for awhile! I have an E70 on the way and may dump the E61 on eBay anyway...

Turns out the E61 is now available in Switzerland, so my preceding argument about firmware based on supported countries may be full of crap!

Any more thoughts on this? I was unable to update my firmware...in the US with an E61 RM-89, firmware v1.0, on T-Mobile USA, UK keyboard and charger.

After my first attempt at updating the firmware failed, I exchanged my T-Mobile USA SIM for a prepaid French Orange SIM I still had around. It says "unable to register SIM" so that COULD be the problem, but I think it is unlikely that the update software is checking nationality of the SIM.

It's possible that the update is not country-specific, but Nokia insists that the SIM card be present when updating firmware, which suggests something...?

As I mentioned earlier however, the phone refuses to update even when my valid Swisscom chip is installed, and the phone is now available there, so go figure.

I got my new E70 yesterday (I'm comparing the 2 and will dump the loser on eBay), and surprisingly it DID accept a firmware update.

Nokia has a new updater available as of a few days ago, so I re-tried my E61 after successfully doing the E70 but still no joy. Can't figure it out.

From all the gripes I've read about the E61 update, I'm not sure I want it anyway! Mine actually works fine. The only improvement I'd like to get out of the update is bigger Messaging fonts.

I want the update only to use Truphone (free SIM calls thru end of year!). I'm considering sending it to iUnlock to deal with it.

In this post:
http://www.mobilevoipforum.org//forum/thread/50/#post201#post201
someone listed all the E61 firmware codes, mine is not on the list (0538289) and Googling for this code shows others with the same problem.

Nothing about my phone or the way it was sold (from Expansys UK) would indicate to me that it is a branded/locked phone, though I am now concerned that I am holding an 02 phone that fell off a truck or something, although Conventional Wisdom says that Nokia has just not released firmware updates for all versions of the E61.

My phone was also sourced from Expansys UK and also has the same code as yours. I read somewhere that phones thru the 052xxxx series would not be user upgradeable, which means there's hope, but it still doesn't explain why ours won't play

From your link to the released codes, it appears they are simply releasing upgrades sequentially, in which case ours should be soon...

Great news (for me): i had installed Nokia Software updater on my work PC which has loads of stuff installed on it and it never found any updates for my E61 (SIM-free, first firmware, product code:0529664). Disabling the Windows Firewall and McAffee VirusScan didn't change anything. So I thought that there simply was no update available for my particular model at this time.

But this morning, i've tried to install the software updater on a vanilla install of Windows Vista RC1 that didn't have any third party software installed on it. It installed fine. When i ran it, Windows Firewall asked me twice whether or not i wanted to block it. I chose to unblock it both times. Result: it found an update for my E61! So I tried again on my Win XP PC and it still didn't find anything there. Both these PCs are connected to the same network so it doesn't have anything to do with the Internet connection.

I haven't yet tried to install the firmware update since i'm worried that the shortcut bug will render Opera Mobile unsable but knowing myself, i'll probably upgrade anyway.

So the moral of the story is: to those with SIM-free E61 who still haven't been able to ugrade, try the updater on a vanilla install of Windows and it might come up with an available update.