I�ve been reading various reviews slating the N95 across the internet.
Complaints seem to range from poor battery life to glitches in the OS.
I don�t see what all the fuss is about??
I�ve had my N95 now for 5 days.
In that time I haven�t seen any sign of bugs with my software, my GPS works perfectly, and yes my battery did only last one day with some hefty playing with all the features but today I only used one bar of power with what I consider to be normal use of my phone.
Have I been lucky and got a problem free phone or do I have a few surprises yet to come?
i had some issues with my n95 to start with but some were resolved with firmware update and some you just have to live with. things like only having WEP encryption as max security on router to use browser on n95 and sms times when they arrive when phones off .... also the slow transition times is very annoying. sometimes it also gets stuck after ending a call.
the battery life is not amazing but i can live with it .... in fact i can live with the problems there are no solutions for ... why ?
because this phone is currently the swiss army knife of all phones. It can do such things which most phones out there cant. I sometimes think nokia made a mistake of including so many cool features in this phone at once ! I know I wont need a new phone for some time yet ... its a powerful phone over all and people who moan about it are clueless on how things work ... they expect too much. Have to be realistic ...
nudda wrote:things like only having WEP encryption as max security on router to use browser on n95
The N95 supports WPA and WPA2, or am I missing something here?
I must admit I do like mine too. Battery is a little short lived, but charging it every night isn't really a bother and I love all the other features. I think I have one of the ones with a loose slider, but again it really isn't a terrible problem at all. GPS does take a few minutes to lock on. So do most in my experience...
I've been using smartphones, and PDA's for years and I think it's bloody great in comparison.
I've also found the battery life on the N95 to be better than expected, following all the complaints - it'll easily get through a day with normal usage, and I do generally have things to do other than use my phone 😉
I do find the lack of RAM a bit of a pain, and mine seems to have a lot of hiss in the audio, so it might need to be returned. It has been claimed that V12 might fix the hiss.. I'm not sure how, but I'll try it when T-Mobile release it (don't want to debrand if I'm considering returning it).
Mithent,
I'm waiting for T-Mobile to bring out V12 too. I haven't had a RAM issue yet. When I install it still says I've 90Mb free. I do tend to exit everything and close it when done. Maybe that's why, or I just haven't installed enough junk yet 😊
8Ball
8Ball wrote:Mithent,I'm waiting for T-Mobile to bring out V12 too. I haven't had a RAM issue yet. When I install it still says I've 90Mb free. I do tend to exit everything and close it when done. Maybe that's why, or I just haven't installed enough junk yet 😊
8Ball
The number of apps installed does not affect the operating ram!
After boot you have approx 19Mb of OS ram which gets eaten up by apps you open and the issue raises it's head when all that ram is consumed and you open another app!
Just closing apps keeps the problem at bay for most of the time, but you may encounter it with a particularly ram hungry app in the future!
Keep on installing all your apps to the phone!
Everything is great on my N95!
The only dissappointment for me is the Muvee. Constant out of memory when trying to create a muvee.On SE750i, I can muvee videos without any problem but yet this I can live with!!!
My N95 bearing APAC product code and updated to 12.0.014 firmware. The most significant different is the battery life since upgraded. Now I dont have to charge while at the office and it last till I get back home in the evening. Before I used to charge once every 6 hours interval. Usually at noon, it start to beep low bat. Then at around 1730hrs, just about to pack for home. No choice have to charge else totally dry up while on the road.
But now it almost 16:00hrs, still full bars since I plug off from charger at 06:30hrs this morning.
Does anyone else experience this too?
Regarding the battery of my N95, i've now owned it for 4 days, the first day after a full charge it just managed to scrape through the day, only beeping just as I was going to bed - although I couldn't put the thing down all day.
Yesterday I finished the day on a full battery bar after having fully charged the previous night, and having normal usage during the day. I left it on all last night without charging, as I look at the battery indicator right now, it is still 100%
It's strange, true, and I have to say i'm stunned at how good the battery is after reading all the negative feedback
A friend of mine was looking at the N95 in a phone shop (don't know which one) over the weekend (in the UK), and he was advised not to get one as they are not very reliable and there have been a lot of them returned.
8Ball wrote:I'm waiting for T-Mobile to bring out V12 too.
I was wondering, do you (or anyone else) find that the N95's audio has quite an annoying hiss which is noticeable all the time that the earpiece/headphones are on, unless the output is loud enough to drown it out? I've been told by a couple of places that V12 will fix it, but it seems like a hardware issue to me.
Mithent wrote:I was wondering, do you (or anyone else) find that the N95's audio has quite an annoying hiss which is noticeable all the time that the earpiece/headphones are on, unless the output is loud enough to drown it out? I've been told by a couple of places that V12 will fix it, but it seems like a hardware issue to me.
My firmware is at V11 and I don�t get this hiss� must be a hardware issue.
AGarland wrote:My firmware is at V11 and I don�t get this hiss� must be a hardware issue.
Yeah, I think I need to go back to T-Mobile about this.
DigiDan wrote:Regarding the battery of my N95, i've now owned it for 4 days, the first day after a full charge it just managed to scrape through the day, only beeping just as I was going to bed - although I couldn't put the thing down all day.Yesterday I finished the day on a full battery bar after having fully charged the previous night, and having normal usage during the day. I left it on all last night without charging, as I look at the battery indicator right now, it is still 100%
It's strange, true, and I have to say i'm stunned at how good the battery is after reading all the negative feedback
The Litium Ion battery will improve over the first three weeks or so and the more you charge them the more they like it! After that just charge at every opportunity to keep it topped up.
The negative feedback is generally from those users who are charging the phone incorrectly!
AndyM wrote:A friend of mine was looking at the N95 in a phone shop (don't know which one) over the weekend (in the UK), and he was advised not to get one as they are not very reliable and there have been a lot of them returned.
They just don't know what they are talking about!
With v.12 OS and the correct 'housekeeping' the phone is stable and reliable!
pa49 wrote:The Litium Ion battery will improve over the first three weeks or so and the more you charge them the more they like it! After that just charge at every opportunity to keep it topped up.
The negative feedback is generally from those users who are charging the phone incorrectly!
Are you saying that the best way for optimum battery life is for the first 3 weeks do full charge and discharge cycles, and then after then, just charge as often as possible?
DigiDan wrote:Are you saying that the best way for optimum battery life is for the first 3 weeks do full charge and discharge cycles, and then after then, just charge as often as possible?
No! Don't discharge!
Just charge as much as you can at every opportunity for three weeks and then as often as you can!
See my battery tests (and debrand/update and housekeeping guide) on my blog-
www.blogn95.blogspot.com
My phone was diabolical,but after doing the latest firmware install,it's behaving exactly as i think it shiuld do.
Battery life is really good,considering the applications the phone can run.
pa49 wrote:No! Don't discharge!
Just charge as much as you can at every opportunity for three weeks and then as often as you can!
See my battery tests (and debrand/update and housekeeping guide) on my blog-
www.blogn95.blogspot.com
Thats really good, thanks!
Mithent wrote:Yeah, I think I need to go back to T-Mobile about this.
As an update to this - the salesman's N95 and the store demo N95 both have the same hissing problem, so they wouldn't exchange. Hrrm.