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N95-1 V30 Disappointment - Help

6 replies · 3,399 views · Started 30 September 2008

Hello All

I have been running V30 for 3 weeks now and overall very disappointed!

I have had my N95 for almost 12 months and have done firmware upgrades from V12,14 20 & 21 using PC Suite to back up & NSU and then restore. Never had a fault and Love my phone.

I was thrilled when V30 was announced thinking any improvements will make a great phone greater... alas!

The faults:

1.
Battery life has seemed to dropped noticably. No new software added and nothing running in the background.

2.
Phone has frozen up a least 4 times and had to remove battery to re-boot (this has never happened with previous versions of firmware.

3.
Auto-rotate... Rubbish. Slow to initially switch to landscape and will rotate when you don't want it to.

Is there any way I can switch firmware back to V21 or can someone make a suggestion?

All advice welcome!

Did you restore a comple back up including settings?

What applications do you have installed?

You cannot legally downgrade firmware yourself.

Maybe try a new battery.

Yes... I did restore all the settings. Have got very few applications installaed and the only one I have running all the time is Nokia 810 Contacts download which pushes my phone book to my Audi. Have had this application for 8 months.

Could the battery possibly be fault after less than 12 months?

Well it seems I could be stuck with V30 and am certain this is the only the reason for the new selection of faults.

It's always better to have a new firmware. V30 is quite good, autorotation is not so bad. Everything could be better though...

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Battery life has seemed to dropped noticably. No new software added and nothing running in the background.
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I agree, it s like 75% capacity of the battery with v20.

In last month/s I haven t got any freeze at all. But I only backup and restore phone numbers.

yes I agree as well about the battery life, auto-rotate and lack of additional software but I never had a freezing issue since the update, I'm not sure if it has anything to do with the way you backup - I don't even know if I did the backup correctly....I mean I backed-up my contacts, music, games, etc but I wasn't sure how to back up the settings....I just went to "Tools-->Utilities-->>Memory" and through option I selected "Backup phone memory", is there another or different way to backup settings?

And regarding the battery life, that has always been a problem with N95...I've only had my N95 for like 4 months and I've already noticed the poor battery performance/life.

Anyone else been using the nokia energy profiler? It's not showing much (any?) difference to me from v20 to v30.