The E90 Communicator hits v300!

Blimey, might install this myself before the E90 goes back.

Should be interesting to see what happens...

Thanks for the heads up, Steve, I'm installing it on mine now, too. Fingers crossed for UDP...

No, no UDP. Firmware installed ok eventually, had to go through 2 or 3 battery-out cycles. Not good for my stress levels 8-)

Same here, Steve. I'm on my 4th. :-\

Well typical - it gets released while I'm stuck at work.

Oh well, I know what my job is for tonight, once I'm all finished here...

I upgraded my N82 to the newer version of maps a while back, and after the update it didnt render the strip chart route route anymore? The strip chart was quite useable for navigation. I am now prompted to whether I want voice guidance (which I dont and at the low value of the South African Rand cant afford) I decline, and the stripchart is also withheld, so satnav is useless - except to show me a map.

It still works on my E90 though, so I am loathe to upgrade, which will cripple the device as I brought it,

Hi,

I installed the latest firmware, and it looks like blackberry no longer works! 😡

I have the latest version of blackberry (8.14.1, as per the Download! app).

This is a complete showstopper for me - anyone know how I can revert to 210.34.75?

Regards,

Mark.

I wonder if my E90 will still be hackable with this new firmware? Probably not 😞

I now compared my N82 running Maps2 side by side with E90 running maps 1.2. The feature they deleted was called Route to and Route from. While I dont begrudge the Maps people making a buck, I think its sneaky offering a feature and then disabling it later (when they realise they arent getting as many subscriptions as they wanted, or anticipated) The dishonesty in this is that, the guy testing the phone in the shop buys the phone with the feature (even possible as a result of the feature. It then gets disabled a year later - essentially breaking faith with the original deal) What aggrieves me even more is Nokia's apparent complicity in this. Or was the deal from the start that they would pull the functionality as soon as Nokia have sold enough of the model and don't need the promise of this functionality to sell the phone anymore? Not good. This is cheating. I, for one, wont upgrade.

I now compared my N82 running Maps2 side by side with E90 running maps 1.2. The feature they deleted was called Route to and Route from. While I dont begrudge the Maps people making a buck, I think its sneaky offering a feature and then disabling it later

Looking at Maps 1.2 on a 5320 and there's no "route to" or "route from" options, so I don't think these were free features of 1.2 either.

I don't remember Maps ever having route planning for free, think it was always a pay-for feature (though I don't use it so I could be wrong). The whole business model was meant to be free maps with premium routeplanning, wasn't it?

A lot of phones come with the route planning free for a trial period, is it possible that the E90 you're looking at has this free trial period running? It could be that the trial period is somehow lost when you move to 2.0.

Are you absolutely sure that it is a totally non-subscription version of 1.2 you are running on the E90?

The free version of nokia maps supports routing - but not voice navigation. You have to select something like add to route and add the other route points you want to have.

So route from/route to was not deleted, it was just renamed and is working a little bit different (in version 2)...

I have Nokia E90 and maps really have 'route to' and 'route from' choice for free that let you plan the route for free but without voice guidance or turn by turn, they disappears on maps 2 though.

There is a new remote lock feature under "settings > security > phone and sim card > remote lock".

Can someone please submit the Product Code for an E90 that's getting this update? As usual, mine's barred out. Tchh!

Tim

I've sent an email in to Nokia to get some clarification on the BlackBerry Connect issue, as I have a few readers concerned about this, as well. I'll update Steve/Rafe/Ewan when I get more info, and also post any updates I get to Symbian-Guru.com.

In the meantime, if you are currently using BlackBerry Connect on your E90, I'd recommend holding off on this update. If you don't, then proceed. I'm rather enjoying the slight speed boost, myself.

timsalmon wrote:Can someone please submit the Product Code for an E90 that's getting this update? As usual, mine's barred out. Tchh!

Tim

Decided to try the UK baseline 0533332 and it seems to have worked, for anyone else who can't get it.

Tim

Hi,

Please would someone (perhaps timsalmon) post a product code that doesn't qualify for the upgrade. I may need to use this to get back to the 210.34.75 if I can't get blackberry connect working...

Thanks!

Mark.

rcadden wrote:I've sent an email in to Nokia to get some clarification on the BlackBerry Connect issue, as I have a few readers concerned about this, as well. I'll update Steve/Rafe/Ewan when I get more info, and also post any updates I get to Symbian-Guru.com.

In the meantime, if you are currently using BlackBerry Connect on your E90, I'd recommend holding off on this update. If you don't, then proceed. I'm rather enjoying the slight speed boost, myself.

Cheers, thanks - I've sent Nokia a mail via their web site, but am not holding my breath...

Mark.

machone wrote:Hi,

Please would someone (perhaps timsalmon) post a product code that doesn't qualify for the upgrade. I may need to use this to get back to the 210.34.75 if I can't get blackberry connect working...

Thanks!

Mark.

Sadly it won't make any difference changing your product code, it is not possible to downgrade firmware using the NSU.
You may be able to do it with pheonix, or a Jafbox etc but it could still result in your working brick becoming a brick.
Hopefully Nokia will release a fixed version of Blackberry connect.

Well I wonder...

...if the new firmware FINALLY allows Video Ringtones.

Or will we still have to line the pockets of third party developers because of this stupid oversight from Nokia?

(Clarification before you rush off to respond... any number of E series devices allow this, so it is NOT, before you jump in, a deliberate missing feature because the E90 is an E series device. So are any number of others such as my oldish E51, and this does Video Ringtones out of the box on even the oldest of firmwares).

So here's hoping (but doubting, knowing Nokia's stupidity in this area *lol*), that this new Firmware finally addresses this oversight.

😡

Excuse me, what version of Flash Lite player have you? (multimedia menu)
BEFORE upgrading I had 3, NOW it shows in the infos 2.
Anyone else with same issue?
Thanks.

Steve and guys,

I own an E90 and I'm from the Asia-Pacific. Even after the v210 release, I'm stuck with the v 7.40. After checking with the Nokia Software Upload application, I can only update/reinstall to v 7.40. Is there any other way I can force my phone to be upgraded to v300.

My phone kinda lags lately and would love to view flash 3 on my browser. Thanks!

SymbiX wrote:There is a new remote lock feature under "settings > security > phone and sim card > remote lock".

any news on n95-3 firmware?

I tried to update my E90 last night, multiple battery in/out cycles etc and it is still broken, I gave up at about midnight. All previous updates have run smoothly up until Wednesday when I was updating my N96, I was prompted to update NSU to the latest version, not sure that has got anything to do with it.

Anyway not sure what to try tonight, I will leave the battery out all day and see what happens. At the moment I get a slight flicker in the screen after the battery in/out cycle and a very faint, non backlit Nokia screen but it doesn't proceed further it goes from 15 min to the battery in/out cycle screen.
Nick

Is it only me or has the latest firmware improved transfer rates?

Up until last firmware I only got speed around 450 kB/s

Now after updating when I refill my music library I see the speeds between 630 and 677

Environ: Syncing from a MacBook usiing Nokia Multimedia Transfer 1.3 (5130)

machone wrote:Hi,

Please would someone (perhaps timsalmon) post a product code that doesn't qualify for the upgrade.

Sorry but I didn't take a note of it - and it had already been changed away from what was under the cover some time ago during a previous FW upgrade.

Incidentally, if it makes you feel any better about your problems, I've now 'bricked' my E90 so it's off to Nokia for repair. Bugger. If I leave the battery in long enough I seem to get a (dimmed out) screen 'on' with the word 'Nokia' visible about 75% of the way down the screen (outside screen) and it just stays there. 😞

Tim

Hi Tim

Did you try to full reset: Keep the green call key, the number 3 and the asterisk key (*) pressed and then switch the phone on?

Arjen wrote:Hi Tim

Did you try to full reset: Keep the green call key, the number 3 and the asterisk key (*) pressed and then switch the phone on?

Yes, tried all the usual S60 tricks. Thanks though.

I do remember Steve L writing about this state-of-phone some time ago where he said 'don't panic' and had some pointers for rescue, but can't seem to track the article down in the forum using the obvious search phrases. Anyone?

Tim