Available now on many Nokia 5800 XpressMusic product codes, is a minor firmware update, v21.0.025, clocking in at 4MB over-the-air. To check if it's available for your phone, type in '*#0000#' into the virtual keypad and then 'Check for updates'. v21.0.025 brings interface speed enhancements, numerous bug fixes and a new 'breathing light' setting/control. Please comment below if you spot anything major that needs adding to this story!
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Thanks for the heads up. My Euro is now updated OTA with UDP working perfectly.
No typing aid/predictive yet, this is the feature I want more than all else.
what does the breathing light do? Is this like a notification new messages/emails etc? How is this displayed on the 5800?
No problems whatsoever, data was preserved! i cant tell whats new so far.
It breathes slowly when everything's normal and the screen is dimmed etc. If you get a message then the breathing rate is quickened. At least that's how I think it's supposed to work. Will have to wait until I get a message!
2 good things I've noticed are
1) Bug fix on the text entry on some webpages (most notably the mobile version of facebook) where you couldnt move back or forth in the text
2) cut and paste within web browser! yay!
Is there a single location we can submit things we find to compile a change log?
You can now edit large textfields (like the one I am typing in right now) in the Internetbrowser. Before, you could only add stuff at the end, because the cursor movement did not work properly. This you can move around like you should.
Thats great, now I can use my Wiki on the go
How do you do that?
what does the breathing light do? Is this like a notification new messages/emails etc? How is this displayed on the 5800?
There's always been a notification light on the 5800, the white button flashes when the screen is switched off and there's a message or missed call.
I can't find any "breathing light" so far...
Aergh, it didn't update the first time, just restarted with existing firmware.
But I tried again and it worked. 😊
I've just used the "App Update" application (in the applications folder), and it lists Mail For Exchange. Is this anything to do with the firmware update, or did that appear earlier?
did they fix the dial pad bug? on the dial pad, there are no letters, so if you want to dial 1-800-FLOWERS, you are supposed to just magically memorize the letters. what a horrible design flaw by nokia. god forbid, someone has to enter a unique password for voicemail or something, forget about it!
WARNING WARNING *******************
F*****G Iplayer downloads are gone again with this software. S***.
Why do I bother?
Unregistered wrote:did they fix the dial pad bug? on the dial pad, there are no letters, so if you want to dial 1-800-FLOWERS, you are supposed to just magically memorize the letters. what a horrible design flaw by nokia. god forbid, someone has to enter a unique password for voicemail or something, forget about it!
I don't think that's a bug so much as something that is not used so much in europe, those mnemoics aren't popular. But no, there are no letters on the keys.
The loss of the iPlayer downloads is a bit rough though, I can't understand why Nokia and the BBC can't get it together on this. I will stick at V20 until someone confirms downloads still works.
There's a little flag appearing now on wi-fi connections that will connect (have security details cached).
did they fix the dial pad bug? on the dial pad, there are no letters, so if you want to dial 1-800-FLOWERS, you are supposed to just magically memorize the letters. what a horrible design flaw by nokia. god forbid, someone has to enter a unique password for voicemail or something, forget about it!
As Quagmire says, that kind of mnemonic just isn't used in Europe, and all phone passwords are numbers. That's probably why they aren't on the virtual keypad dialler, there just isn't any call for letters on phone diallers here, so it's not so much a bug as a cultural difference.
BUT... it's a very good point though, as it would help the 5800 sales in North America. Nokia ought to include letters on the virtual keypad of the North American versions of their touch devices.
Tzer2 wrote:As Quagmire says, that kind of mnemonic just isn't used in Europe, and all phone passwords are numbers. That's probably why they aren't on the virtual keypad dialler, there just isn't any call for letters on phone diallers here, so it's not so much a bug as a cultural difference.BUT... it's a very good point though, as it would help the 5800 sales in North America. Nokia ought to include letters on the virtual keypad of the North American versions of their touch devices.
The funny thing is, the virtual T9 keyboard has the letters-- its just that a different number-only virtual keypad is accessed when dialing. 🙄
Not having the letters on the dialing screen makes perfect sense to me. It's a visual indication that you can type only numbers, just the same as it is if you manually set it to "numbers only mode".
Basically I personally like it just the way it is, but I can see why having an option somewhere to switch display of the letters one would be an improvement (especially for USA-ians) and that nokia should have thought about that from the start.
you guys are just being silly. every european phone i have purchased ALWAYS has letters on the dial pad. this is an oversight. there are times when i call my bank, and they ask me to enter the first 3 letters of the month in question, and that would be impossible on the 5800. it was a bug, and its been proved as a bug. hell, the letters are there in the T9 dial pad. they simply forgot. tell me this, how would you dial 1-800-FLOWERS from the 5800? you couldnt. and the north american version is missing the letter as well, so its not a european thing. its a horrible nokia screw up, which STILL hasnt been fixed with a firmware update.
I dont know why there is all this fuss about alphabets on the dial pad. We all have been using these keypads for so long on non-touch phones that i am sure we know where the alphabets are. Try using them anyways. Am sure you will not miss..
Gutted about iPlayer downloads. If I'd known about that I would have waited. Hurry up and fix it BBC.
1-800-FLOWERS in europe would be given as 1-800-3569377, and that is how the number would be advertised and distributed. Europeans use their brains and not infant school learning aids to enter phone numbers.
Unregistered wrote:you guys are just being silly. every european phone i have purchased ALWAYS has letters on the dial pad. this is an oversight. there are times when i call my bank, and they ask me to enter the first 3 letters of the month in question, and that would be impossible on the 5800. it was a bug, and its been proved as a bug. hell, the letters are there in the T9 dial pad. they simply forgot. tell me this, how would you dial 1-800-FLOWERS from the 5800? you couldn't. and the north american version is missing the letter as well, so its not a european thing. its a horrible nokia screw up, which STILL hasnt been fixed with a firmware update.
That's because you have to use those buttons to enter 'text' on those phones. It's common sense, not silly. Keep the interface clean etc.
It has nothing to do with using it to dial phone 'numbers'. Hence it is still present for 'text' input in T9 input.
But if the US is big on the use of this, then it's not exactly a difficult thing for Nokia to do and they should do it...
Zuber
Unregistered - you do realise you are not 'dialing' or typing letters right?
The 1-800-FLOWERS menemonic is just that - an easier way to distribute or remember the number. The phone makes the same dial tone whether you press D, E or F as they are all on the number 3 key.
Nothing to do with letters in the phone network or typing a word....
Following BUGS are fixed,
* Lock code does not work after FOTA update
* Logs: Info cannot be seen in missed calls if name includes special characters
* The envelope icon doesn�t open after reading the sms
* Autolock requested via MfE but not activated
* MPX harvester server crach with DRM files
* Oper. menu application icon missing after NSU update
* CDP Displays: CDP Clock and Data Have To Be Transmitted 2 Frames Before Sleep Out (SLPOUT 11h) Command
* �Program closed: Idle� after Restoring factory settings
* Video telephone: Phone reboots after tap call button several times when answer an incoming video call
* Music Player crashes when user tries to refresh Real audio into Music library
* Dialer: The cursor is not displayed in dialer panel
* Audio disappears after playing music long time with BT
* Music player the album art in Now Playing view is downscaled
* Access point password is not provisionable
* Voice commands application crashes after language change
* Synchronization cannot be done using PC Suite Sync application
* FL3.0: Inline Text editing from browser plugin is not successful
* Browser does not show some MIME-types of type image correctly
* Browser: Not possible to move the cursor when typing in a <textarea> field
* Browser: Page scroll wobbles if user scrolls with flash while page is in scroll motion
* Browser: Page does not scroll if drag is started from the edge of flash window
* Browser: Page scroll does not work after stopping going to new page opened via flash banner
* Bluetooth causing extra current consumption when activated
* Predictive search not working properly in country selection
* Music Player application crashes if album art is selected to be changed
* Duplicate contacts after restore
* Music Player: White screen displayed if change orientation between landscape and portable mode
* MO/MT calls will not work when restoring backup from old phone to more recent version
NEW FEATURES AND APPLICATIONS
* Notification Lights according to Nokia Design specification
* Touch usability improvements:
* Finger touch support for Special Character Table
* Size of arrows (tab pane & navi pane) in touch UI
* Arrows in forms, date & time selection, touch UI
* Profile, date area in touch UI
* Calendar Finger usability: change single row list items in day view wider
There appears to be a major problem with removing letter entry from the numeric keypad. My lock code used to be 'dacd', now I CANNOT unlock my phone because is only allows number entry!!!! Help please?
i feel annoy v21 doesnt fix some bugs...
1. cannot mark several- still need pencil
2. camera setting still reset after exit
3. folder in gallery doesnt shoewname
4. gallery is very inorganize- all i con, photo, picture , video put in gallery. seems like dumping site for picture
5. no extra theme effect like iphone,
sonofagun!!! iPlayer if fuked is it!!?? Jeezus, this needs to be fixed. Somebody pls confirm when this is fixed.
Also annoying how the alarm does not default to the alphanumeric keypad, unless you happen to use that as your text-input method on other apps on the 5800. Now WTF is the use in setting an alarm with the full qwerty keyboard option? Nokia should have fixed this by now
I fixed the key lock problem. Just keep the # pressed - a letter entry screen then appears. Phew!!
Unregistered wrote:There appears to be a major problem with removing letter entry from the numeric keypad. My lock code used to be 'dacd', now I CANNOT unlock my phone because is only allows number entry!!!! Help please?
Duh! Ask your carer or a responsible adult to help you.