This phone proves to be more ridiculous each day. Its not reliable at all. It works like its supposed to 75% of the time but those 25% of the time it malfunctions in many different ways (and I made and read enough threads about it here to know that its not just my opinion). Those 25% make it a worthless brick because you can't simply rely on it. Its more of a prototype.
Just an example - the damn lock. If I hold the phone (locked) and someone calls me - the phone is so slow that by the time I press UNLOCK button and actually get to the conversation - the other person hangs up. It takes TOO long for this phone to get unlocked.
Its like a good looking expensive toy to play with but it sure as f*ck not nearly as reliable as a BlackBerry or any other mainstream phone.
What version firmware are you running?
When I first bought the phone it was running v10 and was buggy, laggy and slow, but have to admit that with v12 it's running alot faster and as it should.
Not really sure what you mean that it takes so long to unlock the phone when someone calls you?
I found no problems... just slide the unlock icon from left to right...even on v10 I never experienced such issues.
One thing I can't believe is that Nokia never thought of including a bloody timer function on the phone😡:icon13:
You do know you can answer the phone with the lock on?
Slide your finger along the flashing arrow pointing right that says answer.
I'm afraid you're just going to have to put up with it until an update sorts it out... either that or get rid of it!
I feel your pain though 😊
londoner888 wrote:
One thing I can't believe is that Nokia never thought of including a bloody timer function on the phone😡:icon13:
What sort of "timer" do you mean?
[email protected] wrote:What sort of "timer" do you mean?
I assume they mean a Count Up and Count Down application.
Sure, you can get one from a quick google search (time machine) but it should be standard on S60 (even S40 phones get a counter up/down app).
A news item you are unlikely to see on AAS:
iPhone, Android, and Pre Beat BlackBerry and Symbian in CFI Group Customer Satisfaction Study:
http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/009/10/smartphones_not_just_for_business_anymore.htm
celios wrote:A news item you are unlikely to see on AAS:iPhone, Android, and Pre Beat BlackBerry and Symbian in CFI Group Customer Satisfaction Study:
http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/009/10/smartphones_not_just_for_business_anymore.htm
It's on my s60 news widget though. And on the website version of the same.
Current aggregating news from:
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www.davecozens.com/s60
and how do i do when the screen is locked and the unlock key doesn't work/respond? the screen stays black and i can't do anything. i have to remove the battery and switch it on again to be a\ble to use it. BTW i'm on v12
munkiii wrote:I assume they mean a Count Up and Count Down application.Sure, you can get one from a quick google search (time machine) but it should be standard on S60 (even S40 phones get a counter up/down app).
Yep, can't believe that Nokia omitted a simple count up/down timer. Need it for when I play poker.
The downloaded ones aren't as consistent!
lp4u wrote:and how do i do when the screen is locked and the unlock key doesn't work/respond? the screen stays black and i can't do anything. i have to remove the battery and switch it on again to be a\ble to use it. BTW i'm on v12
Yes, happened to me this mroning, took a call, and then after the call, not only did the caller hang up on me, the phone did as well. Screen went blank, unlock slider swtich was vibrating the phone, but screen was unresponsive, had to re-boot.
How rubbish is that - having to re-boot after taking call?
nottmbantam wrote:Yes, happened to me this mroning, took a call, and then after the call, not only did the caller hang up on me, the phone did as well. Screen went blank, unlock slider swtich was vibrating the phone, but screen was unresponsive, had to re-boot.How rubbish is that - having to re-boot after taking call?
Yep, had the same on v12... it better be fixed for v20
celios wrote:Yep, had the same on v12... it better be fixed for v20
Too right it had better be fixed!
Can't believe the prospect of having to re-boot after every few calls.
The PAYG network I'm on here in Saudi, allows you to check your balance. Type in a short number code, press send, and it flashes up on the screen the remaining balance. Worked perfectly on the N95.
On the N97? Oh no.
Have to reboot to get that to work. Will work for a few days, then reboot required.Sometimes, I want to throw it out of the window and hope it hits a Nokia employee on the head.
Wonder if at the Nokia factory, they have to reboot all their employees, as they just 'stop working' for no apparent reason every few hours?
Sell it, add some money and get the Omnia HD. Thats what I did after owning the N97 for a week, and boy do I love my Omnia HD! At start up there is approx 140mb of free RAM!!
boogieindubai wrote:Sell it, add some money and get the Omnia HD. Thats what I did after owning the N97 for a week, and boy do I love my Omnia HD! At start up there is approx 140mb of free RAM!!
You know, that sounds so tempting, my mate back in UK has a Samsung i8910 - that is the same phone isn't it?
Runs on the same platfrom too - Symbian S60 5th Ed, but with 8mp camera. Might look into it further.
yeap, that is the same phone. I was going to get it in the first place, but Samsungs lack of support kind of put me off which is why I went for the N97.
Yes, Samsung support does suck. Basically they dont release worldwide firmwares for their phones, but instead have specific firmwares for each region (Italy/Germany/China etc etc). But the good thing is that the firmwares are easy to "unpack, modify, and repack". I am actually running a cooked firmware which has left out all the nonsense software that Symbian phones come with, giving me a whopping 80mb worth of free space on C.
You can find all the info you need on http://forums.samsungi8910omnia.com/
Trust me, the i8910 seriously kills the N97. The ONLY thing that the Samsung lacks, which the N97 has, is the physical keyboard, but then again I honestly didnt find the keyboard that great in the first place.
boogieindubai wrote:yeap, that is the same phone. I was going to get it in the first place, but Samsungs lack of support kind of put me off which is why I went for the N97. Yes, Samsung support does suck. Basically they dont release worldwide firmwares for their phones, but instead have specific firmwares for each region (Italy/Germany/China etc etc). But the good thing is that the firmwares are easy to "unpack, modify, and repack". I am actually running a cooked firmware which has left out all the nonsense software that Symbian phones come with, giving me a whopping 80mb worth of free space on C.
You can find all the info you need on http://forums.samsungi8910omnia.com/
Trust me, the i8910 seriously kills the N97. The ONLY thing that the Samsung lacks, which the N97 has, is the physical keyboard, but then again I honestly didnt find the keyboard that great in the first place.
Don't ......:bawling: i can't take it ....... :bawling:
boogieindubai wrote:yeap, that is the same phone. I was going to get it in the first place, but Samsungs lack of support kind of put me off which is why I went for the N97. Yes, Samsung support does suck. Basically they dont release worldwide firmwares for their phones, but instead have specific firmwares for each region (Italy/Germany/China etc etc). But the good thing is that the firmwares are easy to "unpack, modify, and repack". I am actually running a cooked firmware which has left out all the nonsense software that Symbian phones come with, giving me a whopping 80mb worth of free space on C.
You can find all the info you need on http://forums.samsungi8910omnia.com/
Trust me, the i8910 seriously kills the N97. The ONLY thing that the Samsung lacks, which the N97 has, is the physical keyboard, but then again I honestly didnt find the keyboard that great in the first place.
I read part of a review on this site, re the i8910 and one aspect which was weak was Call Quality. What's been your experience of this - good / bad?
I keep reading about people with lock/unlock issues...
It took me a couple of weeks to figure out that sometimes when the screen is dark it's not locked, it just blanked. Worse, when you think it's locked and you try to unlock it and it isn't--that locks it. So you try again, and again, and again!
Worst of all, the very poorly timing loop for the status messages is just TOO SLOW!
To make this work within the poorly-programmed schema of Nokia's N97 team, you just have to learn the N97's timing.
If the screen just recently went dark, you only have to tap the menu button to make it light up again. I wish that they'd also bring it back with a screen tap, but that would have been just what all the users would expect now wouldn't it?
More often than not--if the screen IS locked, just one jiggle of the unlock slider will do the trick if you're patient and wait for it to finish its silly little status display cycle.
After watching the V2.0 firmware preview video I don't hold out a lot of hope that it will fix anything on this phone worth mentioning.
After all to boost the speed and responsiveness we've:
1. Turned off the autorotation sensor
2. Turned of theme transitions
3. Turned off the vibrate feedback
and it still isn't fast enough to meet the expectations that Nokia created in their advertisements!
nottmbantam wrote:I read part of a review on this site, re the i8910 and one aspect which was weak was Call Quality. What's been your experience of this - good / bad?
I find the call quality great. If not better, than at the same level as other "good" phones . Definitely better than the N97 I had, which I found had a very weak ear piece.
Also on the Omnia HD you can change the default values for the speaker and for the ear piece volume. Not sure if you can do it on the N97 or not.
Having owned the orginal N95, N85 and the N96, I really wanted to love the N97, but sadly it left me very much disappointed. But then again, I am quite happy it did, because if it hadnt, I would have never bought the Omnia HD 😃