Not usual for me to rant but the N97 is one of the poorest Symbian phones I have owned, and I started with the SE P800! How can Nokia get this so wrong?
The Nokia N97 gets v20 and a new lease of life
Hi All, Own a uk N97 and after using nemesis set the euro code and succesfully got the v20 update from nokia. Small problem though, I was reading that people were seeing 60mb of flash on c: after the update, i am only getting 22mb, is there anything i can do to improve that? I have already moved most apps to mass storage so i am now at a loss.
Hope someone can help, thanks in advance,
Chris
Did you do a hard reset after installing v20 firmware?
k.ewin wrote:I have been investigating further in the VoIP issue.
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[*]I am not sure whether the Nokia VoIP client can still do VoIP calls through 3G as on the N95. Only WLAN is mentioned in more recent documentation.
I've tried it, it works as well as the n95 did over 3g. Probably better if I do some fiddling with the codecs using the advanced settings available 😉
No thanks to nokia of course..
At least this is great news and Nokia has fulfilled their promise of VoIP in the v20 firmware. 😎 I have to take back some of my criticism.
I would recommend waiting until the documentation and tools section at Forum Nokia is updated to reflect the N97 v20 firmware release.
See, I'm not sure that Nokia have fulfilled their promise. If I sell you a car, then give you a car without a steering wheel, and you have to find and install that steering wheel yourself, would you consider that sale a particularly satisfying one? A process you would recommend to your non technically minded friends?
I am definitely happy with the voip, imo it's working even better than the n95, but as far as Nokia's actual communications, they REALLY need to try deliver those steering wheels next time.
question: Does this new firmware v20 correspond to Symbian^2 ?
RollerSMB wrote:they REALLY need to try deliver those steering wheels next time.
I have had my rant already in this thread. Don't know what their product management is doing. It was easy to foresee that many users would try to configure VoIP when v20 was released. They should have had the tools and documentation ready on Forum Nokia and a nice hint how to setup VoIP on Nokia Discussions at least. I hope they learn from the N97 experience and will never do this again.
My phone is repaired and updated and I hope I can enjoy it from now on! 😎
Hi, does any one uses MfE? because after the update MfE gives an error every time i try to sync the calendar.
the emails and to do task sync well.
thanks
RollerSMB wrote:
See, I'm not sure that Nokia have fulfilled their promise. If I sell you a car, then give you a car without a steering wheel, and you have to find and install that steering wheel yourself, would you consider that sale a particularly satisfying one? A process you would recommend to your non technically minded friends?I am definitely happy with the voip, imo it's working even better than the n95, but as far as Nokia's actual communications, they REALLY need to try deliver those steering wheels next time.
I don't think that's a valid metaphor. If I purchased a car and the steering wheel was missing, then I would have no way of making inputs to control the direction of the vehicle. That, to me, is closer to a phone without a keypad or touch screen or other means of interacting.
This missing voip is like hiding the switch that puts on the air conditioning, and leaving the pages out of the manual that tell you where to find the switch, in all other ways the car is perfectly usable. This strikes me as a way of discouraging use of the air conditioning.
In other words, they would rather you didn't have VoIP, but if you must insist then begrudgingly, it can be done. Smacks of involvement from the networks.
my phone code is 0576111 series finland
i tried all the way to download but failed and showing your phone is updated.
Help me plz and send me mail at
[email][email protected][/email]
The new search function is so bad, i miss typing a word in the title of the song, not just the first word of the track.
this firmware is unhackable at the moment
but if u clear everything off your phone and then install helloOX2.03 you will have a clean and hacked phone
then update and the built in udp will keep the hack in place after update
so u have hacked updated phone
Since the update, all is running well apart from the Text message inbox. I have about 1000 messages in there.
Before the update I could have messages grouped by date and it would work perefectly. After the update, it takes about 5 seconds to load the list of messages.
Has anyone else had this issue?
I am N97 NAM. Upgraded. Only seeming problem is that music player will not recognize songs on memory card. Can find them through search or file manager and play them one file at a time. Can find videos on the card through the video player. But when I do update library, it says searching for music, literally for hours (run it for six hours) without adding anything to the library. Any ideas?
I love the update, but I loved the device before. It is faster, kinetic scrolling is great and there are lot of other great features. Please help with the music player.
There is a new guide how to enable SIP calls (VoIP) on the N97 here.
hannonlaw wrote:I am N97 NAM. Upgraded. Only seeming problem is that music player will not recognize songs on memory card. Can find them through search or file manager and play them one file at a time. Can find videos on the card through the video player. But when I do update library, it says searching for music, literally for hours (run it for six hours) without adding anything to the library. Any ideas?.
Interesting. What number of songs are we talking about? And what format? And what folder have you put them in?
@hannonlaw . Recently I came across a post of someone who did a complete Reset and Format . After reloading the Files from PC to the phone , the device didn't show music/video files . Investigating the problem it appeared all the files were set to hidden on the PC .....
Here is a post with a similar issue though : Music bug N97
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/forum//forum/thread/89658/
Maybe a hard reset will help you out : http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/forum//forum/thread/86049/
😊 Regards jApi NL
Just a heads-up for those in the UK, it looks like 4 of the UK product codes now have 20.0.019 available for download via NSU (checked via Nokia site). Those are
0587691 (Carphone Warehouse Black)
0585162 (Generic Black)
0591861 (Comes with Music Black)
0591721 (Comes with Music White)
I'm not surprised that my own 0587240 (Generic White) isn't available yet; after all, it's SOOO different from the generic black model. It's got lots of extra features (several pieces of white plastic), but it's missing many other features (all the black plastic ones). 😃
Sorry for the sarcasm, I'm a little frustrated!
0587240 on NSU this morning.
I have installed the v20 firmware and I have the following problem: I have downloaded 2 podcasts, lets call them Podcast A and Podcast B. When I go to Music / Podcasts I can see Podcast A with 3 episodes (instead of just one) and Podcast B with 1 episode (so this works fine). When I click on Podcast A (which says it has 3 episodes instead of just one) then it says that there are no podcasts... If I try to delete Podcasts A I get a "system error". Everything worked fine with the older firmware. So generally in Music/Podcasts it either shows podcasts that I do not have and cannot delete or does not show episodes that I have downloaded. All this has to do with the music application. The podcastsing application works fine...
snoyt wrote:Negative for unlocked UK model, productcode 0585162
And this is still the case for me 12th Nov.
But my question is about the need to reformat the phone if ever I get the software.
AAS article recommends reformating, the discussion with the SW developers says this is unnecessary.
Does reformating the phone just clear the C drive or does it also wipe the mass memory (in my case the 15Gb of music files)?
RJB
I was very excited until i updated my N97 with V20 firmware but now i am disappointed because the music player keeps on refreshing when i update the music library.. After i remove the battery and on the phone it shows the no of tracks but not the music on the player and when i do a hard reset it fixes the problem and it is not good solution.. Does anyone knows why this happens and suggest me how i could get rid of this problem????
My N97 bluetooth used to work very well with my BMW built-in handfree bluetooth carkit. I was able to pair the phone and talk without any issue (well with the trick that you have to disable the auto sync feature). However, ever since I updated to the newest v.20 NAM firmware couple weeks ago. I couldn't successfully pair with my carkit anymore.
The symptom is like this.. once I start up the engine (carkit starts running) and switch on the bluetooth feature on N97, I do see a "connected to [device] successfully" message on my N97. I then see the icon indicating the phone has paired with my carkit on the top right hand corner of the screen. From the bmw's iDrive screen, I am also able to see the reception strength bar of N97. However, it only lasts for like 5~10 seconds, then the reception strength bar disappears (meaning it's no longer paired). The pairing icon on N97 is still there, and it stays there till you reset the phone, but it's not really paired anymore. It stays there even if you switch off the bluetooth feature. The call does not go through my carkit anymore.
is anyone here having the same issue as what I am encountering right now?
I do notice that Nokia had v.20 NAM firmware up for like couple days, then they took it down, probably because there are a lot of known issues. I could not rollback to the older firmware, unless I use those flash applications to program it myself. That's too much hassle. I probably will wait till Nokia puts back a new firmware.