Old news for some, I know, but thought I'd inject a little bit of info into this forum!
In recent weeks, I felt my Italian xxII1 had started to 'slow down'... difficult to explain this... but when browsing, or using Accuweather, even iPlayer 1.6 was taking like 30 secs to load up thumbnails... all odd...
also, I lost all connectivity with my XP machine - the USB just refused to load. So, I wasn't able to backup before trying out a master reset. I did it all manually *sigh* Ok, then I thought, I may as well trying some reflashing... so,
I reflashed my handset all over again (but this time went back to Orange UK to see what the latest PC Studio update was) and now I find I am on the good old xxIF6 dated 23/06/09 *sigh* wonderful Orange UK, aren't they great with supplying UK users with updates?
But, 😮 I now find my handset has become all 'fast' again (!) :icon14: and everything zips along all ok. GREAT! Plus, the USB connectivity started straight away on my XP box, so I can confirm that if your handset suddenly loses USB connectivity - it's time for a Master Reset.
Putting on my progs all over again, and googling about - I discovered :
Opera Mobile 10 beta + iplayer 2.5
Given I had a completely 'fresh' handset, these installed no problem, and so far today have been working fine. Also, my problems with Google Maps v3.2.1 have also so far not reappeared today - it appears to have become stable again. Yay!
Iplayer 2.5 thumbnails load up in 1-2 secs, the browser loads most pages much much faster e.g. 2-3 times quicker and the first time I opened Accuweather, it downloaded and showed me a result (all via WiFi BTW) in about 1 sec. I was astounded. I'll see how long this 'speed' lasts...
In the past, with some WinMo handsets, a phenomenon I had experienced was that over some months, slowly but surely the internals/caches or whatever, would get bogged down/trashed. It seems to me that this has also happened to me on the i8910...
I haven't had time to check out everything else e.g. media (the podcasts app is broken as ever as I am suing the old Orange xxIF6) and I just don't use my i8910 at all for recording camera movies, so I guess that is AMR (I didn't take movies anyway, not even when I was on xxII1, as the quality is not good enough or me for that yet, stills are great as ever though!), so I can't say (yet) about having any thumbnail issues in Media Gallery either. Or for that matter, if I've gone back to any problems with battery life (although I think xxIF6 had solved those ones, which I have with xxIE2 before debranding)
Has anyone else felt this speed slow-down has happened to them? Or does everyone on this forum basically reflash their handsets every weekend! 😃
Regards to everyone!
in summary: (there's been a few detours and extra flashings + lots of 'lost' data - not lost forever, but, let's say, I have a notebook and use a pen sometimes!)...
xxIE2 -> debrand xxIF7 -> xxII1 -> return to xxIF6 (just for fun)
[June '09 through to today]