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Well people I have good news and some not so good news.

Phone: R9EA001 Has been release by SE and should be now ava. However currenlty its not ava every where, so dont go rushing down to the shops or trying the update service. I have heard many rumours that it may be released in the next 2 weeks on SEUS, But again these are not concrete facts.

Any way this is what one person has said about the new firmware

"The first impression is that the UI is 100 times faster. Switching between screens, menus, apps is INSTANT, without any delay. It seems that the transitions are simply disabled by default but I couldn't find any setting to switch them on/off. I had no time to play with it yet but I'll test it today and I'll post here later today or tomorrow if I find anything new"

** 2nd update ***

Well, the new Communicator was indeed much more important and interesting experience than the new (unofficial) firmware for the P990. All I noticed so far is the faster UI (disabled transitions) and 17.5 MB free RAM on start (with no applications installed, no contacts, nothing running but Swiss Mgr Pro - without Swiss Mgr it's about 17,8 MB ). So it's indeed about 2-2,5 MB more than what I had previously but it's nothing exceptional...

I haven't experienced any crashes or KERN exec errors or any other problems so far but you know that it doesn't happen all the time so it still requires more tests.

With Web browser running and My-Symbian Mobile site loaded in it, I have 10.8 MB free RAM left. With both the Web browser and Messaging (in SMS Inbox view) I have 8.9 MB left.

Closing all open apps using Swiss Mgr only gave 15 MB back so the device still leaks memory.

The most useful improvement is that the UI now feels really faaast compared to the previous firmware. Maybe it's also more stable as I haven't experienced any problems.

Well, that's it for now


** 3rd update **

Well, I can't see any other changes but the ones mentioned in my previous posts. The UI is definitely much faster thanks to disabled transitions, there's slightly more RAM and the device feels much more stable as no single error/freeze/reboot etc. happened since yesterday. But that's all you can see in just one day. Maybe there are much more hidden changes and improvements but I can't say it so soon.

** All the above were posted by Michal Jerz **

from the following website

http://my-symbian.com/forum/v[....]days=0&postorder=asc&start=850



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Posted: 2006-12-09 11:46:16
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well my seus is doing an application update atm, hopefully there is something new....
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Posted: 2006-12-09 11:52:00
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Keep posting to tell us something new
Going to try seus myself
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P990i with 4gig Sandisk and HBH-DS970

[ This Message was edited by: Tail on 2006-12-09 10:54 ]
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Posted: 2006-12-09 11:53:08
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Nop, nothing new here (Suck)
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Posted: 2006-12-09 11:59:24
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@darenngf
Many thanks for the info. So it's practicaly there, we can't speak of rumours any more.
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Posted: 2006-12-09 13:33:47
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On 2006-12-08 13:42:35, darafay wrote:
Projekt has an "import from text" module, which would probably save your retyping, if you can export from your existing database to a simple text...

Thanks Darafay, I'll give it a go.
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Posted: 2006-12-09 14:13:40
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Has anybody else gived the seus a try?
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Posted: 2006-12-09 16:02:50
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On 2006-12-09 11:52:00, ads1107 wrote:
well my seus is doing an application update atm, hopefully there is something new....


this must be the update for the seus program and not the firmware

the latest firmware is not available for public users... that is meant only for insiders of SE for testing purpose
so dont get excited now...
it will take some more time before we can have some fun



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Posted: 2006-12-09 17:34:29
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Just tested seus.. no new fw as expected..
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Posted: 2006-12-09 17:47:04
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On 2006-12-09 11:46:16, darrengf wrote:
this is what one person has said about the new firmware:
"I noticed.... 17.5 MB free RAM on start.....
With Web browser running and My-Symbian Mobile site loaded in it, I have 10.8 MB free RAM left. With both the Web browser and Messaging (in SMS Inbox view) I have 8.9 MB left.
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I made a comparison with the existing fw and here are results:
On the same conditions as the person above I got 15.7 MB free RAM on start, 8.9 MB free RAM with Web browser running My-Symbian site and 6.0 MB left with both Web browser and Messanging (in SMS Inbox view).
As he said we get 2MB more RAM on start. Opera seams requires the same amount as now and messanging some less amount of memory.


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Posted: 2006-12-09 18:09:18
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