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Swissmanager may have killed Opera.
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Posted: 2006-10-10 10:35:46
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When I first got my Vodafone P990 a week ago, it displayed all the stability issues mentioned on these forum pages, crashing several times in the first hour of playing with it. Of course when I tried to update the firmware, SEUS said I had the latest version (not true, my firmware is as mentioned in the above posts) but I tried reflashing anyway and miracle of miracles, my phone was immediately transformed into a wonderfully stable device with not a single restart since. The only remaining issue seems to be memory management as playing a video will immediately slow the phone down to a crawl even after closing the apps via Task Manager or Swiss Manager when I've finished watching the videos. Thankfully I don't normally play videos! Otherwise, I think the P990 is outstanding.
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Posted: 2006-10-10 14:20:42
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@gseh88 after the firmware upgrade, did the firmware stay the same as you had before?
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Posted: 2006-10-10 17:30:24
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I'm just about to upgrade my firmware from the typical Voda one listed above
Will report back in a while! Wish me luck!
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Posted: 2006-10-10 18:02:39
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Well, after SEUS update, no change to firmware.
Phone started up with 14meg of free ram
No crashes.... well, so far...
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Posted: 2006-10-10 19:18:14
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On 2006-10-10 17:30:24, Gabster wrote:
@gseh88 after the firmware upgrade, did the firmware stay the same as you had before?
@gabster There was no change in firmware but for whatever reason, performance was transformed. Having said that, today my phone has turned very sluggish with one performance restart after I tried playing a short video on it. Just hope I haven't put a curse on it by telling the world it was behaving well......... : )
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Posted: 2006-10-11 00:56:27
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An update on my Voda branded phone on O2 Contract form mobileshop. They admitted to their error without any fuss and (after I had gone to the trouble of finding all the packaging and boxing it up to send back) they sent me a new non-branded one (R7A001). It has re-started a couple of times but is immeasurably better than the Voda one. Good luck to all of you on Voda in sorting things out!
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Posted: 2006-10-15 13:35:42
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A chap over in another forum said that he got a Voda update done at the SE stand at the smartphone show - he's now got:
Phone: CXC162037 R7A001
Bluetooth: CXC162058 R4F01
Organiser: CXC162036 R3B01
CDA: CDA162008/91 R3A01
Hooray!
So I got back on the phone to Voda... only took 20 mins this time to get someone knowing what I was talking about, after a couple of attempted fob-offs of course
I was told that Vodafone do not want to use SEUS. I don't know why really, again I was talking to a customer services rep to-ing and fro-ing with the tech team so couldn't get a straight answer on that, but they don't want to.
I was told my options are to take it to either a Vodafone store with a service centre or an SE-approved service centre (who we hope has the VF firmware!) and they'll update it, or take it to any Vodafone store who will send it off to get updated - but that will take up to 7 days!
I don't know if there's any point in everyone phoning up to whinge - it seemed pretty clear cut that they don't want to use SEUS and I don't know if 50 customers lodging a complaint will do anything about that.
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Posted: 2006-10-18 15:43:39
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Presumably it's because an SEUS update would delete the Vodafone startup screen and other Vodafone "souvenirs" they've left dotted around the menus?
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Posted: 2006-10-18 16:12:51
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Nope... they could put their Vodafone-branded version of the firmware on SEUS, then when SEUS detects we've got VF models it'll give us that one as opposed the the SE one (or the nothing it gives us now).
It would of course be released on SEUS a bit later than the SE vanilla version, but still quicker than going to your local service centre. If you've got one. I don't, within 2 hours drive, so its looking like 7 days. Pah.
Might actually lodge a complaint with VF anyway because I am annoyed.
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Posted: 2006-10-18 16:28:18
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