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I didnt have to pay anything for the update at R's either, and I have now restored my pre-update backup successfully with no problems at all. The new firmware is great!
I have noticed an improvement in the image quality on the camera, the delivery reports are there, as is the night mode for the camera and the widescreen viewing options on both pictures and video which is very cool.
My GPRS seems to have sped up a fair bit as well, pages loading a lot quicker. Now all that remains to be seen is whether they fixed the MMS bug or not....
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Posted: 2003-04-16 19:46:00
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joneill18, what version of pc suite are using? There is a post on my-symbian that you cant restore backups from the latest version 1.4.2 to R2D
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Posted: 2003-04-16 20:11:00
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This is the email that I sent to R's electrics so seems odd that they have written that its chargeable and yet some people on here have done theirs and not been charged.....
--- service wrote:
> From: "service"
> To: "xxxxxxxx"
> Subject: Re: software version P800
> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 17:24:35 +0100
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> it is available
> upgrades are charged at £17.63
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "xxxxxxxxx"
> To:
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 12:37 PM
> Subject: software version P800
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>
> > Hi
> >
> > R2A for SEP800
> >
> > I have heard conflicting stories - Is the new
> firmware
> > available and are you charging for it?
> >
> > Regards
> > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Posted: 2003-04-16 20:11:00
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To the person who stated he can't understand why people are getting annoyed at having to re-install software after an upgrade, it is because this is shitty design. I have had a Nokia 9110 and XDA and all have been flash upgraded, but I have never had to do anything other than restore a backup, which is exactly how it should be.
Flashing a ROM and then having to reinstall apps as the restore would overwrite files is just plain bad design. Period.
Simon
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Posted: 2003-04-16 20:21:00
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@NikNak
I was one of the people who upgraded my P800 and my old t68 :lol at R's today (Wednesday). I had never bothered to upgrade my t68!
Both upgrades were definitely FREE !!
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Posted: 2003-04-16 21:05:00
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I've restored from a backup with no problems. Used the PC Suite 1.3.1, which gives backup version 1.4.3
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Posted: 2003-04-16 21:49:00
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No SE service point near me & CPW won't do my P800 because its Orange Brand
Sent it off to Celestica today (SE Central Service Centre) will leave feedback when it comes back.
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Posted: 2003-04-16 21:59:00
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fyi no need to reinstall apps. i just restored phone memory after the upgrade and everything was fine. only glitch was having to re-enter email account settings.
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Posted: 2003-04-16 22:01:00
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Just to confirm, the "Royal Air Force"
has the new software available for free. We had expected a lot of traffic, but except for Brimme and a few other people no "R2A" rush at all. So at the end we were able to flash most of the stock p800's as well. This is not how it should be. People from the Amsterdam area, visit us
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On 2003-04-16 15:06, force67 wrote:
How come people are saying SE are upgrading the firmware today?
I have just been into an official service point and watched the guy dial in to the emma 2 server are get the latest version, which was R1G.
He then called a friend in technical support who also said the latest version was R1G.
J
Maybe the guy performed and "offline" update, it doesn't show the new SW then. Ask him to do an "online" flash, the EMMA2 computer should sniffle for the latest version then, otherwise it just takes the version that's already on the harddrive. Not quite sure about this actually, we always do online flash. Any ideas Cytech?
[ This Message was edited by: markymark on 2003-04-16 21:32 ]
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Posted: 2003-04-16 22:25:00
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I actually should have had mine upgraded today too,..but there seems to be some problems,...we tried with two P800's,..and got error-messages on both !
We did the upgrade offline,..had just downloaded it from EMMAII site, so this should not be an issue.
And batteries were fully charged on both phones.
A friend of mine got his upgraded today at another service point, and his upgrade went great.
So I dont really know what the problem is,..will just have to try another day/next week.
regards
Jan
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Posted: 2003-04-16 22:42:00
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