The phrase: Third Time Lucky, couldn’t have been any more apt than it’s for the v1.2 N900 firmware saga. The blogosphere was strife with speculations way back in March, when an exhaustive changelog was posted over at the Maemo Arena.
Then the fire doused for a while, only to re-emerge in early May, with an unofficial release in torrents and other file sharing services. Nokia insisted it was an incomplete release and went on to warn the N900 community against installing this update. Finally laying to rest all the build-up to the v1.2 firmware, Nokia officially announced the availability of the firmware update over “Over The Air” channel, first in UK, followed by phased launches in other parts of the world. I know you have seen the changelog on more than one occasion of this firmware, but those were mostly unofficial compilations. Let’s see what Nokia has to say in their changelog, after the break though. Read the rest of this entry »
Remember that Firmware 1.2 that I posted way back in late March? Looks like there is more to it than the super exhaustive changelog we pulled up from Maemo Talk, for this time there is more evidence of this firmware being actually existing in the Nokia servers. It gets better, a video clip showing the new firmware in action on a N900 has landed on YouTube as well. Isn’t that just what we asked for? Perhaps a public release of the firmware by none other than NSU or OTA could be the elixir we are looking for but in the meantime, you can fire up your favorite torrent client, for a version of this firmware is now available for download (.bin). Catch the download link (for torrent), along with the video and changelog after the break. Read the rest of this entry »
Well, the last couple of days have been attracting a lot of attention from speculators for our dear N900 is all set for another firmware upgrade. Yeah, PR 1.2 is going t o be out soon and though it’s not out yet, screenshots and even the complete changelog have been spotted on the effervescent blogosphere.
While the screenshots and changelog bring a lot of welcome changes: like the all new soft keyboard and customizable menu window, the chances of dual-booting option in view of the MeeGo release due soon is given a miss. There goes early hopes of MeeGo for N900ers, for there are many a changes that are headed the N900 way soon. Eager to know what we are talking about? Catch the story of the break.
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Our friends at Nokia have been keeping up with the good work as evident from the third firmware update for our dear N900s. The fact that the third update comes just a month after the second update goes on to show the commitment from our friends in Espoo in improving the already impressive feature set of the device.
While the official changelog is not out yet, it is highly recommended that you update the firmware as firmware updates generally contain bug fixes and optimizations necessary for functioning of device software. Find out how to update, after the break. Read the rest of this entry »
Looks like the folks at Espoo took my previous post on N900 rather too seriously and are now looking to set things straight with the first firmware update for the N900 (ofcourse, am kidding! The firmware release must have been scheduled weeks before I even thought about my review post).
Nokia have delivered on their promise this time around by sticking to what they claimed in all their N900 ad campaigns. Clutter free (read cable free) Over The Air (OTA) firmware update for N900s in all the regions it has been released so far. The update is rather minor with hardly any noticeable changes and with the Nokia Conversations post claiming the firmware to tighten some nuts and bolts for the Ovi store to fall in place as and when its released (most possibly within the next week).
How to update?
You would have probably seen the exclamatory symbol informing on the available update for your firmware, provided you have connected to the web from your N900 in the last 8-10 hours. If you haven’t try connecting to the web and you should see the notification.
What’s New?
Unfortunately there is nothing to fill in this section for neither me nor any of the other N900ers who have updated to the latest firmware have seen any noticeable additions or improvements on our N900s so far. So whatever the update was, it was mostly related to setting up the OS for the eventual release of Ovi store for Maemo, which is expected to go live anytime from now. So portait mode’s gotta wait till the next firmware update.
It may have been just a couple of days since the N900 was officially released in the US and Italy, but that’s not stopping Nokia from releasing a firmware update to v1.2009.42.11. The 165 MB update is presently available only over NSU and is expected to be made available over OTA in near future.
While there has been no official changelog on the new firmware update yet, early adopters of N900 have reported improved battery life among other tweaks. If you happen to be toying around with a N900, you would probably want to get this latest firmware update from Nokia. There is a catch though: contrary to the recent firmware upgrades from Nokia on their other smartphones, the update to v1.2009.42.11 is known to get rid of all the previous installed applications on N900s. User added files like photos and media files are known to be restored though. So N900ers make sure you backup your devices, before heading to NSU for the update and yeah do drop us a line here and help us compile a changelog for v1.2009.42.11.
The phrase: Third Time Lucky, couldn’t have been any more apt than it’s for the v1.2 N900 firmware saga. The blogosphere was strife with speculations way back in March, when an exhaustive changelog was posted over at the Maemo Arena.
If you check here: http://www.btusers.com.ar/nan/nokia/?productsid=1090319976
You will be able to get the versions available, the product codes form them and you may download the firmware also alternatively if NSU doesn’t work…
Hope you enjoy it!