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Nokia N97
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Basically buttons not doing what they're told to straight away, having to use unlock 3 or 4 times before it actually unlocks, the phone hanging from time to time and having to take battery out to reboot, the photos issue, music player is absolutely awful to use and slow (I have 2k songs loaded, I'm sure I'm below average there)
You really need to update to v11, or v12!I think the predictive text is clumsy to use, it doesn't follow the usual patterns I'm used to, when you type "we" "y3" comes up as the first option for some reason, when you type "a" on its own, the letter that comes up is "c"!
If you type the word 'we' for a five times, it will remember that you have used it, and will make it the first option. Its the first word that appears on my when i type #9 and #3. As the same is when i click #2 once it brings the letter 'A'The punctuation seems to be random.. when you press the "1" key and you accidentally pass the charater you want, you can't (unless I'm mistaken) scroll back through the character options so you have to delete it and start scrolling through them again..
You can press '*' and all the punctuation will appear. If you want to scroll back you can by press the green tick (top left) then you can click previous till go back one or two how many you over pressed. I find the '*' star way is quicker.GPS gets a rare connection, even with assisted gps
I always use it assisted as i have a data addon its not a problem. I h
found a much improvement on the gps going from maps 2.0 to maps 3.0. The later has been with drawn from the n97 at the moment to fix bugs, but you could still download the file from another source on the web.When thumbing through your contacts with the (too skinny) scroll bar on the right of the screen to get the contact you'd like to call, it always jumps back up a page when you release your thumb from the screen. It only seems to be used with the stylus, not a finger or a thumb
I do agree the bar could be wider for use with your thumb. You can just scroll up and down along the contacts without using the scroll bar. You can rub your finger from top to bottom, and repeat, or you can rub from top to bottom and hold your finger there untill reach the right contact. While holding on the screen, you can slide back up a little if you have gone too far.It doesn't make it completely clear which method it's using to access information from the web etc..
"connect to network"
"allow access to network?"
"connection to internet needed"
These options don't let me know if it's wlan or wap it's going to use. One of the setings options to connect is "internet" and it doesn't really tell me if that's going to be via wap or not!
Why doesn't it just use the same terms each time? Such as "Search for WLAN" where you know it's going to connect to the net via wi-fi.
Rant over for the moment!
You can setup the priority you want in Settings>connectivity>Destinations.
If you click 'internet' you can set which you want to connect to first. So put wlan as number one, so when available it will always use that. You will also know when its using wifi due to the little 'antenna' icon on the screen as opposed to a 3G icon.
Wlan icon:
An even clearer way, is to make a new destination. So you can have 'internet' and 'internet 2' for example. (you could call one 3g, and one wlan if you wanted. Then when you launch the web app, the pop-up appears asking you what connection to use, you can scroll the list, and select what ever you want, either 'internet' (3g) or 'internet 2' (wlan)
I find the first way better, as if wlan isnt available it goes straight to 3g automatically without more button clicks needed.
Quite a long reply, but hope that makes things a bit better for you0 -
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If you want to change the product code so you can update to V12 software, download nss: Link
Connect the phone. Click read, you will see the product code, delete it and type (code see below) into the box, then check the box, and click 'write'. Then if you click read again, it should confirm that the code has been changed.
Euro codes RM505
White:0576350
Black: 0570817
Just followed your advice worked fine changed code
Thanks for that.it was just stuck in a continuos loop of restarting after i updated it.
done a quick google search and found a video of the same thing that was wrong with my phone and people left comments on how to fix it.
Hold left shift, spacebar, backspace and the power button and it loads up, but everything was deleted, restored my backup and it was back to normal, new firmware and all.
Same thing happened to mine, followed your advice working perfect now:D
Cheers.0 -
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that's the thing with it, it's brand new, it takes a while to work out all the bugs.I have high hopes for this phone reckon that it will probably take two FW updates for this thing to move along at a comfortable pace. (Plus the fact that I've had to promise that I wouldn't change the phone for a year:D )
people forget what a nightmare the original n95 was when it came out and how much it improved with new firmware updates and then with the n95 8gb and the updated firmwares on that over time.
nokia have done very well to get the v11 and v12 firmwares out so quickly imho. sure i was a bit p*ssed off initially when i got the phone and it was pretty buggy, but i know that it's just not possible to get everything tested to perfection before launch when they're under so much pressure to get the thing into peoples hands.
the n97 v12 fw is already so much better than the launch version and there are already many improvements to the n97 experience as a whole.
personally it's a great phone with a few minor flaws at this stage (if you're on v12) and it's just going to get better and better, as these things always do. this is just the beginning people, keep the faith and ye shall be rewarded muchly in the kingdom of nokia!
oh, and i hope the n900 sucks and the n97 gets to keep its crown, but who knows.
just to add. with the v12 firmware, my lock/unlock issues are 95% fixed, aside from the odd issue. gps is working fine with nokia maps 3, phone is responsive and apps are stable, internet access is fine.
even my bluetooth connection is working properly on my pc since i found out that the n97 favours BT dongles that use the MS BT stack instead of the WIDCOMM one my BT dongle came with. pretty sure that i posted a link to a guide a few pages back too if anyone wants to use BT to sync their phone and email etc.
i'm loving it just as much as the n95 8gb when i first got that and the n95 before that and the n80 before that, but i could no more go back to the n95 8gb now than i could have gone back to the phone before that. always moving forward. 0 -
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