Comments on: Nokia N97 v20 Firmware: A Hands-On Experience

By: inspectagadgets

inspectagadgets — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:34:30 +0000

Also, if you get a missed call or text the call and call end (red and green buttons at the bottom of the phone) light up when the phone is on standby.

By: inspectagadgets

inspectagadgets — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:34:30 +0000

Also, if you get a missed call or text the call and call end (red and green buttons at the bottom of the phone) light up when the phone is on standby.

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By: yitwave

yitwave — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:22:46 +0000

My camera glass isn't scratched so they're not willing to fix that (obviously because there really isn't a proven problem) but they're checking on the GPS and apparently they will have it fixed by replacing the "main board" of the phone.

Obviously, if your GPS is fine (some are) then there's nothing to fix, but my N97 hardly locks at all, so i'm sure there's a problem.

Tell them your problem and if it warrants a fix i'm sure you'd get it fixed.

By: CC

CC — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:21:35 +0000

omg i went to the nokia care centre and i asked about the camera lens issue and gps they couldn't even bother!! they were like”oh this is how its built” …..Where did u go to get urs fixed?

By: yitwave

yitwave — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:01:54 +0000

I was at Nokia Care yesterday (to get the GPS fixed, which apparently will take 3 days) and enquired about the V20 firmware for the N97. Apparently, the original unbranded english version has been completed and distributed for localization. The localized versions however are not yet available.

It completely makes sense for Nokia to launch the V20 firmware for the whole world (and all the different localizations) at the same time, and there's no real benefit to have this available before the Mini officially becomes available.

I'm afraid it would probably be closer to the end of the month and a few weeks later for the branded phones.

By: huhuha

huhuha — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:36:34 +0000

thanks for that hint about the browser cache

with nokia email (not nokia messaging, which is now available on software update) i hadn't any problems…

i will try this things out! thanks a lot:)

By: Gene

Gene — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:24:54 +0000

Actually, after v12, I'm much closer to coming to grips with my N97. It's actually alot more stable than my N95-3 now - it used to crash randomly whenever I try streaming things out from the memory card.

A couple of hints that helped me though:
- Run the hack that changes BrowserNG's cache location to mass storage (please google N97 change browser cache location)
- remove Facebook app and APIBridge
- don't use Nokia Email
After doing these few simple fixes, I haven't needed to pull the battery out or reset the phone due to wonkiness in days.
The Facebook app seems to be the big culprit for me, as it uses that funky APIBridge module, which seems to hang once in a while, and I can't even kill it in Handy Taskman when it hangs. That's when I know things will go south.

I've stopped using Nokia Email as I can't set the location of the mailboxes right now. They really need to fix that. I like some of the basic features on it, w/o resorting to Profimail.

But I also see that for my phone, RAM leak mainly occurs when using Music Player over Bluetooth A2DP. So can't really isolate if it's the BT stack, the audio driver, or Music Player itself. But that combo really kills RAM.

Figured out a funny way to recover RAM as well - Close all apps, open BrowserNG, then open a huge web page (IGN.com and Flickr full website are my favorite) that forces Symbian to close up processes and clear the RAM. After I close BrowserNG, I found that I have a little more (~5-7MB) free RAM than before opening it up.

Hope that helps holding you guys over until V20. That firmware can't come soon enough.

By: VincePhotograhy

VincePhotograhy — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:14:07 +0000

I did hard reset, even used NSU to reload the firmware, ist still s*cks, even my 3year old 2G iPhone works better.