Archive for March, 2008

Firmware 21.0.016 is now available

Friday, March 28th, 2008

This firmware is now available via the Nokia Software Updater.
It might not be in place for all regions just yet, I’ll be trying mine tonight or tomorrow so I’ll report back then.

Most interesting features for this release are:
# Flash Lite 3 is included, so Flash video sites will work, including YouTube (just as on the N95 8GB v15 firmware from a couple of months ago)
# The Web runtime is included, meaning that standalone widgets are now possible
# Greater Bluetooth headset compatibility
# Better handling of entering lots of text into web page dialogs
# Speedier Gallery in every way
# Faster Java runtime, so Java apps start faster

Zyb, social networking comes to your mobile

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

I’m generally not a big fan of social networking websites. I don’t use facebook or myspace and probably never will.
I saw this website mentioned in a comment that someone left here at MyN95 and figured it might have some value.
The one benefit this site appears to have is it will allow you to backup the contents of your phone. This might make
life easier when it comes time to try and restore your data to another phone. Perhaps after a firmware update.

Now I haven’t registered and tried this site or its features, but I figured there are enough of you out there that might
want to give it a go. As usual leave any feedback in the comments section.

The website to visit is http://zyb.com/

Firmware 21.0.016 to be released soon.

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Symbian Freak annouced that  Firmware 21.0.016 for the N95 is going to be released shortly in the next few days.
http://www.symbian-freak.com/quides/firmware/logs/new_n95_firmware_v21_change_log.htm

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Changes/improvements made from
MCU SW v 20.0.015 to v 21.0.016
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*New features: *

* Flash Lite 3 support added
* Widget (Web runtime) support added
* Default year changed to 2008

*Improvements*:

* General stability improvements.
* Pre-defined access point kept after switching to different type
SIM card.
* Localization improvements.
* Standby time improvements.
* Improvements to BT headset interoperability.
* Improvement to Calendar data restoring.
* Switch from landscape to portrait mode & screen rotations
improvements.

*Browser*:

* Improvement to long text writing to web page text boxes.
* Browsing from WLAN wizard improvement.

*Media Player*:

* Localizations improvements in Music player.
* Windows Media Player recognizes device as Nokia N95.

*Gallery*:

* Image rotation improvement in album view.
* Gallery & Slideshow performance improvements.

*Messaging*:

* Improvement to SMS reception.

*Java*:

* Midlet installation improvement.
* Improvement to Java application start.
* Java midlet certificate checking improvement.

*Navigation*:

* General improvements to Maps application.
* Localization correction to Search in Maps application.
* Improvement to Navigate To ?function when started from search
application.

*SIM*:

* Contact names with accents and more than 11 characters can be
copied to SIM card.

Nokia N95 1gb micro sd

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
My N95 seems to no longer want to have anything to do with my micro SD card, and since i didnt back up my files often enough im left unable to view the recent photos i have taken. The card seemed to get worse over the last three weeks, but by removing and inserting it the card would read fine, now though it wont read at all.

I havent ahd a chance to test it in another N95 yet, but i tried it in a card reader and it was a no show.

Im guessing the card has become corrupt, but has anyone had similar problems with the 1gb card that comes packaged with the phone?