Sunday, January 24, 2010

Few Bugs Noticed on 5800XM V40 firmware...

Yup... I noticed a few bugs already... but all are minor in my opinion... except one that could shorten the life span of a component...

1. While charging, sometimes they dont dim and put out the LCD backlight. I need to unlock and leave it there so that the autoguard will take care of the dimming and putting out the backlight... This most likely to happen when you put in the charger while the phone is already locked...

2. The lock release backlighting back came back... What I mean is, let's say the phone's lock and screen is black... then you pull out the charger so the backlight comes on to show a notification... then when you immediately unlock ur phone it will goes dark... then u'll have to lock it again and unlock it again... this bug was partially fixed on V31 where it doesn't always happen except with accessory putting in or out...

3. The phone perfoms sluggishly at startup... seems to be like the new home screen hogging most of the resources while starting up... but after a while, it works faster than before... touch response has improved... more sensitive... handwriting recognition is a little bit better than before but still a pain in the ass... ouh, handwriting got it's own bug actually... they sometimes can select and overwrite the previous text...

4. Yup, the new home screen is great... but the contact bar doesn't response to sliding in manner... sometimes they misintrepret the slide as a click... it's slightly painful to use that feature...

5. This isn't really a bug... but it's a very big problem to us user of 5800XM now... the protection has improved too much and now it can't be hacked... and i think somehow they got a list of blacklisted supplier of apps... so, certain cracked software can't be installed... still not sure how to overcome this... but yeah, it's a pain in the a$$...

I sux bad tonite...

as we all know, 5800XM is a very buggy phone... thus, before the comes of v40 I had a very bad experience with all the bugs in the phone... But I dont bother to do anything about it since it won't solve anything... ironic isn't it??? doing nothing to solve everyhting... hahahaha...

anyway, my phone has accumulated some problems although not major yet annoying the eye looking upon it... two icons of the same apps... this all because of few updates done by the nokia...

so, since I already update to new firmware i guess a hard reset would be good to identify new bugs and solved bugs... hard reset is a pretty much like a process where you format your phone and re-install the OS... literally, it's returning the phone to factory setting...

anyway, since I want a fresh restart I also want to format the memory card... so, I made some backup on my important files on the phone... and guess what??? I though I backed up everything, yet I dont... I lose my videos, South Park Season 13, and my work folders (which contains my CV...) and this is totally sucks...

Silly me, I though I backed up everything... EVERYTHING!!!! yet everything's gone... arrrgggghhhhhhh.... and i'm actually stressed out... since all those data is actually from my crashed SATA HDD... stupid stupid stupid...

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Nokia 5800XM Received Its Major Update!!!!

Yeahhhhh... The long awaited firmware update from Nokia!!!!! The best feature update from Nokia for it's most famous handphone, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic numbered as V40.0.005...

As we all know, most 5800XM user have been dreaming for Kinetic Scrolling when all other Nokia's touch screen phone have this feature. Even with same hardware spec as other Nokia's touch screen phone (including N97) but being the first touch screen phone seems to be like Nokia made this phone as their experiments with new Symbian S60V5 Platform...

Coming along side by side with Kinetic Scrolling in this firmware update is also the long awaited new Home Screen... New Home Screen now features shortcuts bar accomodating 4 shortcut at the bottom and Contact Bar on the above of the home screen... Now we can put in more than 4 (max 20 if i'm not mistaken, correct me) contacts and we now can scroll through the contact bar... However, I dont really like the response we have on the contact bar... But, something is better than nothing... it's useful, just need to get used to it...

If you open ur music player, there'll be a widget with player control on the home screen... Other than seeing what song is playing, now you also can control your music on the home screen...



All these home screen features is pretty much like an extract to 5530... None of the bug list can be confirmed yet although there's a few rumours on big bugs fooling around with the firmware but all seems to be about the memory card... Still need to be confirmed on this...

Anyway, this is a big step for us, 5800XM user... Even though Kinetic Scrolling did not cover all parts of the phone, however most of long list part in the phone have Kinetic Scrolling now... Along side of new home screen and kinetic scrolling, these are listed as changes also:-

* Kinetic scrolling everywhere except: main menu, application menu, browser;
* Home style widget with Nokia 5530;
* QWERTY Keyboard Auto Rotation (on text input screens);
* Refresh Icons “Sharing Online”, “Configuring Accessories”, “Configure Phone”;
* New screen alarm, but only when the screen is locked;
* Improved application “Updating Applications”, which also renames Upgrade SW;
* The application “Data transfer” was also implemented in “Settings”;
* Real Player Updated to 12 October 2009;
* Ovi Contacts installed;
* Removed Download! (Ovi Store still available)
* Touch more responsive;
* Improved stability;
* Slide to Unlock during call
* New contact & music widget.
* New screen alarm, but only when the screen is locked.
* New screen incoming call, also only when the screen is locked.

This latest update is now available via Nokia Software Updater (NSU) or On The Air (OTA) update...

Credit to: DailyMobile.se and Techie-Buzz

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Ending My Hiatus...

Yeahhhh.... it's been, errrr... is it ok if I'm saying I'm ending my hiatus??? it's only been few weeks... hahahaha... well, at least 2 weeks have passed since my last entry... just now I have a decent working laptop...

well, since last time my laptop got burned and the repair cost is more than 1k, I fetched my old laptop from home (for those who knows, yeah it's my Hyundai M-Life). This laptop have been giving it's best service since 2005 till 2010... five years already...

however, past few weeks since I get this laptop I've been stuggling to use this laptop as it can never give me the response I needed... I'm mad, I'm crazy, bebel xtentu hala, the only thing left to do is running outside and scream "aku gillleeeeeeeeeeeeeee" XD

Imagine this, even with classic theme it takes almost 1 minutes just to open a browser... My Computer takes nearly 30seconds... crazy rite??? At first I thought it was Windows consuming too much resources, but heck after I tried Ubuntu Karmic Koala thing gets even worse... it even hang up in the Ubuntu environment... stupid fella... then I figured my Mozilla Firefox is taking too much resources in Windows, then I tried Google Chrome... hell yeah, it gets a little bit better... however, things still stuck and slowly response to my every request...

well, then I figured... New version of softwares is all optimized for two-cores CPU while my laptop is single core Pentium M 1.6GHz... it never catch up with new software....

Thanks to filehippo.com, they still keep old software installers in their server... so, I downloaded old Mozilla Firefox, old YM8, and old Skype 2.5... all softwares are dated back up to 3 years back... hahahahahahahaha... Now, everything works like charm... no more slow response, no more hiccups...

Things Done:
= Remove IE8
= Remove Google Chrome
= Remove YM 9
= Remove Skype 3.8
= Install Mozilla Firefox 2.0
= Install Skype 2.5
= Install YM 8

Laptop Spec:
= Intel Pentium M 1.6GHz
= 256MB DDR RAM
= 40GB HDD

Lesson Learned:
= With such spec, dont even dream big to use latest software... They dont help no matter how fast they claim their software is... XD

Sunday, January 3, 2010

My laptop is pronounced dead....

Ok, right now i'm writing from my phone. My laptop refused to turn on. Giving me headache.

Arrgggghhhhhhhh......