Dunno how this has not been posted on TE yet. But for the N96, N85 & N79 owners, this is huge!! After nearly 5 months of waiting, the next iteration of FP2 is out. No more buggy & half baked OS. V20 is out, bringing not just bug fixes and improvements, but also new features!
I have updated my N85 by changing the product code to EURO1.
Observations :
* Turning Controls for Sensor : Silence Calls or Snooze the Alarm just by flipping the phone over! This feature was first introduced with 5800, but now has been added to all the three phones. Works like a charm :hap2:
* Active Standby Email Plugin - Finally Nokia realised that N series user's aren't dumb, and need some productive features too! You can set any email account in the default messaging client or the Nokia Messaging/Email client to be displayed on the active standby. There's also an option to just display the new mail counter, not the message details. Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! or any Pop3/IMAP account, it can be anything!
* All the "Download crap" bookmark folders from the [COLOR=#00c800 !important][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][COLOR=#00c800 !important][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]browser[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] have been deleted.
* The download apps bookmark from the App. Manager has been deleted.
* After updating, the special [COLOR=#00c800 !important][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][COLOR=#00c800 !important][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]icons[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] for Music & Utilities folders were lost. Reset brought them back.
* The Download! app has been updated. No idea why.
* Dictionary has been added. Great for travellers, as it is primarily a two language dictionary.
* Phone number along with Contact's name - On incoming calls, the phone number of the caller is also displayed along with the name of the contact.
* Share Online 4 : SO has been updated to v4. For some strange reason, they decided to use the fugly E71/66 icons in this app! You can remove the active standby plugin for SO from it's settings now.
* Video Center's icon has also been changed.
* The keypad is now lighted even if the phone is put on charging.
For the N96, the update is even more important. Adds Audio Themes, Slide Handling etc.
Links :
N96 : Nokia N96 firmware updated to v20.050
Nokia N96 gets a Firmware update to v20.050 | ZOMG its Cj
Nokia N79 and Nokia N85 firmware upgraded to v20.175
Changelog for N79 : N85 e N79: disponibile il nuovo firmware 20.175 : Spaziocellulare News Magazine
I have updated my N85 by changing the product code to EURO1.
Observations :
* Turning Controls for Sensor : Silence Calls or Snooze the Alarm just by flipping the phone over! This feature was first introduced with 5800, but now has been added to all the three phones. Works like a charm :hap2:
* Active Standby Email Plugin - Finally Nokia realised that N series user's aren't dumb, and need some productive features too! You can set any email account in the default messaging client or the Nokia Messaging/Email client to be displayed on the active standby. There's also an option to just display the new mail counter, not the message details. Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! or any Pop3/IMAP account, it can be anything!
* All the "Download crap" bookmark folders from the [COLOR=#00c800 !important][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][COLOR=#00c800 !important][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]browser[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] have been deleted.
* The download apps bookmark from the App. Manager has been deleted.
* After updating, the special [COLOR=#00c800 !important][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][COLOR=#00c800 !important][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]icons[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] for Music & Utilities folders were lost. Reset brought them back.
* The Download! app has been updated. No idea why.
* Dictionary has been added. Great for travellers, as it is primarily a two language dictionary.
* Phone number along with Contact's name - On incoming calls, the phone number of the caller is also displayed along with the name of the contact.
* Share Online 4 : SO has been updated to v4. For some strange reason, they decided to use the fugly E71/66 icons in this app! You can remove the active standby plugin for SO from it's settings now.
* Video Center's icon has also been changed.
* The keypad is now lighted even if the phone is put on charging.
For the N96, the update is even more important. Adds Audio Themes, Slide Handling etc.
Links :
N96 : Nokia N96 firmware updated to v20.050
Nokia N96 gets a Firmware update to v20.050 | ZOMG its Cj
N85 & N79 -Changes/Improvements/New features/Bugs noticed from v12.043 to v20.050
New Features
Improvements
- Email:
- Nokia Email client and Mail for Exchange (MfE) preloaded (User will install and configure email clients with the help of Settings Wizard)
- Settings Wizard 5.0: offers improvements for Nokia Email and MfE setup
- Active Standby Email Plug-in: showing new email messages on Active Standby screen
- Look & Feel:
- Support for Audio Themes: configurable sounds for various events e.g. opening/closing slide, battery low etc
- Setting to allow a slideshow to be used as wallpaper
- Slide handling: Setting to allow user to configure effect opening/closing the slide has on a call and keylock
- Others:
- WiFi Protected Setup is now supported, allowing simplified setup of WLAN security with a supported WLAN access point
- Support of IAD (Independent Application Delivery): Allows certain applications to be updated independently over the air.
- Correction for occasional CMLA (Content Management License Administrator) certificate corruption. (These certificates are needed for e.g. Mobile TV and N-Gage license purchases)
- Energy management:
- Shorter lights/screen timeout when lockswitch activated. Backlight dims as soon as keylock is enabled
- Media Keys surrounding the rocker key lit only if a media application is open
- Right Softkey changed from “Hide†to “Exit†for Music Player for EM savings
- Photos/Camera/Imaging:
- A number of improvements made to the Camera image quality
- The device SW version information is now stored in the image MetaData
- Default recording quality for video is changed from ‘TV normal’ to TV high’
- Noise reduction of recorded videos
- Media/DRM:
- New version of Music player: Performance and “Comes With Musicâ€-related improvements
- FlashLite update for improved YouTube compatibility – improvements in rendering of Flash Video
- General Media player &streaming related usability & performance improvements
- OMA DRM v2 content can use device clock if no secure clock (i.e. NITZ) is available
- Browser:
- Empty bookmark folders removed from Browser bookmarks (i.e. the “Download…†folders)
- Link to Ovi.mobi is included in Browser bookmarks
- Others:
- Vibra enabled when charging
- When gaming in landscape mode, stereo audio will be played through correct speakers
- Updated Themes
- Slide triggered keyguard activation: When closing the slide, pressing any key within 2 seconds will result in keylock not being activated
- Several error corrections based on Care and operator feedback
- Several application baseline updates
Nokia N79 and Nokia N85 firmware upgraded to v20.175
Changelog for N79 : N85 e N79: disponibile il nuovo firmware 20.175 : Spaziocellulare News Magazine
The changelog for n85 has not been released yet.Bugs fixed:
New Features:
- Cannot display sim contact on U-Sim (1000 contact sim card) when switch another UI language
- Dialing 110 customer care phone redirect the call to be an EMERGENCY CALL
- Music plays in speaker when receive sms under silent mode
- Smartone foneTV video not restore after end MT call
- Audio is improperly routed from headset to speaker when receiving a SMS message
- Phone hang during accessing Nokia Maps application in SW 11.049
- Cant access sim card contacts
- Can’t input Chinese character “ä¸â€ by stroke input
- Themes: Audio Themes, when select Nokia - “Several sound files Missing†appears
SW improvements and corrections:
- Bookmarks updated to remove Download link folders
- MTP configuration to enable Social Cinema support
- TARM in 3.2 based devices
- Email plug-in functionality
- 7-bit encoding of Turkish characters in SMS
- TP Wizard to check availability of Nokia email service
- Media player default settings changes
- 2 New vanilla CTRs, called: EGYPT NO-GPS (releases MEA datapackage)
- 2 new codes : SYRIA NO-GPS (releases MEA datapackage)
- Memory card ID change for Indonesia CTR’s. was MC001 and changed to –> MC002
- Update Bookmarks for China PRC Vanilla Core SW
- Files on Ovi Widget
- S60 3.2 based devices - Making Gimlet visible in Settings Wizard selection
- Turn “PnP Mobile Services†On
- S&S Application updates
- MPX player not accessible when USB cable connected
- Active Idle
- Search & WLAN information difficult to read in Active Idle.
- Active Idle screen becomes blank in landscape mode.
- Default Active Idle shortcuts configured.
- Active Idle going dead after quickly accepting and rejecting an incoming video call.
- White boxes shown on the screen while doing orientation change quickly in idle mode.
- Application Manager
- The sis file which is installed to MoviNand or SD card cannot be seen in application manager.
- Wrong Feature Manager flag used for seamless link functionality.
- Flashlite sis installation is not successful in the first attempt.
- Application Update
- Unable to upgrade graphic icons in Media Player / Media Settings via sis file.
- Unable to upgrade ROM based UI application by installing new version to memory card.
- Application Update self-update never completes.
- Upgrade of BrowserAudioVideoPlugin.rsc via sw installation is not possible.
- Upgrade of Connection Manager via sw installation is not possible.
- Audio Performance
- Tunings improvements for IHF audio.
- Keypad tones cannot be tuned for IHF.
- Auto-Rotate
- UI Accelerator toolkit (Hitchcock/Alfred) stub file missing.
- Locking keys and then opening camera reveal confuses orientation sensor.
- Disable orientation in alarm ringing, incoming call and semi active state.
- Panic after orientation change.
- Bluetooth
- Bluetooth headset disconnects when Wireless Keyboard is disconnected from the phone automatically.
- Phone panics when changing views in Bluetooth menu while choosing the last connected device from paired view.