N82 v30 Firmware woes
Remember the v30 firmware that came out for the N82 a couple weeks ago ? Well, after much hesitation, I finally “upgraded” to it yesterday night. Boy, I sure shouldn’t have. All I got was a whole bunch of new problems that were non-existent before.
Firstly, my “Switch” Application refuses to start now. A quick Google search later seems to reveal and it is a common bug in v30 that I’m now stuck with.
Second, my Camera now does not work. It loads the Camera application’s UI but the “Xenon Flash charging” icon keeps blinking and it doesnt actually display anything out of the UI. So I cant take pictures or videos or anything that has to do with the camera.
Third, I cant backup my phone data with PC Suite anymore. It tries to backup everything, but eventually fails at “Model Specific backup” and when I tried to restore that data (such as my contacts and messages) onto my other phone, PC Suite couldnt “find” any “data” in that Backup file, that PC Suite said it backed up my N82 onto. And this was the same situation on all 4 attempts I tried. I have yet to try backing up with Ovi Sync.
Lastly, the “Search: Internet and My Content” plugin on the active standby homescreen now takes TWO lines ! Wth? Why was there any need to change that ? It was perfectly legible before. And on a screen as small as the N82‘s … Honestly ?! It looks so incredibly awkward and ugly now. I just cant explain how annoying it is.
Now I’m not saying this will happen to you if you update your N82, but I am saying that it might. Whether you choose to upgrade your N82 to v30 is your choice, but I really didnt find any major changes after I upgraded.
I just handed my N82 over to Nokia’s Customer Care Center here in Udupi. They said the camera issue might be a “loose connection” and that it has happened to several other people before me. I hope thats the case and they dont have to format my phone, because I had noway of making a backup of my data because of my aforementioned problems. If that is the case, its just a coincidence that it happened alongwith my v30 firmware update. I’ll know the status of my N82, hopefully, by the end of the day.
Edit: I just got my N82 back from the service center. The Nokia tech guy said my camera problem was because my “battery was not charged enough”. Which doesnt make sense regarding how :
(a) my battery was fully charged and
(b) I didnt give the service center my battery with my N82. They usually give it back to you along with your memory card and sim, and just keep the handset.
lol so what the heck was he talking about ? I still dont know what the cause of the problem was or if it’ll come back ! Gah !
Oh and “Switch” still doesnt work but thats because I told them not to fiddle with the firmware.
-Teh Cj
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I hope you are able to get a back up of your contacts and messages. Before sending it to Nokia Care again.
Try taking a backup of only the contacts and messages… nothing else and see if it(Sync) is working.
jeesh? i smell a hard reset. hehe…
try reinstalling the firmware. connect it now and re-update to v30. give it a shot..
@Aditya : Still doesnt work unfortunately. And i’ve reinstalled PC Suite twice to no effect so its not a problem with that. Ovi sync and a memory card backup, are my last resorts now lol.
@Aaron : Hehe oh how I hate a reset. Whats the use of UDP on the N82 if you have to format and reinstall everything after an update anyway, right ! lol. But yeah i’m going to try reupdating it to v30 later. Having massive computer troubles right now so its on hold.
Good luck buddy.. Hope you get your phone up and running fine soon
sounds like your firmware files were corrupted this has been known to happen if people are changing there product codes or the files were interrupted during download run the update again and it will say v30.0.019 installed do you wish to repair good luck to you mate hope all works for you and you dont end up with a bricked phone.
hmmm i think im gonna stick to V20. no future plans of upgrading to V30 i guess.
Soon I start to feel N82 is bad…My N82 having some problem as well. It does not start and automatic delete all my contact. the nokia guy told me is software problem. after flash my phone for a few time still problem exist, I told them it might be the internal memory or mainborad haveing problem but they keep saying that maybe battery having problem…….. wht??? battery can cause contact to loss???? funny..
jeesh? i smell a hard reset. hehe…
try reinstalling the firmware. connect it now and re-update to v30. give it a shot..
dude any solution to the camera problem ? I am still stuck with the problem.
Apparently it was a hardware problem with the camera cover switch. You'll have to get it checked out at your nearest Nokia care center.
Apparently it was a hardware problem with the camera cover switch. You'll have to get it checked out at your nearest Nokia care center.