fernando’s blag

Man I really dislike it, bugs came back, the benefits are negligeble, and the only new cool thing is a new theme (in my opinion).

Let’s see the changelog:

• Nokia Maps 2.0 built-in
• Full N-Gage client
• Nokia Search 4.0 with Google plug-in
• Share online 3.0
• Enablers for Comes With Music
• Download! application updated (v 3.1.50)
• Upgrade to Music Player
• Update for Flash Lite 3 (improved viewing of sites like YouTube)
• Current consumption improvements (for e.g. WLAN scanning)
• New baseline for VoIP (with significant error corrections)

Now my complains

• Nokia Maps 2.0 built-in (old version already, you can download a newer build on europe.nokia.com/maps)
• Full N-Gage client (comes installed in drive C: instead of Z: (rom), negating any space saving. besides that, it is already obsolete too, since 5230 and N96’s version (1.10) is available to download)
• Nokia Search 4.0 with Google plug-in (still slow and useless, not the new firmware’s fault really, plus is occupies 2 lines of active standby now, weird)
• Share online 3.0 (as it comes in Z:, I can’t remove C:/sys/bin/SOActiveIdle.dll, to get rid of the standby shortcut. Again not really a firmware fault UPDATE 3: found a solution)
• The camera buttons bug is back. When the backlight goes out, the gallery and volume/zoom keys flash blue. This bug was solved back in firmware V12.)
• Menu is bugged out, showing it’s icon, leaving less space to apps’ icons. (see screenshot below)
• Auto screen rotation is slow, as with other Nseries, Samir’s rotateMe is better (not that I use it that much, just for turning the screen 180 degrees)

I haven’t really noticed the improvements to the music player/flash lite/battery life, but I guess it’s too soon. Anyway, I expect a V31 firmware soon.

Screenshots via AAS

UPDATE:

Found a difference in the Music Player, the controls are now blue instead of green:

Compare with V20

There is a new option under configurations in the connection settings (because I’m sure Configurations was the last one):

And the last change, is that the display rotation that happens when you open the multimedia slider got slower (!). Now it’s open, wait a second, then the display rotates. The same speed as auto rotate.

I think I’ll make a video to show the new speed, but it’s very annoying.

UPDATE 2:

Someone found a way to get rid of the menu icon, only until a restart, but still. This, as random as it seems, works.

And another change I noticed, they removed the transitions option (which didn’t work) from V21 firmware:

This option isn’t available anymore on V30. (Not that it did anything)