All visible updates I noticed in one screenshot.

Early this morning, reports of a new Nokia 5800 firmware echoed through the internets. I thought I’d wait until it’s confirmed hackeable, as I always do. But after a couple conflicting reports I decided to try for myself. OTA firmware update, same experience as V21.

• First impression: if you get an endless rebooting phone, take out the memory card. That fixed it for me, and I can reboot normally now. (It was scary as heck though.)
• The keypad and contacts app shortcuts on the homescreen are a lighter gray, as of V1x instead of the darker gray they were on V2x.
• Same for the number keys inside the keypad app.
• The My Nokia icon (shown above in the first shortcut slot) was updated. (I think :P)
• Adjusting the music player’s volume is MUCH more responsible, the volume slider appears on tapping the album artwork area, and the volume slider now appears in the homescreen when you press the volume keys.
• Was that log bug that every entry showed up as a mobile icon still around? If so, it’s fixed now.
• Supposedly there’s a new messaging plugin for the homescreen. Apparently it requires a hard reset to show up though, and I’m not resetting my phone! :P
• My patches (installserver and open4all) are still working.

Can’t say anything for UI speed or free ram, as those are subjective/can vary a lot depending on what you have installed.

Post will be updated if I find a reliable changelog or if I notice anything else or if I decide to suck it up and hard reset the phone.

First OTA firmware update I install ever! Took a screenshot of the installation process too.

Yaaaay.

Now for the alleged change log that’s been floating around, seems pretty accurate, so it must be true.

Following BUGS are fixed,

• Lock code does not work after FOTA update
• Logs: Info cannot be seen in missed calls if name includes special characters
• The envelope icon doesn’t open after reading the sms
• Autolock requested via MfE but not activated
• MPX harvester server crash with DRM files
• Oper. menu application icon missing after NSU update
• CDP Displays: CDP Clock and Data Have To Be Transmitted 2 Frames Before Sleep Out (SLPOUT 11h) Command
• “Program closed: Idle” after Restoring factory settings
• Video telephone: Phone reboots after tap call button several times when answer an incoming video call
• Music Player crashes when user tries to refresh Real audio into Music library
• Dialer: The cursor is not displayed in dialer panel
• Audio disappears after playing music long time with BT
• Music player the album art in Now Playing view is downscaled
• Access point password is not provisionable
• Voice commands application crashes after language change
• Synchronization cannot be done using PC Suite Sync application
• FL3.0: Inline Text editing from browser plugin is not successful
• Browser does not show some MIME-types of type image correctly
• Browser: Not possible to move the cursor when typing in a <textarea> field
• Browser: Page scroll wobbles if user scrolls with flash while page is in scroll motion
• Browser: Page does not scroll if drag is started from the edge of flash window
• Browser: Page scroll does not work after stopping going to new page opened via flash banner
• Bluetooth causing extra current consumption when activated
• Predictive search not working properly in country selection
• Music Player application crashes if album art is selected to be changed
• Duplicate contacts after restore
• Music Player: White screen displayed if change orientation between landscape and portable mode
• MO/MT calls will not work when restoring backup from old phone to more recent version

NEW FEATURES AND APPLICATIONS

• Notification Lights according to Nokia Design specification
• Touch usability improvements:
  • Finger touch support for Special Character Table
  • Size of arrows (tab pane & navi pane) in touch UI
  • Arrows in forms, date & time selection, touch UI
  • Profile, date area in touch UI
• Calendar Finger usability: change single row list items in day view wider
• Screen does not dim when rotated, with theme effects on, hence the snappier UI.

I can confirm that the album art in the music player is a decent size again, those little arrows’ on the top had their hitbox size increased (yay!) and that there is a new special character table:

Neat! Now to hard reset and see if I pick anything else.

Anyway, with the installation behind me, yes, the new firmware is awesome, fast (finally leaving the transitions on is worth it!) they fixed a lot of those blue default S60 icons (yay!), a new app updater, new dictionary (yay!), and etc…

But that, folks, is the true new awesomeness. I ranted so much (so much!) about the active standby before. And they finally heard me.

Thank you Nokia. Thank You.

Update 1: New positioning settings icon with a map and a wrench. I totally called it last post! :D

Update 2: Hmm, seems WordPress 2.7.1 messed up with K2, sorry if the site looks wonky.

Via AAS. Impressions from the comments on the interwebs mention the following changes:

• Anti-hacking measures
• New weird bug that mixes english with whatever language you selected for phones with changed product code (don’t know how that’d happen, but it’s the word on the street.)
• Bold application names on the menu. (As seen on the Bluetooth, Kreat. WLAN on the screenshot above.
• Preinstalled N-Gage games.

So I’ll skip it for now, after a changelog or after it’s found out to be hackeable I’ll install it.

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)