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More on Nokia N95 Firmware 20.0.015

Okay, I finally hunkered down and installed the new Nokia N95 20.0.015 firmware.

Some big changes noticed so far...

Camera post-processing time is ridiculously improved. Now only trailing slightly behind the N82's processing time, at about 2-3 seconds
And dare I say it...Gallery image display time improved. No longer the laggiest part of the N95 experience
N82-ish "processing image" and new autofocus sound added
"Search: Internet and My Content" now permanently affixed to idle screen
Nokia Music Store and N-gage apps added, new Welcome screen is more or less useless
Music Player playlists now wrap around when hitting the up key at the top of the list (or down key at the bottom) (finally)
Faster album art display

My problem with music skipping in the player seems to have been caused by a corrupted memory card. Related to the firmware upgrade? Your guess is as good as mine.

From the comments, it also looks like memory, WLAN, GPS, and battery life have been improved. I can't verify most of these since I don't run a whole lot of power-hungry apps and rarely use WLAN. And the jury's still out on battery life.

One minor annoyance: Nokia Conversation doesn't work correctly with the new firmware:

"Temporarily removed from Nokia Beta Labs. We are investigating the reported SMS sending problems that Conversation may cause to N95 and N95 8GB users (and potentially others). Sorry for inconvenience."

Bah.

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Joe Marshall on November 28, 2007 1:19 PM said...

One thing I noticed, is that the wifi connection is much more reliable than previously.

You'd probably only notice it if you have a rubbish wifi router, and a big house. I can use wifi upstairs reliably now.

Floppy Donkey on November 28, 2007 6:37 PM said...

Gps fix is crazy fast now..... web browser pages load quicker without showing you a bit then disapearing before displaying properly... the web quick view magnifier fades out.

The RAM! RAM RAM RAM! open what you like and leave it open! web doesn't run out.

The right kind of apps close when you hit the red hang up key instead of staying in the background.

You get a three day free trial of Nokia maps...

Improved interface too.

Thank you Nokia.... if only you could make some swish animated screen page change movements to completely p!ss on the iPhone

Hernan Marsili on November 28, 2007 10:39 PM said...

The update is FANTASTIC. The 'smartphone' experience is complete now.

RAM, battery, browsing experience and wifi improvements are the top changes I notice.

Now more MEMORY FULL close some applications message... but, to be fair, some applications went down by itself while browsing. This happened before and still happens. It will be nice if we get some message after closing background applications.

I think Nokia has a little for improvements there...

Ronald on November 29, 2007 5:59 AM said...

I'm having problems connecting to my UPnP media server (Synology 106e). Used to work fine, now I'm getting an error message that the server can't handle the request. Anyone having similar problems?

Otherwise, great update...

xtechx on November 29, 2007 11:11 AM said...

Everything is working great... i love how they took out the multimedia menu when you went to the mm keys.... simply amazing....

over all speed better.. usually with light usage while at work i'd be at 50% off battery after...i still had full when i left work yesterday....still using it he same amount too.... (good bit of music during the day...and wifi)...

better multitasking.... .. just everything...i think this is where they should have bene when they launched the phone tho.....

mohammad on November 29, 2007 5:13 PM said...

I cannot see song name when i use blutooth wireless headset on lcd

Derek on November 30, 2007 11:31 AM said...

NICE update

Sandeep on December 2, 2007 4:10 PM said...

installed the firmware v20.firstly noted that it was more stable. doesn't crash the phone. my phone used to go to a grey screen with all the keypad lights on when using a power hungry app. doesn't happen now.
battery at over 70% after I had surfed the net and tried nav4all and other such apps for a couple of hours at the least.
Just beautiful! and wish Nokia would have done this earlier.
Oh btw read somewhere that the auto-rotate on camera might not work. anyone heard of this problem? works on mine tho :d.

Marc on December 3, 2007 6:11 PM said...

hmmm lost the map tracking function, and a few other functions like the converter and so on. Seems ok but i think we are missing something here

Marc on December 3, 2007 6:12 PM said...

lost the map tracking w t f is that about come on lads damn also lost allot more features

Randy on December 4, 2007 7:54 AM said...

Ive just installed the new firmware and love it.. One thing I did notice is that you cant add pictures to contacts, it just gives out the known "theres no memory, close something" error. :(

But, other then that.. it looks cool.

flemming Mørch on December 27, 2007 1:45 PM said...

Hi
I also updated to new N95
firmware version , and found that the map tracking function was removed .To Nokia: Please Include this function again in next version
thanks
Regards
Flemming Mørch

Andy on February 23, 2008 6:25 AM said...

Downloaded and installed 20.0.015 firmware. Have managed to trace most applications I need, but, not able to Synch contacts through bluetooth with my old Nokia 6230. Any Advice?

aie on March 23, 2008 8:31 PM said...

we got screwed with tracking removing...no more gps unless we pay...this really sucks...money back lads...

Chunkstyle on June 9, 2008 1:09 PM said...

My phone died while updating, so I'm not impressed with the new firmware so far. :( Time to send it in I guess.

george gr on July 14, 2008 5:39 PM said...

Nokia has not the right to take back the tracking feature.For me and others was a main reason to buy the phone.I paid for it -I want it back.And no bullshit answers from Nokia that it was promotional for limited time.My friends who didn't update still have it and laugh at me. I had it for 9 months before update.So some people have it and some not. Come on guys let's ask for it.
Its useful and we bought it.
Nokia give it back ,your reputation is heart .
Very bad way to make us pay for navigation.The maps are useless now.

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