Kent on 18 April 2007:

Woohoo!

This could mean that Nokia Software update has some new firmware on the way and I’ll finally be able to flash my phone thereby getting rid of the criminally cripple Vodafone crap - I bought this phone in part for voip and voip I shall have. I am still furious at the arrogance of the Voda bastards though - they won’t be getting another contract from me, and I’ll be encouraging others to the the same.

Kent

krisse on 19 April 2007:

“I am still furious at the arrogance of the Voda bastards though - they won’t be getting another contract from me, and I’ll be encouraging others to the the same.”

If you’ve bought a VOIP phone in Britain and the network operator crippled the VOIP, the UK Trading Standards people want you to complain through this government website:

http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk/

If a phone is advertised as VOIP-compatible but the retailer (in this case the network operator) removes the VOIP, that’s quite probably in breach of trading standards laws because you’re not getting what was advertised.

krisse on 19 April 2007:

Good luck Kent.

I can’t believe how phone networks get away with this, not just the crippling but the locking as well.

Imagine if your ISP said you could only use a computer locked to their network, you’d dump them and get a different provider. The government and/or EU would also probably be very interested in the anti-competition issues involved.

Hopefully the EU (which has just cracked down on roaming charges) will get round to banning phone locking and crippling at some point.

Kent on 19 April 2007:

“But what if your ISP sold you that 500 pound computer for 80 pounds…”

And what if that same ISP locked you into an 18 month contract at £50 pcm in order to allow them to discount said computer.

Don’t get this all wrong, these phone companies don’t really discount the phones at all. They just give you a short term loan in exchange for your business. Ultimately, I still pay for the phone one way or another - it doesn’t matter that it says ‘Whizzbank talk 57 - contract payment’ on the bill, it is still just a loan payment on the phone.

gunnar on 21 April 2007:

When this coming, and what is changelog?

Joe on 22 April 2007:

Kent

You say that you got your N95 unlocked. I wasn’t aware that anyone (other than the networks at the moment) could unlock a BB5 phone ?

Certainly if these guys can do it (and interestingly their website still says they can’t unlock BB5 phones at the moment) then it is progress
BTW - have you tried Truphone ? I’ve been using it for months now (previously on my N80) and the free calls are very attractive !!

Cheers

Joe!

Kent on 22 April 2007:

Joe,

Whilst I am at it, I just had a quick look into Truphone, and I still prefer Voiptalk.org - the prices are pretty much the same and my reasons for preferring them are as follows:

1) They have a feature called SMS callback. When you are out of Wifi range, you can text the number you want to call to them. They then call your mobile, call the other party and connect the other party and join the two calls. You pay for 2 phone calls simultaneously (to your mobile and to the 3rd party number). For international calls whilst on the hop I’ve not seen a better solution.

2) They have a feature called 3-call. For quite a while now, I’ve never had a phone plugged into the BT line. I have an incoming number through them (0207, £2 a month) that I’ve given out as our home number. 3 call rings up to 3 SIP id’s simultaneously for one incoming number. The upshot of all this is, the 2 home phones (one is a PSTN line plugged into the back of my ISP supplied router which happens to do SIP, the other is a Snom ethernet phone I bought before I had the new router) stay plugged in all the time and whenever anybody rings the 0207 number, the SIP ID of the router and the SIP ID of the Ethernet phone are both called - I’ve had this set up for a while and even the most technically obtuse don’t have any problems with it.
With the addition of my N95, I have a 3rd ID on 3 call that will also ring. This means, when someone calls my ‘home’ number (assuming I am in Wifi range anywhere in the world) both the home phones and my mobile phone ring. Further, with the caller ID set up, people see me as ringing from my home phone no matter where I am in the world - handy if you want to sneak off to somewhere exotic for a few weeks without telling work
That got a bit wordier than planned - any questions, drop in a comment.

Cheers,

Kent.

mini__me on 23 April 2007:

I can’t fault http://www.kingmobilephone.co.uk/ at all, been there in the past to get a 6230i debranded and I think I’ll be using him again for my n95!!!

Top man, although I went first time without booking and thought I was in the wrong place when I first arrived….anyone else who has been there will know what I mean
Can’t wait to get the full functionality out of my n95, damn you yodafone!!!

Darn this waiting on 23 April 2007:

I wish.

duane on 24 April 2007:

where is this guy located? kingmobile?
reply directly to this email address
gabanna@hotmail.co.uk

tony on 25 April 2007:

hope its soon, any found any problems on n95,

Matt on 27 April 2007:

Hi,

Does anyone know what happened to IM client (the IMPS compliant one) that was included in N80? I can’t find it under any menue on my N95

Matt

http://gadgeek.blogspot.com/

mechanimal82 on 30 April 2007:

N95 firmware has been released v11.0.026 can be downloaded via the NSU. Please note that although the N95 isn’t listed as a supported device, the firmware is available.

Note - Some operator variants will not have updates available just yet.

Kent on 1 May 2007:

Just had my first crash on the new firmware That took less than 2 hours.

I was playing K-Rally (well worth buying from idreams.pl btw) and it just switched to the Nokia logo suddenly then powered down. A call may have come through, but nothing came up on the screen…

George Cauldron on 2 May 2007:

Just upgraded my N95 to….

V 11.0.026
17-04-07
RM159
Nokia N95 (01.01)

BUT!!!

All my Calendar entries were gone!

I’d backed them up to the Memory Card & onto PC Suite
but neither will reinstall the calendar entries back on.

The way I solved it was whipped out my poor dear sad old N80, and with PC Suite, transferred the Calendar entries onto that then had to manually copy any note worthy reminders.

Inconvenient?
YES!

And i’ve tried restoring it multiple times through PC Suite & by restoring backed up memory from SD Card.

Silly N95.

Other than that, nothing bad so far.

Marco on 3 May 2007:

Hmm- I tried this with a US N95 and Nokia claims that there is no software update available- still the March version with broken WLAN support.

Harold Mina on 3 May 2007:

Hey there.

I just got my Nokia N95 upgraded to:

V 11.0.026
17-04-07
RM-159
Nokia N95 (13.01)

I’m lovin this new firmware because of some new add-ons to features. Mind you that I never had any problems with my N95 since the day I purchased it. The new firmware has fixed the “mars” effect on pictures and so much more. By the way, some people mentioned that they had downloaded a 113 MB firmware for N95 but for me, it’s only 109 MB. What’s up with that? But when I compare my N95 firmware version to others, mine got the “Nokia N95 (13.01)” and other people got only “Nokia N95 (01.01)” I guess mine has minor-advanced or should I say the latest out there. I can be wrong but this is what I get when I punch *#0000#. My N95 got faster response time than ever specially when I hit the multi-media key!

Lucas on 4 May 2007:

Harold Mina,

Where are you from? I’m from Malaysia, and after i update my firmware, it came out as:

V 11.0.026
17-04-07
RM-159
Nokia N95 (12.01)

How come you got the number (13.01)?

Andrew Burgin on 4 May 2007:

Got the code number to put in to upgrade to the new firewall its 0534841 an it works ok using the NSU Suite but still have trouble getting the new firewall downloaded to my mobile it just keeps saying software needs upgrading on the Nokia software downloader

Amit on 5 May 2007:

How did you guys update your phone via the NSU? I just downloaded it and installed and it detected my phone but said that there are no updates available as yet.

Is there way of manually getting a hold of the update?

Thanks

Tinysafe on 7 May 2007:

Hi, N95 friends,

I have a problem to update firmware from 10. version to 11. version. My phone is appeared different from other of my friends who use N95 when we type *#0000#:

V 10.0.0.18
15-03-07
RM0159
Nokia N95 (D1.01)

all my friends shown that:

V 10.0.0.18
15-03-07
RM0159
Nokia N95 (01.01)

and they can update but mine cannot. Can anybody knows that what is happening.

Thanks in advance

IsHaK on 7 May 2007:

Tinysafe, i have the same thing. here is what I did:

1)back-up phone to memory card,
2)change your product code,
3)then update the phone,
4)then change your product code back to what it was,
5)and then restore from memory card

Or you can wait until an update is released for your particular product code.

this is the product code i used to update my phone (sand) uk 0534841

Tinysafe on 8 May 2007:

Thank you very much IsHak, I have the Nokia Softwar updater but when I run the updater it tells that No firmware update for this phone etc…

Anyway, thanks again for your experiences.

Andrew Burgin on 12 May 2007:

Everyone can get there new firewall downloaded to there mobile of the official website i put in my O2 code 0548021 an it said get it an at last my firewall is upgrade without using the NSU suite an hope this helps everyone an also helps an stops the battery getting drained out so quick

Nick on 14 May 2007:

BB5 6630,6680,6681,n70,etc… SP UNLOCKER

2 sets of instructions.

1. Connect DKU-5 or normal COM cable to computer
2. Set proper COM cable (must be, between 1 and 9)
3. run `install.bat`
4. Open file c:/bb5_unlocker/logs/bb5_unlocker.cfg and write here proper COM port (1-9)
5. Run c:/bb5 unlocker/BB5logunlocker.exe
6. Click READ PHONE
7. Click MAKE LOG, log will be created
8. Enter codes to phone (in /psw/ dir), or
9. Click SP UNLOCK to enter codes via FBUS

******* CONNECTION ******

For this program you need Fbus cable like DK5, CA43 or similar connected to ports from COM1 to COM9.
First unpack zip fiole and strat install.bat

In file “c:\bb5_unlocker\logs\bb5_unlocker.cfg” with any text editor change your COM port setings!

******* USING ********

Program can be started successfully only if is COM port in file “c:\bb5_unlocker\logs\bb5_unlocker.cfg” adjusted properly.

READ PHONE:
***********
Reading info data from phone and making BACKUP file for that phone( Field 308,1).

IMPORTANT DO NOT delete or modify that file because can save your *** if something goes wrong.

WR BACKUP:
***********
With that function can write backup file with Field 308,1 if exist in BACKUP folder.

MAKE LOG:
***********

Function for making log file . With that log file BB5_calc.exe calculating codes for unlock.
Working with BB5 phones with RAP3G v.2.x (6630,6680,6681,6682,n70,n90).
IMPORTANT phone must be without Sim card.

SP UNLOCK:
***********
Making unlock with codes calculated by BB5_calc.exe.

SP UNLOCK PROCEDURE

Connect cable to PC and be shure com port is adjusted properly
Start BB5logunlocker.exe
Connect phone and switch on without Sim card.
press button READ PHONE and wait until get the message DONE.
If is everything correct you will see info from phone on screen.
Pres button make log and wait until get mesage done.
Log file is in folder LOGS.
Start BB5_calc.exe to make for you PSW file in folder PSW
Press button SP UNLOCK and unlock your phone.

That is all folks

If you got unlock codes from your provider and you used all yours 3 attempts
to enter code via keypad then do the following:
into dir “c:\bb5_unlocker\psw” create a file “aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa_BB5.psw” where is “aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa” enter your phones imei
then in that created file enter in the files start “#pw bbbbbbbbbbbbbbb c#” where is “bbbbbbbbbbbbbbb”
enter your unlock code and where is “c” enter your logs level number (1-7).
save the file and use “SP UNLOCK” function

Chris on 19 May 2007:

After I upgrade my firmware, I noticed the following problems.

1) Camera screen looks darker than before. The photos taken previously would appear darker on gallery.The photos look the same as before if you load them on PC but it’s really hard to judge the quality of the photo on the phone screen.

2) Whenever I activate the previously paried bluetooth handsfree, the phone crashes but if I go to the phone and connect it to the handsfree, that would work. I then reset phone setting, then repair the two from scratch,it then would work.

Otherwise the phone seems to be more stable than before. Hopefully the next firmware will solve the problem. NOKIA PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

Anybvody has the same problems?

TotallyDisgusted on 28 June 2007:

This is crazy…the UK operators shouldn’t be able to do this so blatantly.

Where can we all shout loud enough to make a difference? The EFF?

fery on 5 July 2007:

n95 firmware update

larry on 9 July 2007:

where do I get the firmware??

nokia n95

Omar on 13 July 2007:

Hmm, I heard that the 8GB N95 was only rumours?

apple on 7 August 2007:

I firmware show on my phone is v10.0.018 I tryed many time to update it said my firmware is up to date there is no update.

Can any one please help me.

Thanks

Jacob on 29 September 2007:

AnY oNE No The Codes To Unlock The N95 OF the t-mobile i need it cuz im going aboard ………HELP EmaiL IT TO ME IF SO …. Email Me FIrst Then Ill Pay But Im Looking iT tO bE FREE COST .. can the firmware unlock it ? .. NEED SOME ANSWERS!

ylli on 4 November 2007:

I have nokia n95 after i changed the SIM card the Phone can be powered on for 2-3 seconds with a Nokia handshake logo appearing then go white then black. Please help me what can I do to fix my problem.

diLin on 20 November 2007:

It’s not a 21 valve engine but for all i know the new V21 Firmware update for the N95-1 is sure gonna rock..considering that Nokia is going to have to add lots of new stuff in the firmware like the Search, N-Gage and key press bug.
But the problem is that the firmware pic has been dates as 10th October! How come no one’s got it still remains a mystery…

Regards,

DiLiN Anand - http://s603rd.blogspot.com/2007/11/v21-for-our-n95-1.html

Perry on 4 December 2007:

hi i got a n95 but i cba to get a sim card can u load stuff onto the core system without having a sim card because i wont light saber

Jason John on 8 January 2008:

I was wondering if the software update is the same for phones made in china. I remember reading somewhere N95 that are made in china cannot be updated.
If it is possible to update the above mentioned phone are there any performance difference from the previous version???
please do let me know your thoughts n comments on this at jays.john@gmail.com