16 October 2008

The Latest Firmware Update For N96
Brings Dozens Of Minor Fixes And Improvements

As you may have already know, Nokia pushed out a second minor firmware update for the Nokia N96 more than a week ago but without any word about the changes and improvements!

However, in meantime I came into possession of some documents that reveals differences to previous SW releases as well as highlighting the known issues with the current firmware release.

Firmware version 11.101 is obviously just a minor update without any new features or significant improvements and Nokia has rolled it out just to fix a number of stability and performance glitches!

New firmware is already available on the Nokia Software Updater servers for the most generic product codes and although it is not a major update it is still highly suggestible to do it as it brings dozens of minor bug fixes!

• Mobile TV is unable to set the platform guide after phone reboot
• DM settings aren't generated automatically, when Email settings are defined in variant
• Audio: Phone resets when plugging/unplugging headset for several times during music playback
• Video call: White or black screen flashes when power saver time-out expires during an active video call
• 3D Ringing tone is too low, almost nothing cannot be heard during MT voice call
• Illumination with Voice call: During an active voice call, power saver displays when power saver time-out expires and then phone goes to sleep mode while the call is still ongoing
• Image Quality improvements

System stability and performance improvements

• Device slows down when large numbers of pictures are transferred to the device
• Slow to open the Reply screen for an SMS
• ViewServ11 crashes under high CPU load
• Phone jams or resets when taking photo during low power audio playback
• Phone freezes after a new SMS is received during Visual Radio playback
• Other error fixes related to general system stability improvements

DVB-H

• It is not possible to access the TV services
• No USER AGENT string in HTTP POST request
• DVB-H receiver "Black Screen 2MB fix from TI"
• Low audio volume in Mobile TV. DVB-H audio volume level is now set to be similar to N77

Change log also contains the bunch of the bugs already discovered in this release but my source kindly requested to not list it here. As usually, log is 'protected' with few little changes.