14 May 2009

Nokia N79 Gets Major Update
v20 Change Log Is In Da House!

Just a short note to inform you that Nokia has just rolled out yet another major firmware update for their Nseries handsets.

Firmware v20 is now available for the Nokia N79 as the FOTA update (Firmware Over The Air) for most of the generic product codes and should be progressively available for branded devices and through Nokia Software Updater as well.

Change log is not as huge as the last time but it is still highly suggestible to get this update as it fixes several known issues and brings dozens of minor bug fixes.

Furthermore, it also implements some new features such as handy Standby Email Plug-in and further optimizes functionality and stability of the phone across many applications.

For those who care about, it seams that phone is hackable after update with the oldie HelloOX method although it is still not confirmed at the moment as the fully compatible.

Anyway, here is the full change log of the latest firmware update for the Nokia N79.

Bugs fixed:

• Cannot display sim contact on USim (1000 contact sim card) when switch another UI language
• Dialing 110 customer care phone redirect the call to be an EMERGENCY CALL
• Music plays in speaker when receive sms under silent mode
• Smartone foneTV video not restore after end MT call
• Audio is improperly routed from headset to speaker when receiving a SMS message
• Phone hang during accessing Nokia Maps application in SW 11.049
• Cant access sim card contacts
• Can’t input Chinese character “ 丁 ” by stroke input
• Themes: Audio Themes, when select Nokia “Several sound files Missing” appears

New Features:

• Bookmarks updated to remove Download link folders
• MTP configuration to enable Social Cinema support
• TARM in 3.2 based devices
• Email plugin functionality
• 7bit encoding of Turkish characters in SMS
• TP Wizard to check availability of Nokia email service
• Media player default settings changes
• 2 New vanilla CTRs, called: EGYPT NOGPS (releases MEA datapackage)
• 2 new codes : SYRIA NOGPS (releases MEA datapackage)
• Memory card ID change for Indonesia CTR’s. was MC001 and changed to –> MC002
• Update Bookmarks for China PRC Vanilla Core SW
• Files on Ovi Widget
• S60 3.2 based devices Making Gimlet visible in Settings Wizard selection
• Turn “PnP Mobile Services” On
• S&S Application updates
• MPX player not accessible when USB cable connected

SW improvements and corrections:

• Active Idle
• Search & WLAN information difficult to read in Active Idle.
• Active Idle screen becomes blank in landscape mode.
• Default Active Idle shortcuts configured.
• Active Idle going dead after quickly accepting and rejecting an incoming video call.
• White boxes shown on the screen while doing orientation change quickly in idle mode.

Application Manager

• The sis file which is installed to MoviNand or SD card cannot be seen in application manager.
• Wrong Feature Manager flag used for seamless link functionality.
• Flashlite sis installation is not successful in the first attempt.

Application Update

• Unable to upgrade graphic icons in Media Player / Media Settings via sis file.
• Unable to upgrade ROM based UI application by installing new version to memory card.
• Application Update selfupdate never completes.
• Upgrade of BrowserAudioVideoPlugin.rsc via sw installation is not possible.
• Upgrade of Connection Manager via sw installation is not possible.

Audio Performance

• Tunings improvements for IHF audio.
• Keypad tones cannot be tuned for IHF.

AutoRotate

• UI Accelerator toolkit (Hitchcock/Alfred) stub file missing.
• Locking keys and then opening camera reveal confuses orientation sensor.
• Disable orientation in alarm ringing, incoming call and semi active state.
• Panic after orientation change.

Bluetooth

• Bluetooth headset disconnects when Wireless Keyboard is disconnected from the phone automatically.
• Phone panics when changing views in Bluetooth menu while choosing the last connected device from paired view.