After a few days of running with the new N97mini firmware, i have noticed some interesting changes.

Mainly the speed of the menus and general flow of the phone is better. Available ram appears to be more when idle, although im not sure what was available before the update.

The new firmware adds timed profiles, which has limited use in comparison to other profile schedule apps. the timed feature simply allows the chosen profile to “expire”. but i wont be using this feature as Profileshceduler is far superior.

When the first upgrade was made available Vodafone UK took quite a long time to release their take on it, so i gave up waiting and changed my product code. Before you try the update make sure to change back to your original code as the update was not available for all handsets / product codes.

If your using the new firmware and have noticed other changes please let me know an i can add them into this post.

-EDIT-

Ok so this might be me but alhough the phone is faster it seems that rotation inthe home screen no longer works! Random. It could be a memory saving choice by nokia as ppl probably don’t use the home screen in landscape? But I don’t believe that really so it must be a bug. More updates as I find them.

EDIT:19/06/2010

Just had to hard resset my n97mini again after the firmware upgrade. a strange bug ment that i was unable to see the homescreen in landscape! the reset appears to have fixed this. in the hard reswet process i decided it would be a good time to test the restore feature again.

I stopped using this feature after repeated corruptions in the back up of settings which meant that i was un able to use wifi or access the destinations feature. Crashing each time i tried. I’m just restoring now so i will be able to see if it works in a second…….

Ok just finished the restoration, seems to have worked quite well. the only items that appear to have not been recorded and restored are the licences for my paid apps. this could be a security feature though. It’s only a small hassle having to re-enter in the serials.

The restore function s still rubish wifi doesnt work and deleting and re connecting to the access point doesnt work!

You heard it here first! sort it out Nokia! maybe one day this feature will work. but ill probably have upgraded by then. Fail!

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