N82 New Firmware Coming Soon
For those of you lucky enough to have a Nokia N82 already, we’ve got some great news for you! According to Kevin over at the S60 Multimedia Blog, there’s a new firmware update for the N82 coming soon, and should improve on the stability a bit. That’s not all, though! The N82 is also the first Nseries device to support User Data Preservation, which means after a firmware update, you don’t have to go back and fix all your settings and reinstall your applications and all. It’s still there.
Since there’s not been any firmware updates just yet, we’re not sure exactly how well this works. Are the menus still re-arranged according to how the user set them? What about extra icons and whatnot? There’s still plenty of questions, but it sounds like we’ll soon have answers.
My question is, can this feature be added (via firmware) to older handsets?
Latest update for 6110 Navigator does exactly the same. There is no need for backup before flashing. I was pleasanlty surprised :). Nice one Nokia!
hi
my question is - why such stupid extra work - symbian/nokia should improve their backup instead !
if backup/restore would work 100% one would not need to worry about firmware updates - do a backup; update firmware; restore backup - it would have a positive side effect that one can be sure to save all data of a device and not only 60% or so !
ciao
eb08 - The point of User Data Preservation is that it eliminates the need to backup and restore. That step is entirely removed from the equation. You simply update, and wa-la, you’re on your way again.
You can use Nokia software updater to “reinstall” your firmware for whatever reason. I used nemisis to change my product code, and then Nokia software updater to reflash my N82 with Euro1 firmware. Everything worked perfectly, all the settings are as I left them, all the icons are organized into folders as I had them, all the applications are still installed, and all user files (videos, pictures, music etc) are still there. I think the only thing that didn’t work, was shareonline got unpaired with my flickr account, but that only took two seconds to fix. Try it yourself, use Nokia software updater to reinstall your firmware.
N81 has User Data Preservation since day 1.
I made 2 firmware updates with my N81 and never did a backup. All was on its same place after the update
I was wondering if there is an option to have a fresh upgrade (without preserving the data)
It would be good to have this option selectable prior to updating the phone.
The main reason for this is that it would be clearing all the unwanted ‘cookies’ and as such data (that might no longer be required) so as to free the resources and have a clean phone every time software is upgraded.
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