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Update Nokia Firmware yourself: Over-the-Air or via PC

Nokia S60 applications - August 22nd, 2006 - Written by Tommi Vilkamo

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Finally!!

Go and check out: http://www.nokia.co.uk/softwareupdate

I’m sure many people, such as Niko, will appreciate this.

Michal Jerz reports at My-Symbian:

Currenty the service only supports Series 60 2.x smartphones (N70, N72, 6630, 6680, 6681/82) but support for S60 3rd Edition phones is coming soon.

You can find more commentary at All About Symbian and Symbian-Freak.

Although the compatibility table is not perfect yet, this is good news. Please spread the word.

About the author Tommi Vilkamo

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Comments(18)

  1. Darla wrote

    Tommi you have made my day!!!! AWESOME!!

  2. Darla wrote

    You know… it would be nice if they could also incorporate this into PC Suite as well.

  3. Sebhelyesfarku wrote

    What about Mac OS X or Linux update clients. Looks like Nokia developers have heard about only Windoze.

  4. Tommi Vilkamo wrote

    Sebhelyesfarku: well, that sucks. But sometimes you have to prioritize, and I think putting the current solution available is way better than nothing.

  5. Vegard wrote

    Let’s just hope the S60 3rd ed. version is coming soon, my N80 is begging for a firmware update.. :)

  6. Björn Quentin wrote

    Great news. Hope to see the 3rd Edition updates soon. Thank you!

  7. Henrique Gusso wrote

    I’m pretty sure N90 is a 2nd edition phone =/

  8. Tommi Vilkamo wrote

    Nokia hasn’t published the deployment schedule, so I think I can’t comment the date when the support for N90 and S60 3rd edition devices becomes available. Sorry.

    Should be soon enough - I’ll let you know…

  9. Alessandro wrote

    Ciao,

    I cannot find information on what the firmware upgrade will fix, like a log of fixes, any ideas?

    Alessandro

  10. Darla wrote

    @Vegard,

    Apparently the program recognizes the N80. Someone posted a comment on my blog that they updated theirs. I’m not sure if I would recommend doing this though until its officially supported.

  11. Tarek wrote

    I think 3rd Edition support is essential especially when you consider the amount of issues the new 3rd Edition Devices have. Lets hope it’ll be added soon! The N80 has just had a huge firmware upgrade that I’d really like to have.

    Anyway my 2 cents can be found here: http://www.tarekesber.com/?p=44

  12. Alex Kanavin wrote

    Tommi, how about publishing protocol specifications for doing updates over USB, so that the Linux community can write their own program?

  13. Alex Kanavin wrote

    I’ve just checked out the update software, and it does not provide any information about an update at all, just whether it’s available or not. What is the firmware version? When it was released? Which new features are introduced, which bugs were fixed?
    Not everyone is too dumb to understand that kind of info :) Nokia should really be more honest about its products and also problems that they have.

  14. Janne Jalkanen wrote

    Well - how about putting together a wiki for that kind of stuff? If Nokia does not do it, then the users themselves could do it… Now that the updates are available, it should be a lot easier to do user community support.

  15. Momchil Karabulev wrote

    wiki for firmware changes sounds very good…

  16. Tommi Vilkamo wrote

    Many thanks for your comments. I’ll ask about publishing the protocols for Linux community…

    About the wiki idea, I like it.

  17. Vegard wrote

    I couldn’t resist, tried updating my N80, and get told (as expected) that there are no updates available. :)

  18. Burak Bayburtlu wrote

    I’m still waiting for N93 updates to be available again. My N93 has that famous memory leak that doesn’t let me watch long videos on the phone or on tv :(