As Promised, Sony Ericsson Updates P990 Firmware to R6E28

[slitchfield]

Sony Ericsson promised to offer a new P990 firmware in August. It seems it's available already. From SEUS, there's a new firmware, labelled as R6E28. If you have the guts to update your P990 firmware, go ahead and hit the update button. Unfortunately, there's no information about what has been corrected or any new bugs. Stay tuned for my report in the near future.

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[asri]

I have been using the new P990 firmware R6E28 for a couple of hours now and here are my observations :

Bugs Remain:-
1. Solid Colour in Activity Menu. Not transparent
2. Sending SMS from DreamConnect3 will display number in the contact field instead of Name
3. Memory leak still happens. From 17MB free, becomes 12MB without any applications running in the background. Checked using SwissManager (Memory Reclaim Level 3).

Bugs gone:-
1. Spacebar bug in FO mode is fixed!
2. Long text crashes in Messaging (and other applications with editing like QuickOffice, Docs To Go etc) is also fixed. Yay!!!
3. Pressing Jogdial in while composing SMS displays contact selection (It was there in R5A17 but gone in R6D23)
4. 17MB free RAM after cold boot

Will publish a full report in a few days' time after I have explored it more.

Asri al-Baker

HI,

I have updated my phone 30min ago, since using it I have noticed an improvement in the speed of navigation and opening applications, better then the previous version. Although I hoped for a fix of the Alarm Clock, since nobody mention anything about it, I will not bother myself and try it. With all other feature this phone has, how the hell do I have to keep my phone all night in order to get the alarm clock working.

I hope there are other improvment in the new firmware.

Plus, if no one thinks there is an improvment in the speed, that means am really sleepy.

Cheers

No longer just .mp3 and .wav. Yeah just stumbled upon this by accident. gonna try to play a .wmv... now that would be amazing.

HI,

Gonna try that, that's great news, since last time I have downloaded some wmv to my P990i and felt really disappointed as the phone can't play the files.

Cheers

I dowloaded the RG9A001/R6E28 firmware for my W950i today and my first impression is that it is appreciably slower than the previous version.

Does anyone know if it's possible to do a rollback??? At the moment I cant justify this update!

Dear all. i just upgraded my brand new orange P990 using the Update service in the PC suite. Can any one tell me how to check the firmware version in a P990? please mail me at basicburn1@yahoo.com .

Thanks !