N82 Preserves Data During Firmware Upgrade
Published by Ewan Spence at 14:28 GMT, January 15th 2008
The first firmware update for the N82 is going to have a subtle change we've been looking for; the preservation of User Data (writes Kevin at the S60 blog). The plan is that when you do upgrade the firmware, your applications and settings will remain intact . Three caveats; 1) you should still back up your data first; 2) It's only for the N82; 3) you'll need to wait a bit longer for the first N82 firmware upgrade to arrive.
This feature has not been discovered by you guys and gals because there hasn't been a firmware update available yet for N82 (don't worry the first N82 firmware update that improves the stability of key applications is in the pipeline and will be available soon). Since this is the first time user data preservation has been implemented in an Nseries, if you run into any problems with an installed application not working or missing files please leave a comment here and I'll pass on the problem to be looked into, or if you prefer send me an E-mail at kevin.korpi@s60.com with all the details (application name, version, where to download the application, etc.).
Full details at the Nokia S60 Blog .
Categories: Hardware, Links of Interest
Platforms: S60 3rd Edition
News Discussion
bartmanekul
Is this just a first for the N series? I recently did my 6110 and all settings, messages, apps etc are still as they were.
eb08
hi
nice that nokia/symbian takes some time, finally, to take care about this firmware-preserving-data thingy !
but instead of inventing something new and for them to put more work into making firmware available is to improve the backup/restore functionality of recent s60 devices, because this is what makes a firmware update so painful. if the backup/restore would work one can do as many firmware updates one wants and after restore one would have the same phone as before !
in improving the backup/restore take this into consideration:
* why the programmer has to decide what to backup - it must be that default is to backup all and let the programmer decide what NOT to backup !
* in addition the user must decide what to backup and what not
* several backup sets are needed
* why the backup is encrypted, compressed and hidden from me - the owner of the data inside the backup ?!
* if the phone-setup is faulty and one has a chance to do a backup before reset - currently the same fault might show up after restore. not so if one would have the chance to select what to backup !
pls take this into consideration !
eb
elp
Not sure when this has been first implemented in S60 but I upgraded a friend's 5500 firmware to the lastest firmware version over Christmas (which I believe has been released quite a while ago) and it didn't delete anything from the phone. All the contacts, themes and applications were still there after the firmware upgrade. Even the call logs had remained intact. Didn't have to restore anything. Was very surprised. And yes, I did check that the new firmware had actually been installed properly on the phone.
No such luck when I updated my E90 a month ago though. Phone got reformatted, the restore process screwed up as usual and i had to spend a few hours re-installing and re-registrering half of my applications.
ayush3090
even the old 3250 had data preservation
the only thing that the n-series didnt have from the scratch which is available in lower models
hehehehehe................nokia's weird........really weird !
delanz
same as bartmanekul, I did update my 6110 firmware and all my messages, contacts, applications stayed intact.
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