Firmware-update: Nokia N96 20.050

Nokia heeft voor de N96, zijn huidige vlaggenschip, nieuwe firmware beschikbaar gesteld. De firmware, die 20.050 als rugnummer heeft, zou een stuk stabieler moeten zijn en is ook van een paar nieuwe snufjes voorzien. Zo zijn tegenwoordig Mail for Exchange en de Nokia Mail Client standaard geïnstalleerd. Ook is de integratie van mail verbeterd, zodat meldingen van nieuwe e-mails op het standby-scherm te zien zijn.

Naast de mogelijkheid om je toestel bij Nokia Service Point te laten voorzien van de laatste firmware, is het ook mogelijk om jouw toestel middels de Nokia Software Updater thuis te voorzien van deze firmware. Het is mogelijk dat de gsm door je leverancier nog niet goedgekeurd is voor deze update. Mocht dat het geval zijn dan wordt aangeraden contact op te nemen met de betreffende leverancier, of langs te gaan bij een Nokia Service Point.

Voor de complete changelog kijk je hieronder:

Changes/improvements made from MCU SW version 12.043 to version 20.050:

New features:

Email:
- Nokia Email client and Mail for Exchange (MfE) preloaded (User will install and configure email clients with the help of Settings Wizard)
- Settings Wizard 5.0: offers improvements for Nokia Email and MfE setup
- Active Standby Email Plug-in: showing new email messages on Active Standby screen

Look & Feel:
- Support for Audio Themes: configurable sounds for various events e.g. opening/closing slide, battery low etc
- Setting to allow a slideshow to be used as wallpaper
- Slide handling: Setting to allow user to configure effect opening/closing the slide has on a call and keylock

Others:
- WiFi Protected Setup is now supported, allowing simplified setup of WLAN security with a supported WLAN access point
- Support of IAD (Independent Application Delivery): Allows certain applications to be updated independently over the air.

Improvements:
- Correction for occasional CMLA (Content Management License Administrator) certificate corruption. (These certificates are needed for e.g. Mobile TV and N-Gage license purchases)

Energy management:
- Shorter lights/screen timeout when lockswitch activated. Backlight dims as soon as keylock is enabled
- Media Keys surrounding the rocker key lit only if a media application is open
- Right Softkey changed from "Hide" to "Exit" for Music Player for EM savings

Photos/Camera/Imaging:
- A number of improvements made to the Camera image quality
- The device SW version information is now stored in the image MetaData
- Default recording quality for video is changed from ‘TV normal’ to TV high’.
- Noise reduction of recorded videos

Media/DRM:
- New version of Music player: Performance and “Comes With Music”-related improvements.
- FlashLite update for improved YouTube compatibility – improvements in rendering of Flash Video
- General Media player &streaming related usability & performance improvements
- OMA DRM v2 content can use device clock if no secure clock (i.e. NITZ) is available

Browser:
- Empty bookmark folders removed from Browser bookmarks (i.e. the “Download…” folders)
- Link to Ovi.mobi is included in Browser bookmarks

Others:
- Vibra enabled when charging
- When gaming in landscape mode, stereo audio will be played through correct speakers
- Updated Themes
- Slide triggered keyguard activation: When closing the slide, pressing any key within 2 seconds will result in keylock not being activated
- Several error corrections based on Care and operator feedback
- Several application baseline updates

Known issues:

*#7370# is not working properly with this SW release
Resetting the device and formatting C-drive with *#7370# is not working properly with this SW release and can result to unstable operation of the device. It is not recommended to use *#7370# at any situation. In case reset and C-drive format is really wanted, it can be done by holding down green dial key, star (*) key and number three (3) key, when switching the device on from power key. Hold down all three keys until Nokia welcome animation is showed.

NSU update can cause device to reset randomly when updating to this SW release
NSU update can cause the device to randomly reset after the update. Switching the device off manually from power button will recover the device from the problem. The problem is caused by DRAM corruption in final boot during the update. This doesn’t affect the SW update itself and after manual reboot device works fine.