N97 V11 Official Changelog

[Micky]

Please bare in mind, this is unofficial, and unconfirmed at this time..

"I am sure you guys are all interested to know how testing has been going, and we are pleased to report that at the labs the new firmware is ready, and we are finalising the upgrade and distribution method ready for this Wednesday


There have been over 100 fixes and improvements, I shall cover the main ones:

the lock/unlock/backlight bug has been fixed. This was caused by the handset not reporting autolock correctly and thought it was still unlocked, despite the backlight being switched off which is independant. When users were trying to unlock their handset, they were infact locking it, and then unlocking it.

There have been some subtle changes to the way the interface responds. For example, the phonebook now has kinetic scrolling, and swiping the screen sideways to hide the homescreen has been taken further, so that swiping when in primary functions such as phonebook, application menu and a few others will revert the screen back. This is also the case for the web browser. The way the home screen and main menus were rendered has also been refined. Screens will load up quicker, and the phone will use idle time between user presses to load items just off screen, scrolling is also much improved by this.

Nokia Maps application has been given a new look, while positioning accuracy has been improved. The time taken from starting the application to getting a lock has been improved, with times around 8 seconds or less when in combination with A-GPS. The door-to-door has also been improved, with walking routes giving audio feedback as well, direct to house.

When the phone went through different primary connections for data, such as 3g packet, or Wifi, certain widgets became stuck in a loop where they continuously recieving a null from the previous connection method. The phone has a new feature for developers that 'shouts' when a connection is changed, in addition to lost. The widgets have been updated accordingly and we have updated our knowledge base accordingly.

When large videos were played through quickly, sometimes the screen went black as the video information could not sync up with the raw video data quick enough. This was especially apparent when skipping through multiple videos quickly. This has been addressed by caching the first 30 frames of each video before allowing playback to commence and we have had no problems of this kind.

Community made applications that began on phone start up, and then got stuck in an error loop were unable to terminate or uninstall. We have addressed this by adding a terminate now feature to the application menu. When switching application, holding down on the application will display the option to do so.

The pictures and video clips made with the phone sometimes did not update in the photo/video library after files had been manually added via a transfer. This was due to the way in which files were counted and stored by phone conflicting with the number of files present on the device and has been resolved.

Text messaging now has the option to confirm sending once the green button/send button is pressed. An option was also added to prevent accidental sending of blank messages.

The symbols menu has been updated to include french, german and spanish special characters.

H264 decoding is now supported! The ovi suite has also been updated to automaticly convert most common video formats to the native phone display resolution and format.

And a big one last for you guys...
Multitouch support has been added. The paint application has been updated to show this in practical use, and photos can be zoomed in and out by squashing or streching the image. Again the knowledge base was updated to provide developers the new input fuction should they wish to take advantage."

The above proved to be a cruel hoae, however, i now have the Official Changelog for you all...

USB detection error fix
-PC does not detect N97 or USB charging connection not detected.

Widget
-Home screen online/offline widget crash fix
-Fix for “Alphabetical and Number input are mixed in facebook until end key is pressed.
-Widget UI improvement – New facebook widget fixes a problem of Home Screen background visible on soft-key area.
-Browser fixes to improve widgets stability.

MfE related fixes
-Partial fix for Messaging/calendar entry lost.
-Mail for exchange calendar entry synchronization error fix.

UI transition error fixes

-(Portrait <-> landscape transition, there is a home screen corruption.)
-UI transition (Slowness and bad effects)
-Slow Touch UI response
-Picture of the device lock appears half of the screen when transitioning the UI sometimes
-Landscape: in some cases the soft buttons on touch (right hand) show the Home Screen in background (install maps.google.com)

Photos thumbnail performance and stability improvements

-Device performance deteriorates when lots of content in the device - especially photos
-Partial fix no display backlight illumination when unlocking lock-key – CAP Genius reported already
-New version of Accueweather to improve the “Connection error” situation
-Device reset when browsing with high speed packet access (for Malaysia)
-“Browser soft key UI doesn’t work after putting Chinese character with qwerty keyboard”
-Java fixes (TCK, Pre-install app disappearing, *#7370#*)
-Operator fixes (CMCC, Hutchson and Telefonica, Vodafone)
-Ovi store client now embedded in the core image
Originally posted on Howards Forums.

[Tommie]

Sounds real good ! The N97 have not come out yet here in Sweden
and the white (wich i want to my GF ) still have Unknown arrive date.

Maybee it be upgraded from they arrive ?

[dynomot]

Excellent stuff Micky, lets hope it's all true. Typing this in the middle of nowhere with my N97 so I'll thankyou later.

[Gaz]

Sounds like a fantastic update !

We just recieved our black one half hour ago bt the missus is using it for a week before handing it over to me

[keko]

wooooooooooooow
thaaaaanks nokiaaa!!!

[Micky]

Originally Posted by Gaz

Sounds like a fantastic update !

We just recieved our black one half hour ago bt the missus is using it for a week before handing it over to me

You will never get it back now Gaz

[XpressBoredom]

Let's hope I get some of this goodness on my 5800!

[Tommie]

Xpressboredom, maybee you get it from the upcoming V31 to the 5800

[XpressBoredom]

Indeed! That's what I'm hoping!

[Gaz]

Micky , I have a foolproof plan !

I have told her that if she likes the N97 I will sell my other hpones and buy one myself .

If she decides not to keep it I will sell my other phones and buy her a nice engagement ring