N80 firmware update

bigmouk · Oct 6, 2006

just a heads up, now available on nokias site ... finally !

http://www.nokia.co.uk/nokia/0,1522,,00.html?orig=/softwareupdate

MrMark · Oct 6, 2006

nice one.!

RSi Dave · Oct 6, 2006

No firmware available for O2

MrAtego · Oct 6, 2006

Just charging my phone now ready!!

M1TCH · Oct 6, 2006

backing up the beast now lol

hope it gets rid of the hang when sending txts.

MrAtego · Oct 6, 2006

Balls, no update available for 3 either, bugger!!

Chris1.4RT · Oct 6, 2006

Come on! Cheers for this.

My N80, while I love it and stroke it regularly, is getting slow. I wanted to stamp on my old 6600 when it got slow and swore I'd never touch Nokia again and went Samsung and SE before the N80.

Hope this sorts out my ridiculous-first-word-suggested in my predictive text dictionary. Like witi for with and it'r for it's and iq for is.

sn00p · Oct 6, 2006

M1TCH said:
backing up the beast now lol

hope it gets rid of the hang when sending txts.

Have you installed the SMS accelerator on the nokia website?

M1TCH · Oct 6, 2006

now it tells me theres, nothing. f***s sake!

no sn00p ill have a looksie for it, badly needed!

M1TCH · Oct 6, 2006

lol dont you just love it when this phone hangs on installing something which is gonna make itself faster?! :S

cheers mate, that sms accelerator has changed my life!!

RSi Dave · Oct 6, 2006

i love this phone but also hate it sooo much

I have got TomTom6 on mine, recently it just stopped working so i have uninstalled it and removed it... come to reinstall and it now says "Unable to Install"

So i have backed up the phone and reset it so it will allow apps to be reinstalled.

Only to find that the 1gb memory card which always randomly disappears when accessed has got corrupted... losing my images, videos (Ones from the Kooks most recent gig), music & applications. So i have had to reformat my memory card again.

Annoying, and now i cant even update to the latest firmware as it says its not available :S

sn00p · Oct 6, 2006

RSi Dave said:
Only to find that the 1gb memory card which always randomly disappears when accessed has got corrupted... losing my images, videos (Ones from the Kooks most recent gig), music & applications. So i have had to reformat my memory card again.

Annoying, and now i cant even update to the latest firmware as it says its not available :S

My memory card problems disappeared after updating the firmware. My n80 is a orange supplied one, so I went the dodgy route and flashed it to generic firmware myself. I'm guessing that the nokia updater only works for generic n80's and not network ones as they don't seem to have approved that firmware.

M1TCH said:
cheers mate, that sms accelerator has changed my life!!

No problem! It's good isn't it!

bigmouk · Oct 6, 2006

No update available - mines on orange, what a waste of time !

sn00p · Oct 6, 2006

bigmouk said:
No update available - mines on orange, what a waste of time !

Orange have withdrawn the N80, so the only way of getting updates is to get generic firmware onto it "the other way". (or try a service center and see if they'll do it for you, results seem to vary with this...)

Chris1.4RT · Oct 7, 2006

What is this 'other way' to install 'generic firmware'

Wish I'd re read this thread before faffing on backing everything up. I'm on Orange and it said no updates available.

jonesyx · Oct 7, 2006

snoop you are a legend! sms accellerator is genius!

no new firmware though for my orange n80

dont want to re-flash myself, might see if orange will do it in a shop

Has · Oct 7, 2006

sn00p said:
Orange have withdrawn the N80, so the only way of getting updates is to get generic firmware onto it "the other way". (or try a service center and see if they'll do it for you, results seem to vary with this...)

Have they ???

Balls !! Looks like we shall never get an orange update then?

Whats the latest Orange firmware peeps have on theres?

172beast · Oct 8, 2006

Mine was on Orange, updated it myself to V4, gets rid of all the Orange s**t!

Has · Oct 8, 2006

172beast said:
Mine was on Orange, updated it myself to V4, gets rid of all the Orange sh*t!

My local Nokia Service Centre said they would for £10 at my own risk:

BUT it invalidates Nokia warrenty and OrangeCare for me.

Chris1.4RT · Oct 8, 2006

172beast said:
Mine was on Orange, updated it myself to V4, gets rid of all the Orange sh*t!

So how do you do this?

sn00p · Oct 8, 2006

jonesyx said:
snoop you are a legend! sms accellerator is genius!

no new firmware though for my orange n80 dont want to re-flash myself, might see if orange will do it in a shop

Orange won't because there is no V4 orange firmware to flash on. Nokia might, reports vary as to whether they'll do it and whether they'll charge you for the privilege of putting the generic firmware on.

A book place to find information on how you do it yourself is on www.allaboutsymbian.com

jonesyx · Oct 8, 2006

aye probably just do it myself then with the generic.

http://www.iphone-forum.org/ is good for guides as well.

bigmouk · Oct 10, 2006

Well i decided im not waiting any longer for Orange or Nokia to pull their finger out (as it will never happen me thinks) so took the plunge and flashed mine with the generic and luckily it worked fine.

Now on ...

v. 4.0623.0.41
26-07-2006
RM-92

Chris1.4RT · Oct 10, 2006

Could you possibly post a link to the instructions you used to do this please?

I don't want to follow potentially the wrong one and mess my phone up.

Cheers.

bigmouk · Oct 10, 2006

http://www.allaboutsymbian.com

Search for diego and phoenix on here for more info. There is a risk with flashing any device so be careful if you decide to go ahead as it could end up 'dead'.

Also search on google for n80 update / n80 firmware update. I got 3 different sets of instructions and compared them against each other before i went ahead aswell.

Andy_con · Oct 10, 2006

use www.nokiafree.org

bradus · Oct 11, 2006

RSi Dave said:
i love this phone but also hate it sooo much

I have got TomTom6 on mine, recently it just stopped working so i have uninstalled it and removed it... come to reinstall and it now says "Unable to Install"

So i have backed up the phone and reset it so it will allow apps to be reinstalled.

Only to find that the 1gb memory card which always randomly disappears when accessed has got corrupted... losing my images, videos (Ones from the Kooks most recent gig), music & applications. So i have had to reformat my memory card again.

Annoying, and now i cant even update to the latest firmware as it says its not available :S

do you have to pay for the tomtom6

or can you get it free

M1TCH · Oct 11, 2006

peeps, guessing the you need a nokia application version of tomtom 6 as apposed to a pda version where you can just install it?

RSi Dave · Oct 11, 2006

Mine is tomtom navigator 6, there is no mobile edition now just navigator!

And mine was FREE, just have to look in the right places

bradus · Oct 11, 2006

not understanding this

how do i put this on my phone explain in english please

M1TCH · Oct 11, 2006

f**k knows. just got those links off a site.

RSi Dave · Oct 11, 2006

Not sure about the above, if you want a working version PM me and ill provide the instructions.... it has to be for Symbian V9.1 and not Windows Mobile 5 (which is what PDA's use) even tho the name of the actuall software is the same.

Also them links will no doubt be removed soon.

N80 firmware update

172beast

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