The new OS/firmware seems better to me in most of the ways already described by others. With a backup and restore, the whole process took about 1/2 hour -- mostly because the "claws" mail program had to be reconfigured from scratch.Upgrades of my old palm lifedrive were so much more painful.
With the previous os, my N800 had to be reflashed three times due to the perpetual reboot problem, so
maybe I'm just really good at reinstalling. I do keep copies of all my application
packages on one of my SD cards to make the process go faster.
So far, I haven't noticed any negative changes, but even though I use my N800 a lot, I really only use a few of its capabilities. ( rss feed reader, opera, mediaplayer, pdf viewer, gizmoproject and claws ) Perhaps this is why I don't have anything negative to say about the upgrade.
I know this is really minor, but I really appreciate the change in the RSS readers icon since now it's easier to distinquish from the file browser, etc...
For what it's worth, I was impressed by how smooth the upgrading was.
Backup - download flasher and firmware from Maemo - flash - restore - done.
So far, the only place I've found where settings appear to have been lost is GAIM. Everything else seems to carry on seamlessly from where it was before.
Video is improved, as advertised, i.e. no (or at least much reduced) tearing. I haven't yet tried playing a video for longer than about 10 minutes, though, to see if that now works.
The camera app is nice - although I wish they would have made the Select button take the picture, as well as the touch screen button.
I didn't much change in snappiness, but I thought it was snappy before the upgrade anyway.
So far the upgrade has been only positive for me. If you do the backup first then the upgrade is very easy. About the only thing I had to do manually after the upgrade was to re-edit the .opera/input.ini file to get the page up/down button functionality I prefer.
There used to be some automatic reboots in the past (although only while idle), we'll see about that I guess. So far 'uptime' reports 2.5 days up.
Overall, looks like a mixed bag of results. At first I thought I could recommend the upgrade due to the bug fixes and performance tweaks but now I can't due to the issues I already reported.
It's great that some owners are experiencing little or no problems... but not good at all that others (like myself) are. Makes me wish I was in formal software QA...
It's really distressing because I am training several new users this week and wanted to use the new OS. Cripes.
I find that the camera app barely works..very slow and just not responsive at all..anyboday else find that?
Same here - unusable.
Quite often the OS will offer to close the Camera app as it's no longer responding. The Camera app manages to max out the CPU for some reason, possibly because it's buffering the image but at 5fps (and frquently much, much less) it's almost impossible to frame a shot. The lag between pressing the shutter button and the camera taking a picture means you always lose the shot. Also, the application quite often refuses to save a picture to SD card.
I would say it's a waste of time but others have obviously had some success, so I won't.
Overall, looks like a mixed bag of results. At first I thought I could recommend the upgrade due to the bug fixes and performance tweaks but now I can't due to the issues I already reported.
I'd agree - my opinion is that if you're not experiencing any problems with the current 2.2006.51-6/7 firmware, it probably isn't worth upgrading to 3.2007.10-7. While the video is a better and the lock screen works as it should, Flash is still unwatchable - other than that I don't see any great improvements, just new problems.
It's great that some owners are experiencing little or no problems... but not good at all that others (like myself) are. Makes me wish I was in formal software QA...
I wish you were there too! I also wish Nokia would consider a public Beta in future, with the ability for users to provide feedback prior to a final build release. It would go a long way to improving firmware quality.
