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Uprock415 is offline Uprock415
2010-02-11 , 08:50
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To be honest I'm just scared I might ruin what's working so well so far for me. Everything works just fine as it is, but I keep reading issues of the loop of reboot death, videos not playing, and other things. All it does is convince me to stay with the version I have... the ver before 1.1

I just need to man up I guess, or stick with what I have?
 
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2010-02-11 , 08:52
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i guess its advised that you do .. the old update maybe required for going to any future updates ...
 
johnel is offline johnel
2010-02-11 , 09:04
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Originally Posted by Uprock415 View Post
To be honest I'm just scared I might ruin what's working so well so far for me. Everything works just fine as it is, but I keep reading issues of the loop of reboot death, videos not playing, and other things. All it does is convince me to stay with the version I have... the ver before 1.1

I just need to man up I guess, or stick with what I have?
I feel exactly the same!

I am dependent on my n900 and have been using it quite heavily over the past couple of months. I'm happy enough with it.

I have been working in I.T. for many years and one thing you should never do is perform these upgrades lightly!

I know Nokia will be releasing the 1.2 update soon - I will wait until it is released - gauge the reaction to it and maybe perform the upgrade.

If the 1.1 upgrade is needed first then I suggest you find out what problems it causes and then find out what workarounds are needed to fix them.

The 1.1 upgrade has been out for a while now - learn as much as you can about it and apply the upgrade.

beware: once you upgrade you cannot rollback to the previous version.

Before you do anything make sure you back-up your important data first!

That's what I will be doing!
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2010-02-11 , 10:51
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Absolutely no issues my end and i'm swimming in testing and dev applications at the moment. Had a marked battery increase of appx 2 - 4 hours depending on usage.

- i think it entirely depends on how the device is used to feedback
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soravhoney is offline soravhoney
2010-02-11 , 11:01
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Better you don't do at this time
I also didn't update my device for the same reason if got dead after or while update. and moreover I am in India and if something gone wrong I wouldn't be able to return or repair it from any Nokia care centre as it is not launched here yet.
Other important consideration may be that Nokia might be aware of this kind of non-sense occuring with the update, so might be a possibility they fix their this issue that no device get dead, bricked due to their next update for the same,
so better wait for update 1.2 and moreover there isn't something very very good in 1.1, just few things enabled for device
and there is no case that you won't be able to update directly to 1.2 from 1.0 without 1.1, With NOKIA SOFTWARE UPDATER it can be resolved, but might there be problem with flasher softwares.
 
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2010-02-11 , 11:04
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Note that if you're still running PR1.0 there's a known "bricking" bug.

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6350

So in fact at this point you might even have a more slight change of it getting bricked if you keep using PR1.0 than if you update.
 
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2010-02-11 , 11:31
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WoW how can you people live without PR 1.1? 1.1 is a whole new experience!
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Uprock415 is offline Uprock415
2010-02-11 , 15:56
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Originally Posted by johnel View Post
I feel exactly the same!

I am dependent on my n900 and have been using it quite heavily over the past couple of months. I'm happy enough with it.

I have been working in I.T. for many years and one thing you should never do is perform these upgrades lightly!

I know Nokia will be releasing the 1.2 update soon - I will wait until it is released - gauge the reaction to it and maybe perform the upgrade.

If the 1.1 upgrade is needed first then I suggest you find out what problems it causes and then find out what workarounds are needed to fix them.

The 1.1 upgrade has been out for a while now - learn as much as you can about it and apply the upgrade.

beware: once you upgrade you cannot rollback to the previous version.

Before you do anything make sure you back-up your important data first!

That's what I will be doing!

So true. I've had mine since the first week of January and everything is fine. I've been reading the initial problem reports of 1.1 and that's the only thing scaring me. I'll do more prodding and decision making.
 
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2010-02-11 , 16:05
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It's the same as with any software really. You need to weigh up the costs & benefits of upgrading vs the costs & benefits of not upgrading. If you're not troubled by any of the issues that were fixed in PR1.1, and are concerned about issues that have been found since PR1.1, then don't upgrade. But don't be surprised if, when you do have any issues, the first advice is to upgrade.
 
davidh101 is offline davidh101
2010-02-11 , 16:16
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I think the upgrade is worth it, although mine died in the process of using NSU to perform the update (I got bored after 2 hours and pulled the cable out).

I quickly learnt how to use flasher-3.5, a great tool to perform the upgrade manually, and completely seamless.

For me, the enhancements in Mail for Exchange were the reason to upgrade, but I think that there are many reasons to go with the update, certainly worthwhile.

......and if things do go wrong, there i a very active communicty here waiting to help, and they have been far more supportive than similar ones for other devices I have owned
 
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