i am with vodafone but my phone was obtaned from onestop(carphone warehouse) and came un-branded with version 203 so i cant blame vodafone. i can though blame vodafone for shutting down there email service and for the outgoing smtp servers that dont work. heehee. hopefuly we will see this tommorow.

generic simfree handsets carry global firmware.

205 is voda product code, firmware currenlty is the same as global but in the future if voda wants to add anything to it like a logo..etc they can as they have their own product code hence why the firmware shows 205 in the string

i have not....

(reporting live from uae!!) hi all, this is the first update that bricked my device . Earlier updates were really smooth. This update actually installed and rebooting message for the device also showed up, but when the device restarted, it never got to the desktop, instead it used to progress to the nokia's connecting people video and than rebooted again. I tried removing and inserting battery and trying again but same behavior. So this also became my first time that i had to flash my device (using windows 7 32 bits). Flashing the device was awefully simpler than i had imagine it would be, just 2 downloads and a single console command line did the magic (but someone tell me whats with this asking for IMEI number while downloading the bin file??).
Btw, to my surprise, flashing does not completely remove everything from the device. My contacts are still there, bookmarks too, all songs are there. But my installed applications are all gone, but will install them no problem (rootsh to go first of course).

I dont know if speed has improved or not, but here I noticed something good: i launched the media player and started listening to songs, and browsed few websites like wired.com, gmail.com (full version), and the most processing intensive google wave, and there was no feel that anything was slow. My earlier experiences have been that media player skipped when i used to be browsing, but this time it kept playing smoothly.

So it was a good experience overall, although few hours were scary ..

wish u all good luck updating

Ps: writing this on my freshly flashed and shiny n900, showing 75mb on / !!

yeah thats the point that has to be if you like some help.
but as i know me checked phone told me use nsu, nsu told me nope not available. so i said ok the hard way use flasher
so i did that too

one experience more

is it going to keep everyone in the UK awake until the fw update lands??? GO TO BED lol

Not so. Mine is a Generic Simfree handset, but it has the 'UK Unbranded' 203 product code firmware, NOT the global firmware.

There appears to be no info out there about what difference there is between this version and the Global version.

My handset was from Nokia retail UK - unbranded, unlocked, from Nokia. It has code 203, not global firmware (yet...)

I can guess this may also be a placeholder for future. Considering switching to global but may wait until tomorrow first.

This rootfs things is a PITA. WHilst I could move files about I was worried future package updates could fail due to the sym links. I ended up removing several apps, with qt4, google latitude & midori significant contributors to rootfs usage.

such external battery charger wich one from ebay?!?! So many out there ..

??? - might need to quote the post you are replying too - this thread is moving fast