N97 New V11 Firmware Official Changelog

Posted under Editorials on Tuesday, 30 June 2009 by jack

Just a day before Nokia said they will be releasing V11 Firmware for the new N97, an Official Changelog has surfaced. Thats right, an Official Nokia Changelog. There is hoax changelog doing the rounds, mentioning Multi-Touch would be implemented, but as said, this was a cruel hoax. Anyway, moving on, and the Official Changelog can be seen below, and although there are many bugfixes, thats pretty much all there is, but this is indeed a very welcomed sight giving the N97’s really buggy released V10 firmware. Us early adopters are all too familiar with early releases.

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

Source AAS via Serie N