Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

can someone explain why (unlike the browser) one needs to press the key combo with "r" to rotate the screen in applications like sms/email and so on..?!

really a pity, should have been handled as an option, just like with the browser, would have been perfect

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

sorry for the probably dumb question but if one has boot menu installed how the hell can you access maintenance mode x_x holding "U" just refuses to work

gav

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

Do i really have to connect my N900 to the pc to update?

When I use the Nokia updater, it says that it can't connect because of two files that are needed which are, i don't know, maybe lost in space.

this is frustrating :(

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

@pressure- no, you can also do it via your mobile..go to the application manager and click on updates, the wizzard will tell you what to click next..takes about 10-15 min..

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

Hi i have 83MB on rootfs free and OTA still anywhere. What is wrong?

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

anyome has an idea when the pr1.2 update will be available in singapore.?

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

okaaayy!!! it has just been made available :D

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

Available to Greece Over the air. I flashed though because i didnt have much rootfs probably... Well good news from me till now, fmtx-faker still works but its accesible only from media player and not settings (not a big deal). FINALLY you can increase/decrease volume when phone is locked!!! The battery isnt that much drained after flash and about an hour of wlan connected and installing apps. What else? Ah, a big surprise for me: rootfs went to 96mb from around 33mb WITH extras-devel and extras-testing ENABLED!!! It goes over 100mb without them. And the virtual keyboard isnt as bad as it seems, i kinda liked it!

Edit: I miss the More... folder though :( ... Now all the time i click the Settings icon (its where More... was)...

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

Still same problem... Please??

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

i had to disable internet connection sharing to get the update..no OTA for me too..go to manage network connections and right click on yr active internet connection.look for sharing and disable it..worked for me

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

thx alot for helping but im affraid im way too much of a noob cuz I cant find no 'manage network connections' or 'sharing' kinda things:(.
Is that in Nokia PC Suite?

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

I too updated OTA (Greece) after i uninstalled a few apps cause it just refuced to do it all together when i first tried, it wasn't a rootfs issue, just some app that wasn't playing nice with the update...

Took a bit of time but it all went ok, no problems no reboots no drama this time around.

Good things i can report, the phone seems a bit more responsive, i like the new "global" search option directly from the hardware keyboard, as it's faster than fiddling with popup menus.
Ovi maps is much better and actually functional now, but still lacking that all important part of vocal directions.

On the third party apps i DEPEND on, epseakcaller works fine after i removed it and made a fresh install and my-menu works fine too, i find it much more usefull than anything nokia had to offer up untill now...

Bottom line, for me the N900 experinment is over, i bought this phone on January and 5 months down the road it is still missing things that are built in but never implemented, like the radio module (i don't care much about the transimter, even tho that's in there as well), video calling, now only implemented via Skype and Gtalk which is useless to me since i only use it to remotely check a 3G Cam i have setup...

I knew from the get go of all these problems and i do know that the N900 is firstly an Itablet and second a phone, still i am too old and have very little free personal time to be Nokia's beta tester...

I do love the fact that there are so many ppl in this community that are willing to put the time and effort to fix Nokia's problems without asking for anything in return and i have nothing but absolute respect for them and their work, but at the end of the day, it's all through trial and error for which as i said before i have no time....

I just hope the N8 comes in a more working order out of the box when it gets here...

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

ok this is bugging me now, OTA is asking me to back up my data via pc suit, but of course its not damn supported on ovi/ pc suit is it!
next i cant update via nsu because of the overclocked kernal so the app just closes
thirdly can manually flash because i have boot menu installed soo no maintance mode!, btw i cant find away to get rid of boot menu, its no use to me any more ...

gav

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

What? I don't have any nokia applications on my PC. Updating to 1.1 didnt cause me any problems like this.

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

i have 50 mb and its still not working :(

been there, done that. still not working.

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

This is been driving me crazy but i finally go it to update OTA

I didn't even know OTA was a choice it kept telling me to use nokia software updater. I installed it on 2 computers, tried the update, failed, flashed my n900 to orignal kernel, still failed

but what i think got it to work was that I uninsalled the following apps:
open arena, tick still, freoffice, brain party, and tux race
Thanks to the advice in the forums, and a few from this thread

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

jesus... after uninstalling 23 apps, it finally works.
i hope you dont mind that i didnt pay attention which app was the deciding one, as i was really starting to get angry.

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

no it doesn't. i can't update over the air. i try to but it just keeps saying in the prompt that i need to plug my N900 into a pc with a usb connector. why is it like that?

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

No matter how much I uninstalled or disabled catalogues, I could not get rid of the software updater message in the app manager.
Ended up moving /var/cache/apt/archives to /opt, after which apt-get dist-upgrade was perfectly happy. But the app manager still wanted the software updater.
So I did apt-get dist-upgrade from inside an ssh session over wireless LAN, which completed nicely, only asking me for confirmation for a single config file to be overwritten.
At the end of that, only one view was visible on my desktop, with all the widgets on top of each other, GSM functionality no longer worked and I couldn't establish a Skype call.
After a reboot, all seems well.

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

Not enough space in your rootfs, you will have to clear around 57/58mb to do it OTA, otherwise you will need to feflash either with NSU, or Flasher3.5.

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

Was a pain in the butt to free up the ~40 MB of rootfs necessary to do the package install (uninstalled everything from extras-testing/devel and still needed to resort to symlink magic to make it go), but ...

It works! Having a back button in browser portrait mode is great, finally frees up the "long press" of the camera softkey for bigger and better things.

I did find a minor regression -- doing ctrl+backspace (via shortcutd) when in browser portrait bounces you back to the desktop rather than the application dashboard. ..it's not the end of the world, I can press the button again.

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

How do I clear space in my rootfs?

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

I managed to do a OTA update with about 40mb free. I suspect, as others have reported, that the apps you have installed have as much to do with the success of the update as the free space.

In terms of the actual update, I've so far encountered no bugs and the performance of some apps (particularly the browser & email) seems significantly better.

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

I flashed my n900 which I got from usa with global pr 1.2 and is some what slow. Should I reflash it with usa firmware?

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

hmm i was downloading OTA and it reached 99% till it says Maemo 5 download failed! i rebooted my phone and went to download again and it only downloaded like 48kb and said somethin a fast message i duno if there was a word failed in it, but automatically after that my phone is getting updated right now , did any1 have the same experience ?

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

It was tuxrace that prefented my OTA update. After deinstalling it was no problem.
I am using the preinstalled 'Digital Nature' Theme, and realized that there are some bugs now under 1.2 (was not there before). sometimes the menue bar (e.g. when updating catalogues or in the calendar) shows some blue dots and there is some mistakes in rendering the background. The lock screen suddenly is blue behind the slider. I tried to install other themes and reinstalled it, same effect. Also realized that changing the default themes does not change the background anymore (I believe that was the cas in 1.1).

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

Does anyone know what the differences are between USA and Global firmware?

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

still the same problem..What is wrong????
OTA doesnt work as it says to connect to NSU(I deleted the recommended packages) and I just dont want to flash it. How mad is it that nokia cant even support a good update without having to **** with ur phone. Heard that flashing comes with shorter battery and a hot device...

Please help???

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

Where did you hear that? I thought that flashing was a solution to those problems.

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

Right, UK OTA updated without any issues. I can really see no differences as a user... as a developer yes it's nice to have updated libraries and qt but... really not much to see?

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

My battery level was worse yesterday than i have ever had it before, by the end of the day i hardly had any charge left on the device (no difference in widgets installed, probably less internet browsing than normal)

The device became quite warm to the touch only when i was downloading apps from the application manager.

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

Odd, im getting quite the opposite after my flash and vanilla'd emmc, massive battery life, great performance and handling pressure very well.

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

Ok, just to share my thoughts on this update: I did an update this morning (original firmware was the 2010.02-8 firmware). After making sure my rootfs was clean enough - and verifying it still (re-)booted correctly - I started the update.
The update itself seemed to go OK. Upon reflash:
* all fonts where replaced by [] (blocks)
* theming was totally gone (I saw a basic gray window with [] where the pincode window would be) but the button layout was largely the same
* upon loading X, in the left top corner a purple status bar was displayed, with no text/icons
* after a minute or so, the device rebooted itself

I also tried some other things, by e.g. using the camera button within that 'working minute'. This worked: the camera window appeared.
At one time even the browser appeared, but with a blank screen. In both cases it still rebooted. It thus seemed a GUI-restricted issue.

I reflashed the device using flasher3.5 (to the latest 1.2 update/Global ed.) and it worked.

Now I will have to restore all my settings; this is not for repetition and thus this will probably be my last update for the N900 (unless I reserve 2 weeks of my spare time to do the update). :mad:

(luckily I make a full / and /home backup each night, so with a lot of tweaking I prolly can get back a lot of my settings - let this be a warning however).

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

sander: Did you use the default theme before updating? Sounds a bit like issues with a custom font used by a custom theme.

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

I updated OTA here in Penang about 24 hours ago.

Got the usual 'Use a PC' message.
I used apt-get upgrade to figure out what's the problem. It was a couple of packages. gstreamer-plugins-extras-bad, fmtx-enabler & libgles1. I had to remove Extra Codec Support, FM Radio, Tuxrace, gltron & Brainparty to make it work.

Had 60MB free on root & the update took almost 20 minutes. But I was relieved when it completed without incident. Didn't loose any data, just some settings reset. I was surprised that even my custom boot video was still there.

I didn't notice any different is performance or stability, but love the new features. ;)

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

Hi,

I used either the alpha or beta, didn't use any other theme. In any case: the fact that it didn't show a correct font wasn't the worrying part, the fact that it rebooted was :confused:

I guess I could build a rootfs from what I have backed up, reflash and try again to see what was wrong (but this time with some preparation), but I hope that I am the only one with this problem :)

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

NSU still doesnt work and it still tells me to use NSU.
So I did the same as ontge.
Dunno what all happened then tough..At least it ended with 3 warnings wich had something to do with python2.5, python-support and py(-something else-).
What to do now??
I didnt delete the files yet cuz I dont wanna miss python when it doesnt work after all(know I can get it back with apt-get, right?)

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

Ok so this is the solution that I came up with for using OTA and MSU in combination. It's strange and the issue isn't with everyone but give it a go.

Solution to updating to PR1.2

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

allright guys another problem.
Why doesnt the backup app on Nokia PC Suite???
When I open it up it always says that there is no phone connected and that I need to connect it.
Very strange because NSU does detect it.
Communication centre doesnt work either:(

Re: Maemo 5 PR1.2 released: OTA in UK - May 25, flasher - May 25, OTA & NSU worldwide - May 26
 

It is strange but why don't you just create the backup on your phone?