2.2006.39-14 IT2006 available at maemo.org
 

Looks like there is new update available at
http://www.maemo.org/downloads/nokia_770

mentioned in https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=663
so BT keyboard crash is fixed

I there a "whats new" list for this update?

Bugzilla is down ATM.

http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-ann...er/000030.html

Here

"finger usage improvements?"

its also available if you use Nokia's Windows Update Wizard tool for those on Windows.

Anyone who tried it? I don't want to be first ;-)

Also, does it matter where I'm from or is this a universal release for Europe and the US?

No mention of a flash player upgrade. Grrrrr....

I think I'm going to sell my 770 and get a Q1...

Anyone get a chance to install it yet? I'm at work and won't be able to install it until later.

I'm trying now, it succeeded and I'm currently restoring my backup, I'll let you know...

Alternative download link:
http://www.nokiausa.com/support/phon...61,770,00.html

Looks like this was a house-keeping release; excellent! I'll dump it on when I get home and see if stability has improved much.

Any word on Opera Links being unresponsive for the first couple clicks?
Is the onscreen KB more responsive like it used to be in 2005? (Using the quick gestures for linefeed, space, etc takes multiple tries sometimes now)

As I just reflashed my 2006-OS yesterday (and went through all the throes of restoring apps, etc.,), how do I determine whether I downloaded and installed this latest one on my 770? Where on my 770 is this information contained. Dumb question, I know.

ascherjim It will say in control panles/device/about product.

YAY, flashing right now :-)

Do anyone know wheter or not the old kernel with NFS enabled will work with this release?

The new kernel is this: 2.6.16.27-omap1
Doesn't look much different, right?
Im gonna have to flash the mmc4 kernel now.

I just feel kinda stupid because i backuped my ext3-module on a ext3 partition.

Oh no, the mmc4 kernel does not work, the 770 goes into a reboot-loop.

Kernel is different, initfs seems to be a bit different too. I'd suggest to not to use any hack from my page. For kernel update we may need to wait for kernel sources. Last time it took few days.

Wiredless: Thanks for the quick response. I'd previously checked that Control Panel Device locale, but because it indicated that the present version (which I'd flashed yesterday) was presumably identified as 1.2006.26-8, and the new one according to fanoush is 39-14, I suspected that there might be some imprecision in the Device locale's information. Hence my query.

Fanoush: As I'm so dependent on your various "hacks," I indeed will wait until you and others have appropriately sorted all these matters out. What a slog! But not entirely unenjoyable -- and certainly educational.

There comes a ext3-module with the update but i can't insmod it: Unknown symbol in module (-1): No such file or directory.

I'm missing something here, probably really simple. I tried to use the Linux flasher found at and following the directions on <http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HOWTO_FlashLatestNokiaImageWithLinux>. Both as root and as ordinary user I get 'permission denied'. I still have a MS box available so I might try that but as many others I rely on programs written and put out by some many people I should probably wait. I'm assuming that this update will eventually show up under 'check for updates' in the App manager. I would like to sort out just exactly what it is I'm doing wrong with my Linux machine for future reference.
Peter

This may be helpful:

http://maemo.org/maemowiki/Flasher_t...4e85726b0d9ec1

Etaoin

Was painless with the Windows Wizard. I haven't noticed much difference although they still don't support bluetooth networking so I had to restore all those scripts back along with the root hacks.

Right scroll bar on the browser is missing. It's like Nokia don't have any quality control on this.

Thanks! I was looking at the wrong set of permissions. Doh!

right scroll bar appears fine for me.

Having had to reflash the 2006-OS yesterday and installing it on my new Kingston 2GB mobile MMC card and only partially then reinstalling all my applications before this latest OS "hit" us, I find that the only really complete and intact operating system I now have on which to rely is on my ext2 partition on my former1GB card. How great it is to have that as a backup operating system. Now, I can sit back and wait for further developments before trying a further upgrade.

Yes, it amazingly re-appeared after a couple of re-boots and changing the background from orange to gray. Somthing to do with the Tableteer home page code maybe. Anyway, alert over.

I am happy to report that there's a major improvement with opera (at least for me): a popular austrian news site, derstandard.at, now works for the very first time. It used to crash the browser whenever I tried it in the past, even with settings like "no images, no flash". - so, no more need for minimo... until minimo implements 90° screen rotation. ;-)

I am running the old 2006 OS (not beta, first release) and that webpage loads fine for me, nothing crashing. It could be maybe your cache was corrupted, and clearing it might have fixed it for you. Or maybe they changed there website?

Web surfing is definately snappier than in the previous binary.

impressive!

have noticed:
- feels snappier...
- handwriting input seems to be useful now...
- that bad bug with the virtual keyboard fixed..

but the old bug - 'close one window -> browser crashes and all windows are gone' is still there :-(

Strange - maybe I was too enthusiastic about the new release. :)

I'm quite sure I cleared the cache 2 or 3 weeks ago and did a comparison minimo/opera afterwards, with opera still crashing on derstandard.at. I also don't think they changed the site. But: derstandard.at includes a lot of ads in the most unusual places. Maybe crashing or not with opera depends on which ads (and how many of them) are there? Could be...

Has anyone else noticed a failure to access memory cards? It's showing that there's no card inserted.

Edit: Nevermind, just needed a reboot.

finally, as promised in the release notes, handwriting recognition appears to be much more reliable to be nearly usable! Not as much fastas the keyboard but almost...

The results of an intensive hour of tests: Opera crashed a lot more than before :( I was trying to access to the garage / app catalog to add again the repos (that the bacup didn't save :mad: )

And now it even won't connect to either my gmail account or my wife's :confused:

already thinking of flashing back the old image!

I backup my repository list by opening up an xterm, gaining root and copying everything in /etc/apt/ to a directory on the mmc card and then copying the sources.list file back after reimaging the device.

To copy it back after reimaging, you will need to reinstall becomeroot (or become root via some other means) and then install an xterm. I keep the .debs for most of the common programs I use in a directory on my mmc card, but it is nice to have the repositories in place for updates.

It took me about an hour and a half to rebuild my 770 to backup, flash and restore/reinstall all my apps. It would be really, really nice if Nokia provided a more comprehensive backup option...I am used to my HPC devices, which had the capability of doing a complete reimaging/backup restore in the field in a matter of minutes. The convenience on my Jornada 720 and Netbook Pro of being able to revert back to a "known good" config in a matter of minutes was a HUGE advantage for me.

No flash update [still v.6], No Google Talk update [file transfer? voicemail?], No significant Opera update [so it's a little faster], No Java [what will it take Nokia?].

All the improvements were minor with the exception of the web browser being a bit faster, and I'm still not sure how much of that wasn't because it cleaned the cache.

It wasn't really worth the time to get everything back to normal. Wake me up when we get an update that has a little more meat to it.

With such gushing release notes,
I wonder if I am really missing much by not flashing....
Things are just so fine with my current OS
I don't see the point!!


Release Notes
=============

Internet Call
-------------
o Volume level improvements
o Improved microphone background noise filtering

File Manager
------------
o Improved file handling operations:
e.g. moving files from folders between local device & MMC
o Added function to rename folders

Multimedia
----------
o Local playback of MPEG video improved
o Streaming of WAV improved

Browser
-------
o Improved stability
o Improved handling of streaming audio formats
o Patch for certificate signature verification

Connectivity
------------
o Improved quality of Bluetooth connections
o Improved quality of WLAN connections

RSS Feed Reader
---------------
o Added image support to previously saved feeds
o Fixes to memory leaks

Internet Search home applet
---------------------------
o Pre-installed Wikipedia search engine added

Memory Card
-----------
o Capability to use 2GB RS-MMC memory cards
o Possibility to rename the MMC-card

General Improvements
--------------------
o Improved device SW stability
o Finger usage improvements
o Localization fixes
o Improved stability of hand-writing and teaching of hand-writing

On behalf of the whole Maemo Team,
Ferenc

[1] http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HOWTO_Fla...ImageWithLinux


hmmmmmm, reconsidering my stubbornness,

should we flash it???



DC

Btw. does anyone else have to regularly restart opera because links stop working?