N9 - help to resolve some issues?
 

Hi, I've had an N9 for several months. Australia, no contract, Australian warranty, currently used with Telstra prepaid. It's been updated to 1.2. I did buy it used.

I'd really appreciate a pointer or two to help resolve these issues:

1. When receiving a text message, I get a notification. Several times. When I go to look at messages, the newly-received message is not tin the list. I close everything, and continue to receive more notifications. Yet none of them show up in the messages app.

2. Received phone calls sometimes show up as being received from a different person. Can you imagine your GF named say Sophie wanting to know why you receive so many calls all the time from your workmate named Eliza? It takes a while to explain. (I could have gotten a free phone out of that one, finally, but I persist with the N9 anyway.)

OK, those are the real problems. Everything else works great! I love this phone... except that the basic stuff doesn't work properly! Navigation - awesome. Email - no probs. Web - OK it's very slow, but it works. Music - sounds great, although I haven't figured out yet why I can use headphones but can't plug it into my car. Tethering - fantastic, no more silly USB sticks into my laptop.

But as a phone? It sucks. Making and receiving calls is great, but the simple ability to show who recent calls are actually from and a list of received text messages just doesn't work.

This can't be right. I have no problem with Unix or using a shell. But I don't know where to start with this device. Or if it's worth the time to do so.

a. Does it work properly for others here?
b. What do I need to do to make this one work right?

Any help appreciated... :)

JohnR

Re: N9 - help to resolve some issues?
 

Since you bought it used you never know what may/may not be present. My advice to you is flash to pr1.3 using the comprhensive flashing guide...Best is to flash with a PR_LEGACY 001...head over to the thread to learn whatever you need to do...

Once done, your phone should be spanking new and these irritants would not be present anymore...

Re: N9 - help to resolve some issues?
 

Hi, thanks for the pointer. I followed the guide and went to http://www.btusers.com.ar/nan/nokia/. There are a lot of php errors there, and I wasn't able to get past "Check!". I'll try the Windows downloads tomorrow on a VM.

Re: N9 - help to resolve some issues?
 

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=82693

This is the thread you should be looking at...

Re: N9 - help to resolve some issues?
 

The Comprehensive Flashing Guide referred to can be found here:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=82693

When you search for things here, use Power Search, not the search at the top. Or use google.

Edit: Oops, he beat me.

Re: N9 - help to resolve some issues?
 

Thanks guys, I went to that link and in the section "DOWNLOAD FIRMWARE (N9 SPECIFIC)" I go to the subsection "Any OS:" and click on the link labeled " Nokia Firmwares". Errors as noted above.

My phone seems to be already at the latest update. On the Settings -> About product, it says:

Nokia N9
MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan

Version
PR1.3
(40.2012.21-3_PR_005)

I'll try reflashing on Windows.