I wonder. Have the UK delays/testing got anything to do with the cherry mess?

Last time we got 1.2 before Vodafone etc had managed to even test let alone make the package to lock their pone. The Vodafone forum was full of people complaining almost 2 weeks after the 1.2 release got sent to generic phones like mine and others. This is probably Nokia trying to be nice to operators and making sure they are on side. Forgetting that punters couldnt give a rats *** about operators that generally rip us off and charge us for FUD data usage thats bollox. I hope Nokia doesnt delay anymore, but I get a feeling with the likes of Vodafone UK, this could take a while :/

That may not be an insurmountable problem ...

Nokia-N900-51-1:~# apt-get install mp-fremantle-generic-pr modest-providers-data
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprint2.2-0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
adobe-flashplayer as-config-applet-0 as-config-applet-l10n-cscz

[... many more packages ...]

telepathy-spirit telepathy-stream-engine testserver theme-default-settings-mr0
tracker tracker-utils
Suggested packages:
as-daemon-doc libomxil-bellagio0 locales glibc-doc libqt4-dev ca-certificates
osso-mediaengine perl pulseaudio-utils pavumeter pavucontrol paman
rtcom-messaging-ui-themes-naba sqlite3-doc evince djvulibre-bin gnumeric
Recommended packages:
connui-connection-manager osso-thumbnailer-libid3 libcanberra-gtk-module xml-core
pulseaudio-module-x11 paprefs padevchooser unzip wv xsltproc w3m untex o3read
The following packages will be REMOVED:
clockd-settings-205 hildon-application-manager-settings-205
hildon-desktop-applet-settings-205 hildon-desktop-application-shortcuts-205
hildon-input-method-data-205 location-settings-205 maemo-icons-205
maemo-ringtones-205 mafw-iradio-source-bookmarks-205 modest-providers-data-205
mp-fremantle-205-pr osso-rss-feed-reader-feeds-205 tablet-browser-bookmarks-205
theme-default-settings-205
The following NEW packages will be installed:
clockd-settings-mr0 dsme-thermalobject-surface
hildon-application-manager-settings-standard hildon-desktop-applet-settings-mr0
hildon-desktop-application-shortcuts-mr0 hildon-im-plugin-base-settings
libconninet0 libconnsettings0 libgq-gconf0 libqt4-declarative libqt4-translations
libqtm-bearer libqtm-contacts libqtm-location libqtm-multimedia
libqtm-publishsubscribe libqtm-sensors libqtm-serviceframework libqtm-systeminfo
libqtm-versit location-settings-default maemo-ringtones-mr0
mafw-iradio-source-bookmarks-default modest-providers-data
mp-fremantle-generic-pr n900-fmrx-enabler osso-icons-default
osso-rss-feed-reader-list qtm-maemo-metapackage tablet-browser-bookmarks-mr0
theme-default-settings-mr0
The following packages will be upgraded:
adobe-flashplayer as-config-applet-0 as-config-applet-l10n-cscz
as-config-applet-l10n-dadk as-config-applet-l10n-dede as-config-applet-l10n-engb

[... many more packages ...]

telepathy-spirit telepathy-stream-engine testserver tracker tracker-utils
1004 upgraded, 31 newly installed, 14 to remove and 16 not upgraded.
Need to get 91.6MB of archives.
After this operation, 21.6MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

Pressing enter should be OK, right?

Depends on what order it does things, and how you are for disk space. Theoretically it should work though.

I get:

'Package mp-fremantle-generic-pr is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source'....


:-(

If you're trying to change the firmware variant, you'll need to change the SSU repository first (or add the global one) - I think it uses mr0 instead of 203 in the URL.

So let's just confirm - we can use this method to completely switch from the UK generic firmware (i.e 203) to the global firmware without having to flash the N900?

I'm certainly not confirming that. Theoretically, it should work though. According to another post from someone that did it, there's a lot of fixing issues & rerunning apt-get required, so it's probably not a good thing to try for novice users. It's also still rather early to be sure that there's no longer-term issues.

>longer-term issues

Yeah, that's what I was wondering

im in the uk and i got my update on the 25th? carphone whorehouse rules!!