Trying the E61 Firmware Update

I just installed the firmware update for the E61. That’s right, all by myself I installed it. No sending my phone away or figuring out where the hell a Nokia Service Center is in the US. That itself rocks, thank you Nokia. I definitely appreciate it.

As for the firmware, the update was a bit weird. After restoring from a backup to the phone I found a bunch of the weirdness, like settings that don’t get restored for active standby, different settings for the browser (not even sure where those came from). And some of the apps didn’t come back. I’m not really sure which ones did and which ones didn’t. Fortunately I keep just about all my apps in my inbox so that when someone says “oooh, cool, where did you find that” I can just send it to them. So I just reinstalled from there.

It does seem a whole lot more responsive now, a whole lot more. We’ll see if that keeps up as time goes on. I need to check out the email client and see if the IDLE support is any better. And if it deals with disconnects without freaking out. I’m trying out the podcast client again also. I never was able to get that to automatically update more than once without hanging indefinitely (where indifinite is greater than or equal to 5 days, the longest I had waited to see if it would manage to figure out how to update on it’s own). I’ve also been experiencing the menu shortcuts issue where you have to hold down the blue function key. I definitely need to hold down the blue function key while pressing the keypad button. Changing the mapping layout is good, but requiring two hands to access the shortcut cancels that out and then some. That’s just dumb.