One of the things I did while I was over at Russ’s earlier was update the firmware on my N95. I grabbed the Nokia Software Update thing, backed up my phone to the memory card, and let the update do it’s thing. Worked well, even though I was using Vista. Happy day!

However once my phone started back up I wasn’t able to restore from the backup. When I go into the Memory app and choose “restore from card” it kicks out of the application, hangs completely unresponsive for a few seconds, and then reboots. Let me say that again. After doing the firmware update I can no longer restore from backup. Yea, I’m as confused as you.

Fortunately after years and years or having my hopes and dreams dashed by mobile devices it’s no longer possible to disappoint me. So I just used iSync to get my contacts and calendar entries back on the phone. I’ll just manually have to reconfigure the settings and reinstall applications. Just wanted to share this odd experience in case you’re thinking about doing the update. I would highly recommend having a secondary backup for anything you want to actually keep. Wow.