N95 Firmware Update and Backup/Restore
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.
January 7th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Hi Mike,
did the same but after restore there was nothing in the calendar! And I really need that! But as you are saying “after years and years or having my hopes and dreams dashed by mobile devices it’s no longer possible to disappoint me”: I restored the calendar (and others) from that very same N95 backup to my old 6630 instead and put the N95 back to its box…
Sad but true.
Cheers
TB
January 14th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Same happened to me. Boy is it annoying. You allow 2 hours to update the firmware and then you mess around for hours with the restore option. I tried it about 5 times, using older versions. The first time, the restore seemed to go perfectly, but there were no contacts, no messages.
So I tried with the next to last backup and that just stopped working with the CPU at 100%.
So I tried it again leaving it go for 25 minutes and it also didn’t work.
I like that Nokia produce new versions of their software, but why do they have to produce such cruddy backup software. It makes software updating practically unusable.
February 18th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Failure to restore backup data does seem to be an unfortunately common problem.
Nokia’s newly released N96 ships with S60 3rd edition - feature pack 2 supporting Firmware Over The Air (FOTA) which uses the data connection of your phone to download software updates. Perhaps this may solve some problems?
April 1st, 2008 at 3:41 pm
i got this n95 from my cousin and she cant remember the lock code how can i reset it of get into the phone
April 19th, 2008 at 3:18 am
I started software update for my nokia n95.
It downloaded the software without ant problems.
While installing it hangs after 15%
Unable to get it to work.
Any suggestions
Huneyd