Motorola CLIQs falling victim to latest firmware? (updated with official statement)
Haven’t willfully submitted to the CLIQ’s new update yet? Well, you might want to hold off, because it looks like the new code is causing more heartache than good. A variety of reports on T-Mobile’s official support forums echo the same overarching complaint, which is that messaging is a disaster zone ever since version 1.3.18 took hold — long freezes when using the messaging app or widget, messages not getting sent or being sent multiple times — basically all the things you really don’t want to happen on a device that touts its social connectedness. For what it’s worth, we’ve personally seen this happen on a CLIQ since the update, so we know there’s something going on here; T-Mobile says that the complaints have been “forwarded… to the appropriate people,” so hopefully we’ll see some resolution soon. In the meantime, users experiencing issues are advised to not perform a master reset — important advice, considering that’s one of the first fixes many users might entertain.
Update: Follow the break for the full details from Motorola — it looks like a date issue where the year gets stuck on 1969 is priority one for them, but they’ve got a workaround set up until a new OTA update’s ready. Messaging issues may be alleviated by clearing out your backlogs — if you’ve got too many old messages, it sounds like this could be bogging things down.
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Motorola CLIQs falling victim to latest firmware? (updated with official statement) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Palm’s official webOS 1.4 changelog leaked?
You know what’s running out? February. That’s a little alarming considering that Palm had promised that totally rockin’ new cut of webOS, 1.4, before the month was out — but while we wait for this thing to actually happen, at least we’ve now got an official (or official-looking) changelog of the build out of the good folks at PreCentral. Besides a host of bug fixes, 1.4 is said to have performance boosts within the phone and calendar apps, a handful of messaging enhancements, new email sorting options, custom alert sounds for reminders (finally!), and — of course — the addition of video recording and Flash support on the Pre. Interestingly, it won’t have Flash out of the box — you’ll still need to download it from the Catalog, it seems. Head on over to PreCentral for the full log, and read really, really slowly just in case you’ve got a few more days to wait on this stuff.
Palm’s official webOS 1.4 changelog leaked? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Microsoft: Windows Phone 7 upgrades will be possible, up to OEMs to make them happen
Alright, keep your socks on here, this is as noncommittal a statement as Redmond can make on the matter, but when asked directly about the likelihood and possibility of Windows Mobile 6.5 phones being transitioned to the new hotness that is Windows Phone 7 Series, Microsoft’s Alex Reeve had this to say:
It’s early days yet, and that’s really for our hardware partners to think about.
As the Director of the company’s UK Mobile Business Group, he’s well positioned to know what’s going to happen after said early days, and it’s encouraging to hear that at least Microsoft won’t be putting up any barriers to that HD2 upgrade we’re all dreaming about. After all, the Chassis 1 specs we keep hearing about tend to sound an awful lot like HTC’s 1GHz Snapdragon-powered bad self, so let’s keep our fingers crossed and our minds open.
Microsoft: Windows Phone 7 upgrades will be possible, up to OEMs to make them happen originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nokia VP: N97 taught company some tough lessons
It’s unusual for a company to publicly admit its shortcomings — particularly a company as big, proud, and resolute as Nokia generally seems to be — but an All About Symbian / Mobile Industry Review joint interview with Anssi Vanjoki, vice president of markets, at MWC last week painted a very different picture with regard to Espoo’s views on the maligned N97. Though he says that the phone absolutely met the company’s goals for sales volume and revenue, it was a “tremendous disappointment in terms of the experience quality for the consumers and something [they] did not anticipate.” This isn’t a sob story, though: he uses the opportunity to note that they’ve completely closed the gap on software quality for the flagship device, launching new firmware first in Norway where the response has been positive. Considering that the N97 was announced way back in 2008, there’s realistically nothing Nokia can do to give the phone a second wind atop the lineup, but Vanjoki seems genuinely convinced that they’ve learned some hard lessons and swallowed some tough pills throughout its life cycle — and those lessons will bear fruit when Symbian^3-based products roll around. Here’s hoping.
Nokia VP: N97 taught company some tough lessons originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Motorola CLIQ updated, Android 2.1 still MIA
Sitting somewhere between that accidental update from a few weeks back and an honest-to-goodness cut of Android 2.1 lies this puppy, a new official build for Motorola’s CLIQ versioned 1.3.18. By all appearances, this is basically a smoothed-out, refined version of the first CLIQ upgrade from early December, featuring further improvements to battery life and both touchscreen and accelerometer accuracy, but they’ve also managed to squeeze in QuickOffice 2 and better support for corporate email accounts. Though we’d prefer Eclair, of course, we’ll take what we can get — and technically, we’re not even due for 2.1 yet anyhow. The upgrade’s being pushed as a phased rollout — as virtually all Android updates seem to be — so if you haven’t gotten it yet, keep checking every ten seconds or so (and if people think you’re acting strangely, just claim that you’re getting a ton of text messages — it usually works for us).
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Motorola CLIQ updated, Android 2.1 still MIA originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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New Nexus One ROM leaks, fixes more radio issues?
Remember that hand-waving trick that got a Nexus One to give up the 3G ghost way, way too easily? Well, we don’t want to pop the champagne just yet, but there’s a new non-over-the-air firmware update floating around that includes yet another radio bump among its sundry features, suggesting HTC isn’t quite done yet tuning this thing to get proper HSPA without freaking out from time to time. Whatever this update is, it may never see the official light of day in its current form — it includes Google Maps 3.4, for one thing, while Google’s already gone ahead and upped the ante to 4.0 for Buzz support — but at least it seems engineers aren’t done trying to make this thing work properly.
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New Nexus One ROM leaks, fixes more radio issues? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
HTC Hero update to Android 2.1 pegged for mid-March
We’ve known for ages that HTC’s been working on yanking its custom-skinned Hero off of Cupcake’s rusty frame, but so far, the only way to drop Android 2.0 or 2.1 on your phone has been to cheat, root, and load a custom or leaked ROM in place of the official first-party firmware. If you’re too straightedge for that, though, keep the faith — your binary isn’t too far off. PR released today indicates that we can expect the Hero to get an Android 2.1 update with Sense in “mid March” according to HTC’s Benelux team, and it’ll feature a new Friend Stream widget that aggregates user updates across services (presumably a nod to Blur), tweaked Exchange support, and a handful of other goodies. This isn’t necessarily indicative of when Hero versions in other regions (Sprint’s version, for instance) will pick it up, but it’s a solid start.
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HTC Hero update to Android 2.1 pegged for mid-March originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.