My User Data Preservation experience on the N82

Well, I have been skittish about upgrading to 3.0 the last few weeks. The N82 is supposed to have user data preservation, meaning I can upgrade the OS (like in Unix) without loosing any applications or userdata. Painless and troublefree. Still the last weeks have been awfully busy and I could/would not survive without my black ninja. This weekend I finally had a spare hour left in case upgrading the firmware went wrong and a full reinstall was needed or worse at trip to Nokia Care.

Yet it survived, but not without a cliffhanger. Strangely the upgrade program said my phone upgrade went wrong and it needed to redo it. Again and again. I nearly went slightly mad from this deadlocked circle. But then decided to ignore the statement and after a reboot the new firmware was there. I verified it with *#0000# and it looked OK to me.

The phone seemed slightly slower first time after a reboot, and software that was first time accessed after the reboot took a bit more time to start. Yet it seems to work at normal speed now, and all configurations and software is still there and running.

Which is pretty awesome indeed. UDP is really a very nice feature. I can't remember how often I have upgraded the firmware of my N95 and reinstalled, synced and backupped that phone. Hours and hours of work, which now are no longer neccesary.

Nokia? Read this carefully! Never ever dare to built a phone without the UDP feature!

I might start billing you for unneccesary lost time ;^)

Comments

[Nikhil Chawla]

Oh dear oh dear....I must be the luckiest one then as I didn't get even a slight hiccup in updating my N82.It was as easy & smooth as inhaling fresh air :) Well,I wont deny that I was apprehensive about it as I hadn't read a positive review or a blog post saying it went successful.In fact, so many people had already bricked theirs that I had almost dropped the idea of going through the hassle of updating till a major update came by.Now,I can smile and say:
'All's well that ends well.'
And ya doubtful users who still haven't updated yet can count on Darla & Me that it went just ok..lol

Snoyt here: Never bricked a N95 and this is the first firmware update of my N82. Still UDP is pretty new for Nokia.

[Cj]

Random question here, but is your "Switch" Application working on your v30 firmware ?

Snoyt here: Did not test it. But it's there.

[Nikhil Chawla]

Yes CJ,its working the same way it used to.
Though I didnt find any major changes in this update other than these:

Music player is speedy-er.. Louder too. Equalizer helps out more. Messaging is notice-ably faster.But the sad part is that ASR is dead slow now I can count a second and half for it to flip to landscape.. "slow-ish". And something between 1.5-2 seconds to flip back.

And Snoyt,I totally agree with you that UDP is completely new territory for Nokia.Hope it betters with time :)

Snoyt here: The deadslow ASR is an 'improvement'. I suppose it is designed to filter 'involuntary' vibrations of your hand on the subway i.e.