Nokia 5800 XM NAM(850/1900): Reviews, Issues, Tips, Tricks & Support Thread!!

I'm quite disappointed with Nokia, that v21 would be released to Europe months ago, and NA gets absolutely nothing.

Slower support doesn't surprise me because NA is not Nokia's market, but Nokia must be putting no effort into NA firmware if it takes 3 months to port European firmware to NA models.

At this point we'll probably always be at least one firmware version behind.
 
This is exactly what I need to know about. I will be forced onto the group plan which are all iphone plans. I would like to be able to just pop the sim out of the iphone and put in in my 5800, and still have everything work right. Can someone else verify this?
 
Crap, Just happened again tonight. This time I noticed in the middle of my phone call that the screen had not darkened like its supposed to. Continued talking and then tried to hang up. Only after pulling the memory card was I able to power off the phone and re-start. Crap :mad:
 
Also if you go into type a text with the number pad, that pad has the letters on it, but you have to go back to the dialer to dial the number. I bet they will fix this in a firmware update.
 
i dont buy that excuse for a second! put it this way, every other phone nokia has EVER made, including ALL EURO versions, have had the ability to DIAL LETTERS. suddenly they forget it on their touch screen phones, and now suddenly the excuse is "well, we dont use that anyway, that's why nokia removed it." BULLSH#T. nokia has put it on every phone since beginning of time! they just plain forgot this feature. all there is to it.
 
I dunno.. I did exactly the same thing and had no problem.Actually it's second time I did it,FW31.. was obtained the same way long before this update was officially available for NAM.
It happens sometime that the same experiment staged in two different labs brings opposite results.
 
Colored lines is what the problem is. When the phone gets cold, it does this. Hard to say what temp it goes retarded at, but even at room temp my screen goes barcode style.
 
Custom Firmware I have the pleasure of using that I found on the 'Mart

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they just release another firmware (v50) for the 5800 so it is still "current".
for the price and features of the 5800 i would not hesitate to recommend it to you!
 
The phone always disconnects during updates. That's normal. I just let it run and it completes. I think once I had to hit retry, but it always seems to find the phone and complete in spite of the disconnect warning.

I've flashed a bunch of times and this is how it goes...

Hit Start and the update begins downloading. Progress bar appears and estimated time to finish is somewhere around 12-15 minutes.

After only a few minutes (far less than the estimated time) the phone's screen turns black and I get a disconnect warning.

Immediately after that the phone screen lights up all white (blank). Time to finish estimate gets erratic.

A few more minutes go by with the blank white screen. I hear multiple connect/disconnect sounds from Windows, like it is trying to reconnect, but get no indication that anything further is happening.

Eventually the phone screen goes dark and then white again, only now it says:
v 40.2.005 (or whatever version you are flashing)
Local mode
NOKIA

Then shortly after that NSU says it's done and the phone reboots.

I think once I got a warning about pulling the battery, but I just hit retry and it completed. Oh, and once I got some kind of Windows driver error, and I hit cancel update and the phone rebooted into the old firmware.

As for your troubles, could it be Win7? I dunno... with Windows anything is possible. Were you running PC Suite or Ovi Suite? How long did you wait before pulling the battery and trying again, and did you try just hitting "retry" in NSU? Could be you were just impatient.

Changing your product code previously should not be an issue. And yes, Nokia can tell if you changed your product code, even if you change it back later. I've heard mixed reports about Nokia Service. Some say sending in a phone with an altered product code doesn't matter, while others have said they had trouble. Probably depends on who happens to look at your phone.

Sorry you had problems. :(
 
IMO Nokia could do that simply by doing what the do with the dialer pad, ask if we wanted it up. If you go to your voicemail they give you the option of a dialer, why not an option for a small dpad?
 
I have a 5800XM - PC 0577454. Just used Nokia Software Updater to get to version 31.2.101.

I haven't decided yet whether to wait for the version 40 firmware update for 0577454 or change my PC and try one of the other updates ... I can be patient, i guess. my BIG question is .... I want/need to be able to see and write chinese characters on the phone. What is the best way (or easiest way) to achieve that??

Thanks.
 
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