Nokia E61 upgrade firmware like N80?

i've been wondering if there was a way to fix the chinese english firmware to get the contacts to sort by first name last name. do you mind writing up some quick instructions for us to do this ourselves? i would greatly appreciate it.


thanks,
amish
 
My Treo also has excellent reception. I have NEVER had a SINGLE problem or issue with either the E61 OR the Treo 650, or for that matter, the Nokia 8801.

In downtown Toronto, where I live, the only phones that have had reception issues for ME are phones without the 850MHZ band.

Obviously there are variables where people use their phones and on which networks.
 
Thought I'd chime in on the reception discussion. My previous 3 phones were tri-band only (N70, 6680, and 6630). I get WORSE reception with my E61. I'm in California using Cingular Blue, BTW.
 
Hi folks,

Bought my phone out of Hong Kong (the one with !, &, - keys located at the top left corresponding to Q,W,E)

I am trying to find out which variant to use so that everything on the keyboard is correct?

Thanks in advance

BTW, whatever happened to that language list some were trying to build?
 
For this model with it's variant 05 (assuming you're using the instructions, etc. above). It's actually the English/ Spanish version.

Wow...do I feel spiffy. Now all I have to do is to get my PC Suite to work again.
Ummm...done ...thanks guys/gals
 
i get really good reception also. where i use to get low signal especially working in a hospital, theres no signal drop.also upon reading in the manual our E61s have 2 antennas.
 
Actually, yes it is.

I had a Samsung e730, a Samsung d500 and a Nokia 7610
(just 3 of many, many phones....) none of them had particularly good reception. None could penetrate high rise buildings well....the Samsungs would not work well if at all in supermarkets or shopping centers downtown (I am very rarely in the suburbs, so I don't know how a phone without 850MHZ band fares out there).


The 3 phones I have now have been pared down from MANY phones and one of the reasons is they all have excellent reception.
 
I should have said "any phone with 850." Of course 1900 will be crap in steel and concrete buildings, that's just the nature of the beast.

I'm surprised that the Samsung phones work well for you, as I've never found one that doesn't suck for reception, but I haven't tried many for that reason.

Either way, in suburban and rural networks, the e61, while still performing better than most phones, doesn't do as well as the 6230 or 6682. It seems more like a w600i to me. And it's still far better than the Samsungs and LGs I've used. At my house in Arkansas there's barely any signal at 850 or 1900. On phones with Net Monitor or field test, I see -95 to -100dBm signal strength. Many phones see no signal, while the ones I consider to have good reception can provide usable, but not perfect call quality and 60-100Kbps of EDGE, depending on the weather.
 
with E61 variants, here's what i've found -

V.5 - SPANISH
V.18 - Traditional Chinese (HK, strokes only, no phonetics) /Simplified Chinese
v.19 - Simplified Chinese only
V.20 - Malaysian, Filipino, etc (really just English)
V.15 - some really strange language to me... Egyptian maybe? *Some of you said this was Simplified Chinese.... dunno why we have two different results..*

Anyway on my list there are just two APAC languages I've yet to try - V.17 & V.21
I'm looking for phonetics (Traditional Chinese, Taiwan) still, so if someone's tried those plz let me know thanks.
 
Are you refer to the following sequence :

0524752 Euro-K1 BELARUS/MOLDOVA SILVER
????0530143 Euro-C ALS Silver
????0530144 Euro-D ALS Silver
????0530085 Euro-K1 RU Silver
????0530150 Euro-K1 UA Silver
????0530145 Euro-M ALS Silver
????0524755????Apac-R Silver SG
????0530645 Apac-S Silver AU/NZ
????0530646 Apac-S Silver INDO
????0533527 Apac-S Silver MY
????0530149 Euro-K1 LV/CIS Silver
????0532595 Euro-K2 LV/LT Silver
????0530021 Apac-P Silver
????0530022 Apac-Q Silver
????0530024 Apac-R Silver
????0530031 Apac-S Silver
????0530033????Apac-T Silver
????0523307 Euro-A Silver
????0530151 Euro-A2 Silver
????0529654 Euro-B1 Silver
????0529660 Euro-B2 Silver
????0529661 Euro-C Silver
????0529663 Euro-D Silver
????0529664 Euro-E1 Silver
????0530146 Euro-E2 Silver
????0530080 Euro-F Silver
????0530081 Euro-G1 Silver
????0532623 Euro-G2 Silver
????0530082????Euro-H Silver
????0530083 Euro-I Silver
????0530084 Euro-J Silver
????0530091 Euro-L Silver
????0530093 Euro-M Silver
????0530094 Euro-N Silver
????0530095 Euro-Y Silver
????0530096 Euro-Z Silver
So the variant 15 should be APAC-R which is Simpl. Chinese, may be in future whoever try out the langguage pack please put in the title like "APAC-T" ,it is easier for others reference.
Very appreciate for taking time to try out all the variant! You are great !!!
 
hi! thanks for joining the discussion. excellent to know that there are others who are also trying to figure this out. very cool..

sorry i should have been more clear in my explanation. the variant 15 i'm referring to is not going by the list you have there, but the language file number that you see at the flash screen on the 2nd row with the pull-down menu. for example, by default, my firmware is:

0529664 Euro-E1 Silver

if you check the language file name you would see a number ".... V5...", hence my reasoning that V.5 is english/spanish, exactly what my phone had came with. and if you check - 0524755 Apac-R Silver SG - you'd see that it's variant 19, same as 0530024 Apac-R Silver. both of these are simplified chinese. which goes to show that what really matters to us end users is the language file number.

during my process of reflashing the phone to traditional chinese, it was clear i should look for something with APAC-*... but if you check the language file number, you would notice that for all the APAC firmwares they associate ONLY with variants 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21. personally so far i've had experience with 19 (simplified chinese), 18 (traditional chinese HK) and 20 (malaysian, filipino, etc...). i've yet to try 17 and 21. my guess? well, there's still at least two major languages left in asia: japanese and korean. so they could probably fill that.

but i'd seriously love to hear if someone's actually tried that.... who knows, maybe i'd get lucky on traditional chinese (phonetics) on either one of those.

anyway... so to me the sequence of the list doesn't seem to matter too much because there's no specific reasoning behind the sequence, so this is what i've been following so far. heh, i could be thinking this all wrong, but this makes a lot of sense for me.

hope this helps! feel free to share some more
 
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