All. after reading the thread started by Dimitry Makovey and entitled "WIFI Borked after Update", I hit the (mental) "Pause" button on the idea of going ahead with updating my N800 with the ~33mb OS update from Nokia that was published a few weeks ago. I took some time to see what other (intrepid) pioneers of this OS update would have to say on the thread started by Dimitry about their experience. Once I read enough (but without enough time to read and ponder all of the posts in that thread) I decided to go a head and "let er rip". Maybe I was lucky this time but, for my N800 the OS update seems to have worked although there is a new window on my "IT top" that informs me that "Video Center is here". I will figure out what that means when I get some time to do so. My decision to do the upgrade was made somewhat more risky due to the fact that, for some reason, the backup/restore utility on my N800, it would seem, and to use Dimitry's language, is itself "borked". Nonetheless I pushed th "lets do it" button on the upgrade. Now that the upgrade seems to have worked, and the 802.11 interface is still operative, I will go back and see if the upgrade somehow "fixed" (we all know that such fixing CAN happen even when it is not an announced part of a given upgrade) what ever caused the borking of the backup/restore utility. My caution in "committing" to this upgrade derives from the fact that I actually need to be able to use the N800 for daily business purposes and, my only mobile fall back option is to use the tiny screen of a Windows Mobile based handset with a much more limited browser, Internet Explorer Mobile. Thus, although I have put a number of apps on this device, I have not used it as an experimental system by any stretch of the imagination, nor have I "bored and stroked" this device as some on this list have done in order to explore its outer limits. I want to thank Dimitry and the other "pioneers" who got borked for sharing their experiences and for the Nokia folk for rushing into the breach to figure out what happened in his particular case. It looks like this time, at least, I won't be spending the better part of a weekend restoring a device borked by a failed upgrade. And that is a good thing. -- Best Regards, John Holmblad Acadia Secure Networks, LLC <mailto:jholmblad@xxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
