All, pursuant to my comment, > 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. I went back and tested backup/restore and, lo and behold, the Nokia OS upgrade unborked backup/restore so that it now works! This has been a good weekend for me. Best Regards, John Holmblad Acadia Secure Networks, LLC John Holmblad wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
