Last week, Nokia released new firmwares for the Nokia N79 and the Nokia N85, both solid candybar smartphones.  This new firmware, v20.175 seems to fix lots of little niggling issues that were present in the previous firmware, including:

Fixed Bugs in Nokia N79;

- Accessing to SIM Card Contacts is Fixed
- Music will play when you receive SMS in Silent Mode
- Audio is correctly routed from headset to speaker when receiving a SMS message
- Nokia Maps application problem was causing Phone hang. This problem is also Fixed!

New Features;

- Bookmarks updated to remove Download link folders
- Email Plugin functionality is improved
- Files support in OVI Widget
- Media Player in Nokia N79 will come with new settings
- 7-bit encoding is available in Turkish Characters
- Memory card ID change for Indonesia CTR’s. was MC001 and changed to –> MC002
- TP Wizard to check availability of Nokia email service

SW improvements and corrections:

Active Idle
- Search & WLAN information difficult to read in Active Idle
- Active Idle screen becomes blank in landscape mode
- Default Active Idle shortcuts configured
- Active Idle going dead after quickly accepting and rejecting an incoming video call
- White boxes shown on the screen while doing orientation change quickly in idle mode

Application Manager
- The sis file which is installed to MoviNand or SD card cannot be seen in application manager.
- Wrong Feature Manager flag used for seamless link functionality.
- Flashlite sis installation is not successful in the first attempt.

Application Update
- Unable to upgrade graphic icons in Media Player / Media Settings via sis file.
- Unable to upgrade ROM based UI application by installing new version to memory card.
- Application Update self-update never completes.
- Upgrade of BrowserAudioVideoPlugin.rsc via sw installation is not possible.
- Upgrade of Connection Manager via sw installation is not possible.

Audio Performance
- Tunings improvements for IHF audio.
- Keypad tones cannot be tuned for IHF.

Auto-Rotate
- UI Accelerator toolkit (Hitchcock/Alfred) stub file missing.
- Locking keys and then opening camera reveal confuses orientation sensor.
- Disable orientation in alarm ringing, incoming call and semi active state.
- Panic after orientation change.

Bluetooth
- Bluetooth headset disconnects when Wireless Keyboard is disconnected from the phone automatically.
- Phone panics when changing views in Bluetooth menu while choosing the last connected device from paired view.

Probably the key features out of that list are the ability to flip the phone over to silence incoming calls and alarms (this has traditionally involved using 3rd party software), Nokia’s email wizard and the inclusion of email notifications on the Active Standby screen.

Of course, as always, this is only currently available for the generic Nokia product codes, with both Orange and Vodafone’s Nokia N85 firmwares still only offering v11.047.

Changelog information courtesy of Symbianv3.com.

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