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History for the Nokia 6680 phone firmware.
Changes when upgrading from firmware 2.04.15 to 3.04.11
Nokia Mobile Phones Service Bulletin No.SB-010/26.05.05
Accessories:
- Keylock is now off when BHF-3 is connected.
- Flash light handling with some 3rd party applications improved (AgileMessenger, Photographer, ETI camcorder Pro1.0)
- Audio Accessories handling improved when muting sound, audible "snap" sounds reduced
- Nokia HSU-3 is no longer supported
Bluetooth:
- Connection setup improved, it is no longer necessary to switch bluetooth off and on for connection to succeed when earlier connection setup had been cancelled
- Large file transfer improved with Widcomm BT stack version 1.3.2.7
Browser:
- Rendering performance of multipart documents improved in some cases, loading procedure of the document body contents changed
- Background image setting according to XHTML/CSS length pixel parameters corrected
- Displaying of PNG images with XHTML pages improved
- Operator customized icon on upper left corner no longer covered by standard revolving globe animation e.g. when opening embedded links from browser
E-mail:
- Fetching and displaying of HTML formatted email improved when using partial fetch
Java:
- Improved behaviour in case network does not reply to install notify after successful installation. Time-out of 120 seconds implemented to end the installation even if no reply from server, not leaving application installer wait forever looking as jammed.
- UI display improved with applications having 256k colour support
MMS:
- Viewing MMS using "Play presentation" and adjusting volume when scrolling is also active no longer causes SMIL player to close itself
SMS:
- New SMS messages can now be read properly without SIM in offline mode
- Response given to network in case of device memory full when receiving SMS and not able to receive it changed to "Memory capacity exceeded" as specified in 3GPP 23.040.
- When pressing navigation key left (write new SMS) immediately after phone boot-up, phone no longer resets
Streaming:
- Playing audio-only content changed to be no longer possible in full screen
- Handling of "*.sdp" -files corrected
- Last rendered frame now displayed instead of occasionally shown black screen when returning back to Real Player after task switching
- Changed behaviour during a voice call, streaming will go into paused state when started
Telephony:
- Sunrise Switzerland: USSD strings with 3 digits are now supported
- Numbers starting with character "*" can now be used in setting voicemailbox number in phone settings
- Emergency call handling with SIM having blocked PUK corrected
- Nokia ringing tone now played, if active ringing tone is set in MMC and it is removed, or phone memory is too low to play complex audio file.
- Ringing tone playback & vibra activation application priority raised to ensure user notification about incoming call in case a high priority application (e.g. game) is in use.
- When dialing "+"-character and quickly followed numbers, first number is no longer missed from number list
(U)SIM:
- UI error note "SIM card error" now displayed correctly in case SIM phonebook initialization fails due to SIM not responding
- T-Mobile UK: CPHS Voicemail waiting flag status now updated correctly to SIM
- Network registration behaviour corrected after PDP context activation. Earlier there might have been a problem when there is one or more PLMNs in equivalent list in phone memory, and a list of forbidden PLMNs exists in SIM.
- Workaround implemented to enable use of some SIM cards not responding correctly if attempting to access a non-existing file on the SIM card.
Video Telephony:
- Phone now returns to VT UI after "call waiting" -notification disappears
- Interoperability with some gateways and terminals using high frame rate improved, image quality now better
- Video playback quality improved. Some image frames might have not been shown in correct sequence.
- Lip synchronisation improved in VT call
- Reception of VT call in low memory situation improved, time now allowed for system to close applications from background if necessary for VT call to proceed
- Interoperability with RadVision video gateway improved, audio can now be heard in UL direction
- Initiating a video call when having an active PS connection is now possible, PS connection will be closed followed by normal VT call setup
WCDMA:
- Ciphering/RLC problem corrected, RLC was not able to report the Security mode complete to the network under some conditions.
Misc:
- IMEISV sent to network changed to 10
- Automatic access point settings updates:
* DNA Finland, Vinophone Vietnam: MMS settings updated
* Eurotel Slovakia information changed to reflect re-branding to T-Mobile SK
* Settings updated for Scandinavian operators
* Orange France variant: "Select network"-notification is no longer hidden by Homescreen application
- Playback of files indicated as video/mp4 but having only audio improved
- Backup and restore from MMC improved, restoring calendar backup might have required user to try again
- Voice command handling improved with some accessories, tone before recognition is now longer and some audio noises removed
- Temporary files on MMC (E:\system\temp) will be deleted on phone boot-up. If phone battery was removed during file download to MMC, this could have lead to unnecessary temporary files consuming MMC memory.
- Behaviour with some corrupted wav-files improved. Playback of such file could have lead phone being jammed and requiring phone switch off.
Changes when upgrading from firmware 3.04.11 to 3.04.37
Nokia Mobile Phones Service Bulletin No.SB-016/20.07.05
New features:
- New RAM memory management scheme to improve phone behaviour in low memory situations when using multiple applications at the same time. For pre-defined applications a defined amount of RAM will be freed on start-up (Browser, Video telephony, Java, Real One Player) to ensure application start-up.
- Browser cache (present in phone RAM memory) will be emptied when exiting browser
Bluetooth:
- Interoperability with Sony-Ericsson BT headsets improved. Sniff-mode timer value used in phone changed from same value as used in SE headsets to prevent headsets from disconnecting
Browser:
- Browser now correctly identifies Simplified Chinese as accepted language in accept headers if this is selected as phone language instead of traditional Chinese
- Behavior of internal rendering changed to improve performance with pages containing animated images. Identical animated image frames are no longer stored separately to reduce number of entries in cache
- Previously visited links no longer become white and unvisible, if scrolling down a page with background image
- Nokia Lifeblog registering improved
Camera:
- Problem of not being able to continue using camera application when in standby mode corrected
Clock:
- Alarm tone ascending volume tuned
DRM:
- DRM combined delivery xml parser functionality improved
- Missing DRM rights now correctly shown
- Content is now correctly interpreted with combined delivery file that includes a linefeed (CR+LF) inside the constraint part of the rights object improved
- Notification now shown correctly when WAP Push rights object received for OMA DRM separate delivery content
E-mail:
- Occasional problem of not showing imap4 email folders corrected
Gallery:
- Improvement in handling of very long play-list names.
Java:
- Problem in interim PR1.1 release(s) corrected. Java audio tone playback control changed, tone speed was incorrectly set and speed of playback was too fast in some cases
- Java VM now returns correct language ID string for Thai instead of NULL string. SMS
- Receiving SMS containing more than 45 Unicode characters no longer causes shorter standby time in idle state if messaging centre is left open in background
Recorder:
- Recording audio during voice calls improved.
Streaming:
- Stereo is set as the default for audio channels. This enables playing files where the number of audio channels is not specified.
- Robustness of Real One Player improved to handle files where audio part is shorter than video part
- Improvements when continuing the streaming after interrupted by voice call in network mode 1 conditions
- Improved functionality with scene changes
(U) SIM:
- FDN handling improved in some error situations
- UPIN is now requested to enter when UPIN is activated instead of PIN
(U) SIM ATK
- Play Tone command playback volume increased
Video Sharing
- Uninstallation of Video Sharing application is now possible
Video Telephony
- Interim problem in PR1.1 release corrected, interoperability problem with Alcatel Video Mailbox corrected
- Improvement in video transmission stability
- Occasional picture overlapping problem when calling to video mailbox corrected.
WCDMA
- MO Video Telephony call setup improved in Siemens RAN, when simultaneous data transfer ongoing. "Network busy" no longer displayed
Misc.:
- IMEISV sent to network changed to 16
- Automatic access point settings updated for some operators
- Operator names stored in device permanent memory updated to reflect latest status
- USSD channel closing behavior changed. Now it is possible to receive a new USSD message after timer expiry for USSD connection
- Functionality with some pre-pay SIM cards improved, USSD acknowledgement handling modified
- User is now better informed if MMC formatting fails
- Corrected the problem that very short audio clips were not played at all.
- RS-MMC card access timings modified to improve handling of spesific defective RS-MMC card
- Improvement to play some defected MIDI files
