First official OS2008 update

I've installed OS2008 on my N800 yesterday evening ... and 20 min later it was back on OS2007. Why? Upgrade has been done easily, but the N800 did not reboot automatically afterwards. When booting it, it configured OK, but each time I'm starting an application, the app is suddenly stucked. For example, when starting a browser, the window opens, then I've got an "Updating" dialog box, and it suddenly blocks. After few minutes, the device shuts down on its own ... so back to OS2007! Anyone facing the same behavior?

Any news yet on the os2008he?I hope we can get the full browser that comes with os2008 in the HE version also.

I'm just an end-user, and I'm Mac based. I've enjoyed my N800 for a few weeks now. I would like to upgrade to the latest OS2008 but am having trouble with the download- it downloads with a php extension rather than a bin. When the beta was released, I managed to flash that, in the end with the 770 flasher - I had tried the wizard in windows emulation on an Intel mac at work, but it kept failing at the end of the installation due to a USB error - (leaving my N800 brain-dead) so I took the .bin file home and used the 770 flasher native on my home mac and it installed without any problem. However now when I go to the download site and get the latest os2008, although the link to it is named "RX-34_2008SE_2.2007.50-2_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin" the file downloads as "nokia_N800.php" The 770 flasher will not open a .php file - is it as simple as changing the extension - could I do that and then safely install with the flasher? -- or does this file have to be processed/ expanded/ whatever first in some way that a mac won't do?

A few more bugs for those considering upgrading; there is significant keyboard bounce when typing so tthe same letter comes up twice for one click every 10 words or so, the Java page on Philips.co.uk now causes the device to run out of memory, the touchscreen sometimes goes dead, you can't insert text or over-type text, the Navicore software is stuck in KMPH, you will loose all your back-uped bluetooth pairings, the SU-8W nokia bluetooth keyboard won't pair, the handy Caapslock has been replaced with a useless language select menu and the RSS home screen applet has huge borders, nobodylonger has a click-to-expand and only displays 4 feeds due to massive gaps between items.

Welll, no-one knows the answer to my question in the post and below I've since been disappointed with the loss of voices and camera alerts in Navicore. I'll be reverting to OS2007 and won't be ordering an N810.

I've just installed the 2008 software on my n800. I don't likee the browser one bit. I've lost my finger scrolling, overtyping doesn't work, my favourite forun doesn't paginate as well as before and chatrooms flicker on refresh. Can I reinstall Opera?

go to http://www.maemopeople.org/index.php/piega/2007/12/19/torrent_for_n800_firmware for N800 and N810

maemo SDK installation is now impossible thanks to intermittent service coming from repository.maemo.org

For those who want to download from an untrusted third party, tablets-dev says:

89e0661318f60420c691f4e1dd0c6ba3 RX-34_2008SE_2.2007.50-2_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin 141226188 bytes

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2531

as for the torrent, if only the file was GPG signed, because md5 digest are known to be "breakable"

Since I have plenty of bandwidth to spare, I put the update for the N800 up for download on

http://randomweirdness.com

The download link is right on the top of the page.

With all of the links and torrents for the N800, I can't believe there aren't any for the N810. What gives?

i can't see any at mininova, but there's one at the piratebay ;)

I see there is one on mininova. Ask google, there is a link.

Thankfully (extracted from internettablet) Noneus.de has it mirrored... use at your own risk though but initially reports seem to be positive.

http://repo.noneus.de/RX-34_2008SE_2.2007.50-2_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin

The md5sum from Nokia tablets-dev.nokia.com shows RX-34_2008SE_2.2007.50-2_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin should of hash value of ???? (cant get back in to copy the hash value...sorry)

If you head over to the internettablettalk on the comment thread for the OS2008 update there are a few (currently for the N800 only) alternate sources...

Has anyone found a torrent for the download? This is painful going through tablet-dev.nokia, the download dies about 5% of the way in.

Wonder if Nokia have decided to host the image on an N800 via a bluetooth/gprs connection - even a wet piece of string would be faster than this....

Would be nice if the images were hosted on a server with some bandwidth. Or Nokia could get over their proprietary obsessions and just make a torrent available.

The current inaccessibility is hardly worthy of a global telecommunications company.

Many thanks for package changes. Also some sort of global changelog with major changes or next column with links to changelog flies of individual deb packages would be nice :-)

In the last months there were rumours about the compatibility with standard Debian armel repositories from OS2008, please someone can confirm / deny?