OS2008 Feature Upgrade: reflash your tablet (for the last time?)

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2008-06-24 10:22 UTC by Quim Gil

Nokia has published the OS2008 Feature Upgrade for the N810 and N800 Internet Tablets. This release is based on Maemo 4.1 (codename Diablo) and provides the Seamless Software Update feature.

Users still need to reflash the device in order to install this release. Further OS updates will be made available over-the-air, without needing to reflash. Now users will get automatic notifications in the home screen about the availability of OS updates or single applications, including those installed from third parties. This works only over WLAN connections. It is still possible to check for updates manually from the Application manager.

This release brings a new open source email application based on Modest and the tinymail framework. Users will find a simplified account setup and presets for various service providers. Another major improvement is the introduction to Chinese character rendering support in Email, Browser and RSS feed reader. There are numerous issues fixed all over the operating system including updated openssl. Smaller improvements have also been introduced to several areas such improved browser panning performance.

For more details check the tables comparing packages and changes between this release and the latest OS2008 update.

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J R
J R
Karma: 14

Just a note about the extras repo. If user loads the Chinook extras repo. into the application manager in Diablo, it seems to work. I successfully installed UKMP, Maemo-mapper and Mplayer this way. In fact I have almost all my applications working again now. Feedback on the Diablo itself: generally looks very good. Modest took a bit of configuring!! The default setting for NTL smpt was wrong! I will raise a bug ticket.

2008-06-25 15:52 UTC
Quim Gil
Quim Gil
Karma: 2288

Thanks for the feedback!

  • Bugs and enhancement requests to the Modest component will be handled just as they were handled previously in the beta period.

  • Problems with third party applications are related to the fact that the Maemo community has decided to implement a better proces to handle the maemo.org extras repository, with the objective of guarantee to end users that applications in extras install properly and don't come with any problems of missing dependencies etc. That was disturbing for most users until Chinook, but it won't happen in Diablo. The bootstrapping process got a bit of delay but the apps will appear again in extras and this time you will be certain that they install flawlessly. More at https://wiki.maemo.org/Diablo_extras_repository_proposal

  • This release is multilingual. German is supported just like the rest of main languages official in the countries where the N800/N810 are sold.

2008-06-25 10:41 UTC
weckman
weckman
Karma: 8

Being new to the world of maemo through my N810 I wonder if this is a multilingual release or just English? I would be in need of a German version but there is no word on the supported/included languages anywhere! Any ideas? Thanks!

2008-06-25 02:08 UTC
lauren roberts
lauren roberts
Karma: 57

install a new image for my tablet only to have all my apps removed and not restored from the backup ... what genius at nokia thought this one up??!!??

i'll wait til i can actually do anything useful with it before i update again

meanwhile back at the previous version download site...

2008-06-25 01:45 UTC
Andrew Bilsbury
Andrew Bilsbury
Karma: 68

So far so good with the new update. It seems much faster and works better with multi-tasking.

Question: What do we do with reported bugs for Modest that were not addressed while in beta? Specifically Bug 2922 - https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2922 thanks

2008-06-24 17:36 UTC
Alfredo J. Fabretti
Alfredo J. Fabretti
Karma: 96

This is a great improvement, congratulations!

2008-06-24 16:33 UTC
Quim Gil
Quim Gil
Karma: 2288

Nokia didn't invent apt-get, nor open source email applications (or Chinese language). This is true. There are not many devices fitting in your pocket supporting full system upgrades without reflashing, but devices running Maemo 4.1 do now. This is also true, and worth mentioning in an announcement.

About the "fun", if you find any bug or missing feature please go to http://bugs.maemo.org and explain in detail your expected outcome. Thank you!

2008-06-24 13:28 UTC
t z
t z
Karma: 205

Anyone know if they enabled Mac partitions?

Did they update all the developer and sdk trees so that I can compile everything in scratchbox after following the directions exactly? Or when is that going to happen.

2008-06-24 12:21 UTC
L D
L D
Karma: 20

Yaay, Nokia has invented something that was in most of Linux distros for years...

2008-06-24 12:00 UTC
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