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Phones/P990i
From UIQ3 open-source software
Contents |
Themes
- Aqua990
- A ruby coloured MacOS look alike for the Sony Ericsson P990i.
- E17
- An Enlightenment 17 look alike for the Sony Ericsson P990i.
Documentation
- CDA for P990i
- A list of CDA numbers for the P990i.
Releases
Important: This information has been compiled by P990i users and may not be entirely accurate. Sony Ericsson refuse to release change history for firmware releases to the public and never acknowledge bugs.
The latest release may not be available in your region. To find out the latest release available for your P990i, check the CDA for P990i page. Note that number of section titles below refer to the organiser version number and not to the CDA version number.
Note
Here are the good news:
Hi all First of all I would like apologize for the long wait but now I finally have the official statement that you guys and gals have waited for, here it goes:“In response to recent feedback from users and as a result of additional internal testing, Sony Ericsson has determined to offer a further firmware update for the P990 and W950 Walkman® phone. This move illustrates Sony Ericsson’s ongoing commitment to its existing ‘smartphone’ customers and the company’s desire to be responsive to customer feedback in order to provide an optimal user experience.'The next firmware release for the P990 and W950 will be available from the Sony Ericsson Update Service from August 2007.”' Cheers /Johan'
http://developer.sonyericsson.com/message.jspa?messageID=106167#106167
Regarding the M600: 'I haven’t heard of any future development on M600, so far the decision on continuing firmware development is only for P990 and W950, nothing else has been said I’m sorry to say.' [...] Cheers /J
Reporting a bug
Before you report a bug on this page, please make sure it occurs after a master reset or internal disk format. Restoring a backup from an older firmware (especially the "settings" part) can make the unit behave very strange. A lot of reported bugs are actually caused by bad backups! Read this thread on my-symbian for more info.
R6E28
Fixed so far in R6E28
| Description | References |
|---|---|
| I can confirm bug R6D23/2 and R6D23/10 in the R6D23 buglist has been fixed in the beta firmware R6E28. | -ajack |
- R6E28 Released on SEUS: August 01, 2007
| Firmware info for Generic World 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Phone Version | CXC162037 R9GA001 | Release Date | 01.08.2007 |
| Bluetooth Version | CXC162058 R5A01 | Release Built | 01.08.2007 |
| Organizer Version | CXC162036 R6E28 | ||
| CDA Version | R6E28 | Free memory (approx) | about 14.5M |
Known Bugs
| No. | Short Description | Fixed | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | RDS doesn't work properly. | - | R6D23/96 |
| 2. | No sound through headphones except for built in media player. Needs unplugging/plugging headphones, explained in details page. | - | R6D23/13 |
| 3. | When phone is off and you charging the battery, backlight is on. | - | - |
| 4. | Alarm doesn't working when phone is off. | - | - |
| 5. | In FO mode: In some applications, the “Right” and “Left” buttons (next to spacebar) don’t take you to the next Tab. This way you have to use your finger or stylus (which should be unnecessary) | - | R6D23/45 |
| 6. | Option to be able to choose the days in which the alarms should ring. For example: to set the alarm 1 to go off on monday and tuesday at 8 a.m. and to set the alarm 2 to go off on saturday and sunday at 10 a.m. and alarm 3 etc., as it happens with others SE. | - | R6D23/72 |
| 7. | Task manager haven't end option in FC mode. | - | R6D23/88 |
| 8. | fc mode keys locked when more key is pressed long in keys locked mode the task manager opens, to close it you have to unlock keys and press back key and againg lock the keypad.
It also happens in FO mode when you press long Space - Phone application opens. | - | R6D23/114 |
| 9. | Phone freezes and the "answer call" button doesn't work.
GUI freezing without visual change. Reception signal stays and everything looks normal until you realize it's actually frozen. Flight mode bug : when switching over to flight mode, after a few hours, the phone stops responding when I switch it back to normal mode. Also, alarm vibration doesn't work as a result of this bug. Phone occasionally stops receiving incoming calls and SMS but continue to display full-bar signal indicator with no error messages. Service is restored (ie. can start receiving calls again) when phone is restarted. | - | R6D23/30
R6D23/34 R6D23/47 R6D23/56 |
| 10. | Crasing message app and internal Opera when tried follow link in email. (see included pictures) | - | R6D23/71 |
| 11. | When viewed videos in media player by date in ascending or not, the time of the videos are not correct or is not showing the time when you took the videos.(This was also in R6D23 and I think it was no listed) | - | - |
| 12. | Autofocus doesn't work in Video mode | - | R6D23/4 |
| 13. | Unable to rename camera pictures on memory stick using built in file manager or through "Manage" option in Picture Manager menu.
(This may have been done intentionally to prevent bug #51 listed in R6D23) | - | R6D23/12 |
| 14. | The GIF pictures playing in a very low quality.(except for the phone gif in the pictures) | - | - |
| 15. | "Edit before call" option does not function correctly. (In flip closed mode the cursor can't be seen)
With the default theme, sometimes the cursor can be seen when the jog dial is moved but mostly the cursor remains invisible. It is also not possible to edit a number from the contacts list before calling. | - | R6D23/68 |
| 16. | Virtual Keyboad still not supporting ARABIC language | - | - |
| 17. | Video streaming for http://m.youtube.com and other video sites might experience problem (Using WLAN) | - Fixed for some handsets using 3g and WLAN | - |
| 18. | Can't set the GIF pictures as walpaper.(when you select them as walpaper only the first frame shows. | - | - |
| 19. | FC Mode: In Polish language there is no possibility to write Polish diacritical marks under key "2". Also Polish translation has several language errors. | - | - |
| 20. | Media Player button no longer works when keys are locked. | - | - |
| 21. | while taking a call if another call is on waiting. the phone restarts immedialy when first call is finished after re starting it displays the message phone has restarted in order to increase performance. | - | - |
| 22. | To associate a picture with a contact in the Picture Gallery in Flip Open (FO) mode using Jail Dial button to select the contact does not work. Once the Contact is selected it will bring you back to the Picture Gallery with out associate the selected picture with the selected contact. But it work in FC mode. PLEASE CLICK ON THE BUG NUMBER FOR MORE DETAIL. | - | - |
| 23. | When dialing a call with 1 red bar signal fluctuate up and down between 2 signal bars, Contact has a picture associated with it, and 10 applications running as listed under the task menu. The phone dialing application went into a loop and keep running and waiting to dial out the selected contact. Even when the phone is bought out to a very clear area with good signal. It doesn’t refresh and link to the Mobile Station. The Phone has to be rebooted using the 10 second hardware shut down. This situation is intermitted so I think it is hard to recreate without meeting all the criteria listed. That goes to show the P990i is still very unreliable. | - | - |
| 24. | Video recording doesnt produce mp4 in high quality mode.. it should be mp4 when recording high quality video | - | - |
| 25. | Applications installed on internal 4GB memory of W950i and then their icons assigned to different folders, revert back to 'Tools' folder after fast USB connection. | R6D23/120 | - |
| 26. | Predictive Text/MultiTap indicator icon is not displayed in FC Mode when entering text (ie. Messaging, editing contacts, notes etc.) | - | - |
| 27. | Storage Wizard application terminates with error.
"Application:Storage Wizard, Reason Code:User, Reason number:9" This bug has been found to be caused by "fring". Uninstalling fring the Storage Wizard works properly. | SE Case # 71368337 | - |
| 28. | I have heard it is not possible insert a space in the browser (for example in google to search 2 or more words) in any way (stylus or keyboard!!!! If no one found this bug, please delete! | - | - |
| 29. | Not possible to manually choose a GSM network. With several networks available the phone always tells "no network available". | SE Case # 71369943 | - |
| 30. | FC Mode: Edit a contact, highlight contact picture, click "Edit". All you can see now is "Save". | - | - |
| 31. | the green LED doesn't flashing when the phone is in stand by(when it is online on network).it was in p910i and missed in p990i | - | - |
| 32. | Blackberry Connect v3.55 that is currently available, starts automatically on start up, sonsuming a whooping 4.5 megs of precious ram. This should have been left to the user to start up when required. This autostart was not present on earlier versions and should have been left as it is.
Also the "ZOOM" feature in the mailboxes created by the blackberry service books and the SysInbox of the blackberry client doesn't work. I mean it doesn't show up as the zoom select panel should show. This used to work with earlier firmware | - | - |
| 33. | Phone doesn't support other languages except for ENGLISH!!
I am using the Greek language pack and the Bugs are ENORMOUS: a)In flip-open mode, the QWERTY keyboard goes FIRST through ALL the ENGLISH/GERMAN/FRENCH characters before entering a greek (α/ε/θ etc) character! This means i have to press the "a" button about 12 times to get an "α"!!! Same does't apply in flip-closed mode(?!) b)There is no "ς" character in multitap QWERTY keyboard c)One CANNOT SEND 7bit 159-character SMS message in GREEK!! If at least ONE greek letter is entered, the SMS is sent as "UCS-Universal Character Set", charging 1SMS/70 letters!! This is regulated by the phone, not the service provider and therefore 1 sms with 159 greek letters costs 3 sms's ! | - | - |
| 34. | No support for .3gp movies! The phone crashes after 10 minutes of playback.. Therefore, it cannot play a whole movie! | - | - |
| 35. | Phone doesn't FOCUS in ZOOM mode! | - | - |
| 36. | Phone doesn't have Sent SMS counter function. | - | - |
| 37. | with 4GB memory when you make your memory full on file transfer mode and you disconnect the phone from PC your phone give you a free space like 1GB and it is not true cause when you restart the phone it gives you the real free space like 6MB | - | - |
| 38. | When using Web Browser or using Camera, if someone calls and if your vibrator is set ON, then the phone keeps on vibrating until you restart the phone. The phone works as normal i.e. you can answer the call but the vibrating doesnt stop until you restart the phone. | - | - |
| 39. | When using Bluetooth File transfer the DCIM (camera) folder isn't shown in Internal memory (please confirm!!!) | - | - |
| 40. | When listening to music or radio, there is no signal about incoming message or call in headphones. | - | - |
| 41. | Phone doesn't support third party bluetooth A2DP headsets. (please confirm) | - | - |
R6D23
- R6 Released on SEUS: June 15, 2007
| Firmware info for Generic World 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Phone Version | CXC162037 R9G007 | Release Date | 30.06.2007 |
| Bluetooth Version | CXC162058 R5A01 | Release Built | 30.06.2007 |
| Organizer Version | CXC162036 R6D23 | ||
| CDA Version | R6D23 | Free memory (approx) | 14.9M (5.6M @ 2 days uptime w/ SMPro) |
Known Bugs
When adding new bugs use 2. as template for the details.
| No. | Short Description | Fixed | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Memory leaks are still present - it's better than R5. | - | - |
| 2. | When you press the space bar in FO mode, instead of the phone application opening you just get a loud beep. Actually it opens up, but it closes down immediately. | - | - |
| 3. | When you speak on loud speaker it sounds unclear for other party | - | - |
| 4. | Videos taken with the p990 camera are blurry because of the lack of auto focus. | - | - |
| - | You can not record a call using built in sound recorder (error msg appears) | - | - |
| 6. | Alarm is ringing on Saturday and does not on Monday with settings: "Working days only(Mon-Fri)" and "Sunday" as starting day of the week. (Strangely this bug appears "over night" - setting alarm time 5 min from now will kick in alarm functionality) | - | - |
| 7. | Applications take longer time to start. Phone is generally slower than previous version. | - | - |
| - | When handling the call log, it exits to standy by screen every time you do certain command such as delete a call registry | - | - |
| 9. | Cell Information (Swisscom Network) is not displayed. (Already since R4A13) | - | - |
| 10. | When the email text is larger than a certain size, the mail application terminates loosing all text that has been entered. Same problem exists with Notes, these applications terminate with "CText" error. | - | - |
| 11. | Volume level with A2DP stereo bluetooth headphones still way too low.. | - | - |
| 12. | Unable to rename camera pictures on memory stick using built in file manager. Confirmed on P990 using "Turkish" locale. (Please add other locales for which this bug is confirmed). ( works in swedish OS !! )
This may be related to and may have been intentionally done to prevent bug #51. | - | - |
| 13. | No sound through headphones except for built in media player. Needs unplugging/plugging headphones, explained in details page. | - | - |
| 14. | Blutooth led is not working at all, progress bar of installation, transfer...etc does not process as the exact value and does not reach to the end when finishing progress.Closing/opening flip will give a white screen for a second. | - | - |
| - | Some times your call is disconnected just as it begins | - | - |
| - | "back" buttons appears as pressed from time to time | - | - |
| 17. | In PDF file viewer letters are distorted and spacing between letters and words are quite uneven. Even Samsung (eg.D820) does much better job of it. | - | - |
| 18. | If a sim stored number is accessed through a location key (eg: 12#), phone contact folder incorrectly displays SIM as the current contact folder even though the contacts displayed are from phone based contact folder only. It stays this way till a manual change of contact folders is done to SIM contacts and then back to phone contact folder. | - | - |
| 19. | Bluetooth receiving error some times. Says sync error and then the phone restarts. | - | - |
| 20. | Quick contact list in FO messaging cannot be reached with the jog dial anymore. (Pressing jogdial on "to:") | - | - |
| 21. | While restoring contacts from MS Outlook - contact's pictures are transfered as very small thumbnails. | - | - |
| 22. | "Exchange ActiveSync" is causing several reboots a day. After a reboot, maybe an hour later it doesn't connect to the server. | - | - |
| 23. | The backlight sometimes stays on in dimmed mode (as we had with very early firmware versions, but this time even when on battery not only on dock) | - | - |
| 24. | Icons for read sms are the same as the ones for not read sms. (this situation applies to email messages as well. Haven't checked with MMS, please check) | - | - |
| 25. | The phone doesn't provide any notification of new SMS/MMS/Email. Can be fixed with a reboot (or 5) but returns after another reboot. | - | - |
| 26. | The phone crashes on incoming calls while another call is already active. | - | - |
| 27. | When you push a number in flip close mode the alarm icon is hidden until the number you wanted to call is cleared. | - | - |
| 28. | In media player for landscape playback the volume meter is in portrait view. However it is in landscape view for the camera app. | - | - |
| 29. | Folder settings are not remembered for applications on the memory stick when the stick is removed and reinserted. | - | - |
| 30. | Phone freezes and the "answer call" button doesent work. Can not reproduce, happens rarely. FO mode. | - | - |
| 31. | The Send As -> Bluetooth option is gone all together in R9F011. Can be restored with a master reset without backing up data at a cost of loosing all 3rd party preinstalled apps and games. If data is backed up and restored the option (Send As -> Bluetooth) disappears again. | - | - |
| 32. | Phone "forgets" that you've replaced an alarm. It then carries on going off each day until you format the phone. | - | - |
| 33. | Occasional "clicking" / "cracking" sound can be heard from the back speaker. This is really annoying since it appears in calls too. | - | - |
| 34. | GUI freezing without visual change. Reception signal stays and everything looks normal until you realize it's actually frozen.
This bug is also listed as #30. | - | - |
| 35. | FIND function in messaging doesn't work properly. | - | - |
| 36. | Alarm only ring for 20 sec. Interfer with the use of radio or MP3 music as alarm sound. Alarm feature need to be revise! | - | - |
| 37. | "Find" option in Contacts: Does not seem to search contact fields properly. | - | - |
| 38. | Files received via bluetooth take long to save (5-6 minutes for a 4mb file) | - | - |
| 39. | merged with bug #20 | - | - |
| 40. | Green led blinking doesn't stop sometimes. Can recreate, when receive sms delivery report u press continue before the message alear t rings or light blinks. Later the sound comes & light blinks but you already continue for status message. blink never stops. | - | - |
| 41. | Media player - current video frame replaced with random static after the screen is turned off in pause mode | - | - |
| 42. | Media player - seeking in longer videos doesn't work properly. | - | - |
| 43. | Media player - big sound podcast files (more than 50 minutes) do not work properly. Reaching that point, the application jumps to next song/podcast. If we try to fast forward, when reaching 50/60 minutes, same happens. [used old unused bug report to insert new one] | - | - |
| 44. | Sometimes Push IMAP does not start up automatically on given start time. | - | - |
| 45. | In FO mode: In some applications, the “Right” and “Left” buttons (next to spacebar) don’t take you to the next Tab. This way you have to use your finger or stylus (which should be unnecessary) | - | - |
| 46. | Clock – Location: The different Time Zones are very confusing. There seems to be a “link” between the “Current Time Zone” and “Zone of Interest”. | - | - |
| 47. | Flight mode bug : when switching over to flight mode, after a few hours, the phone stops responding when I switch it back to normal mode. Also, alarm vibration doesn't work as a result of this bug. | - | - |
| 48. | SIM Contacts bug : when incoming call rings the phone it always picks up the SIM contact not the Phone contact. There's no option to undistinguished & choose one from phone & sim contacts. | - | - |
| 49. | When used with a 3G SIM card that have 1000 numbers capacity, with capability to store work mobile, work and home numbers, an error - "information overflow" will occur if the work and home numbers field are being edited. | - | - |
| 50. | camera stuck in initialising and cant view picture to take, once tak can view the picture but after press camera button goes back to freez initialising view and cant view picture to take. need to restart then ok. | - | - |
| 51. | After taking a picture with the camera, the preview picture immediately shown is not that of the picture taken but the last one alphabetically in the folder. | - | - |
| 52. | Emergency call feature in key lock mode doesn't allow for some numbers (for example 107 for police in Hungary) | - | - |
| 53. | No flash support for FLV files, etc, to allow sites such as youtube or google video content to be watched on our once nice but not so nice now uiq 3 handsets. Also wmv files don't always work as well | - | - |
| 54. | During bootup procedure uninstalled third party installations try to reinstall. Just install panel appears, no chance to install, no chance to avoid this. | - | My-Symbian |
| 55. | Multiple contact records created when you replicate a contact containing a picture with Lotus Notes address book. | - | - |
| 56. | Phone occasionally stops receiving incoming calls and SMS but continue to display full-bar signal indicator with no error messages. Service is restored (ie. can start receiving calls again) when phone is restarted. | - | - |
| 57. | When you want to restore a backup it does not restore all your settings and apps! | R6D23 | My-Symbian |
| 58. | camera autofocus can't focus during flashlight on, but if flash light off autofocus work great. | - | - |
| 59. | One loses one's selection of ticked SMS messages when opening any SMS message. (this situation applies to email messages as well. Haven't checked with MMS, please check) | - | - |
| 60. | Alarm sometimes (has happened twice already) does not ring as programmed, I have set it at 630, 635 and 640AM, and it just rang at 630am!!, later on I checked the alarm, and it was as programmed!...also, sometimes when FO and stylus pen selects the time (in order to check the alarm settings) the alarm starts buzzing on!! and the legend on the screen shows as it was a programmed alarm. | - | - |
| 61. | After disconnecting BlueTooth, and a call is performed and rerouted the sound towards the speaker, the sound is distorted. In order to avoid this problem "Speaker" option has to be disconnected and then connected again so the distortion goes away. (This has appened several times =say 4 out of 10 calls= since I use it a lot!!) | - | - |
| 62. | Big Text files cannot be loaded, thus not shown... I can provide files so you can check this fault... also if some other applications are open -say note editor, SMS, Radio, or whatever- and a long file is attempted to open, those other applications will be closed (never mind if they were not saved), and since the long file could not be open... you may have to write/open again whatever you were working on. | - | - |
| 63. | Merged with bug #1 | - | - |
| 64. | When connecting to a Wireless LAN with WPA-PSK authentication (WPA Personal) and TKIP encryption, although an account has been created and the passphrase has been saved for that connection, the phone will not connect until you edit the internet account and re-enter the passphrase and save. This problem repeats with every reboot of the phone and the same procedure is needed to be done every time in order to connect. | - | SE Support Case #70564312 |
| 65. | Bluetooth doesn't work well with the Nokia CK-7W car kit. It hangs up picked up calls after 4-5 secs, it doesn't allow you to terminate calls with the button and it doesn't allow you to redial last number (with button double-click)
(used to work just fine before R4 firmware) | - | - |
| 66. | sound recorder doesn't have trackID option | - | - |
| 67. | In FC - You Cann't assign a contact to a folder if the # of folders are more than 8. the scroller bar is not working.(sure 100%) | - | - |
| 68. | UPDATED..."Edit before call" option does not function correctly. | - | SE Support Case #71249168 |
| 69. | Long SMS received time BUG! In accepting SMS more than 160 chars at a time (more than one sms page), then the received time will show as : Your GMT + Your current time (e.g. my current GMT is +7 and my current local time is 10:00am, then when I received 180 chars of SMS, then the received time will be 10:00am + 7hours equals to 5:00pm). This bug is confirmed in my local Sony Ericsson Service Centre in Indonesia and using XL as the carrier). | - | - |
| 70. | Today I received an SMS with time 8:45 althoug the time on mobile
was 7:45. Note that here in Egypt we have day light saving of 1 hour (I have R5 on P990i) | - | - |
| 71. | Crasing message app and internal Opera when tried follow link in email. (see pictures) | - | - |
| 72. | Option to be able to choose the days in which the alarms should ring. For example: to set the alarm 1 to go off on monday and tuesday at 8 a.m. and to set the alarm 2 to go off on saturday and sunday at 10 a.m. and alarm 3 etc., as it happens with others SE. | - | - |
| 73. | USB stopped working until reboot. | - | - |
| 74. | WLAN: Proxy Server settings need Username and Password fields. | - | - |
| 75. | SIM: Dual SIM cards (same networks 2 number implemented in one SIM, one is forwarded to other while off) not work properly as when you change numbers every time OTA settings (MMS/WAP) send from network automatically. | - | - |
| 76. | "Exchange ActiveSync" while active sync is loaded (it comes with last firmware), can not sync with pc. If you want to sync e-mail and contacts "This option is locked on the phone" warning appears on PC Suite. You have to uninstall EAS to sync with PC properly. | - | - |
| 77. | Deleted. It was caused by Swiss Manager Pro shutting down the Security Application with level 3 memory reclaim. | - | - |
| 78. | status bar application crashes and renders the phone unusable after selecting theme with bug in status bar background picture. | - | - |
| 79. | In FC and FO mode: Even with keyboard locked (with slider button or timed auto-lock), the screen still lits up dimly when pressing a key. This is unnecessary since the keyboard is locked, and it eats up battery power when keys are accidentally pressed in a protective cover or in your trouser pocket. | - | - |
| 80. | Very annoying crackling static sound, when radio, music or video own sound level is low or quiet. | - | - |
| 81. | MXE-60 was supposed to work with the P990 when it was first launched. Now, the P990 is not listed in the list of compatible phones. | - | - |
| 82. | Internet connections get disconnected although the dial up timeout is set to "never" (Connection Manager - Settings - Internet Accounts - Options - dial up timeout "never"). Very annoying if you have a GPRS account that is charged in 100k blocks! | - | - |
| 83. | Mail Application is not able to send/receive anymore after a while. Pressing send/receive menu entry results in a simple "done", but no internet connection is established. | - | - |
| 84. | GPRS/UMTS Connection cannot be established any more. Maybe the cause for bug #43. After trying to reestablish the connection, a simple "unknown error" popup shows up. After resetting the phone everything works. Every day issue. | - | - |
| 85. | IPv6 support is missing, phone only offers IPv4, despite manual and help claiming available IPv6 options. | - | SE Case ID #71003461 |
| 86. | For POP3 mail connections. If a downloaded header of a mail is deleted on the mobile, the phone will sync the deletions on the mail server on the next download, thus making it impossible to download those mails on the PC. Cannot be turned off. Introduced with this version only. | - | - |
| 87. | Bluetooth Watch MBW-100 doesn't work properly with the phone (Looses connection regularly and needs manual reconnecting). | - | - |
| 88. | Unread Message - Quick Launch - if flip is not used, quick launch of sms cannot be used. | - | Posting in German Forum Se-World |
| 88. | task manager haven't end option in FC mode. | - | - |
| 89. | FC mode: SMS that doesn't fit the message text area: The first time you scroll it down, it will just go back to the top. | - | - |
| 90. | Clock does not follow new daylight saving times in the US making some appointments an hour early or late when doing interntional appointments. | - | - |
| 91. | Phone hangs when taking many pictures (2mpix mode - Fine) in one session | - | - |
| 92. | Sometimes Phone can't stop/finish saving file to memory after taking Video (Mode 320pix) | - | - |
| 93. | Phone hangs with black screen and LED on, after using P990i as 3G Modem via Bluetooth for more than 1 hours | - | - |
| 94. | Difficult to use P990 as 3G Modem when the P990 is still using the 3G/GPRS connections from the apps. | - | - |
| 95. | Launching a link from an email in the messaging application, in FC, casues the Messaging app to crash. | - | -Youtube |
| 96. | RDS function in FM radio does not work properly. | - | SE Case ID #71254108 |
| 97. | java icons in the main menu showing very bad(low quaility) but they are nice in the uninstall menu this was happend after the version R4B006 | - | - |
| 98. | Vibrating alerts do not work if set to "on if silent", phone set to silent and plugged in charger. | - | Don't think this is a bug... |
| 99. | When typing a new SMS in FO mode, you used to get a list of previous SMS recipients by pressing the jog wheel at the opening of the blank template of a new message. Not any more. You can still get this list of previous recipients in FC mode, which creates a discrepancy between the two modes | - | - |
| 100. | Sent Emails do not sync even when selected to do so in sync options | - | - |
| 101. | A2DP devices do not reconnect after being turned off or out of range | - | - |
| 102. | Duplicate contacts being created in outlook and on phone (identical info only category field blank) | - | - Sync files corrupted. Try full forced sync. - does not work still happens after forced sync - this is is an issue with phone not recognizing outlook's contact field |
| 102. | duplicate emails being created - new duplicates have sent from field blank and time stamp is that of the sync time emails are received on both pc and phone via pop and deleted in outlook before sync | - | - |
| 103. | Backup/Restore does not restore User Greeting, Bluetooth Devices, Wallpaper settings | - | - |
| 104. | Can not select which file to be included/excluded in backup/restore (as on P800,P900, and P910 | - | - |
| 105. | saving a link in SMS as bookmark. Give it a name and save bookmark. Says that it saved it buy does not show up in bookmarks | - | - |
| 106. | screensaver automatically comes on after 5 seconds - no longer have the option to set activation time | - | - |
| 107. | When scrolling with stylus on song's name begining from first one in "Tracks" and they are sorted by title Media player crashes with KERN-EXEC 3 reason code. Maybe because too long filename and missing "title" ID tag. | - | YouTube SE Support Case ID #71248067 |
| 108. | Picture gallery: When zooming pictures that don't match 4:3 aspect ratio in picture gallery they aren't zoomed correctly to fullscreen. New zooming icon in camera app isn't needed. It should be in picture gallery. | - | R6D23/108 |
| 109. | Search Messages: If you find more than a screen full of messages with message search in emails and hit abort to return to the normal message list, an error occurs. E32USER-CBase, Code 51 and Messages crashs. | - | - |
| 110. | Flight mode bug : when activating flight mode at night, phone tends to restart 'to improve performance', moreover, when disabling the 'Flight mode' menu under 'Settings', restarts are rare, but phone tends to stop responding/freezes after midnight hours, on the contrary, phone works perfectly all day long without any restarts or freezing (or rarely freezes) [tested and verified on a GW2 P990 with Hardware version R8A]. | - | - |
| 111. | Camera capture of contact photos are not focused. AF not activated at all. | - | - |
| 112. | Personal Java applications crashes with Kern Exec 3 error when OS tries to close them on low memory condition. This happens even on a single Frame application. Just sending the application background and opening other applications like phone book and message is enough to reproduce. This bug occured on R5 also. developer.sonyericsson.com | - | - |
| -113. | when the keys are locked in fc. open flip choose a contact make call and close the flip the contact list is opend in back ground and locked.
it should close all application when flip is closed againg and come in locked positions | - | - |
| -114. | fc mode keys locked when more key is pressed long in keys locked mode the task manager opens, to close it you have to unlock keys and press back key and againg lock the keypad.
reoccurance of bug press more key in fc mode and keypad lock the task manager opens in background. | - | - |
| 115. | The P990 white paper specifies (on page 34) that Opera has "plug-ins" available. This option does not appear to be in this firmware. | - | - |
| 116. | the green LED doesnt flashing when the phone is in stand by(when it is online on network).it was in p910i and missed in p990i | - | - |
| 117. | Flip open -> Create new Email. If you want to cancel, phone asks you if you want to save the message. But there is only the option yes or abort. "No" is missing. This works in flip closed mode. | - | - |
| 118. | Camera App. (camera set to Macro focus) Crashes when taking picture directly off the CRT (Tube) Monitor, about 8 inches away. (Monitor refresh rate set at 70Hz). This Bug is diffenently repeatible everytime. I try it and it crashes everytime. Click on for more detail. | - | - |
| 119. | Java applications show using the whole screen, including the obscured part, in FC mode | - | - |
| 120. | Applications installed on internal 4GB memory of W950i and then their icons assigned to different folders, revert back to Tools folder by themeselve. Too irritating. | - | - |
| 121. | on p990i an option for resolution of 800x600 is missing from the camera for photos.
and the video capture resolution 320x240 is very low quality.640x480 or 512x384 on video should be better,when i try to connect to internet always the phone restart by it self.. | - | - |
Changes
| Description | References |
|---|---|
| Automated Reinstall after Firmware update has been completly reworked and works for all application apart from those released by Lonly Cat Games and Infinite Dreams. | my-symbian |
| Alarm bug fixed - Long sounds can again be used for the alarm. But you can only hear it the first 20 second of the sound. | |
| Thumbnails on image gallery and photo id are no longer blured | |
| camera autofocus works much better | |
| Automatic Keylock Bug in FC Mode fixed -> works | |
| new opera version with big menu changes. keyboard shortcuts missing and switching- between pages is now burried 2 levels deep. progress for mankind. | |
| Call cost information from GSM provider displayed immediately after a call in FC mode displays scrolled upwards from the end of the paragraph. because the text contains other promo crap from provider making the paragraph larger than a screenful. | |
Missing features
Please note that Sony Ericsson stated that features request outside the original Phone Specifications will not be implemented. So please check the Phone Specifications and state where the feature was promised. Votes for features which have never been promised are wasted!
A list of features are missing from the phones
| No. | Short Description | Referenced |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Animated wallpapers (This feature is in the P990 specifications but has never been implemented) | |
| 2. | Today screen | |
| 3. | mmr-60 compatibility | |
| 4. | Rss upgrade | |
| 5. | VOIP (Voip support -with 3rd party software- is added with R6D23) | |
| 6. | Camera led as flashlight | |
| 7. | Option to save unopened attachments on the phone / memory stick. (Transfer back to bugs as this is a basic mailing feature) | |
| 8. | Option to forward mail received in one mail account through another mail account. Required as some mail accounts are meant for receiving only or they do not permit pop3 outgoing from GPRS connections. (Transfer back to bugs as this is a basic mailing feature) | |
| 9. | Manual focus for the camera - picture AND video | |
| 10. | Hotkeys for the camera settings in viewfinder mode (flash on/off, autofocus, etc) | |
| 11. | When entering time of a reminder or an appointment in FO mode, you can not use the keyboard to move between the hours and minutes fields. Thus useage without touchscreen is not possible. | |
| 12. | For quickpoint beeing able to start multimedia-presentation on P990 too, not only over "SE MMV" and "iGo Pitch Duo" | |
| 13. | Camera: The ability to tap on icons representing certain functions to change its vaule/setting | |
| 14. | Please add Track ID application to Built-in Media Player / Recorder | |
| 15. | No “Page download progress bar” in Opera while in Landscape mode | |
| 16. | Please add FIND File function in File Explorer | |
| 17. | Please add Profile support (which can also be linked to calender appointments/events) | |
| 18. | SMS: Please add option to mark READ SMSs as UNREAD and give possibility to move sent SMSs in a folder, thing that is working properly for received SMSs | |
| 19. | RSS Reader: Please add option to mark all new Items as READ or OPENED | |
| 20. | Please update official User Manual for all new functionality (P990, M600, W950) | |
| 21. | Opera: Please add shortcut keys. | |
| 22. | Ability to snap photos using frontal camera (for self-portraits) | |
| 23. | An indicator in main screen that shows there is at least 1 unsent message. The user will never know this unless he/she goes to Messaging -> Unsent (or watch the phone while message is being sent) | |
| 24. | Add FlashLite 2; Other SE phones have this. Bunch of FlashLite media are now available | |
| 25. | My Shortcuts - Ability to re-arrange shortcuts (FO or FC) | |
| 26. | Flip-Closed: Shortcuts - Ability to specify shortcut to "Right" key | |
| 27. | Flip-Closed: Shortcuts - Ability to select "Create New Message" in one of the shortcuts (Up, Down, Left or Right key) | |
| 28. | Flip-Closed: Use the spare left-button to "Send" action when creating new SMS (just like in MMS window) | |
| 29. | Apple syncing... Currently there's no option to sync UIQ3 with Mac... | |
| 30. | Option to auto resize images in an mms like in the k800 (comment from other user: this feature is present in P990i. Just set MMS creation mode to restricted (or warning)) | |
| 31. | No difference between Phone (w) & Phone (h). For incoming call no different icon & cannot find whether home or office. Add different images for Phone (w), Phone (h) | |
| 32. | Support for standard VPN connections (SE Support Case #70563376) | |
| 33. | Add the possibility to change language (national/English) for text input in the QWERTY external keyboard with the use of a shortcut. This possibility is available in FC mode by pressing for a few seconds the key # | |
| 34. | The ability to switch off display light completely during a call, not just dimming it. | |
| 35. | Please Add and Support ARABIC language like P1i and W960i | |
| 36. | Revised alarm functionality: remove duration-limit of 20 seconds, allow start playing radio or media-files at alarm SWITCH-ON. | |
| 37. | Option to be able to choose the days in which the alarms should ring. For example: to set the alarm 1 to go off on monday and tuesday at 8 a.m. and to set the alarm 2 to go off on saturday and sunday at 10 a.m. and alarm 3 etc. | |
| 38. | Please make P990i homescreen customizable (icon change) as it is in m600/w950 | |
| 39. | Please allow your own brand of bluetooth headsets such as hbh 610 or hv 435 (only one connected to the phone at a time)or any other manufactures bluetooth headsets to stay connected to a p990i without frequent connection drops which in turn the phone then asks you if you would like to take the call in the phone. I keep loosing my connection to my motorola bluetooth h700 as well on every call please fix this! | |
| 40. | Please add ability to snooze an alarm for reminders, appointments, etc for selectable time, and add ability to open the reminder / appointment / etc for which the alarm goes off, directly from the Alarm screen. | |
| 41. | One Firmware rule them all,... | |
| 42. | No cursor, pick up, hang up, ok buttons like Treo/Nokia designs @ FO, navigation can be very efficient | |
| 43. | Possibility to customize and add more shortcut (as MacOS Docks) in default stand by screen @ FO | |
| 44. | Possibility to turn off/change the function of hardware button (Web/Back/Camera/JogDial) | |
| 45. | Missing Setting for Always Allow to Connect for JAVA apps. Annoying to get prompt everytime I run Opera Mini | |
| 46. | Missing a shortcut key to place phone in silent mode | |
| 47. | I more thing i would like to be implemented in the new FW is to have the Keypad lights switched off while watching a movie. | |
| 48. | Still there is no "MPEG-4 for recording normal and high quality video". | |
| 49. | Ability to transfer sound from media player to standard headsets (not only A2DP)". | |
| 50. | Push Mail/IMAP. Would be nice to have different send/receive schedules for weekdays/weekends like blackberry connect.". | |
| 51. | Ability to use media player button for opening menu bar in applications instead pressing Alt+Shift to open it (and open media player in main menu and activity menu) to improve one-handed operations with removed flip. | |
| 52. | Ability to save Opera view preferences ( fit to screen, fullscreen/landscape). | |
| 53. | Ability for cyrillic input with handwriting recognition and cyrillic support for business card scanner. | |
| 54. | sending a contact via sms should include all feilds.
option of adding/editing the labels in contact feilds. sync/ option of addindg or recollecting the phone nos under same name feild e.g when coping from sim two diff. no from same name. and again option of asking to add in same field before saving.to ensure not to wrongly add diff nos in same feild. | |
| 55. | sketch page should have more space of writing i.e the page should give a option of scrolling down as in case of notes page.
more line drawing tools circle etc should be added . | |
| 56. | When opening a video with file manager it should launch media player just as from the menu and keep it paused in the background if it looses focus. If you launch a video from file manager and receive a message, for instance, you loose where you were watching. | |
| 57. | the green LED doesnt flash when the phone is in stand by(when it is online on network).it was in p910i and missed in p990i | |
| 58. | Edit before call option in phonebook menu and not from call log as it is in other SE phones. | |
| 59. | p990i an alternative resolution of 800x600 is needed to the camera for photos |
R5A17
| Firmware info for Generic World 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Phone Version | CXC162037 R9F011 | Release Date | 10.04.2007 |
| Bluetooth Version | CXC162058 R5A01 | Release Built | 03.04.2007 |
| Organizer Version | CXC162036 R5A17 | ||
| CDA Version | R5A13 | Free memory (approx) | 16.1M |
Known Bugs
| No. | Description | Fixed | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Virtual keyboard error: when pressing the enter key to go to a new line, the completed word is still on the same line.
random restarts and memory management needed | - | -On Video capture lens not focused at all and very soft!!! |
| 2. | Alarm sound only ~10% of requested volume at start, then gradually increases in volume during play (prevents songs being used as alarm sounds - ascending/constant volume should at least be configurable) | - | - |
| 3. | Speed contacts application no longer works for some users - menu do not react and "Reading from SIM" is displayed | - | my-symbian |
| 4. | Pictures taken with camera that are in the memory stick camera folder can't be renamed using the built-in file manager. Swiss Manager Pro's file manager has no problem renaming pictures in the DCIM\100MSDCF folder which is the actual folder, displayed in the built-in file manager as Picture\Camera (depending on language the name displayed changes!) This bug seems to occur only if the P990 is used in a language other than English. | - | - |
| 5. | Some users report data connections stop working until phone is rebooted (browser reports "can't connect to remote server" without attempting to initiate a data connection, seems more likely to happen if always on email enabled) | - | - |
| 6. | Memory leaks are still present - free RAM (while running no applications) declines to 9-10MB after the phone has been used for a few hours. The phone handles the leaks much better though, and can handle a 0MB free situation without rebooting. (Some of the "lost" memory might be applications getting preloaded for faster start later.) | - | - |
| 7. | Notification LED flashes until reboot when new email received sometimes (via ActiveSync) | - | - |
| 8. | Virtual keyboard does not work when web browser is in fullscreen or landscape mode | - | esato |
| 9. | Some users have reported the display backlight does not turn off after playing a video | - | esato |
| 10. | Battery is drained if the camera app is left running in the background | - | se-dev |
| 11. | Applications moved from Tools to other menu folders are sometimes reset back to Tools | - | se-dev |
| 12. | Opera crashes are still being reported | - | my-symbian esato |
| 13. | Random restarts "to improve performance" are still occurring | - | my-symbian |
| 14. | Sometimes when handsfree kit is removed the screen backlit stays lit | - | - |
| 15. | In "Call Log" screen / Individual calls (select call from list) -> contact image is very small | - | - |
| 16. | Audio volume on headset is still very low. Even with MP3's at 99db there is not enough volume. This applies to the supplied headset and Sennheiser MX-50 which are very good on other devices. Volume supplied to BT is also way too low and the FM radio is also not nearly loud enough.
Using Jabra 620s stereo BT headphone, while the sound is loud when connected to a PC, using with the P990 the sound is also extremely low. | - | - |
| 17. | Thumbnail images on speed dials and picture gallery are distorted. Image compression does not seem to work properly making thumbnails in gallery and speed dials very difficult to see. | - | - |
| 18. | During the playback of a movie with the built in media player, the keypad light is always on. This should be turned off to conserve battery. | - | - |
| 19. | Alarm is ringing on Saturday and does not on Monday with settings: "Working days only(Mon-Fri)" and "Sunday" as starting day of the week | - | - |
| 20. | When the keylock is activated, clicking on space for long time will show you the time, but after unlocking the keylock, the dialing numbers will be found on the screen | - | - |
| 21. | An Appointment created in the calendar app. on Sunday March 25th 2007 4am to 5am set for infinite repeat yearly by day crashes the calendar app on save or when any of the repeat dates is displayed in the calendar. | - | - |
| 22. | When you are on a text input field but the field is not selected yet and you start to type a number (pressing ALT Q-O) then only the first or the first two symbol are a number, the second/third symbol gets a letter. You have to release ALT and press ALT again to continue typing a number. I observed it in the Address field of a new contact but it applies to every field. | - | - |
| 23. | When making a call, and the other user is busy, the retry question is appear, if u clicked on retry, the phone will retrying the call, when the other phone is ringing, u see the normal call screen which have (speaker and cancel) buttons, if u clicked on speaker it will cancel the call instead of activating speaker. | - | - |
| 24. | Pasting an entry copied in the calendar doesn't copy the folder set on the entry copied. | - | - |
| 25. | Keep multiple selections of emails when (often accidentally) the download msg dialog is brought up. From R5A17 the selections is cleared, before that the selections were kept. This problem happens when selecting multiple (spam) messages for deletion, but sometimes the stylus hits outside the selection boxes and the download dialog is bought up. Then you have to select all spams again to be able to delete them. | - | - |
| 26. | Low volume while recording video. | - | - |
| 27. | No flash support for web and no one seems to work to develop an application.(Flash lite). | - | - |
| 28. | Front speaker volume is not high enough. | - | - |
| 29. | On some P990i's is the soundquality because of a interference/noise really bad. It's a a really horrible interference not a noise, which you can hear on other phones or mp3-players with headphones (but not all P990i Phones have this problem, but all Sony Ericsson UIQ3 Smartphones can have this bug)The bug doesn't depend on the firmware. A link to the Soundbug: [1] | [2] | |
| 30. | ability to answer incoming call when open the flip | - | - |
