E71 strange update bug
I recently updated my e71 from its initial software version v1xx to v400.21.013.
During the process ovi suit told my it lost communication with my device and that i need to replug my USB cable, i did that and a minute or so after that it told me that the install failed but after starting the phone and connecting it to the suit it showed the new software version.
After browsing the phone for abut 10 minutes everything seems to work fine.
is this a random bug or a known problem, just want to know for my own peace of minde.
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Thank youYou probably installed some kind of malware pretending to be a Flash update. That's very common.
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5. You may have started the computer in "safe" mode. Preferably, these steps should be taken in “normal” mode, under the conditions in which the problem is reproduced. If the system is now in safe mode and works well enough in normal mode to run the test, restart as usual. If you can only test in safe mode, do that.
6. If you have more than one user, and the one affected by the problem is not an administrator, then please run the test twice: once while logged in as the affected user, and once as an administrator. The results may be different. The user that is created automatically on a new computer when you start it for the first time is an administrator. If you can't log in as an administrator, test as the affected user. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this section doesn’t apply. Don't log in as root.
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Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
8. Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
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Click anywhere in the Terminal window and paste by pressing command-V. The text you pasted should vanish immediately. If it doesn't, press the return key.
9. If you see an error message in the Terminal window such as "Syntax error" or "Event not found," enter
exec bash
and press return. Then paste the script again.
10. If you're logged in as an administrator, you'll be prompted for your login password. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. You will not see the usual dots in place of typed characters. Make sure caps lock is off. Type carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you make three failed attempts to enter the password, the test will run anyway, but it will produce less information. In most cases, the difference is not important. If you don't know the password, or if you prefer not to enter it, press the key combination control-C or just press return three times at the password prompt. Again, the script will still run.
If you're not logged in as an administrator, you won't be prompted for a password. The test will still run. It just won't do anything that requires administrator privileges.
11. The test may take a few minutes to run, depending on how many files you have and the speed of the computer. A computer that's abnormally slow may take longer to run the test. While it's running, there will be nothing in the Terminal window and no indication of progress. Wait for the line
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to appear. If you don't see it within half an hour or so, the test probably won't complete in a reasonable time. In that case, close the Terminal window and report what happened. No harm will be done.
12. When the test is complete, quit Terminal. The results will have been copied to the Clipboard automatically. They are not shown in the Terminal window. Please don't copy anything from there. All you have to do is start a reply to this comment and then paste by pressing command-V again.
At the top of the results, there will be a line that begins with the words "Start time." If you don't see that, but instead see a mass of gibberish, you didn't wait for the "Process completed" message to appear in the Terminal window. Please wait for it and try again.
If any private information, such as your name or email address, appears in the results, anonymize it before posting. Usually that won't be necessary.
13. When you post the results, you might see an error message on the web page: "You have included content in your post that is not permitted," or "You are not authorized to post." That's a bug in the forum software. Please post the test results on Pastebin, then post a link here to the page you created.
14. This is a public forum, and others may give you advice based on the results of the test. They speak only for themselves, and I don't necessarily agree with them.
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Strange, indefinable bug in InDesign CS2014
Can anybody tell me how to get rid of this strange bug?
It steals the focus, and then returns it. It causes all sorts of problems. Sometimes it bugs a lot/many times in short time, sometimes less.
The bug is only in InDesign. This started after I updated all software to current latest version:
OSX Mavericks 10.9.4
Adobe Creative Cloud 2014
InDesign 10.0.0.7 BuildThanks. I have already done that and no bug so far. Still not sure, because the bug is not always present.
Thank you for the tip! I´ll be talking to Extensis if there´s no bug during the day. -
E71- strange horizontal blinks when i open popup m...
Hello,
im experiencing a very strange symptoms with this e71 phone.
when ever i open any popup menus under any application a strange and fast horizontal line blinks in the screen it looks like a problem with the vga chipset or something i cant really describe it well as it apears and hide so fast but its so annoying..
anyone experience similary circumstances ?you're not alone. i experience it as well.
from the feedback i got, it seems to be asoftware problem more than anything else. hopefully the FW update will help =\ -
Try this on your E71 communicators please.
I'm facing one strange bug and wanted to ask some of the E71 happy owners to try to trigger it, 'cause I'm not sure whether the bug is native or is due to some programs I installed.
Here's the sequence of actions that triggers the bug:
0) Contact search is turned on (tools > settings > phone > call > contact search = on)
1) In the home screen, start typing the name of an existing contact having 2 or more phone numbers in it, but with no default number for a phone call selected for it
2) When you see the desired contact in the list above, scroll up with the D-pad and highlight it
3) Press the green Dial key on your keyboard - the list of the contact's phone numbers appears
4) Now press the Cancel key (right soft-key), like if you decided not to call the contact
5) The phone hangs and after 3-5 sec restarts - here's the bug!
P.S. I have the latest phone software available.Nope sorry doesn't do it here either.
Before you reset the handset, remove the memory card and see if it does it with the Memory card in the device.
There could be something in the card thats causing it to hang, what applications have you got running?
Shunts...
I will mostly be communicating with a Nokia E72 Zodium Black
Nokia E72-1 with Vr 051.018.207.04 Software
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Strange boot bug; open firmware not working
Hi!
I have a powerbook Alu 15", 1.5Ghz. It runs OS X 10.4.2 with the latest security update. My problem started last Saturday.
The problem is that my pb will not restart nor boot on its own. The computer makes its usual chime, the hard-disk starts to spin for a few second, and then stops suddenly before anything is displayed on the screen (the display does not even light-up). If I press the option key after or before the chime, and keep it pressed, or the shift key, or the c key, or the t key, or the command-option-p-r key combination, or even the command-option-o-f key combination, the behavior is exactly the same: the disk starts to spin for a few second after the chime, and suddenly halts. The computer appears to shutdown on its own before the boot can even start.
Here is the strange part: the computer boots normally if I press the command key (this key on its own is not suppose to do anything). It also works if I press the command-s or command-v key combination. No other key combination seem to work.
Except for this strange boot behavior, the computer works flawlessly. I did not have any kernel panic for at least a year, the computer did not crash recently, everything works fine except for one small detail on which I will come back at the end.
I've tried to fix the problem by the following actions:
1) Clean install of Tiger with a new partitioning of the disk; I even zeroed the entire disk. This did not change anything so the problem is probably not OS related.
2) Reset of the PMU with the four finger salute: shift-control-option-power combination. No effect except that I lost the date/time information. Hence the reset worked.
3) Tried to reset the PRAM, but the command-option-p-r key combination does not seem to work.
4) Tried to load the open firmware with command-option-o-f, but this does not work either.
5) Memory seems ok. I have 1x256M of Apple RAM + 1x1G of RAM bought from OWC. I've had the OWC RAM for about a year without any problem. Anyway, I removed the 1G module and tried to boot on the 256M Apple module alone. Exact same behavior. Then I removed the Apple module and put back the 1G module. Exact same boot behavior. So the problem is not with my RAM, unless both modules have simultaneously developed a malfunction.
6) Tried to run the Apple hardware tests. However, for my machine, these tests come on the install DVD, in a special hidden volume. To boot on this special volume, one needs to boot with the option key depressed, and to select the boot volume from the open firmware interface. But this does not work on my machine, the computer seems to shut down before this interface can be activated!
So this problem is very strange. I can live with having to press the command key for booting my machine, but I would sure like to know what is going on here. Is the problem hardware related? Perhaps, but as I said, the machine works flawlessly except for the strange boot behavior.
Is the problem related to firmware? I think that this is the most probable option. What do you think? Maybe, the firmware got slightly corrupted? Maybe a bit got flipped in the flash memory? Is this possible? I guess so. But, what can I do? Should I contact my friendly local repairman?! I have to admit that this option scares me a little bit for such a strange problem. I would need an Apple engineer with boot related experience/expertise!
Now, here is a little bit of further information. I don't know if its related, but it is also very strange. I work with a dual screen configuration. Usually, I connect my screen and then I wake up the computer. Last week, I noticed that if I connect my second screen live, the system detects it automatically. I guess this is new to Tiger? Anyway, the strange behavior is that the computer then asks me if I want to sleep, restart or shutdown my pb, as if I had pressed the power button. But I did not press this button when I connected the dvi connector >:-o
Many thankHi Scott!
Almost every time the PowerBook woke after sleep, I got the 'Are you sure you want to shut down your computer now...' message.
I get this message upon wake only rarely, but every time I plug or unplug a display live.
The strange behaviour was tolerable, so I've lived with it for several months. But then when checking out the PowerBook discussions, I read about the failing lower RAM slot problems, and just out of interest, checked out my System Profiler....
Ok, so the good news is that my pb may continue to work for several months
My lower RAM slot appears to be ok for now.
Interestingly, I'm sure that the start-up problems began when I started using my PowerBook with a 23" Apple Cinema Display (a pink hued one, but that's another on-going saga) - and you too have mentioned that you use an external display, so I wonder if that's part of the cause of our start-up problems.
Yes, I've noticed the 'Are you sure you want to shut down your computer now...' message just a few days before noticing the strange boot problem (not sure if the machine booted in between). I use ViewSonic displays (one at home and one at the office), and several different projectors in different class rooms. From what I read, it is plausible that there is a link between this problem and the dvi port. Could it be that the boot sequence of mb is affected by a hardware problem on the dvi port? But not when a press the command key?!
Anyway, my machine is no longer under warranty, so I intend to live with the problem for as long as possible...
But I've been doing more regular backups since then.
Best wishes to you and your (almost) new machine!
Marc. -
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Also if you change the birthday of an existing contact, the birthday calendar ist not updated.
Please check.
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ITunes 8.2.1 update bug (-50) and changes to iTunes Photo tab
Many thanks in advance for your attention.
1. Since I updated to iTunes 8.2.1, have had the following bug whenever I try to sync my iPod Touch (2G). "The iPod " " cannot be synced - An unknown error occurred (-50)." pops up.
2. I have a file in iPhoto of just photos for my iPod (instead of the entire - huge - iPhoto Library.) Under iTunes, looking under the Photos Tab, this choice was "selected albums" - which allowed you to pick just one album from one's iPhoto Library to be synced. But this choice, the button, is now greyed out. It is there, but one can no longer select it.
3. ?
4. On top of that, the default - Sync All Photos from iPhoto is now selected. (I think this is the cause for the -50 error). I never intended to have my whole iPhoto library automatically imported by my iPod.
4. As others have done here, I turned off "Sync Photos" from iPhoto.
5. Then when I try to sync, no problem, no hitches. No Error prompts. Great.
6. But - this way, I am forever stuck with the photos that are in my iPod now. Adding new photos seems impossible, as the sync Selected Albums button is greyed out.
7. Have I overlooked something? From other posts, it seems this is a bug that is widespread.same exact problem just happened within the last few weeks (something to do with snow leopard update??)..i had other wise been happily syncing a second generation touch with version 3.0
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Not sure what caused this. There's certainly nothing that can be done
about it. I neglected to repair my backup volume which failed a couple weeks ago and proceeded with an InDesign
large project and lost all my work.
When working on this doc, every several days I would edit the file name, adding something to the end of the file to let me know what work it contained. I began about Nov 6 and made my last edits on Nov 16, yesterday evening before going home. During the course of the day I noticed something very strange -- the file name had some jibberish in it enclosed in parens. I simply removed them and resaved.
When I came in this morning, there were NO files from Nov 7 on -- all of the edits I'd made to some 10 incrementally changing files were now gone.
I've since used a disk recoverey tool to no avail.
Obviously, I'm at fault for not using proper backup procedure -- but there's a pretty nasty bug here which bit me that is pretty frustrating. I'm on Snow Leopard. File was about 150 pages, quite a bit of imagery.
donSorry to go silent, but I was busy trying to salvage things.
First -- thanks for all the helpful replies, and also thanks for the wake-up calls as to my sloppy procedures. I've taken them to heart and just finished backup up my system. I had a functioning backup system that failed a few weeks ago and I let my workload keep me from attending to it.
As I stated earlier, I was using a backup method where in the same directory I was altering names every chapter. The day the system ate my collection of files I had encountered some sort of problem in the file names. I corrected the problem and went on.
When I first realized the data was lost I immediately checked my "dropbox" (an online program that lets me move with files between computers. I had taken the work home for the weekend, but deleted it monday morning from the dropbox because I hadn't actually done any work over the weekend. I worked all day monday and it was on tuesday thart my files were gone.
When I came in to work monday morning I noticed something interesting in my task bar at the top of the OS X screen. I saw a program that when highlighted said "backup successful". It seems I had installed the free version of Mozy a few months back and since it was only 2 gig of storage I pointed it as a test to my "Dropbox" and forgot about it.
Sure enough, it had dutifully copied friday evenings work out of the drop box to the Mozy servers.
So, despite all of the suggestions failing (booting without extensions, data salvage programs and so forth) I have no a file that represents only one days worth of data loss. And the edits I did monday were fairly minimal. Needless to say I've made multiple copies of it and I am now back on schedule to deliver my project ontime.
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Strange Swing bug in Oracle's JDK7
I have a strange bug with every java app i run with the Java 7 VM. Every frame is limited to a maximum width of 1024 pixels. Doesn't matter if you try to resize it by code or dragging the border with the mouse pointer.
I have a Macbook with Mac OSX 10.7.5 (1280x800 resolution).
If i try to run the apps with Apple's Java 6 VM all works as expected.
Here is a POC:
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
public class JDK7Bug {
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setVisible(true);
frame.setSize(800, 400);
Thread.sleep(100);
System.out.println("frame.setSize(800, 400); " + frame.getSize());
frame.setSize(1100, 400);
Thread.sleep(100);
System.out.println("frame.setSize(1100, 400); " + frame.getSize());
frame.setSize(1000, 400);
Thread.sleep(100);
System.out.println("frame.setSize(1000, 400); "+frame.getSize());
System.out.println("ScreenSize: "+Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize());
It outputs:
frame.setSize(800, 400); java.awt.Dimension[width=800,height=400]
frame.setSize(1100, 400); java.awt.Dimension[width=1024,height=400]
frame.setSize(1000, 400); java.awt.Dimension[width=1000,height=400]
ScreenSize: java.awt.Dimension[width=1280,height=800]Try wrapping everything inside main in a SwingUtilities.invokeLater. You should not do any Swing stuff outside the EDT and you can remove the Thread.sleep.
I have tested on my Windows 8.1 with 7u45 and 7u60 and they both work
I get the following in std.out:
frame.setSize(800, 400); java.awt.Dimension[width=800,height=400]
frame.setSize(1100, 400); java.awt.Dimension[width=1100,height=400]
frame.setSize(1000, 400); java.awt.Dimension[width=1000,height=400]
ScreenSize: java.awt.Dimension[width=2560,height=1440] -
Strange behaviuor (bug?) with view (ora-918 column ambiguously defined)
Hallo everybody,
the following code works as expected;
select substr(fire_id,-4,2) as ct,zone_id, count(fire_id),sum(a_total) from
(select *
from fire right join fire_zone using (fire_id)
where definition_id = 1
and checked = 1
and substr(fire_id,-4,2) in (21,23)
and fire_id between 190400000000 and 200900000000)
group by substr(fire_id,-4,2),zone_id
order by ct, zone_id
but when a define a view for the subquery:
create or replace view tempfire as
select *
from fire right join fire_zone using (fire_id)
where definition_id = 1
and checked = 1
and substr(fire_id,-4,2) in (21,23)
and fire_id between 190400000000 and 200900000000
and then run
select substr(fire_id,-4,2) as ct,zone_id, count(fire_id),sum(a_total) from tempfire
group by substr(fire_id,-4,2),zone_id
order by ct, zone_id
I got the error ora-00918 column ambiguously defined for zone_id.
Is this a bug or is there a reason?
Thank you in advance,
Cheers,
Boris
Edited by: boris on Nov 19, 2009 6:49 AM
Edited by: boris on Nov 19, 2009 6:52 AMuser503699
I followed your suggestion and now it works. Thank you !
But something is strange ... this is the result of the desc tempfire ... and all the column names are different ...
desc tempfire
Name Null Type
FIRE_ID NOT NULL NUMBER(12)
START_DATE DATE
END_DATE DATE
LOCALITY VARCHAR2(56)
X_COORD NUMBER(6)
Y_COORD NUMBER(6)
COORD_RELIABILITY_ID NUMBER(1)
ALTITUDE NUMBER(4)
SITE_ID NUMBER(1)
EXPO_ID NUMBER(1)
SLOPE NUMBER(3)
X_BUSH NUMBER(1)
X_COPPICE NUMBER(1)
X_COPPICE_MIXED NUMBER(1)
X_SELVA NUMBER(1)
X_HIGH_FOREST_HARDWOOD NUMBER(1)
X_HIGH_FOREST_SOFTWOOD NUMBER(1)
X_HIGH_FOREST_MIXED NUMBER(1)
X_PIONEER NUMBER(1)
X_FORESTATION NUMBER(1)
S_BUSH NUMBER(8,2)
S_COPPICE NUMBER(8,2)
S_COPPICE_MIXED NUMBER(8,2)
S_SELVA NUMBER(8,2)
S_HIGH_FOREST_HARDWOOD NUMBER(8,2)
S_HIGH_FOREST_SOFTWOOD NUMBER(8,2)
S_HIGH_FOREST_MIXED NUMBER(8,2)
S_PIONEER NUMBER(8,2)
S_FORESTATION NUMBER(8,2)
A_FOREST NUMBER(8,2)
A_GRASSLAND NUMBER(8,2)
A_NONPRODUCTIVE NUMBER(8,2)
A_TOTAL NUMBER(8,2)
D_CASTANEA NUMBER(1)
D_QUERCUS NUMBER(1)
D_FAGUS NUMBER(1)
D_BETULA NUMBER(1)
D_OTHER_HARDWOOD NUMBER(1)
D_PINUS NUMBER(1)
D_PICEA NUMBER(1)
D_LARIX NUMBER(1)
D_OTHER_SOFTWOOD NUMBER(1)
DIAMETER NUMBER(3)
LITTER_ID NUMBER(1)
HERB_LAYER_ID NUMBER(1)
BUSH_LAYER_ID NUMBER(1)
FIRE_SURFACE NUMBER(1)
FIRE_CROWN NUMBER(1)
FIRE_SINGLE_TREE NUMBER(1)
FIRE_SUBSURFACE NUMBER(1)
DAMAGE_FOREST_ID NUMBER(1)
DAMAGE_SOIL_ID NUMBER(1)
HEIGHT_DAMAGE NUMBER(4,2)
F_PROTECTION NUMBER(1)
F_ECONOMIC NUMBER(1)
F_RECREATION NUMBER(1)
CAUSE_ID NUMBER(2)
OTHER_CAUSE VARCHAR2(200)
CAUSE_RELIABILITY_ID NUMBER(1)
ALARM_FORESTDEP DATE
CHECKED NUMBER(1)
DATA_FROM_FORESTDEP NUMBER(1)
DATA_FROM_FIREMANDEP NUMBER(1)
DATA_FROM_HISTORY NUMBER(1)
INSERT_DATE DATE
INSERT_BY VARCHAR2(16)
UPDATE_DATE DATE
UPDATE_BY VARCHAR2(16)
OLD_TI_AFFDFO VARCHAR2(1)
OLD_TI_S_SPES NUMBER(8,2)
OLD_TI_PICFOR VARCHAR2(1)
OLD_TI_FIRE_TYPE VARCHAR2(1)
OLD_TI_DOMINANT_SPECIES VARCHAR2(1)
OLD_TI_CAUSE VARCHAR2(2)
OLD_TI_FOREST_TYPE VARCHAR2(1)
START_DATE_RELIABILITY_ID NUMBER(1)
END_DATE_RELIABILITY_ID NUMBER(1)
DEFINITION_ID NUMBER(1)
ZONE_ID NOT NULL NUMBER(8)
79 rows selected
I'm still interested hoe to use hints. Can anybody tell me?
Thank you
Boris
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