Glitch n96

Ok i found a glitch and it is reproducable. When you receive a picture in for example jpg format (over bluetooth), open it from out of the inbox and select options and use as background. you get a pop up telling you that you first need to save the picture. when you save the picture to your mass memory you get the promt loading image. (while he is trying to set the background picture) but it just crashes and does not work. when pressing the red button it will close the window but the inbox and loading picture stays active and cannot be used. in this cycle the media buttons and sound buttons wont work either. same for viewing pictures in gallery wont open. after opening some more apps. the phone eventually crashes totally and cannot be used anymore until the battery is removed (on/off button doesnt react at all).
maybe a tip to fix in next update.
Message Edited by sygys on 16-Feb-2009 11:23 AM

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N96 Firmware update

I am aware that a new firmware has been released by Nokia for the N96. However i am not able to get hold of it yet. I have a UK Vodafone phone & contract.
1.Can you advise how i can install this new firmware?
2. Will it address the various problems such as:
a) software crashes and freezing,
b) phone reboots itself for no reason,
c) GPS location is not always possible, but when i use google maps on the phone my location is found
d) Music player will cause the phone to shutdown if you use it for more than 60minutes
e) battery feels warm when several applications are running or you are doing anything continuously for more than 15 minutes
3) is it possible i can download the firmware via your website and install it myself?
4) will i need to unlock the phone to get the update now?
I have had the N95, N95 8GB and now N96 phones. Sadly they all failed to live up to the hype of matching the power of the IPhone, which i am reluctant to buy. If i cant get hold of the firmware and i still have the software glitches then i may be forced to become another Apple IPhone fan.
Like most people here we just want a good phone that can do all that you claim it can do.

hi there Smurph, read this informative article written by one of our senior users Grischnon: http://linux.sgms-centre.com/nokiafaq/branded-phones/ i'm afraid what Post007 was trying to say always comes out rather muddled, so i will explain it in short for you.
Nokia provides the firmware to Vodafone and other operators usually before the generic firmware (or what others call de-branded; unbranded) is released via NSU or FOTA by Nokia. it is then up to Vodafone to modify the firmware to their tastes, or if they don't wish to then they won't. if the firmware is modified by Vodafone it becomes branded firmware and is given back to Nokia who will then distribute it through NSU or FOTA for the specific product codes for that firmware (i.e. product codes will be for the Vodafone variants of the N96). this is why Vodafone tell you to go to the Nokia website to update your phone, no operators actually handle the update processes themselves. another reason they tell you this is to divert the blame to Nokia, and Vodafone not accept resposibility for the laziness/poor attitude taken by their programmers to put out updated firmware for their phones. or excuses for why they firmware is so crippling. so in essence, they're not really being truthful, yes. it's not really Nokia's fault in this case, its often Vodafone's.
i'm unsure if you can get out of your contract as Vodafone probably has all the jargon to cover themselves for their inadequacies. by preying on the customers lack of knowledge, they suck more unsuspecting customers in to make more money. this should answer your question pretty well.
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N96 Bugs I've noticed

Generally pleased with my new N96 which replaces my ageing N95 but i have noticed two bugs. I am using a simfree, nokia shop purchased N96 update to SW v11.101.098.1.
BUG 1: I've imported my contacts from my N95 and i cannot set defaults for email addresses or numbers. When the defaults option is selected from the menu in contacts the conacts application immediatley closes and i am returned to the front screen. Defaults for contacts i've created on the N96 can have there defaults set but defaults cannot be set for contacts imported using PC Suite or the phones sync utility. Also, for imported contacts the ringtone is the default nokia tune and not the tone defined in the contact or in my active profile. Again only imported contacts show this glitch with a contact created on the N96 working as expected. The default ringtone issue seems to be a common one on the forum maybe this is a connection.
BUG 2: The phone freezes if you try to resume playback of a video file whilst using a bluetooth headset (in my case a nokia BH-500). With the phone connected to the BH-500 you can play a video file from the start but when promted to continue the latest played file from last position its 'take the battery out time' when the phone locks up.
Any user got any thoughts on these anomolies??
Message Edited by orgazmic on 20-Oct-2008 12:13 AM
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20-Oct-2008 12:07 AM
orgazmic wrote:
Generally pleased with my new N96 which replaces my ageing N95 but i have noticed two bugs. I am using a simfree, nokia shop purchased N96 update to SW v11.101.098.1.
BUG 1: I've imported my contacts from my N95 and i cannot set defaults for email addresses or numbers. When the defaults option is selected from the menu in contacts the conacts application immediatley closes and i am returned to the front screen. Defaults for contacts i've created on the N96 can have there defaults set but defaults cannot be set for contacts imported using PC Suite or the phones sync utility. Also, for imported contacts the ringtone is the default nokia tune and not the tone defined in the contact or in my active profile. Again only imported contacts show this glitch with a contact created on the N96 working as expected. The default ringtone issue seems to be a common one on the forum maybe this is a connection.
BUG 2: The phone freezes if you try to resume playback of a video file whilst using a bluetooth headset (in my case a nokia BH-500). With the phone connected to the BH-500 you can play a video file from the start but when promted to continue the latest played file from last position its 'take the battery out time' when the phone locks up.
Any user got any thoughts on these anomolies??
Message Edited by orgazmic on 20-Oct-2008 12:13 AM
Hello, i have the 11.101 version and I imported all my contacts via PC suite and I CAN use the defaults option and the ringtone can be anything I want (apart for video ringtones-they don't work).
N95,N81,N96, N97

N96 Video malfunction issue

Ok, I've had my N96 for 3 weeks now. Definite love hate relationship! Sure, the fone has a few bugs and can be slow at times but the real problem I have is with the video playback. I have uploaded videos (mp4 format) to the fone but several of these videos will not play or will just play the sound and tell me that it can only partially play the clip. The videos that do upload successfully sometimes freeze or skip too which is really frustrating when trying to demonstrate to people that this fone is as good as all the hype! Also uploading full length movies is a problem.
I never had any difficulties with the N958gb when using the video function and movies I installed ran smoothly without any glitches or slowdown.
I am aware that there will soon be a new firmware upgrade (I have a vodaphone branded handset) but several people I have heard from still report these same faults.
Does anyone have any suggestions which don't include replacing my handset?!?!?!
Thanks ITG ;-)

You probably have a airtime provider branded phone - check the firmware
*#0000#
this will tell you the firmware you are on and any "custom version no"
all the version 10 firmwares have major problems and even worse if they are airtime provider branded and crippled. Problem is getting the 11 release firmware wont work due to product code locking .. and even if you get your device unlocked by the airtime provider nokia wont update the firmware ( the software downloaded certainly wont work but even repair centres wont do it)
Data transfer is heavily bugged until the new firmware - FORTUNATELY it works beautifully once its updated - so you have a choice put up with it not makign calls locking up and not playing music / video properly until the airtime provider releases a decent update or go back to a n95.
The larger files die and corrupt as the data transfer routines in the firmware "seem" to have a memory leak ( check out the symbion forums) which slows the transfer down to the point of non completion and or corrupts data in transit.
To be fair it is a new here and the problems aren't nokias they are the vendor crippling .
Sorry I couldn't help more but I am trying hard to get nokia firmware on a vodafone crippled N96 currently - if is success I will post how / where to do it -- I will prolly host the files on one of my ftp servers so we can all get to use phone -- but thats ONCE i get it to work.

N96 Bluetooth keeps droping!

When using my N96 sync via bluetooth it just lets me finish the session I would be in (i.e. lets just transfer a file I need) then the connection just drops and I would not be able to re-connect via bluetooth!!
Can someone help me pls!

WOW I searched online and stumbled on this thread - we are having the EXACT same problem with an couple of interesting twists. My wife and I each have an iPhone 5 (one black and one white) and just like lesleywash we have a 2014 Honda CRV. My wife in particular really likes the hand free blue tooth link feature but after updating to iOS 7.1.2 her iPhone started having the same problem described above. Dropping blue tooth connection, re-establishing and getting "The Phone Is Connected" message through the sound system constantly. Really annoying.
Twist #1 is that the problem is not happening with my iPhone only hers. Same exact phones bought at the same time, the only difference is one white/one black (a glitch related to color?...JK).
Twist #2 is that it seems to be a location problem, not time. She takes a regular drive everyday and found the problem happens at the same places on the road. "It always happens at the intersection with the 7-11" as opposed to "it happens every couple of minutes". And, it only seems to be a problem at those locations. It's a mix of in-town and highway places so I don't think it's another device trying to link?
Very strange, I'm fairly certain it's the phone and not the car (again, my phone is no problem) and I'm looking for a permanent fix. She tried the tip about shutting off Wi-Fi and that does work but what a pain constantly toggling Wi-Fi on and off. This is my first time posting on an Apple Support Community. Does these problems get looked at here by Apple Support or do I need to contact someone else?
Thanks for any help/advice.

N96 storage and usb

Hi All,
I'm wondering the best use of the storage capabillities of the N96. I've just bought an 8gb card then thought , why ?
I guess I'm really asking where do most people put applications, photos, games, music etc. All in one place or ?
Second question.
After my N96 died after a nokia software update, phone is being replaced free btw. I'm wondering if there is a software glitch with the usb power or something. I have had problems with my computer losing I'ts connection to the 96 but none of our other phones do, N76, N70, N95.
Maybe other posters have had similar experiances?
Thanks for reading
Pete
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I always install applications in the phone's central memory (C: ) and use the mass storage exclusively for media like music, videos, photos etc. I use a memory card for doing backups and nothing else.
The usb disconnection problem has nothing to do with power, mainly because the N96 doesn't draw any from the usb port. It's more likely to be your computer.
Message Edited by grschinon on 24-Oct-2008 08:49 PM
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Nokia N96! Some buttons are not working!!!

I have Nokia N96 SV 30.033. And I got this problem where , My Call button, my volume buttons, my up key , left key, menu button wont work.
I dont know if theres some glitch of somekind. But sometimes it starts working normaly, but then again it goes off , and wont let me press anything.
I tried reseting the phone with *#7370# and the 4 key combination ( * + 3 + Green Call button and power button).
Any solution of fixing this ? ? ?

Looks like it is some kinde of hardwarefault - lose connection or so. Visit a nokia care point! There are contact information on the top right on this site.

Nokia n96 ear speaker problem.. aLreadY!

bought mine just yesterday. there seems to be some kind of problem with the ear speaker.. all the voices sound way deeper than they're supposed to. its like all the people are talking to me from the bottom of a pit. an older n95 sounds much much clearer. i thought it might be a firmware issue so i upgraded but its still there.
any clue as to whats causing this?

on my second n96 within a week, the phone was responsive, only a few glitches when watching movies on the handest, where the audio would continue and the video image would lag or freeze, only problem was with the sound quality of the built in earpiece. The manager from CPW store agreed there was an issue with the built in earpiece on my 1st handset and replaced it with a brand new handset...guess what...sound quality is exactly the same on the replacement handset really muffled as if the caller is covering the built in microphone with thier sleeve when talking to you!
Also this second handset is really sluggish and it takes an age for it to find any files in the gallery.
on the whole im really dissapointed with this phone
(N96-1) as i was a user of the n95-1 handsets and once all the glithches were ironed out and the phone tailored to how you use it, it worked rather well and was an invaluable tool.
But when are nokia gonna get things right with thier handsets from right out of the box, instead of umpteen firmware upgrades, just to get the things coping with normal use?
Hopefully a solution will be made available soon for this problem.

Nokia Has Forsaken the N96 in Asia-Pacific.

Go to the Nokia Asia Pacific support page for the N96 - http://www.nokia-asia.com/get-support-and-software/product-support/nokia-n96 and it's official - Nokia have forsaken this handset.
It's actually quite embarrassing. This page has not changed since December 2008 when firmware version 12.043 came out. And that's been it for Asia Pacific customers. As of today, 31st October 2009, the page still invites you to update to the 'latest' 12.043!!
Meanwhile, the rest of the world has enjoyed firmware releases 21.xxx and now 30.033 (not that it instills me with any confidence that in 30 software versions, Nokia STILL cannot get it right), but this is a downright slap in the face to customers who have paid TOP DOLLAR for this phone (remember, it was the flagship model 12 months ago). It simply isn't good enough, Nokia!
After repeated emails and calls to Nokia, and similar to my service provider, Optus, reporting all the daily crashes, lock-ups and overall SLOWNESS of this phone, I finally took my case to the Telephone Industry Ombudsman (TIO) here in Australia.
I kid you not, within HOURS I had a customer service rep from Optus phoning me to apologise profusely for the lack of support for this phone. Some investigations were made, and Optus, still unable to get any reasonable response from Nokia, offered me an entirely new phone - to my choice - without having to sign up to another plan (I still have 12-months to go on the N96).
So that's it for me everyone! Reading around the forum here I see the N97 is beset with just as much **bleep** as the N96, and so my nice shiny new iPhone 3GS 32GB is on the way. Thanks Optus!!
This N96 is going now where it thoroughly deserves to be - in the bin!! And good riddance!
Needless to say, it is definitely the last Nokia that will ever darken my doorstep. After over 15 years of customer loyalty, I'm off.
See you all over on the iPhone forums?
Ian
Ian Nicholson
Poor Sod/N96 Owner
Nokia: Connecting People... with iPhones.

I think Optus may have been telling you some porkies.
I had similar experiences with my Vodafone Ireland N95 8gb. I bought it with V12. When V21 was released, I waited a few months and nothing happened so I contacted Vodafone who immediately blamed Nokia, so I contacted Nokia only to be told the firmware update had been sent to Vodafone for their modification and approval. It was up to Vodafone to modify the soft to include their branding nd then return it to Nokia for release. After further frustrating calls to Vodafone, I was finally put through to someone who told me that the update was on his desk and he would get round to it the next week and he did. I got my V21 the next week.
When the next update came along, once again I waited and finally decided to ring when there was no sign of it. Again Vodafone's immediate response was to blame Nokia. However I knew better this time and finally got put through to the correct person again. This time he told me they had no intentions of spending anymore time on updates for the N95 8gb because it was not a popular phone for them and that V21 was stable enough. In other words I am stuck at V21 and still amto this day. Maybe I should contact the ombudsman as well.
I think Optus have not told you the truth and have paid you off with a new phone to keep you quiet. The truth is they can't be bothered working on the update since you could be the only one shouting for it.

N96 V 30.0.33 Unstable,frequent restarts, lock ups...

Hi all.
Upgraded my firmware using FOTA the day the V30 firmware was released.
Ever since though I have had major issues with my N96. The previous version 20 and version 12 were stable enough and I had minimal issues with them. I have not installed any new apps or software between version 20 and version 30.
Constant random reboots, even when not actually doing anything with the phone. Its just sat on the desk in standby and ... boom restart. Happening at least 4 - 5 times per day. Maybe more.
Phone locking up when navigating menus or attempting to switch between open apps. Resulting in battery off and back in to restart.
SMS received, phone locked up. Battery off reboot. All sms in inbox deleted!
Messaging app locking up on a regular basis, regardless of memory selected.
Battery life appears to have deteriorated. Having to charge morning and night to ensure phone not dead overnight. Once a day on version 20 firmware.
Would be interesting to know if anybody else is having any or similar issues or knows of a fix etc.
Looking at reverting to previous version 20 firmware. If anybody knows how to do this using Vista, then please let me know. I understand its only possible using XP ... Hope this is not the case.

Hi everybody,
I have right the same problem. V30.033 - frequent unexpected reset.
I got installed the version 30.033 from a Nokia care center, and since then the phone restarts randomly and frequently: when I use the phone, the GPS, the Media Player, or even in stand-by.
I tried everything was suggested in this forum: factory setting, hard reset, deletion of configurations.
I have no external memory card installed.
Nothing works; the phone keeps restarting randomly.
I purchased this phone in October 08 from an operator, and it came with version 10.x. Very poor performance, but the N96 was very stable.
I tried the software update and the update over the air, but no update was possible. I could therefore not experience the version 12 and 20.
To get the phone updated I had to contact the Nokia care center.
Now after firmware update, because any attempt to recover from frequent resets fails, I suspect the reason might be a conflict with some parameters stored somewhere in the phone, and belonging to the operator who sold the phone.
My operator suggests sending him back the phone so that they can reprogram it.
I am reluctant in doing this because they are still on 10.x firmware version.
Maybe Nokia software people might want to check if the V30.033 has something new on it, which might conflict with programming specific to an operator.

How can I get my Bluetooth to connect? I took it to the apple store in San Francisco and got horrible service and my phone still doesn't work in regards to Bluetooth and glitches ? Please help

I am very disappointed, I can not connect my Bluetooth to any device (ie. beatpill) and I took it to the store they reset my phone and told me everythibg should work and it turns out that nothing works. Not only the Bluetooth but my phone glitches while in use (ie. It freezes, it'll reset randomly, and the apps freeze or won't close, whrn texting it will close out my messages) things of that nature. Please help because thus far no one else has and it has become a problem for me to use my phone.

What does the beat pill manual say on how to pair to iphone?
We have no issue connecting an iphone 4S/5/5S or 6 to it.

Hard drive glitches after battery replacement... normal?

Hello, I have a 4Gen 20gig ipod with click wheel and I just replaced the battery myself last night.
I then plugged it into my computer to sync and it was recognized by windows, but not by iTunes, the hard drive would whir, then click and then try again, then stop. I figured it was just that the battery wasn't charged enough yet, so I let it charge overnight.
In the morning it synced fine. I was then playing it in the car, and some songs would appear, then the hard drive would whir, click a couple of times, then skip on to the next one. After a couple songs it started playing them normal. After skipping a few and the hard drive spun to load more music into the temporary memory, it would whir, click and then skip the song, then whir click and skip that one too... and it kept doing it. Then I reset it, and it kept showing the apple symbol, then the Exclamation and folder icon, then tried restarting again. After trying to reset itself 4 or 5 times, it finally succeeded.
I read a few threads on here, gave the ipod a gentle nudge on the right hand corner a few times, and now its playing and I haven't had any symptoms yet for about an hour.
Is this normal for a hard drive on an iPod to glitch after a battery replacement? I had no such problems when I had the other battery in it, so it's hard to believe that the hard drive is going bad exactly at the same time I changed batteries. It is the right battery for the right iPod, anyone else experience this or have any words of wisdom or comfort?

rsherid wrote:
Pretty fast and non-stop, even when I'm not working. Could it be dirty? Is there a way to clean it?
Does the Apple store charge just to look at something?
Even if the noise was a dirty hard drive you can't clean the innards of one. You cannot even open one. Well you can, once.

ATI X1900 exhibits random display glitches on a Mac Pro

My ATI card has been displaying bizarre and random glitches on my Mac Pro. I am running a dual screen setup: a brand new Samsung SyncMaster 21" lcd and an ancient 15" Apple Studio Display.
On the Samsung, the most common problem I get is what looks like video jitter (the entire image shakes to the right very quickly at random intervals) every couple of seconds. When the problem gets really bad, I start to notice thin horizontal red lines flickering at random places across the entire screen. Both happen while using the computer and during the boot/reboot process... on the old Apple screen, the problem is less noticeable, usually it's just a very quick flash on the screen that can happen every 15 minutes or so. Sometimes a restart clears up the problem but it doesn't always work. I have also tested my machine with a 17" Formac LCD and it displays the red lines as well.
Unfortunately, there does not seem to be a consistent pattern of why this is happening... sometimes it starts only after several hours of use, other times it will start after waking from sleep. Zapping PRAM and resetting the PMU doesn't seem to have any effect.I have put the stock nVidia card in the machine and all the problems go away. This card was actually replaced by Apple last week and things were fine for a few hours but then the problems returned and has gotten worse since then.
Does this sound like the video card is still defective, or could it possibly be the Mac Pro itself?
Jay
Mac Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I would get back into contact with AppleCare and see what they can do. It might well be a driver issue so if you have a drive available, try installing a clean copy of Max OS X onto it, update it to Mac OS X 10.4.8 and see it if makes a difference.

Nokia N96 - A long review!

The Nokia N96 Long Review by Jupstejuho
v. 1
(Please notice that this is the first published version so I will
be making this much longer a bit later if you just want me to do so)
In this case I have only reviewed the phone's main software
things, not many of its good-too features.
--> A BIT INFO -->
Firmware used: Unbranded Scandinavian v11, upgraded to that from v10 wich was originally branded
Phone used: Elisa Finland network branded, simlocked Nokia N96-1
Operator used: Elisa Finland
Memory card used: 512MB (have not actually even touched it as the 16GB has been fine for me
More settings used: Screen brighness set to full 100%, display light set to disappear after
30 seconds of inactivity, Online mode always on. Screensaver set to none.
1. THE FIRST WORDS
OK, as all of the active Nokia people around the internet already know, there
are many reviews in the internet considering about the famous, all-new Nokia
N96 smartphone. It is a new part of the Nokia´s 3rd generation phone series,
the N-Series. The Nokia's N-Series is a quite big group of some really good
phones using much more advanced technology than the previous camera phones
that Nokia, and many other well-known phone companies have made. That is the
Nokia's N-Series in short. But, I am not writing this long review for all you
Nokia-People to just tell you what Nokia N-Series is, you basically did not
come here to read about that. I am writing this because I want to show you
my first feelings about the Nokia N96. I hope you have time to read the whole
review
2. ABOUT THE PHONE'S DESIGN, LOOK ETC. ALL ITS OUTSIDE-SEEING THINGS
So let's start from the usually first things that most people want to know
about a phone before buying it, the phone's ergonomy. The Nokia N96 feels
really, really good in my hand. Althought the phone seems to be quite big,
it fits in almost anybody's hands really well. It is not so thick, comparing
to my good old Nokia N91. And that impressed me pretty much. The phone is
relatively wide, but does not weight much (about 120 grams). The phone's
outlook is something I like, it is somehow much like the Apple's iPhone
within its big screen and black'n'white and grey colours. But, I was very
sad when I actually realized the biggest mistake made in the phone's
design. Its outer casing is actually made from cheap plastics, wich leads
to the very unliked feature... The Nokia N96's cheap plastics are in all
only not good-looking, but also really effective fingerprint magnets! The
phone's outer casing takes fingerprints really easily, and you can see
them very well in a bright sunlight, that is something I really hate. But,
that is luckily the only problem on the phone's design, I think. Just that
the phone's front side is quite widely crowded with many buttons. I really
like the phone's frontside's media button, as it reminds me of my good
old Nokia N91's Musicmenu-key. It is surrounded with the play/pause, stop,
forward and backward keys, and the already-known menu key, C-key (also known
as the backspace key) plus the green & red answering keys and the two
softkeys. All this is has been made to fit around the phone's joystick,
wich also had to include the handy Naviwheel option, but they removed it from
the software, wich is sad in my opinion. They have removed the handy
pen-key, wich formerly worked pretty well as a shortcut for many nice
programs that i used to play around with my old Nokia N91, that is sad but
I guess they had a good enough reason for removing the key.
>>> To the phone itself, features etc.
3. PHONE'S USER INTERFACE IN ALL
The Nokia N96 uses the same OS that almost all N-Series devices use, the
Symbian S60 3RD. But this time it is not just that. The Nokia N96 is one
of the first phone's to get the new, famous Feature Pack 2 (FP2). A feature
pack is like the "Microsoft Service Pack" for phones. Just that you cannot
upgrade any NON-FP/FP1 device to FP2 unless you really are an employer of
Nokia, and that the Feature Packs are for phones, not for computers
Symbian S60 3RD is the 3rd edition of the famous Symbian OS for phones,
wich has all the features that are required in order to say that a phone
is REALLY a Smartphone. OK, I am now comparing the FP2 Nokia N96 to my old
Pre-FP1/Non-FP1 Nokia N91. The phone's standby screen is pretty much the
same. Just that you can also set the standby screen to be in 3 different
modes. No active standby at all (The old S60 style), the normal already
known active standby row of 6 different program shortcuts and a new
arrangement, the one that is more complicated. It has the icons in the right
side of the phone's standby/idlescreen and you choose the icon and you see
its features at right side. Anyways, I chose the good old S60 3RD arrangement
as it is not too complicated for me. Going to the phone's menu is easy, you
just press the menu-key and that's that. The taskmanager is renewed, this
time it is horizontal and looks better (I guess they have made the idea from
the nice IQ AltTab program wich I used to use with my old Nokia N91. Yeah,
well pretty much nothing has changed. The phone's messages application has
been also renewed... It now has only 2 message types: Text Message and Sound
Message. If you want to send somebody a MMS wich contains a sound clip,
that means you have to choose the Sound Message-option. If you want to send
a normal SMS, or an MMS wich contains picture or video etc, you have to
choose the Text Message-option. Just choose that and write your message.
If you only add text into that, you are sending a normal SMS automatically.
Add any MMS-content in it and it will automatically be an MMS message.
That is a quite nice new feature. The phone also has a new Themes-application
and its icon has been removed from the phone's menu! You can get to it by
setting up an active standby shortcut for it but it will take you straight
to the Active-Standby Themestyle option wich is a part of the Themes
application. The phone still lags pretty much, as it is brand new.
The same problem was with the Nokia N95 when it first came. I guess the
phone does not have so much features that the Nokia N95 does not have.
Well that's all about that.
4. MEDIA COMPLETION
The Nokia N96 is advertised as a Videoplayer phone. That is true, but that
was not the reason why I bought the phone. The phone can play MP4, 3GP and
surprisingly they are advertising that the phone can also play WMV9 videos.
That is actually true, but the phone did only play the video's sound, not
the video itself Well that is OK for me as I do not have a reason for
playing WMV videos with my PHONE. The phone can also of course play music
but supports only a little amount of filetypes. Pictures are (surprise,
surprise) supported too.
4.1 DVB-H
One of the phone's new main features is the DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting
Handheld) receiver. That means that you can watch digital television wherever
that is available. Here in Finland we can only receive DVB-H signal in the
big cities (luckily I live in Oulu and I can receive DVB-H signal in here...)
But I would be pleased if I could be able to see that signal in places like
cars, trains, planes and ferries but that is not gonna be possible ever,
because only a really small amount of phones have the DVB-H and hardly anybody
watches it. I do not look it unless I have a good reason as it takes a lot
battery. You can also record DVB-H and schedule recordings, that means you
actually have a recording television receiver in your pocket But I do not
have any reasons to do such a thing.
4.2 VIDEOS
The phone, as I said earlier, is being advertised as a pocket-sized video
player. The phone has some pre-loaded factory videos (Some advertising
videos and 1 Transformers Movie). I tested DivXPlayer and it played
small video files (like 100-200MB) really well but when I tested a 350MB
TV-Series episode, it lagged all the time after playing it for 2 minutes.
I also tested CorePlayer and Smartmovie and they both had the same problems
except that the CorePlayer played the file hardly for 2 seconds and started
lagging. But I converted the same file with SmartMovie converter to a 80MB
file and it had much worse quality but still it played with no lagging at
all You can also convert any video to a .3GP or .MP4 file but I guess
that it is better to play your video files with SmartMovie or DivXPlayer.
The videos captured with the phone's camera are relatively big, a 4minutes
long video with the best possible quality that the camera has, is over
50MB big. Oh, and one more thing: I just also realized that the phone
supports Winamp Remote really well. Just for all of you who are not familiar
with the Winamp Remote: Winamp Remote is an application wich lets you watch
any videos from your computer´s hard drive over an internet connecton with
quite high quality. I tried that and I was amazed that it worked. Althought
you have to put the flash player as default way playing the video, because
it laggs too much when watched using the Real Player. Oh, and that brings
one another thing to my mind: The Nokia's default web browser now also
supports Flash videos I tried youtube and it worked pretty well. And,
as I said earlier the Winamp remote Flash Videoplayer also was able to play
my PC´S videos So, Nokia N96 is good for what it is originally meant for:
PLAYING HIGH-QUALITY VIDEOS ANYWHERE, ANYTIME whenever you need to do so.
4.3 MUSIC
The phone has music keys and I just love them. But the music player is not
anymore being started automatically when the phone is being started and
that means you have to manually put it on if you want to be able to use
the music buttons for playing music. That sucks. The phone has really nice
stereo speakers and they are very loud and I just love them. The earphones
supplied with the phone are really, I mean REALLY bad. They suck, but with
20-40 € you can get some good earphones like KOSS. They have also removed
an old really nice feature. The phone always lists the newest added music
tracks to a list, but you cannot anymore add the newest tracks easily to
another self-made playlist. That is what I hate as I used to do that with
my old Nokia N91. :@ That sucks, I don´t know why on earth they made such
a change in the Music Player. Quality of the music played with good
earphones is quite amazing. But also playing music eats the battery as fast
as a worm diggs itself into mud, you cannot play the music so long time,
but as I am not a music freeak that does not matter so much to me (I prefer
listening to .XM keygen music with my computer and Logitech speakers) But
I can also listen to Keygen music with the LCG Jukebox, I have done that
once for real at school and I just loved that as it made me more creative
at the arts lesson
4.4 PICTURES/CAMERA
The phone has a 5MP camera with a LED flash and a red LED light
to "help" with taking videos The phone takes really good images
especially when the phone's flash is used. It can take amazingly good
pictures even when there is no sunlight at all The flash is really
amazing. I don´t know why, but I even think that it takes better pictures
at night comparing to the pictures taken at daylight. Umm, I guess you
can use the phone as a camera in emergency situations when you need to
be able to take a picture of a good situation. The front camera wich is
intended for Video calls takes really awful pictures when there is not
enough light, especially the videos ARE JUST AWFUL but that is just because
who would use the front camera to take pictures of anything else (just for
testing purposes and taking some stupid images of yourself Um, and yeah I was
surprised about that, but it does not matter at all anymore Taking videos
with the 5MP camera at the back is nice because they have quite good quality!
But they are also relatively big and I guess that is one more feature that sucks,
as the video quality is not too good! One more new and really nice feature is
that you can set the phone to automatically save the location where the picture
was taken into the picture's metadata and view the location in the Nokia Maps
application. Almost all photos that I have took with my phone have a "geotag".
5. NAVIGATING/GPS
The Nokia N96 also has a GPS receiver with A-GPS support. I was first surprised
that the phone really knows where you are in just 10 seconds or a bit more. But
when I noticed that it is only caused because the phone has A-GPS and I had set
it on. And what is so bad about that? The A-GPS does not know where you are so
specifically, the accuracy in A-GPS is almost everytimes something like 100
meters so using the phone as a navigator is not so good but I guess it is just
fine for me! The phone has 1 year navigating license for the Nokia Maps application
(wich BTW sucks), but I prefer Garmin wich is better in all ways But while I
was testing navigating in the car, it was working fine. When Garmin said that
"waiting for better GPS signal", it only took about 5 seconds for it to already
show me that it had a full signal with 5-10m accuracy! Yum that is going to be
a nice feature because I am going to use it while travelling at Europe next summer.
Navigating is much, much better comparing, for example to the Nokia E90 and
some external Bluetooth GPS receivers. I am pleased that I know that I am always
carrying a really powerful GPS navigator in my pocket, and it is ready whenever
i just need it to be used
6. N-GAGE/GAMES
Nokia N96 also has pre-installed Tetris and an activation code for that is being
given with the phone (wich BTW WAS NOT WORKING FOR ME!). I installed brothers
in arms AND IT LAGGED LIKE A HELL?! What the hell is the problem with that, they
did not add a 3D Accelerator chip to the phone and they are still advertising
it as a "Good N-Gage gaming phone" Haha, I just shall laugh about that. I guess
I WILL NOT BE USING THE PHONE FOR GAMING THEN. So overall, if you did not already
understand my opinion about the Gaming features in the phone: DO NOT THINK THAT
THE PHONE IS GOOD IN GAMING... Also, tried Vampent´s vNes and it was not able
to start emulating (it was when I tried with my Nokia N91! Well, also the joystick
is a limitation wich makes it nearly impossible to play games with the phone.
It actually isn´t a joystick at all (they do not even advertise it to be that
I liked my old Nokia N91's joystick as it was really nice for playing games! But
playing games like Tetris should be fine. Also I will be going to try playing
games with the numeric keys, maybe that will be fine ;D
7. THE 16GB MEMORY + SDHC Memory Card place with hotswap support!
Yep, that´s true. I was first really impressed when I heard that the Nokia N96
has a HUGE 16GB memory and also A SDHC memory card spot. That was one of the
main reasons why I really said myself: If I am going to buy a phone, it will
definitely be the Nokia N96 unless something REALLY impressive will become
to the markets. I put my favorite tracks and kept almost all of the factory-loaded
videos in the phone and I still have a bit over 10GB free space (I also took about
hundred photos) not even mentioning that I also have installed Garmin Mobile XT
with all European maps to the phone (also Navicore and TomTom, they just weren´t
working and I was too lazy to be able to remove them or try solving why they
weren´t working) They are advertising that the phone can take up to 40 hours
of good guality video. Yeah that is just amazing and it is true too. Borrowing
to one guy's words who has been showing the N96 prototype at youtube: "So you
really, really have enough space on this phone" That is so true. I just wonder
what the hell I am going to do with all that 10GB left space ;D
8. A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE BATTERY LIFE
Many have complayed about the Nokia N96 battery life. I cannot understand why!
It has better battery life than in by Nokia N91. Two listed examples by me:
* I just charged the phone at around 7pm. I went to sleep and the clock was about
10pm. Before that, I decided to put a 1 hour long TV episode to a scheduled
recording. The phone did that very well. And I was surprised that when I looked
at the phone's battery state: It showed me that it had 100% full battery life!
And it kept there until I watched the whole 1 hour episode, then it still had
6 bars left of the 7 bars maxium. Pretty impressive.
* I put the phone to charge itself a few minutes before I went to sleep.
At morning I went to school. At there I watched TV episodes using Winamp
Remote for about 30-45 minutes. Then I listened to .XM keygen music with
LCG Jukebox for about 2 hours! Also I was playing with the phone a bit more
time too. When I went to home, it had something like 2 or 3 bars left. That
is not a very good example but that is already enough for me, and the
phone has had much better battery life after this case
---> [OVERALL REVIEWING] ---
* The Nokia N96 is a good mediaphone but it is also enough
good to be used as an officephone. The stereo speakers,
DVB-H, GPS and a good camera, 16GB mass memory and a
SDHC memorycard slot... That is just everything I would
ever want from a phone! But all this comes with a price
wich will make most people just dream about the phone,
or buying it from an operator with a cheap price like
I did. Even thought the firmware is buggy, I can still
recommend the phone for anybody who likes to have a
good-looking phone with all possible mediafeatures!
The phone is still buggy but that was with the Nokia N95
too. I cannot understand why people are saying that
"Nokia N95 is soo much better and looks better..." that
is so not true. The N96 beats N95 hands down! And overall,
the phone would be too perfect if it would not have bugs,
all new phones have bugs! Think about the iPhone, it was
not even able to send a MMS message but it has been enabled
in the new firmware update. Also iPhone has been buggy when
it first came but it has been improved much. The same will
100% surely happend with the Nokia N96 too! They already
have released v11 wich has made my phone a bit faster too
+ A big screen with bunch of colours!
+ 5MP camera takes good quality photos
+ GPS finds location fast with the A-GPS feature
+ Really good stereo speakers!
+ Supports WMV
+ The phone is not too thick and it is smaller than N95
+ The phone just looks sooo good!
+ 16GB memory + A SDHC memorycard slot!
+ The phone's 1-9 keys are nice and they can be easily pressed even
thought they are really flat! Writing with the phone is fast
+ The phone just looks so good!
+ DVB-H with scheduled recording and awesome quality!
+ Battery life is just enough!
- The GPS is fast but mostly not accurate except at outside
- Music-Player no longer gives an option to add a freshly added
music track to another playlist I have to find all the
freshly added tracks manually from the All tracks-section if
and when I want to add them to a nice playlist
- The front camera has a really bad picture and video quality
- The software in the phone still has many bugs
- A fingerprint magnet & Cheap plastic materials
- Price!
- OH, the gaming features just suck
Phones history: Nokia 3210 > Nokia 5210 > Nokia 9210 Communicator > Nokia 3230 > Nokia N91 > Nokia N96
Current phone: Nokia N96, Elisa Finland Network Branded, v11 Unbranded Firmware [MADE IN FINLAND] Product Code: 0573582

Um, yes I can (BTW, nice that there are other N96 likers too, as I am also very surprised that there are so many haters )
You can get Winamp Remote from here: http://www.winamp.com/player/free-download-full?lang=en-us When you install it, choose Winamp Remote as a part of the installation. You can get more help from the Winamp Forums. Winamp Remote should be easy to use, but if you need more help ask from the Winamp Forums or PM me (One of the main things is that you have to have ports forwarded fine, that is quite hard to explain but go to: www.portforward.com and follow their instructions meant just for your router, I am not sure that do they have instructions just meant for Winamp Remote but if you are lucky enough you just should be able to do the tricks in half an hour )
DivXPlayer is available at here: http://labs.divx.com/system/files/private/DivXPlayer_S60_3rd_0.sisx AND PLEASE NOTE that DivxPlayer takes so much memory that it CANNOT PLAY FILES OVER 200MB. I tried a 150MB DivX .AVI video and it played very well but I tried a 350MB DivX .AVI video and it lagged like a hell. You can use Lonely Cat Games (LCG) SmartMovie to convert about 350MB file to a 80MB file with just fine enough quality. I know that talking about "illegal" things is forbidden in here but just a small tip: Find a good Mobile Phone stuff forum, they are giving some good and CR@CKED applications for free (normally they are asking huge prices for them) There are dozens of good mobile forums just waiting for somebody who needs all that stuff For example the SmartMovie will put the video's image grey after two minutes (if you have converted the video with that tool) of playing it. But just some little googling and you are fine to go But supporting software studios is also important, so if you just have enough money I really suggest that you buy all your softwares!
Phones history: Nokia 3210 > Nokia 5210 > Nokia 9210 Communicator > Nokia 3230 > Nokia N91 > Nokia N96
Current phone: Nokia N96, Elisa Finland Network Branded, v11 Unbranded Firmware [MADE IN FINLAND] Product Code: 0573582

It's the first time I've bought a movie from iTunes on my PC and it gives me glitches the enire movie aswell as the voices don't match the picture?

I got a new PC. I have an iTunes account on my iPod as well but I set it up properly on here as well this is a Pavilion HP G6 it has windows 8. I dowloaded iTunes onit, it works fine. I bought "We're the Millers" today on iTunes and it gets me upset I can't watch it. Every time I play it it glitches. After the first sevral glitches the voice loses the picture; the character on the screen isn't saying the right words at the right time. I waited till it was fully down loaded and I restarted my labtop twice to see if the was the cause. It was not and and I getting up set I paid $13 for a HD movie that isn't even a movie; someone please help!

"Bought a movie from iTunes which as gone into my videos file and I am trying to watch it on my computer. "
But you can't? Does it show up in iTunes?
"have iTunes on my pc but even after transferring files and syncing the video still won't show on the pc"
Transferring from/to where?
How are you transferring?

Glitch n96

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