Strange firmware situation

I checked the apple article that explains the latest firmware updates for intel macs.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303880
What is strange is that mine should look like this...
MacBook Pro (Core 2 Duo 15-inch) MBP22.00A5.B00 1.12f5
My SMC version is correct (1.12f5) but instead of the boot ROM version for the 15 inch, it actually has the boot ROM version of a MPB C2D 17-inch (MBP21.00A5.B01).
I am not having any issues. However, I wonder if it could cause problems in the future.

I have the same thing on my MBP 15"...
Peter

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Ron,
first of all, I did it!
I knowingly used the Restore CD not the Software Install CD thinking of getting a very clean, Apple compatible OS install. I now downloaded the OS 8.6 Update, performed the 1.0 ROM Update, rebooted and tried to install the new Firmware - no success.
I was in despair cause I used really the same File for the update on the Bondi Blue (kept it on the disc - but downloaded a new copy - trying both) but with OS 9.1. I tried OS 9.1 and 9.0.4 on this machine before, didn't work either. I installed OS 8.5 due to your advise.
Then I crawled through the Old Software downloads on the Apple site. I found plenty of Firmware updaters. Some in the Multicountry folder which seems to be the one you can still officially download and one - now it gets interesting - in the German folder. Due to having a German OS (what else ;-)) I downloaded this file (D-iMac Firmware Updater 1.2).
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THE MAC WAS APPLYING THE UPDATE (sorry for screaming)
Now it is 3.0f2 from 1999
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This is hillarous....... I really used the Multicountry version on the Bondi Blue and a German Mac OS (you cannot get an english, french or anything else here). Working fine. OK, I got this iMac from an Italian Guy but this doesn't say anything, or? Just kidding.
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hi mark:
i am oscar and i comment you that ,i put it 7970 into cme but never work?s,
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i wait your comments via email or for here
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I need more INPUT (not MENU) languages in my E90!

Though E90 Communicator is awesome in majority of functions, usability and comparatively perfect in production quality, it lacks some features that I as business-user definitely need.
The most disappointing issue for me is the language issue. While the "normal" phones have 6 to 8 languages pro firmware/product code, the E90 has only 3!!! (Maybe 4 in APAC region but i do not care.)
I'll try to explain shortly. As a businessman who lives in Germany and is a native Russian-speaker, I have a LOT of partners/clients/friends who do prefer to have a communication profile with me in Russian. I have almost the same amount of people with whom I need to communicate in German or French. The tragic truth is that I cannot approach this with the actual firmware situation on E90.
If I would buy my Nokia E90 in Russia, I would get the predefined languages of English, Russian and Ukrainian. That is nice, but in this case I cannot write in German as it should be written, saying with Ö, Ä, Ü, ß and so on. I also could not use some of the French special characters. If I would use E90 only as a SMS machine, it might be OK. But I use it more likely as a travel PC replacement the device pretend to be, so I use e-mail and document editing, where the lack of those characters are intolerable.
Besides all, I live in Germany and am a client of German service provider, so why should I probably buy the device outside of Germany? So think I and so I doing, saying I renewed my service contract and bought the E90.
In German firmware I got another three (!!!) languages: German, English and Turkish. Wonderful. I may speak out about the pure discrimination from the Nokia side: in Germany we have the same amount of Russian speakers as Turkish fellow ones, both about 8,000,000 persons each. ;-) So why Turkish and not Russian, Italian or French? Every of those "communities" has equal rights, am I right?! Hei, Nokia! Do you hear my voice?!
Is it really so hard to understand, that an ULTIMATE BUSINESS SOLUTION as E90 definitely would be preferred by the people, who really use it - really intensive - as a communication device?! Is it really hard to understand, that thousands of them would get e-mails and documents while on the road that definitely need to be urgent answered some other language than 3 preinstalled?! Should I change the firmware of my phone every time I need to answer e-mail in French or edit the financial contract for my Russian partner?!
Ridiculous and disappointing - what else should I say?! Especially because I know, that the situation as easy to fix from the Nokia side as a single mouse click.
I am sure there are people reading and writing to this Forum who needs for example Chinese Mandarin and German, or Hindi and Farsi, or Arabic and Spanish simultaniously. There is no way to understand why it is impossible to choose the INPUT languages - I do NOT speak about the MENU languages and never pretend to.
So, because this Forum is Nokia's piece of land and Nokia has kindly allowed us to cry out here what I do really appreciate, I want definitely get the answer to following questions:
1) Is it possible to add some INPUT (once again - NOT menu, just INPUT) languages to E90 firmware?
2) If yes, when?
3) If not, what is the reason? The reason - please, no "technical excuses", because I am not that stupid, OK? ;-)
We are living in such a damn globalized world, aren't we? So let's be really globalized and let's help us ourselves to get out the most from this.
Thanks to all for listening.

Since Windows 98 is absolutely not a problem to add ANY input language in ANY localized version of the OS. I do know that Symbian OS has at least the same flexibility options.
Once again: I do not pretend to have any other MENU language - I simply do not need it. But the possibility to choose more INPUT language is simply and quickly to add, that is what I am asking for.
Maybe your statistic research is right, I do not want to argue with you. More than that, this is exactly I expected as an excuse option: "Marginal request". But no, it is not. The device would probably have higher customer interest when the free input would be represented.
Your advice to use laptop instead of E90 is highly appreciated, but it is not unique enough to be accepted "as is". ;-) The idea of E90 as well as previous communicators was to give the customer an option to leave her/his laptop at home and make a 1 or 2 day business trip as lite as possible in every meaning of the word "lite". I have 2 laptops already, 1 Panasonic for traveling and IBM Z61p Workstation as a desktop replacement. I should say that Panasonic, while being one of the best travel-oriented devices on the market, with its almost 2 Kilo travel weight and about 1 minute power-up/power-down time is completely insufficient as a communicator replacement. In addition to it you need a businesscard-scanner and a digicam, you are constantly out of power and so on. It is or will be the same story with UMPC. The only option until now was HTC/Qtek 9000, the most powerful and well-equipped device on the market. But it is completely useless as a phone and its camera is a disaster, so I switched to E90 because of its awesome usability as a phone, a digicam and as a communicator simultaneously just because I HATE to carry on 12 hours a day here and there a 5 Kilo bag with laptop, phone, camera, cables, batteries and other damned stuff around. I am just SICK and TIRED of this and I dreamed about the device that can make free from all that - for YEARS!!!
I remember my conversation with Nokia people at its CeBIT Stand in late 1990-es - the concept was already here, but the materialization of my dreams took Nokia R&D almost a decade. And now, when it is already in my hands, it lacks such a damn little thing to be as perfect as possible! ;-)
I am not that crazy - "perfect" does not mean really perfect. Of course there are and there would be minor and major bugs with later fixes and improvements. Because of the possibility of fixes and improvements I insist on one of the most critical for me. I understand as well, that it needs neither additional research nor hardware changes. All you need to to do is a little software module to be added and/or replaced. The Occam Razor Rule is still in my mind. ;-)

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3 from (
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5 sp.value1,smcbom_flex_budget.calculate_period_days(sp.period1),inweight ,
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8 sbov.days,sbov.totaloffsetdays,deptclass,dept,
9 decode(plan_level,1,(sp.value14/smcbom_flex_budget.calculate_period_days(sp.period14)) * (percent/100) * inweight * usagerate *
10 (SELECT MAX(INWEIGHT)
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12 WHERE ALLOY=sbov.alloy
13 AND   PLANNER_CODE=sbov.planner_code
14 AND   PLAN_LEVEL = 0
15 AND   GROUP_ID = sbov.group_id ),
16 0,(sp.value14/smcbom_flex_budget.calculate_period_days(sp.period14)) * (percent/100) * inweight * usagerate ,
17 1) v_hr,
18 smcbom_flex_budget.get_start_date(sp.period14)+sbov.totaloffsetdays v_date,
19 sum(-sbov.totaloffsetdays)
20 over (partition by sp.alloy,sp.planner_code,sbov.group_id
21 order by plan_level asc,operationseq desc) new_offset
22 from smcbom_bom_operation_view sbov,smcbom_sales_prod_forecasts sp
23 where sbov.alloy= sp.alloy
24 and   sbov.planner_code=sp.planner_code
25 and group_id=521136
26 )
27 group by data_set_name,deptclass,dept,smcbom_flex_budget.get_period(v_date);
23 rows created.
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Commit complete.
SQL> declare
2 begin
3 insert into smcbom_load_hours_temp
4 select data_set_name,deptclass,dept,smcbom_flex_budget.get_period(v_date) v_period,sum(v_hr),-1,sysdate,-1,sysdate
5 from (
6 select plan_level,sp.data_set_name,
7 sp.value1,smcbom_flex_budget.calculate_period_days(sp.period1),inweight ,
8 usagerate ,operationseq,percent,
9 sbov.group_id,sp.alloy,sp.planner_code,
10 sbov.days,sbov.totaloffsetdays,deptclass,dept,
11 decode(plan_level,1,(sp.value14/smcbom_flex_budget.calculate_period_days(sp.period14)) * (percent/100) * inweight * usagerate *
12 (SELECT MAX(INWEIGHT)
13 FROM SMCBOM_BOM_OPERATION_VIEW
14 WHERE ALLOY=sbov.alloy
15 AND   PLANNER_CODE=sbov.planner_code
16 AND   PLAN_LEVEL = 0
17 AND   GROUP_ID = sbov.group_id ),
18 0,(sp.value14/smcbom_flex_budget.calculate_period_days(sp.period14)) * (percent/100) * inweight * usagerate ,
19 1) v_hr,
20 smcbom_flex_budget.get_start_date(sp.period14)+sbov.totaloffsetdays v_date,
21 sum(-sbov.totaloffsetdays)
22 over (partition by sp.alloy,sp.planner_code,sbov.group_id
23 order by plan_level asc,operationseq desc) new_offset
24 from smcbom_bom_operation_view sbov,smcbom_sales_prod_forecasts sp
25 where sbov.alloy= sp.alloy
26 and   sbov.planner_code=sp.planner_code
27 and group_id=521136
28 )
29 group by data_set_name,deptclass,dept,smcbom_flex_budget.get_period(v_date);
30 end;
31 /
(SELECT MAX(INWEIGHT)
ERROR at line 12:
ORA-06550: line 12, column 2:
PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "SELECT" when expecting one of the following:
( - + mod not null others <an identifier>
<a double-quoted delimited-identifier> <a bind variable> avg
count current exists max min prior sql stddev sum variance
execute forall time timestamp interval date
<a string literal with character set specification>
<a number> <a single-quoted SQL string>
ORA-06550: line 22, column 6:
PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "(" when expecting one of the following:
, from
SQL> spool off;

In some versions of Oracle (certainly all of the 8.x versions and earlier, and possibly some of the earlier 9 versions) the SQL parsers in the SQL engine and in the PL/SQL engine were different. Some features that worked directly in SQL did not work in PL/SQL. Scalar sub-queries were one of those things.
You have three options. You can try to re-write the insert statement to eliminate the PL/SQL unimplemented feature. You can create a view in the database for the SELECT part of the insert statement then use that view in the insert. finally, and least desirable, you can build the whole statment as a string, and use EXECUTE IMMEDIATE to run it in PL/SQL.
HTH
John

Brand new ipod touch, $10 to get 2.0!

Ordered Monday (on my son's AppleID as part of buy a mac, get an ipod free). Delivered yesterday, registered this morning (using my AppleID). Had it laser engraved and my son tracked it from China->Alaska->... so we can be somewhat certain it isn't month old stock that was sitting in shrinkwrap somewhere.
Now Apple wants $10 to upgrade it to 2.0! QCC?
Why didn't it come with 2.0 already installed?
Apple/iTunes is apparently smart enough to figure that his six month old ipod touch wasn't eligible for upgrade based on this new purchase, but not smart enough to tell that the new one should be free?

Hi,
It is easy to understand your annoyance and hindsight is 20/20 but had I been ordering a new Touch I would have checked and double checked the firmware situation. Contacting Apple by both Email and phoning an Apple store.
At the online store it does not say anywhwere (that I can find) what firmware is on new Touches. The fact that the 2.0 upgrade is so heavily advertised along side the Touch might have been a clue.
Updating a Touch during shipping would be totally impractical, you require the update file on your own HD. Also, putting what is now appearing to be a not quite 100% solid software update on a brand new item may have been a good move for both parties.
As it appears the Touch is not yet shipped with 2.0 and no one out there is getting a better deal, I don't think you have been that hard done by.
Dud.
Message was edited by: Duddo

Problem with clicking noise and using hdapm

I'm having a problem with my 2009 17" MacBook Pro, with Lion. I installed a new, larger hard drive, and ever since then a tinny clicking noise has been emanating from the laptop. I tried to install hdapm, and I am able to successfully download the .dmg file and mount the disk image. However, at this point, all I see is a .pkg file. I clicked to install the program, abd then added the command to Lingon to execute 'hdapm disk0 max' upon startup. However, Console said that it failed to execute this command. I tried entering it directly on Terminal, and still no luck. It should be compatible with my hard drive, but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. From what I've gathered, there should be another file in the original disk image that I can move into my Applications folder; however, I could not find it anywhere. Does anyone have any suggestions about how to resolve this issue? Thanks!

This is not a disk failure problem, regardless of how there are disk failure modes that act like this. It is a hard disk firmware situation that conflicts with OS hd controllers. It is a problem that comes and goes, or gets less of a problem or more of a problem depending on OS upgrades. Although I have it happening with a Seagate drive, it is reported on Western Digital drives.
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==>> N.B. – In Lion and the last couple versions of SL, you need to place a 'sudo' in front of the 'hdapm disk0 max'. Then it will work...for a while...maybe.
I have modified versions of the airport plist in the past from 'always on' to 'when needed' and that helps until the OS changes something. Then the same 'fix' won't make the constant head parking stop.
Different combinations of programs will start it up. Sometimes just getting the head busy for a while, like playing songs on iTunes, will stop it and upon closing iTunes will continue to keep it off. (Playing songs with a lot of percussion will not disguise the problem since by the time you try that you will be sensitized to hear the sound even when it is -96dB from ambient.)
A new variation with Lion has been to get the click going a couple minutes !!!after!!! putting the system to sleep! In fact, this problem has never been so uncontrollable as with Lion.
...and that is why I am back searching the forums to see if anyone has an up-to-date solution.

Upside down video

Hello,
i generate a DVD with Adobe Encore. everything was ok until watching the video. In fact, the video were upsidedown ?!?
I think i forget to do something or the automatic encoding is not the right choice ... my origin video is .avi.
Thank you to help me on this strange turnaround situation.
Melanie

Melanie,
As Jeff suggests, DivX (and Xvid) can cause this sort of problem. The file extension "AVI" is just a wrapper. All sorts of CODECs might be used in its creation. A freeware program, G-Spot, can tell you all about the file and also what CODECs are used, plus whether you have them properly installed on your system: www.headbands.com/gspot.
Let us know what it tells you about your AVI file, please.
Hunt

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