P990 Finally Here: Any problems? Post here...

[comicGeek]

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Ryan it is discussed at esato that phones with CDA XXXXXXXXXX /1 or XXXXXXXXX/2 are the true unbraded phones. only unbraded phones can be upgraded through SE US. It is know fact that all branded phones (like the ones that came from globe CDA XXXXXXXXX/8 i think) have a different set of firmware and is often not upgraded. this totally sucks I know. I have a Globe issued M600i and I can't upgrade the f..cking thing.

Now some people may have bought their phones as openline but in reality there are openline phones bought from telcos (Voda Orange and others) branded but were unbranded and had the latest firmware flashed before being sold here. Thus when after upgrading the phone resets back to the original branded CDA thus disabling the user to upgrade from SE US again. At least they get to upgrade one time.

[markyap]

According to SE ayala, they have different boards daw (which I strongly doubt is the cause)

yeah they are certainly full of crap...

[Jr_Gong]

hala busa diay kay smart lock man akong phone panish....

[muzikfreakah]

Well, ive read before about different ways to cahnge your CDA to enable you to upgrade but that was for the P900. Im sure if you do a little search you'll find a way

And if you do dont forget to post it here!

You can always forward complain to your provider and state that the update fixes a lot of bugs to enable the phone to function better and let them be the one to find a way

[HybernaTe]

can units with CDA: CDAXXXXXX/75 units can be upgraded to the latest R9? thanks

[muzikfreakah]

The only to find out is to try updating it. Or you can email SE.

[chitgoks]

waaah paeta.. ganahan kayo ko mo upgrade og latest. ok naman ang performance sa zingmagic chess pro sa latest firmware kay sa karaan mo ungot pagkadugayan, morag d kadaog paet.

[ckice168]

iv noticed that the p990 reboots by itself once in awhile. i guess it happens when you have to many programs running at the same time. i found a very usefull program called swiss manager pro to manage that. look for it under groups.yahoo.com and search uiq3

[chitgoks]

the latest firmware has better memory management so those frequent reboots with old firmwares wont happen much as it used to.

yeah swiss mgr pro helps but yu'll have to have it running in the background for its memory freeup feature to work. before i flip close my phone i always kill processes that were used. i dont experience reboots that much anymore

[chitgoks]

for those who tried to upgrade to latest firmware but got the message that it's up to date, have it upgraded in se's branch in ayala. just present your certificate and you'll get a free upgrade. fyi