Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Stupid Bugs in Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Firmware Version 40.0.005

The latest firmware v40.0.005 of Nokia 5800 XpressMusic released by Nokia around 3 months back came with more contacts on home screen with scrolling functionality. There were other cool features which forced everyone to update to this version. But I think, this firmware update was released in hurry with no proper testing done. There are so many annoying bugs.
It's been a single day only i have updated my mobile to this firmware and i was able to notice few of these bugs. I will try to post them here.
  1. Alarm Bug: Did you ever imagine that you set an alarm and when it rings, you are not able to stop it, you are not able to snooze it. No matter how many times you click on "Stop" and "Snooze" button, the Alarm is not going to stop. You have to press the red button to kill that shit.
  2. You have to slide on Snooze button from right to left side in iPhone style to snooze the Alarm. To stop, slide on Stop button from left to right side to stop the Alarm.
  3. Radio and Music Player Bug: You are listening to any radio station or any of your song on music player. Suddenly you notice that next (>>), previous (<<) and play/pause buttons are no more working. You have no way to get out of it. If it got stuck in music player, the screen will freeze and you will not be able to exit from it. Same happens if you are in radio. The only solution is to restart your mobile in order to play music again on your mobile. 
  4. Incoming Call Bug: You got a call from your friend. Your mobile is ringing. When you touch Answer on the screen to pick the call. Suddenly you notice that nothing is actually happening, no matter how many times you touch the Answer. So what you have to do in order to pick the call? Well, you have to first unlock your mobile from side button or moving over Unlock button from right to left side in iPhone style and then pick the call. You have to slide over Answer button from one direction to other. Previously all controls like Answer, send message, reject was available as soon as someone calls you. Now you need to unlock the phone in order to send message or reject the call. It's mot a bug rather an update which I personally did not like at all. Nokia is trying to copy these sliding touch effects from iPhone. I would prefer Nokia to be original.
  5. Home Screen Contacts Bug: So you are happy that you have more contacts on home screen with scrolling effects but you will be surprised that most of the time you scroll the contacts and they don't. instead it open the details any contact. The scrolling thing does not work properly at all.
  6. Poor Touch Experience: You will be thinking that with new firmware, you will get the improved touch experience but its not the case. Touch experience is really bad compare to the earlier firmware. Very slow response to your actions on touch screen will make you go crazy. It's my personal experience and you may not be fully agree with me. Might be because my cell is full of apps.
  7. Multiple icons in Gallery: This is one of the oldest and still existing bug in this mobile. You will see hundreds of icons of a single image. The Gallery go crazy. The same image icon is present multiple times in Gallery-->Images & Videos, Gallery -->Sound clips and Gallery--> Other media. Fine, so what happens when you delete that image from your mobile. As soon as you delete that image. The next image now is available multiple times. Feels like a virus but its not. This is the long existing bug and Nokia did not do anything on this issue. See the following screenshot of my Mobile's Gallery
All these bugs I noticed in just one day. I would not say noticed rather faced many times in a single day and now I want my previous firmware which was way too much better than this one. Such a stupid firmware. I would advice everyone to stay away from this until nokia release something which is not stupid.


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