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Vladimir Curcic
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 Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 3:30 am Post subject: SOA - Software Over The Air |
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Siemens has finally presented on their site the wizard which will instruct you how to apply their latest techology SOA (Software Update Over The Air) - in other words updating the firmware in your phone through GPRS download. Only the necessary part of the software is downloaded, so this way your downloads are measured in kilobytes, as opposed to the internet downloads that are more than 10 megabytes large, because you must always download the complete firmware from internet.
There is the list of the phones on Siemens site that support the latest technology SOA. The supported phones are(as listed on the site):
C70, CX70, CF75, CX75, M75, ME75, S65, SP65, SK65, SL65.
Quote from the instructions: "...Not all mobiles already have the SOA (Services Over Air) settings preinstalled. To find out whether your model is already equipped for updates over-the-air, open the folder “Extras” in the phone’s main menu. Now check whether the option “Device manager” is listed.
In case the option “Device manager” is indeed listed, you can proceed with Step 2 and perform an OVER THE AIR software update.
In case you do not find “Device manager” as an option under “Extras”, you need to download the latest firmware version via the internet. After you have installed the latest software version for your phone, you can utilize our over-the-air service in the future."
There is also the link on site that will help you setting up device manager in your phone...
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| Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 11:41 am Post subject: |
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One of our user has tested it and it killed his phone. As he said it was really hard to repair it.
And on the other hand I think it´s not an full valuable update. If you compare those few kilobytes which are downloaded and the winswup or original update. I think SOA update owerwrites only a part of flash.
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Vladimir Curcic
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| Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 5:24 am Post subject: |
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| Lasky wrote: | One of our user has tested it and it killed his phone. As he said it was really hard to repair it.
And on the other hand I think it´s not an full valuable update. If you compare those few kilobytes which are downloaded and the winswup or original update. I think SOA update owerwrites only a part of flash. |
Oh well the complete idea IS to update only the necessary part of the flash as to avoid downloading 12MB of the data that are already installed.
And how many users had reported all sorts of problems (killed phones also) when applying the updates classical way via the cable? If a single person had a bad experience with SOA that does not necessarily mean that Siemens is trying to convince us to use the bad technology that will kill our phones. I am surprised that such a young person as you is not able to see "the wider picture". The new technologies are coming, and we are supposed to accept them...
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| Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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I can´t use this form of update, because my provider doesn´t support GPRS on the prepaid cards. So it´s impossible to update through GPRS.
And I don´t know because of what did you think that I´m not accept it. I´ve just said my only one experience. 
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Vladimir Curcic
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| Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 3:49 am Post subject: |
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| Lasky wrote: | | I can´t use this form of update, because my provider doesn´t support GPRS on the prepaid cards. So it´s impossible to update through GPRS. |
Oh I see, that is a real problem. In my country (Serbia And Montenegro) if you are on prepaid you just have to call the provider's support and ask them to swich on the GPRS & MMS service for you. After that (it usualy takes 24 hours), and after setting the GPRS/MMS parameters - off you go... they charge you less then 0,50 EuCents (0,005EURO) for each 100KB of the transferred data (that includes internet, mms, e-mail etc... anything that is using GPRS)
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