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Naranja

After a second call to Orange they have at last acknowledge that my 11-month old T68i is faulty and they are sending me a replacement! Yay :)

The CS rep was much more helpful than the last guy who tried to blame it on local basestations being down for maintenance, and didn't even bother testing the phone to see if it was faulty. This time round they performed a remote test on the phone and diagnosed a fault right away, and tomorrow evening a replacement phone will be arriving on my doorstep. Result. Well done Orange, you've just improved the odds of me upgrading with you in a month's time rather than moving over to three whose range of phones still leave a lot to be desired. But then some of you know that I have a particular dislike for NEC these days!

Knowing that the firmware on my phone is over a year old I wondered what version the new handset would have. A little research reminded me that i could access the hidden service menu by using the following key combo after unlocking: >*<*<<* (where < and > are directions on the joystick). Within this I was able to find out the version of the firmware (R2E006). Comparing this against a list of known firmware releases I was flabbergasted that there have been at least 10 updates in the past year:-

R1AXXX
R1BXXX
R2AXXX
R2B025
R2E006
R2FXXX
R3AXXX
R3C001
R5C001
R5D007
R6A012
R6B001
R7A005
R7A013
R8A015

I was more than relieved to learn that a niggly bug with the T68i was fixed with the R5C release, whereby text messages from alphanumeric (eg. Oranges "Email alert" mechanism) rather than numeric (07xxx xxxxxx) senders would not be acknowledged properly, resulting in two or more copies being sent. So fingers crossed this has been fixed in the phone that I'll receive tomorrow!

On another bright note, the latest software extends the number of games from 8 to 11! I've made note of my Erix high score: (218,562 on Easy setting) - stop laughing at the back! Also logged my joystick moves counter (158,385) and total call time (11X:35:49). The X is a weird non-ascii character so I guess it should read ~1000 hours. Wow!

I didn't get the tour name 'Uber Geek' for nothing you know!

Posted by jonah at September 1, 2003 08:54 PM | TrackBack