If you cannot wait for it, you can download and install manually
1. Download the official firmware update here
2. Copy the file to your microSD card and rename it update.zip
3. Power off your phone.
4. Hold down the VOLUME DOWN button and power it back on.
5. The phone will now search for files like PB00IMG.zip, etc. This is normal. Scroll down to recovery and press the POWER button.
6. When you see the /!\ symbol, press the POWER button and the Volume Up button at the same time. You should be presented with a menu and one of the options should be “Apply sdcard:update.zip”.
7. Use the trackball to navigate to “apply sdcard:update.zip” and select it.
8. When you see “Install from sdcard complete”, select “reboot system now”.
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Posted by flibble in Windoze
This, rather large window, is the new Windows Live Messenger. Currently in public beta this is what Microsoft will shortly be forcing all current Windows Live users to upgrade to.
The focus is on social networking. If you are one of the many that have little or no interest in this social phenomenon may want to turn away and read a newspaper.
One of the most obvious features, if it could be referred to as such a thing, is the removal of
custom display names. In a bid to consolidate all Windows Live services into one single ID, and to help prevent abuse and spam on the messaging system, Microsoft now only permit you to use your real name. No longer will you be know as DaddyLongLegs69 or IvorBiggun. Instead you will become plain old boring John Smith (although if your name is John Smith, please accept my apologies. And condolences). Of course you could simply change your real name in Windows Live to something else such as Mr Kipling but sadly any name you decide upon must have a first name and a surname. And Microsoft reserve the rights to remove any names they consider to be abusive or false. So no calling yourself Big Penis.
Fans of large windows will rejoice at the new Windows Live Messenger. It’s large window offers a portal into the online world of Bing and other parts of the MSN family. However if, like me, you miss the good old days where Messenger didn’t take up the entire screen then you will be pleased to know that with one simple button click, messenger will
transform into a pale imitation of it’s previous self.
Microsoft show no signs of backing down on many of the decisions they have made to Messenger. Will some users be happy with the changes or will people be up in arms and battering down the doors at Redmond demanding they reactivate the custom names they have become to love. Or simply will the masses move to an alternative instant messaging platform such as Google Talk? I suspect we won’t have long to wait.
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The version of Wine provided by default in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx has a curious issue. No sound output. Now I’m not exactly sure why this is but this is an issue I’ve found before using Karmic. To resolve this issue I simply added the PPA for winepulse (https://launchpad.net/~neil-aldur/+archive/ppa) which has a patched version of Wine that uses Pulseaudio. You may know that a few versions ago Ubuntu switched from ALSA to Pulseaudio so it could be this change that causes the problems. Anyway add the PPA and simply do an upgrade and Wine will be replaced with Winepulse.
Advantage? Sound works and, as it’s using Pulseaudio, audio mixing works.
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Lucid Lynx comes with version 10.0.45 which has some problems with compiz. The problems are buttons not working and unable to right-click to enable or disable hardware acceleration. To solve this issue I upgraded flash to 10.1 beta 3
You first need to make sure you’ve installed flash from the Ubuntu repositories as this sets up all the correct symlinks. To do this from command line:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
Now download flash 10.1 beta 3 from Adobe and unpack it:
wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_1_p3_linux_022310.tar.gz
tar -xvf flashplayer10_1_p3_linux_022310.tar.gz
Backup the old libflashplayer.so:
sudo mv /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so.old
Then replace with the newly downloaded one:
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/
Now relaunch your browser and do about:plugins. You should see it displayed like this:
Enjoy your new flash plugin!
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