Nokia N86 v20 firmware adds face detection and camera improvements

The Nokia N86 8MP has received its v20 firmware upgrade a full week or so ahead of schedule, with v20.115 now available over the air (*#0000# on your homescreen) and via Nokia Software Update. There's a changelog below, but all you need to know is that this preserves user data and is a must-have - it's 8MB, large for an over the air update, takes over five minutes to apply and updates getting on for 6% of all OS files and modules. Read on.

  

Updating the N86 to v20.115 via FOTA (firmware over the air).

v20.115 brings:

Camera improvements:

• Improved still image quality


• Improved video quality


• Face detection added


• Red-eye removal added (Nokia note: "this is image processing which removes the red-eye. You need to be in red-eye reduction flash mode for it to be operational. Other flash modes it is disabled as there is a small shot to shot impact due to the extra image processing.")


• New focus point indication - this shows where in the scene the camera is focussing


• Improved Close-up focus. (Nokia note: "As a result you will find in most situations you can focus much closer than before. The new focus point indication will also help in confirming which part of your subject is used for critical focus checking")

 

Face detection is indicated by a yellow square.

Significant bug fixes to:

• Web


• Music store client


• RealPlayer


• Ovi Maps (including faster calibration of the digital compass)


• Here and Now


• N-Gage client


• Nokia Messaging

There's also now:

• Automatic VoIP re-registration.


• Ovi Chat shortcut on the homescreen


• An new Ovi services splash screen


• An Ovi Store client (though it's buggy, selections from the Options menu are problematic.... - best use the mobile Ovi Store site in the meantime?)


• An initial option to check for software updates when a customer first boots up the phone

In addition, there's more free space on C: (around 70MB when you start afresh), there's more free RAM (around 65MB after booting) and the N86 feels faster. 

 

In short this is a must-have upgrade. I have been using product code RM-484, but other N86 variants should get v20.115 in fairly short order. Network-branded handsets will, of course, have a much longer wait.....

PS. It's worth noting that some bugs are still present. BBC iPlayer downloads claim to be 'downloaded to Gallery' but in fact aren't shown (you have to launch them from File manager). Feel free to chime in with unfixed bugs in the comments. 

Steve Litchfield, All About Symbian, 30 Sept 2009

Categories: Hardware

Platforms: S60 3rd Edition

News Discussion

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Unregistered
Brilliant update to the best camera phone atm, yup the Pixon12 needs a few updates to get past the N86 atm.
whatleydude
UK1 and Finland1 not updated yet...



Boo.
miki69
Nice, major improvements in camera department as expected, however many other major issues are not resolved like when images saved to mass memory, they don't appear under Captured or Months; Music icon from main menu is broken.... I was expecting more overall improvements, not just camera ones.



Cheers,

Miki
rafiii
Not available for me (yet?) :frown: I also have the version RM-484 but my product code is 0586597. I hope I won't wait a month for the upgrade.
slitchfield
Photos and Music work fine for me. Mind you, I was playing safe and did a sync of data and then a hard reset - maybe UDP is what's scuppering you?
miki69
Music is ok, but all images I take are saved in "All" folder and not in "Captured", so "Captured" and "Months" are always empty. That was also an issue with v11.043 and I hoped they corrected this in v20.115 but unfortunately not. Is your Music icon (red/pink one)in main menu broken as well or not? Maybe I should do full update (over 140MB) via NSU to correct this....

Cheers,
Miki
Perry D.
Is it possible for the new Firmware update to be unavailable to certain product codes?

It's still not showing up on mine. I believe mine has a German product code (for T-Mobile), but I bought it unlocked, overseas

Thanks for this changelog!
srw985
Any way to remove that silly Chat shortcut from the homescreen?

I'm never going to use it
Rafe
Firmware does not become available for all product code instantly. You may have to wait up to a fortnight (usually its not that long) for unbranded phones. For operator variants you sometimes have to wait much longer.

And occasionally product codes do seem to be forgotten. I think this happens because someone forgets to tick a box somewhere. I recall this happening for blue versus red 5800's early in the year...
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