[niyam]

My Nokia E61i has a firmware of 1.0633.22.05, marked as 15-02-07, RM-227.

noticed the product's web-page mentions an update with good features and improvements.

check it out here:

http://www.nokia.co.in/get-support-and-software/download-software/phone-software-update?E61i=

it mentions i may manage an update using wifi directly on my mobile, but no option is actuallly available when i visit the above url over my mobile. the only option available is a download to a pc of an *.exe file.

here's the deaI: do not use MSWindows. Do not have access to any pc running windows, and don't wish to use a publicly-shared pc at a cybercafe. i only use linux ubuntu, and as a fallback, the Mac OS.

since nokia does not have update software that works on either mac or linux, i'd suppose atleast a platform-agnostic approach direct from mobile via wifi or gprs-over-edge to nokia's support page would work.

please nokia, do not force end-users to become enslaved to specific PC platforms. the worldwide base of mobilephones is signficantly higher than that of PCs, so you need to look at a bigger picture.

please share with me, how may i update my nokia without msWindows, and without visiting a nokia support centre. i've got wifi, gprs-over-edge, ubuntu linux, mac os, and am reasonably tech-savvy.

thanks in advance.

niyam bhushan

[chanchan05]

uh, on your phone, connect to wifi, type in *#0000#. You will see a splash page stating your current firmware. Go to options>check for updates. Once a new update is found, it will ask you to download. Once it has downloaded, it will ask you if you want to install new update.

[niyam]

hi chanchan, thanks for your prompt response.

have already tried that method, it does not work.

here's what happens:

if i type *#0000# all i get is the firmware version displayed, details mentioned in my first-post, and a single button that says 'OK'.

there is no option.

so, i've even tried the app pre-installed in my mobile, called 'Dev. mgr.' when i click on options>start configuration, i get the message 'operation cancelled by server'. the 'edit profile' in options shows me that i have entered the correct details as mentioned on the support page of the E61i. fyi, am using Airtel in delhi, and have both gprs-over-edge and wi-fi.

what next?

regards

niyam

[chanchan05]

Hmm, maybe because I'm using a phone with different OS version. There should be somewhere under your Tools Menu referring to software. Something like device updates? try to look for it.

[psychomania]

The E61i cannot be updated via the method suggested by chanchan05. No OTA updated were ever released for that model.

OTA updates did not become a common occurrence until the S60v3FP2 smartphones appeared.

The E61i can only be updated using a windows based PC or by the specialist equipment that some phone stores and nokia care points have.

No other methods are possible.

[chanchan05]

Ah I see. thanks for clearing that up. The e61i was a phone released when I still was considered too young by my parents to use smartphones. LOL.