Posted by Vince Wadhwani on Feb 03, 2007

Update Feb 23, 2007: See part iii here.

There's been another rev to the firmware for the Nokia N73. Steps to upgrade are very similar to last time. You'll need to visit the Nokia site, download a new version of the Nokia software, boot into Windows 2000 or XP (if you happen to use OS X or Linux/BSD by default), and then update. (REMEMBER TO BACK-UP FIRST!)

The new Nokia updater weighs in at around 18MB while the firmware itself is just over 66MB. First of all, how do you know you need it?


Grab your N73 and type in *#0000#. If the version is 3.0638.0.0.1 or smaller then you need to update. (The latest version of this writing is 3.0649.0.0.1.) Also, note that this applies only to the standard vanilla N73 so if you are running the Music Edition or Internet Edition this does not necessarily apply to you.

Personally, I haven't noticed anything terrific or new after the update. I googled around and found this list of bug fixes between 3.0638.0.0.1 and 3.0649.0.0.1:

Audio – call waiting: Very quiet call waiting tone.
Audio – headset: Headset hissing noise.
Audio – tuneplayer: Unhandled aborts.
Browser – Security: RSA signing vulnerability.
Browser – OSS browser: OSS browser will not release memory after browsing several pages even after History turned off.
Bluetooth – UI: BT UI stops responding after pressing right softkey twice fast.
Call – establishment: "Call Not Allowed" displayed when attempting to make a call.
Call – Video call: "App closed: Video call" is showing after the alerting video call is interrupted.
Camera – stability: Camera freezes after taking picture.
Camera – Video Recorder: Video does not shut down when slide closed.
Camera – Video Recorder: Recorded video suffers from visible mains flicker.
Camera – Video Recorder: Video recording saving sometimes fails.
Contacts – voice dialling: name is mirrored when the contact is in Hebrew.
Gallery – Icon List: Wrong toolbar icons in gallery when started with video as last taken item.
Gallery – Review: Review key does not open media gallery.
Gallery – Zoom: Cannot zoom more than 50% in Gallery.
Memory – free memory: Gallery crashes when exiting from free memory.
MMS – Images: First thumbnail not shown when inserting image into MMS.
OMA – Device Management: 405 is returned for REPLACE command. (CMCC)
Phone – Stability: ASIC causing reboot.
Profiles – Silent mode: N73 failed to power off when the profile was set to “Silent”.
Settings – Say Callers name: Reboot happening with combination of 3D Audio, MP3, Say callers name and 3D effects.
Settings – Settings wizard: wrong region info in setting wizard. (Taiwan)
UI – Active Idle: Bold text in active idle.
UI - General Settings: Cangjie input method is not available to choose in phone general setting option. (China)
Visual Radio -basic functionality: Volume cannot be muted with IHF.
Voice command – voice tags: Problem creating new voice tag.

It says there are no known issues, but one that I have (and it carries over from the last firmware) is that the browser will no longer save your password on my.yahoo.com. Major pain in the ass since my username and password on yahoo take so long to type in without T9 predictive text. If they don't fix this soon I may have to move my personal page over to Netvibes or Google instead.

Update:Looks like it's a general checkbox bug with the browser so google/netvibes is not an option either. Hope Nokia fixes this at some point!