At last a p990 upgrade that works!

I have been using the ?SonyEricsson p990i as my regular phone now for a couple of weeks and I have to say that I am not happy with it. The menus are dog slow and everything keeps crashing or closing down due to lack of memory. I was just getting ready to sell it on ebay when SE announced a new firmware version. I read the forums and everybody said that it was a lot faster and that the multitasking was a lot better and that things did not crash as often so I took the plunge.

What a cuffufel. After I had waited for the upgrade program to upgrade, I was then able to upgrade my phone but then it told me that it would wipe the contents off my phone so I had better backup first. Off to the SE site to download their PC suite and after a 20min download we where backing up. ( You may have guessed that I am using one of the windows PC's at work now as there is no support for Linux!). Backups completed it was time for the upgrade and another cup of tea, for this takes some time. Now a reboot of the phone and it's up and running, snapper than before but I only tested it for a short while before restoring all my data.

Whoops, that confused it. Although it restored fine the phone was now slow and things where crashing, stopping and just not playing along all over the place. So I decided to backup the contacts to the memory stick and format the internal memeory again. Just for good measure I did the upgrade again. Restored the contacts only this time and all was fine.

What a difference, it's more like the machine that I expected now with things happening at a speed that you can tollerate, I would not call it fast, and most important most of the apps playing nicely together. The browser now hardly every shuts down, the email sync to my IMAP server with ease.

I now think that I am going to keep it. So if you have a p990 go and upgrade today.