User Data Preservation on the N82

Well, I have been skittish about upgrading to 3.0 the last few weeks. The N82 is supposed to have user data preservation, meaning I can upgrade the OS (like in Unix) without loosing any applications or userdata. Painless and troublefree. Still the last weeks have been awfully busy and I could/would not survive without my black ninja. This weekend I finally had a spare hour left in case upgrading the firmware went wrong and a full reinstall was needed or worse at trip to Nokia Care.

Yet it survived, but not without a cliffhanger. Strangely the upgrade program said my phone upgrade went wrong and it needed to redo it. Again and again. I nearly went slightly mad from this deadlocked circle. But then decided to ignore the statement and after a reboot the new firmware was there. I verified it with *#0000# and it looked OK to me.

The phone seemed slightly slower first time after a reboot, and software that was first time accessed after the reboot took a bit more time to start. Yet it seems to work at normal speed now, and all configurations and software is still there and running.

Which is pretty awesome indeed. UDP is really a very nice feature. I can't remember how often I have upgraded the firmware of my N95 and reinstalled, synced and backupped that phone. Hours and hours of work, which are no longer neccesary.

Nokia? Read this carefully! Never ever dare to built a phone without the UDP feature!

I might start billing you for unneccesary lost time ;^)