IsatPhone Pro New Firmware Upgrade

Unlike the previous upgrade, my provider says this is not mandatory but assists in the establishment of GPS location as the phone is switched on.
Happy the way mine is functioning so leaving alone at this stage.
Mike

Hi Phil

According to the Inmarsat site, it is not a critical upgrade. I personally like to keep mine up to date, as they do not make the firmware upgrades for nothing.

As it is free and very easy to install, I can see no reason why not to do it.



Cheers



Stephen

I understand the trendy need to upgrade and have the latest but that is most assuredly not our policy. Put it this way Stephen. Have you used the free Win 10 version upgrade? I hope not.

This is why I do not update.

Once upon a time software was fully tested before it was released. Apple continued this process but Bill Gates, despite his mates advice, didn't and only saw the dollar bills. Hence his msdos and system files had and still have errors. And we still suffer from them these days. Not so with Apple, Unix etc. Some errors but not as bad.

I wrote a program, that's what apps used to be called, in 1983-5 that managed the log, frequencies, equipment, ips prediction, path calculator, contact names and addresses, countries and all manner of documentation for an amateur radio hobbyist. It had over 100 thousand lines of code, mostly Pascal but included good old machine code packages for the direct hardware interface to manage remote radio control, antenna control and packet (now internet) modem and radio interfaces. It also included a rewrite of the msdos and io.sys system files that was the platform for the Windows equipment. It still runs on IBM PCs up to and including Windows 8 (untested with Win 10). One whole year testing by my wife some mates and myself. Not one error left and none found since release.

That is why I don't automatically update. I let people like yourself "test" it for me.

Phil

Acc to Inmarsat the update does this:

? Improved and more consistent behaviour in Idle Mode.
? Improved GPS Red Icon indicator behavior
? Corrected signal strength display in 'No network' state
? Call duration counter information is displayed in all occasions
? Removed crash events when copying a contact with a double
quote [“] from SIM to phonebook
? Removed occasional crash events when long mobile terminated
SMS is received during mobile originated call
? Added support for UICC (3G) SIM cards that support 2G USIM
application

To do the upgrade will involve adding a slew of drivers to your system. IME this can generate problems and I don't do it unless the change is critical.

Thanks Sigmund. Just as I thought, all changes are not needed by us.

Idle - if not in use then it's turned off. GPS - the one we have now works okay for us. Signal strength - if it works okay then so what. Call duration - never use it for more than a few seconds. error counters - who cares. Other sim cards - not needed.

Please remember that we only use it for emergencies. At that then the most is one email in the evening.

What the hell is a "slew of drivers"? Is that a whole lot of them. Better that we don't do it because I can't see any reason why we would need more drivers. As we only use it for emergencies what on earth do we need drivers for. We don't hook it up to anything like computers and laptops etc.

Phil

The drivers are added to your PC in order to do the firmware update.

I would have expected them to be on the PC from the first update. Fair enough.

I thought that I was going to get a bundle of drivers for communicating between the phone and other devices. Of which we don't have any. More useless stuff instead of just what is needed at the time.

Catchya

Hi Phil

I have used or tried Windows 10, even though the only Windows computer that I uses (Windows 7) keeps on asking me.

I only ever users this computer purely for OziExplorer and all my other work is done on my Macs.

The stories that I have heard about Windows 10 are all negetive and like you say, Mr Gate's team neen to take a serious way Apple do their testing and updates.



Cheers



Stephen

Hi Sigmund

Strange about there could be an issue with Windows 7, as that is what I am using and did the update with.

The update went through with out any issues.



Cheers



Stephen

Hi Stephen.
Yeah. I said later than 7.
I've done mine. Took 3 attempts. Driver installation again the problem.

Hi Coenen

Thanks for that, as like many users, you have to check their site manually to find out when they are released. You think that they would have a system in place to notify all users when updates are released.

Have a Great Day


Cheers



Stephen

Hi Sigmund

Thanks for that and that looks great with the ability for those with no credit to still be able to make a 000 emergency call.


Cheers


Stephen

Yes. Given that emergency use is the main need of 'recreational' owners, some may choose not to buy airtime at all.

The thought has crossed my mind. However not all emergency needs require a "000" call. What about a quick message to Dusty at Birdsville asking him to come and pick the car up.

We just take the minimum credits when we go remote. Just as insurance.

Phil

Hi Ian

That is very strange indeed. I an no expert, but somethings seems very wrong.

Just a couple of questions?

Have you ever done the firmware ungrades before to your phone?

What computer system are you using?

Is your phone fully charged when doing the upgrade?

We might have to ask the experts for some help here.



Cheers



Stephen

Hi Ian .I upgrade today .I used my existing driver took about 10 minutes on Windows 7 no problems .Then tested a call to there free test number.I see your in Qld ,im on Gold Coast and will help if your near

Frustrating. Been there. Bet it's a driver problem. Some ideas...

Try a different PC.
Have the handset plugged in when looking for drivers to delete - there'll be 2 USB drivers, plus one modem and one Huawei.
After deleting the drivers do a registry clean.
Disable AV protection.
Try doing it in Safe Mode.

Good luck.