Lost contacts after Nokia N95 firmware upgrade
I decided to upgrade my New Nokia N95 to the new 20.0.015 firmware upgrade process yesterday Monday. What a mess it made. I forgot to save the contacts and now all the SMS are gone! The default Nokia syncing software (Nokia PC Suite) does not save contacts and SMS at the Backup option. So you have to choose Contacts to save it.
In case you are wondering what screenshots will come out, here’s the whole deal below:
1. Plug your Nokia to the USB cable connected to your PC or laptop. Make sure the phone is fully charged, if not it will die and become an expensive paper weight. Run the Nokia Software Updater and it will check the current and updated firmware version.
2. Download the 116.2MB firmware file and go for a job or watch tv. This will take some time. The whole download took about 45 mins on my laptop.
3. Once the download completes, the update process begins. This takes about 10 mins.
4.Once your Nokia update finishes, your PC or laptop will detect some new hardware and install a few new files.
5. One of the new files that is installed on the PC or laptop is the Nokia BB5 ADL Loader USB Generic. It looks unsigned but I installed it and the AVG antivirus did not detect any anomalies.
6. Voila ! - My Nokia N95 gets the new 20.0.015 firmware. Camera shots are faster (the show the word Processing Image), and the Lifeblog app is now dumped into th Applications/Media folder. Weird.
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7 opinions for Lost contacts after Nokia N95 firmware upgrade
Sean
Dec 6, 2007 at 8:56 pm
I didn’t lose any contacts. I read the instructions BEFORE I did the update ! :-)
Steve Delves
Dec 12, 2007 at 3:38 am
I read the instructions too and didn´t lose contacts. However, the phone now functions very slowly, freezes frequently and occasionally restarts itself without warning. Having googled the problem it would appear I am not alone. 12/2008.
amir
Dec 15, 2007 at 9:19 am
I was loosing my contacts all the time until i found out I don’t use contact
matt
Dec 18, 2007 at 12:43 pm
i lost my menu shortcut wen i silde it to the music buttons..and also on video center it wont play videos from my mem card..any 1 esle have this problem?
tai
May 30, 2008 at 10:24 pm
i lost everything :(
bruce
Jul 28, 2008 at 3:55 am
i lost all i think the idiot that works for nokia that came up with this should be sent back to school because of that i will not be using nokia anymore and any1 in my company big company cant put an easy way forpeopple to use we r not all computer geeksu caused me a lot of money and grief u bastards
Jake
Aug 5, 2008 at 6:27 am
I lost all of my contacts, messages and calendar events after updating to firmware 20.0.0.15… and I DID SELECT EVERYTHING TO BACKUP prior! But when I went to restore from backup, I could only select User files from Phone and Memory card. By default the Nokia Suite backup selects contacts, calendar events, messages etc but I had to manually select User files from memory card. NOT HAPPY. Thanks Nokia!!!
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