NaviFirm Plus Changelog

What's new in NaviFirm Plus 3.2

Mar 4, 2014
  • New: credentials for public shared account are automatically acquired from server (if available)

New in NaviFirm Plus 3.1 (Jan 31, 2014)

  • Improved: support for public shared accounts

New in NaviFirm Plus 3.0 (Jan 13, 2014)

  • New: shows a warning message for those accounts whom generates too much traffic
  • Improved: disabled the keypress-auto-repeat in the listboxes to avoid flooding the server with a lot of requests and get the account disabled
  • Fixed: the bitcoin email field was too short
  • Fixed: login issues for some Turkish accounts

New in NaviFirm Plus 2.9 (Dec 3, 2013)

  • New: Bitcoin accepted! It is now possible to donate using Bitcoin ;) the open-source p2p electronic money available worldwide
  • Improved: shows the current transfer speed (kB/s = kilobytes per second, 1kB/s = 1000bytes/s)
  • Improved: automatically search for Product Code after 3 seconds of inactivity, in case that the "enter" key is missing
  • Improved: shows the proper measure unit in the file details (KiB = kibibytes, 1KiB = 1024bytes)

New in NaviFirm Plus 2.8 (Oct 30, 2013)

  • Improved: client/server transfer speed
  • Improved: registry is not used anymore. Username, password and GUI settings are now saved in the Config_v3.xml (.NET Framework will store it under %LOCALAPPDATA%)
  • Fixed: important issue in cache management of hidden variants and current variants: were cached using the very same data.
  • Fixed: some NaviFirm+ settings were lost after an automatic update.
  • Fixed: the welcome box containing the recent changes was not showed after an automatic update.
  • Fixed: detect and removes empty server responses from the cache

New in NaviFirm Plus 2.7 (Oct 17, 2013)

  • New: interrupted and incomplete downloads can be resumed, avoiding to download the whole file again!
  • New: downloads can be temporarily paused and restored later
  • New: migrated to .NET Framework v4
  • Improved: if, for any reason, some firmware file is invalid, it will be automatically reported to NaviFirm+ server and it will be fixed asap.
  • Improved: handling of server error messages sent to the client has been rewritten.
  • Fixed: some panels sizes, were not restored properly on launch.
  • Fixed: changed the default value to optional = false during the vpl parsing.
  • Fixed: in a very particular case, the product list was empty.
  • Fixed: double-click on download window to open the destination path was not working properly when clicking on labels.

New in NaviFirm Plus 2.6 (Oct 1, 2013)

  • Improved: keeps the windows and panel sizes preferences for the GUI.
  • Improved: handling of wrong text/html responses, instead of text/xml.
  • Improved: handling of "product code not found on caresuite".
  • Improved: handling of corrupted cache files. The corrupted cached file will be automatically deleted and content will be donwloaded again.

New in NaviFirm Plus 2.5 (Sep 10, 2013)

  • Improved: Welcome Message can now be scrolled
  • Improved: minor GUI changes
  • Fixed: crash when downloading a firmware which has been found through Nokia Care Suite and user is donor
  • Fixed: the item "Upload New Product Codes" is now disabled properly
  • Fixed: filters gets cleared when searching on Nokia Care Suite

New in NaviFirm Plus 2.4 (Sep 2, 2013)

  • New: Variants that (for any reason) have been replace/removed/hidden from Nokia Care Suite server, will be shown by NaviFirm+ in RED colour.
  • You can change this behaviour by manually editing the Config_v2.xml file and set ShowHiddenVariants to False.
  • Improved: Favourite list can now detect new Variants available for the same Product Code / Software Release (it can happen when a variant is replaced by Nokia with another)
  • Improved: it is possible to donate using Credit Card or Skrill/MoneyBookers. These donations are accepted worldwide, also from counties not supported by PayPal.

New in NaviFirm Plus 2.3 (Aug 23, 2013)

  • Non-donors will be happy to know that in this release, they can use some basic features of NaviFirm+ without needed to login ;)
  • These are the NaviFirm+ features available to Non-donors
  • insert a Product Code to check the latest available release in Nokia Care Suite server
  • download the latest available release from Nokia Care Suite server
  • add some Product Code to the Favourite list to be notified when a new software release is available in Nokia Care Suite server
  • New: Search in Nokia Care Suite feature (available to non-donors too)
  • You can now insert a Product Code in the textbox to search for it in Nokia Care Suite Server
  • Non-donors that were using Nokia Care Suite Tool to search for new firmware versions, can totally replace it with NaviFirm+ ;)
  • Improved: the Favourite Product Codes feature has been opened to the non-donors too
  • Improved: minor GUI changes
  • Fixed: some issues in the auto-update features (delay for the app-restart was too short)

New in NaviFirm Plus 2.2 (Aug 20, 2013)

  • Improved: Favourite Product Codes are now save on a different file MyProductCode.xml
  • Improved: internal code refactoring for better maintenance
  • Improved: minor GUI changes
  • Fixed: unexpected crash when selecting the variant, while the cache was automatically cleared
  • Fixed: sometimes users received the message "invalid username or password"
  • Known Issues: doesn't support proxy. Proxy support will be added in next releases.

New in NaviFirm Plus 2.1 (Aug 19, 2013)

  • New: you can now report missing Product Code, by uploading a .txt list of product codes to the server, so the missing Product Codes will be added to the database. "Product Codes > Upload New Product Codes to NaviFirm+"
  • the product codes listed in the .txt file should follow any of these formats:
  • 059T1S4:RM-892 VAR EURO GB O2 SL BLACK
  • 059S917:RM-892 VAR GB CV WHITE
  • 059S8H6
  • 059S8L8
  • RM-839 EURO_E5_YELLOW_CYRMAC_MK 059S125
  • RM-839 EURO_E5_YELLOW_GREEK_GR 059S127
  • Improved: Favourite Product Codes list has been limited to a maximum of 10 entries
  • Improved: prevents running multiple NaviFirm+ instances
  • Fixed: all the datetime fields are now saved as UTC format, fixing some cache handling issues.
  • Known Issues: doesn't support proxy. Proxy support will be added in next releases.

New in NaviFirm Plus 2.0 (Aug 15, 2013)

  • New: NaviFirm+ automatically downloads and installs new updates
  • New: Engine Rewritten from scratch
  • New: Favourites Product Codes list
  • Improved: transfer speed! network communication is gzip-compressed
  • Improved: caching policy is handled by the server, you don't need to worry about cleaning the cache to get fresh results
  • Improved: refuses to add duplicated files to the download queue
  • Improved: minor GUI improvements
  • Removed: ShowExtendedInfo and ServerIndex settings

New in NaviFirm Plus 1.7 (Apr 3, 2012)

  • New: Ported to .NET Framework 4.0
  • New: Shows additional Product informations in the tooltip, including phone's image.
  • Note that the tooltip is disabled by default, if you want to enable it, you must change the NaviFirmPlus.Config file in this way:
  • setting name="ShowTooltip" serializeAs="String">
  • True

New in NaviFirm Plus 1.6 (Apr 3, 2012)

  • New: added notifications about the current connection status and the amount of trasferred bytes
  • Improved: .vpl file is now handled without showing any window (you can disable the .vpl parsing changing the NaviFirmPlus.exe.config)
  • Improved: better data transfer speed
  • Improved: connection engine has been rewritten
  • Improved: minor changes to the status bar
  • Fixed: crash when double-click on "Size" column
  • Fixed: sorting on the "Size" column was not working proprerly

New in NaviFirm Plus 1.5 (Apr 3, 2012)

  • New: it is now possibile to Download up to 20 files simultaneously. You just need to increase the Download Sessions limit (default value is 2).
  • New: added option to automatically append the PC to the destination path

New in NaviFirm Plus 1.4 (Apr 3, 2012)

  • New: the download manager has been rewritten from scratch. Using the new Download Queue you can enqueue all the fw files you need to download, while keeping to use NaviFirm+
  • Improved: the Parse VPL checkbox has been removed, you can change this setting through the NaviFirmPlus.exe.config file

New in NaviFirm Plus 1.3 (Apr 3, 2012)

  • Fixed: Bad layout on Chinese System
  • Improved: Minor GUI changes

New in NaviFirm Plus 1.2 (Apr 3, 2012)

  • Fixed: Error when downloading large files.
  • New: Added filesize and filetype details.
  • New: Parse VPL option, will automatically download and parse the VPL file and will select mandatory fw files.

New in NaviFirm Plus 1.1 (Apr 3, 2012)

  • New: Added support for Nokia Care Suite Server! This server contains additional fw files, like the Drive E: 16Gb file for N8.
  • Improved: At startup will use the latest server choosen by the user.

New in NaviFirm Plus 1.0 (Apr 3, 2012)

  • Fixed: The connection to the Quality Assurance server wasn't working properly.