Nokia SYMBIAN TIPS & TRICKS

Handy Tips

- At the top of the main-menu and every folder, the keys 1 to 9 are shortcuts to the icons 1-9


- A shortcut on the left menukey in standby-mode will take more time to open than a shortcut on the right menukey. Reason: The left key is also used for the keylock so it shortly waits for pressing the * button.


- While writing text press and hold "#" to switch between Alpha mode and Number mode. You can also press a key long to insert its number.


- In standby-mode, press and hold 0 to launch your wap home page.


- If you have your keylock activated just press the on/off button to turn on your backlight to look at the time when it's dark without having to unlock the keypad.


- To keep the backlight on, run Torch (freeware), press and hold the Menu button and go somewhere else on the phone.


- To check your current firmware version simply type *#0000# in standby screen.


- To check your IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) type *#06# in standby screen.


- To check your Bluetooth device address type *#2820# in standby screen.


- Start up in Safe Mode (no 'auto start' apps will be running): Hold down the pencil key when you turn on the phone and hold it on until you have to enter your PIN code.


- Format the phone memory by typing *#7370# in standby screen.


- In standby mode,

45# + dials the number on your sim in memory slot 45.

50# + dials slot 50 and so on.

Speed Up Your Phone

First go to your To-do List (default app of your Phone)


- Make a note and input as follows

Subject: Speed

Due Date: 01-29-2005(mm-dd-yy)

Priority: set to High

then press Done


- Make a second Note and input as follows

Subject: Qoukie

Due Date: 01-29-2005(mm-dd-yy)

Priority: set to Low

then press Done


- Do not exit yet, Press the Option of your Subject note w/c is Speed and Mark as done


- then Press the Option of your Subject note w/c is Qoukie and Mark as done


- Now, reboot your mobile.

 Increase Your MMC Space

  Your files in MMC are stored in multiple (disk) blocks.
So if you format using 16K block, the space used will be 16K eventhough your file is just 1K.


If you buy MMC, it is usually preformatted with 16K block. Therefore alot of space is wasted as most installed program files are usually less than 2K.


You will need a card reader to do this:-


1. Connect card reader and copy all your files in the MMC to computer disk. (Make sure you set the show all/hidden/os files to "on")


2. Do a format of the MMC using command line "format" and use the /A=size option.


Alternative, you can use the Disk Management in Adminstrative Tools to format. Make sure you select FAT. For 256MB MMC, smallest block you can use is 4K, 128MB is 2K, 64Mb is 1K and 32MB is 512B.


(Note: You cannot use the phone "format MMC" to do this as the format just clear the allocation table and does not change the block size)


3. Copy back all files to MMC.


Now you will find that you will have more space.
256mb MMC got back 30+ mbs

 

How to format your S60 phone.

It may happens that a program corrupts the C: drive of your phone. In such case, some data can be lost of course but, more annoying, some applications may not work or work only partially...


On a Series 60 based phone, two key sequences will allow to restore your phone to a cleaner state:


Normal Reset *#7780# : Restores ini files from rom but preserves user data (photos, 3rd party apps etc)


Hard Reset *#7370# : This reformats completely the C: drive. All applications and files stored on this drive will be lost and clean default files will be rewritten.


In both case, the phone will ask you a confirmation and you will have to enter a security code (12345 by default).


Note: Full phone formatting a 6600!


Do a Full phone formatting on your 6600! as steps below:

1. Make sure you have at least 3/4 charge of battery power left.

2. Backup your contacts list and personal files to MMC memory card.

3. Switch-off your 6600 phone and REMOVE UR MMC!.

4. Press and hold 3 keys : Green dial key, * Star key, no. 3 key on keypad and then press the power on/off to swtich on the 6600 phone. Remember, do not let go the 3 press and hold keys until you see a formatting word screen show!

5. After a few minutes when the Full phone formatting completed, your 6600 will back to original system and factory settting.

How to copy and paste text  

Press and hold the pencil key and select your text using the scroll key.


Left function key will change to 'Copy'. Press it to copy the selected text to clipboard.


You can paste the clipboard contents the same way:


press and hold the pencil key and press 'Paste'. Or, press pencil key once and select 'Paste'

Locking default application

Want to Locking default application?


Don't want everybody read your SMS?


Then just Lock Messaging Application, here is the way....


1) Open 3rd Party Application like Fexlporer, x-plore...

2) Go to Z/System/Apps/mce

3) Mark two files of mce.aif and mce.app

4) Press Option -> Edit -> Copy

5) Then go into X/System/Apps/ (X stands for either C or E)

6) Create a folder with name "Locked"

7) Paste the two files in that folder

8) Rename mce.aif into Locked.aif

9) And mce.app to Locked.app

9) After that, wait for 5 seconds and then try to open messaging application.

10) You should see the Messaging can't be opened

11) You're finished now.

Backing up Phone Settings

If you ever come to a point when you need to hard format your phone or maybe upgrade to a new firmware, I'm sure definately would like to save the current settings of your phone. So this is what you should do;


How to backup phone settings to MMC.


Menu>Extras>Memory>Options>Backup phone mem.


Once the formatting or upgrading is done, you can then restore back the settings by doing;


Restoring settings after phone format.


Menu>Extras>Memory>Options>Restore from card.

Can't delete files in your Inbox?

When you cant delete a file which is in your inbox the normal way, here is what you can do..


1. Install FExplorer.


2. Launch it and goto the path/folder of your message inbox. If its on the C drive, it would be C:\system\Mail\00001001_S and the same if its on the E.


3. You will notice there are more folders, 0 to9 and a to f. Just go look into all those folders and you should be able to find the file that you wanna delete.


4. Once found, click on Options>File>Delete.


5. Exit FExplorer & goto your Inbox to delete the file again

Error of App Close Main! During Start Up

You can fix the app close main error..


1) Open 3rd Party Application like x-plore, Fexplorer.

2) Go to c:/system/bootdata & delete 'FirstBoot.dat'

3) Turn off phone & take out your MMC card

4) Turn on phone and put in current time/date

5) Wait for it to boot up then turn off phone again.

6) Put MMC back in and turn on phone.