Returning back to Nokia full time has been pretty smooth for the most part. I installed all my main apps ie. Gravity, Snaptu, setup ShareOnline with my Pixelpipe credentials and a few other basic apps but when it came down to Nokia Messaging and Profimail I had a slight hiccup with the aforementioned apps recognizing my main gmail credentials.

I must have entered my password at least three or four times but Nokia Messaging on the web side did not alert me to any kind off error besides not accepting the password. Like a little mobile chap that I am, I always have a back up and that’s Profimail which is a rock solid application I’m sure many of you know already. Well, leave it to Profimail to give me an error. Well, so I Google the error and came up with this.

Fix Gmail IMAP Invalid Credentials or Web Login Requires (Failure) Error

1. First you must sign in on the web to your gmail account and then hit this link

http://bit.ly/c8MVp1

2. Once you Uncaptcha your Gmail account, login into Nokia Messaging on the Web and setup your email and it should accept it with no problem and do the same in Profimail and boom your done, your email should begin to work in a few seconds or minute.

Opera Mobile 10 Beta has stormed into our Symbian world providing us an amazing user experience but recent reports on the N97 are not so favorable due to the low memory effects but here is a tweak that could be used to manually configure OM to give you a little extra notch.

On the url box type opera:config

Now Opera Mobile will open some wonderful hidden screens. Here you have lots of configuration options, there are two of special interest; the first one is “disk cache” under this one you will find an option called “size” changing this from the default 4096 to 2048 seems to have a positive impact in N97´s memory usage:

Change it to 2048 from the standard default

Now go on and type opera:drives and you’ll see you’ll be able to use Opera Mobile 10 Beta as kind off a bare bones utility task manager.

Again you can try these settings on any S60 device but they’ll have a higher mileage on the s60v5

special thanks to @juanmateo for submitting this great tip

On this post, we’re going to talk about Nokia’s mostly unknown menu codes.

Most people don’t know about these codes because most of them are not even listed in your Nokia device’s Manual.

To use these codes, you have to go to your Nokia Symbian Device’s standby home screen and dial it in (as if you’d dial a normal number).

They come in very helpful at certain times, so here there are.

*#06#

This displays your International Mobile Equipment Identity (or IMEI for short) number of your device. Every device has a unique IMEI number and this can come in useful if you’re phone is stolen and you wish to block it, or if you’re phone’s IMEI is linked to a Nokia service such as N-gage and you wish to unlink it.

*#0000#

This display the firmware version and date of the firmware, of your device. If your firmware version is really old, you should check Nokia Software Updater (NSU) to see if there’s a newer firmware available for your device.

*#bta0# (that is *#2820#)

This displays the Bluetooth MAC address of your device. You must activate bluetooth before typing this code in. I’m not entirely sure when this code comes in useful though.

*#mac0wlan# (that is *#62209526)

This displays the WLAN MAC address (or WiFi Mac Address) of your device. This comes in handy if your WiFi service provider requires your MAC address and you wish to use your device with it.

*#res0# (that is *#7370#)

This code soft-formats the phone memory. All data on your phone memory will be erased. It will ask you for confirmation before going ahead with the process.

*#rst0# (that is *#7780#)

This code resets your device to factory settings. It will ask you for confirmation before going ahead with the process.

*#war0anty# (that is *#92702689#)

This displays the Life Timer of your device. The Life Timer tells you how long your device has been used, which can come in useful if you’re buying a new phone and want to check if its used or not.

Thats about it ! There are also some other codes which do not work on Nokia Symbian phones, so I’ve not included them in the list. If you find or know any new codes that I’ve missed out, do let me know in the comments section and I’ll add it here so make sure you keep this handy list available on your mobile phones.

Hope this helps !

But remember we now have an app called PhoneNetInfo that solves most of these little nuances as well.

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Since we love our devices so much and they got a lot of usage, here are 10 tips to stretch your battery power to the max when we most need it in emergency situation.

These are so good folks especially if you’re new to Symbian

Ok, let me explain why post can be a life saver. There are times when one has use the phone all day and the battery is off course suffering from the heavy day usage but you still need to get that call or that email that is really important and this is when these tips will come in handy to stretch out the battery to the max so you’re able to get that important communication.

1. Set your screen brightness to Minimum.

One of the things that takes up the most power in your device is the screen. The N95 had a massive screen and a battery that wasnt powerful enough to cope with it. The N95-8Gb solved this with a more powerful battery but with an even larger screen. The N82 screen is pretty modest in comparison so it doesnt take that much power, but the N82’s battery is also much smaller than the N95.
Turning down your screen brightness is always a good starting point in trying to save battery power because the more brighter your screen, the more power is needed to keep it that bright.

To turn down your screen brightness go to your menu by pressing your menu button:

Go to the Tools folder and then open settings :

Under settings go to General :

Then select Personalisation :

Then select Display :

There, select the “Light Sensor” :

And turn it down to its least value. You’ll notice your screen gets a lot darker :

Thats all there is to it !

2. Turn off Bluetooth.

There’s no sense to keeping your Bluetooth switched on, unless you’re transfering some sort of data or paired with a bluetooth headset. When you’re locking down on your battery you’ll want to stay away from doing both. Bluetooth draws a substantial amount of power, so making sure its switched off is always a good idea.

To do this go to your Tools folder in your Menu and select connectivity :

In there select Bluetooth :

And make sure Bluetooth is switched off :

3. Make sure WiFi scanning is off.

If there’s anything more power draining than bluetooth, its WiFi. Many N-series phones these days come with WiFi. If you use WiFi alot, you’ve probably noticed how it eats up battery life.

Your phone can also search for new WiFi hotspots whenever you move to a new area. This is pretty useless if you’re in a place where there is definitely no WiFi or you’re in the middle of nowhere. So switch that WiFi scanning off !

To do this, on your active standby screen navigate to your WiFi shortcut :

And make sure it says “WLAN scanning off“. If its on, select it and on the menu that pops up, select “Switch WLAN scan off” :

4. Set your power saver timeout to its least value.

When you’re trying to save battery, you want your power saver mode to kick in as soon as possible. The N80’s screen would go completely blank and the only way you’d know the device was still on, was by the blinking LED light. The E71 does the same, and if you hold the center button down for a few seconds, the screen briefly turns back on to show your the date and time. On the N82 and N95, power saver mode is basically just the date and time screensaver. You can also set text or an image as a screensaver but the date and time one is the least battery draining of them all.

To do this, navigate to the same place as step 1 above and instead of selecting light sensor, select Power Saver Timeout :

And set it to its least value :

Select OK and that’s it.

5. Set your light timeout to its least value.

What more can i say here… Lights takes power , so switch them off when they’re not needed. If you set your phone’s light timeout to its least value, the backlight will switch off faster which means less battery drainage.

To do this, navigate to the same place as in step 1 but instead of selecting light sensor, scroll down and select Light Time-out :

Select it and set it to its least value :

6. Set your phone’s profile to “Offline” when you dont need to make/receive calls.

When you’re roaming,or your signal is low, your phone is constantly trying to grab a signal from a matching network. This takes a lot of power. Even in normal everyday use, your phone uses some power to communicate with the network. If you dont really expect to call/receive calls from anyone, switch your phone to the Offline profile. This is basically Flight mode, where you can use all the basic features of your symbian device, except calling and network related features.

If you absolutely must be connected, switch your phone to its silent profile and turn vibration off. This way it wastes no extra power to blare your ringtone and vibrate when someone calls. Anything that saves power is good in this case.

To do this, simply navigate to your profiles via your menu or power button (on shortpress) and select the Offline Profile :

7. Lay off the gaming, music or data transfers.

Gaming requires constant button pressing, sounds and the backlight is always on. Music is less demanding but your device is still using power to pump out that song that you’re listening to. Transfering data by WiFi or bluetooth is also another battery drainer. Try to refrain from these if you’re trying to save battery.

8. Lay off the GPS.

Many new N-series and E-Series phones nowadays, come with GPS built in. While this feature might be useful, when its a huge battery drainer. I usually only use my N82’s GPS to find out where exactly I am , or to tag a photo or two and then switch the GPS off. There’s no sense to keeping it on, unless you have a power source around.

On the N82, you might also want to make sure the “record location” feature under the camera application is switched off. This feature searches for a GPS signal and tags your pictures with the co-ordinates. While an incredibly useful and cool feature, when you’re trying to save battery life it makes sense to turn it off.

To do this, open your camera application :

Go to options then select settings :

And make sure Record Location is switched off :

9. Make sure there are no background Applications running.

You phone is like a computer with RAM. Anything running in the background takes up memory and hence uses power. You’d be suprised how much power a simple application, running in the background, can take.
Hold down your menu key for a few seconds to bring up your task manager and make sure there are no extra applications running in your phone.

10. Lock your Keypad.

Accidental button presses means the lights of your phone come back on, or your phone might accidentally dial out, or an application might be opened , etc.

I always lock my keypad to prevent stuff like this from happening. Its a major simple and effective power saver. On your symbian phone you can press the left selection key and the * key to lock your keypad (In the N95 its the left selection key and then the right selection key. In the N81 you must use your keypad lock switch at the top of the device).

Hope that helps ! Have any other battery saving tips that I’ve missed out on ? Let me know in the comments section ! And if you have other tips feel free to add them in the comments as well. Happy Nokia-ing around In the end its important that our mobile phones are always charge and ready for action.

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Blogging has become a viral event all over the world, a new blog is created every few minutes. Among the some of the majors providers are Blogger, Drupal, Typepad, Joomla, and my favorite off course, WordPress. So how do we blog with our S60 Smartphones, well, all the major blogging services support blogging via email and still some of them even have mobile web versions but none of the aforementioned options are as good and offer a complete blogging experience as Worbmobi.Wordmobi is written in Python by Marcelo Barros which we interviewed recently here at Nokia Mobile Talk

• Part 1
• Part 2

So its written in Python, what does this mean exactly some may ask yourselves which is a very valid question, since we see the term Python thrown around quite often. Well, Python is a native Symbian programming language which allows developers to produce native applications to run on our beloved smartphones(Nokia’s link for further reading: click here). So since Wordmobi is written in Python, the first we have to do is install Python. Currently there are two version of Python: PythonForS60 1.4.5 and PythonForS60 1.9.2 PythonForS60 1.4.5 supports devices like the N95 8gb and the E71, while PythonForS60 1.9.2 supports FP2 devices like the Nokia XM 5800 and the eventual N97. At the present mome nt Marcelo is doing intensive testing to have the XM 5800 fully workable with PythonForS60 1.9.2(you can read about this here). Download version 1.4.5 here Download version 1.9.2 here So once you download the Python component, we’re ready to download and install Wordmobi. Stable Version Download Wordmobi 0.7.0 for Python 1.4.5 here Download Worbmobi 0.7.0 for Python 1.9.2 here Most Recent Beta with Tag Support(I’m running this version) Download Worbmobi 0.8.0 RC2 for Python 1.4.5 here

Two Part Installation Process. 1st install Python then a version of Wordmobi

Ok here is the first thing you’ll see once you go to your installation folder in your

FYI: you won’t see an icon for the Python portion of the setup in the Installation folder

Well this should get you started, To be continued this week

So let your imagination go wild and creative on your mobile phones and blog away, Wordmobi takes care of the rest. Cheers

Update from Marcelo

Thanks for starting the tutorial. I would like to suggest to use newer versions: Python 1.9.5 and wordmobi 0.8.1: http://wordmobi.googlecode.com/files/Python_1.9.5.sis http://wordmobi.googlecode.com/files/Wordmobi-0.8.1-py19.sis And for python 1.4.5: http://wordmobi.googlecode.com/files/Wordmobi-0.8.1.sis Thanks !

Sometime you want an all encompassing application that let’s you do many things at once or in one place so if you like all Google things, then you’ll love this app.

Get The Latest Applications

To get all these updates visit http://m.google.com from your s60 browser.

To learn more about Google Mobile Suite visit this link from your computer.

Just cruising twitter late last night, yes I’m a twitter addict, and I stumbled on a tweet from Mark Guim from “The Nokia  Blog” who shared a very nice and convenient tip on how to upload photos to a specific Flickr Set and I just wanted to share it with you all, so you can put it into practice immediately, I know I did. This to me is invaluable and just makes me love Pixelpipe even more.

Mark says

Step 1. Add pixelpipe to Nokia Share Online.

Step 2. Add Flickr (as one of the 95 destinations!!!!)
Step 3. Change the flickr settings to upload photo to specific set. Screenshot below.

Here is the link to the original image from Mark – here

So there you have it, I can vouch for this setup it works like a charm, I just setup my Nokia E71 and Nokia N95 8GB with this little jewel of a tutorial, thanks for sharing this with the community Mark

If you’re not following Mark on Twitter, then make sure you do, his username is @thenokiablog and off course you can always visit “The Nokia Blog” for more great tips from one of the best Nokia Symbian bloggers, here is Mark’s The Nokia Blog RSS feed so you can subscribe it as well – here

Sometimes we want to take a screenshot perhaps to report a bug in an application or sometimes you just want to share with the world via twitpic, flickr2twitter( yes flickr our friend Mark Guim from the Nokia Blog has a great post about this – here), or any of the other social sites or better yet, you use Gravity(native s60 twitter client) and you want to upload instantly, well here are a couple of applications that can make that possible for FREE.

1. Best Screen Snap
2. Anthony Panata’s Screenshot

With Best ScreenSnap you can capture screenshots on your smartphone, save them to a file or send them to friends or to your desktop computer.

Features include:

• Configurable hotkey to make a screenshot.
• Sound notification after taking screenshot
• Supports true colour BMP, 256 colour BMP, and JPG
• Ability to send image via Bluetooth, Infrared, MMS or email.
• Auto-generated image name.
• Ability to set up where to save screenshots.

Panata’s Screenshot

Easily capture screenshot on your Symbian OS mobile phones

• Absolutely FREE!
• Source code available!
• Over 1/4 million downloads!
• Supporting 31 languages!

Screenshot for Symbian OS is a FREE program to take screenshot on your Symbian OS mobile phones (UIQ or S60). You can capture screenshot and save it to a file in JPEG, PNG, BMP or MBM format. The screenshot can be sent directly to a PC via Bluetooth or infrared and another mobile phone. Furthermore, you can customize the shortcut key, file name and delay of capturing. It supports continuous mode that allows you to capture screenshot every a few seconds.

So both of the aforementioned applications support Symbian s60v.3 which are all those N95, E71, etc etc.

Now if you use a Symbian Device with s60 v5  ie. Nokia N97, Nokia 5800, Nokia 5530, or Samsung i8910 well you can use Super Screenshot which is available for download over at our friend S60V5 Blog.

Whatever device you use there is a free solution. Enjoy and Happy Screenshots

When looking for the latest mobile phone reviews, make sure you check multiple phone sites.

This tutorial came from an email from a fan and I thought I’d share it with everyone, sometimes we know a lot about our phones and other times we miss little details and with these instructions your Nokia Messaging experience should be a delight.

[notice I’m rocking Fissure by Tehk7, download here]

Martain says:

As promised, I list here the settings to check on the Nokia E71 in order to have Email 1 notification on the Home Screen.

In case you used Nokia Messaging, you only have to set:

Menu – Tools – Settings – General – Personalisation – Home screen – Mode settings – Home screen applications – Enabled applications – Intellisync:

Check box and press OK

For all other configured email look at:

Menu – Tools – Settings – General – Personalisation – Home screen – Mode settings – Home screen applications – Enabled applications – Email 1 notification:

Check box and press OK

Menu – Tools – Settings – General – Personalisation – Home screen – Mode settings – Home screen applications –Email 1 notification – Mailbox:

Choose preferred email (e.g. Mail for Exchange or @Home, in my case)

Menu – Tools – Settings – General – Personalisation – Home screen – Mode settings – Home screen applications –Email 1 notification – Preview:

- Header only

- Header and popup

- Header and unread

Allso check:

Menu – Tools – Settings – General – Personalisation – One  touch keys – Message key – Short press: default

Menu – Tools – Settings – General – Personalisation – One  touch keys – Message key – Long press: default

Menu – Tools – Settings – General – Email key setttings:

Choose preferred option (these are my options):

- Default

- @Home

- MfE

- E-mail

Thanks so much

Credits go to Martain Spierings

Blogging has become a viral event all over the world, a new blog is created every few minutes. Among the some of the majors providers are Blogger, Drupal, Typepad, Joomla, and my favorite off course, WordPress. So how do we blog with our S60 Smartphones, well, all the major blogging services support blogging via email and still some of them even have mobile web versions but none of the aforementioned options are as good and offer a complete blogging experience as Worbmobi.

 
Wordmobi is written in Python by Marcelo Barros which we interviewed recently here.

• Part 1
• Part 2

So its written in Python, what does this mean exactly some may ask yourselves which is a very valid question, since we see the term Python thrown around quite often. Well, Python is a native Symbian programming language which allows developers to produce native applications to run on our beloved smartphones(Nokia’s link for further reading: click here). So since Wordmobi is written in Python, the first we have to do is install Python.

Currently there are two version of Python: PythonForS60 1.4.5 and PythonForS60 1.9.2

PythonForS60 1.4.5 supports devices like the N95 8gb and the E71, while PythonForS60 1.9.2 supports FP2 devices like the Nokia XM 5800 and the eventual N97. At the present moment Marcelo is doing intensive testing to have the XM 5800 fully workable with PythonForS60 1.9.2(you can read about this here).

Download version 1.4.5 here
Download version 1.9.2 here

So once you download the Python component, we’re ready to download and install Wordmobi.

Stable Version
Download Wordmobi 0.7.0 for Python 1.4.5 here
Download Worbmobi 0.7.0 for Python 1.9.2 here
 
Most Recent Beta with Tag Support(I’m running this version)
Download Worbmobi 0.8.0 RC2 for Python 1.4.5 here

Two Part Installation Process. 1st install Python then a version of Wordmobi

Ok here is the first thing you’ll see once you go to your installation folder in your

FYI: you won’t see an icon for the Python portion of the setup in the Installation folder

Well this should get you started, To be continued this week

Update from Marcelo

Thanks for starting the tutorial.
I would like to suggest to use newer versions:

Python 1.9.5 and wordmobi 0.8.1:

http://wordmobi.googlecode.com/files/Python_1.9.5.sis
http://wordmobi.googlecode.com/files/Wordmobi-0.8.1-py19.sis

And for python 1.4.5:

http://wordmobi.googlecode.com/files/Wordmobi-0.8.1.sis

Thanks !