TamsS60 - the S60 Blog

AllAboutSymbian’s Steve Litchfield has found a way to fix the plethora of Flash-related problems that plague E90’s that received the recent firmware update.

Essentially, the method involves performing an additional hard reset and testing the Flash functionality. If it works, the device may be restored from scratch.

Even though this definitely isn’t what I call comfortable, it seems to be a workable method nevertheless. If anyone of you has an E90, good luck and good fun - I did something similar with my Treo a few days ago…

Our sister site TamsPPC has just posted a tutorial on connecting a Series 60v3 phone to a PocketPC; thereby allowing the PocketPC to use the phone’s internet connection:
http://tamsppc.tamoggemon.com/2007/12/03/link-up-a-pocket-pc-with-a-nokia-n71-for-internet-access/

For me, this is especially useful as it grants Skype access on the go - no idea why Nokia didn’t provide a native Skype client yet, but my ipaq can skype really well over the N71’s 3G link! The delay is noticeable, but manageable…

Ever since phones with camera LED’s hit the market, users debated if the LED’s really had any ‘reson-d-etre’ except acting as a torch. The images below were made with a Nokia N71 in a room approximately 10m wide; and are uploaded in an unaltered fashion(click for full version):

Night mode
With flash

Without flash

Normal mode
With flash

Without flash

In the end, none of the four pictures can really compete with a digital camera - but that’s not what a mobile phone camera is intended to do IMHO. The images shot in normal mode are almost worthless; the LED flash barely managed to light up my suit 1.5m away. Night mode images still have very high noise levels(see fullsize images); but are bright enough to be at least barely usable. The LED flash did nothing except distort the colors of my suit.

Thus, today’s lesson is: if you can keep the camera steady long enough, use night mode - your images will become significantly better! The LED flash did not show beneficial effects anywhere - let’s just keep using it as torch…

Our review of Opera 8.65 for Series 60 mentioned that opening an existing link in a new window is not possible as of now. However, thanks to TamsS60 reader Qasim, I can now present you a way to make it work.

Open the settings form of Opera, then navigate to the shortcuts tab. There, choose your key of choice - and assign it to Open in new Window.

From now on, pressing this key when a link is highlighted will do just that - enjoy!

T-Mobile Austria’s configuration for the Nokia N71 is made available on request. It works…but annoyingly terminates your GPRS/UMTS connection after approximately 5 minutes without data transfer. If you use an application like PuTTY for Symbian, this can become very annoying…but TamsS60 has a solution for you:

Open the Settings application and go into the connection sub-menu:

There, choose Data Call. Set Online time to unlimited…it should look like in the picture below:

With these ‘modifications’ in place, my N71 stays connected happily to a SSH server for hours without any activity - adios, network timeouts!