DISQUS

rejetto · 1 year ago

on my n82, typing in the calendar doesn't add a new "memo" but "meeting".
i wish it was memo, since it's my favorite tool. :(

Aaron · 1 year ago

oops, sorry about that. It's really "meeting", thanks for the heads up. Ill update this post.

like you, i wanted it as memo as well. :)

razvan · 1 year ago

don't forget you can lock you phone only with 3 power button presses! one to display the menu, one to advance to next selection (lock phone), and another, but this time a longer one, to select it.

Aaron · 1 year ago

nice razvan! I didn't know it's also possible :-)

Alfredo · 5 months ago

I can do it in 2 clicks:

Press the left softkey (Messages by default) and then quickly press the * button. It will lock and unlock your phone ;o)

Jeremy Ho · 1 year ago

on some phones you are able to change your profile to silent by holding the "#" key.

george · 1 year ago

press and hold 0 will open the browser

kelly · 1 year ago

To see what applications are running press and hold the menu button.

Christoph · 1 year ago

If your camera is opened and the camera application is not running, hold down the camera trigger to start it.

jason · 1 year ago

i dont know why you aint added the kickstand trick but here goes. open up your memory card cover and press it up the way just to stretch the plastic a tiny bit now release it and turn it so its facing away from the phone ie turn the phone on its side the speakers facing up the way and turn the memory card cover facing towards the speakers now your phone will sit nicely on its side and viewing movies is great without holding the phone. be careful with the cover i broke my first one as it was really stiff.

Soroush · 1 year ago

thanx Dude!

Christoph · 1 year ago

To quickly end an active packet data connection, hold down the red button while being on the standby screen.

Jaison · 1 year ago

HI All!!
You all must be enjoying the advantage of 3.5 mm jack to listening to music with a good headset.

Now a better use for the jack if you are on the drive...

When you insert any 3.5 mm pin, phone states "using phone microphone".

Now the beautiful part.. If you guys drive and have heard of blue tooth speaker solution (very expensive) here is my Radio Solution (at tenth of cost) with longer battery life for phone.

If you do not have already, Buy any FM transmitter, connect and set one of the radio channels to that.

Connect the Audio wire from the 3.5 mm jack to the FM transmitter.

Keep your radio tuned to to FM transmitter frequency.

Now make a call, you can listen to the caller from your car audio system and drive hassle free.

Similarly you can listen to the songs from your phone on the go as well.

"Well this can not be used to N80 and other jacks with converters cause, then your sound is not transmitted through the mic of Phone"

Drive safely...

Aaron · 1 year ago

Thanks jaison. I don't have a car though, i think this would be a trick i would love to try if i have one lol. Sure a good solution than bluetooth speakers for phone calls and listening to music, especially if sound quality is not that big of a deal for the user.

Jaison · 1 year ago

HI Aaron,

To try this, you connect your phone to an Good Music System's Line in or Mic jack with the 3.5 pin.

Then raise the volume, and make a call.... Bingo you'll have a 5.5 Surround effect and all that Boom sound from the nice HiFi system and you can talk effortlessly.

Same goes for your music as well..and it is applicable to all the 2.5 jacks for N95, N95 8GB..and so on...

Xeo · 1 year ago

When you are in the music menu and want to go back to "now playing" screen press 2 times the left soft key and voila!

Aaron · 1 year ago

Great info guys! thanks for sharing ^^.

Peter · 1 year ago

heey, i was wondering, how can i remove the search and wlan-scan options from the standby screen?

Aaron · 1 year ago

as far as i know, there's no way for that peter. i also myselft wanted to get rid of those on my standby screen.

rohit · 1 year ago

the easiest way to remember the life timer key combo is to remember the word #*war0anty# (warranty?)

Aaron · 1 year ago

hey nice, i was also thinking of a word equivalent for that, but "was0bouy" doesn't make sense haha. thanks for that rohit

Lee · 1 year ago

Hi, thanks for the info. Is there a way to set the phone preferences so that it will automatically record all calls without having to go into the menu options like that every time?

Aaron · 1 year ago

hi Lee,
sad to say but as far as i know, there's no setting for that. i suggest, you open up the recorder first before making a call, then just hold down the menu key to shift to it when the call has started. There are third party applications that offer automatic call recording. Check out this one:

http://symbian-lifeblog.com/2008/09/call-record...

Lee · 1 year ago

Thanks! :)

Lee · 1 year ago

BTW, I've been trying to find a program that will let me record calls to WMA 64kbit/s format. You wouldn't happen to know of such a program, would you? Other programs I came across besides Xelnex were Total Recall and Smart Recorder. Maybe you could try these (and/or whatever others you might know of) out, compare them, and do a blog entry about it? :)

jason · 1 year ago

hi guys have you tried Epocware Handy Shell v1.0 S60v3 it will replace the active standby in your device and you can customize it with your own preffered apps i have 3 active standbys the orange one the s60 one and epocware i preffer this i hope you add it to your great blog keep up the good work i enjoy reading your reviews mate.

jason · 1 year ago

after searching the net for a while a found a few patches that you can apply to the original standby screen if your using fw v30 then this will still work. basically you can remoce search,wifi,calender,to do

install rom patcher (supplied in package)
now copy folder named patches to e:/ (your memory card root folder)
go to settings and disable active standby
now run rom patcher and apply all 4 patches
you will be left with just the ovi icon i think it looks nicer hope you all like this and good luck

(files scanned by mediafire) http://www.mediafire.com/?w1xrayqijzy

Aaron · 1 year ago

hey, thanks for the tip jason. i'll give it a try. i really wanted to remove the search bar and wlan on my standby screen. i wish nokia puts this on the next update. The e66 has this feature built-in, so why not the N82 nokia??.

jason · 1 year ago

no problem Aaron iv tried this on my n82 fw v30 and it works perfect if i find anymore tip's and tricks ill post them here. take care

Double · 1 year ago

While starting up the phone and after entering the pincode, if you are tired of hearing the Nokia handshaking tune, press any key immediately after the "pin-code OK" confirmation has disappeared from the screen --> No tune :)

Pink Mobile · 1 year ago

thanks for the info's ill try it all up with my phone, all of you are helpful in sharing what you know to others.

Valerie · 1 year ago

I've learned a lot from these tips and tricks especially the way to find out if the N82 you're buying from a store is really brand new by checking it's "life-time".

Thanks, mate! These tips are really helpful.

Aaron · 1 year ago

hey, thanks. i'm glad you liked it..

ETTIENNE · 1 year ago

MY GALLEY ALWAYS FREEZES NO MATTER WHAT I DO. HOW CAN I FIX THIS?

Aaron · 1 year ago

Freezing in a way that you need to restart the phone or just crashing the gallery application? How many files do you have on the gallery?

ben_wi_jamin · 1 year ago

Wondered if anyone knew how to apply a password to protect messages, pictures etc. Try and stop any prying eyes, Cheers :)

jason · 1 year ago

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c2 · 1 year ago

Here is an easy way to call a Contacts number where you then have to dial an extension or if like me you have a password for your voice mail box. Just insert a pause after the number,then the extension followed by a pound sign. Here is an example. If i have to call Paul and his number in your Contacts is +19043510854 and the extension to his office is 520, just change his number to +19043510854p520# and save it. The extension will be dialed automatically next time you call.

c2 · 1 year ago

When editing a text, you can hold the "*" button to get the list of all the symbol instead of pressing "*" then scrolling down to "More symbols".

Aaron · 1 year ago

Nice finds C2. Thanks for sharing ;-)

moving companies boston · 6 months ago

press the # to vibrate only..

FS · 5 months ago

Am I doing something wrong? If I have 2 numbers associated to the same name (I. E. Ken) and I´ve called both numbers. If I press the "green button" to quickly access those numbers, there is no way to see which entry that goes to wich number. I. E if I want to call Ken, there are two entrys "Ken date and time" and a second "Ken date and time" but no way of knowing which entry that is connected to the home number (assuming there is a home and a cell number to Ken). This makes this feature useless since you always have to guess what entry to use (usually guessing wrong in 95% of the cases). On my old nokia the number was displayed instead of date and time.

Aaron · 5 months ago

You are doing nothing wrong. I have the same concern.
Nokia DID something wrong.

zanky · 5 months ago

where to close, sound of the shutter noice

kevinr7 · 4 months ago

How do i add a keypad lock code to my phone... instead of it just being the standard 'menu button quickly followed by +' I want to have to add a password each time...