Monthly Archive for September, 2008

Remove Menu icon from N95 V30

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fernando
on September 27, 2008
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Just put this .txt (Save as) in C:\private\10202be9\ and reboot. It works!

From Nokioteca, via Daily Mobile

Ovi has a jingle now?

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fernando
on September 14, 2008
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From the Ovi virtual event, this video showed the new ovi jingle. It appears by the end of both segments, with the logo.

I recorded it and uploaded it here, maybe someone wants to use it as a ringtone.

How to remove Share Online from your active standby

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fernando
on September 6, 2008
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As usual, this one’s for hacked phones only. I thought I had made a post about this earlier but no. Better, since now this post can be updated with phones that come with Share Online on the rom (e.g. v30 N95)

Let’s start with identifying what puts that in the standby. The culprit is a file called SoActiveIdle.dll. It stays at !:/sys/bin/

So if your phone didn’t came with SO3.0, it is mearly a case of hacking your phone, disabling caps, and deleting that file.

But when that file is in the rom (Z:/), it gets trickier. UPDATE: You have to make the OS look for the file in drive C:/, and to do that you have to install a Share Online Upgrade from europe.nokia.com/A4388352 (The one it comes with is 3.0.08(13) and this one is 3.0.08(23). After that you can modify the SoActiveIdle.dll.

You can’t just erase it, as then the OS will load the Z: version, you have to corrupt it. I did this by opening the .dll in notepad, changing a few characters in the file, and then copying it back to C:/sys/bin. Rebooted and the shortcut was gone!

So long story short, you can just install a Share Online upgrade, download my modified dll, throw it on C:/sys/bin, reboot and enjoy the clean active standby!

Thanks Ben for noticing I had missed something :P

UPDATE 2: Or you could just do this. Which removes share online AND search, god bless Symbian-Freak :P (found here)

V30 firmware for N95 classic

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fernando
on September 4, 2008
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Man I really dislike it, bugs came back, the benefits are negligeble, and the only new cool thing is a new theme (in my opinion).

Let’s see the changelog:

  • Nokia Maps 2.0 built-in
  • Full N-Gage client
  • Nokia Search 4.0 with Google plug-in
  • Share online 3.0
  • Enablers for Comes With Music
  • Download! application updated (v 3.1.50)
  • Upgrade to Music Player
  • Update for Flash Lite 3 (improved viewing of sites like YouTube)
  • Current consumption improvements (for e.g. WLAN scanning)
  • New baseline for VoIP (with significant error corrections)

Now my complains

  • Nokia Maps 2.0 built-in (old version already, you can download a newer build on europe.nokia.com/maps)
  • Full N-Gage client (comes installed in drive C: instead of Z: (rom), negating any space saving. besides that, it is already obsolete too, since 5230 and N96’s version (1.10) is available to download)
  • Nokia Search 4.0 with Google plug-in (still slow and useless, not the new firmware’s fault really, plus is occupies 2 lines of active standby now, weird)
  • Share online 3.0 (as it comes in Z:, I can’t remove C:/sys/bin/SOActiveIdle.dll, to get rid of the standby shortcut. Again not really a firmware fault UPDATE 3: found a solution)
  • The camera buttons bug is back. When the backlight goes out, the gallery and volume/zoom keys flash blue. This bug was solved back in firmware V12.)
  • Menu is bugged out, showing it’s icon, leaving less space to apps’ icons. (see screenshot below)
  • Auto screen rotation is slow, as with other Nseries, Samir’s rotateMe is better (not that I use it that much, just for turning the screen 180 degrees)

I haven’t really noticed the improvements to the music player/flash lite/battery life, but I guess it’s too soon. Anyway, I expect a V31 firmware soon.

Screenshots via AAS

UPDATE:

Found a difference in the Music Player, the controls are now blue instead of green:

Compare with V20

There is a new option under configurations in the connection settings (because I’m sure Configurations was the last one):

And the last change, is that the display rotation that happens when you open the multimedia slider got slower (!). Now it’s open, wait a second, then the display rotates. The same speed as auto rotate.

I think I’ll make a video to show the new speed, but it’s very annoying.

UPDATE 2:

Someone found a way to get rid of the menu icon, only until a restart, but still. This, as random as it seems, works.

And another change I noticed, they removed the transitions option (which didn’t work) from V21 firmware:

This option isn’t available anymore on V30. (Not that it did anything)