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New firmware, N95 V31

Update: the v31 firmware has been pulled off NSU. Via AAS. Impressions from the comments on the interwebs mention the following changes: Anti-hacking measures New weird bug that mixes english with whatever language you selected for phones with changed product code (don’t know how that’d happen, but it’s the word on the street.) Bold application [...]
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Remove Menu icon from N95 V30

Just put this .txt (Save as) in C:\private\10202be9\ and reboot. It works! From Nokioteca, via Daily Mobile
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How to remove Share Online from your active standby

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 [...]
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V30 firmware for N95 classic

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) [...]
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Disable WLAN energy saving and extend the range

Today’s post is a quick little tip, just to break the silence. There’s times you know there is an wifi access point nearby, and you have the password or whatever you need to get to the internet, but your phone is not detecting it, even when nearby laptops are getting it. There’s an option to [...]
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The Revenge of Shinobi on Picodrive S60

The Revenge of Shinobi on Picodrive S60 from Fernando Santos on Vimeo. I had recorded a video to illustrate this post, but had forgotten to post it. Err… Here it is then. =P
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When the internet is down, N95 saves the day.

This saturday, my modem decided to die, just after business hours too, so I’d have to wait until monday to order a new one. So it was up to my phone to keep me connected meanwhile. And, surprisingly for anyone who tryed to tether an older phone (memories of my 6600 :p), it was incredibly [...]
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New Picodrive S60 version!

A week from last friday, our favorite emulator developer AnotherGuest released a new version of Picodrive S60, based on Notaz’s GP2x source code, and it’s totally awesome. Here’s a video I made of it in action, how the sound syncs perfectly now: Highlights: Perfect sound! (see the last version for comparison, awful video) Future SegaCD/MegaCD [...]
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S60 inverse landscape

Recently I found out about this Landscape Pro V2 that allows you to rotate your s60′s screen both ways, and I wondered how did the app handle it? Manual turning or did S60 had a secret inverse landscape mode? Turns out that it is the former, and now I’m trying to documentate the differences between [...]
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Comparing search methods

Recently Google launched it’s own native mobile search app for S60 phones, which was reviewed here by AAS, which was recieved badly by bloggers and enthusiasts, example: IntoMobile’s Stefan post. But people don’t realize that this app is competing not with the internal browser (which btw, setting google as your homepage is cheating), it’s rival [...]
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