Tutorial : How to hard reset Nokia N900

UPDATE: You will need: N900 (Charge up to at least 50%) PC Micro USB Cable Your IMEI number (go to settings>About Product or under your N900 battery) Before you look at the instructions: Backup the N900! This process will wipe your photos and videos. Save precious data onto your computer. Simply drag and drop them over. For content such as contacts/settings/bookmarks/applications list, use the Backup application on the N900, but backup to a memory card only. Do not back up onto N900 as that will get wiped. You can drag files back over and restore backup from memory card afterwards. INSTRUCTIONS 1. Download and install Maemo 5 Flasher (Appropriate for your PC operating System – these instructions are for windows so download...

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Tutorial : Hard reset your Nokia N8

If you’re unfortunate enough to encounter a problem on your Nokia N8, a hard reset maybe what you need to do. This wipes the entire phone memory and settings fresh to how it was (or should be) when you bought it. It’s also useful if you’re also unfortunate enough to have to send away your Nokia N8 for repair or exchange, or maybe in future  you maybe selling it and don’t want your information/details/media stored onto your device for someone else to access. Hopefully unlike the N97, the N8 will not encounter hard-reset bugs where we constantly have to hard reset. To hard reset the Nokia N8: 1) Turn off your phone 2) Hold “Volume Down + Camera Key + Menu Key” and press power button until your phone vibrates. 3) Wait until screen...

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Tutorial : Stream media to your PC through DLNA on your Symbian^3 device

In recent post, we had a few puzzled users who didn’t know how to connect their device to a PC, some users suggested the highly acclaimed XBMC for streaming, but i always knew there were simpler ways, so i researched a bit, and here is my tutorial on how use the “Play to” app. This is for people don’t have any DLNA certified device ( TV, PS3 for example ), but only have a PC, like me. The Nokia “play to” uses the mobile DLNA protocol to stream media ( includes photos, music and video ) to any DLNA compatible device. ( more about Digital Living Network Alliance here ) There are millions of DLNA certified devices which, when connected to the same WLAN network, can share it’s media. Neat household tech, and most importantly it’s...

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Tutorial : Change to Nokia Pure font now!

Nokia Pure , the new typeface , which was launched recently during the design week has garnered a lot of attention. The Brandbook blog has given us a glimpse of the new type face in this screenshot comparing the old Nokia Sans font and the new Pure font. You might have seen a tutorial for changing the fonts (kind note : for symbian^3 devices only *including E7*) earlier, but there was a flaw , Qt apps broke. But now, after the release of beta Qt 4.7.2 those issues are gone and even Qt apps are sporting the new font. For example , the ovi store ,which used to break while it was in  Qt 4.7, proof here : The above font , yeah you guessed it right, it’s the new Nokia Pure typeface. Download Nokia...

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Tutorial : Porting Apps from iPhone and Android to Qt

Got an Android or iPhone App? Want an even larger audience and another distribution point? Port to Qt and get your awesome app on the Ovi Store. Forum Nokia has a helpful page on their Wiki detailing instructions on porting Android and iPhone apps to Qt. The page was updated last in June, so now Nokia have 24 Million smartphones, and 41% of the GLOBAL smartphone market share (up from 40% and 21 million). Today, OPK mentioned Nokia expects 50 Million Symbian^3 devices to be shipped over next few years (though what exact time scale is not mentioned) Now also note the possible Millions of MeeGo devices, not just from Nokia, but from the 20 partners lined up to make MeeGo devices. Plus there’s the Maemo 5 crowd (N900 users). The...

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Tutorial : Downloading Ovi Store .sis installation files from Desktop Web Browser for offline phone install

Here’s a very quick and useful tip from Laine Wallace of doitdifferent.wordpress.com on how to download the .sis/.sisx installation files directly from Ovi Store. Now why would you want this? Well you might not have WiFi or mobile data on your phone but may have access to a desktop with internet. I’d sure as heck like a PC download and installation of apps as my uni accommodation this year has pants signal and NO WiFi. (Come on Ovi Suite!) Installation instructions after the break! Go to http://store.ovi.com/ from your desktop web browser Sign in with your Ovi Account.  Browse to the app you want, e.g. Nokia Battery Monitor. Note that when finding an app from search you’ll get “http://store.ovi.com/content/61776?clickSource=search&terminalId=N8-00“....

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Tutorial : LED Torch (for Symbian 3rd and 5th edition)

The time when you need torches the most is when they’re hardest to get to – in a black out (or brown out as they oddly call it in the Philippines). And looking for a torch is only useful if you actually own one to start with. No point trying to find the torch to check what’s rolled under your bed/sofa if you haven’t even got a torch. Here’s a FREE application that allows Nokia 5800 owners to use the white and red LED flash as a torch. It has a simple start/stop, switch colour mode and even the ability to convert your text into morse code flash! How brilliant is that? But now all you need is for someone else to be able to understand morse code (although it maybe useful in certain emergency situations where a flashing light maybe the...

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Tutorial : Using your Nokia smartphone as a modem.

One of our readers Gemma sent us an email asking for a short how-to on using your Nokia smartphone as a 3G modem. Given that it’s something I felt like a great deal of our readers would benefit from (if they didn’t already know  ) I decided to take up the torch and do a quick post showing this. As we all know, when buying a Nokia device, Nokia provides their software suite installation CD in addition to other accessories. Although the CD itself is not mandatory for installing the software suite (It’s just as easy to find on the internet) the majority of users will gain access to Nokia’s Ovi Suite or PC Suite via this method. 1st step: Install the darn thing! As much as you may be inclined to do without it there are quite a few...

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Nokia Lumia 90 Dual Screen Windows Phone/Windows 8 tablet

This concept comes from ScChow (h3csc)and it is the Nokia Lumia 90.  This is a dual screen tablet phone without a bezel between the two screens. The mechanism is shown below as well as the specs. Imaginary spec: Quad-core Tegra 3 processor 2x 4″ 1280×600 Clear Black Display 1GB of RAM  Dual boot Windows Phone 7 (just imagine it is Tegra 3 compatible) Windows 8 (ARM compatible mode) Around 18mm (Nokia N900 reborn!) Additional feature Micro sim slot, MircroSD card slot and 3.5mm audio jack on top of the phone. (or left in tablet mode) Back cover with 8mp autofocus camera, dedicated camera and volume keys. (has to be detach in tablet mode) ...

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Nokia Concepts : Nokia Lumia ‘Coffee’ Tab Windows 8

Here's another Nokia tablet design. This one as a few of the others has the N9/Lumia style design but this one reminding me of the N8 too (perhaps the black ends on the blue edges?). This design is by Tristan who wanted to have a bit of fun speculating on what the tablet might look like. Check it out with those Nokia Purity in-earphones. The scattered coffee beans are a nice touch  . The camera isn’t in the middle but in the top left corner (so not impeded I guess when held in landscape with two hands). I’m not sure if those buttons are hardware or appear with the Windows 8 swipe. There’s even a nice picture below where its set in natural surroundings. Lumia “coffee” tab 1.4GHz cpu 512Mb ram 16/32/64Gb storage 9.7″ AMOLED...

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