Fine tuning E51
May 13th, 2008
It’s a known issue that some monday pieces of Nokia E51 has an annoying snitching sound with the keymat, and the display. The keymat might give a “snap” sound when pressing certain keys. The keys that “snap” might change, but some keys snap more than others. I’m not quite sure why the snapping happens.
The display also snaps when gently pushed at some corner. This is also highly annoying, because the lower corners are very close to the corner keys, and when pressing the corner keys, you easily also press the display corner a bit - and it snaps quite often.
I could take the phone to warranty - and I probably will, but before that I still have hopes to get around this issue by adjusting the tightness level of the Torx screws keeping together the front cover. I noticed that this affects.
Another issue E51 has is the snatching sound of the side buttons, which are basically the volume and mute keys, and the record key at the left side. The tight pressing issue is a feature - to my knowledge every E51 has very hard to press side buttons, but the snatching sound is a random issue. By tightening (or untightening) clearly affects this issue and ultimately will get the snatcging sound disappear, this is good.
Other than these covering issues, the phone itself is great. Only software side thing that really bugs me is that you cannot install many themes in memory card, because installing one theme, may get another already installed theme disappear. This can only be tackled out, to my knowledge, either by formatting memory card, or by manually browsing to the folder that contains the theme files, and removing this folder.
I guess this is some bug in some control file handling, that lists all installed applications and themes. For some reason, when installing a new theme, the control file removes the reference to this theme, but the theme files itself physically stays. So after reinstalling this disappeared theme, the phone tells you that it’s already installed because it finds the physical theme files, but the control file itself doesn’t update the theme information even after reinstalling.
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Spring booger
May 13th, 2008
It’s always a bugger to get ill. I get a flu approximately three to five times a year, maybe a bit less these days than in some years ago. I guess the main reason is that I got out of schools.
Actually it’s my wife who usually gets the flu before me, so it may be that I would get it even more rarely, but it’s always somewhere that you get it from anyway, really. You just cannot run from it.
This time it started with an uncomfortable dizzy feeling just before I went to bed. Earlier this night I was actually very energic, put up certains to our new apartment and all. ;-) The next morning I woke up and had very tired feeling, and my throat was hurting a bit. Later afternoon my throat got a lot worse; basically talking hurts. Now it’s very late night, and it hasn’t changed really. The feeling is basically just crap. Not too horrifying, but certainly not too good. Just crap.
We finally bought stollers today, that was a joy. ;-)
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A few notes
May 7th, 2008
Heres some:
- I got a kid…
- …and lost 10h sleep/w
- I’ve got addicted to free Battery
- Battery Heat taste great after all
- Creative Sync Manager randomly freezes Vista
- I’ve got cold boot problems with both of my Asus P5K motherboards
- I installed Vista SP1 yesterday, very easy process
- I bought and moved to an own apartment a week ago
- I’ve started to have adventurous feelings in the world of Gnome…
- …so I’m thinking of installing new Ubuntu
- God it was a warm sunday…
- …and god damn what a cold monday!
- Only 6½ weeks till summer holiday
That’s something I have in mind!
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Moving
March 14th, 2008
During last 11 months, we’ve lived in 4 different cities permanently. Last january I thought that’d be it and we’re to settle down, but guess what. I was wrong. Six weeks till move. Kind of getting tired of it. :-D
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Zedge, the mobile community
March 13th, 2008
I found this website after random googling. It seems like a perfect answer to my question; after all these symbian sites with terrible amount of ads and unclear overall idea, isn’t there any website that is more like a community, where the main idea is not to get money from ads and so. Seems like I’ve found my place.
There is one fantastic solution to move the stuff to your mobile phone as easily as possible, and I love it. You browse around the site on your computer and find a nice theme. Then you click the theme, and it gives you a choice to download direcetly or to “add” it in your account. I choose to add it to my account. Then I fire up a browser on my phone and go to address mobile.zedge.net, log in, and click “my downloads”. There it is, ready to be downloaded and installed. Quite handy!
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