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N95 Tips and Tricks

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Here you will find common tips and tricks for your device..

  • If you dont long-press the menu key - another way to see if you have apps running in the background is to view the menu in icon mode. Usually there's a small "C" on the upper right of each icon, or on the folder where it's located, indicating that an app is currently running there. This is very useful coz it enables you to gain more memory.
  • Ever had a time when you forgot to lock your keys after closing the slider? The n95 lets you input a specific time when you want the keys locked. Just to menu/tools/setting/general/security/phone and sim/.... then choose user-defined in the 'phone autolock period', then just put in how many minutes you want.
  • Unlike the 6280 and E65, the N95 does not hang up the call when you close the slide. So after the dialing the number you're calling - you can close the slide and have a more compact phone to hold.
  • Increase your RAM by deleting the "Welcome" application in your phone. Delete also other apps that you're not using - like the 'Search" app.
  • Want to "hide" some pictures so that it doesn't show up in your Gallery? You can move the photos to another folder in your phone. Like the "my videos" folder. These photos can still be seen and viewed by a 3rd party photo viewer or a file manager - but at least, now when you open the gallery - they wont show up.
  • If you have a lot of videos (mp4, 3gp, etc) on your phone, it's always better to arrange them in subfolders. Dont keep more than 130 clips in one folder, if over that, just make another subfolder then put another 130 clips there, and so on and on. If having more than 130 clips - it slows down the phone to unbearable speeds when previewing them in the gallery.
  • Once every few weeks, especially if you add and delete photos in your gallery, you should delete the "_pAlbtn" subfolder in your "Images" folder. (Use a file xplorer to view and delete this, or use your PC). This would refresh the entire gallery - and would ensure that your thumbnails are updated. If you delete this folder and dont view the images - it will temporarily give you more space in your memory card.
  • Set your call LOG to 10 days or less - this will help in speeding up your phone.
  • When connected to a TV or Widescreen monitor, and you're viewing smartmovie movies, try this out. Instead of sliding the slider to make it horizontal, a better way is to set smartmovie to 'portrait' mode. It shows up as landscape on the TV - and there's definitely less pixelation on the picture. (than when sliding the slider to horizontal and 'forcing' the phone to compensate.)
  • Make your Ringtone horrendously loud by turning ON the 3D Ringtone.
  • Unless you have a good reason not to, just change your network to "GSM" only... to conserve battery.
  • Also turn the WLAN search to off when you're not using it. This conserves battery as well.
  • Using GPS, click on options/view/satellite info, then after you got a good satellite status say 3 to 5 you can then click back and it will make your connection faster.
  • You can hold down the pound key (#) when in the standby menu, to activate the 'silent mode' in your phone.
  • Don’t use the red ("hangup") key to exit an application. In many apps, this just keeps it in the background, eating up memory and slowing down your phone.
  • You can change the shortcuts on the home screen to the apps you use most frequently by going to Settings/General/Personalisation/Standby Mode/Shortcuts.
  • Ever have a problem when installing themes.... and the dreaded "expired certificate" error message pops up? This is mainly due to the fact the licensed signed certificate that nokia gave for the thememaker has a 1 year validity period - if you're just installing this old theme, and its more than a year old, you'll get that message. Simple solution is to go to the calendar of your 95, set the date back one year, or maybe 8 months - then install the theme you wanted. Restart the phone, then set the correct time again, and you're done.
  • Ever think of turning your n95 into a webcam? Check out this link:http://www.motvik.com/*Pimp your n95 with lots of apps!http://vaibhavsharma.wordpress.com/2...pimp-your-n95/
  • The ultimate loose/wobbly slider fix: (for those unfortunate to have a wobbly slider).http://n95slider.blogspot.com/
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Sign Your Unsigned Application

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Advanced Symbian smartphone users must have installed 3rd. party external applications (SiS files) on their phones which are similar but a miniature form of the normal software packages that we commonly install on our computers ourselves. I guess many times you have come across some applications developed by individual mobile software developers that needs to be self-signed. What is this self-signing and how to do it? Read on and do as suggested below:
Every Symbian (including the series60 version 3 OS) application needs to be signed in some way so that the phone can confirm its authenticity and it came from the intended developer and is not a malware or virus of some sort. The Symbian OS (v3 specially) has very good security measures and requirement for digitally signed packages (.sis files) is one of them.
Say, you come across an app. in development at a forum and it’s in beta or pre-release stage and has not been certified by nokia; but you want to try it out at that moment. Simply trying to install the unsigned app. will fail. What you need todo is to generate a developer certificate for your phone IMEI number and use it to digitally sign the unsigned app. so that it gets installed on the device successfully.
Here’s how you can generate your digital certificate and sign your unsigned Symbian application successfully:
Softwares Required :
Developer Certificate Request Tool [ Download ]
Sign SiS Tool [ Download ]
Generating a Developer Certificate :
- Register and create an account at SymbianSigned.com
- Make a directory on your PC. e.g.- c:\cert
- Install Developer Certificate Request Tool.
- Launch the above program.
– Step1: Enter “c:\cert\mycert.csr” in the textbox and click “Next”.
– Step2: Set ACS pub id available > NO, Type “c:\cert\mycert.key” in private key file textbox and “mycert” as password. Click Next.
– Step3: Fill out your location details accordingly. Click Next.
– Step4: Add your phone IMEI (type *#06# on your phone), Press Ctrl+A to select all capabilities and click “Add”. Click Next.
– Click “Finish” and “Close”.
We have generated certificate request file (mycert.csr) which will help us acquire a developer certificate (mycert.cer) to sign our unsigned files with.
- Login to SymbianSigned.com with the account info you used earlier while registering.
- Click “My Symbian Signed” Tab.
- Click “Developer Certificates” in left menu, then Click “Request” link below it.
- Type in the anti-robot security code and browse to select “c:\cert\mykey.csr” file and click “Send”.
- Your certificate has been generated. Click “Download” button and save the file as “c:\cert\mycert.cer”
So, you are ready to sign your unsigned application now!
NOTE : Developer certificates have a validity of 6 months only and works only on the phone with matching IMEI number you used while creating certificate request. You can reuse this certificate to sign other files later if required.
Finally, the actual signing…! Well, there are many ways to sign the unsigned file including running a Python script…he he, OK…I’m now showing you the simplest way with a special GUI program made solely for this purpose.
Signing the Application :
- Unzip the Sign SiS Tool you downloaded into “c:\cert”.
- Run the SignSiSUI.exe , enter the data as shown below and click “Sign It”. If everything goes well, you should get a message and a “appname.signed.sis” file would be created in “c:\cert”. You can now install this SiS file onto your phone.
Whoa! It’s finally signed.
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