New firmware update

There is a new firmware update available for E65. This update is on the market from the end of June, and as far as I experienced it does not has any major corrections or redesigns, but only corrects some earlier flaws and makes the phone faster a little bit.

Latest available software for Nokia E65, product code 0542334
Version: 3.0633.69.00
In my phone the version was: 2.0633.65.01

Before you start the firmware upgrade at home, be sure to make a FULL backup of the phone. After my FULL backup some of my programs have not worked, I'm on my way to recover the serial numbers...

So what are the novelties in the new firmware? According to Nokia:
Messaging
* Reading of SMS time stamp information unified between regions
* SMS sending from SIM Toolkit - Profile 07 improved
* Unicode Handling with Turkish characters corrected
* Correction to fetching email from freemail server
* Intellisync: Slowness of searching a contact for the first time corrected

Others
* Operator name list updated
* Start-up settings updated
* Settings Wizard updated
* Start-up date changed to 1.1.2008
* Correction of DRMClock behaviour with NITZObserver with negative time zone values

This is the page when you can check if there is any update available for your phone, and this is also the starting point for the firmware update. ONLY BE CAREFUL!!!

Theme for E65

Sholud we use a factory theme or one that was made by others?

Pro
These built in themes are optimized for the Nokia E65 or other Symbian phone, so they don't slow down the phone. Themes built by other are unique, individual, they reflect our personality, so there is a big chance no one is using them.

Against
Official themes are boring, they can be found on anybody else's phone. Also, themes built by others can be very large, they can slow down the phone in an ubearable way. Namely they are disturbing the phone's functionality.

What I'm using?
After long periods of searching and tryouts I'm using the official Dots Blue theme. This is the closest to the DOts Green theme I'm desperately searching for, it's simple, plain, and does not slow down the phone.

Where can I find other themes?
If you are looking for good taste theme, this is your page. The themes are normal, good looking, it is wotrh going back to look for new ones.

Facelift over

My phone is back. I have a really new cover, I like it a lot. It is like a new phone, really. The facelift was a must.

These .nbu files

My E65 was away for a cosmetic facelift, its case became very uggly. So my replacement phone was an N82. Previously I made a backup from my phone and from my memory card - so the one thing I had to do is to upload that content to the new phone. But to my misfortune the N82 didn't had a data cable. This totally blocked me - the PcSuite works on the old Dell, that has no Bluetooth connection, the BLuetooth-USB dongle was stolen - along with the other three computers.

So I started to look up an application that can open the .nbu files - these are the backup files made by PcSuite. So I started digging the internet, the first software was ABC Amber NBU Converter. This is a free application that extracts text messages and the phone numbers that come with is form the phone

The second software was - NokiaSMS - that is 22,5 USD - the dongle is cheaper. The try version of the software extracts a limited amount of data from the .nbu files: 50 phone numbers, SMS, calendar nota, nota, 30 files, 20 bookmarks. So I rushed to the store and bought a dongle :-D.

Sorry

Sorry for not writing for so long, but all our laptops were stolen, so it took us some time to recover from that shock. I promise I will be back with more small symbian programs for E65. Fortunately, my phone escape burglary..

So will be back soon!

Movies on my little screen

When I heard for the first time, that it is possible to watch entire movies on the phone, I asked myself why? But after I spent some time thinking about it, I realised it is not such a bad idea, after all if you are on a train or a plane you don't really need to watch a movie on the laptop, or you don't have to carry around you your laptop just to watch a movie on the plane.

There are two approaches: the official one is when I tried to covert with the official Nokia program the .avi file in to .mp4 so the Real Player can play it. I tried it, but there was only sound - no image and no subtitles.

So i tried the unofficial aproach: I needed a coder and a player. The coder is PocketdivXEncoder - v0.3.60. This is really optimized for Pocket PC, but it is free and can be used for Symbian as well. The software - you have to install it on your PC - automatically recoqnizes that an .srt file is avaiable for subtitle, and it burnes it with the movies. It takes 40 minutes to code a 1,1 GB .avi file (with a 1 Ghz Intel Celeron 512 MB memory computer) and the result is a 200 MB file. I transferred it to my phone memory, where a newly installed player, DivX Player was waiting. And the result was awesome I was watching the movie on my new platform, on my mobile. :-D soo cool indeed.

S60 Ticker

This application it is sooo coool, that I wonder, why only now has someone developed it? This someone are some german guys, use the Google translator if you don't know the language.

There are two separate applications that you have to install: one is S60 Ticker Server than you need the S60 Ticker. The program itself does on thing, but it is very cool: it shows in a moving stripe the content of the SMS you just received. I think it is very usefull, and the next step should be e-mails, MMS messages.

There are a bunch of settings in the program. You can set for instance, that the message should appear only on the main screen - but also on all other screens. You can also set where the stripe to apear: at the top or bottom. You can adjust the speed on a scale from 1 to 5. You can also set that the program should autostart, when you switch on your phone or not. You can put the clock at the begining of the stripe, but this is not working with my phone, so I disabled it.

On the second settings screen you can set the dislpay duration of your incoming SMS. There is also a counter, that shows the number of SMS' displayed by the application.

The third screen containes the setting of demo mode.

Thats about it all. I really enjoy it, and show off with it to my friends.
And some screencaptures:

G-mail on E65

It is not too hard, to set up the e-mail account on the phone, but I really didn't like to use it, I hardly sent on or two e-mails on the phone. Last time I wanted to check my mails it didn't worked, so I had to go to the browser, acces the web. Last time I read the stuff that is written their - if you want faster gmail, click here - so I followed the instructions. The app can also be downloaded from www.gmail.com/app, if you have patience to write in the adress manually.



In the installed application menu the Gmail icon appeared.



You have to give your password and user name only once. Using it is quite simple, enjoy it!

Skype calls with Nokia E65

This was the first software I wanted to have on my mobile. Since Skype is busy doing something else, and they are not developing a Symbian based Skype-client I looked over the internet to find a suitable solution. I found this webpage, the fring asked for my's phone type and number, they sent me an SMS with a link to the application. Being at home and on wi-fi I clicked it and downloaded OTA (meaning over-the-air) on my mobile. The software is free of charge.

After I installed it, I found out, that I can use not only Skype, but MSN Messenger, Yahoo, and ICQ - if I remember my ICQ number at all - but Google Talk, AIM, Twitter and some SIP providers are also supported. To use it is very simple: we have to mark what service we are planning to use, we give our user name, password and the program is already on.



As you can see, that some SIP providers are also available, you can choose from the following, or you have to specify an another:



If you logged in, you can not separate an ICQ user from a Skype user or MSN user, but this is not the purpose, you can interact with them - send short messages or just call them by clicking on their name and pressing the green call button on your mobile.



You can terminate the program by using Exit, but if you want to look up a phone number, than you can use the Hide option. The program will be active in the background.

I used Skype to make a long (and a no cost) phone call to my sister from US - she was in Romania. Because data roaming is very expensive first I put my phone in Offline mode, than I had the guts to call her. I don't have SkypeOut, but you can use it on your phone as well. Very cool feature!

Hello everyone!

Hi! This site is focused on Nokia E65 phone. I have it for some time now, in april will be one year. I already have a blog in Hungarian, about this phone, so at first I'm going to translate what I already have discussed there. And then if you have a special questions I will answer them, so pleaase be free to ask as much as you like, I will be glad to answer you ar to search for an aswer.

That's all by now. I will return as soon as possible.