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New Firmware? Nokia Multimedia Transfer busted?

After this week’s FW update NMT was useless. C: would fill up or the 8GB microSDHC would be stuck offline.

I tried to remove the add the device but that did not help but I removed all of these  files and rebooted the E71. Now NMT is doing something.

Nokia Device Browser
Nokia Map Loader
Nokia Media Transfer
Nokia Multimedia Transfer
com.nokia.MapLoader.plist
com.nokia.NokiaMediaTransfer.plist
com.nokia.NokiaMultimediaTransfer
com.nokia.NokiaMultimediaTransfer.ImageCapturePlugin.plist
com.nokia.NokiaMultimediaTransfer.NokiaDeviceBrowser.plist
com.nokia.NokiaMultimediaTransfer.plist

My minimum #E71 configuration

After reviewing some notes I made at the gym and the old post from blogspot I’m starting to see if I’m not careful I’ll end up with dozens of applications on my E71, which may put me right back where I was with half a day of battery life and stuck installers. I will need one IM application to chat a Skype user in China [possibly Nimbuzz] but at this time my application list is nearly complete.

This is what I installed tonight.

Commercial:

X-plore
Phone guardian
Profimail
QuickOffice Premier
JoikuSpot
WirelessIRC

Free:

CalSyncS60
Oggplay
Google maps

Everything went well I’ll start adding these, slowly:

Nimbuzz, Handy Calendar, Screenshot, PyS60, pyRestart, S60 tumblr, FreeTimeBox, Slick, Putty,and M!Weather

But before anything else… I configured Zyb. I wish they could wrap up the settings in an XML file. Speaking of which, kudos to the people at Lonely Cat Games. One can export configuration and rules to a file and re-import it later. I really appreciate this level of attention to detail.

Rebuilding the E71

I’ve been running on old Firmware for to long so on a whim I upgraded and reformated my 8GB microSDHC, after a backup. Now I’ll try to figure out exaclty what I want on the device. Booting is always fast after a hard reset so I’m not sure if the new FW is actually any better. I was sick of the battery going flat after 6 hours so here we are.

It’s a shame S60 never sanctioned a mass installer. I know exist but I feel this should be a provisioning issue and no PC suite is not a proper enterprise tool.

Tonight I’ll check everything I bought on Handango, Nokia Software Market and SymbianGear. Luckily I have a few old posts at blogspot to help jog my memory.

Post 3.0 digestion

Now we’ve all seen 50 iPhone 3.0 posts in our RSS feeds what’s really going to happen?

Will Touch users pay 10$ for the upgrade? Will iPhone normobs care?

The 1.5 hour video is available online and other than the slowness it’s completely bearable and interesting in more ways than a 4 line blog post could articulate.

No background apps? That’s OK. Run IM over HSPA for 12 hours and your device will be OFF. This is true even with my beloved E71.

I’m most excited about trying a landscape keyboard. The lack of universal landscape keyboard has been painful. I always feel I cannot match my typing speed on the E71.

If I can get up to speed it’s a game changer. I will upgrade to the Omnia HD if it’s less than 400$ USD. Otherwise, I’m completely open to the idea of no physical keyboard, even if the software is not usable, yet. Surely it will be at some point?