Other Nokia E70 tips
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A cleaner, brighter standby screen
You can do a lot to make your active standby screen brighter, cleaner and more useful. See my tutorial over on AllAboutSymbian. In particular, note the inclusion of Inbox/email entries. You can turn display of these on (with the latest E70 firmware) in Tools | Settings | Phone | Standby mode | Active standby mailbox).
The ones you love the most (1)
With the Nokia E70, there’s S60’s usual ‘active’ standby screen. Don’t just take the shortcuts given, I’m sure you have ideas of your own as to your most used applications. You can change any of the seven shortcuts in the rather-hidden-away ‘Tools | Settings | Phone | Standby mode | Active standby apps’
Messages overview
If the tiny font used in the display of each folder really annoys you as much as it does me, simply go into ‘Settings>Other’ and set ‘Folder view’ to ‘2 lines’. This is an Eseries perk and makes message overviews much, much clearer!
Clearing up the trash
It seems that in S60 3rd Edition, the entire install SIS files from some third party applications get stored on your internal flash disk (C:), completely unnecessarily. If you’ve installed several meaty games or applications, you can easily lose 10 to 20MB in this way. Use the built-in File manager to navigate into ‘Installed files’ and delete the SIS files, to reclaim the space. (It won’t hamper removal of the applications later, don’t worry)
The latest and best
Make sure you keep up to date with PC Suite. Yes, there’s a version on the CD that came with your smartphone, but Nokia are fixing bugs and adding bits and pieces all the time. Most useful is the way you can explore your smartphone’s folders (including your text Inbox) from within Windows Explorer. Very cool. Keep an eye on the PC Suite home page and stay current!
AD-15 stereo adapterGo Stereo!
For some penny-pinching reason, Nokia only supply the E70 with a mono headset. Run, don’t walk, to your nearest accessory online store and get one of Nokia’s Pop Port stereo adaptors and you’ll soon be rocking to music from your miniSD card. If you find the music too quiet, try my Equaliser hack. Also, for greater efficiency on your miniSD card, you may want to use .ogg files and OggPlay rather than the standard Music player.
Hangup = Exit
Don’t keep switching back to the Standby screen using the Hangup button. This was OK on old versions of S60, but in almost every instance it closes the current application on the E70 - in other words, it acts as ‘Exit’. If you want to keep the current program running in the background, press Menu/Apps instead, twice if you want to get to Standby screen.
What’s running?
The one utility every computer user needs is a system task manager (i.e. what’s running). Luckily, the basics are built-in. Just press and hold the ‘Menu/Applications’ button. For more control, grab the trial version of Best TaskMan.
The ones you love the most (2)
If you get fed up scrolling down the Menu screen looking for your favourite applications again, why not shuffle things round so that the apps you use the most are clustered right at the top? Highlight an icon and use ‘Move’, and you’ll find you can re-insert it anywhere in the list. If you have lots of favourites, make the most of the folder system (e.g. ‘Games’) and then put these folders near the top of the list, for speedy access.
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