Stall The Ball

It’s been a while since I posted about the Nokia E61 and I had promised to write an update.

So first things first. There is a firmware update available from Nokia. You can check using the NokiaUpdater http://www.europe.nokia.com/A4176089?E61 . Now you could connect your phone to your PC using the USB cable but that wasn’t geeky enough for me. Oh no. Let’s use the WLAN and browse directly there using the phone and auto update.

Que a “Oops” page from nokia.com. The url is case sensitive! Nice one Nokia, question marks, numbers, letters, backslashes and case sensitive to boot. I’m surprised they didn’t throw in a few Cyrillic characters that you had to ALT code in as well.

And the resulting page promptly tells me that the E61 cannot be updated over the air! Grrrrrrrrr! Alright I thought to myself, I’ll do a software update seeing as there is a nice convenient link on the page.

The following page asks you for the version number by keying in “*#0000#”. Fair enough, I do that and write it down. Now key in the code located under the battery. Em what!?? As in power the phone off, get the code, power the phone back on, wait 20 seconds while it slowly boots the renter the amazingly easy to type on a phone url??

2 minutes later I’m back at the page and the site accepts all the details and so I click “Get It”

And the E61 isn’t listed as an over the air model. Drat! Or words to that effect.

Whenever I dig out the USB cable I’ll try it using the PC method and post the results.

Anyway on to better things.

PUTTY for the E61!!!!!

Yep you can run Putty on your phone and it works like a charm. http://s2putty.sourceforge.net/

QUOTE

PuTTY is a free SSH client developed by Simon Tatham and others. This page contains a port to the Symbian OS, with support for S60, Series 80 Communicators, and Nokia 7710. All Nokia devices based on Symbian OS and all S60 devices by all manufacturers are supported. Separate UIQs are available from Robert Horvath and MobilEyes AB for UIQ 1 and 2, and from Taneli Leppä for UIQ 3.

Get it, install it and SSH onto your servers from anywhere in the world

IF you use the web browser a lot the following shortcuts may help

[0] During a browsing session, pressing the 0 key returns you to your Home Page or Bookmarks List.
[1] Displays the Bookmarks List
[2] Searches the text in the current page
[3] Navigates back to the previously viewed page
[5] Lists windows
[8] Toggles the Page Overview miniature image on and off
[9] Goes to the address entered
[*] Zooms images in, making them larger
[#] Zooms images out, making them smaller

And lastly for the Mac users out there Apple have released a maintenance update for OS X 10.4.9 that offers native support for E61s in iSync. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304821

Not much use for Tom as he is slowly drawn into MS land