E71 Keyboard Shortcuts and other tips and tricks

[timsalmon]

Don't know if this one is well known (or in the manual which I haven't read) but I discovered today that a quick double press on the bottom left 'number shift' key locks it. Most useful when particularly navigating around the GMail app to invoke actions instead of keep pressing the button before every keystroke.

Tim

[Berty]

I want to know about page up and page down, also cut, copy and paste. Any ideas?

[Rafe]

Copy and paste can, in some situations be done with Ctrl+C (but you need to hold down Func+Chr+C to get this on the keyboard). You can highlight text (in edit situations) by holidng the shift key and moving the direction pad. Copy will appear as on of the softkey labels.

Page up and page down are Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down. Again you access control by pressing the function key first (so Fn+Chr+Up on the keyboard. Doing this directly is awkward. You can press Fn then Ctrl+Up. If you doble tap the function key it becomes sticky (i.e. like cap locks and as tim describes above) and you can then do multiple page up and page downs eaily.

Also handy are the usual silent and Bluetooth keys. From the idle screen hold down # to switch between silent and general profiles. Press and hold down * to switch bluetooth on and off.

I have stickied this thread as I suspect it could be very handy for new users. Please feel free to add your own tips, shortcut and other such things. I may try and keep things consolidated if it gets confusing.

[madusa]

Here's one more trick for Nokia E71 Keyboard that I find very useful -

Press Fn Key + Return Key for quick Mark/Unmark of items like Msg. emails etc. for deletion or moving.

In E51 & E61i doing this would automatically move the selection down to the second line, not any more in the E71 after this shortcut one has to move a line down by the down key, don't know why ?

[Rafe]

madusa - I think that's shift and return rather than functions isn't it?

[Ratkat]

Originally Posted by Rafe

madusa - I think that's shift and return rather than functions isn't it?

It's 'shift' + 'return' (or click navi button) to mark a single item or...
It's 'shift' + 'navi button down' to mark multiple items.

Don't suppose there is a quick key to mark an email as read? it's a pain keep going in the menu to do it.

More tips:

On keys that show a symbol or number, hold down the key to get it.

In Realplayer
Press 'fn' twice then press 2 for full screen
Press and hold 'navi button up' to fast forward
Press and hold 'navi button down' to rewind

[Pasek]

Press and Hold * key to activate or deactivate the bluetooth..

Press and Hold # key to switch between General and Silent profiles.

Press and Hold 0 (zero) key to goto bookmarks / browser

(Oh, this was already posted :( )

[madusa]

Originally Posted by Rafe

madusa - I think that's shift and return rather than functions isn't it?

Yup u'r right Rafe, thanks for correcting my mistake

Ratkat : Thanks for showing me how to do multiple item marking

[Jer]

When in locked mode you can hold the large center 'select' key to get a large back lit time and date display w/o unlocking or needing to re lock. My E70 just had a time/date bar that was tiny and not back lit at all. Much better IMO.

[fyrestrtr]

Is there a shortcut to switch the GPS from day/night mode?

[timsalmon]

Originally Posted by fyrestrtr

Is there a shortcut to switch the GPS from day/night mode?

No there's not. Menus, I'm afraid!

Tim

[nareshys]

Do we have any keybord shortcut for the same?

[dh_za]

Ok, I saw this trick somewhere but for the life of me I cant find it again...

I think it would be neat if someone could post the solution in this section..

How do I dial 0800 Flowers on my e71 qwerty keyboard if the numbers don't have the letters on them like a standard dial pad.

[Jer]

Originally Posted by dh_za

Ok, I saw this trick somewhere but for the life of me I cant find it again...

I think it would be neat if someone could post the solution in this section..

How do I dial 0800 Flowers on my e71 qwerty keyboard if the numbers don't have the letters on them like a standard dial pad.

Dial 1-800 then hit the bottom left key once and then the shift key next to it twice and then spell out the rest of the word. Hit send and it will convert the letters to numbers automatically.

Edit: Be sure to hit 'Send' afterward to see the magic take place!

[dh_za]

Now I just need to wait till the 22 untill i get my E71 to try it out.