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Support - Series 60 - Performance

Can I use memory cards of over 8GB in my S60 phone?

Q. Can I use memory cards of over 8GB in my S60 phone?

# Posted by Steve in Performance, Miscellaneous at 8:42 UTC, Oct 24th || 3 Comments

Problems installing and removing Smart2Go

Q. I'm having real problems installing Smart2Go onto my smartphone. What tips can you offer?

# Posted by Steve in Applications, Performance, Troubleshooting, Miscellaneous at 16:49 UTC, May 20th || 0 Comments

Why is Gallery so slow?

Q. Why is Gallery on both my Nokia S60 smartphones so incredibly slow? Surely something must be wrong?

# Posted by Steve in Applications, Performance at 8:30 UTC, Jul 18th || 5 Comments

Do I need a firewall?

Q. On my PC I have the ZoneAlarm firewall loaded all the time, to protect myself against Internet-borne nasties. Do I need to do something similar for my smartphone?

# Posted by Steve in Applications, Performance, Miscellaneous at 13:30 UTC, May 5th || 0 Comments

Struggles with PC Suite's 'Transfer music' function

Q. I'm struggling with PC Suite's 'Transfer music' function. Tracks seem to transfer very slowly and sometimes don't make it at all.

# Posted by Steve in Applications, Performance, Communications at 11:54 UTC, Mar 24th || 0 Comments

How can I clean up my expansion card?

Q. Is there software that enables me to remove files left behind by uninstalled applications? I'd like to clean up my MMC and free up some space.

# Posted by Steve in Applications, Performance at 13:09 UTC, Feb 24th || 0 Comments

Bluetooth connection to my smartphone has stopped working!

Q. Help, the Bluetooth connection to my smartphone has suddenly stopped working. I haven't changed anything in the setup of either PC or phone and both have been rebooted several times. Any ideas? I'd hate to go back to using the cable, Bluetooth is just so convenient!

# Posted by Steve in Performance, Troubleshooting, Communications at 10:30 UTC, Feb 1st || 0 Comments

Overnight battery drain with a Bluetooth smartphone

Q. I'm mystified. I go to bed at night with my smartphone next to me, showing a full charge, and in the morning it's down to almost zero. I've rebooted and made sure that there no extra, running applications that might be hammering the processor, and yet every night the story's the same. Is my smartphone faulty?

# Posted by Steve in Performance, Troubleshooting, Communications at 10:28 UTC, Feb 1st || 2 Comments

Low battery life, no rogue applications

Q. My Nokia smartphone doesn't seem to take long to get through a full battery charge. I've read tips about checking for rogue programs in memory and I regularly use TaskSpy, but by the end of a day on the road the battery's almost always very low. Do you think it's charging properly?

# Posted by Steve in Performance, Troubleshooting at 9:22 UTC, Feb 1st || 0 Comments

Getting rid of Autolock

Q. Help! I've been trying out the freeware Autolock, which locks my smartphone keypad after a set number of seconds, but I've now decided that I don't want it after all and I've removed it from my smartphone. The trouble is that the phone still locks the keypad after a couple of minutes, even though the utility is long gone. Is there something else I need to do in the smartphone's settings?

# Posted by Steve in Applications, Performance at 9:19 UTC, Feb 1st || 0 Comments

How can I quickly enter a carriage return on my smartphone?

A. I'm struggling at writing text quickly on my Nokia smartphone, even with the aid of T9 predictive text. One 'special' character I use a lot is 'carriage return' (i.e. end of paragraph). Surely there's got to be some quick way of entering this common stroke without having to bring up the 'Select symbol' list and then use seven keystrokes to select carriage return?

# Posted by Steve in Applications, Performance at 21:36 UTC, Jan 31st || 1 Comment

Why does TomTom MOBILE 5 not start?

Q. I've installed TomTom MOBILE 5 on my Nokia smartphone and the icon's there in the applications screen, but when I activate it the screen just goes white as if it was starting OK and then the icon reappears. Any ideas?

# Posted by Steve in Applications, Performance, Troubleshooting at 21:34 UTC, Jan 31st || 0 Comments

How can I re-save my photos at a smaller size for moblogging?

Q. I want to start moblogging from my Nokia megapixel smartphone but I'm very wary of the GPRS costs of sending my megapixel images (up to 600K each) over the air. Is there any software that can reduce the pixel size of each image prior to sending it? I don't want to take my photos in a lower resolution because at the end of the day I also want to print most of them.

# Posted by Steve in Applications, Performance, Communications at 20:40 UTC, Jan 31st || 2 Comments

How can I purge Messaging of old, orphaned attachments?

Q. According to FExplorer, my smartphone's mail system has a number of file attachments, all quite old and all using up valuable space. Yet when I go to Inbox in Messaging, there are no messages at all in my Inbox! How can I delete these attachments and give my smartphone a spring clean?

# Posted by Steve in Applications, Performance, Communications at 20:21 UTC, Jan 31st || 0 Comments