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Help on getting "Music player: system error" on N-Gage
Q. I’m getting "Music player: system error" when I try to play MP3s on my N-Gage.
Missing application icons after playing music on N-Gage
Q. My N-Gage is driving me crazy, there’s a bug which bites me every single day. After using the Music Player to play tunes from my 512MB MMC, I find that all my third party application icons have disappeared from the Menu screen and I have to restart the device. Is it just me?
Wrong track running lengths on N-Gage
Q. I have a Nokia N-Gage and am experimenting with using it as an MP3 player. The trouble is, tracks are shown with the wrong running lengths. Is there anything I can do to get these shown correctly? I've tried both MP3 and AAC file formats.Getting rid of 'Installation security error'
Q. Having bought a new Nokia smartphone, I'm having problems installing most of the programs I've downloaded. The error message is 'Installation security error, unable to install'. I spoke to Nokia and they say there is no security feature to prevent software installation.How can large numbers of contacts be beamed in one go?
Q. I've fitted my partner out with a cheap Series 60 smartphone (a Nokia 6670) and need to get our 'master' contacts set over from my Nokia 9500 to her device. I've beamed the most used dozen or so entries, but I can't face beaming five hundred others! How can this be automated?
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?
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?How can I set an alarm to wake me up just on weekdays?
Q. I just got myself a Nokia smartphone and I cannot seem to find a way of setting its alarm to wake me up just on workdays. So I end up having to set the alarm manually every night, which is a bit annoying and I also often forget. Am I missing something obvious, or are there any applications that I can install to do this job?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.Should I be worried about viruses for my Symbian smartphone?
Q. I've read a lot in the press about a Cabir virus outbreak for Symbian smartphones. Should I be worried, and what can I do to protect myself?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?Search Support
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Note: Some of the Q&A in this Support section were written by Steve Litchfield in his PDA Essentials magazine column from 2000 to 2005 and are republished here with permission. In many cases, the text has been revised and updated over that which appeared in the published magazine. In some cases, questions have been reworked from more specific queries on Internet forums, thanks to all who contribute to these. All text is copyrighted to Steve Litchfield, All About Symbian, PDA Essentials and other relevant contributors and commenters.
