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How to select non-contiguous items
Q. How can I select multiple items that aren't next to each other in my smartphone's Gallery?How can I turn off the shutter sound on my smartphone's camera?
Q. How can I turn off the shutter sound on my smartphone's camera?
How can I get rid of a 'virus' on my smartphone?
Q. I know, I know, I've been silly and I've accepted what I thought was a game from a friend and now my smartphone is infected with a virus - it keeps trying to go online and send messages out. How can I get rid of it?How can I search through all my information?
Q. I've got quite a bit of information tucked away in my PIM apps, plus other office documents and general files on my Nokia smartphone. But how can I perform a global search for a piece of text? On my old Palm OS handheld, this was possible, is there not an equivalent in Symbian OS?I've forgotten my lock code. How can I get back into my smartphone?
Q. I've forgotten my lock code. How can I get back into my smartphone? I've tried hard resetting it to factory conditions, but still it demands my forgotten code!How can I get rid of the slight buzzing sound from my S60 smartphone?
Q. How can I get rid of the slight buzzing/hissing sound from my S60 smartphone? It's there whenever the phone's screen is lit. Is this buzz normal?How can I view my videos in wide screen format?
Q. I've collected quite a few videos for my S60 smartphone. How can I view them in wide screen format?Where on my smartphone do all the words that are added to the predictive text dictionary get stored?
Q. Where on my smartphone do all the words that are added to the predictive text dictionary get stored?
Where's my keylock function gone?
Q. I often use the keylock feature of the P900 but that option seems to be missing, both in flip closed mode and also in flip open mode, where the ‘Battery | Lock screen’ option is greyed out. I’ve tried restarting the P900, to no avail. What’s going on?
How can I find out whether there's a newer version of the operating system for my Sony Ericsson P900?
Q. How can I find out whether there's a newer version of the operating system for my Sony Ericsson P900? I know it supports user updating but I can't see a list of versions anywhere on the web.
How can I open local HTML files on my P800 or P900?
Q. How can I open local HTML files, i.e. pages stored on the smartphone rather than on the Internet, complete with their images and links?
How easy is it to configure my UIQ smartphone to function as an emergency modem for my PC?
Q. How easy is it to configure my UIQ smartphone to function as an emergency modem for my PC?
Why do email messages appear downloaded and then disappear?
Q. Messaging shows up my POP3 Inbox emails properly at first but then the next day I find most of them have been lost. Is email syncing broken?
Can I use my P910i with an Apple Mac?
Q. I've been thinking about getting a Mac, probably an iMac G5. Is this going to be compatible with my Sony Ericsson P910i? Will the advertised PC Suite work with a Mac? Would syncing work and would I have to use Bluetooth to connect the two?
Why can't I open OPL programs written on my old Psion?
Q. Having upgraded from a Psion 5mx, I've been experimenting with my own OPL programs on my Nokia 9500 and have been trying to get these to read in files produced on my Psion. However, OPL on the the 9500 refuses to read these, giving a 'not supported' error. Surely text is text? What's going wrong?
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Notes
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.
