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Disable camera shutter sound in Nokia 5800 XM

By default the Nokia 5800 XM smartphone will have the camera shutter sound permanently enabled. This patch will give you a choice to disable the camera shutter sound. Download the patch . Goto Symbian Signed Online and sign the downloaded patch. /  Refer to this post for other ways to sign the patch. Install. Restart the phone. To disable the camera shutter sound, disable the "Warning Tones" in the profiles.

Freeing Up Nokia 5800 Phone Memory Space

The backup utility is the best feature i found in my Nokia 5800 mobile phone. Nokia provides you with a backup utility to backup all your stuff including your phone settings to your external memory card. With that you can do a *#7370# reset without any worry because you could restore all your stuff back from your backup. After the restore, everything is like as it is. Of course plus with the extra memory space i have gained. Steps: Goto Menu > Apps > File Mgr. > Backup . Make sure to set the " Backup Contents " to " All ". While still in " Backup ", goto " Options > Backup Now ". After the backup, go back to home screen and bring up your dial pad. Dial *#7370# . As soon as i hit the last # key, reset sequence will start. After the reset sequence, go back to Menu > Apps > File Mgr. > Backup > Options > Restore . Restore all of the backup and wait for phone restart. Note: Bluetooth pairings will be lost after the reset an...

Increase photo quality taken from built-in camera of Nokia 5800 XM

A very well known tweak (or hack to some) for Nokia 5800 XpressMusic smartphone to increase the camera's photo JPEG compression level to 100% (default is 85%). This tweak enable the Nokia 5800 XM to produce better looking photos with much less artifacts compare to the default settings. However, with the increase of photo quality, it comes with a price. An increase of about 40% of file size for each photo taken. The Tweak / Hack ( you need to hack the phone in order to access C:\private ): Download 10282EDC.txt . Using a 3rd party file manager, access C:\private\10202be9 folder/directory and rename the original 10282EDC.txt to 10282EDC.txt.backup . Move the downloaded 10282EDC.txt into C:\private\10202be9 folder/directory. Restart the Nokia 5800 XM smartphone. Patch Installer (easy method): Download the patch . Goto Symbian Signed Online to sign the patch./ Refer to this post for other ways to sign the patch. Install. Restart phone. Download Location 1: AngNetwork Download ...

Auto Setup $DISPLAY pointing to connecting client machine

HOST=$(who -mR |awk -F\( '{print $NF}' |awk -F\) '{print $1}') export HOST DISPLAY=$HOST:0.0 export DISPLAY

Different QWERTY and Alphanumeric keypad layout when in Chinese writing language

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I am not sure if all Nokia 5800 owners notice it. There are different keypad and keyboard layout when you switches between English writing language and Chinese writing language. And the good thing about it is, when in Chinese writing language mode, the T9 prediction features still works in the alphanumeric keypad layout. Not only these two layouts are different, (when in Chinese writing mode) there is an extra handwriting mode appears which is the "Fullscreen Handwriting" option. Note: No screen capture for the full screen handwriting as i am not using it :P  Alphanumeric keypad in English writing language Alphanumeric keypad in Chinese writing language Full QWERTY keyboard in English writing language Full QWERTY keyboard in Chinese writing language