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How to install Skype on Nokia n95 8G mobile phone

Saturday, January 5th, 2013

 

How to install skype on nokia n95 8G java client program

 I was asked if it is possible to install Skype on a Nokia Mobile N95 8G by a relative of a friend.  I remembered I've earlier installed and used Skype on my Nokia 9300i with some kind of Java Skype client, so I guessed installing Skype on Nokia N95 will be much easier and most likely supported by Skype.com's available mobile versions.

Further on, I tried downloading from Skype.com's client mobile download versions and after selecting the model of the Nokia N95 OS which is Symbia, was asked for a mobile number to which Skype will be send via SMS. I've typed in the Mobile number, hoping it will be the usual click on link and authorize Skype download and install on mobile, but instead Skype send me in SMS, just a link to Skype's Mobile download section  http://www.skype.com/m/ .

In other words, typing in the phone number and navigating through the URL from the mobile was completely useless. As I ended on the same place where I could manually browse using Nokia embedded Browser ….

Though I did my best to look through all the appearing links in N95's browser I was just redirected to either the same or similar page with  Skype Download button. After getting pissed off of looking and not finding any usable Symbian Skype app install binary (.SIS or SISX), I've decided to just look in Google. If some third party website is not storing  .SISX Skype bin for Nokia N95.  After few minutes of search I've found one offering an Archive with 3 versions of Skype. 2 of the .sisx files
, were versions of Skype which I've installed using Nokia Mobile Suite for Windows. Two of the .sisx files in archive Symbian Mobile Skype ver. 1.5 and Symbian Mobile Skype ver 5 did not work on N95. The binary that launched okay on the Mobile was Skype_S60_3_0_v_1_5_0_12.sisx. Though this binary launches the client and one can choose between the usual Sign In or Register new skype name buttons, it wasn't possible to login with the username and skype. After a bunch of prolonged waiting trying to Sign in the skype showed up again the Skype Login Name and Password prompts.

I spend some more time, trying to Install Fring – free mobile, chat, voice, video Skype substitute program, after reading on few Symbian Forums that fring is able to be used as a mobile substitute for Skype. Just a bit after installing it I've red on some forums some other posts from  2010, saying fring support for Skype is no longer available.  I tried also to login to Fring's client with Skype Login and Pass but login failed thus uninstalled Fring and continued researching online whether Skype can somehow be used on Nokia N95 mobile.

I've found a Skype Java (.JAR) same file version which I have also installed on my Nokia 9300i and downloaded and tried this one as well. Guess what it works ;) It is not supporting Outgoing Skype users video clients, and it supports incoming Skype Video calls only with pre-purchased Skype call minutes, but Skype messaging works. I've made mirror of nokiaN95.jar Nokia N95 Java skype program here. I was lazy to research further if there is some other software or Skype.com symbian old version mirrored somewhere on the net working with the N95, but I guess it is possible. If someone reading this post knows a better Skype binary supporting Skype Video and Voice please drop a comment how ? Other way to use skype without loosing time to install Skype client is http://IMO.IM web Skype service. 

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Fixing weird problems with missing File Explorer on Polaroid MPCS700 tablet with Andorid 2.2 (Linux kernel 2.6.32)

Wednesday, October 10th, 2012

Polaroid MPCs700 Tablet Android version 2.2 with 2.6.32 linux kernel picture

I’ve been given Android Polaroid Tablet which had only 5 clickable icons on main (touchscreen) display:

  • Settings
  • Wi-Fi Settings
  • Youtube
  • Browser
  • App market

The shipped in standard applications for Listening Music, Watching Videos, Managing Photos and Browsing files / ( My Photo, My Video, My Music, File Browser) were missing.

Main problem was File Browser by default shipped with Anroid was missing, and if an USB Stick / Flash Drive is plugged in to the USB port, a message appears along with a sound indicating the USB Flash Drive is detected but there was no way to access the USB Flash drive data ….

The tablet is a second hand bought one and is not my own and it appeared like someone has messed up with it trying to change default Android Linux kernel with some “hacked” (custom compiled one?).

The exact Android version installed on it is 2.2, I checked navigating to:


Settings -> About Device

Android 2.2 Polaroid Settings About Device Screenshot pic

Onwards to fix the messed android I had to reset the device to its factory settings by navigating to:


Settings -> Privacy -> Factory data reset

Android 2.2 Polaroid Settings Privacy Reset to Factory Defaults Screenshot

This formats the device and all installed programs and restores the kernel to its original version, so after few minutes of waiting all worked like a charm :)

The normal programs for viewing pics, listening music, File Explorer all come at place. Even both VFAT (Fat 32) and NTFS formatted USB drives file systems worked normally with the device. Before that I was puzzled because I suspected the USB Drive is not detected because the kernel is not supporting NTFS and I need to install something. I was wrong just this Factory data reset and NTFS USB bundled by default works as usual :)

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How to install Skype on Nokia Communicator 9300 / 9300i (Download java Skype for Nokia 9300/9300i)

Monday, November 8th, 2010

Skype on Nokia 9300i

I decided to write this short article because I found really hard, not to say impossible to find a Skype for Nokia 9300i on the Internet.

It appears there is no official release of a Skype for the Nokia Communicator 9300 / 9300i mobile.
However there are releases of Skype for older Nokia Communicator mobile phones which luckily are compatible with the Nokia 9300i symbian s80 OS platform.

After some experiments of testing the older Skype releases on my Nokia 9300i mobile I’ve found out that actually the version of Skype dedicated for Nokia 7370 works perfectly fine on the Nokia Communicator 9300i phone.

The installation of Skype on the Nokia 9300i prooved to be a piece of cake:

All I had to do was:

1. download the release of the Skype for the Nokia 7370

2. Transfer the Nokia 7370 jar java file to my mobile

3. Use the Nokia 9300i File Manager application to install the

For some convenience of people who owns the Nokia 9300i mobile and want to have the Skype for their mobile I’ve made a mirror of the nokia7370 under the name nokia_communicator_skype_9300.jar.
The mirrored file nokia_communicator_skype_9300.jar can be downloaded from here

Well that’s all, all left is to enjoy Skype on your Nokia 9300i mobile :)

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Barcoder for Nokia 9300i (finding a product origin through the barcode)

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

Barcoder nokia mobile

Have you ever wondered on how you could check the product bought from the store origin by it’s barcode?
Every product produced nowadays has a barcode sticker somewhere on it’s cover.
In the economically developed countries, almost 100% of the products has a barcode. This barcode is a identifier on where does a certain product origins from.
Barcodes does facilitate the process of tracking a product as well as finding some more information about a certain product.
It also helps in speeding up the product identification, it also speeds up the time necessary to mark the product in stores.
I guess almost everybody has been into a store where they use a barcode reader device to mark your bought products.

Barcodes has subliminally become a very essential part of humanity daily life.
Thus I found handy to have a program on your smartphone mobile to read barcodes.
I haven’t done a thorough research on the barcode number reader programs online, however I’ve came across a Russian program called BarCoder which is able to read barcode numbers sequence to be found below the barcode strip lines.

The BarCoder program is very handy especially in stores where you buy food, technical equipment, ironware, electronics … you name it.

May products nowadays doesn’t include a country or region stated where the product has been produced.
However the products still contain the barcode, by entering the barcode number sequence into Barcoder , the program reports where the product was produced.

You can download the barcoder freeware here

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Good old fashioned hexedit for your Nokia communicator mobile

Monday, October 4th, 2010

Some of you might remember the glorious day of the hexeditors. As a PC geek I used to make quite of an use back in the days.
Especially with the MS-DOS old days having a hexeditor was completely essential piece of software.
Hexeditors were used for general debugging of software changing certain message texts of application and games which were hard coreded as a text within the executable binaries.

In that manner of thoughts I just recently came across a hexeditor software for my Nokia 9300i Communicator phone

I find it really handy to have a hexeditor able to allow me to edit my nokia phone binary files and change chunks of text encoded information in the binary.
Back in the old days the hexeditors were also seriously used for crackin I haven’t tested if the hexeditor on mobile phones is able to be used for the same simple task, however I think it supposed to be capable of being used for such a purpose as well.

Apart from that the hexedit mobile application for the Symbian S80 is a freeware and that makes it even more attractive piece of soft to install on your mobile.
Here is a screenshot on how hexedit looks like when editing a binary file.

Nokia Communicator 9300i, mobile hexedit
Hope this wonderful piece of soft is helpful to someone else out there.

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DROS (Use DOS like command shell) on Nokia mobile phones

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

DROS nokia mobile ftp screenshot
Ever wanted to have the good old fashioned DOS command like prompt on your Nokia 9300i mobile?
Hopefully you do, just like I wanted. The DROS mobile phone application written in MIDP, the install application is actually a jar.
If you’re a console (shell) freak like me you will certainly value this handy app.
What makes things even better is that DROS is able to run simple BATCH files (e.g. has an embedded BASIC interpreter)

Some of the other many nice features that DROS has embedded in it are:

1. DROS contains a media player that can be used to play mp3 files
2. DROS have embedded command line FTP client
3. DROS includes a very basic file text editor
Using the DROS text editor you can write basic batch scripts and execute them to automate stuff on your mobile.
DROS comes with a very good written documentation (MANUAL)
It somehow brings memories about the good old days of the 80s command based computing, this kind of “presence” fits very well with the Nokia 9300i Communicator mobile :)
Some of the other Mobile phones which are supported by DROS are as follows:

Nokia 6630, Nokia 6670, Nokia 6680, Nokia 6681, Nokia 9300, Nokia 9500, Nokia N70, Nokia N80, Nokia N90, Nokia N91, Nokia Series 60, Sony Ericsson P990

If this app catched your interest then follow the DROS download link
Installation of the program is very easy and comes to clicking over on the java executable (jar file) using the Nokia’s File Manager.

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How to use a Nokia 9300i as a Torch at Night time or at dark places with DiscoLight

Saturday, October 2nd, 2010

I do own a Nokia Communicator 9300i for some time I’ve been looking for a while for an application for my mobile phone enabling me to transform the normal Nokia 9300i phone capabilities into a torch (flash light)

Many telephones come with an embedded software or hardware light led, that gives the option for the phone user to use his / her phone as a torch in the dark.
However with Nokia 9300i by default there is no such led to be able to emit bright light neither through a feature integrated with the mobile’s hardware nor through it’s embedded pre-installed software.

The phones torch I see as a very essential and handy feature for every mobile phone, so I have to say that it was rather strange why the flash light wasn’t decided to be made an integral part of the Nokia 9300i Communicator

It took me a while until I finally found an application able to show a brigh light on my phone Nokia 9300i internal screen and therefore allow the mobile to be used as a torch in the dark.

Anyhow the effort of spending an hour of Googling around was awarding :)
The software that allowed my Nokia 9300i to have the Torch capabilities is called DiscoLight / (Disco Light)

Here is a download link to discolight I’ve found online
I also made a mirror of the discolight app that can be downloaded here
Discolight is actually not actually planned to operate as a Torch for the Nokia 9300i, it is just a program able to either fill your mobile phone screen with a colors you might choose from (e.g. white light, flash sequence, auto color, standard flash) or do a sequence of colors (like in the discoteques I guess that’s where the name of the application comes from).

To use the DiscoLight program as a torch, right after the program is launched press the 5 key on your Nokia communicator keyboard.

Another very simple program that is able to transform your Nokia Business class phone to a Torch is FlashLight

Both DiscoLight and FlashLight are written in Java and works perfectly fine with the 9300i mobile.

The only disadvantage about using my Nokia 9300i as a torch is my Nokia communicator inside panel has to be opened, e.g. I had to walk with the phone cover opened to use the torch.
Anyways still I find this feature very handy for me, hopefully it will be of an use to somebody else who is looking for the same functionality on his mobile.

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ToDo Manager (Business Organizer) for the Nokia 9300i phone

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

I’m heavily using my Nokia 9300i to write down various stuff relating to my daily schedules,
I used it’s simple small notes embedded application to hold a small notes on things to come,
tasks I have to accomplish and other various stuff like that.

Though this things worked so far it’s completely inflexible since you get completely lost when you have to look up for the exact note to recall what you were supposed to do.

In that manner of thoughts I wanted to have a To-do manager / Event management application (program for my Nokia 9300i), to better keep track of the things I’m supposed to complete.

After I’ve spend about and hour online, looking for applications.
I basicly came up with two applications that are actually prepared to serve as todo managers

I’ll start with the first one since it’s freeware and it does the job, though it’s not too user friendly oriented.

It’s called with the loud name TodoManager

TodoManager has the basic features that you might probably look after. It could save your tasks, it somehow organizes them, you can assign a task priority as well as put an alarm about it.

However the user friendliness of the TodoManager for Nokia 9300i is I would say completely terrible.

The program alarm feature is also not working on Nokia 9300i or at least for some reason I couldn’t make it work.

Once I’ve left the program opened even the application crashed with some kind of K-EXEC Error

The second application I came across was RMR Task

As you can read on their website RMR Task is stated to be Extended ToDo Manager for all symbian platforms including the Nokia Communicator 9300i devices.

RMR Task is far superior to the TodoManager which by the is a java application, however it’s a commercial software and it’s trial version is very limited.
So in order to take use of all it’s features you’ll have to purchase it.

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How to copy contacts from SIM Card to Phone memory on Nokia 9300i

Monday, September 6th, 2010

I’ve travelled to a country abroad and I bought a SIM card to use with my Nokia 9300i.
My old contacts list was actually stored on a SIM card I was using till now in my home country (Bulgaria), therefore I needed a way to copy my contacts from the former SIM card to the new SIM card I bought from abroad.

I looked through the front panel of my Nokia Communicator 9300i mobile phone but after a close examination I realized there was no menu giving me the opportunity to copy my contacts list to either the phone memory or the new SIM card.

I was quite sure that my mobile should be able to copy phone Contacts considering the fact it’s a smart phone and it has embedded so many sophisticated functions.

I decided to give a try to find a way to copy the contacts list using the inner side of my phone (which reveals right after opening the phone, e.g. the keyboard side).

Thanksfully it appeared that copying my contacts list to both the telephone memory as well as the newer SIM card was a piece of cake.

Here is the exact step I had to took in order to be able to copy my people contacts phones to another SIM card

1. Open up your smart phone inner side
2. On Nokia’s 9300i keyboard press Contacts
3. Choose SIM card from the menu
4. Furthermore select Copy all
5. A screen will appear reading Copy contacts to there you have to choose Contacts

That’s all your contacts should now be copied to your mobile phone. Cheers :)

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Nokia 9300i Communicator with final firmware Symbian version 6.27 still contains an old telephone hanging bug

Sunday, September 5th, 2010

Earlier I've written an article tagged How to reset to factory defaults (hard reset) hanged Nokia 9300i device / How to format your Nokia 9300i

Therein I explained how I ended up with an unbootable telephone after improperly shutting down my Nokia directly removing the battery instead of pressing the Nokia front turn off button first and then remove the battery.

Two months ago in order to get rid of the annoying nokia hanging on boot up bug I decided to flush my firwmare.
The firmware was a flushed by a friend of me who is a Mobile software specialist he used a special so called double cable and a special software programmer device which is required to flush up a certain range of mobile phones models.

Since the firmware update my Nokia was equipped with the latest firmware version provided by Nokia corp before Nokia dropped the support for the phone.
The latest Nokia firmware version available which was installed on my phone was 6.27.(0)

For two months the Nokia worked just fine, however just recently once again after a couple of different SIM card changes with the phone, the phone hanged the same time as described in my earlier written article How to reset to factory defaults (hard reset) hanged Nokia 9300i device / How to format your Nokia 9300i

This pissed me off and I once again had to follow the necessary described steps about formatting the Nokia 9300i Communicator mobile device as it's explained in the up-mentioned article.

The format went fine nevertheless the newer phone firmware version.
The format completed quite quickly once again it took in between 30 seconds and a minute to complete.

The good news after the format of my hanged Nokia phone was that it kept the newer firmware version, even after reverting to facture defaults with the firmware format.
Now thanksfully still my Symbian OS version is still 6.27(0)

It's rather strange that even the newest avaialable firmware patch for the Nokia 9300i doesn't fix such a vital boot up mobile hang error.

Hope this info is helpful to somebody out there.

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