Archive for September, 2010

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 🙂

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.

How to delete a wicd Linux wireless manager network

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

I’ve a previously saved Wireless Network in wicd Linux network wireless manager and it appears he has changed his ESSID Wireless Network name.
Pitily there is presently a bug in wicd, so in wicd the wireless network saved under the Access Point (AP) name’s name is changed to another name.

Yet the network is shown in wicd wireless manager under the old name.
Therefore I needed to change the name of the present wireless network.
After a quick investigation I’ve found a way to change it. To do so I had to edit /etc/wicd/wireless-settings.conf and change the old network wireless name to a the new one and afterwards I had to.

debian:~# killall -9 wicd-client
debian:~$ wicd-client &

That’s all necessary as a workaround to the wicd-client bug that presents the old network ESSID name associated to the AP mac address to the new SSID name.

It’s quite ridiculous that such a bugs exist yet in wicd. I’ll report the bug in Debian bug tracking system as well as in wicd website

Let’s hope the developers are about to solve the error very soon.