Fix BBC IPlayer to play over 3G instead of wifi

Posted on October 23rd, 2008 by Dave.
Categories: News.

I’ve tinkered with the code for the original 1.0 of the bbc iplayer software so it no longer insists on player shows over wifi. Find yourself a copy of the original (here: http://gerrymoth.googlepages.com/iplayer.wgz).

Rename it to a “.zip” file extract the content and edit the file called “app-min.js” in the iplayer/js/ folder using notepad.

Search for this string: data.response.IP_CONNTYPE===”wifi”&&data.response.IP_IS_UK_COMBINED===”yes”

and delete this part:
data.response.IP_CONNTYPE===”wifi”&&

Save the file.

Go up the folders and zip up the “iplayer” folder again. Rename it to a .wgz file and install it on to your phone.

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Use your N95 / N95 8GB Internal GPs with TomTom 6!

Posted on May 20th, 2008 by Dave.
Categories: News.

It’s finally been done! You can use TomTom on your N95 using just the internal GPS receiver.

http://w15.easy-share.com/1700400356.html

Installation Notes :

1) Install 1.bt.sisx. Run it. It should say “Device added”
At this point you can also uninstall it - it is no longer needed.

2) Install 2.GPSd.jar. Run this prior to starting TomTom IMPORTANT!

3) Install 3.tomtom.sisx

4) Copy the TomTom folder from the 0.Copy.To.MEMCARD.Root.rar
to the root of your memory card.

5) Run TomTom. Choose Yes when it asks you to switch on bluetooth. Go to Change preferences, Show GPS status, Configure, Other Bluetooth GPS receiver, and select the
BiNPDA GPS.

* You need to change the preferences every time you start tomtom. It won’t
remember that you were using the internal GPS*

* If you need to switch from internal, to an “external” receiver, you may need
to click on “tomtom receiver”, and then “other receiver” to get the list of devices again.

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Nokia N95 Version 21 is out

Posted on March 27th, 2008 by Dave.
Categories: News.

It’s available via NSU (Nokia Software Updater)

Operator-specific firmware may not be available yet.

Version 21.0.0.016
12-03-08
RM-159
Nokia N95 (01.01)

Official Nokia Changelog
New features
* Flash Lite 3 support added
* Widget (Web runtime) support added
* Default year changed to 2008

Improvements
* General stability improvements.
* Pre-defined access point kept after switching to different type SIM card.
* Localization improvements.
* Standby time improvements.
* Improvements to BT headset interoperability.
* Improvement to Calendar data restoring.
* Switch from landscape to portrait mode & screen rotations improvements.

Browser
* Improvement to long text writing to web page text boxes.
* Browsing from WLAN wizard improvement.

Media Player
* Localizations improvements in Music player.
* Windows Media Player recognizes device as Nokia N95.

Gallery
* Image rotation improvement in album view.
* Gallery & Slideshow performance improvements.

Messaging
* Improvement to SMS reception.

Java
* Midlet installation improvement.
* Improvement to Java application start.
* Java midlet certificate checking improvement.

Navigation
* General improvements to Maps application.
* Localization correction to Search in Maps application.
* Improvement to Navigate To -function when started from search application.

SIM
* Contact names with accents and more than 11 characters can be copied to SIM card

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Change made from N95 SW v12.0.013 to v 20.0.015

Posted on November 29th, 2007 by Dave.
Categories: News.

New Features:

  • Maps application version updated (Nokia Maps 1.0)
  • GetNGI (Games)
  • Music shop
  • OTA WMDRM (Windows Media Digital Rights Management)
  • Active standby search
  • Video ringing tone
  • ODP (On Demand Paging)
  • DVFS (Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling)
  • Switch application version updated

Changes and improvements from previous SW release:

  • General stability improved.
  • Several localization errors corrected.
  • Various application help files updated.
  • Default language not always read from SIM correctly.
  • Volume side keys don’t work in all situations.
  • WLAN wizard can’t always connect to secure WLAN network.
  • Cannot edit or delete access points if lot of WLAN access points created.
  • Midlet icon may be shown twice after installation in some cases.
  • Midlet suite upgrade doesn’t work correctly if amount of midlets in suite has changed.
  • Streaming aspect ratio is not correct if QTSS server doesn’t provide Framesize tag in SDP.
  • Key presses are sometimes missed.
  • Connection dropped easily in crowded WLAN environment.
  • Cannot pre-configure push email application in variant.
  • OTA configuration containing an unknown parameter is ignored by device.
  • Call divert icon disappear after power cycle.
  • UPnP interoperability improved.
  • Browser:
    • Dropdown list not opened if size is defined.
    • Large images in web page are not rendered correctly after scrolling.
    • Flashlite memory management improved.
    • Cannot access to SIM phonebook if device language is set to Chinese.
    • Cannot add Chinese characters to input/search box in browser.
    • Real One Player may show invalid default name for some downloaded videos.
    • RSS-links does not work anymore if article was downloaded from web feeds.
    • Improved handling of large web pages.
  • Media Player:
    • Streaming doesn’t always continue after long pause.
    • Some m4a files cause music library to crash.
    • Album art not shown for WMA files if picture size is over 64 KB.
  • Gallery:
    • Image editor closes on attempting to edit and send an image a second time.
    • Cannot upload images to online share if lots of images stored in device.
    • Image viewer crash when opening malformed JPEG file.
    • Thumbnail creation speed of big video files improved.
  • Messaging:
    • Cannot have non-ascii characters in mailbox name.
    • Reduced character coding -option in text message settings doesn’t work as expected.
    • MMS presentation not saved to draft folder is exiting application with end key.
    • IM client allows empty alias.
  • VOIP:
    • Device may reset if moving out of WLAN coverage during VOIP call.
    • Cannot register to VOIP if found WLAN connection is too weak.
    • VOIP doesn’t re-register if going momentarily our of WLAN coverage.
    • Automatic connection to SIP server fails often if started device in offline mode.
    • VoIP call can’t be established when multiple profiles with same realm.
  • Camera:
    • Video recording with front camera may freeze the device.
  • Telephony:
    • Device may restart if receiving voice call during ongoing video call.
    • Unable to create call after successful balance query.
  • Streaming:
    • Maximum limit for streaming bandwidth for UMTS and WLAN increased
    • from 999kb.
  • Voice Mail
    • Call divert indicator disappear in device is restarted.
  • Navigation:
    • Improvement to Location API performance if lots of landmarks in device

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New menu structure for new N95 V20 firmware

Posted on November 27th, 2007 by Dave.
Categories: News.

If you’ve restored your settings from your memory card backup after updating your N95, you can get the new menu structure (including folder icons) by installing this file:

http://nds1.nokia.com/files/support/nseries/phones/software/New_Menu_Structure.SIS

You will need to re-boot after installing.

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New Nokia N95 Firmware 20.0.015

Posted on November 27th, 2007 by Dave.
Categories: News.

This firmware is now available for (at least) generic European models. It includes the much-appreciated demand paging. RAM available after boot-up is about 30MB. Applications launch faster, and a lot more can be left running at the same time. The update is available through NSU (Nokia Software Update).

Other improvments include speeding up the camera, the key-press bug is now gone for good, faster boot-ups, new N-Gage software, new menu structure, VIDEO RING TONES, and more..

From the Nokia Site:
This software version includes battery, stability & performance improvements enabling you to run faster and longer - giving you up to three more hours of music (up to 30% increase, from 9h to 12h of music playback). This release also includes a new version of Nokia Maps which provides faster positioning, faster Map Loader, and free 3-day navigation. Free N-Gage demo games are included and other games are available via Download! With the Nokia Music Store now live in the United Kingdom, users can enjoy the convenience of instant over-the-air downloads, regardless of where they are.

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RotateMe 2.0 Test

Posted on November 6th, 2007 by Dave.
Categories: News.

I was sent a copy of the RotateMe 2 beta today, and it’s taking shape nicely. There’s a few quirks where i rotates when it shouldn’t (putting it on an almost flat surface in a certain way sometimes confuses it, as does knocking the phone). Once nice touch is that it stops rotating when the keypad is locked.

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Accelerometer Fun

Posted on November 1st, 2007 by Dave.
Categories: News.

Neat little app showing just how accurate the N95’s accelerometer is!

http://research.nokia.com/projects/activity_monitor

This has meant iPhone-like auto-rotation is coming soon. From the people that brought you RotateMe for the N80 - they’re releasing RotateMe 2 for the N95:


http://www.bysamir.fr/rotateme/

That should save a lot of needless wear and tear on the slider to get the phone to rotate..

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Higher Capacting BL-6F Battery CAN fit the N95!

Posted on October 1st, 2007 by Dave.
Categories: News.

Using the crystal case, it’s possible to get the higher capacity battery meant for the newer N95 8GB and US version in to the standard N95:

http://mynokiablog.com/2007/09/28/nokia-n95-with-1200mah-bl-6f-battery-its-possible/

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Nokia N95 Keypress Bug Fix

Posted on September 27th, 2007 by Dave.
Categories: News.

If, like me, you’ve upgraded to V 12.0.013 of the N95 firmware, you may have noticed the “keypress bug” where random keypresses go un-noticed by the phone. It’s more obvious when texting (letters get missed out) or scrolling through the menus. There is a newer firmware out - V 12.0.014 which is for APAC (Asia, Pacific) models. Reports seem to suggest this fixes the problem with the keypress bug. To get the firmware you’ll need to switch your product code to 053085. Make a note of your current product code before changing.

See this guide for details on how to change your product code.

NB: Changing to this product code will change the fonts used throughout the phone, I personally prefer the original fonts. The menu fonts are bigger, but the texting font is smaller.

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