S60 5th Edition Support
42 articles
Missing applications on S60 5th Edition
Q. Having upgraded from a Nokia N95 to a 5800 XpressMusic, I've been very happy with the extra functionality and that lovely large screen. However, qu...
Faster music access
Q. I've got almost 1000 songs loaded on my Nokia smartphone, whose mass memory is now about 75% full. Music is played fine, but getting to a particula...
Why is the size of the firmware update different?
Q. Why is the size of the firmware update through the phone itself (Over The Air) around a few MB (at most), while Ovi Suite says the update is well ...
How can I upgrade my Ovi Store client to the latest version?
Q. How can I upgrade my Ovi Store client to the latest version?
iSync failure
Q. I've been syncing my Symbian smartphone happily to my Mac for over a month, yet all of a sudden the iSync has started failing, with error: “[Nokia ...
Greyed out download in Ovi Store
Q. Nokia's Ovi Store application seems to have got itself confused, it's showing the 'Download' buttons for some freeware applications (that I'd tried...
Backing up everything?
Q. How can I back up everything on my Symbian smartphone? Not just data, but every application, every license key, and so on?
How do I recalibrate my touchscreen?
Q. How do I recalibrate the touchscreen on my smartphone? Some of the taps get mis-registered!
My phone remembers too much about me!
Q. I'm worried about securing my sensitive data on my Symbian phone should it be lost. I've got the really personal stuff in Handy Safe Pro, but I'm t...
YouTube terminates
Q. Somewhat weirdly, on my Nokia smartphone, Google's YouTube client has started misbehaving. It used to work fine, but now just terminates almost imm...
Massive FM transmitter interference
Q. When driving, Why can't I use the FM transmitter in my Symbian phone while it's being charged via the cigarette lighter lead?
Behind slow GPS locks
Q. I'm pretty sure that Assisted GPS is set up properly, and yet my Nokia still sometimes takes up to ten minutes to get a GPS satellite lock. Is it f...
Kilometres to Miles
Q. I'm generally quite happy with Ovi Maps on my new Nokia N97 mini – I downloaded the new v3.0 and it's proved superbly reliable. But I'm not happy w...
Broken thumbnails
Q. When I go to Photos on my new N97 it shows the icon of one picture I took a few weeks ago (all others have all been transferred off onto my PC). Ho...
Deleting confidential files for good
Q. Is there a way to permanently delete information on my S60 phone? I have had several confidential documents and want to be able to electronically s...
Why do I still need a mains charger?
Q. With my new Nokia N85 now using USB charging, why do I still need a mains charger? This phone came with both!
No more security warnings
Q. Help! I'm getting utterly fed up with all the security warnings in Web on my Nokia smartphone. For example, “You are leaving a secure page. Continu...
Desk Clock
Q. My Nokia N97 (mini) sits happily open, angled nicely on my desk. I'd like it to act as a desk clock, i.e. keep its screen on, showing the current t...
Messaging data won't stay on my mass memory and keeps switching back to C:
Q. I keep setting built-in messaging apps to use my mass memory for their data and they keep switching back. Why do they do this?
Maps Booster makes my position fix worse!
Q. On my Nokia, I've been experimenting with Maps Booster. Having bought and installed it, I've found that it makes the accuracy of my phone's locatio...
Printing from a Nokia Nseries phone to a photo printer
Q. How can I print photos from my Nokia Nseries to my photo printer?
Blurry Nseries videos
Q. Why do all the recent Nseries phones from Nokia make blurry videos?
That's one very large file!
Q. I have recently been doing a clean up on my microSD card and have come across a very large file in one directory: /private/101ffc31/glxmdstn. My PC...
Double Calendar
Q. I like having my Calendar appointments show up on the homescreen of my Nokia N97, but it's hard to get a feel for my busy life when only two appoin...
Turning off Auto-keyguard
Q. How do I turn off the auto-application of the 'keyguard' on S60 5th Edition phones like the 5800 XpressMusic?
Proximity Puzzle
Q. I'm utterly bamboozled by the way the screen of my Nokia touchscreen phone goes black and unresponsive when I make or receive a phone call, giving ...
Frustrating tabs
Q. I've got a Nokia S60 5th Edition phone and have a wierd problem. Everything works fine apart from dialogs which have tabs in them. Here, my taps on...
Ghost Music entries
Q. Music player on my old Nokia smartphone seems to have developed a few glitches. The main problem seems to be that some 'albums', synced across from...
Podcast subscriptions
Q. I've subscribed to over a dozen podcasts on my old Nokia smartphone and now want to get the same shows set up on my new one. But most of them aren'...
Beware the Trash effect!
Q. In an attempt to work out why my microSD card was full, I connected my smartphone to my Mac in 'Disk Transfer' mode. Aha - I found a load (Gigabyte...
Saving web images
Q. How can I save images from web pages using the built-in S60 browser?
Repeats that don't repeat!
Q. I'm trying to set up some repeated entries in S60 Calendar, to remind me of various weekly chores, but even though I mark them in the dialog as rep...
Resetting wallpaper: harder than it looks!
Q. My daughter set an image from my gallery as 'Wallpaper' on my S60 phone and now I can't seem to get rid of it. I've tried changing the theme (inclu...
Copy and Paste URLs in Web
Q. I need to copy web addresses that I discover and paste them into a Content Management System (CMS) for my blog. Can this be done in Symbian Web?
Sketch on the Nokia 5800?
Q. Having bought the Nokia 5800, with its central feature being the large touchscreen, I'm dumbfounded that there was no Sketch utility included, to t...
No Assisted GPS
Q. I'm having problems with the GPS on my Nokia smartphone - sometimes it will lock in a few seconds and other times, usually while driving, it can ta...
Keeping my place in Podcasting
Q. I've been experimenting with Nokia's Podcasting application and gradually finding some Internet podcasts that I really enjoy. I have a question tho...
Easier contact bar feeds
Q. Having bought the Nokia 5800, partly for its innovative contact-centric homescreen, I can't believe how hard the contact feeds are to set up. It se...
Resetting the predictive text list
Q. How do I reset the list of words in the predictive text system? I've got a few annoying typos in my phone!
Hidden transitions
Q. I've got a friend with a Nokia 5800 and his device has all manner of whizzy screen transitions whereas my 5800 doesn't. I can't find a setting for ...
How can I avoid duplicate contacts when syncing to Ovi? Syncing is broken
Q. Through changing devices, I've ended up in the situation where my contacts are fine on my S60 phone and look fine on Ovi, but when I try syncing, I...
Can I use memory cards of over 8GB in my S60 phone?
Q. Can I use memory cards of over 8GB in my S60 phone?