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Symbian^3 Support

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Why is the size of the firmware update different?

25 August 2010 Miscellaneous Upgrading

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 ...

iSync failure

25 August 2010 Troubleshooting Communications

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

25 August 2010 Applications Troubleshooting Upgrading

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?

25 August 2010 Miscellaneous Upgrading

Q. How can I back up everything on my Symbian smartphone? Not just data, but every application, every license key, and so on?

Behind slow GPS locks

25 August 2010 Applications Troubleshooting Communications

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

25 August 2010 Applications Miscellaneous

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...

Why do I still need a mains charger?

25 August 2010 Miscellaneous

Q. With my new Nokia N85 now using USB charging, why do I still need a mains charger? This phone came with both!

Beware the Trash effect!

23 August 2010 Troubleshooting

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...

Copy and Paste URLs in Web

23 August 2010 Applications

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?