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Missing application icons after playing music on N-Gage

01 February 2006 · by Steve Litchfield
Applications, Troubleshooting N-Gage

Q. My N-Gage is driving me crazy, there’s a bug which bites me every single day. After using the Music Player to play tunes from my 512MB MMC, I find that all my third party application icons have disappeared from the Menu screen and I have to restart the device. Is it just me?

A. No, this is unfortunately a well known problem. While Music Player is doing its thing (in hardware, remember), it is given exclusive access to your MMC. When Music Player closes down, Menu forgets to go off again and look at your MMC, which is presumably where all your third party applications are loaded.

The bug is obviously in the Menu task itself and you have two workarounds. One, as you’ve discovered, is to restart the N-Gage. The second is simply to kill the Menu task, using any of a number of system utilities that are readily available. Easiest and cheapest is probably the freeware TaskSpy, in which you simply highlight ‘Menu’ and press ‘C’ (Cancel). The next time you press the Menu button, the task will be restarted and will pick up your MMC-installed applications again.