5800 madness!!!

hi, basically i was trying to get some stuff off my phone and like a idiot i thought if i restored factory settings it will go but now my phone has the two buttons at the bottom like from v.30 instead of the telephone and contacts buttons from v.40 and i can only either have short cuts at the top or the contacts bar at the top not both i would really like to know how to get it back can anyone help please =[
I HAVE TRIED REINSTALLING BUT THIS DIDNT HELP
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First Go to Settings>personal>home screen>home screen theme>select "Contacts bar"
After doing that again go to Settings>personal> home screen >home screen>and make sure both "Contacts bar" and "Shortcuts" are ticked.
Previous Phones: 6600, 7610, 6230, 6230i, 1100, 1112, N70, N73, N95, N95 8GB, 5800XM, 5230, C5, iPhone 3GS, SE Xperia X10, N900, N8, SE Xperia Arc
Current Phones: Nokia N9, iPhone 4

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I thought it should come with an 8 GIG one?
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Where does it say 3Gb? If you are just reading that from the phone's file manager, then perhaps try reformatting the card - it could be that something is corrupt and preventing the phone from reading the entire space.
As the others have said, there are not normally any 3Gb cards produced, so if the card has 3Gb physically written on it, then you need to be seriously worried about what you have been sold - if it is not a true Micro-SD card it would not have come from Nokia, so then you'd need to ask the question "Is the phone itself genuine?" - having said that, I've never yet seen 5800s coming from the well-known Chinese fakers.

5800 help please

hi, basically i was trying to get some stuff off my phone and like a idiot i thought if i restored factory settings it will go but now my phone has the two buttons at the bottom like from v.30 instead of the telephone and contacts buttons from v.40 and i can only either have short cuts at the top or the contacts bar at the top not both i would really like to know how to get it back can anyone help please =[
I HAVE TRIED REINSTALLING BUT THIS DIDNT HELP

answered here:
/t5/Hardware-Codes-and-Operator/5800-madness/td-p/724361
Previous Phones: 6600, 7610, 6230, 6230i, 1100, 1112, N70, N73, N95, N95 8GB, 5800XM, 5230, C5, iPhone 3GS, SE Xperia X10, N900, N8, SE Xperia Arc
Current Phones: Nokia N9, iPhone 4

Nokia 5800 Bluetooth driving me mad!!!!

I am having lots of trouble with the 5800 when trying to use the bluetooth connectivity.
If I allow it to connect to my cars in built Harman Becker system automatically and then make a call the person I dial will not be able to hear me.
If I connect to my system manually I can make calls ok most of the time but the phonebook will not be available in the cars system, if the phonebook loads to the car I will not be able to make calls.
According to Harman Becker every other Nokia phone is 100% compatible but up to now the 5800 has not been tested. I have installed the November software update to my cars system but it's still the same. Every other phone I have tried in the car works fine.
I have also tried the 5800 in my other half's car with a Sony bluetooth car kit and I can make calls ok but the phonebook is unavailable.
Whats the deal with the 5800? Is there a way off stopping it sending the phone book so then I would at least be able to answer calls? This phone is driving me insane.
I have had Nokia phones before and they have been great, my last phone was Sony Ericsson and all worked well except the charger connection was always hit or miss as to whether it worked but at least the bluetooth worked fine.
If I cannot get the 5800 to work on my system it will be the last Nokia device I buy. I cannot even find a phone number to call on Nokia's website to try and sort this problem out!! Aghhhhhhhhhh!!!

Take it again to the Nokia Service Center and explain what happened.They must repair it whether they like it or not.

5800 Xpressmusic software update made music player...

Hello,
I recently used the Ovi suite program to upgrade the software of my 5800 Xpressmusic. After the update was completed, which was to make lyrics available in the music player, I was no longer able to open the music player. I am unable to open any of the music files on my phone. I restored the phone to the status before the upgrade and still nothing works.
Any help with this matter would be greatly appreciated.
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goto application manager on ur phone and see in installed apps if there's a music player and a metadatautility cenrep ini file.. If yes, uninstall them and see if it helps.. Repost if u dnt find these installed.
Regards,
Dr. Shoubhik

Nokia 5800 Tips, Review, FAQs and How-to tutorials

Hi, guys. Here I worked out comprehensive Nokia tutorial with my lovely Nokia 5800. You will find all the most commonly asked questions for Nokia 5800.
Review of My Nokia 5800
I got one 5800 last month and then I was deeply fascinated by this smart phone. It is the first Nokia touch screen phone and you may use your finger or stylus to operate it. Also Nokia 5800 XpressMusic provides wonderful devices for users to enjoy music. Taking advantage of touch screen technology, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic introduces the ‘Media Bar’, a handy drop down menu that provides direct access to music and entertainment, including favourite tracks, videos and photos. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic offers all the music essentials, including a graphic equalizer, 8GB memory for up to 6000 tracks, a 3.5mm jack, support for main digital video formats 3GP，H.264/AVC，MPEG4, RM.and audio formats MP3, AAC, WMA, WMV. Built-in surround sound stereo speakers offer the industry’s most powerful sound. So it is really wonderful experience of enjoy music and movies with Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.
How to update the firmware of Nokia 5800 to v21
It is good news that firmware update for Nokia 5800 was released already. New firmware v.21 is available. If you also own a 5800, just follow the simple instruction to update your v20 or v10 to the newest v21.
Make sure that your battery is full (VERY IMPORTANT)
1. Go to Dial screen and press *#0000#
2. Press Options -> Check for updates
3. Connect to the Internet with any APN (WiFi is recommended, however EDGE is fast enough for this). 4. Wait until the download finished. Phone will launch the dialog asking for update, just press Now. 5. Press Accept and Accept and the phone will be switched to Updating mode.
6. It takes around 10 minutes to update, so be patient. After that, the phone will be rebooted automatically.
7. Check by *#0000# again. Congrats! Your 5800 is now v21!
As I can see, there are so many improvements and worth to update for example, better camera functionality and the phone operates faster than previous version.
Best Settings for Video Playback on Nokia 5800 Xpress Music
Nokia 5800 as the multimedia phones makes you able to enjoy watching the video and music with it. The question is, how’s to do to convert that videos and what are the best setting used for. I have convert many videos into my phone, I found that most video files can play with this phone such as mp4, 3gp, rmvb and flv files. But of them plays well but some are not. After many tries, I finally got the best results for Nokia video files. My video in 5800 was full screen, high quality and sounds very well. Here are my settings:
Video Resolution: 480*320
Video Bitrate: 768 kbps
Audio Bitrate: 128 kbps
Video Format: MPEG-4 (be sure not to use H264, as it’s not supported in the current firmware)
Audio Format: MP3
Audio Channels: 2 Channels
You can apply these settings above in whatever application you used when converting videos into 5800. Then I am sure you will get full screen, high quality and flawless video in your phone.
Settings for video playback on Nokia N97, N95, N85 and other Nokia phones.
Nokia N97: Video playback formats are 3GP formats, Flash Video, H.264/AVC, MPEG-4; the video resolution is 360*640. Audio formats are AAC, M4A, MP3, WAV, WMA etc.
Nokia N96: video playback formats are 3GP, Flash video, H.264/AVC, MPEG-4, RealVideo, WMV 9; the video resolution is 240*320. Audio formats are AAC, MP3, WAV, WMA etc.
Nokia N95: video playback formats are MP4, 3GP. Video resolution is up to 640*480, audio format is AAC stereo.
Nokia N85: video playback formats are 3GP formats, Flash video, H.264/AVC, MPEG-4, and WMV. The resolution is 240*320. The audio formats are AAC, M4A, MP3, WAV and WMA etc.
OK, I will not list all settings of Nokia phones. If you are interested you may get more relative information on Nokia official website.
How to transfer video files into Nokia 5800
I have download some videos from video website such as Youtube, Google video. But I can’t watch these videos in my phone. As these videos were flv files, Nokia 5800 can’t play such videos. I use Internet Tablet Video Converter to convert it, but it shows “Unsupported Video File Type”. Then I got to know some best video converter that seems professional for Nokia phone, I free download its trial version and tried it, and it works very well. Below are what I do:
Click Add button to add video files from your computer, set your videos according to the above settings and select Nokia 5800 Video MPEG-4 format for your video. Then just click convert button to start the conversion. After the conversion complete, you may watch these videos with Nokia 5800.
Also you may get music from video in this way. But pay attention to the format. As Nokia 5800 support mp3 audio format, you should select “MP3 – MPEG Layer-3 Audio (*.mp3)”.
How to convert DVD files into Nokia 5800
Obviously phones don’t have DVD drives, so to watch DVD on a phone you have to convert it into a video file on your PC then drag it into your phone. I also follow the above settings and convert DVD files into MPEG-4 video with Daniusoft DVD Ripper. the results are excellent.
After insert your DVD into the DVD Drive click the Open DVD button to upload DVD files on to this program. Click Settings button to set your videos according to the above settings I listed. Click Profile drop list to select “Nokia 5800 Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)” format for your Nokia video. Then click Convert button to start the conversion. In few minutes the whole process will completed.
If you select audio format “MP3 – MPEG Layer-3 Audio (*.mp3)” you may also get music from DVD.
To transfer files into Nokia 5800
In the above tutorial I have explain you how to convert Nokia videos from DVD and other video files. Then you need to transfer these videos into your phone.
1. Make sure your computer and phone are both switched on. Also make sure your 5800 have a memory card in its slot.
2. Plug the small end of the microUSB cable into the phone’s USB socket, which s under a plastic flap in the top left corner.
3. Plug the larger end of the microUSB cable into a USB port on your computer.
4. On your 5800 it should ask which mode you wish to use. Choose “Mass Storage”.
5. Open the memory card window (probably called “Removable Disk E:”), drag your video files into the video folder.
6. After finished transfer files, do not disconnect the cable yet. You should make it safe to disconnect the cable. You may do this by click a small icon in the bottom right corner of the screen that appears when the phone is connected.
7. After you have made the device safe to remove, you can unplug the cable at both ends.
Some useful tips to make the Nokia 5800's battery last as long as possible
Sometimes you may have to stop talking with your friend or watching videos with your phone as low power of your battery. It is more inconvenient if you are in travel and have no alternative battery. Here are some tips to make your phone battery last as long as possible when using telephone.
Do not switch the phone off. As switching a phone on uses far more battery power than simply leaving the phone on.
Shut down unnecessary applications.
Turn down the 5800’s screen brightness to the lowest acceptable level.
Switch off your 5800’s screen when not in use.
Use headphones instead of speakers when listening to music or watching movies.
Avoid using the camera flash unnecessarily.
Use 2G instead of 3G.
Switch off Bluetooth and/or Wi-Fi.'
Ok, I have typed out all my thoughts about Nokia 5800 here. Hope my tutorial is helpful to you. And all the other Nokia 5800 tutorials and useful how-to information should come here! It is welcome

Try backing up ur texts using phone's inbuilt file manager.it may work..

5800 Problem with Ovi Store and Facebook - HELP PL...

I have had my 5800 for about 4 weeks now and had a great time using Facebook and downloading stuff from the Ovi Store when suddenly my problem appeared. When I try and log on to the Ovi Store it says at the bottom "you are logged in as Purpledwarfy but when I try to move onto another page I get an error saying "sign in failed, check your user name and password" I know that my username and password are correct because they work on all the other PCs I have tried it on. I have also tried to change my password and it hasn't made a difference.
On Facebook I log in using the same details that get me access on a PC and it looks like it is going to load my page but just goes straight back to the login page.
Has anyone else had the same problem and have you been able to fix it??
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Hi, I got it fixed in the end. I found the nearest Nokia Service Centre Experts who ended up being Carphone Warehouse. I handed them my phone and went back to get it a couple of hours later and it was fixed. All they did was wipe the phone, after saving my contacts etc onto the memory card, and then rebuilt it. Working great now

Nokia Ovi Suite and Nokia 5800 crashing after fw u...

When I start my Nokia Ovi Suite (V. 2.2.0.245) it works as usual, I can brows around my content without any problems. As soon as I connect my Nokia 5800 XM (RM-356 V. 51.0.006) it crashes. Worked just fine before I upgraded to the latest version on the phone.
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I get the following error reported from Windows XP:
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AppName: nokiaovisuite.exe
AppVer: 2.2.0.245
ModName: msvcr90.dll
ModVer: 9.0.30729.4148
Offset: 0003b000
01/09/2010 16:43:48 (OviSuite) - ERROR   - DAL_Plugin_PCCS, Thread 12, Line 168,    .\Application\CDalPCCSDevice.cpp, CDalPCCSDevice::getHandle(): DAL failure detected: (0) converted from PCCS error [0x0: Ok] / DA_OpenCA / @ CDalPCCSDevice::getHandle (.\Application\CDalPCCSDevice.cpp:168)
01/09/2010 16:43:48 (OviSuite) - ERROR   - DAL_Plugin_PCCS, Thread 12, Line 168,    .\Application\CDalPCCSDevice.cpp, CDalPCCSDevice::getHandle(): DAL failure detected: (102) converted from PCCS error [0x80100023: Device do not support operation] / DA_OpenCA / @ CDalPCCSDevice::getHandle (.\Application\CDalPCCSDevice.cpp:168)
01/09/2010 16:43:48 (OviSuite) - ERROR   - CommonUtilities, Thread GUI, Line 393,   .\Application\platform\win\WindowsNetworkUtils.cpp, CWindowsNetworkUtils:etNAMProxySettings(): Could not found proxy server for Url!
01/09/2010 16:43:47 (OviSuite) - INFO    - AO Action: Id = 21 Oper = Start Result = 0 Classname = CAOCheckInstallationsOperation Resource = Content = {2468e4ca-72d2-4248-8ce7-e48a86b1f783} Queue = 15
01/09/2010 16:43:47 (OviSuite) - INFO    - AO Action: Id = 20 Oper = Finish Result = 0 Classname = ProxyResolverOperation Resource = 8000000000010020 Content = {2468e4ca-72d2-4248-8ce7-e48a86b1f783} Queue = 14
01/09/2010 16:43:47 (OviSuite) - INFO    - AO Action: Id = 19 Oper = Finish Result = 0 Classname = ProxyResolverOperation Resource = 8000000000010019 Content = {2468e4ca-72d2-4248-8ce7-e48a86b1f783} Queue = 13
01/09/2010 16:43:46 (OviSuite) - INFO    - AO Action: Id = 18 Oper = Assign Result = 0 Classname = DeviceMemoryStatusReader Resource = 355225038859660 Content = {2468e4ca-72d2-6000-9000-e48a86b1f700} Queue = 8
01/09/2010 16:43:46 (OviSuite) - INFO    - AO Action: Id = 17 Oper = Start Result = 0 Classname = CAOGetContentCapability Resource = 355225038859660 Content = {2468e4ca-72d2-4248-8ce7-e48a86b1f783} Queue = 8
01/09/2010 16:43:45 (OviSuite) - INFO    - AO Action: Id = 16 Oper = Finish Result = 0 Classname = ProxyResolverOperation Resource = 8000000000010016 Content = {2468e4ca-72d2-4248-8ce7-e48a86b1f783} Queue = 12
01/09/2010 16:43:44 (OviSuite) - INFO    - AO Action: Id = 15 Oper = Finish Result = 0 Classname = ProxyResolverOperation Resource = 8000000000010015 Content = {2468e4ca-72d2-4248-8ce7-e48a86b1f783} Queue = 11
01/09/2010 16:43:44 (OviSuite) - INFO    - AO Action: Id = 14 Oper = Finish Result = 0 Classname = ProxyResolverOperation Resource = 8000000000010014 Content = {2468e4ca-72d2-4248-8ce7-e48a86b1f783} Queue = 10
01/09/2010 16:43:44 (OviSuite) - INFO    - AO Action: Id = 13 Oper = Finish Result = 0 Classname = ProxyResolverOperation Resource = 8000000000010013 Content = {2468e4ca-72d2-4248-8ce7-e48a86b1f783} Queue = 9
01/09/2010 16:43:46 (OviSuite) - INFO    - AO Action: Id = 12 Oper = Finish Result = 0 Classname = DeviceInitializer Resource = 355225038859660 Content = {2468e4ca-72d2-4248-8ce7-e48a86b1f783} Queue = 8
01/09/2010 16:43:40 (OviSuite) - INFO    - AO Action: Id = 11 Oper = Finish Result = 0 Classname = PlantImeiFile Resource = 355225038859660 Content = {2468e4ca-72d2-4248-8ce7-e48a86b1f783} Queue = 8
01/09/2010 16:43:36 (OviSuite) - INFO    - AO Action: Id = 10 Oper = Finish Result = 0 Classname = CContactContentObjectsOperation Resource = 8000000000000001 Content = {41803f8d-ddf7-4bac-9fc4-e54d248305d5} Queue = 4
01/09/2010 16:43:32 (OviSuite) - INFO    - AO Action: Id = 9 Oper = Finish Result = 0 Classname = ProxyResolverOperation Resource = 8000000000010009 Content = {2468e4ca-72d2-4248-8ce7-e48a86b1f783} Queue = 7
01/09/2010 16:43:32 (OviSuite) - INFO    - AO Action: Id = 8 Oper = Start Result = 0 Classname = CDalPccsDeviceObjects Resource = 355225038859660_persistent Content = {2468e4ca-72d2-4248-8ce7-e48a86b1f783} Queue = 6
01/09/2010 16:43:32 (OviSuite) - INFO    - AO Action: Id = 7 Oper = Finish Result = 0 Classname = ProxyResolverOperation Resource = 8000000000010007 Content = {2468e4ca-72d2-4248-8ce7-e48a86b1f783} Queue = 5
01/09/2010 16:43:36 (OviSuite) - INFO    - AO Action: Id = 6 Oper = Finish Result = 0 Classname = CContactContentObjectsOperation Resource = 8000000000000001 Content = {41803f8d-ddf7-4bac-9fc4-e54d248305d5} Queue = 4
01/09/2010 16:43:33 (OviSuite) - INFO    - AO Action: Id = 5 Oper = Finish Result = 0 Classname = CContactContentObjectsOperation Resource = 8000000000000001 Content = {41803f8d-ddf7-4bac-9fc4-e54d248305d5} Queue = 4
Nokia M Platform 2.6.195 (NLib 0.8.641)
Nokia M Data Store opened at location "C:\Documents and Settings\Petri\Local Settings\Temp\Nokia Remote Data Store\355225038859660-mtp\DataBase\MDataStore.db3"
Nokia M Platform 2.6.195 (NLib 0.8.641)
Nokia M Data Store opened at location "c:\docume~1\Petri\locals~1\applic~1\nokia\nokiad~1\Thumbnail\DataBase\MDataStore.db3"
Nokia M Platform 2.6.195 (NLib 0.8.641)
Nokia M Data Store opened at location "c:\docume~1\petri\locals~1\applic~1\nokia\nokiad~1\DataBase\MDataStore.db3"
Nokia M Data Store opened at location "C:\Documents and Settings\Petri\Local Settings\Application Data\Nokia\Nokia Data Store\Thumbnail\DataBase\MDataStore.db3"
Nokia M Data Store opened at location "C:\Documents and Settings\Petri\Local Settings\Application Data\Nokia\Nokia Data Store\DataBase\MDataStore.db3"
01/09/2010 16:43:39 (OviSuite) - INFO    - DalDataModel: deviceConnected 355225038859660
01/09/2010 16:43:39 (OviSuite) - INFO    - DalDataModel: oviDevicemediaAdded (USB)355225038859660
01/09/2010 16:43:39 (OviSuite) - INFO    - DalDataModel: oviDeviceConnected 355225038859660
01/09/2010 16:43:36 (OviSuite) - ERROR   - CommonWidgets, Thread GUI, Line 192,   .\Application\CommonHomeWidget\StackHomeAnimation.cpp, StackHomeAnimation::updateAnimation(): Pixmap count needs to be at least 1
01/09/2010 16:43:36 (OviSuite) - ERROR   - MapsPlugin, Thread GUI, Line 482,   .\Application\ItemsPane.cpp, CItemsPane::showItemsPaneNoData(): ShowItemsPaneNoData error 1013
01/09/2010 16:43:30 (OviSuite) - ERROR   - CommonWidgets, Thread GUI, Line 491,   .\Application\CommonNavigationPane2\CommonNavigationPane.cpp, CCommonNavigationPane::getSelectedIndexes(): Selection model is NULL!
01/09/2010 16:43:28 (OviSuite) - ERROR   - MessagesPlugin, Thread GUI, Line 834,   .\Application\ItemsView.cpp, CItemsView::getMessageModel(): m_pMsgFilter is NULL. Could not get message model.
01/09/2010 16:43:28 (OviSuite) - ERROR   - CommonUtilities, Thread   6, Line 393,   .\Application\platform\win\WindowsNetworkUtils.cpp, CWindowsNetworkUtils:etNAMProxySettings(): Could not found proxy server for Url!
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System config :
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OS Name   Microsoft Windows XP Professional 32-bit
Version   5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 6
GenuineIntel 2.66 Mhz
ASUS StrikerExtreme ACPI BIOS Revision 1801, 2008-10-23
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Troubleshooting so far:
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Uninstall Ovi and re-download from Nokia web. Reinstalled Ovi Suite but that didn't work.
I then uninstalled all Ovi and all Nokia related software, cleaned Registry and reinstall Ovi Suite: Failed to fix.
Then I installed Nokia PC Suite 7.1.40.1 which worked just fine with 5800 XM (RM-356 V. 51.0.006). I had no problems making backups or to synchronize.
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How to solve this problem?

LOL
I just tried Nokia Ovi Suite again to copy the full error report that it sends to Microsoft.... lo and behold it started to work again?????
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This I did before I tried
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Then I installed Nokia PC Suite 7.1.40.1 which worked just fine with 5800 XM (RM-356 V. 51.0.006). I had no problems making backups or to synchronize with Nokia PC Suite.
Made a complete backup on my phone.
Installed Nokia Software Updater and I reinstall the latest FW 51.0.006 to my phone.
Then I organized my content for a few minutes.
Shut down Nokia PC Suite and Nokia Software Updater.
Started up Nokia Ovi Suite.
Connected my phone and clicked on PC-Suite on the options.
It now works again????
Something happened when I installed PC Suite that enabled me to use my Nokia 5800 with Ovi Suite again.

5800 XM lifestory - get your popcorn ready people

Hello everyone. This is my first post here as I don't know where else to put it. It is quite long as it will go through alot of problems I have occured and I dont know what to do so please help. It may give you soloutions to some of your problems too.
I recently got a Nokia 5800 XM with a 1 year music store download subscription card. I got this in August 2009. I started off using the phone as a rookie to Nokia s60 5th edition phones. All I could say was that I was greatly, very greatly, satisfied with the product. It exceeded all expectations and work flawlessly. Until the day when the phone did NOT recognise the 8gb memory card within and the photos in the gallery had their thumbnails missing (even though the photos were listed!). It was strange, this never happened before.
This happened a few months later from the day i got it. I turned the phone off, took out the battery, put the memory card in, put battery back in and turned it on. The splashscreen with NOKIA in blue came up (as the phone vibrates and then starts). After that these things happened (to keep it short):
A1) The first time i did this it asked for a lock code (i set it). I put it in and everything is OK.
A2) Next day I turned my phone on, entered code, went onto home screen and stayed STUCK on it. I tried pressing the menu button but it would take about 2 minutes to get to the menu 2 5 minutes to load any sort of application!
A3) Same day: I tried accessing the memory card from Windows XP computer (SP3). The computer froze and crashed.
A4) Same day: I tried accessing memory card from PC suite by choosing PC Suite mode from the phone. This worked for a day and then this too would crash and cause the computer to end the program.
A5) Same day: I tried accessing memory card by putting the phone into Mass Storage mode. This worked completely and I was able to back up some files (pics, songs, vids etc).
A6) Next day: As a test I tried accessing the memory card from a different computer. I got the same results as in (2), (3) and (4). This test made me conclude that the memory card was corrupted (which was pretty strange as I never did take it out of the phone ever since I got it!).
A7) The day after that I turned the phone on and guess what? It took about 20 minutes to get to the lock code and the touch screen was not responding to me pressing the numbers.
I made the decision to format the memory card by using my computer (windows XP). I could access it through Mass Storage mode so it made things alot easier. I formatted the memory card WITHOUT uninstalling ANY of the applications that were originally installed to the memory card. This, of course, was a bad move but I was desperate as I needed the phone to work. If you ever do install lots of applications onto a memory card (install them one by one) you will notice that even the phone memory gets used up very slightly. What happened was that I had half a program on the phone (including all of my music Licenses, phone locks and registry for alot of programs and themes).
SO after the format I put the card back into the phone. It recognised it and showed the message that said something like, "Readying memory card". This took a few minutes but after that it went. I then immediately updated my phone to the latest firmware (which was v21 at that time) and put my backed up files onto it again. That fixed a whole load of errors from before.
A few months later a few of the thumbails for my pictures went missing again. The day this happened the phone became slow and unresponsive too. I decided to update the phone's applications and firmware again. This, again, fixed the problem but not for long.
In November 2009 my phone was slowly 'failing':
B1) It would randomly switch off even during a use of any application and even when I was making a call.
B2) NEW: every time my phone was left on its own for about 5 minutes the screen would only display lines of colour, not text or anything related to the GUI of the phone. Just lines. I noticed that the phone was stone-cold at that point. So a little heat (rubbing it in hands or leaving it in my warm pockets) would solve it and it did.
B3) Making phone calls would take AGES! It took about 5 minutes for the sound that shows a connection to the other phone would come up!
B4) No dial tones - sometimes when I dialled a number there would be no 'beep-beep' of the integers being put in (regardless if I was in Silent profile or General with the volume put at maximum)
B5) Internet fail - the phone would not connect to any sort of connection wether it be mobile internet to any Wifi spot.
B6) Transparent images - web graphics and transparent images that should normally blend in witht the background had, for some reason, a grey filling. This never happened before and I took note of it.
B7) Facebook malfunction - when the new 'touchscreen site' for facebook came out, I was enthralled to see a site that uses the functions of the phone only (just touchscreen). However it worked fine for a few weeks but after that if I clicked on a name of one of my friends it would 'glitch' Basically the same page would load (before I clicked on someone) and the header of the page (that said 'Facebook' with the tabs 'home', 'profile', 'friends' and 'inbox' in a blue background) would all be DUPLICATED to the bottom of the page. This would happen again and again and they would act like separate 'processes' or 'pages' in one page only.
B8) Facebook transparent glitch - the new touch site has a notifications area on the top-left of the screen. Normally it would show an image of a whiteboard with lines on it if there were no notifications. If there are it would show up as a red square with a number in it showing how many. This happens but the number has white 'cut outs' like scissors cut around it harshly leaving jaggy edges and pixels and NO transparency.
B9) Connection to WLAN lost - this happened between 20 seconds and 30 minutes of connecting to ANY wifi spot.
I checked for firmware updates and updated to v31 or v38 (one of those two). This fixed problems (3), (6) and (8) for another few months. After that I was happy with the phone even though it still had all the other problems.
January 2010. A new year, a new hope and, of course, new dilemmas
Phone was fine until the memory card got corrupted. How did that happen? I took a picture of my new barbecue machine and when it says 'processing image' underneath the battery DIED and the phone shut off. *sigh* I charged the phone and went to that picture that I took (when the battery died) and it had no thumbnail. This was expected. I opened it and it said 'corrupt file'. After that I deleted it but it couldnt delete it! I tried deleting it through 'File mgr.' and 'X-Plore'. Didn't work. Tried it through windows through USB mass storage. Computer crashed. Took MMC out of computer. Computer magically fixed! Corrupt memory card. I didnt try it on another computer but I was sure the card had 'gone bad'. So this time I first backed up the stuff I wanted from there, uninstalled everything from the phone (except for some themes which I forgot) and then formatted the card.
After the format I realised I missed the sisx themes to uninstall. They had not gone from the themes list but It showed that they were installed to the phone memory - something that I had NOT done before the format. I installed everything to the memory card.
I slowly worked out (over the weeks) that everytime I installed something to the memory card there would be some sort of 'remnants' left behind after a format. I got this because after the 2 formats I got another problem and a solution:
C1) Music player custom Equalisers - all had been deleted after the format and there were none in the list. However when I went to make a new setting and pressed 'OK' after choosing a name for it and setting the levels it would sound as if all the levels were back to 0. I rechecked and found that the name was saved as Preset 1 and NOT what I chose it to be (I named it 'My Own') and the levels were, in fact, back to 0. What I worked out was that if I wanted them back then I would just leave the name how it came up (Preset 1, Preset 2) and leave the equaliser levels on 0. Guess what it would be saved as?? The first one in the list before the format! It was called 'Pop my way' and the equaliser levels were exactly the same as before the format. I did the same thing 5 more times and I recovered all of my old custom equaliser levels and settings.
C2) This is EXACTLY the same for the notes application. I had a full list of notes before the format and a blank list after the format. I just entered a blank note and they came up magically as my old ones with all the info' saved on them!
February 2010 - I made a habit of checking for updates every week. The last update was on 29th December 2009 (software version 40.0.005 custom version 40.0.005.C03.01). Ever since then there had been no software updates. Just application updates. I updated my Nimbuzz application and there was something called Scribble Powered by Python. It was a drawing tool (4 MB?!?!) and turned your phone into a mini version of MS Paint. Rubbish! Didn't need that. Didn't install it. Got errors installed it and error gone.
March 2010 - Unexpected breakdown of phone. Same problems as (A7, B2, B7, B8. B9) and a few new ones:
D1) I went onto the Download! app. It wanted update. I gave it update. It changed to Ovi store. Looked nice, a bit sluggish and hard on the RAM but it was fine. I downloaded lots of stuff from there, it was a great app! UNTIL the dreaded update of version 1.05(611) which installed halfway and then somehow, unexpectedly, the progress bar would stop and then it would say 'update error' and close, leaving me blinking foolishly at the screen. I tried again and again and again. Same update, same error. Now there is a new one out and I cant update to that either because it says 'Update error'
D2) Nokia Music Store application for my phone now cannot even get to the main screen from where i can search or choose tracks from. The only place I can get to is the store selector from which you choose what country you are from. If I click on UK (where I live) it displays an error message saying, "Music Store: Unable to perform operation". I had this error before on the web browser but it soon went later on. No matter how many times I click on it the same message will keep on coming and coming. I even tried the Music store from my PC which leads to the next problem.
D4) Nokia music store for windows XP. Now updated to Nokia Ovi Player cannot and will not recognise, connect and sync the music from my phone in any of the USB modes the phone is on (PC Suite, Media Transfer, Mass Storage, Image transfer << NONE OF THOSE) this is something completely new and did NOT happen before the formatting of the memory card! The phone isnt even recognised in Music Store/Ovi Player and asks for a phone to be connected whereas PC Suite/Ovi Suite recognises it and fully works. I even tried pressing the 'Sync' button in Ovi Suite on the music page and it says something like 'Could not transfer'.
D5) The ovi store application will NOT update from Ovi Suite. The error message given says: "Internal error - could not update ovi store".
<<<<<<<<<<ALMOST FINISHED PEOPLE, JUST 2 MORE THINGS>>>>>>>>>>
After all this rubbish I decided to do a full master phone reset to the phone memory only. I took out the memory card and did a hard reset. Everything back to normal. Updated everything on the phone. Put memory card back in..... 'readying memory card'... the smart thing was that it scanned the memory card and automatically installed ANY sisx, sis, JAR files automatically and put all the media files into the library automatically. Hence the name smartphone. I, on the other hand, didnt wait for it to finish as it was taking a good hour to do so and I tried cancelling it, tried to turn the phone off, took the card out and then put it back in (which worked but restarted the 'card-readying process') so i took the battery out as the phone went stuck on the readying bit, put it back in and turned it on. The apps were installed but only some of them were and the had their icons missing. This was expected as I had force-stopped the installation processes. I manually installed everything and all was back to normal.
And now, I am here writing to you people to help me out because I have almost all the problems listed back into operation and I dont know what to do. I am not giving up yet - it took me a year of torture to get to this stage and I think I might win this battle
So... any ideas for salvation?? lol

That was something to read! - I don't know any exact solution to your problems.
It might be your phones hardware, might be a false fw install, might be a corrupted memorycard or even a faulty memorycard making problems again and againg. And you might wanna take it to a Nokia care point for an inspection.
But what I would check out is those themes and apps youre mention.
I have both n97 and 5800 with no such problems, but I once had similar issues with my n95 8gb after installing a couple of "homemade" themes from different websites, zedge.com amongst others.
I use nimbuzz on both of my phones, but have no trouble with it, but there could be other problems.
Try also not to force stop any installation as things can get corrupted even though it seems ok in the first place.

Nokia 5800 Questions.

I posted this in the nokia 5800 problems topic but it actually wasn't a problem and also it got ignored. So I decided to post it in a new topic.
I just bought this phone 4 days ago and I am in total love with it Now the pros of this phone are too much to list but there are a few cons which slight bugged me.I have version11.0.008 from the begining and have not faced a single problem - no lag , no peculiar behaviour Now I have a few queries that I was hoping to get answered on.
1. Is it possible to add more stuff below the Search word in the Shortcut bar theme. Maybe a Calendar memo reminder or anything. I already know of the music now playing bar that comes there during tracks but other than that are there nothing else to be done?
2. Is there any way to use the 2nd camera?
3. In the silent mode , for some odd reason I might have missed a call ( i.e did not feel the vibration ) Now is there a option to turn on so that the phone will emit little vibrations after a period of time to remind me or notify me of a miss call? I have this on my razrv3i so missing it now The menu button just flickrs on off to notify of the missed call but is there no way to know I have a miss call without taking out the phone from the case and looking at it?
4. I heard theres a new update to v11.0.009 - But my NSU doesn't show it . I was wondering is it that necessary to update to this firmwire at this moment? I live in Bangladesh.
Thats about it The 5800 is a exta ordinary phone and I have not regretted my purchase yet and have no hope of doing so. It costed me around 272.74 Euros. The price to quality ratio is mind bogling
Message Edited by ishmam156 on 09-Feb-2009 10:50 AM

1. The Calender memo will show by itself if you have any entry made in the Calender.. It will come up as "Next Entry on ..." a few days in advance and the Actual details a day before...
2. Open Camera application.. Goto Options -- > Use secondary camera..
3. There are 3rd party applications like T-Reminder for this.. It has options of Sound/Light/Vibration reminders for missed calls / SMSs / other events at user defined interval...
4. Firmware versions are different for different regions.. Connect the phone thru' OVI Suit to a computer and check for the latest available for your phone.It says that version upgrade is for good but there are newer complains associated with them. So its up to you whether to take that risk or not.. If you are satisfied with the current version so be it..
Pl. click on the Green Star next to this Post if you are happy with my answers...

Calendar display 5800

Hi there,
A minor problem really but it's driving me mad! How can I set up my Nokia 5800 so that my calendar (not just the entries in it but the calendar itself) is on display on my homepage? I'm sure I had it set up when I first had the phone but can't remember how I did it!
Thanks for your help!
Solved!
Go to Solution.

You can still back up your data with a mac: http://europe.nokia.com/get-support-and-software/download-software/mac-support
Also you can do a backup to the memory card, so you don't need a computer at all.
Message Edited by grschinon on 17-Jun-2009 10:03 AM
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Nokia 5800 behaves strange

When i purchased Nokia 5800, i found it really good and i thought, this is my best phone till date. But lately, it really made me bad with tons of bugs showing every other day. Here are the list.
1- Install many applications in your phone and your scrollbar in Application will behave really bad. It does not scroll properly. You can not see the applications in the last row in grid view. You will have to tocuh the screen carefully to make it upwards to see the application icons that are not showing with scrollbars. I will soon paste image here as my cell is in Nokia Care now.
2- Change the font size of your cell to small and then do a grid view. You will not be able to see the name of icons. small font size works fine only with list view.
3. Play a big .flv file and after running smothly for sometime. It starts behaving bad. sound breaks and you are not able to listen sound properly.
4. Open a .flv file and while it's opening. Tocuh it to make full screen and you will see d-pad that you see when you play flash games. Do we need it while watching .flv. I need to wait for it to open and then only i can touch to screen to make it full screen. That shows it's poor performance.
5. Press quick media bar shortcut in home screen and you will see your clock hides first than other elements on the screen. It's shows the UI repaint is so slow that you can see the difference in elements being hide.
6. I don remember, if i ever played with my cell too much, but yet within 4 months of it's usage. My LCD is gone. When someone call or when i on the screen. It shows paraller lines with background colors of home screen icons. It functions when you touch the screen, but you are not able to see anything on the screen. It happens so frequent and your money what you put on your cell goes in vain.
Problems
1. I had a theme and a wallpaper in my cell other than default theme when i was doing a mass storage. As soon as i plugged the USB and it selected mass storage. My cell automatically changed its theme and wallpaper to default one that comes when you purcahse cell. It become slow and the last dialled green button stopped working in home screen. It woks in other screens but not on home screen. It means i am not able to dial the last dialled number.
2. One of my image showing more than 40 times in Gallery with the same name. What i did is deleted the one and it's no more in file system, but it's still there as icon in Gallery and when i try to delete all those duplicate icons. It says can't delete. General error. I have more than 40 dead icons and i am not able to do anything.
3. Sometimes my clock on home screen just dont displayes. Click on the clock's place and come back to home screen and it will show you the clock. but again move to any other screen and come back to home screen and again clock is not there. Everytime, i need to see the clock, i have to touch the clock's place and then back to home screen to see the clock and that too, till the time , i am in home screen.
4. Play some videos and your cell will become too hot to touch it. Feels like it will burn out.
5. My very old Nokia 2650 has better sound. when someone calls me and i am not in a quiet place. I have to open speaker to listen the voice properly. I feel it's low compare to my oldest cell.
6. Recently listened the songs on Nokia E63 with same headphone i use and the sound quality is much much better than my 5800.
Features Missing
1. Flv player does not give seekbar functionality. If i have a big video file say for 10 minutes and i want to see portion of it. I am not able to see. Either from start or from the place where it stopped. Why no seekbar like other players when play mp4.
Other than these, I have a long list of small small problems i face, since my cell is in Nokia care, i am not able to write them here.
If anyone else has the same problems, then please share here.

sunilgupta20801 : "1. I had a theme and a wallpaper in my cell other than default theme when i was doing a mass storage. As soon as i plugged the USB and it selected mass storage. My cell automatically changed its theme and wallpaper to default one that comes when you purcahse cell. It become slow and the last dialled green button stopped working in home screen. It woks in other screens but not on home screen. It means i am not able to dial the last dialled number."
This most be because you have the theme installed on the card which is what the mass storage uses. Reinstall it to your main memory.
Message Edited by ruifcastro on 02-May-2009 02:22 PM
Message Edited by ruifcastro on 02-May-2009 02:22 PM

Nokia 5800 connected to WLAN but can't browse the ...

wassup! peeps.
recently I can't browse the web or use any free messaging apps such as Nimbuzz on my nokia 5800 (fw version 21.0) finland made, but clearly indicates that it's connected to WLAN...the ones I used before (in my home & @ my work).
I noticed it started when I was waiting for a video in youtube to finish buffering, then halfway to it it suddenly went back to my main screen. when i tried again, same thing happens. then i try to log-in to facebook or any website... first it will give the impression that its connecting but then, juz a couple of seconds or less, it willl suddenly revert back to my phone home screen.
this started a couple of weeks back, and now the bluetooth too is f***ed-up!
because my laptop can't see it, while yesterday it can.
it seems that mines the first one with this kind of problem bcoz i can't find any forum discussing this issue.
anyone who can help will be worshiped forever...thanx!
Solved!
Go to Solution.

You could also try to clean privacy data inside the browser, and reset your device by taking out the battery for a couple of min and set it back again.
Last resort: Soft reset it by dialling *#7370# (this will delete contacts, messages and everything else on C, so make a backup using PC suite) and do a format of the memorycard. - Then you start out with a fresh device.

Updates for Nokia X6, 5530 XM and 5800 XM

Hello Nokia,
Nokia please give us more information about the announced updates you've promised us on the 29th of June.
We don't get any information about the updates, except the notice on 29 August.
Come on Nokia, release the update soon and don't ignore your faithful users!
(http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/08/29/new-info-on-the-software-updates-for-symbian-5-0-and-3-2-d...):
New info on the software updates for Symbian 5.0 and 3.2 devices
GLOBAL – Last week we made some edits in the article published in June on the software updates for Symbian 5.0 and 3.2 devices. We have since then received questions about this topic from our readers, so we’d like to share some more information on the status of these updates. We’d like to confirm that the planned updates for Nokia X6, Nokia 5530 and Nokia 5800 are still to be released and we are currently working on getting the software ready to launch in some months.
As all three models are among our older devices, not all operators globally will test and approve the software update for these phones. This is the reason why we decided to remove the devices from the global posting. Availability of the software update for these phones will be determined at a local level.
Best regards ,
Nokia S60 5.0 users

Yes, but when ?

Still ashamed of using 5800, and being the butt o...

Just before posting this message, I saw a few comments about N97, and I can understand exactly the disappointment and frustration these users are, because for the past 4 months, these are the agonies I experienced.
Want to reiterate, over the past 9 years, I only use Nokia phones, impressed with each phone that I change, the functionality, the speed, their thoughtfulness for users, reliability. All until I made the ultimate mistake of changing to a 5800XM
Just want to ask, how did the development of the S60 5th edition go about. Because I still feel that each screen, each module is designed by a seperate person. What do I mean?
For example, Writing a SMS has a different layout for different language. Writing in English and other language for example, different screen [of course I notice there is only left and right button for English and 'Up down left right' buttons for other languages. The Green Tick placement is different.
I don't know how other Nokia users feel, but being in an area whereby we do use multiple language to write and reply SMS, this is terribly irritating.
Why am I irritated? Simple reason being, in the other phones [eg 6280], simple, phones give better User Interface [UI], consistent, functional, well thought out. And here suppose to be a new phone, and the functionality has gone back equivalent of 5 years ago.
Guess these modules are written by 2 different person, and they both have never shared on how to improve the module together. Plus I guess the author of these modules come from an area whereby they will only write SMS in one language only and never experience how users need to switch between languages, or even multiple languages within 1 SMS.
I can expect people helping Nokia to explain.. oh.. it's a new software on S60 5 EDITION. Things are new, lots of development needed, untested. What I cannot understand is, even if they just had followed their previous successful formula of UI, what could be wrong? Just because it is a new software, functionality has to suffer a total loss?
Also the excuse of 'oh, you must understand, this is touch based, and it is different'. I find it one of the worst excuse. Touch based means more intuitive. So Why can't it just be the same level of functionality, with only having to touch. Instead, they come up with new formats which they try to be creative with their UI and failed miserably.
Challenge for the dear people at Nokia who did the UI for 5800 [and now N97 I guess since they use the same software].
1) Select a user in your phonebook and prepare to send him/her a SMS.
2) Write a SMS in English, but suddenly you need to key in 10 characters in Chinese.
3) Click on the Green Tick.
4) Stare hard at the USER name, and can you tell me the mobile number you are sending out to? Do you know you are sending out to the correct number if the user had 2 mobile numbers, one landline number, one office number, one fax number in the phone book. Stare hard and tell me it has never occured to you , you may just need to see the number beside the USER name, just to make sure it is the correct number.
Challenge 2
1) Key in your best friend number to send him/her a SMS.
2) Send out the SMS.
3) Look at the Sent box.
4) See your best friend's name? NO!!!!!... you see your best friend's number only? BUt hey, wait a minute.. I also have his number in the PhoneBook. Why do I see the number here?
5) Oh, of course if I wanted to see the name displayed out, I will have to select his name from the phonebook, select send SMS to him, only then will I see the name displayed in the SENT box.
6) Yes yes, I can see this is a new feature, because in the other phones, with actual keypads, this has never been seen before. Numbers keyed in are recogznised by the names if they are in the PHONEBOOK list.
Challenge 3
1) Select Adaptive Search functionality.
2) Select on your PhoneBook
3) Select on the bar to search for Steven [or anyone that starts with a S]
4) Wow, all the letters pop up for you to select the key. Yes, it is a fantastic idea.
5) Ok, you found your friend's name and called him.
6) Ok.. Now go to SMS, and you can't remember his number. Select the search bar.
7) Please don't tell me you don't see the difference in the screen. Coz most likely you will see that the alphabet ends with R, and you will have to switch to the 2nd page to find the S.
8) Please be honest to us, and to yourself. Do you find that intuitive? Do you enjoy going to the second page in the SMS mode, but you get the full list for the phonebook.
9) Or is it because it is possible that different modules are done by different person who don't bother to review and see if they could have programmed it consistently?

-- Continue
Challenge 6
1) Has anyone notice how big and friend the alphanumeric keypad for SMS is? [admist all the inconsistency of different language]
2) Big nice buttons for us to press. Nice
3) Think the developer just like nice big buttons to press on the screen. But wait a minute, I need to SMS, and I'm in the SMS mode.
4) Look at the display of SMS. 4 lines [use small fonts and you get 5 or 6]. Wonderful, I get to see 6 lines maximum, and but WOW!!! I get BIG NICE numeric keypad to press - something that took up 3 QUARTERS of my wonderful huge over 3" display screen.
5) Maybe the developers felt, why would you want to key in so many lines of text. All you need is nice big buttons to press.
6) Maybe some will argue, this is to make it friendly, nice and easy to key in. Or, there's limitations to how big or small the buttons can be.
7) True, but hey.. look at the calculator layout. Yah I agree, there are some buttons which are different from the alphanumeric keypad for SMS, but look the layout and size. And look at the number of lines of display.. Don't you think that you would like to see that much of your text [if you had key in 160 characters?]
8) Or would you rather write your message, missed out something in the front of your message , press the NICE GREEN TICK BUTTON, see it displayed on a full page, select the area, then go into the TINY TEENY WEENY space, position the cursor with those NICE HUGE LEFT RIGHT [UP DOWN buttons also if you hare in different language mode} to that area which you need to change on that tiny text area.
9) Doesn't it feel good?
8) If you tell me the calculator is functional at that sizing using the keypad, what is so different from SMS texting?
9) If I know better, the keypad layouts and sizing should be interchanged between the functionality.
I guess, no one at Nokia will ever bother to read these. , or even admit to seeing all these comments.
Some can brush these comments aside.. "We can't please everyone", or "These are just wishlist. We have to look at the big picture", or "Customers will never be satisfied" or "Don't worry, they COULD be included in the next FIRMWARE update".
Or all they need to do is to believe once again that " we design phones to be used and enjoyed by everyone" and not "my developers has to do this this way , so be it"
I was curious about other touch phones, so I took a look at the various SamSang a song that was LeallyGood. First time user of their phone, and I was enjoying the intiutiveness. Guess that is what our dear Nokia developers lack, the "Human Touch". After all , they are the largest phone company in the world. Maybe they will bother about their customers and supporters, fans when they drop to being the 2nd, 3rd ,4th or last
But at least I must still admit, speed wise, 5800XM is still quite acceptable [when compared to the N96 which I made the mistake of buying in replacement to my 5800XM]. Imagine how I feel, to get 2 phones that gives nothing but headaches, heartaches, being rediculed when people see you using a Nokia phone. Double regret within 6 months. Have you waited 3 secs to respond to your selection. And the number of reboots, hanged up application, unresponsiveness..
Anyway, I'll leave my gripe about N96 till a later stage. It' s not a problem with symbian S60 V5 or V3 or whatever programs. It is a lack of "HUMAN" in the company that is causing all the problems.
Why am I frustrated. All I see solutions around is " Oh!!! Have you upgraded to the latest firmware", "Do a *#7780*, do a *#7470*, if you can't solve it, send it to CUstomer Care. Same solution to different problems? Ever think about the root of the problem?
Firmwares frequency. Too much and nothing gets changed except "stability issues, better camera quality". What a joke, you get a phone with 3.2megapixel inbuilt... and the first pictures you take is horrible. Then with updates in firmware, the pictures gets better. Why on earth was it first released with horrible quality pictures and improved with updates? Is camera function something new for the company? Or no one bothered to test the product before launch?
Or wait for 6 months for a huge update [to clear 4 dozen faults, problems,]. In the meantime, the company is trying to say "Oh well, too bad you bought a reduced function phone. If you want the phone to work like a real phone, please wait till we accumulated enough problems from feedbacks, my developers has time to rectify the problems and we will release the updates when the time is right. If you cannot wait, please buy our latest phone [for eg. N97], which solves some of the problems you are facing right now, but has 3 dozen of new problems"
By the way, I've been to Nokia Customer Care since the 1st week of buying the phone. I've already visited Nokia Customer Care 6 times over 6 months. Not too much, about once a month. I guess that's quite acceptable to most people? Or is it?
I really wonder, what phones do the developers at Nokia use if they need to purchase a phone. And I mean purchase like everyone else. And I'm really interested to know what phone does the boss of Nokia uses. If he had seen all these problems, would he use it still.

5800 madness!!!

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