Editing phonebook on N96

Okay, so making progress with this new beast. But hit another little problem.
I want to get in to the phonebook using my PC to update all of the contacts on the phone as these got a tad corrupted on the way from the old phone.
Obviously PC Suite will allow a sync with Outlook, but why would I be paying Microsoft to use that piece of **bleep**?
I use Thunderbird as an email client so I'm a bit stuck unless you can recommend something?
'Oxygen Phone Manager' is available but at about £30!!
Surely this is achievable?
Hope you can help.
GP
Solved!
Go to Solution.

You don't have to sync with outlook to edit your contacts.
If you are using the free full PC suite (not ovi suite or N series suite that may be bundled with the phone) you can use the nokia communication centre to edit your contacts.
You can get it here:
http://europe.nokia.com/A4144905
You could also use the free ovi sync service to edit your contacts online and to keep a back up of them.
http://www.ovi.com/services/

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Video editting on N96

it seems i can't find video editting on the n96, have nokia forgot to put it in or is just i can't find, please help. it was graet to have video editing on n95 and n95 8 gb, you could record then edit, but now nothing.

The feature does appear to be absent.
As to whether they will add the feature in a future firmware update is anybody's guess.

N96 Photo Editor - Edited image won't save

When I open a photo, and select 'Edit' from options, I rotate my photos to the correct composition (as they were taken upside down!) and then from options I select 'Save'. The progress bar appears to indicate the device is processing the change.
However on returning back to the image menu, the photo simply reverts back to how it was before. Which is annoying as with the auto rotate switched on its impossible to look at photos when are upside down!
Am I missing something out or is there a bug in the image editor?
Hope you can help, thanks
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Hi,
I've just tested this and you are right - it does revert back to displaying the original photo after saving. If you then just click "Back" to return to the menu, you may no see the image depending on which option you selected when you went into "Photos".
The new image won't appear in "Captured items" because it is not an image actually taken with the phone's camera. If you go back to the Photos menu and select "All", your edited image should appear in there.

N96 Bluetooth compatibility with my car

My N96 will pair with my car's VW factory fitted car kit but it will not transfer the phonebook from the phone to the car's memory.
Any ideas why?

Maybe you could try using this piece of software. It works well when using other bluetooth connections.
http://europe.nokia.com/nokia/0,6771,42796,00.html
Message Edited by rshepherd on 26-Oct-2008 07:36 A...

Nokia N96 - A long review!

The Nokia N96 Long Review by Jupstejuho
v. 1
(Please notice that this is the first published version so I will
be making this much longer a bit later if you just want me to do so)
In this case I have only reviewed the phone's main software
things, not many of its good-too features.
--> A BIT INFO -->
Firmware used: Unbranded Scandinavian v11, upgraded to that from v10 wich was originally branded
Phone used: Elisa Finland network branded, simlocked Nokia N96-1
Operator used: Elisa Finland
Memory card used: 512MB (have not actually even touched it as the 16GB has been fine for me
More settings used: Screen brighness set to full 100%, display light set to disappear after
30 seconds of inactivity, Online mode always on. Screensaver set to none.
1. THE FIRST WORDS
OK, as all of the active Nokia people around the internet already know, there
are many reviews in the internet considering about the famous, all-new Nokia
N96 smartphone. It is a new part of the Nokia´s 3rd generation phone series,
the N-Series. The Nokia's N-Series is a quite big group of some really good
phones using much more advanced technology than the previous camera phones
that Nokia, and many other well-known phone companies have made. That is the
Nokia's N-Series in short. But, I am not writing this long review for all you
Nokia-People to just tell you what Nokia N-Series is, you basically did not
come here to read about that. I am writing this because I want to show you
my first feelings about the Nokia N96. I hope you have time to read the whole
review
2. ABOUT THE PHONE'S DESIGN, LOOK ETC. ALL ITS OUTSIDE-SEEING THINGS
So let's start from the usually first things that most people want to know
about a phone before buying it, the phone's ergonomy. The Nokia N96 feels
really, really good in my hand. Althought the phone seems to be quite big,
it fits in almost anybody's hands really well. It is not so thick, comparing
to my good old Nokia N91. And that impressed me pretty much. The phone is
relatively wide, but does not weight much (about 120 grams). The phone's
outlook is something I like, it is somehow much like the Apple's iPhone
within its big screen and black'n'white and grey colours. But, I was very
sad when I actually realized the biggest mistake made in the phone's
design. Its outer casing is actually made from cheap plastics, wich leads
to the very unliked feature... The Nokia N96's cheap plastics are in all
only not good-looking, but also really effective fingerprint magnets! The
phone's outer casing takes fingerprints really easily, and you can see
them very well in a bright sunlight, that is something I really hate. But,
that is luckily the only problem on the phone's design, I think. Just that
the phone's front side is quite widely crowded with many buttons. I really
like the phone's frontside's media button, as it reminds me of my good
old Nokia N91's Musicmenu-key. It is surrounded with the play/pause, stop,
forward and backward keys, and the already-known menu key, C-key (also known
as the backspace key) plus the green & red answering keys and the two
softkeys. All this is has been made to fit around the phone's joystick,
wich also had to include the handy Naviwheel option, but they removed it from
the software, wich is sad in my opinion. They have removed the handy
pen-key, wich formerly worked pretty well as a shortcut for many nice
programs that i used to play around with my old Nokia N91, that is sad but
I guess they had a good enough reason for removing the key.
>>> To the phone itself, features etc.
3. PHONE'S USER INTERFACE IN ALL
The Nokia N96 uses the same OS that almost all N-Series devices use, the
Symbian S60 3RD. But this time it is not just that. The Nokia N96 is one
of the first phone's to get the new, famous Feature Pack 2 (FP2). A feature
pack is like the "Microsoft Service Pack" for phones. Just that you cannot
upgrade any NON-FP/FP1 device to FP2 unless you really are an employer of
Nokia, and that the Feature Packs are for phones, not for computers
Symbian S60 3RD is the 3rd edition of the famous Symbian OS for phones,
wich has all the features that are required in order to say that a phone
is REALLY a Smartphone. OK, I am now comparing the FP2 Nokia N96 to my old
Pre-FP1/Non-FP1 Nokia N91. The phone's standby screen is pretty much the
same. Just that you can also set the standby screen to be in 3 different
modes. No active standby at all (The old S60 style), the normal already
known active standby row of 6 different program shortcuts and a new
arrangement, the one that is more complicated. It has the icons in the right
side of the phone's standby/idlescreen and you choose the icon and you see
its features at right side. Anyways, I chose the good old S60 3RD arrangement
as it is not too complicated for me. Going to the phone's menu is easy, you
just press the menu-key and that's that. The taskmanager is renewed, this
time it is horizontal and looks better (I guess they have made the idea from
the nice IQ AltTab program wich I used to use with my old Nokia N91. Yeah,
well pretty much nothing has changed. The phone's messages application has
been also renewed... It now has only 2 message types: Text Message and Sound
Message. If you want to send somebody a MMS wich contains a sound clip,
that means you have to choose the Sound Message-option. If you want to send
a normal SMS, or an MMS wich contains picture or video etc, you have to
choose the Text Message-option. Just choose that and write your message.
If you only add text into that, you are sending a normal SMS automatically.
Add any MMS-content in it and it will automatically be an MMS message.
That is a quite nice new feature. The phone also has a new Themes-application
and its icon has been removed from the phone's menu! You can get to it by
setting up an active standby shortcut for it but it will take you straight
to the Active-Standby Themestyle option wich is a part of the Themes
application. The phone still lags pretty much, as it is brand new.
The same problem was with the Nokia N95 when it first came. I guess the
phone does not have so much features that the Nokia N95 does not have.
Well that's all about that.
4. MEDIA COMPLETION
The Nokia N96 is advertised as a Videoplayer phone. That is true, but that
was not the reason why I bought the phone. The phone can play MP4, 3GP and
surprisingly they are advertising that the phone can also play WMV9 videos.
That is actually true, but the phone did only play the video's sound, not
the video itself Well that is OK for me as I do not have a reason for
playing WMV videos with my PHONE. The phone can also of course play music
but supports only a little amount of filetypes. Pictures are (surprise,
surprise) supported too.
4.1 DVB-H
One of the phone's new main features is the DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting
Handheld) receiver. That means that you can watch digital television wherever
that is available. Here in Finland we can only receive DVB-H signal in the
big cities (luckily I live in Oulu and I can receive DVB-H signal in here...)
But I would be pleased if I could be able to see that signal in places like
cars, trains, planes and ferries but that is not gonna be possible ever,
because only a really small amount of phones have the DVB-H and hardly anybody
watches it. I do not look it unless I have a good reason as it takes a lot
battery. You can also record DVB-H and schedule recordings, that means you
actually have a recording television receiver in your pocket But I do not
have any reasons to do such a thing.
4.2 VIDEOS
The phone, as I said earlier, is being advertised as a pocket-sized video
player. The phone has some pre-loaded factory videos (Some advertising
videos and 1 Transformers Movie). I tested DivXPlayer and it played
small video files (like 100-200MB) really well but when I tested a 350MB
TV-Series episode, it lagged all the time after playing it for 2 minutes.
I also tested CorePlayer and Smartmovie and they both had the same problems
except that the CorePlayer played the file hardly for 2 seconds and started
lagging. But I converted the same file with SmartMovie converter to a 80MB
file and it had much worse quality but still it played with no lagging at
all You can also convert any video to a .3GP or .MP4 file but I guess
that it is better to play your video files with SmartMovie or DivXPlayer.
The videos captured with the phone's camera are relatively big, a 4minutes
long video with the best possible quality that the camera has, is over
50MB big. Oh, and one more thing: I just also realized that the phone
supports Winamp Remote really well. Just for all of you who are not familiar
with the Winamp Remote: Winamp Remote is an application wich lets you watch
any videos from your computer´s hard drive over an internet connecton with
quite high quality. I tried that and I was amazed that it worked. Althought
you have to put the flash player as default way playing the video, because
it laggs too much when watched using the Real Player. Oh, and that brings
one another thing to my mind: The Nokia's default web browser now also
supports Flash videos I tried youtube and it worked pretty well. And,
as I said earlier the Winamp remote Flash Videoplayer also was able to play
my PC´S videos So, Nokia N96 is good for what it is originally meant for:
PLAYING HIGH-QUALITY VIDEOS ANYWHERE, ANYTIME whenever you need to do so.
4.3 MUSIC
The phone has music keys and I just love them. But the music player is not
anymore being started automatically when the phone is being started and
that means you have to manually put it on if you want to be able to use
the music buttons for playing music. That sucks. The phone has really nice
stereo speakers and they are very loud and I just love them. The earphones
supplied with the phone are really, I mean REALLY bad. They suck, but with
20-40 € you can get some good earphones like KOSS. They have also removed
an old really nice feature. The phone always lists the newest added music
tracks to a list, but you cannot anymore add the newest tracks easily to
another self-made playlist. That is what I hate as I used to do that with
my old Nokia N91. :@ That sucks, I don´t know why on earth they made such
a change in the Music Player. Quality of the music played with good
earphones is quite amazing. But also playing music eats the battery as fast
as a worm diggs itself into mud, you cannot play the music so long time,
but as I am not a music freeak that does not matter so much to me (I prefer
listening to .XM keygen music with my computer and Logitech speakers) But
I can also listen to Keygen music with the LCG Jukebox, I have done that
once for real at school and I just loved that as it made me more creative
at the arts lesson
4.4 PICTURES/CAMERA
The phone has a 5MP camera with a LED flash and a red LED light
to "help" with taking videos The phone takes really good images
especially when the phone's flash is used. It can take amazingly good
pictures even when there is no sunlight at all The flash is really
amazing. I don´t know why, but I even think that it takes better pictures
at night comparing to the pictures taken at daylight. Umm, I guess you
can use the phone as a camera in emergency situations when you need to
be able to take a picture of a good situation. The front camera wich is
intended for Video calls takes really awful pictures when there is not
enough light, especially the videos ARE JUST AWFUL but that is just because
who would use the front camera to take pictures of anything else (just for
testing purposes and taking some stupid images of yourself Um, and yeah I was
surprised about that, but it does not matter at all anymore Taking videos
with the 5MP camera at the back is nice because they have quite good quality!
But they are also relatively big and I guess that is one more feature that sucks,
as the video quality is not too good! One more new and really nice feature is
that you can set the phone to automatically save the location where the picture
was taken into the picture's metadata and view the location in the Nokia Maps
application. Almost all photos that I have took with my phone have a "geotag".
5. NAVIGATING/GPS
The Nokia N96 also has a GPS receiver with A-GPS support. I was first surprised
that the phone really knows where you are in just 10 seconds or a bit more. But
when I noticed that it is only caused because the phone has A-GPS and I had set
it on. And what is so bad about that? The A-GPS does not know where you are so
specifically, the accuracy in A-GPS is almost everytimes something like 100
meters so using the phone as a navigator is not so good but I guess it is just
fine for me! The phone has 1 year navigating license for the Nokia Maps application
(wich BTW sucks), but I prefer Garmin wich is better in all ways But while I
was testing navigating in the car, it was working fine. When Garmin said that
"waiting for better GPS signal", it only took about 5 seconds for it to already
show me that it had a full signal with 5-10m accuracy! Yum that is going to be
a nice feature because I am going to use it while travelling at Europe next summer.
Navigating is much, much better comparing, for example to the Nokia E90 and
some external Bluetooth GPS receivers. I am pleased that I know that I am always
carrying a really powerful GPS navigator in my pocket, and it is ready whenever
i just need it to be used
6. N-GAGE/GAMES
Nokia N96 also has pre-installed Tetris and an activation code for that is being
given with the phone (wich BTW WAS NOT WORKING FOR ME!). I installed brothers
in arms AND IT LAGGED LIKE A HELL?! What the hell is the problem with that, they
did not add a 3D Accelerator chip to the phone and they are still advertising
it as a "Good N-Gage gaming phone" Haha, I just shall laugh about that. I guess
I WILL NOT BE USING THE PHONE FOR GAMING THEN. So overall, if you did not already
understand my opinion about the Gaming features in the phone: DO NOT THINK THAT
THE PHONE IS GOOD IN GAMING... Also, tried Vampent´s vNes and it was not able
to start emulating (it was when I tried with my Nokia N91! Well, also the joystick
is a limitation wich makes it nearly impossible to play games with the phone.
It actually isn´t a joystick at all (they do not even advertise it to be that
I liked my old Nokia N91's joystick as it was really nice for playing games! But
playing games like Tetris should be fine. Also I will be going to try playing
games with the numeric keys, maybe that will be fine ;D
7. THE 16GB MEMORY + SDHC Memory Card place with hotswap support!
Yep, that´s true. I was first really impressed when I heard that the Nokia N96
has a HUGE 16GB memory and also A SDHC memory card spot. That was one of the
main reasons why I really said myself: If I am going to buy a phone, it will
definitely be the Nokia N96 unless something REALLY impressive will become
to the markets. I put my favorite tracks and kept almost all of the factory-loaded
videos in the phone and I still have a bit over 10GB free space (I also took about
hundred photos) not even mentioning that I also have installed Garmin Mobile XT
with all European maps to the phone (also Navicore and TomTom, they just weren´t
working and I was too lazy to be able to remove them or try solving why they
weren´t working) They are advertising that the phone can take up to 40 hours
of good guality video. Yeah that is just amazing and it is true too. Borrowing
to one guy's words who has been showing the N96 prototype at youtube: "So you
really, really have enough space on this phone" That is so true. I just wonder
what the hell I am going to do with all that 10GB left space ;D
8. A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE BATTERY LIFE
Many have complayed about the Nokia N96 battery life. I cannot understand why!
It has better battery life than in by Nokia N91. Two listed examples by me:
* I just charged the phone at around 7pm. I went to sleep and the clock was about
10pm. Before that, I decided to put a 1 hour long TV episode to a scheduled
recording. The phone did that very well. And I was surprised that when I looked
at the phone's battery state: It showed me that it had 100% full battery life!
And it kept there until I watched the whole 1 hour episode, then it still had
6 bars left of the 7 bars maxium. Pretty impressive.
* I put the phone to charge itself a few minutes before I went to sleep.
At morning I went to school. At there I watched TV episodes using Winamp
Remote for about 30-45 minutes. Then I listened to .XM keygen music with
LCG Jukebox for about 2 hours! Also I was playing with the phone a bit more
time too. When I went to home, it had something like 2 or 3 bars left. That
is not a very good example but that is already enough for me, and the
phone has had much better battery life after this case
---> [OVERALL REVIEWING] ---
* The Nokia N96 is a good mediaphone but it is also enough
good to be used as an officephone. The stereo speakers,
DVB-H, GPS and a good camera, 16GB mass memory and a
SDHC memorycard slot... That is just everything I would
ever want from a phone! But all this comes with a price
wich will make most people just dream about the phone,
or buying it from an operator with a cheap price like
I did. Even thought the firmware is buggy, I can still
recommend the phone for anybody who likes to have a
good-looking phone with all possible mediafeatures!
The phone is still buggy but that was with the Nokia N95
too. I cannot understand why people are saying that
"Nokia N95 is soo much better and looks better..." that
is so not true. The N96 beats N95 hands down! And overall,
the phone would be too perfect if it would not have bugs,
all new phones have bugs! Think about the iPhone, it was
not even able to send a MMS message but it has been enabled
in the new firmware update. Also iPhone has been buggy when
it first came but it has been improved much. The same will
100% surely happend with the Nokia N96 too! They already
have released v11 wich has made my phone a bit faster too
+ A big screen with bunch of colours!
+ 5MP camera takes good quality photos
+ GPS finds location fast with the A-GPS feature
+ Really good stereo speakers!
+ Supports WMV
+ The phone is not too thick and it is smaller than N95
+ The phone just looks sooo good!
+ 16GB memory + A SDHC memorycard slot!
+ The phone's 1-9 keys are nice and they can be easily pressed even
thought they are really flat! Writing with the phone is fast
+ The phone just looks so good!
+ DVB-H with scheduled recording and awesome quality!
+ Battery life is just enough!
- The GPS is fast but mostly not accurate except at outside
- Music-Player no longer gives an option to add a freshly added
music track to another playlist I have to find all the
freshly added tracks manually from the All tracks-section if
and when I want to add them to a nice playlist
- The front camera has a really bad picture and video quality
- The software in the phone still has many bugs
- A fingerprint magnet & Cheap plastic materials
- Price!
- OH, the gaming features just suck
Phones history: Nokia 3210 > Nokia 5210 > Nokia 9210 Communicator > Nokia 3230 > Nokia N91 > Nokia N96
Current phone: Nokia N96, Elisa Finland Network Branded, v11 Unbranded Firmware [MADE IN FINLAND] Product Code: 0573582

Um, yes I can (BTW, nice that there are other N96 likers too, as I am also very surprised that there are so many haters )
You can get Winamp Remote from here: http://www.winamp.com/player/free-download-full?lang=en-us When you install it, choose Winamp Remote as a part of the installation. You can get more help from the Winamp Forums. Winamp Remote should be easy to use, but if you need more help ask from the Winamp Forums or PM me (One of the main things is that you have to have ports forwarded fine, that is quite hard to explain but go to: www.portforward.com and follow their instructions meant just for your router, I am not sure that do they have instructions just meant for Winamp Remote but if you are lucky enough you just should be able to do the tricks in half an hour )
DivXPlayer is available at here: http://labs.divx.com/system/files/private/DivXPlayer_S60_3rd_0.sisx AND PLEASE NOTE that DivxPlayer takes so much memory that it CANNOT PLAY FILES OVER 200MB. I tried a 150MB DivX .AVI video and it played very well but I tried a 350MB DivX .AVI video and it lagged like a hell. You can use Lonely Cat Games (LCG) SmartMovie to convert about 350MB file to a 80MB file with just fine enough quality. I know that talking about "illegal" things is forbidden in here but just a small tip: Find a good Mobile Phone stuff forum, they are giving some good and CR@CKED applications for free (normally they are asking huge prices for them) There are dozens of good mobile forums just waiting for somebody who needs all that stuff For example the SmartMovie will put the video's image grey after two minutes (if you have converted the video with that tool) of playing it. But just some little googling and you are fine to go But supporting software studios is also important, so if you just have enough money I really suggest that you buy all your softwares!
Phones history: Nokia 3210 > Nokia 5210 > Nokia 9210 Communicator > Nokia 3230 > Nokia N91 > Nokia N96
Current phone: Nokia N96, Elisa Finland Network Branded, v11 Unbranded Firmware [MADE IN FINLAND] Product Code: 0573582

Low memory in my N96

I have every day the same error low memory, please can someone help me??. This is the memory status:
Memory used: 80Mb
Memory Free: 2244Kb
Agenda: 242Kb
Guia:495Kb
Mensajes: 844Kb
Documentos: 41Kb
Aplicaciones SIS: 6646Kb
Others files: 72Mb

The "Other Files" figure is suspiciously high, though I'm not sure what this contains. Inmy N96, this stands at 48Mb.
I wonder if this could be temporary files? Try clearing the browser cached to see if an big difference is made.
It will also be any files related to installed apps that can't be pinpointed to one of the other groups.
Message Edited by mccbleue on 15-Apr-2009 03:59 PM

Problem with opening Transformers.dcf in my N96

My phone have transformers movie and a i play it and didn't have any problem but yesterday i resotore all setting to original factory setting with this code "*#7370# after restoring finished transformers movie didn't play and said "file is locked" i looked in licences and i saw the transformers licence moved from valid licence to invalid licence.
i read the guide book. it write go to options menu and select get new Licence but in my phone doesn't have get new Licence in option menu!(my web message service is active)
please heeeeeelp me to move transformers licence from invalid to valid licence and play it similar before i restored setting.(I have N96)

I have the same problem. i made a system backup using the pcsuite. when i put the whole backup back on my n96 everyting worked except for all my ngage games and transformers.
Its ridiculous that when you buy a full license of a movie, it can expire and is not usable anymore. Its also insane with a valid license that you need to buy the dvd to get it back on the phone after a proper backup and return session.
Nokia i want my movie back! why not make an online license like with music?
Please tell me how to reactivate my valid license! I have the right to view this movie as many times as i want! as long as i have this phone!
Hmmm and they still wonder why people download movies illegal. Then make a better license system !! The only people that are stopped with these protections are the real buyers of legal software, and movies.
Message Edited by sygys on 31-Aug-2009 12:57 PM

N96 won't detect my captured pictures

hi
i have nokia n96 and 2-days ago i got corrupted (mass) memory error so i restarted the phone and it was ok.
But now Photos application won't detect my Captured pictures. The directory tree of Images was intact after corruption (probably) so nothing changed there.
I've got arout 500 pictures and they all show up in All pictures.
Is there any way to make them back into Captured ? Any database file to delete and to refresh the image gallery ?
Thanks,
Kenan

tried it.. lost ALL data - problem fixed -or is it... how can i know when i just lost all images
*so this reminds me not to do ever (hard) *#7370# reset
close the thread please
Message Edited by kenaneo on 09-Sep-2009 05:17 PM

N96 Update - No update

I see many users talk about v12 firmware for the Nokia N96. I am however, still stuck on V10.065, the NSU says there is no update available - I am experiencing the same problems as many of the N96 users out there.
N96-1 RM-247

You are welcome
Just keep in mind that all attempts to blame the manufacturer are lies based on a lack of technical knowledge.
One last thing that you may want to try is a nokia care point. On rare occasions they do have newer versions of operator branded firmware that haven't made it onto the updater yet.
Care points/service centres and repair info:
UK • Europe • Asia-Pacific • USA •
Canada • Middle East and Africa
Elsewhere: Click here, select your country, go to the support section, then select repair.
Message Edited by psychomania on 25-Feb-2009 01:19 PM

N96 ON OPTUS! FIRMWARE VERSION 11.101 UPDATE AVAIL...

Ye Gods!!!
I tried updating this morning and was still told by NSU that 10.065 was still the current version. I phoned Optus to find out how the ticket I lodged three weeks ago about 'approving the release' was going, only to be told there was no resolution and that the ball was in Nokia's court.
I rang Nokia again to see if there was ANY way this could be done, and lo and behold, as we went through the same process again, it said version 11.101 was available for download!!
HOO-BLOODY-RAY!!!
The download is 116MB, and is downloading as I write.
Time will tell if this solves my problems...
Stay tuned!
Message Edited by iannicholson on 11-Dec-2008 03:45 AM
Ian Nicholson
Poor Sod/N96 Owner
Nokia: Connecting People... with iPhones.

Oh dear...
Here's my experience with updating the N96 to Firmware 11.101
So, the phone was plugged in and fully charged as prescribed. The update file downloaded and then proceeded to install. It estimated 15 minutes to go.
With 2 minutes to go, the phone appeared to reboot, and displayed a plain, white screen, with:-
11.101
Test Mode
Nokia
displayed in upside-down landscape on the screen. It stayed like this, and about every ten minutes, would disconnect from the PC (hearing the USB disconnect sound), the screen would go white, and reboot again to show the same Test Mode display.
I called Nokia Tech Support. They had never seen this issue before. They advised I disconnect and reboot the phone, which I did, but had to remove the battery in order to get it out of Test Mode. The NSU program on the PC locked up and I had to delete the app from Windows Task Manager.
The phone rebooted, apparently trouble-free. The menu and the screen rotate seem ever-so-slightly more responsive, however, there was little improvement on the voice dialling. In fact, trying to dial in this way caused the phone to crash and reboot. I will say, this was a 'soft' reboot, not a complete and utter bomb like before. Is this an improvement? I don't know!
Trying to fast-forward through a video by holding the 'Next track' button down does not work. It continues to show the last frame displayed, while the sound and time do indeed fast forward and play correctly.
I can't comment on the battery life as yet, but the upgrade process DID take a lot out of it, so be sure to be fully charged before attempting to upgrade (or have your power charger connected).
That's all for now...
Ian Nicholson
Poor Sod/N96 Owner
Nokia: Connecting People... with iPhones.

General issues with N96

Wondering if someone might be able to help me out with some of the below on my N96 (new firmware installed)... haha be prepared, it's long..
PHOTO GALLERY:
1) occasionally, the phone seems to scramble the pics and names/dates in my gallery (ie: it shows the name/date of one item, yet the pic does not match it - but if you go to edit it, the correct pic comes up. And if you try to rename it, then it shows the new name, but with a different pic. and it goes round in circles..)
Note this also happens with the preinstalled pics.
2) When I connect it to Mass Storage on the PC, every single photo shows as screwed up (the colours are all blurred, some are corrupted, some come up like negatives etc. this includes the preinstalled ones)
I have bluetoothed a number fo photo's to my n73 and connected that to Pc and the photo's come out perfectly.
I have also deleted all the photo's and put them all back in again which seems to fix problem (1) above (for a while), but not problem (2).
TURNING ON/OFF DELETES DATA:
3) sometimes when I turn the phone off (just to reboot occasionally, or if it hangs and I have no choice) it deletes all my messages (yes I have checked the settings to see where the messages have been stored), and it also makes some of my pics and vids corrupted/invalid, rendering them no longer able to view.
MUSIC PLAYER:
was playing one minute, then all of a sudden there were no songs available, but they are still playable in music manager.
I've read discussions on this and am yet to try the fixes, but this is just another one of my issues. Will try them soon.
MASS STORAGE ON PC:
There appear to be a number of files/sub-folders which contain corrupted/unable to delete data. These folders I know should not be there (there are some in my images, video, and music folders) and they're names are all in what looks like "wingdings". Is this what is screwing up my applications? and if so how do I get rid of them?
I know that reformatting the mass storage will probably fix all of this, but I'm hoping I won't have to get to that point haha, i know this sounds like a whole buinch of whinging, but really it's not - I'd just like to see these main things work cos the errors seem strange. So long as my calling and tetxting doesn't pack up I'm still relatively happy and the phone is awesome when everythings working.
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Hiya! That's what someone else said to me as well...
Funny thing is that I've never just pulled the battery out without shutting off first (never had to cos for some reason the on/off button is the only thing that still works when the phone is frozen...), and even when connected to PC, I always use the "safely remove hardware" thing at the bottom right hand corner of the PC.
And as for the photo's (the preinstalled ones) when I first plugged my phone into Mass storage (before I had stored any other photo's inside) they were already showing up screwed..
But I guess there's no harm doing a reformat so I'll give that a go later
Will it delete applications like Ngage and Office and everything? I don't have a memory card to back up my stuff to... and i'm not sure if I trust "Mass storage-PC" to do it.

N96 PC file transfer problem

Hi, I have just bought a brand new N96 few days ago. Everything was fine at first but when I tried to transfer files from PC to phone using latest version of Nokia PC Suite i ran into problems. File transfer just freezes in the middle of the transfer and a message says something like "connection to the phone lost" . This does not happen all the time, sometimes i transfer e.g 2 songs and on third it freezes. It happens also while installing *.sis files, and transfering images, videos, etc.
Message Edited by casualiis on 23-Nov-2008 05:26 PM

I hope you are using the usb cable!
for transferring a large number of files to the handset, it is a LOT quicker to put the n96 into 'mass storage' mode.
open the menu, open tools, open connectivity and select USB. change the usb mode to mass storage.
once you have reconnected the handset, it will appear as drives under my computer.
dont use PC suite when in mass storage mode, as it wont work correctly (and it will moan at you)
NOTE: you will now need to unplug the phone from the computer using 'safely remove hardware' that is next to the clock in windows, or you will end up damaging data.
also, if you still cant transfer files to the computer in this way, you might have to do a disk check.
mass storage mode is a lot quicker than pc suite mode!
Give it a go, and report back!
Tony

Cracked N96 Screen, Bought Replacement, Now no Bac...

The other day my N96 slipped out of my hand, and fell on the concrete, cracking the screen......I went on Ebay and bought a replacement screen.....I got the screen in today, took the old one out and replaced it.....Now I can see the phone turning on, but it seems to be a backlight issue......Because it doesnt light up.....I managed to do a hard reset, and nothing.......PLS HELP.....
PS-I had some backlight issues previously with the OEM screen before it cracked....
Message Edited by mavrata on 30-Apr-2009 08:24 PM

you messed your phone up yourself. If you dont have no nokia repair centre or warranty. at least im sure there is a mobile phone shop which does repair. You should have gave it them for repair and paid for the repair at least your device would have been working.
BTW the reason why your backlight dose not work is due to 2 reasons;
- Faulty mainboard
- Wrong LCD Revision you replaced it with. (on the back theres code)
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N96 Bugs I've noticed

Generally pleased with my new N96 which replaces my ageing N95 but i have noticed two bugs. I am using a simfree, nokia shop purchased N96 update to SW v11.101.098.1.
BUG 1: I've imported my contacts from my N95 and i cannot set defaults for email addresses or numbers. When the defaults option is selected from the menu in contacts the conacts application immediatley closes and i am returned to the front screen. Defaults for contacts i've created on the N96 can have there defaults set but defaults cannot be set for contacts imported using PC Suite or the phones sync utility. Also, for imported contacts the ringtone is the default nokia tune and not the tone defined in the contact or in my active profile. Again only imported contacts show this glitch with a contact created on the N96 working as expected. The default ringtone issue seems to be a common one on the forum maybe this is a connection.
BUG 2: The phone freezes if you try to resume playback of a video file whilst using a bluetooth headset (in my case a nokia BH-500). With the phone connected to the BH-500 you can play a video file from the start but when promted to continue the latest played file from last position its 'take the battery out time' when the phone locks up.
Any user got any thoughts on these anomolies??
Message Edited by orgazmic on 20-Oct-2008 12:13 AM
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20-Oct-2008 12:07 AM
orgazmic wrote:
Generally pleased with my new N96 which replaces my ageing N95 but i have noticed two bugs. I am using a simfree, nokia shop purchased N96 update to SW v11.101.098.1.
BUG 1: I've imported my contacts from my N95 and i cannot set defaults for email addresses or numbers. When the defaults option is selected from the menu in contacts the conacts application immediatley closes and i am returned to the front screen. Defaults for contacts i've created on the N96 can have there defaults set but defaults cannot be set for contacts imported using PC Suite or the phones sync utility. Also, for imported contacts the ringtone is the default nokia tune and not the tone defined in the contact or in my active profile. Again only imported contacts show this glitch with a contact created on the N96 working as expected. The default ringtone issue seems to be a common one on the forum maybe this is a connection.
BUG 2: The phone freezes if you try to resume playback of a video file whilst using a bluetooth headset (in my case a nokia BH-500). With the phone connected to the BH-500 you can play a video file from the start but when promted to continue the latest played file from last position its 'take the battery out time' when the phone locks up.
Any user got any thoughts on these anomolies??
Message Edited by orgazmic on 20-Oct-2008 12:13 AM
Hello, i have the 11.101 version and I imported all my contacts via PC suite and I CAN use the defaults option and the ringtone can be anything I want (apart for video ringtones-they don't work).
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Has anyone got Python to work on the N96???

Has anyone got Python to wok on the N96?
I have downloaded and installed the latest edition 3rd 1.4.4 i think. it goes on the phone without any problems.
However when trying to use app that use python specifically pyPiow at the moment the app goes on the phone but nothing happens when i try to open it!
is it somthing i am doing wrong, where go i install the pictures, or the apps for that matter, can the apps go on the mass memory where they are now or do they have to go on the very small phone memory?!
does current python work at all on the n96
has anyone had any joy?
please help!
cheers

I managed to get it to work, you have to install two files
the first for the actual python script files.
the second for the user interface.
you might have installed the user interface, but without installing python, and that's why its not loading up the application, also make sure you install python to phone memory.
On my N96 I installed:
Python for S60 1.4.4
Python script shell 1.4.4
if you get an 'update error' when installing its because you have not un-installed all of the old python stuff, open app manager on the handset and un-install all python relating files
one last thing, install python and the shell to the phone memory (c drive)
Hope it helps
Tony

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