Tips n Trik Symbian

Viewing a picture in your phone’s gallery, press one of these shortcut keys

1 - turn image anticlockwise
3 - turn image clockwise
5 - zoom in
0 - zoom out
* - toggle on/off of full screen

Change Operator logos

Use a filemanager like FileMan, FExplorer or SeleQ to add the folders: “c:/system/Apps/phone/oplogo”. Add a .bmp picture to folder “oplogo” and restart your phone! The .bmp picture size needs to be: 97 x 25 pixels, and picture must format .bmp

A soft and Hard reset

A Soft-reset - the process of resetting all the settings of the phone to the factory default! No applications are deleted! like in settings >> phone >> general >> orig. phone settings or *#7780#

A Hard-reset is like formatting a drive! It does format the memory. Everything that has been installed after the first use of the phone is deleted! It will recover the memory of the phone to the state you purchased it! It is done by inputing the following code: *#7370#

NOTE: The battery must be full or the charger has to be connected to the phone so that it does not run out of power and make the phone unusable

How to copy & paste text in messages

Press and hold the pencil key and select your text using the scroll key. Left function key will change to ‘Copy’. Press it to copy the selected text to clipboard.You can paste the clipboard contents the same way:

press and hold the pencil key and press ‘Paste’.

Delete all messages from your Inbox or Sent at once:

Menu > Messaging > Inbox > Options > Mark/Unmark > Mark all > Options > Delete.

Open Add voice tag

In standby mode, press and hold the right soft key to activate voice dialling. To add a voice tag to a phone number, open a contact card and scroll to the phone number and select: Options > Add voice tag

Shortcut to open applications

In Menu or any subfolder, press numbers 1 - 9 to start the application at that location.
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9

Speed dials contacts in Simcard

In standby mode,
45# + dials the number on your sim in memory slot 45.
50# + dials slot 50 and so on.

Kill or Select applications

Press and hold the Menu key to open the application switching window, where you can *select* switch between applications. If a program hangs and you can’t shut it down, select the application in the application switching window and press “C” to kill it. It’s also a faster way to exit programs.