NOKIA 5800 Tips Tricks & Apps Thread.....

stroebs said:
I'm still cautious about changing the code. I'd much rather wait for the update to be edited by Vodacom and to be released officially.
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So you would rather wait for vodacom to add a few pictures and change your homepage to Vodaphone Live rather than having the phone setup your way now? I can understand hesitance especially if one is not used to self upgrading firmware. But it's easier and a lot less risky than most people think, that is off course if you think before you do and not just blindly follow instructions. So yes I wouldn't recommend it to everybody, but for rest go ahead.
 
Help needed

Help neede. Have a 5800 and downloaded themes from a site. Rar it to a file with a sis extention. Can someone please explain to me step by step from here on
 
Wag said:
Help neede. Have a 5800 and downloaded themes from a site. Rar it to a file with a sis extention. Can someone please explain to me step by step from here on
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If you have Nokia PC Suite installed, you can just double click on the theme sis file and it will install it to the phone as if it were an application, however it installs it to the themes directory. You can then go to Settings -> Personal -> Themes -> General and double click on your new theme to set it.
 
I am having an annoying problem with my 5800.

For some unknown reason every now and then it just won't play most mp3s and it will skip to the next one until it eventually plays one. The next time you open the music player the files that didn't play don't show up at all.

For example.
Yesterday morning there were 177 mp3s on the phone, in the afternoon it started its ***** again and then only 71 songs showed up, even in windows only 71 songs show up but there is still a hell of a lot of space missing on the card (around 106 songs worth to)

It happened to me in the 1st week that I had the phone but I thought the card must have been corrupted from an unsafe removal but after yesterday I reckon either the card or the phone is faulty.

Any idea's?
 
Raithlin said:
How can I find out? Default MTN phone with V21...
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Take out your battery. Underneath it in the phone there is a sticker with a few numbers. The one named "code" is your product code. It's a 7 digit number at the top left of the sticker just under the word "nokia". Please let us know what yours is. I've been dying to find out the mtn code for some time now.
Brawler said:
I am having an annoying problem with my 5800.

For some unknown reason every now and then it just won't play most mp3s and it will skip to the next one until it eventually plays one. The next time you open the music player the files that didn't play don't show up at all.

For example.
Yesterday morning there were 177 mp3s on the phone, in the afternoon it started its ***** again and then only 71 songs showed up, even in windows only 71 songs show up but there is still a hell of a lot of space missing on the card (around 106 songs worth to)

It happened to me in the 1st week that I had the phone but I thought the card must have been corrupted from an unsafe removal but after yesterday I reckon either the card or the phone is faulty.

Any idea's?
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Have those songs played before? I don't think so, i've seen it for the first time today. It seems as if it is a certain kind of encoded mp3 that it can't play back. Like it's missing a certain codec. Once it realizes it can't be played it gets removed from your playlist. That's the only explanation I have. We just need to find out what codec it is.
 
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My whole memory card screwed up a week ago. I was working on my phone and my theme suddenly reverted back to sound waves. And all my apps, music, pics, etc. that was on the memory card disappeared.

I checked on the phone itself and in Windows and the disk space was still being used although I couldn't find any of the data, not even in Windows. I ended up formatting the memory card and it seems to be fine now. Still not sure what happened though.
 
Reptlle said:
My whole memory card screwed up a week ago. I was working on my phone and my theme suddenly reverted back to sound waves. And all my apps, music, pics, etc. that was on the memory card disappeared.

I checked on the phone itself and in Windows and the disk space was still being used although I couldn't find any of the data, not even in Windows. I ended up formatting the memory card and it seems to be fine now. Still not sure what happened though.
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Yep I've had the exact same problem a few days ago. Also a format of the memory card fixed it. Had to reinstall all my apps was a nuisance. But all fine now again. Don't know what caused it. But the sad part is that it was with v21 firmware.
 
Zandberg said:
Take out your battery. Underneath it in the phone there is a sticker with a few numbers. The one named "code" is your product code. It's a 7 digit number at the top left of the sticker just under the word "nokia". Please let us know what yours is. I've been dying to find out the mtn code for some time now.

Have those songs played before? I don't think so, i've seen it for the first time today. It seems as if it is a certain kind of encoded mp3 that it can't play back. Like it's missing a certain codec. Once it realizes it can't be played it gets removed from your playlist. That's the only explanation I have. We just need to find out what codec it is.
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Yes i have played them before.
 
Zandberg said:
Yep I've had the exact same problem a few days ago. Also a format of the memory card fixed it. Had to reinstall all my apps was a nuisance. But all fine now again. Don't know what caused it. But the sad part is that it was with v21 firmware.
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thats what happened to me the first time the music stopped, even garmin disappeared. Also latest firmware, lets hope next firmware fixes it.
 
Yup, I had something like that once. ONly once though - nothing since, despite my constant tinkering.

MTN Code: 0559413
 
Vodacom v21 Firmware upgrade now available on OTA!!!!!

Busy updating now
 
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Hi guys...i just got my phone today....thats why im up so late....lol....
anything i should do 1st? i already updated to v21....on a vodacom contract
I really want Garmin now....
Thanks
 
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