2009/03/07

SymTorrent for Symbian S60 3rd

SymTorrentSymTorrent for Symbian S60 3rd and 5th edition. SymTorrent is the first and currently only BitTorrent client for Symbian OS. It supports downloading multiple torrents at the same time, is capable of both downloading and uploading and can save the status of your unfinished torrents, so you can resume the downloads after restarting the application.

You can also check the status of each file inside a torrent along with several other statistics and properties during download. Torrents can be started from the browser, and selecting the files that are downloaded from multi file torrents is also supported.

Currently, SymTorrent is available for mobile devices based on the S60 Platform 3rd and the latest 5th edition (Nokia 5800 XpressMusic). Supported phone models include all recently released Symbian OS based phones, such as the Nokia Nseries/Eseries devices, phones with touch UI and many older models as well.

SymTorrent is free and open source software. You can download it from the official website.

2009/03/06

Better File Manager for Nokia N96

Do you want an Advanced File Manager for your Nokia N96 cell phone? X-plore is a is a powerful file management utility for Symbian devices, with wide range of functions on phone's file system and Windows Explorer-like environment.

It implements all standard features such as file/folder manipulation. Thus, you can copy, move or delete files and entire folders, create folders, create and unpack Zip archives, it also has integrated text and image viewer and much, much more.

This software is shareware, with friendly price and relaxed registration option and you can use the unregistered version as long as you wish without any limits regarding to functionality and the only restriction in free version is the slower application startup and close.

Features:

  • View all drives / folders / files on phone in tree view
  • Integrated text and image viewer
  • View file details
  • Edit file attriutes (hidder, read-only, etc)
  • Rename and delete files
  • Create or edit text files
  • Create folders
  • Multi-selection
  • Copy or move files and folders
  • Send files by Bluetooth or Infrared
  • Extract files from Zip, Rar, Jar archives
  • Pack files to Zip archive
  • View Word documents
  • Hardware device info
  • View processes and tasks
  • Built-in program update
  • Viewing, saving files in Messaging folders
  • Hex viewer and editor
  • Search files
  • Folder hotkeys
  • Simple audio player
  • Simple video player

DivX Mobile Player for Nokia N96

Mobilize your media! DivX® video offers a truly cinematic media experience that’s as flexible as your life demands. DivX lets you enjoy your media wherever you want. DivX Mobile products give you a high-quality DivX media experience in the palm of your hand. Enjoy your movies, video clips and TV shows absolutely anywhere.

Nokia N96 is not officially DivX certified. Anyway you may still be able to watch DivX® videos on your phone by installing the DivX Mobile Player as it support Symbian S60 3rd edition.

You will need to log in to your DivX Labs account and subscribe to the DivX Mobile Community to download the DivX Mobile Player. Don’t have a DivX Labs account? Create an account in DivX Labs website.

Get the DivX Mobile Player from DivX Labs.

Soft Reset Nokia N96 phone

*#7780# (*#rst0*) - This will soft reset your phone. It is different from *#7370# because all data, like contacts, calendar and notes, are not removed. It will only reset the phone settings, such as profiles, themes and shortcuts. The default lock code is 12345.

Acquiring WLAN / MAC Address in N96

You can quickly acquire WLAN / MAC Address using star-hash code in Nokia N96 by typing *#62209526# (easy to remember on keypad: *MAC0WLAN#) from standby mode. The address is displayed in 6-pairs of 2 digits hex number separated with colons, for total 12 digits hex number (i.e., 00:22:fc:68:64:80).

Acquiring Bluetooth Device Address in N96

Use you use star-hash code for quickly acquiring bluetooth device address in your Nokia N96 cell phone. From standby mode, type *#2820#, an information pop-up window will appear with Bluetooth device address (12 digits hex number) displayed on it.

How old is your Nokia N96 phone?

Do you want to display the life timer information of your S60 phone, i.e. the total time of phone call (in minutes). ? Nokia has warranty life timer that can be accessed by entering *#92702689# in standby mode.

Some users have asked how to reset this timer; as far as I know the only way to reset it is by flashing the phone.