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Wednesday, 6 June 2012

Use CCleaner to Clean your Computer


Using computer constantly results in a creation of large number of unwanted temporary files. These files take up space on our hard disk and many of these are present in location that we cannot remove or manual removal may lead to instability by accidentally  removing useful system files

That's where CCleaner comes in to play

CCleaner developed by Piriform can be used to remove these temporary files.

Sunday, 13 May 2012

How To place a Smaller Time on Nokia X2 Home Screen [ STEP by STEP guide with IMAGES ]

Nokia X2 is a awesome phone, but there are a few quirks in it.

Also the icons are quite big in the homescreen.
I am going to show you how to fix the big time display on the homescreen and replace it with a Nice Small Snappier time on the top right hand corner

There are two methods to fix the intimidating time and date from the display of Nokia X2
1. Remove the time and date completely
2. Make the time small and place it on the right hand corner

1. Removing the time and date completely from the display of Nokia X2
Step 1: Go to Menu > Settings

Step 2: Go to Date and Time

Step 3: Go to Date and Time Format

Step 4: Go to Date

Step 5: Make Clock HIDDEN

Step 6:Similarly do it  for Date

THATS IT,

But one drawback is that you cannot see the time now. This is fixed by a BETTER method 2

2. Make the time on the display of Nokia X2 small and place it on the right hand corner





Step 1.Go to Setting > Display

Step 2.Go to Home Screen
 Step 3.Change Home Screen Mode and Set it ON
Step 4.Now Go to Personalize view

Step 5.Personalize it as I have done it
Step 6.Home Screen Key. Set it to Navig. UP and Down
Step 7.Choose Home Scr. Font Col.
Step 8.Go to Settings> MY Shortcut
Step 9.Set Right Selection Key to Names
Step 10.THATS IT

Step 11. Another advantage of this method is that u can set temporary NOTES for yourself that are ALWAYS visible

Saturday, 17 March 2012

Hiding Files and Folders in Nokia X200 or any Nokia S40 phone


Well Nokia x2 00 has two main preloaded applications in its main menu
1. Photos
2. Music
The Photos app will show all the images on your memory card at this one place
The Music app will show all the music files and video files on your memory card here
Now many a times we want to hide our personal files from other people

What we can do about it
1. Do not give the phone to other people
                But sometimes someone close to us, a friend or a cousin may ask for the phone and it may sound rude to not give the phone
2. Put a security Guard on the phone
                It is one of the best ways to guard your phone by simply putting a key guard security. But again the above reason stands true
3. Hiding the Folders on the Memory Card
                But still they will be visible in Photos and Music Applications
4. Hiding the Files so that they are completely inaccessible

Hiding the Folders on the Memory Card

1. Create a folder named ABCD.jad (or anyname.jad)
2. Put the files you want to hide in this folder
3. Create a folder named ABCD.jar (or anyname.jar)
4. That’s it the ABCD.jad folder and files in it will not be visible anymore
5. To access the folder back rename ABCD.jar to ABCD.jara (or .ja or .j or anything but not .jar)
6. But these files will still be accessible in the Photos and Music Applications.

Nokia X2 Camera Image Capture Problems: Nokia X200 flash is too bright and spoils the Image


Nokia X200 has a 5MP camera
Note 5MP denotes the number of pixels a image has
Nokia X2 also has a flash light to enhance your  Image
But you may notice that the flash spoils the image
1. It because the flash is too bright as it is meant  doubles up as a torch light
2. Because there is a plastic cover on the lens and camera which spreads the light from the flash on to the image

Solutions
Now many of you may be vary of removing the cover as it may end up giving scratches on the lens (which is really very bad)
So what I did is I used a paper cutter and cut out the lens cover from the flash light and kept the cover on the camera lens as it is
In this manner the problem was solved and even the camera lens won’t get any scratches

Nokia X2 Camera Image Capture Problems: Nokia X2-00 is freezing while capturing many photos at a time


Nokia X200 has a 5Mp camera
Note 5MP denote the number of pixels a image has.
Now since the camera capture the image at 5MP it results in creation of a very large file
After you capture an image you end up with an Image.nrw file this is nothing but the raw image
It is the raw dump of capture image and hence it is very large in size about 5Mb
After the raw file is created the phone starts to compress it in to a .jpg file of about 1mb. This requires processing power from phone
Now if you click many photos at a time it will lead to many raw images being processed at the same time and hence majority of the processing power is consumed here
And now if you click a new photo it tends to take a lot time to save
We don’t have any solution to this
May be you can try to
1. Reduce the image resolution
2. Wait for a few seconds before taking every new image.

Nokia X200 Video Problems


We find than Video Playback quality is acceptable but audio quality is poor and below standards
Many People who have Nokia x2 complain of having good video quality but bad audio quality
This can be fixed
Nokia X200 supports two video Formats .mp4 and .3gp
Generally quality of .mp4 is better than .3gp and size of the .mp4 is more than .3gp
I convert the videos on my pc and transfer it to my phone
I use the following setting for better audio playback (and lower video size)
I use .mp4 for files I watch the most and I like and .3gp for other files
I use ImToo video converter you may use any other video convertor Find and adjust these settings and save them as a new Profile/template for future use

SETTINGS FOR AN .MP4 FILE

VIDEO SETTINGS
Video Codec: MPEG-4
Video Size: 320x240 ( qvga ) (Nokia x200 screen size)
Bitrate : 256K (This produces Good quality video. Lower it down to reduce file size)
Frame Rate: 24Fps
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Zoom: Full (Keep Aspect Ratio)
Encode Mode: VBR (Variable Bitrate)

AUDIO SETTINGS
Audio Codec: MPEG-4 AAC
Sample Rate: 48000.
Bitrates: 192K (This produces Good quality audio. Lower it down to reduce file size)
Channel: MONO (Not STEREO! Very Imp!!)
Volume: 125% (More than 100%)

SETTINGS FOR A .3gp FILE

VIDEO SETTINGS
Video Codec: H.263
Video Size: 320x240(qvga) (Nokia X200 screen size)
Bitrates: 256K (This produces Good quality video. Lower it down to reduce file size)
Frame Rate: 24Fps
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Zoom: Full (Keep Aspect Ratio)
Encode Mode: VBR (Variable Bitrates)

AUDIO SETTINGS
Audio Codec: libamr_nb
Sample Rate: 8000.
Bitrates: 12.2K (This produces Good quality audio. Lower it down to reduce file size)
Channel: MONO (Not STEREO! Very Imp!!)
Volume: 125% (More than 100%)

Nokia X200 Software Update Tutorial



5 Simple Steps to Update Your Nokia Handset
Nokia X200 is another affordable handset from Nokia.
But it also has a lot of problems with it
We will address those problems in time one by one.
Majority of problems can be fixed just by updating your phone
Nokia X200 has 1 software Update
This Post will address the way of Updating your Phone Software
Note: This is the way How I updated my Phone
 Your experience may be completely different. I am not responsible any consequences whatsoever

Step 1
 Check Your Current Version of Nokia Firmware
Press *#0000# on your phone. You will get information about the version number of your phone
For Nokia X200 if it is V 08.25 then you are on the latest version and this tutorial is not for you.
If you are on V 4.90 or any lower version than 8.25 then continue reading.

Step 2
Gathering the Requirements
You need the following things.
1. A Reliable and Always on Internet or Broadband Connection
                Note that we are going to download a file of about 50-70 Mb and your internet connection should not fail during this download!!
2. Nokia Software Updater (This Software Will Update your Phone)
3. Nokia USB Cable.

Step 3
Backup all your data
1. Backup all your photos Videos
2. Backup all your applications
3. Backup your entire memory card
4. Backup all your contacts
5 backup all your messages

Step 4
Updating
1. Run the Nokia Software Updater
2. Follow on Screen Instructions
3. Connect your phone to your PC When Asked
4 Click Update
5. Wait for the Download to Finish
6. Phone will be automatically updated after the download

Step 5
Checking Your Brand New Updated Phone