s60

Quickest way to build a simple Symbian app?

Hi, I have a Symbian 9.1 handset, Nokia E65, based on Nokia S60 series UI. I'd like to build a simple, full screen, graphic application. It should be able to display some text and pictures and have a basic interaction from the keyboard. That's for me only, not to be deployed. Now, what do you think is the quickest and most painless way ...

New OVI SDK for Symbian

Has anyone tried the new OVI SDK for Symbian development? What are your experiences? Do you believe that it can help Nokia get more programmers building applications for Symbian based devices, or do you consider Flash Lite, Java or Python to be best choices? ...

What's the best strategy for large amounts of audio files in mobile application?

I have an S60 app which I am writing in Qt and which has a large number (several thousand) small audio files attached to it, each containing a clip of a spoken word. My app doesn't demand high fidelity reproduction of the sounds, but even at the lowest bit rate and in mono MP3 they average 6k each. That means my app may have a footprin...

how to get a console shell on my symbian phone?

How do I get a bash or a similar shell for my new Symbian s60 rev 5 phone (Nokia 5800) ? I already installed putty for s60, but it does not have telnet and it seems that there is no local ssh server running. ...

Standard notifications or alert styles in Symbian (Qt/S60)?

I'm building a an application using Qt on the Symbian/S60 platform and I was wondering if there was a standard notification window that I could use to pass messages to users. Using other platforms as examples, I'm looking for something equivalent to Javascript's alert() method or Cocoa's NSRunAlert* methods. If there is not a native Sy...

What Information can a Nokia WRT Widget have access to on the Device?

I intend to store a unique ID on every device that accesses a web service through a Nokia Web Runtime Widget. Now I know that these Widgets cannot Read/Write files on the devices so its not possible to have that id stored on the device. Is there someone who can figure a way around this? I thought of having the widget get the IMEI number...

How can i open C++ or Java project S60 5th Edition SDK 1.0 with Netbeans

i installed S60 5th Edition SDK 1.0 but i cant open project on netbeans? what can i do? maybe install some netbeans plugin. ...

Unique id of files and monitoring file system changes

Do files or folders on S60 have some unique id value that can identify them? I would like to have an id that can be later used to extract full path of a file or folder. Is this achievable? If not, what would be the best way to keep track of files of interest? E.g. if I have a pdf reader, and I want to have a menu option to show all pd...

CDirScan function NextL raises KERN-EXEC 0

CDirScan function NextL raises "Main Panic KERN-EXEC 0" if it is not called right away SetScanDataL() (i.e. if it is called later within the same active object after another event) f1() - called within active object iDirScan = CDirScan::NewLC(aFs); iDirScan->SetScanDataL(aPath, KEntryAttDir|KEntryAttMatchExclusive, ESortNone...

Carbide does not include debugging info for some files

In Carbide 2.0.2, if I set active configuration to be "Phone Debug GCCE", build the project, go to Debug perspective, choose "Executables" tab, and select the executable file, Source File Name/Location window will list all the files I am able to use while debugging. The problem is that the list does not contain all files from the projec...

Media file can not be switched and played

I am trying to play a music file on S60 5th edition with the following code: _LIT(KMusicFilename, "C:\\Data\\Music.mp3"); TApaTaskList iTaskList(CCoeEnv::Static()->WsSession()); TBool iExists; TApaTask iApaTask = iTaskList.FindApp(TUid::Uid(0x102072C3)); iExists = iApaTask.Exists(); if(iExists) { // Music player already run...

How to Sniff Symbian OS Nokia Phone Network Connections?

How to Sniff Symbian OS(S60 platform) Nokia Phone Network Connections? I need to see the network traffic of my Nokia Phone... ...

Not able to get the type of MessageType in email app of symbian 3rd

Hello friends, I want to develpoe an app which sends email from IMAP4 settings of the phone. And I am following this perticular wiki. RSendAs send; User::LeaveIfError(send.Connect()); CleanupClosePushL(send); RSendAsMessage sendMsg; sendMsg.CreateL(send,**KUidMsgTypeSMTP** ); CleanupClosePushL(sendMsg); sendMsg.SetSubjectL(_L("Inc...

Reading SIM contacts on Symbian S60

I am looking for a working code snippet for Symbian S60 5th edition in which you can read SIM contact details. If possible, I would skip using RPhoneBookSession, but if that is the only way, please provide code snippet how to use it. Thank you. ...

How to launch short codes on mobile device?

Nokia has a long list of short codes on Symbian that can be applied to on-device data, such as *#0000# - to check the phones software revision type, *#7780# - to restore factory settings, etc (the list is long) If given a short code, how can I launch it? The program should not be aware of the functionality of the short code, it sho...

How to detect the current input language?

I am looking for a working code snippet for Symbian S60 5th edition in which: a) an application can detect the current input language (not the UI language); b) an application can receive notifications when current input language is changed. The function CurrentLanguage() from CPtiEngine always returns NULL, so that does not seem to...

How to receive power off events in console application?

I am looking for a working code example for Symbian S60 5th edition in which a console application can receive power off events (i.e. detect phone switch off). I know how to do this from UI application [AppUI, HandleSystemEventL(const TWsEvent& aEvent), etc], but Windows Server does not seem to send events if simple console application i...

akntextutils and LFDM PyS60 Installation Help

I came across a project LFDM and akntextutils at http://www.lfdm.net/thesis/index.php on the internet. However, i've failed to install it on both my emulator and phone. Could anyone help me with how I can install them on both the phone and my PC emulator? I tried copying the source files to c:\system\libs on my computer and i still coul...

"Automatically indent" in Carbide.c++ 2.4.0

After moving from Carbide.c++ 2.0.2 to Carbide.c++ 2.4.0 (it is 2.3.0 + update) and moving my Code Style profile, "Code style" preferences are not applied while typing in one particular case, and it is related to indent position after conditionals. My code style profile says the conditional should look like this: if (x > 3) { ...

S60 camera focusing

Hi guys. In my project I have to use mobile camera from my own program. I use python with S60 platform under NOKIA 6220 Classic. It has 5mp-camera. The problem is that photos quality are very-very low. Seems that auto-focusing doesn't work. I'd like to know maybe anyone from you made something before. I can buy new telephone if I'll nee...