Well, it's been quite a nice journey over here at vox, but let's face it, it was my first attempt at blogging and not my last one. Sadly, vox doesn't support comments from any visitor and at first didn't support RSS feeds which are now the greatest thing to keep on with a blog (does it support RSS now? I don't frankly know). And I had to learn that the rough way.
After looking at a couple of other blogging solutions, and after a tip from Darla (quite a few months ago), I decided to switch to Blogger (or blogspot) if you like.
Dotsisx's new address will be http://dotsisx.blogspot.com make sure you bookmark that address, because with the new blog comes new responsability. I admit, I haven't been a frequent poster here, but I'll make sure to do so over there ;) Plus I have had a couple of posts (mostly reviews of apps) ready for a while now but wanted to put them on the new blog...
Anyway, it's been a lovely road, and I hope you enjoyed it as well. I will transfer some of my interesting posts (as tips n Tricks) over there so i don't lose them.
Have a nice day and hope to see you on the new blog!
This is a little off topic, but I have been suffering from a foot ache for a little less than a year. My first doctor thought it was a tendinitis and gave me 3 shots of cortisone, last september. This month, after a couple of visits to a new doctor, an IRM and a Scan, it turns out it's an oedema with an inflammation of the ligaments (for those of you not in depth with medical terms, a ligament is the connective tissue that fixes 2 bones together in an articulation).
Anyway, no drugs could relieve the pain, so the only solution (besides wearing an arche for 6 months) was to cast my foot for 3 weeks.
Now i'm stuck at home (well, I was originally stuck at home, since I have my finals starting this friday) but I'm more stuck now, with a right foot in a cast, an awfully hot weather, and my toes showing (which I hate btw). Pic taken with the 3250 in poor lighting conditions.
They threw in one sort-of-open-blue-shoe (not in the pic) that I wear when on the move, cuz apparently I can't walk on the cast itself.
I'm stuck like this till Tuesday the 26th. Man, I hate it already!
I thought I had blogged this a while ago, but apparently, my post got lost between my desktop pc and my laptop (long story). Anyway, so a day or so after Babi told me she had put up a Dotsisx theme, Pasco another (italian too) very renowned s60 3rd edition theme creator reported that he too had created a Dotsisx theme. It's as amazing as I thought it would be and all I have to say is "Oh my God! 2 themes?! Am I lucky or what?"
Anyway, here's a screenshot of Pasco's theme off my 3250 and to download just click here.
As stated in my previous post, I was about to do a total phone formatting. But something happened unexpectedly that made me go through it even quicker than expected. A day after I did my post, I had a trouble with my messaging and calendar apps. I was always getting this pop-up error message when tryin to open anythg within these apps: "memory full, close some applications and try again". As I have handy taskman installed, I checked that NO other app was open. I even rebooted the phone a couple of times without any success. My friend then told me her 6630 had the same issue a year or so ago and only a format solved the problem, and here it is: a new reason to add to that list of why I wanted to format my 3250.
So I went to the shop where I bought my phone from and they did the *#7370# as Wardy had suggested in a comment following my phone formatting part 1 post. Luckily I had sync'd my phone with my laptop just the day before. I don't know what would've happened if I didn't... I have hundreds of phone numbers that SHOULD not be lost and I never sync'd my phone with my pc, just because I never use Outlook. Kind of stupid, right? Anyway, I sort of avoided a huge problem here. Adding to that, I performed a memory card formatting, after backing up all the info, of course. After format, I restored all my apps, videos, pictures, sound files, documents, themes. But I didn't restore all my games.
Now here are the changes I noted. Remember, I had in mind to compare phone booting time, camera opening time, RAM, internal memory,... But since that unexpected error occured, I had no time to grab all the info I needed to do the comparison before having the phone formatted, or hard reset. So there it goes:
- the phone is still rebooting sometimes when I open the gallery, probably because I didn't perform a full format.
- the phone start-up seems (and I say seems since I have no comparison times) much quicker. Menu opening and folder opening also are a bit quicker.
- SMS sending speed is back to being as fast as new, even without the SMS_acceleration from Nokia
- Contact's details viewing is much quicker. It used to take around 3-4 seconds to open up a contact's details, now it's basically instantaneous
- the coolest thing I observed: I have now 6.7MB of free internal memory, even after restoring all the applications, all the themes (but not all the games). Even so, I went from 2.7MB to 6.7MB. Now I know I lost all my messages, but those were around 2MB (since I copied them to my pc). So that is 2MB gained, ain't that amazing???
- The keylocking problem still exists: I use Smartphoneware's Best keylocker and I had a problem: even though I had set my delay time to 1min, after 10-20seconds of inactivity, if I press any button the keypad will be locked... But I am pressing a button! How does that give it the right to lock my keypad, I don't know?! Anyway, the problem is still here :s
- I have 2 or so more MB of free RAM (yaaaay)
- my SMS and calendar problem got solved, of course
- I gained back the "Music" folder which was installed on the phone when I first got it, but which I had deleted. Then I ditched it again because its icon doesn't change with the themes :s
- Syncing with my pc after formatting, I didn't lose any of my contacts, calendar or notes entries (which is a very nice surprise btw). But I lost all my contact's groups, I lost all my default number setting for my contacts, and only old sms were re-transfered, 3 times each (WTF?)
Anyway, beside the little problems that are still there (keylocking and rebooting and syncing issues) I am very glad I went through with that format: the more free RAM and internal memory are very nice, the faster SMS and contact's opening are just too good.
