My N95 Hints, Tips and Help

Hi there,

Ive been chatting to some people who have been having hissing issues through their headset when using their N95′s. I was confused as ALOT of people complained of this, yet my phone didnt seem to have the problem.

After some thinking, a lightbulb went off in my head and I realised that I had turned Keypad tones off, as I dont like my phone to beep each time I touch it. Sure enough, when I turned my keypad tones to any level above OFF, the phone would hiss in my ears.

So just a heads up, that this MAY be a fix for the hissing coming from peoples phones. Turn your keypad tones off!

Article by: Mitchee

Hi Folks,
rather than exceed my hosted bandwidth this month, I’ve elected to take the Australian hosted maps offline. With the advent of the new mapping software and its increased download speed, perhaps there
isn’t any requirement to maintain this download separately.
I’ll review the situation in July. I’m open to paypal donations. If you feel this site is worth it and you’d like
to see some enhanced content on here, start a discussion in the comments section.

**Update** It should be noted that this is NOT an official release. Thus, when it IS officially released to the public, it could have a different number and different Maps software, etc.**Update**Seems everything’s getting a nice little refresh lately, with the N73 and N80, and now I’ve gotten these screenshots showing the N95 with a fresh firmware (dated yesterday, no less!) I didn’t get an official changelog (what’s up with those NEVER being available?) but I did get these three screenshots. The first shows that the firmware is dated yestday, 6-19-2007, and is numbered v12.0.013.

Frankly, there’s not *too* many changes that I’ve come across. Available RAM after a fresh boot is still ~18MB. I did check for FOTA, and it’s not there, unfortunately. However, the new version of Nokia Maps is in there, as you can see from this screenshot. This also adds the ability of Assisted-GPS, which uses cell ID’s and their known location to help speed up the process of locking into a location. which uses the device’s data connection to talk to a server that helps it process the locations being sent from the satellite, resulting in a quicker and more efficient location lock. 

With A-GPS disabled, it took the N95 a full 74 seconds to lock-on. With A-GPS enabled (and after a power cycle with battery removal), it was only 57 seconds. That’s a 17 second speed boost, and because A-GPS is a learning system that keeps track of known cell-IDs, it will get continually faster. Also, with A-GPS, I was able to get a location lock INDOORS! I tested this by walking from one end of the house to the other, and it followed me on the screen. Freakin SWEET.

The product code for this update is 0536062.

Will be playing more, if there’s anything else that you’d like to know about this new firmware (other than when it will officially be released, cause I don’t know that) then leave it in the comments

 source:

http://symbianguru.typepad.com/welcome/2007/06/new_n95_firmwar.html

Article by: sciacca_paul

This may or may not help everyone, I can only vouch for my own experience.

After reading the article I was feeling kind of let down, as I use my phone for my morning alarm. It was a choice – get to work on time or have the neat multimedia key. So I bit the bullet and set the alarm. I decided to try the MM key, it was broken… I could have cried.

Then, one day while showing my neat new phone to a friend, I decided to slide it for the landscape view – just to show how cool the phone is. Low and behold, next time I tried to use the MM key, it worked. I don’t know if this will work for everyone, but the MM key works and so does my recurrent alarm.

Article by: sortius

NOTE: Before you race off to install this, a few people have reported issues with the new mapping software on the N95.
The issues seem to revolve around the way in which routing is handled, it appears with the new version you lose some functionality. Peharps someone that has tried this can post a comment and let us know what the issues actually are.

It looks as though Smart 2 Go have released an updated version of Map Loader. And this update isn’t just a quick useless update. It is a nice jump forward.

With the main improvements being the downloading and installing speeds of the maps (down to about 10minutes for Australian Maps now).

And the option to download the voices through Map Loader.

There is also a new Smart 2 Go Map’s Application being released for the N95 in the coming weeks with the following fixes:

Here are some of the updates you can look forward too:

• Navigation Trial: 3-day free Navigation trial
  Giving you a chance to try out the voice navigation features before upgrading.
• New indicators: GPS status, bandwidth indicators
  Giving you more information and allowing you to keep track of the data being used by the application.
• Map improvements: Colouring, details, horizon, country borders & time zones
• Unified search: All search methods in one menu & intuitive search interaction
• Improved category search: Multi-level search (Eat + Drink -> Restaurants -> Thai)
• Faster navigation start: Starts before full route calculated, starts without GPS fix.
• Faster MapLoader: Download speed improved significantly and voice command download
  A very welcome update which should hopefully improve the multi hour download times.
• New regions: India and Indonesia plus better coverage in Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore (in total more than 100 countries/over 50 navigable)

Source: http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/5444_Smart2Go_Nokia_Maps_beta_nearl.php
enjoy.

Article by: sciacca_paul

Found this site recently. It has stacks of stuff for the N95 and other Symbian S60 3rd edition phones. Plenty of themes and applications and games to keep you busy with your N95 for hours. Some of the app’s are pretty handy as well.

Check it out at http://www.series60v3.com/

Article by: scanman

You can send the real player to the background without pausing the audio streaming by pressing the power button followed by the red exit button.

Article by: JensN95

We now have 81 registered users on this site.
If you have a handy hint for the Nokia N95, please consider contributing an article or two to help this site grow and maintain its status as the #1 resource for the N95.

Please remember though this is not a forum, so posting questions as articles will not make it past moderation.
We want hints and tips for the N95. Not general support queries.

To the person who said they could contribute the south african maps. Drop me an email. admin@myN95.com and we’ll help you get your maps online.

Want to use Flickr to upload your pics to the web, but have no idea how to configure your phone to do it?
Flickr have now created a guide for setting up the N95 to use with their service.

You can find the guide here.

Article by: muzzamo

If you have seen this error message on your N95, there is a solution.
Try this:

Tools
-> Settings
-> Applications
-> App. Manager
-> Online Certificate check -> off

That should get rid of the error when trying to install/register programs.