TECHMUNDO 2.0

After more than 1 year of E61 bliss, I’ve finally retired my trusty phone.  I was getting seriously concerned that the joystick/thumbstick is getting loose and might  die on me pretty soon.  So I just shut my eyes and jumped.

I was never really a big fan of apple products.  I was pretty late getting into the iPod bandwagon (my first HDD based music player was an iRiver ihp120), but I couldn’t resist anymore.  The huge sexy widescreen touchscreen display was just too much to be ignored.  So with a heavy heart, I went to Greenhills (our electronics hub in the Philippines) and sold my E61.  I’ve also been disposing of my old iPods — the orange shuffle and the first gen Nano whitey.

As of this writing, I am happily synching 6 gigs worth of music to the iPhone.  I’m also converting some of my dvds to test drive the iPhone’s movie capabilities.  First ones on the list are 300, Evil Dead and Hot Fuzz.

So I guess my blog is out of retirement.  I will be posting some info on how I managed to upgrade my 1.02 firmware and jailbreak it to allow usage of my globe sim card.

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Ever had those tough to remove themes? Installed them, but after awhile they lose their appeal and when you try to remove them, they aren’t even listed in the list of uninstallables?

S60 3rd’s Echozulu has this trick up his sleve. (The Step by step is a quote from their site, click on the link to see the guide with pics)

1. Connect your device to your PC in ‘Mass storage’ mode - or insert your Mini SD card into a card reader and connect it to your PC.

2. Once your PC recognizes your card a new drive will appear under ‘My Computer’. Open it, and browse to \private\10207114\import.

3. Browse through each of the folders in this directory to find the theme you would like to remove. The MBM, MIF, and SKN files in each folder should each be named after the theme - so if you want to remove a theme called “MyTheme”, look for “MyTheme.mbm” etc.

*Note that you may see some MBM/MIF/SKN files named simply “themepackage.mbm” etc. In this case, simply open the SKN file in Notepad and you will see the actual theme name in the first few lines of text. Here is an example:

In the example you can see that the actual name of the theme is N80 Simplified v2 (created by teddymustupo).

4. Once you’ve found the folder containing the theme files you’d like to remove, simply delete the contents of the folder (don’t delete the folder itself).

Now put your card back in your phone you’ll notice that the theme is no longer listed under themes and you’ve freed up some space on your memory card.

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Version 0.85 of Mobile Divx is out.

Click here to download.  I wonder what they’ve updated.  I told myself I wont upgrade my E61 until I finish SuperMiners.  So I also wont upgrade my Divx until I finish that damn game, last few levels . .. last few levels . . .

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I got tons of emails and some comments that Divx for E61 (S60v3) has expired.  I checked mine, and . . . yup . . . it has indeed.

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I still haven’t upgraded my firmware, simply because I’m in the middle of Super Miners.  I’m helplessly stuck in level 84 (I think) and I don’t want to mess up my save game.

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As you guys can see, I haven’t been updating my blog recently.  Partly because there isn’t really much to write about, and partly because I have been quite busy with other stuff — christmas shopping and recently enrolling in technical analysis for the stock market.  Anyhoo, my E61 has been acting up.  The backlight switches off with for no apparent reason, although an annoyance, it doesn’t occur too much.  Also I noticed a couple of phone restarts the other day, but apart from that, no real problems.

It’s just wierd that everytime a gadget of mine acts up, a new firmware is available.  With the E61, the new firmware is up.

Ed writes about his observations on the new firmware in his great blog.

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I was driving home the other night listening to the diggnation podcast and they were talking about the soon to be released, much anticipated, and just like any other apple product, much hyped, iPhone.

Note that the mock up is just a mock up. But it’s the nicest one I can find.

It started out with Kevin Rose, being typically Kevin, didn’t want to spill a single bit of info about the iPhone. Tight lipped Kevin eventually gave in to Alex’s continual prodding and boozing and gave some really nifty specs about Apple’s upcoming mobile telephony device. It’s coming out in three variants (GSM, and the other two), two different storage capacities (4 and 8 gigers), separate batteries for the mp3 and phone functions, touch screen, slide out keyboard, . . .

I’m actually very interested; more interested with the iPhone than the new Nokia’s mobile computer/phones. It’s set to be released next month. Let’s hope they throw in Wi-Fi connectivity and I’d really be tempted. Oh no. . .

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I’ve been away for a few days.  Some friends of mine asked me to go with them to Boracay and I said yes.  The last time I went to Boracay was when I was 10 years old.  Back then, all you could see was sparkling clear water and white sand going forever, there was no water lines yet nor electricity.  Back then, we even had to go back to the ship at night and be ferried back in the morning to go back to the beach.

The difference is huge, comparing Boracay 20 years ago.  Now it’s covered by shops and inns.  It’s a good thing that we went at a time that was still considered Off Peak; accomodation prices weren’t too high yet, and enjoying the beach didn’t mean bumping into someone’s back every ten seconds.

Okay . .. back to the original point of the post.  I flew to the island of Kalibo (which is a couple of hours away to Boracay via land travel and a short ferry ride) via Philippine Airlines.  I’m pretty sure most of you have been hassled by Flight Attendants to have your mobile phones switched off even if Flight Mode was available (or Offline in E61).  Much to my surprise, before the plane took off during the routine safety procedure presentation of the FA’s, they specifically said have your phones switched off or in flight mode.  Wow!

Back when I went to Singapore via Tiger Airways a few months back, they didn’t hassle me with my E61 also.  Same thing when I took a flight via Jet Star Asia.  My point . . . it’s good that the airline industry is kept abreast to mobile phone developments.  By allowing the E61 switched on means that I can enjoy watching movies, listening to podcasts or playing SuperMiners (now in Level 60) especially on long flights.

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