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Sykpe Fring and VoIPSrv on Nokia

the imax — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:56:59 +0000

So just the other day I installed Fring on my Nokia E-72 and it worked like a charm
than I wanted to have a go with Skype and installed the newly released Skype for Symbian 1.0, Sykpe also worked out of the box
but guess what, after installing Skype Fring stopped working, it was working for chat etc and application was running allowing me log in but there was no audio when I made calls

I removed and reinstalled Fring and again Fring Started working, but now Skype got corrupt and reached same situation as was Fring, Skype was connecting to the Skype network but was unable to make calls and there was no voice.

So it turned out that there is a component VoIPSrv which both Skype and Fring Use and it is also installed at the time of installation of Skype or Fring
Skype uses the older version of component i.e. VoIPsrv 1.0 while Fring Uses the new VoIPSrv 2.0, now only one version of this component can be installed on the phone at one time as both Fring and Skype require different versions so one of them won’t work
either you can have Skype or Fring.
I decided to stick with Fring as it does allow you to have the Skpye conversations so there is no special need of having a dedicated Skype Client Software on Nokia Sybmian Phones

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Nokia VoIP ‘Unable to edit. Profile currently in use’

the imax — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:28:33 +0000

After I was able to register my VoIP Number on Nokia E-72 I was faced with another daunting task

The VoIP Service won’t disconnect!!! I was not able to de-register, delete, change or edit my SIP/VoIP Profile. whatever if tired to do I kept getting the message that “Unable to edit. Profile currently in use” and there was no option of disconnecting over all the VoIP and SIP setting Menus

Anyhow actually the disconnect button was hidden in the Contact Book
When you open the Contact or Phone Book than at the Top right there is a drop down menu stating “Phone” as 1st item and the 2nd Item will be your VoIP Profile Name

You need to select the VoIP profile from there, now click center key and it would give you the option to disconnect from the VoIP service. Disconnect and after that you will be able to mess/play/edit the VoIP settings.

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Connecting TP-Link Wireless ADSL Router to External WAN

the imax — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:08:47 +0000

You might have a DSL modem and router and wireless access point integrated as one single unit.
This ADSL wireless router is meant connect to the internet via DSL and at the same time provides you wireless connectivity. If you don’t want to use your DSL connection but have some other means of connecting to the internet like Cable or WiMax than the situation can become a bit tricky and these devices might not always work.
Anyway here is the procedure which can be used to connect a TP Link Wireless ADSL2+ Route TD-W8910G to a external WAN.

For using TD W8910 just as a wireless AP disable the DHCP server function on it and connect a Ethernet cable from one LAN port of the other internet device (Cable Modem/ WiMAX CPE etc) to one LAN port of the TD-W8910G. All the PCs/laptops in the LAN WLAN will now obtain IP addresses directly from other internet device.
You can now fire up the laptop and use internet directly as you were using before!

If you have only a couple of work stations than you can permanently disable the DHCP function of TP Link router and assign manual IP addresses to the computers, in this way you can any time plugin in the other internet CPE or modem in Tp-Link router and you won’t have to do any config on router (Apart from making the IP at you PC auto assigned by DHCP)

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Nokia E72 VoIP Settings

the imax — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:12:32 +0000

WARNING
If you just purchased your Nokia E-72 and are trying to use its in built VoIP application and from Control Panel > Settings > Connections > SIP settings
Than rest assured that it won’t Work

To get VoIP working You need to download and install SIP VoIP Settings Application from Nokia Website .
This application can be downloaded from http://www.forum.nokia.com/Tools_Docs_and_Code/Tools/Plug-ins/Enablers/SIP_VoIP_Settings_application.xhtml And you will have to register prior to downloading, to save you from this trouble I have also attached a copy of this application at the end of this post

I was really amazed, shocked and angry when I found out that E-72 does not come with an out of the box VoIP client, after all E-72 is the Nokia’s Flag ship mobile for Business Customers and VoIP is a very basic requirement of such phones.

Nokia really made it really confusing, if the built-in SIP Profile application does not work than why did they include it in Phone, so that everyone’s wastes an hours trying to get their VoIP Numbers registered ?

Please note the 3.1 version is for Symbian devices (S60 5.x) touch screen mobiles and does not work with E-72, I have tested version 3.x which is for S60 3rd edition phones and it is working fine as E-72 which is also carries the Symbian 3rd Edition OS.

After installation you will need to go to Control Panel > Net Settings > Advanced VOIP Settings to configure the VoIP (Note these setting will only appear AFTER you install the VoIP Settings Application 3.x)

Following is the link to directly download SIP VoIP settings App
SIP_VoIP_3_1_Settings_S60_5_x_v1_0_en

Note: If you are having problems in getting VoIP to work on your phone than don’t hesitate to post it in comment form below and we will try to help you as much as possible

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How to use Voip

the imax — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:51:49 +0000

To utilize Voice over IP (VoIP), you need a high speed Internet connection and an analog telephone adapter (ATA). The ATA is the device that allows you to connect your regular telephone to the Internet. You can purchase these from a retailer or use the one provided by the VoIP provider when you sign up for their plan.

The ATA connects to the broadband Internet jack in your house. Since you likely won’t have many broadband outlets in your home, you’ll likely want to use a multiple handset cordless telephone to conveniently use your VoIP service throughout the house.

There is only one potential downside of a VoIP service compared to traditional dial up services. The VoIP services requires both power and the availability of a high speed Internet connection to operate. If either of these are down, the VoIP service will be unavailable, a limitation not faced by traditional dial up services. On the other hand, most people have a cell phone they can use as a backup so even a power or Internet connection outage wouldn’t be a problem.

1. Getting Connected

Singing up with a VoIP plan provider is easy. Read up plans of popular VoIP providers like Vonage, Lingo etc and chose the one you like

When you receive the kit, you’ll connect the ATA to your cable or DSL modem and install the software on your PC. Then you connect your telephone to the ATA. It’s that simple.
2. Making Phone Calls

Simply dial the phone just as you did before with your dial up connection.
3. Managing Your Account

You can manage your account through a secure web site. The account management software will allow you to perform the following functions.

* Check voice mail
* Set speed dial numbers
* Set do not disturb preferences
* Call forwarding
* View call logs

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Benefits of using Asterisk

the imax — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:30:06 +0000

Some of the phone systems I’ve looked at such as Shoretel’s implementation require a license per extension. Asterisk on the other hand, does not require any cost for the software, only the price of the server, any switches need, and the phones themselves. This is another big point for the Asterisk system: You can use quite a variety of phones with the system pretty easily. From what I’ve seen the Cisco 79xx line and the Polycom SoundPoint 30x and 50x are the best phones around. The Polycom seem to be quite a bit cheaper for the same feature set as the Cisco’s though. Currently, I’ve got a test implementation running that took about an hour to set up, and tested with soft-phones and a pay as you go account from Iaxtel.
Iaxtel’s service is .02 cents per minute local and .04 cents per minute long distance for the pay as you go account. Typical savings for the company that I work for would be reducing the long distance bill by about 30%. I’m sure there will be more posts along this line from me, as I get two Polycom 501’s If you’re looking for more information on Asterisk, check out Digium official website

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Polycom 501 with Asterisk

the imax — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:17:55 +0000

I’ve been playing with as a possible solution to use Polycom 501 IP Phone with asterisk.
I’ve been looking into the usability of the Polycom 5xx series phones as well as a few others, and now have two phones in house to play with. The phones out of the box are nice, though, I’m not too happy with the ring tones that are available with the phone itself. To me, it seems like this wouldn’t be a normal office phone that anybody would want to use, the rings are quiet, and not very alerting. I might be a little biased in this opinion due to the fact that I work in operations, BUT nonetheless, a ring is one major part of the feel of the phone. That said, there are quite a few nice points about the phone worth mentioning. First off, it’s usability with Asterisk is pretty damn good. Right out of the box, the directory is easy to configure(via xml and tftpboot), config for the phone is xml, and remote rebooting the phones works flawlessly. I must say that it did take me a few clicks to find out the procedure to do this, as I’m new to both Asterisk and the Polycom phones. For those interested, the Polycom’s use sip, and inherently the sip notify feature of asterisk, which has a builtin script for Polycom phones in particular(there are some others as well, search for “sip notify”). Also, the Polycom’s configuration is pretty easy to sort out as well, assuming you have the correct options for dhcp setup(i.e. boot server, etc) config is pulled off the tftp server immediately.
Nice for something like this to work right out of the box!

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Recalibrate laptop battery

the imax — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:27:39 +0000

I have had my current laptop for about 16 months, in the begining the laptop had a backup time of 1.5 hours but now it has quickly fallen down to only 10 minutes
A bit of investigation revealed that I need to re-calibrate my battery to improve the performance.
Following are the steps that you need to follow

Fully charge your battery
Go to your Control Panel:
Start->Control Panel
Open Power Options

On the Power Schemes drop box click on “Always On

Click on the Alarms Tab and uncheck the low battery alarm, and the critical battery alarm
Now unplug your adapter from your computer and leave it on until it loses power and shuts off by itself
Do not use your computer during this process.

After it shuts off and you turn it back on make sure you go back into your Power Options (Start->Control Panel->Power Options) and click the power scheme you want. The click the alarms tab and re-tick the boxes. Your battery should be about close to normal. If it’s not then you probably need a new one.

This activity will give your Laptop power management software an updated Capacity Versus Voltage graph, actually the hidden capacity was already there in you battery, however your laptop software was unaware about it.
As the performance of laptop batteries keep on deteriorating with time so you should be performing this recalibration activity regularly like after every couple of months

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How to Copy Text from Nokia Symbian Browser ?

the imax — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:08:41 +0000

I am looking for a way to copy Text from browser that comes with Symbian / Nokia Mobiles
If anyone knows of any work around or hack which can enable users to copy text from Nokia default browser than please share
Also is it same for the latest mobiles being offered by Nokia e.g. E72 i.e. still no option to copy text ?

Nokia Phones are great but lacking a basic feature like copy from borwser is a big turn-off for many users. Most of the mobiles do allow users to copy and paste text in editable text boxes, why they don’t allow users to copy/paste specific text from mobile browsers is beyond reason and understanding, I think even Opera lacks this text copy feature

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Twitter Client for Nokia Symbian

the imax — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:19:31 +0000

I had been playing namecheap holiday trivia contest on twitter so I required a nice twitter client for my Nokia Symbian S60 3rd edition Mobile Phone

A quick Google Search lead me to Gravity, I installed and fired it up without any problems, it was an excellent client with ability to run in the background, automatic polling of new tweets, ability to copy and forward tweets as text messages, profile viewing, option to upload photos taken by mobile to twitter and also showed you the amount of data used by the application.

I used it for a good 8 days as sadly it was a trial version, Gravity for Symbian Phones is not free and will $$$ If you want to use it.

I also used to basic version of tweets60, which is free, it does seem a solid client however lacks the niffy interface and detailed features offered by Gravity, specially I missed the ‘twitter search’ function in it. As Gravity had the ability to Poll and Update Search results from twitter in real time, very useful, in case you want to see what people are talking about a particular topic

To conclude I would say that if you are twitter freak and want to use it on the go from your Nokia phone than you should definitely think about investing some money in buying Gravity , however for casual use even tweets60 will do

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