Are you able to install the Nokia Browser?

I was trying to install the Nokia Browser from Ovi for my C3 phone. Unfortunately, I got the message

Unable to complete installation. Download file again.

I did this 3 times and still I got the same install error. My microSD card is a whopping 8Gbytes! Wonder if someone successfully installed this browser?

January 2, 2012: It is now installed and successfully launched. The version is at 1.8.0.50.5

Whats is the software model in your phone?

Choose on Menu/Settings/Phone/Phone Updates/current sw details. Mine tells me

V 04.45
04-08-10
RM-614
(C) Nokia

I am interested what your Nokia C3 tell about yours.

OVI store updates now at version 2.18.0

November 18, 2011. I am currently updating my OVI store from version 2.40 to 2.18.0! Will tell more after the update.

As usual I have forgotten my password and the password change/notification program is not that error free. The Nokia C3 failed to accept my new password! Well, I will try again some other day.

Who just called you and whom did you call recently?

The call logs are hidden inside the Contacts icon so press Menu/Contacts/Log

Under this Logs we have

All calls

• Missed calls
  
• Received calls-phone numbers (if available from the network) of received calls .
  
• Dialled numbers - view the most frequently dialed numbers.
  
• Message recepients - view phone numbers of recepients of sent messages.
  
• Clear log lists - clear log lists , CAUTION in using this feature.
  
• Call Duration-duration of all recent, received, dialled and all calls calls.
  
• Data Counter - number of bytes of sent, received latest sessions and connections.
  
• Packet data timer- duration of packet data connections and lets you reset the timers.
  
• Message log - [sent|received] [texts |MMS] messages
  
• Positioning - adjust positioning settings, view positioning requests.
  
• Sync log-details on synchronization events
  
  So who just called us? choose received and missed calls.
  
  And whom did you call recently? choose dialled numbers.
  
  

How do I create Notes in the Nokia C3?

This phone has five types of notes apps with calendar integration, namely,

1. Reminder
2. Meeting
3. Call
4. Birthday
5. Anniversary

These are all available in the calendar application by pressing Option/Make a note.
When the date/time arrives the user will be automatically informed or alerted by the phone that
a note has been triggered.

But what if you just want to write a note like a file wihthout calendar integration, i.e,
notification? No problem! Click on Apps, select Notes (You need to scroll down to see it), it is
after the To-do list.

Here are some menu selections under the Apps/Notes menu:

Make a note	create a new note
Delete	delete current active note
Edit	edit the current note
Use detail	copies Number|Mail address|Web address for later pasting.
send note	send as messgae or send via bluetooth
delete all note	this is dangerous, so use with caution.
memory status	why it is in Apps/Notes is anybody's guess.

Our newest C3 photo album in our publicly accessible Facebook album: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2147317936825.115133.1662608581

Sisilim at Philcoa photo album

Visit our accessible Facebook album:
Sunset at Philcoa

Here is one image from the album:

Scenes from UP Diliman to UP Clark, Mar 19, 2011

From the 1 hour commute in the school van to the events in the school, each day offers a varied experience.

We are fortunate that we have modern digital cameras, even the ultra-portable phones like the Nokia-C3. Photography as a hobby is now at almost no cost, it still requires a little dedication and a little sensitivity to take meaningful photos.

Edited and thanks to Ces for pointing out the typos.

Flowers at U.P. Clark

Does taking photos of flowers proves a man gay? Of course not. But they make us happy who wants to see a little symmetry and life in an ordinary place like U.P. Clark. Here are some pics.

All photos are part of the Adorio Digital Image Library.

Gamu-gamu flowers photos

gamu gamu is considered a weed by most but it is also considered by some as a medicinal plant for coughs. Here are some photos I took today.

Because of the wind, I could not take sharper pictures,

These are raw images and I wanted to compare these photos with those taken from my Canon A540.

View photo just taken by the camera.

Rather than pressing Options/View photos after shooting with the phone camera, a more efficient way to view immediately the photo just taken would be to click on camera mode, Options/Settings/Photo Preview Time to "End Manually", the other settings being "no preview", 3, 5, 10 seconds.

If you want to take the next shot, Just press New. This is more efficient.
(Thanks to Mia Fae, the sweet girl in the photo below:

Will the Nokia C3 be upgraded?

The C3 seems to be a winner for Nokia. It has gained a wide following around the world as it is one of the few affordable branded cellphones with Wifi capabilities. I just hope Nokis will upgrade the hardware, especially its camera. It should have a flash and have more pixels. Here is one photo taken with my C3.

Behind the dark clouds, the sun is still shining

This image is also vieweable in my Facebook account.

Adjust volume while on call

Simply scroll up and down(top and bottom of navigation ring) to adjust the speaker volume. There are no separate controls for the microphone and speakers.

Record voice calls.

The Nokia C3 has the capability of recording audio conversations while doing calls. When the phone is in voice call or answering mode, Press Options > Record. The audio conversation is stored in Gallery Application but in Gallery/NONAME/Recordings subdirectory, not in Gallery/Recordings subdirectory. I still have not renamed my personal NONAME file directory for simplicity.

Practice before using this feature so you are relaxed when recording a call.

We will try to finally see if the C3 can record FM music.

Version 0.0.1 Feb.20, 2011.

Project: install a natty scientific calculator. Epic Fail!

I wanted a more capable calculator for my Nokia C3-00.

I googled and saw this!

mobiles24.com.

Unfortunately when I downloaded it via the phone browser, the Nokia-C3 successfuly downloaded it to the Games section of the Menu. Attempting to open it forces the phone to close it immediately.

We really need a better calculator for the Nokia C3-00!

Very confusing information. Anyway we will just put this aside to our experience in looking for applications for the NOkia C3.

Will the Microsoft partnership result in a stronger Nokia or mark the end of its dominance?

I think if it is featured in the New York Times, see http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/technology/12nokia.html?src=busln rumors of using a Windows OS in Nokia cell phones make it official. But this marks a dramatic change for Nokia which has been using Symbian OS in its high end phones. Nokia may not continue to offer Meego and in fact the chairman has let go of its vice-president handling the Meego project.

The big winner here is Microsoft, whose Phone 7 OS has NOT seen wide adoption by other cell phone makers. This is a loss of self-confidence on Nokia's part, and may affect customer perception as they know NOkia plans to phase out Symbian.

I for one is in the market for an Android phone, current prices are way above 5,000 Pesos at the moment. This only means that our blog which you are reading may reach end-of-life in just under two years. Tthere is no room for improvements or modifications in Symbian, whether S60 or S40 version.


But we will continue to put out posts for our C3 which we have grown fond of.

Is clock time of Nokia C3 slower than my computer time?

TThere were several occasions where the time indicated in my Nokia was ten minutes later than my friends watches.

So today I will formally take note of the time and compare it with my ntp adjusted computer clock time. In Ubuntu you do this by issuing sudo ntpdate ntp.ubuntu.com. I have to add ten minutes to my C3 time setting when I did this just a while ago.

Hope the clock display will be accurate.

Feb. 11, 2011 : I checked today and the displayed time and date are all right but I have to turn of auto update of time and date in the Nokia C3.

Philstar list of top Nokia Applications and Games

Visit the link Philstar

According to this article, dated January 24, 2011, the top downloaded apps and games for Nokia phones from the OVI store are the following:

1. High Speed 3D Free, a racing game
2. eBuddy s60
3. Skype, free calls or lowcost international calls using wifi.
4. ZumZum game
5. Nimbuzz, similar to skype
6. YouTube for S60
7. Snaptu, better integrated UI for FB, Twitter, News
8. Bright Light, torch app
9. Opera Mobile Browser 10.1.

This blogger has tried High Speed 3d and Snaptu on the C3. Some of the most popular apps and games above is for S60 powered phones.Alas, the C3 uses the S40 operating system.

Where are free Java Apps for S40 powered C3-00 phone?

I have seen advertisements for Java Apps for the C3-00 phone. So far I have not been able to download any to my computer or phone to install in my C3-00. If any reader has successfully installed a Java App (not from the OVI store) please tell us in the comment box below. We will be grateful and we will acknowledge your contribution in this and future posts.

We hope to extend the life of the C3 (in our possession). So far the C3 has been good to me, whenever there is free WIFI :)

Scanlife 2d barcode scanner not available for the Nokia C3??! It now successfully loaded!

I thought I can test this business utility barcode scanner in my Nokia C3 but the web page says it is not available for the C3!!! The webpage for this utility is at http://store.ovi.com/content/2322/

Seems that there are Java apps for the S40 mobile operating system which are not available for the C3!
But a commenter said that it worked in his/her C3 phone! I would like to hear from the others. Of course I will try it again asap.

I just did and gosh! it worked if you do it from Opera and type the address www.2dscan.com as our helpful commenter suggested. Thatś a beauty from our reader Cesaritox09!. But I am wondering why Nokia Ovi store fails! Read the comments how to do it. Thanks again Cesaritox09! Let us see if it really works!

Put the C3 on Silent Mode.

You can turn off the phone to be safe, but the Nokia C3 can be put into silent mode.
Just go to Menu > Settings > Profile and activate Silent Mode.

April 19, 2012: A quicker and more convenient way is simply to depress the bottom rightmost button, the one with a note icon and a forward slash sympbol for more than a second. This will toggle your general and silent mode profiles! This will only work however if you are into the main desktop opening screen, not in the applications screen menu!

Snaptu - why you should use it.

The C3 already has a facebook interface, so why use SNAPTU?

For the simple reason that SNAPTU is a better alternative. From my first use, it takes advantage of the small screen, and it is easier on the eyes. Try it out your self.

You should have the maximum of 8Gbytes SD card in your phone.
Snaptu is available for free from the Nokia OVI store.

Set image resolution of camera

The C3 camera is good for obtaining casual photos. It has a two megapixels CCD sensor (better than a VGA camera) , but if you are in the right place at the right time, your camera images might be stunning to look at.

You can adjust the resolution of your camera. In camera mode, goto Options > Settings > Photo Quality. Here are possible choices:

2.0MP 1600x1200
1.2MP 1280x960
0.5MP 800x600
0.3MP 640x480
0.1MP 320x240


Be sure to have an 8 Gbytes microSD card. The high recolutions can easily fill up small capacity micro-sd cards!

Dear reader,
We are trying to make this blog useful and relevant.Are there any unclear parts of the instructions above?

Drop a comment or email the blogger at ernesto.adorio@gmail.com with the proper subject: Nokia C3 camera.

Why is my C3 waiting too long to detect wifi?

There may be more than one factor which may affect the speed of detecting existing wifi hotspots.

One possiblity is that the battery is too drained! Charge it up first and you may soon detect your wifi fast!

Another factor is that the C3 might be in flight mode. As a quick check
Press Menu > Settings> Profiles> General> Activate.

The FM radio on the C3-00

The Nokia C3 has an FM radio, which you can access via Menu > Music > Radio. But it requires you to plugin the headset provided, since it needs the long wire connector to function as an antenna. You know that the headset is working if you can see the headset icon from the Desktop screen. If you cannot see the icon, press the headphone connector with a rotating motion. it should go in without much restraint. Otherwise you are in the market for a new headphone. These can be fragile.

My headphone provided by NOkia is already broken, so I have to buy a cheap headphone at CDRKing. The nice thing about the Nokia headphone is that you can change stations by clicking on a central button in the bulbous junction which connect the earbuds and the headphone. Alas, the connecting ends to the central junction are now frayed.

the Options menu offers the following selections.

1. Switch Off
2. Save station - save station, on restarting radio, this will be automatically selected.
3. Stations - lists all stations reachable.
4. Search all stations - renews stations list.
5. Set frequency - allows you to enter the desired station frequency.
6. Settings
• RDS - on or off
Allows phone to display information on station
• Auto-frequency
• Play via (headset or speaker)
• Output -Mono or Stereo output
• Radio theme
The standard setting has a more pleasing darker background.
7. Station Directory

You cannot record fm radio broadcasts in the C3. I was wondering why Nokia did NOT provide this feature since some of their other phones can do record FM broadcasts!

A faster way of turning the radio off when in Radio screen, is simply to press the central selector button.

The navigation ring when the menu screen is in radio mode allows you to quickly perform the following:

To adjust the volume to the headphone, just press the top or lower portion of the navigation ring for volume control.

To quickly switch stations in a linear manner, just press the left and right portions of the navigation ring.

I noticed that along NLEX far from Metro Manila, the school's van CD Player/FM radio is quite sensitive to FM radio signals due to its strong external antenna reception, whereas the small C3 cannot detect stations at all! This is expected. Feb. 28: I changed my headphones, and I was able to detect more stations! So try various headphones to get the best reception.




Feb. 13, 2011 revised volume control and radio station selection

Our topblogs statistics

Here is a graph of the the number of unique visitors to our Nokia C3 blog.

It is heartwarming that our blog is gaining a lot of visitors each day! We hope that this trend continue until Nokia decides to stop making the C3-00 phone. It is a very popular, affordable entry phone with wifi! Even local branded ones are nearly the price of the C3. You cannot save much money with buying local and even cheap China phones.

We check also our feedjit realtime visitor information. We get a few ideas for our articles from time to time.

Set movie clip or video recording length of Nokia C3-00 camera

1.Either by Set Menu > Photos > Camera or selecting camera icon, highlight the video icon by pressing right side of selector ring.


2. Select Options > Video Clip Lenth. Select "MMS message", "Maximum Available" by pressing the selector ring left or right side.

3. Press main button for Ok.

4. Dont forget to change the Photo/Video storage to "Memory Card" since the phone memory is limited to 55 MBytes!

Set phone or memory card or other folder as storage of C3 photos or videos.

Avoid using the phone memory as storage for camera photos.

Either select phone icon or Menu>Photos>Camera. Click on Options>Settings>Photo/video storage
You will be presented with the following: Memory card, Phone memory, Other folder.
Press the left or right select ring. If you chose folder, you have the oppurtunity to even create a new one! But most of the time, you will have to choose between phone and card memory.

Transfer a photo from phone memory to memory card.

Your photo image browser shows all photos in your memory card and phone memory. To know where your photo is stored, select the photo in the image browser, and click on Details from Options. The following information will be shown:

Name:
Photo1751.jpg
Size:
401 kB
Created:
01-25-2011 11:00am
Format:
JPEG
Captured:
01-25-2011 11:00am
Resolution:
1600 x 1200
Copyright:
None
Memory location:
Phone memory

The last information shows that it is in phone memory!

Now open the Gallery/Images. The photo should be there. Select options > Move. Select NO NAME as destination. Your photo is now in the memory card!

I dont have windows but I think the fastest way is to use PC Suite or stable OVI suite software.
Alas I am on Linux, therefore, I cannot really say anything about this.

Activate or deactivate flight mode in Nokia C3

Your Nokia has a set of profiles with various configuration settings. Select Menu > Profiles.
You will be presented with the following choices:

General, Silent, Meeting, Outdoor, My style 1, My style 2, Flight. The last two are out of view since only 5 at a time are displayed.

Press the top part of the navigation ring to go immediately to the last choice, which is Flight.


To activate, press the center select button on flight and choose Activate (the other is Personalise)
In this profile mode, the phone will not accept or send any communications! A plane icon should appear in the Menu screen, but this is not guaranteed to be the case always as we learned in a previous posting.

To deactivate, select any profile except Flight, say General and press center select button to activate.

WARNING: Sometimes the phone is in flight mode even though no plane icon is showing! Activate any of the modes (except FLIGHT!), say, via Menu > Profiles > General.

Waiting ..... forever for social networking application to start

One nice thing about the wifi'ed C3 phone is the social networking application which allows you to connect free to facebook or twitter or the browser.

Just this morning, I noticed that the social networking application has been waiting (for what don't know interminable minutes. In fact it is still waiting this afternoon!

Notes: I just have it restored by turning off the phone and turning it ON again.
Check whether the flight mode is active! As we see in the figure, there is no plane icon
but your phone may be in FLIGHT mode!

a thundering gathering herd of disappointed users of OVI suite- Nokia is WARNED!

I was surprised when googling for Ovi suite for Linux that at
blog.ovi.com, I have read
so many negative comments about the reliability, speed, and installation problems of the
newest OVI suite for Windows.

This is the watershed mark of Nokia. The management at Nokia should not be surprised, droves of former loyal users will flock either to Android or iPHone mobile communication phones.

No, I am not going to present the more than a hundred? (I stopped counting), but Nokia is sure to that I will not buy a future model upgrade to the c3 but instead go for the Samsung Galaxy tablet phone. As if this threat will move Nokia, ha ha.

We will continue blogging on the C3 since we aim to maximize our usage of this basic phone with wifi.

Ovi Store app upgraded from 1.641 to 2.40 today!

I turned on software update on the Nokia C3, but there was no new software to download. But when I picked Nokia OVI store, the phone asked me whether to upgrade from 1.641 to 2.40. That's a big jump in version numbers. I wonder why it is only now that the OVI asked me to upggrade,.

Small C3 has capabilities to edit photos.

Your Nokia C3 has a capable photo editor! Take a look at the following images from my Facebook album. (I have to download the images from Facebook and upload them to blogger).


Original photo.

Black and White photo.

Oil painting.

Old photo(sepia).

Solarized.

Negative.

there are more effects, and there are also additional warping, rgb color control, rotation and flippping! Try it.

Might have swapped the solarized and negative. Will recheck later!

Fastest way of saving a photo to Gallery/Images

Jan 21.

I just discovered that you can quickly save a copy of a photo from your Nokia C3 My Photos album to the Gallery/Images where Facebook application expects to find the photo.

Pick a photo by browsing after pressing Menu > Photos > My Photos.

Next select Edit Photo.
Click on Options.
Press on Save.

That's it! You may elect to delete the photo in you My Photos album afterwards.
Now you can easily upload or post your photo to Facebook.

I am always reviewing my posts for accuracy, but today, I discover this does NOT work anymore. Use the old method.

Quickly copy image files to your computer using a usb data cable.

My computer(a laptop) has no bluetooth device built-in. Although I have a cheap(150 peso) external bluetooth device from CDRKing, I prefer to use a micro USB data cable to transfer quickly photos from the Nokia C3. Here are the steps:

The Nokia C3 has a micro usb port. If you have a compatible usb-phone cable, your computer can quickly transfer files. Much faster than using a bluetooth. Here I illustrate using Linux Ubuntu 10.04.

Attach the data cable to your phone and computer usb port. NEVER force connect a wrong data cable to your phone.

Got to Main Menu >Settings>USB data cable. There are some choices offered:


Media transfer
Mass storage
Ask on connection
Nokia Ovi suite


I picked Mass storage and opened a console. The computer automatically detected the connection! It labelled the connection as 7.9 GB Filesystem.

and your phone should display

Access memory card from 
connected device. Press done 
when finished.

Next create a temporary directory, nokia-c3 and cd to it.
Type df. The output should look like

toto@toto-laptop:~$ df
Filesystem   1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1    113179556  63588632  43841664  60% /
none           1408176       272   1407904   1% /dev
none           1415032      1872   1413160   1% /dev/shm
none           1415032       236   1414796   1% /var/run
none           1415032         0   1415032   0% /var/lock
/dev/sdb1      7753728   1198272   6555456  16% /media/0003-2ADA
toto@toto-laptop:~$ 

Next, issue

cp /media/0003-2ADA/Images/* .  -uv

The phone now transfer all files. With an 8 Gbytes card you can have many images!
When done, click Done on the phone and remove the cable.

The files are now stored in your computer! With an 8 Gbytes card, the phone can store more than a thousand photos.

This is preferrable to taking out the fragile Micro SD card, putting it inside an SD card adaptor and inserting in the SD card slot of the computer, and taking it out again from the adaptor and inserting back the card back to your phone! So many steps to go awry.

Go to your friendly Nokia phone seller and ask for a data cable. It should not be that expensive. I did not have to buy mine as there are plenty of Nokia phones in the house.

You can of course use the Ubuntu GUI to do all the steps above, but I prefer using the console.

Two free concert songs from Maria Carey on Nokia Ovi store

There are two free songs, "Hero" and "I want to know what love is", performed by Maria Careyand available under Audio & Video of the Ovi Store.

My problem is that I can not play them back without a WIFI or internet connection! and unless I choose the Ovi store in the main screen menu. Oh well....

Turning to the Ovi for the PC by visiting http://ovi.com, you cannot download it as a separate file, instead you can only send it to YOUR of your Friends' phone!

We really can't complain about something that is free!