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a26. Customize the Idle Screen.
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Mobile phone gurus at the Zedge Forum (http://www.zedge.no/) collected a set of Symbian programs that enable you to change the display font on Nokia 6600 and 7610 devices. Here's how the process works:
Download the zip package of Symbian programs from http://www.green-ocean.net/fonts_for_6600_7610.zip and unzip it into a folder.
Install and run the FontRemover.sis application on your device. You will be asked to remove the existing font and then reboot your device. Do not reboot at this moment.
Install and run one of the font programs on your device. You can have only one font at a time on any device! Make sure you install it in the phone's main memorynot in the MultiMediaCard (MMC) card. The tahoma.sis, modern.sis, and mssans.sis programs install the Tahoma, Modern, and MS Sans fonts, respectively.
Reboot the phone and enjoy the new fonts!
This technique is known to work on Nokia 6600 firmware v3, v4, and v5. It is not widely tested on other Series 60 firmware. Use it at your own risk! If you have a problem, you might have to do a hard reset of your phone to return it to the factory settings.
This tips not only changes the fonts on the idle screen, but it also changes all the menu and label fonts throughout the device. Figure 8-18 shows the Modern and Tahoma fonts installed on a Nokia 6600 smartphone.
It is important to note that this tips has not been tested on all Nokia Series 60 smartphone firmware versions. So, use it at your own risk! According to a forum posting from slurpy69 at Zedge, dated January 23, 2005, the following phone models and firmware versions are known to work with this tips:
Nokia 6600 v3.42.1, v4.09.1, and v5.27.0
Nokia 6630 v2.39
Nokia 7610 v4.0437.4
Nokia N-Gage v4.03 Nem-4
This hack does not work on Nokia 7610 firmware v4.0424.4.
You can determine the firmware version of your device by entering the code *#0000# in the idle screen.
The operator logo is the word appearing at the top of the idle screen. On Series 60 phones, you can change the operator logo to your own logo using the freeware FExplorer tool. On Series 40 devices, you can change the operator logo with a custom theme. In this section, I'll discuss how to change the operator logo for a Series 60 phone.
The first step is to create an image of your own logo. The image must be 97 x 25 pixels in size. You can use any image editor to create it and then save it in one of the image formats supported by the phone.
After the logo image is copied to the phone, highlight it in the FExplorer file-system browser. Then use the Options File Set as operator logo menu to set it as the operator logo. The phone reboots and the new logo appears.
If you have a camera phone, you can make some great wallpaper using your own images. This is a great use of your phone camera, and it adds a personal touch to your phone. For instance, you can use your loved one's pictures as more up-to-date substitutes for wallet pictures. When you are at a movie theater, you can take a picture of your favorite movie poster that is not yet available for downloading on the Internet. When you see a great magazine or newspaper photo depicting a current event or the most recent fashion, you can quickly snap it with your phone camera.
When I see a great image on the Internet or a good DVD movie scene, I often take a picture directly from the PC screen with my phone's camera. It is much quicker than downloading or capturing the image on the PC, manipulating it, and then copying it to
All in all, wallpapers are simple and effective ways of customizing your phone. If you have a camera phone, you have no excuse not to decorate it with personal pictures!
A very popular type of mobile phone wallpaper is a movie snapshot. You can capture scenes in a movie by playing the movie (or the trailer) on your PC and then capturing the screen. On a Windows PC, use the Print Screen key to capture the entire screen into the clipboard. Then, in an image editor program (GIMP is recommended, but Paint works too), you can paste the captured screen, crop the movie scene, resize it, and then save it to a supported format. On a Mac, you can use the Shift-Command-4 key (the Command key is the one with the Apple logo on it) to capture a rectangular area of the screen into a PDF file (or PNG file in Mac OS X 10.4) and then use an image editor program to convert it to a size and format suitable for mobile phones.
Some movie players disable the system screen capture key. VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) is a free DVD and VCD player that supports screen capture.
Many commercial web sites, including most wireless operators' portal sites, sell downloadable mobile phone wallpaper for $1 to $3 apiece. But truth be told, it is very easy to create professional-looking wallpaper yourself, for free. The basic idea is to first select an image you like, resize or crop it to fit the phone screen, and then convert it to a supported image format before transferring it to the phone.
If you own a digital camera, you probably have many everyday or vacation pictures you can use as phone wallpaper. And if you've got a camera phone, you probably have plenty of wallpaper candidates sitting right in your Gallery. But if you are not the photographer type, plenty of free images are available on the Internet. A good place to start is Google's image search, at http://images.google.com/. I discuss more tips on capturing fancy images later in this section.
As I mentioned before, when you set an arbitrary image as wallpaper, the phone automatically resizes or crops it. But it is much better if you process the image yourself, since this saves memory space and bandwidth. It also eliminates the uncertainty associated with the results of the phone's image processing.
To turn an arbitrary image into a piece of wallpaper, you need an image editor program. I recommend GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/), which runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X computers. You can also use the Paint program that comes with every Windows PCbut the resizing quality of Paint is poor. You should resize or crop the image to 172 x 143 pixels for Nokia Series 60 phones and to 128 x 128 for Nokia Series 40 phones. Nokia devices support .bmp, .jpg, .gif, and .png image formats. If your image is in a different format, you should save it to one of the supported formats.
Since the wallpaper overlaps with the information displayed on the phone screen, I recommend that you use images that are light in color as wallpapers. If you have a piece of wallpaper with large areas of dark colors, you probably want to reduce the contrast and increase the brightness to make it look "washed out."
Figuring out and remembering the exact wallpaper image size for your specific phone is kind of a hassle. But with the Nokia PC Suite, you do not have to do that! The Image Converter program in the Nokia PC Suite helps you convert any image to a size and format suitable for the wallpaper on your phone
Wallpaper is the background image displayed on the idle screen. On most Series 60 devices, the wallpaper occupies only the central part of the screen. On most Series 40 devices, the wallpaper fills the entire screen.
You can set any image in your phone's Gallery as wallpaper. On most new Nokia phones, you can simply open the image in the Gallery and select the "Set as wallpaper" item from the Options menu. If you have an older Series 60 phone (e.g., a Nokia 3650), you should go to Settings and customize the wallpaper for the standby mode. On a Series 40 device, you can also use the Settings Display Settings Wallpaper menu item to set your wallpaper. The phone automatically resizes or crops the image as needed to fit the wallpaper area on the screen.
When you set new wallpaper, the old wallpaper is discarded without warning. If you want to revert to the old wallpaper, you need to keep a copy of it in the Gallery. I recommend that you create a "wallpaper" folder in your Gallery so that you can switch back and forth between wallpapers whenever you want.
The Extended Profiles Pro program from Psiloc supports associating wallpapers with profiles on Series 60 devices. This way, when you change the profile, you change not only how the phone sounds but also how it looks. When you use Extended Profiles Pro together with the miniGPS program, you can switch wallpapers based on your current location.
