•  Music Player cannot be closed using ‘delete key’ when the list of applications running is on display;

  

• When pressing the D-keypad to see the hour, mode, etc and the phone’s display is in standby with the keyboard locked, before displaying the status/hour etc it first shows the background picture for a fraction of second;

  

• If you try to watch a youtube video using a gprs or 3G connection, RealPlayer displays a message ‘connection to server needed’>after, if you hit yes>’unable to connect’. This problem does not appear when using a WiFi connection. The problem can be solved by going to RealPlayer>Options>Settings>Streaming>Network and select at Deafualt access point the access point that you are connecting through to access the internet. I know this is not a bug, but it is annoying to select each time the access point, especialy when you deal multiple networks and multiple access points and beside that, as long as if from wireless it is possible to connect without making all the adjustments, it should be made possible for GPRS/EDGE/3G connections too.

  

• Not a bug, but, with the 110.48.125 update, functions like turning and tapping have been disabled; I know that this happened especially because the tapping function that was default bugous, but still, the turning function was working fine for me. Nokia staff should have had just let the functions there and leave the users choose if they are trying to use them or not. I hope we are going to see these functions back in E75’s menu soon. In this context I must say that I am a little bit disappointed that Nokia is more concerned with releasing model after model (few months back E75, now N97) but less focused on fixing bugs before release and even less preoccupied to fix them through updates. Looking forward for a firmware update for E75.
• At times, I was not able to access the ‘new message’ function. Not from the shortcut displayed on background, not from the menu. I don’t know what was determining this malfunction, but I managed to solve it restarting the phone each time when this occurred (happened only few times).

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Few months ago I bought an audio system from Anvika, through Amazon.co.uk. Not after a long time, the system cracked and I needed reparations or a replacement so I contacted Anvika serivice department. On the phone, everything allright: ‘Yes sir, just sent the system with a copy after the invoice and a description of the problem at our address in London’. Said and done, I packed the system, I went to the post, and sent it. Price, about 18 pounds including insurance and online tracking with Parcel Force.

smart guy said: ‘your system is here since June, and is occupying quite a lot of space in our storing place, we are waiting for you to come and collect it!’

me: ‘I gived you my card details to take the money for dispatch two times, what do you want now? to come and collect the package from London?’

the Anvika smart guy: ‘what? who toked you card details? we don’t dispatch large packages’me, too polite and stupefied: ‘beg your pardon? should I call again? is your phone working? am I talking with the right person there? let me understand, do you want for me to come in London to collect a package because you are unable to send it, as you said you will?’

the Anvika smart guy: ‘yes, we cannot sent your system, you must come and colect it’

me, still with the certainty that I am talking with an retard:’ you don’t usually send packages, everybody must come to collect them if something breaks and reach to you service?’

the guy: ‘no sir, only yours we cannot send, is too big!’

me: ‘it does not matter the cost, just send it, I sent it from Coventry with about 20 pounds, it is not a problem the cost’

the guy:‘ we use another service and would cost over 50 pounds’

me: ‘??????? 50?? for a 100km ?’

……….and I hanged.

So, at the end of the day, I was having a 80 pounds (the actual market price) system blocked in the service. To recover it I, I was  supposed to pay again its price (20 sending, 50+ getting it back). I was really thinking just to leave it there, but the simple fact that I payed 100 pounds for it in January made me reconsider my thoughts. If I would have known that ‘Anvika Procedure Code’ is just in books and on the phone, for sure I would have just thrown the system to the bin and keep my money.

Next day I was in London, by coach, 15 pounds go and return (way better than 50 pounds isn’t it?). But when something is meant to go wrong, it just goes in everything possible way.

I was counting on my gps to find the service address, everything all right until here, but London was covered by heavy clouds and torrential rain almost all day long; I managed after few hours of squeezing all the possible gps signals to find the service address. I just collected my system, finally, being all sweated, wet from the rain (I didn’t tooked a taxi, I am a student who is trying to save few pounds after all).

I returned to Victoria Coach station to take National Express back to Coventry. The coach never reached, accident/blockage on M1, we never found out what exactly happened. I had to go to Birmingham and from there to return to Coventry, with the big box in my arms, the same box that was carried in its way to Victoria Coach Station through Picadilly Circus, Buchingham Palace, rain and cold for miles, hundreds of miles after the entire day.

This is the story in great lines, I tryed not to lose myself in details, although after you are going 20 hours on roads and rain is hard to keep your cool.

This is the story of how Anvika manage its clients. Thank you guys!

Today, at less than 24 h after posting this article, I received a phone call from Anvika: Hello, am I talking to …. …. (my name)? We just read the review on you blog and we are sorry for the bad experience encountered etc.

Now this is shocking! How did they traced who is the unhappy ex-costumer so fast!? It was better than calling to complain or leaving an email. If I would ever have to deal again with the Anvika Service, I will just leave a post on my blog for Anvika Sales Department (-: (that’s where I have been called from). Anyway, the point is that Anvika almost washed its sins with this prompt and unexpected feedback.

:-(

I went to Coventry by choice, as a student, but the curse of the three words is here. Where does this phrase come from? Google found for me two possible explanations:

1. Chambers states that there was once a garrison in Coventry, a fact which was massively unpopular with the local inhabitants, so much so that they would not even speak with any of the soldiers stationed there. Hence, it was effectively guaranteed that any soldier posted to Coventry would be in for some serious shunning.
2. Coventry was a stronghold of the parliamentary party at the time of the English Civil War, and that it was therefore where the most troublesome Royalists were imprisoned.

Well, these are some nice historical explanations and corroborated with the fact that Coventry was massively bombed during the second World War, with the cathedral story, with the Godiva legend, with the historical certification since 700 AD and many other interesting things that you find when you are looking for some information about the city, can lead you to the most fucked up conclusion that this is a city in witch you may want to spend your life or part of it.

Now forget about “sent to Coventry” as an ancient phrase, as a nice stronghold with red bricks or as a way of ostracizing the unlucky soldiers. I have my own “sent to Coventry” version of the story. Unemployment + frustration + thousands of emigrants from all over the world + poverty + the lack of future of this city + etc. equal the contemporary “sent to Coventry”. My friend, if you are living in Coventry and you do not see that you must leave this sinking wreck, than I would challenge your IQ with the one of a rat. I won’t share here with you the cultural experience that Coventry offered me in the last 6 months, but believe me, it is rich! Here we have the experience of another international student; thanks for sharing mate, but what’s the novelty?

In the end, just a picture made with the phone in our university, the prestigious Coventry University. Facts: someone stole all the computers from a lab passing through the wall of the neighbor room (the room where we were supposed to have a seminary); this happened just one day after the coffee machine evaporated itself from the same floor, the third floor of a building situated in the center of the city. Again, nothing unusual here.

First of all, what is undernet now comparing with what it used to be. It was the biggest IRC network in the world with thousands of users from about 50 countries all over the world. This was happening 10 years ago. Things evolved, the simple line of text became old and rusty, we felt like bringing some colors and sounds in what they call “chat”. We saw ICQ, MSN, Y!M, dozens of versions of each of them, with emoticons, audibles, voice and video chats, avatars ( who would ever think of that on IRC, 10 years back? }{ equal :* ?) and loads of other tiring nonsense. Did all these improved our experience online? Maybe, but in the same time we become bored and crabby of everything. We invented dnd, dndfd, afk, brb and dozens of this trash kind to save time, but in the end we just wasted more typing shits that nobody cares about.

Coming back to the irc and undernet. My feel about this is that it is dying more and more everyday waiting for some nostalgic (like me sometimes) to came back and revive it. You will not see a 12 years old kid to know about irc and not know about face book or yahoo messenger, it is more likely to discover that is the other way round, and it is natural to be that way. Still, the undernet servers are running and they seem to be running forever, but it is just a chimera. Even if we like it or now, we care about it or we don’t give a damn, the time of IRCing is gone. The purpose that everybody to be able to communicate with the friends all over the world has now hundreds of material ways of achieving it; blogs, huge social networks, chat programs that are sustained by huge companies with big money and the options are here just countless. The nostalgic corner (undernet, or any other irc network) is smaller and smaller when it comes to pay bills and make donations to keep some servers running. It is just a matter of time until irc and undernet will a story narrated by the old internet geeks the new shiny face book generation.

Eight centimeters of snow covered the ground over the night. Nothing unusual for me, a case of force mejeure for the others.

Coventry University set off more than half of the classes; I am just surprised, not disappointed or unhappy with their decision.

I try to get to the Sport Center, but guess what, it is closed too. Some shops are with the doors closed, the few brave ones were still selling while the snow was outside! :-)

Buses were not circulating anymore, even if the road was almost dry, no trace of snow or ice.

A friend was supposed to leave back home by plane, but the flight was canceled (btw, how can they fly in Alaska an English native voice asked). All because some innocent snow. I have a picture or two with the fatidical snow from that day.

I miss winter and normal people.

Even if Windows Vista is installing properly the drivers for this system and you can hear all the 6 channels in Control Panel under the sound section, when listening to music or watching movies, if you select the 6 channels option from the sub woofer the result will be that only 2+1 channels are working (front left, front right and the sub woofer)

I finally found aud-x decoder  that proved to be the best. You can play even mp3 files decoded on 6 channels, but only with bsplayer (or another player based on DirectX). On winamp I didn’t managed to find a complete decoding solution. I am using at the moment IIS_MP3s_Winamp_Plugin that you can download from http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Winamp_Plugin_MP3_Surround.htm

The best solution if you are using winamp for listening music is to switch the commutator from the back of the subwofer to position 2/4 channels. If playing in bsplayer (music or moveis) -with the Aud-X decoder installed of course- , for a better sound experience, switch to 6 channels and give the proper settings in Aud-X.
I must mention that I’m using the usb port for transmitting the signal to my laptop to the audio system. I was unable to find any external sound card for vista that would work with the altec lansing fx5051. This is vista’s problem. It seems that all the external sound cards( connected via USB) are working faulty delaying or distorting the sound.

My conclusion is that, for now at least, is has no sense to buy an external audio sound card if you intend to use the system with windows vista. USB is good enough. Though,due the usb usage, sometimes when my external hdd starts (wd essentials 1tb) I can hear in speakers some interference. This is not a thing that you will enjoy:| The good part is that is not persisting. As a piece of advice, if you are a laptop owner and an addicted  gamer that is expecting a true 5.1 experience in games, do not buy this audio system (maybe only if you are running on a Windows XP). You will need a sound card to make it work in games.

Another thing that I am not very happy with, is the permanent noise that you can hear from speakers when no sound is played. Is like a summer wind blowing in your years all day long. The only solution is to switch off the audio system or play some music.
Ok, I have a huge list of disadvantages until now. Why should I buy it? Because I tried to be as critic as possible and despite of all above mentioned, it is a great system! The fidelity of the sound is stunning. The 89w are enough even for throwing a party in a 30-50sq.m. room. The remote works great, you can control the rear, center, or overall sound level or to adjust the bass and treble. If your remote doesn’t work after you properly insert the battery, it means that you are not pointing with it to the cute corner of the wired audio control; there is located the IR receiver.For an in depth analyse of the Altec Lansing FX5051 features, check this link.

OviSync iti permite sa sincronizezi contacte, calendarul, to do list-ul si notele din telefonul tau pe site-ul ovi.com. Actioneaza ca un backup, insa ceea ce e poate si mai folositor, iti permite sa cauti si sa editezi informatiile din telefonul tau direct pe ovi.com. Sincronizandu-ti datele pe ovi.com vei avea instantaneu toate datele intr-un calendar online si o aplicatie web pentru contacte. Informatiile pe care le editezi pe site vor fi copiate pe telefon la urmatoarea sincronizare.

Astfel poti folosi o parte din functiile pe care te intrebai, poate, de ce le-a implementat Nokia ( functii ca si calendar, to do list ) simplu si fara dureri de cap. Functiile puse la dispozitie de ovi.com sunt gratis si nimic nu anunta ca se va schimba ceva in privinta asta pe viitor.

Setarile pentru sincronizarea telefonului cu site-ul le vei primi prin sms; tot ce trebuie sa faci este sa le salvezi (proces similar cu trimiterea setarilor de catre operatorii de telefonie mobila).

Singura potentiala piedica in folositea site-ului ovi.com e faptul ca trebuie sa ai acces la internet de pe telefonul mobil (gprs/edge/3G, wlan etc), insa exista o solutie si daca nu ai: Nokia Ovi PC Suite 1.0 pentru Windows ( in curand si pentru Mac). Enjoy exploring! [^_^]