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Sorry for my long abscence

2010-03-11T12:59:00.002+01:00

Hi there my dear readers, this is to formally apologise to you all for my sudden absence, and my continued inability to bring fresh content to this domain.

The issue is not connected with laziness or anything else. The only prob. I’ve got is that I’m badly hooked up with my academics. For example we’re currently having exams, and I can’t risk reading my blog for blogging sake. I hope you understand.

Nevertheless I promise to come back to my regular routine before the month runs out. Thank you for your support and understanding. Catch you!

How to solve local mode and test mode “problem” on mobile phones

2010-01-04T12:07:00.001+01:00

Frustrated? Yes, that’s the feeling you get when all of a sudden your mobile phone develops an unusual problem as “test mode” or “local mode”.

I mean I just switched off my cell to get it charged like I do any other day. Switching it on there the message was on the screen. Yeah, I managed to get the problem solved in a jiffy, and I’d show you how you too can also do so.

So what do you think the solution is? Maybe unscrew your mobile set with a set of Allen keys, rip off the LCD screen from the chip board, locate and unsolder the test mode IC from the multitude of components, right under the LCD?

No that’s way to complex and seems more of rocket science.

What do you do then? Grab a desktop charger and run your battery with it for some hours!

Crazy how a seemingly massive problem could be solved so cheaply, right? So I thought as well. All I did was to simply charge my battery for some 2 hours with a desktop charger and that was it. I switched on my phone la little after the “childish” routine and surprisingly it started working for me; and should for you. An alternative is to use an entirely new battery if this method fails.

However note that this approach of mine is not typical and professional for all “test mode” and “local mode” problem on any phone, and hence won’t work in all places. Yet still, it’s a good place to start when next you’ve got that problem that seems like a software issue with your phone, before consulting an engineer.

It’s my hope that this “empty” solution post eventually helps some distressed guy out there. If this worked (and as well as failed) for you please try to leave a comment in the comments section. Thanks for the read.

How to take screenshots of java s40 mobile phones - capture your apps with ease!

2010-01-03T10:25:00.001+01:00

Do you crave to capture screenshots of your s40 java phone? This post shows you how to go about it in a sneaky way.

Do you by any means recognise any of the above applications?

Absolutely correct! They’re KD player and the famous Opera Mini 4.2, captured right from the small screen of my small Nokia 7210 supernova j2me phone. Relax, you’d learn to do more by the time you’re done with reading this post.

Ok, I can see that I’m done now done with wetting your appetite. Alright, Let’s dig in!

How we’d be capturing screenshots of our java s40 mobile phones

Now, since s40 java phones are built without embedded functionality for capturing screen shots, we’d have to go take another route to bypass our problem – Use the computers!

Yeah, that’s the only option we have here. If taking a screen capture of that phone is important to you, then boot up your PC now and let’s ride.

The way this is done is by using some java/j2me emulator on our computer to enable us run .jar applications meant for java phones right on our computer. Then you can use the “print screen” button, “snipping tool”, or whatever screen capture facility your computer has to grab a shot of the running application.

Sounds easy right? Yes it is, but not without the use of these tools that we’d be using:

* Java Runtime Environment - grab it here

* JAD Maker – grab it here

* J2me Microemulator – grab it here

Note: Click the “grab it here” links at the end of the program names above to download them if you don’t already installed on your PC.

Now let’s explore the magical powers of these tools

When you’re done with downloading the programs you’d need to unzip the files and install the Java Runtime – JAD maker and (j2me) Microemulator don’t need an installation.

JAD maker is basically used for creating jad files (files with .jad extensions) from java (.jar) applications – those apps that we normally install on our phones. It’s the jad file our computers recognise (and are able to be ran), hence we’d have to convert the java application we want to use in taking the screen capture into jad files.

First-off, get the application you want to use for the screen capture from your phone to your computer – using your USB chord. Create a folder on your desktop, name it anything, and put the application in there.

To create our jad file: click on the JADMaker.zip folder (you downloaded) and click on the jadmaker.exe from the list of files which shows up. When that is done, a small square shaped window pops up. Open the folder on your computers desktop in which your phone’s application is, then drag the app (by clicking on the icon and moving the mouse - with the mouse click still pressed down) and place on the small window that the JAD maker opened. Wait a few seconds and the .jad version of your phone’s java app would be produced and placed in the same folder as the the app. See illustration in the pic. below:

Now It’s time to run your jad application on your computer while we prepare to take our screen shot.

Unzip the microemulator you downloaded, look for the microemulator file (which is 617 KB in size), right click the icon, move to “open with” option, then choose “Java (TM) platform SE binary” from the list. The screen shot below says more on that:

When the microemulator opens (which looks like a simulated phone), click on “File”, select “Open JAD file” then browse through your PC for the folder you stored the phone application to be ran, then choose on the version with .jad at the end.

Yippee! You now have your application running on your computer. You can now go ahead to make a computer screen capture of the running application on the microemulator and present to the world! That’s it.

Note that you can only control the running application with the arrow keys on your computer keyboard, and by clicking on the commands presented on the emulator. That’s the restriction.

Thanks for the time spent in reading this tutorial. If you liked this post, then there’s a big chance that you’d love to be reading future posts. In order to always get automatically notified once I publish a new post subscribe to my RSS for free now. See ya!

Merry Christmas to Java Mobile Crunch readers

2009-12-24T11:01:00.001+01:00

Hi there, this is to wish all my readers out there a Merry and memorable Christmas celebration.

You guys have been very good to me. Visiting my blog, downloading my files and leaving comments. I mean these little activities of you guys have kept this blog alive, and has always given me the inspiration to keep on.

Yes, this blog has gone without regular updates for the past couple of months, but the it’s due to the fact that I had a very busy time at school. I just got into college, and I had a lot of settling down to do.

Let’s look forward to 2010 with optimism. I have a lot of packages for you guys next year. So stay glued as ever to my domain. Thanks for being there. Once again have a cherished Christmas celebration and a Happy New Year ahead!

Funny mobile phone pictures for download

2009-12-07T20:29:00.001+01:00

Hi friends, it’s been quite some weeks that this blog has gone without new content – my bad :-)

Actually it’s not that I’m feeling lazy about publishing fresh, hot stuffs for you guys as usual, it’s my academic work – I’m neck deep in school work! I’m having my end of semester exams right now, and since it’s my first year in college the load is heavy – you should know what I’m talking about.

I came across some funny pictures this afternoon that made me laugh and thought I share it with you guys – at least to put a smile on some moody faces. Here they are. Download them as you so please.

I’m bossy!

I’m blessed…

What a meal?

Busy bone

Road to Eldorado

who cares for a night?

Inventor of swine flu

Have a nice time!

Free browsing with opera mini on MTN and Zain Ghana - how to browse free through your phone on MTN Ghana

2009-11-16T20:17:00.004+01:00

In the spirit of fair play I'm giving out instructions on how to browse free with operamini in Ghana for free - on MTN Ghana.

For months I have been doing great good to Nigerians by dispensing free network cheat codes for their free browsing delight. I have had several calls, mails and pleas from Ghanaians on the issue of working out codes for their free browsing. It is finall here. It's yours for free from javamobilecrunch.com.

Now, I have already prepared a comprehensive mail with instructions on how any Ghanaian can browse the web for free on MTN and Zain Ghana Network, in minutes. To get the mail automatically sent to you, all you have to do is fill the form below and click the "send me the settings" button, and bingo, it's done!

Nb: The mail containing the free browsing settings would be send to you instantly. The mail contains free download links to all needed tools so as to make everything easy for you.

I've also got advanced free browsing options as 'free PC browsing, and free downloading on phones'. Shoot me a mail if you'd need any of them.

Hope to put smile on faces with this. If you are in any other country of the world and you'd like to browse the web on operamini free of network charges, then notify me via the comments section and I'd gladly work out one free browsing code for you.

jar app: maji player free music player for java phones

2009-11-09T20:22:00.001+01:00

Tired of looking at that same old, crappy music player theme each time you play your favourite tones on your phone? It’s time to make a change!

Now, there are a lots of nice music players out there to go with, but then maji player should be top in your list. Maji player is a free music player for java phones that has a beautiful theme colour, together with cool buttons to match. The functions are quite basic, but then you would be happy with the overall quality of this free music player for java mobile phones.

I’ve tested the maji music player on Nokia 3310c, 3500 and 7210 supernova with positive results. The music player for java phones should work on pretty much every java mobile phone. Enough of the talks, take a look for yourself.

Download: maji player for java phones

Get a new Nokia N97 mini phone for free

2009-11-09T20:19:00.001+01:00

I just got informed today that the guy at dailymobile is giving out a new Nokia N97 mini out for a free trial to participators of his forum. This is for real!

[image gotten from dailymobile.se]

All you are required to do is give a good reason why you should be the dude it should be given out to for a free test ride, and boom you get it. Actually, you’re not going to own the phone, but then you would be give the new Nokia N97 mini for free, for a period of time to use. Womworld, the sponsor of the show, would take care of the shipping to you. Get more details here

Yes, the phone, as said, is not going to be totally yours, but who knows what might happen. To enter for the contest, register to daily mobile forums (if you are not already there), and leave your own comment. See you there. Wish you luck!

2. Always move images to be warped to the graphics folder on the phone’s gallery menu. This would allow for easy location and loading of pictures to be warped without much hassles.

3. Images warped would normally be stored in the ‘graphics’ folder of your phone’s memory – where I advised you be moving pictures to be warped to in point 2. above.

4. Warp, warp and warp!!!!!

Celebrities get warped…

To groove the power, and also show to you how well the facewarp app could go in tormenting celebrity faces, I’ve warped president Obama below. When you download this app and use it, I’d like to see how much danger you can cause to faces – drop a comment in the comments section.

Jay-Z

Cool Jay Jay-Z gets some more lips Jay is sobbing real bad

Michael Jackson

Innocent MJ You’re beautiful!

Speechless!

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Download: Facewarp here

jar app: NavFunPro free download – Google Maps and Google earth in your small phone!

2009-10-29T17:04:00.001+01:00

If you’re anything like me you would love and crave for the comfort of browsing the map of the continents from the screens of your handheld device. The wish would remain a dream if you haven’t got NavFunPro (for java phones). NavFunPro also grants you the added functionality of tracking your current locations and uploading it straight to the internet for the view of your friends, all on a platter of gold. Now, you don’t need to keep googling for “free gps apps for mobile phones”. All you need for the GPS navigation is your bluetooth GPS or mobile’s built in GPS.

Here are some more smashing features of NavFunPro for java phones:

* Always use up-to-date maps by using Google Maps, and Google Earth

* Supports bluetooth GPS and built in GPS (JSR 179)
* Find addresses, businesses, weather conditions, city-info, other buddies
*Define waypoints
* Dashboard with compass, speed, altitude, coordinates, and distance to target
* Altitude graph with browse option
* Load GPX track-files from your mobile’s file-system (for example flash card), show the track on your mobile’s map, and let your mobile guide you through the track
* Store your track as GPX file to your mobile’s file-system. After that you can review your track on your PC (using for example Google Earth)
* Review/export your tracks at www.trackthisout.com/tm.html
* See and chat with your buddies that use NavFunPro or Tracky
* You can disable Google maps to minimize internet-data.
* Also works on mobiles without internet. In that case tracks can only be saved to the mobile’s file-system. Google Maps are not shown, instead blank tiles are shown.
* Also work without GPS. In that case you can browse maps and use the find-feature

* Free trial available

Which phones does NavFunPro run on?

The program runs on most modern java (J2ME) based mobiles with MIDP2.0 and CLDC 1.1, and most Blackberry devices. The navigation feature requires a built-in GPS or bluetooth GPS receiver. The track-upload and maps feature requires internet access (WIFI, GPRS, UMTS, WAP).

Download: NavFunPro here

jar app: Bloover Bluetooth hack – check the vulnerability of your mobile phone in 20 seconds.

2009-10-29T15:44:00.001+01:00

Bloover Bluetooth hack for java phones is a free, revolutionary test application for s40 java (j2me) based phones – includes Sony Ericsson, Blackberry, symbian phones – that you could use to check if your phone’s Bluetooth is vulnerable to attacks. It’s absolutely free to download here.

It’s common to hear of people’s phones getting infected by a virus through the Bluetooth, or unsolicited access to phone files being the issue to bite the fingers at. With bloover Bluetooth hack, you could run a test on your phone in seconds and know what your fate is, and how best to protect your self. I just ran my test minutes ago and got a pass!

Blooover Bluetooth hack for java phones runs on mobiles with MIDP 2.0 and JSR-82 (Bluetooth API). It worked on a small Nokia 3110c, and hence I expect it works in pretty much every java based mobile.

Download: Bloover Bluetooth hack here

Great halloween costumes ideas – cheap and clever ideas

2009-10-28T10:06:00.001+01:00

Everyone, perhaps, loves Halloween. If you don’t I do; and that’s why I’m going off by posting on Halloween on my mobile phone blog.

While some see Halloween period as a time to go around on some charity mission, I take to the fun part of it. Hopefully you belong to the camp of Halloween fun bees, so I’ve scoured the web and brought links to posts with nice ideas for great Halloween costumes that you could wear while the period lasts. The posts gives tips on cheap adult Halloween costumes for boys and girls.

* Cheap and Clever Halloween Costumes

* Top 10 Costumes for College Students
* Costumes for Guys
* Costumes for Guys and Gals

Hope you enjoy your Halloween.

How to update your BlackBerry phone firmware

2009-10-28T09:52:00.001+01:00

Now and every then mobile phone manufacturers release new firmware updates to their phones. The new firmware do contain correction to bugs present in a phone’s software or sometimes just some security and usability improvements. You see, it’s very important to always keep your Blackberry’s firmware (and every other phone) up to date for better security; if not for anything else.

Don’t know how to go about updating your BlackBerry’s software? Worry not because Ashish Mohta from technospot.net just did a nice post that shows you how to update BlackBerry Device Software. No need recycling his post here, so I’ve posted the link, and suggest that you head over there now.

Here is a summary of what Ashish shows in his post:

* You would be heading over to the BlackBerry update page to download a 31MB software for the purpose

* You would connect your phone and search for new updates

* Select the updates you want and run the update.

Note: you shouldn’t for any reason unplug your phone while it’s in the updating process. It could cause some damage. Make sure your phone is fully charged before embarking on any firmware upgrading.

Nokia N97 firmware v2.0 finally released

2009-10-28T08:39:00.001+01:00

Some couple of weeks back I intimated you guys that there were some update on Nokia N97’s firmware that was in the works. Now, the firmware is out of the tunnels and available for download via Nokia software updater (NSU).

As pointed out in my post on features of Nokia N97 firmware 2.0 update, here are some of the improvement to the N97:

Changelog:

* Improved touch screen scrolling

* Ovi Maps 3.1 with 3–D maps
* Nokia e-mail, Ovi Contacts, Ovi Store
* Improved memory and battery performance
* Improved image and video stability

A video speaks a million more words. Watch this:

I’m off!!

TouchFLO 3D 2.5 Build 1920 video tour

2009-10-28T08:16:00.001+01:00

Here is a short Video tour about the new TouchFLO 3D 2.5 Build 1920. Tell me what you think.

s40 theme: Vistablack .jar theme – has an excellent windows vista inspired design

2009-10-25T18:22:00.001+01:00

Vistablack theme is awesome. It has a nice adaptation of the windows vista operating system. There are nicely customised menu icons. See a screen capture of the vistablack theme for java phones below.

Download Vistablack theme.

What do you think of this series 40 theme? Isn’t it smashing?

Droid phone full specification details. See pictures and video commercial here…

2009-10-19T15:25:00.001+01:00

Droid phone, a new face on the block of mobile phones, and a potential iphone killer, is set to be launched the ending of October this year – yeah, this month! In case you don’t know much about droid phone, it’s a cool, Smartphone worked on by combined efforts of the duo, Verizon and Motorola. Droid phone looks very much like an iphone, but then it’s packed with killer features that would leave you contemplating a bank robbery just to pocket one.

Here’s a rundown of some of the specification features of the droid phone.

Specification details of droid phone:

Runs on V 2.0 of Android OS
Super slim – slimmer than the iphone 3GS
Runs on TI OMAP3430 CPU, making it very fast
Has a slide out keyboard
Spots a 5 megapixels camera with flash
Has a 3.7-inches (480×854 pixels; WVGA+) high resolution touch screen
It has speech recognition capabilities
Comes with a free 16GB microSD card in the pack, and supports higher capacities
Powered by a 1400 mAh battery
It has a built-in GPS receiver
It’s expected to have 256MB RAM.

Now on to a photo speak of driod phone:

The Keypad section The menu

Full menu The keyboard when slide out

The back of the phone – showing off its 5MP camera and flash

Then the commercial of the droid phone…

There’s a debate that the droid phone is locked to Verizon network, but I’m of the opinion that it’s not. Don’t you think the droid phone is simply a bomb? I think she is, and an iphone 3GS assassin if you ask me. Motorola, I’m just another guy who badly needs a droid phone!!

Image source: intomobile

Dell to go into phone market with android phones

2009-10-19T11:17:00.001+01:00

The CEO of Dell, the computer giants, some time this week indicated interest in the production and pushing of Android based mobile phones into the US phone market. There are rumours that AT&T would hold exclusive rights to the phones, but that wasn’t confirmed by Michael.

Talking on the recently launched smart phone, mini3i into the Chinese market, he said that that is just a starting point for his company. He further said that more of such products launched in China would be seen in US come 2010.

in his words; You’ll probably see products next year in the U.S that are family members of the things we started in China”

Wow! I can’t say nothing but just that. I, being a hardcore fan of Dell products, can’t wait to see what Dell would come out with in the mobile phone lines. keep one thing in mind as we await the big phone launch in 2010 – smashing!

Download FaceBook 1.7 free app for BlackBerry here

2009-10-19T04:41:00.001+01:00

The much talked about update to the former facebook app for blackberry has finally come, and it has landed with it some advanced features packed in. Yes, FaceBook 1.7 is smoking hot and is ready for download.

before you go on to grab your own share, you might want to have a look at some of the newly added features below:

View Profile Menu Option – Clients may easily view their own profile by selecting ‘View my Profile’ from the menu
Caching Improvements – The application uses the device memory more efficiently
News Feed Filters – The ability to toggle between ‘News Feed, Status Updates, Photos & Links’
Feed Pre-fetching – The user will not be required to wait while their Facebook Feeds are updated
News Feed Support – The ability to set the News Feed as the landing page

Download Facebook 1.7 for blackberry by pointing your phone’s browser to

m.facebook.com or by going to blackberry.com/facebook. I can’t wait to hear what you’ve got to say about the new features! Go!!

source: intomobile

A critical look into the design of Nokia 3G notebook

2009-10-17T22:50:00.001+01:00

It’s been over a month now that I posted to this blog about Nokia’s 3G booklet and it's features when it was newly released. Today I’m bringing to you a nice video giving a good look into the design of the Nokia 3G notebook.

check it out!

It’s surely smashing, I don’t know what you think.

How to download Jonas brothers bounce video from YouTube to your phone.

2009-10-17T22:05:00.001+01:00

update: Download Bounce in MP3 here, and the video here by Jonas Brothers. Read through the post to see how to convert it to MP3, MP4, 3GP or M4a for your phone or iPod.

Yeah, Jonas Brothers Bounce video is viral at the moment, coming a trending topic on twitter and enjoying countless views at the mo’ on YouTube. A lot of people out there out there would love to know how to download this video (and any other YouTube video) to their phone like I just did a minute ago. This post would show you just how to do that!

Though I already did a guide on how to download YouTube videos some weeks past, but I'm doing this again all because of the Jona Brothers and the fans! **winks** So if you didn't catch that before, here is your chance. Let's go...

How to download YouTube videos to your mobile phone

As mentioned in the tutorial I previously posted on how to download YouTube videos to a mobile phone, we would be taking the download in two steps – 1. from YouTube to your PC, then 2.) to your phone.

Downloading the video from YouTube

1. Get the YouTube video URL. You can do that by either right-clicking the video’s name and clicking on “copy link location” from the menu that shows up, or copying it from the URL box in the right info corner while the video plays.
2. Insert the video URL in the URL box provided in the downloader9 site. There would be a pre-inserted link in there, just erase it and put yours. Hit “enter” on your keyboard.

3. Now, click on the link that shows up below the URL field which says “download video in flv” after the page loaded after hitting enter. It’s a done deal now! On to prepare it for use on your phone.

converting the video to 3gp or MP4 and sending to your phone

* For this stage you would need to use a free software called YouTube downloader for solely the conversion of the downloaded video. Download it here.

* Open YouTube downloader and click on “convert video (previously downloaded) from file”.

* Click on the “convert to” tab, and choose the file format you wish to have your converted video in. 3GP or MP4 is here since it’s for your phone.
Note: If you want to convert the video into an audio, then choose MP3
* Go to the “select video file” tab and click on the button aligned with the box. Select the Jonas Brothers Bounce video which you just downloaded. Click the “ok” button at the bottom of the YouTube downloader window and wait while it does the rest.

* When you have got the video all converted, you are set to transfer it to your mobile phone, by using your phone’s USB chord, infrared or Bluetooth, for enjoyment. If you encounter any problems, talk to me through the comment box. I'd sure give you a rapid response for Bounce’s sake.lol

And now, here comes the Bounce video. Watch and have fun!

If for any reason you haven’t had your own share of the laugh from this video, here is the video of the moment. Watch and make some noise.

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sony ericsson phone themes: black scorpion

2009-10-17T20:59:00.001+01:00

This is a very beautifully made sony ericsson phone theme. It features well designed, view of chrome cars. The menu buttons are smashing.

I thought I would bring this in to initiate my come-back to regular posting, after a while away from the keyboards. Download your own free copy of the black scorpion sony ericsson phone theme now.

sony ericson xperia X3 picture leaked

2009-10-17T20:17:00.001+01:00

Long after the rumour of the new Andriod powered sony ericson xperia X3 has created waves round the internet and it’s environs, the first “official” video spotting the physical of the sony ericson xperia X3 is released.

Though a video showing the supposed controls of the sony ericson xperia X3 had been released some three months back, this poor, live image of the long rumored phone is only the messiah that has come to confirm its existence, and also announce the near release of her.

Below is a feature rundown of the sony ericson xperia X3

Features highlight of sony ericson xperia X3:

Has an inbuilt 256 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM
Supports microSD (TransFlash) up to 16GB
Comes with a 8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash camera
Runs on an Android OS
has 3G HSDPA 900 / 2100 support
Unlimited phonebook and call records entries

Now a sneak view of the sony ericson xperia X3 UI…

What do you think of this machine?

Image source: gsm arena.

No new posts on javamobilecrunch…an apology

2009-10-17T19:41:00.001+01:00

Hi readers, I really want to apologize for not updating this blog for over two weeks now. There were serious background issues tying me down.

First of all, I’m an undergrad student asides my blogging involvement, and it’s quite hard striking a fine balance between my academic work and blogging activities. Secondly, I had a series of exam in the last week.

I’m back now, and all is settled. Javamobilecrunch would continue to be your number one source for mobile phone applications and interesting mobile reviews, and news amongst other mobile related content.

Thanks for your patience and understanding in the past two week. I’m back for real work. Watch out!!