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I want a physical QWERTY keyboard Android

Bogdan — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 23:35:05 +0000

My motivation is simple, and Kevin Michaluk had nicely written down the benefits of physical keyboards: Why there’s still demand in 2014 for phones with physical keyboards. For many years I’ve been using Nokia E71, and now, after switching to a screen-only Android 4.4.2 device, I dearly miss the physical keyboard (and the compact, durable metal phone body, too, as well as week-long battery life…).

I really hope that phone manufacturers offer something that:

is about the size of E71, possibly slightly higher/wider/thicker
has a physical QWERTY keyboard, either E71-style or a slider
runs Android Lollipop
has decent (but not necessarily the best) smartphone hardware (5-8+MP camera, 1.4+GHzCPU, 1.5+GB RAM, 8+GB internal storage, etc)
has a good screen, e.g. HD (~4.3-4.7″) for a slider-keyboard version, or half-HD for Nokia-style keyboard
is minimally waterproof (can withstand heavy rain for 30 minutes)

Reasonable price would also be welcome…

HandBrake profile for Nokia E71 default player

Bogdan — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:41:24 +0000

Inspired by video encoding with handbrake.

HandBrake is a very high-quality piece of software – next time you need recoding something into H.264/MPEG-4 (using MKV or MP4 containers) – try HandBrake. It easily saturated all my CPU cores – which I failed to achieve with ffmpeg, which even with threads=8 was only saturating 2 cores.

Attached to this post are 2 profiles for recoding movies for Nokia E71. The “_best” profile has exhaustive motion detection, otherwise is identical to the base profile.
E71.plist
E71_best.plist

How to fix: Nokia Ovi Suite could not connect to the Nokia account server

Bogdan — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:18:05 +0000

I’ve been getting this message for a long while, when trying to log into Ovi from within my Ovi Suite:

Nokia Ovi Suite could not connect to the Nokia account server. Make sure the internet connection is working properly and try again.

However, both my internet connection, and logging into ovi.com using a browser work fine. Even looking for updates from within Ovi Suite works fine!

Here’s the solution (tested on Nokia Ovi Suite 3.0.0.290):

Important: before trying the solution below, try downloading and running root certificates update program from Microsoft, then restarting Ovi Suite to see if the problem is gone. (Thanks Finn for sharing this one.)

Navigate to Start – Control panel – Internet options (or: start Internet Explorer – Tools – Internet options). It doesn’t matter that your default browser is not IE.
Select Content tab.
Click Certificates, select Trusted root certification authorities tab, and sort ascending by expiration date.
Now delete all GTE CyberTrust certificates whose expiration date has passed.
Click Close, then OK
Restart Ovi suite.

If that didn’t help: try removing all expired certificates:

A word of warning

Deleting all expired trusted root certs is not a good idea. You could end up with vital parts of the system not working, or unable to access some documents (especially if you have encryption turned on). Thing is, expired certs can still be valid for anything signed or encrypted before they expired.

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