When you first start up your brand new Nokia N82 you might find after a few weeks that the menu setup has some applications and folders that you might find useless. The great thing is that these folders & icons can be rearranged to better suit your needs and help improve your efficiency when navigating through various menus. Towards the bottom of the article you will also find a shortcut that will reduce the number of buttons clicked to reach your menu item.
Below is a screenshot of how I have my menu set up right now. All of my most used applications, tools, or folders that aren't already on my standby screen are displayed in the root menu. Now I don't have to dig around to find anything that I'm always needing.
The folder I have at the bottom called "Dump" contains a bunch of stuff I don't need or use often. Inside that folder is N-Gage, Download!, Video Centre, Nokia Maps, Search, Calculator, Web, and Contacts. Some I don't use and others I already have on my standby screen like I said earlier. This freed up a lot of menu space in the root menu and other menus. Basically our goal is to just get rid of the clutter.
To rearrange your N82 menu just push options then "move" or "move to folder". You can also create a new folder to assign different applications to it. You'll find that it's not possibly to move some folders so you'll just have to make do with what you can. There are also some applications that you can't delete which is why I moved them to the dump. Don't forget that when you see a half circle just above a certain icon that means it's being used and open in the background. You'll notice in my menu I have applications open in the Tools and Applications folder as well as Shozu.The last tip I'll show you is the shortcuts. When viewing any menu screen there are twelve icons visible. There are twelve buttons on your numerical keypad. Each button corresponds to the menu icons. The 1 button will be the top left icon and the # will be the bottom right, with everything else in between. This gives you one click access to your icons, similar to a touchscreen menu like the iPhone.
If anyone else has any tips for efficiency in navigating a Nokia S60 smartphone I all ears. Let me know if you have any questions.
5 comments:
HaHa Mike a good way to get rid of all the unwanted stuff,many don't try it unless you brought it on discussion,though it is basic.
Few days ago I came across a tutorial on how to remove pre-installed apps,I'll check it again and put a post on my blog only if the procedure is legal.
Hey Mike,
From what I can see, you have the same theme as what you had posted a couple posts down.
However you have different icons. Is there a way to download a general theme and also download separate icons?
You can download the theme here...
http://taiebthemes.com/qvga-themes/34-qvga-themes/178-black-a-red-v4-striped-wallpaper.html
Thanks for posting that link Youffie, thats indeed the theme I'm using. To answer the previous question, no you can't add a seperate icon pack as far as I know.
Well Dear, when you go to the option of a folder it only gives Move option not move to filder option, that option is visible only to the single files.
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