Hard Resetting my Nokia N5800

It was my unfortunate experience, I just bought this phone a couple months ago, while I got excited to install any kind of applications, games and themes, suddenly the home screen is acting weird – my suspection this problem appears from corrupt application. It’s in the “shortcut bar” mode, and all the shortcut buttons are dissapeared, the keypad and contact button are completely doing nothing when tapped. Soon, I figure out that this is not the case when the home screen mode in “contact bar”, it only happen in “basic” and “shortcut bar”.

Go to menu Settings > Phone > Phone Management > Factory Setting, the access code can be found in the manual book, but it didn’t eliminate the problem. Prepared the guarantee card for Nokia center, I was thinking to give a shot to search a kind of troubleshoot in internet. I later learn about “soft reset” and “hard reset” thing for my phone. It’s a combination of symbols and numbers that used to reset all setting to factory setting (soft reset) or even complete formatting the phone (hard reset) – erasing all contacts, calendars, notes, etc. I don’t know the legal issue of publication of this code, therefore you might want to found it from google.

Below are my step by step to solve this problem, but because it just trial error, nothing official and in the end I think I’ve messed up a bit, I don’t recommend it, if you need to try something similar, please do it at your own risk or better, go to the professional repair center.
- First of all, I remove my SIM card and memory card, leaving the phone in offline mode.
- Then installing Nokia PC suite in my laptop
- Backup all phone data (most important are contacts, calendar and notes). But the themes that installed into the phone is not backed up(?)
- Do soft reset first, phone restarting, but still didn’t solve the problem.
- Do the hard reset, the phone is restarting again, and I got the screen to adjust country, date and time… problem solved, yes! but I still got to have all my data restored back to the phone.
- Go back to PC Suite, and do data restore… ok seems no problem, but my memory card is not inserted yet…
- Inserting my memory card, the phone then initiate the memory card, but alas, some of my games and applications is not installed correctly, they dissapeared from the phone menu, but the themes seems ok. In  second look, the application that is dissepeared are the Java applications.

… noo, I still can’t found the correct way to installed the missing application. Need help please! I found the private folder for the jars, because most the java apps come from OVI store, should I need to move this folder and reinstalled the jars? or is there any way to do it from phone menu?

How Free is Web Content?

Innovations and improvations of web technology has brought us to a new kind of service that everybody involved now, that is as, I don’t know what the proper term for it, “the publicly personal domain provider”, a service that freely available to manage and publish personal interest of its freely registered user such as blogs, profile, bookmarking, video share and search engine, what I want to discuss or ask is how far the responsibility of the owner of such website about the content of what their user publish in the site. It is not a case on the internally managed content like news site or any common personal / company websites. This is not a summary about something, this even just a question for me.

In Example, someone can post and publish a provocated or controversial topics, video or about anything in his/her blog (provided by the free provider). In that case how far is the responsibility of the user owner about the user content? could it be said that the xxxx.com should be responsible about the content, because it was on their domain.

Just like some month ago when in a popular blog aggregator website, there is a post which reveal a code for an illegal stuff, and for a moment the owner try to filter the input, but the user then can protest and the owner can’t do anything about it anymore because it was the original system of such service built to ease communication not only between its own user but openly to the public, and anyone can do anything as they wanted, is there any system to protect the owner or the user about this, if you understand my point (sorry for my horrible english), or was the responsibility fall to the user side (how they accomplish this)?

There is a condition that our site or system can be popular if we can build something above the other resource from this openly world wide web architecture. But I found or feel that somehow the site owner will loose their power on these kind of things, even if me as a user has said agree with some user agreement when first time registered, I just what to know what kind of mechanism of web owner to control their users?

Some things I feel much doubt if I was in the owner position:
- Unkown real user ID, AFAIK can only tracks user location by IP
- Anything that can be shared by user (picture, link, article, video, etc)
- User Comments
- Mash-up

Those things inside was the advantage of the www, but also actually can be used to abuse the web. If eventually we browse to some trusted site but inside the page there ‘iframe’ or ‘ajaxed division’ that link to some unproper content, how can we as the viewer can control this? how free is free?

There’s some mechanism that allowed the viewers to ‘report’ the content on this case, but how long before a person do it and the URI has been used everywhere to mark the content?

The worse is in the search engine, they just like providing link or thumbnail to ‘any’ kind of content, its actually fine for me, but where is my moral responsibility if I was the owner to provide such service, I don’t blame anyone because sometime we just saw how what we call improvation can also be the limitation or down fall of the system overall. Can the most sophisticated search engine be also the huge collection of links and host for an xxx blah blah blah resources, actually? I know that there also some control mechanism provided by one of them such as safe mode for some content searched within their site, but how much it will help. Could we think another approach to manage such a problem? (if you don’t think that it is a problem, I can change it to word ‘challange’), I thought there should many people that concern about this too.

Whois Expire

http://registrar.verisign-grs.com/whois/faq.html

Yesterday i have one internet domain account expired, the domain name is kept secret here however :) it was my failed webmaster wannabe thing, anyway, because i have register it with my personal information, including my KTP (National ID) number, home address, phone etc, i just feel uncomfortable with that (since i though i gave that information just for my domain reseller record in the first time).

So, based on the information from above link, it said that every expired domain will remain active for renewal 45 days after it expired, I wonder if my whois data still there (forever…? if not overwritten, but whose will take the unrelevant domain name anyway).

Ok, so until 45 next days.

Why i’m so anxious about this, beside not to blaming my personality, i saw everybody else whois is not about their actual data (try whois some personal website, or kind). It’s kinda weird when thinking why in the world it’s only me who stupid enough expose my email address, my home address, my ID number to those spammers and ID thefts anywhere…

hmm… or just i’m being too worry again, like always… let’s see…

User Interface Innovation just works (baca: sale)

Link video presentasi desktop apple leopard (untuk video lain silakan dicari sendiri dari halaman itu)

Tahun ini Microsoft dengan Windows Vistanya dan Apple dengan Leopard nya menghadirkan sensasi baru buat para konsumennya (termasuk juga anggaran baru). Apa yang kulihat dari presentasi atau iklan-iklan mereka sebenarnya tidak terlalu menarik dari sudut pandang software developer, apa yang mereka presentasikan hanya berkisar diantara User Interface, terutama desktop dan desktop finder. Beberapa feature di Vista seperti Desktop gadget, Ribbon Toolbar, Desktop search, apalagi di apple ada Space (virtual desktop), quick look (preview), dan lain-lain semuanya toh bukan barang baru, dengan sistem yang sekarang bahkan di semua distro Linux pun ada hal-hal yang semacam itu, namun kenapa hal itu bisa tampak bagus dan meyakinkan saat ini.

Dari sisi software development, perubahan platform di OS memang merupakan hal yang paling utama, tetapi hal itu tidak terlalu berlaku dalam hal pengiklanan kepada masyarakat, apa yang ingin dilihat konsumen adalah feature yang mudah digunakan, bermanfaat, dan ‘nampak baru’, dan hal ini telah digunakan dengan baik sekali dari sisi presentation layer atau istilah umumnya User Interface (antarmuka) dari aplikasi yang bersangkutan (termasuk aplikasi Desktop Manager bawaan OS-OS tersebut).

Ada beberapa hal yang menurutku mempengaruhi hal ini sebenarnya, karena sekali lagi dari sisi pengembangan software tidak banyak feature atau lebih tepatnya inovasi baru yang diperlihatkan, yaitu:

• Hardware yang semakin cepat
  Dengan processor multicore dan memori dalam ukuran gigabyte dalam sebuah PC, kehebatan sebuah komputer desktop kini hanya dibatasi oleh masalah penampilannya bukan oleh OS atau softwarenya lagi.
• Aplikasi-aplikasi web yang semakin banyak dan inovatif (a.k.a web 2.0)
  Dengan banyaknya aplikasi di web, pola aktifitas kita di desktop cenderung berubah, kita banyak menyimpan bookmark, mendownload file, membaca email, browsing, chatting, dan sebagainya. Desktop harus dibuat untuk
• Perubahan (kemajuan) pola User Interface
  sekarang ini pola input untuk User Interface bergerak maju, dari standar GUI menjadi beragam pola seperti Zoom UI (google map, IE7, dan kawan-kawan) dan Tag Typing (yg terakhir ini karangan aku sendiri). Saat ini inovasi UI desktop sudah mulai digoyang oleh UI web yang semakin beragam. kutipan dari blog bacaan langganan: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000883.htm
  Aku bilang seharusnya ada (atau sudah ada) istilah baru untuk UI aplikasi web: Webtop (daripada istilah seperti web 2.0, terkesan komersil)

Kesimpulannya, perubahan pola aktifitas (idea inspires more ideas) + kecepatan hardware sangat mempengaruhi pergerakan pengembangan software itu sendiri, karena bagaimanapun sisi komersial berperan besar dalam pengembangan inovasi. Jadi akhir kata jangan lupakan desain UI yang apik dan cantik sebagus (atau sejelek) apapun sistem aplikasi kita.

UI desain menarik dan harus dipelajari filosofinya minimal sedikit, tapi memang sama sekali bukan bidangku, jadi hail to UI designer… ;).

-IMHO-

Quotes 1

“I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and — ta-da! — the World Wide Web.” Tim Berners Lee, 1989 (The inventor of world wide web) – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

“We weren’t going to find a place where we could go for a month to be enlightened. It was one of the first times that I started to realize that maybe thomas Edison did a lot more to improve the world than Karl Marx and Neem Kairolie Baba put together.” Steve Jobs, Apple