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Deleting Hidden Untrusted S60 Themes How-To

Earlier I wrote about a problem with restoring data to my Nokia E71 after a firmware upgrade. Well, there was also another problem. Once again, I started getting the “Untrusted software found on memory card. To install, go to Application manager.” complaint upon my Nokia E71 booting or otherwise mounting the memory card. Application Manager showed no applications marked as “Not installed”, and reinstalling the applications I tend to have installed didn’t fix the problem.

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Written on Sat Nov 28 16:39:52 2009 UTC.
Tagged as S60, Symbian, software installation.



Look, S60 Software Installation with No Hands

S60 3rd Edition has been out for quite a while by now, and for me, the one thing that has all but killed the pleasure of developing native software for the platform has been the humiliating wait—dismiss dialog—wait—dismiss dialog—wait—dismiss dialog—wait procedure during installation of the software being tested and developed. For one-off installations the installation procedure is no problem, but when you’re a developer it gets old real fast.

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Written on Sat Jan 17 09:50:53 2009 UTC.
Tagged as C++, PlatSec, Python, S60, Symbian, software, software installation.



Finding Out the Best-Before Date of a SIS File

There are a few Symbian software authors who occasionally write a piece of Symbian code, possibly with no intention of ever touching the code again, package it up as a SIS file, and then “fire and forget” that SIS file to some web site in case someone should find it useful. Or forget until such time that someone complains about the SIS file having been expired.

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Written on Thu Oct 16 00:49:02 2008 UTC.
Tagged as PlatSec, Symbian, software installation.