Active Standby Plugins for N82 and N95 - June 29, 2008
If you’ve been a long time user of Nokia phones, then you might know what Active Standby plugins are. Currently an exclusive feature to the Nokia E-Series S60 phones, it’s basically an option within the Control Panel to allow to user to control what they want to see on the Active Standby screen.
For example, if you’re using an E-Series phone, you could opt to disable showing your To-Do list, or your WLAN scanning in the Active Standby Screen if you don’t find a use for those features. Any aspect of the Active Standby screen can be changed to your personal taste and preferences.
So it is a crying shame that Nokia decided not to include this feature on the N-Series smartphones. In my opinion, it should be a standard feature across all Symbian S60 smartphones – it allows for greater personalisation and general aesthetics, especially if you don’t want to see a certain feature on the Active Standby home screen.
But I digress. There is a method for N-Series users to change your Active Standby screen and strip out the elements you dislike; in the screenshot below, I took out the Search feature in the home screen, along with the WLAN scanning as an example.
It’s not a very complex procedure to get this done: all you need is ROMPatcher (Only for S60v3 FP1 Smartphones) and the CleanActiveStandby Patches, and follow the instructions below. Oh yes, and you need a Windows PC too (sorry to all Mac users). It’s a completely safe and reversible process.
Unzip the 2 filesTransfer s60_3_1_app_trk_2_7.sisx from the ROMPatcher package to your phone via Data Transfer Mode, then run it. Don’t install it using your PC Suite.Connect your phone in the PC Suite mode with your computer.
Execute TRK from your applications folder. By default it will try to turn on your Bluetooth; just cancel that. Go to Options >> Settings and set the Connection to be “USB”.Now find the Port number that your phone is connected to. Open up Device Manager in the Control Panel (or Start Menu >> Run >> devmgmt.msc). It should be under COM & LPT or an option like that.
Now run RPInstaller.exe from the ROMPatcher package and enter the correct COM port number. Click on “Install” and let it do its job. When you see the following, then the process is done.
Check your Applications folder. There should be a new application called ROMPatcher sitting there, if no errors occurred during the installation process.Close RPInstaller on your PC, the TRK application from your phone, and connect your phone in the Data Transfer mode.Make the folder /Patches/ in the root menu of the memory stick. Throw the 4 files from the CleanActiveStandby Patch in there.Turn off Active Standby on your N-Series smartphone.Open up ROMPatcher – you should see the following screen:
Select the patches which you wish to apply – you can apply all 4 if you want – and then minimise ROMPatcher. Don’t click on “Exit” because there is a problem of it restarting your phone once you click on the button “Exit”. If the patch correctly applies you should see a green tick as the icon next to it. Likewise, if there’s a problem, you should see an icon with an exclamation mark.Turn on Active Standby again and it should be complete. If, for any reason, you wish to get your normal screen back, just reboot your phone.There, the patch should be done. Now you can sit back, relax, and enjoy a clutter-free Active Standby home screen.
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