Symbian Application: ShakeSMS

ShakeSMS is a Symbian S60v3 Application that deals with SMS and Phone Lock using the Accelerometers technology, to make you use the phone in an easier way!

Main Functionality (V1.00 Beta):

Sensor Timeout : 30, 60, 90, 120 (seconds) —- To save Battery
Sensitivity: Very, Less, Normal, Not so, Not Sensitive —- how hard you have to shake
ShakeNewSMS: View&Unlock, ViewOnly —- When New SMS is In
ShakeAgain: HomeScreen&Lock, OnlyLock, OnlyHomeScreen —-
Shake a Second Time AutoStart: No, Yes, Yes&Hide —- Start the Application automatically

Scenario: when you receive a short message on your Nokia Nseries device.

Normally without ShakeSMS:
You need to unlock the Nokia handset first, then read the message, after replying, lock the phone again. All these steps have to be done with a lot of touching and poking on the rather delicate keypad of your Nseries handset which don't come as good as they used to be.


With ShakeSMS:

Now just shake your phone, you can read the sms; shake it again, it goes back and the phone is locked! Walla!!


ShakeSMS beta is available for donators here. It's a Download so get it soon.

Mining for lost SMS messages?

If you by chance happened to delete your messages, and feel like reading them again, then here's what Kishore from mynokiamobile.blogspot.com says you gotta do:

To do this you need to have FExplorer on your Nokia Phone. (or click on the link)

1. Open FExplorer.
   
2. Select drive C: or D: depending on the memory in which the SMS messages have been saved.
   
3. In my case I selected C: , Then open "system" folder. Then in the "system" folder open "mail" folder. Then in this folder u will see different folders (eg 0010001_s) and certain files (eg 00100000). These files are the actually messages.
   
4. Browse through each folder and chack for the file till u get the one that you are looking for.( a very tiring process..Zzzzzzzzzz)
   
5. For opening the files don't choose options>file>open as it will show format not supported rather choose options>file>hex/text viewer. By selecting the "Hex/ text viewer" you ll be able to open and read the deleted SMS message.

Have a great time mining though your collections! ;)