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Yet another day with HTC Magic as my default mobile phone, as I must admit I’m starting to get used to it. Even battery was behaving rather well overnight this time (99% to just 90%). Overall, Magic is very pleasant device, and quite frankly I really enjoy using it on daily basis. It has very nice look & feel, clean, crisp and sensitive, yet not over-sensitive, touch screen, and generally that is a quite appealing piece of hardware. However, there’s one thing I really really hate. Text input. Oh, yes…

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Magic did wake me up this morning. Good. What I wasn’t very impressed about was the battery charge level. From 99% at 11:30pm the night before it went all the way down to 79% in less than 8 hours later, with auto-sync feature turned off (!). What was it doing all night? Don’t know, but apparently not sleeping. I need to review the idea of applications like Facebook and/or Twitter clients running constantly in background. However, quite fortunate thing about the power supply in HTC Magic is that re-charging the battery is actually quite fast.

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I am a huge fan of mobile phones with full QWERTY keyboards. It all started with HTC Wizard back in 2005, then HTC Hermes, HTC Kaiser, then I’ve fallen in love with Blackberry-style form factor and followed with Samsung i780 to finally end up with excellent Nokia E71. I’ve been using E71 for more than a year now, and all my true fans know already that me sticking to a single mobile for more than a quarter must mean that I have a swine flu or something. Basically, Nokia E71 – despite some very annoying issues – is the best mobile phone I’ve been using so far. Really.
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This is assuming your E71 with 200-series firmware is already hacked with HelloOX and Open4All patch by ROMPatcher, and you have full access to c:\sys and others.

Now, here’s the thing to do before upgrading to the latest 300-series firmware using X-Plore (or any other file manager of your choice):

1. Create y:\sys\bin directories
2. Copy installserver.exe into y:\sys\bin
3. Change attributes of y:\sys\bin\installserver.exe to Hidden, Readonly, System
4. Assign the same attributes to y:\sys\bin and y:\sys directories

Upgrade the firmware. Once that’s done, install HelloOX (assuming it was already signed for your phone with OPDA certificate!) and execute it. It will do its job, making your E71 hacked and ready for Field Test Display aka NetMonitor again. :)

Credits:
Vivio @ Symbian Freak forums

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