Germany - Starting the adventure

My adventure started taking a plane. In this case was an Iberia’s Airbus. During the nice 12 hours flight, I took some pictures of the sky:

In this one you can see the clouds:

Also, the airplane has a tail camera, so you can see what happen outside of it, for example this picture was taken after landing in Madrid:

This is the Barajas Airport, in Madrid:

Then, I should wait a bit until take another plane to Germany. 4 hours later I was in the Frankfurt Airport. Note the advertisement of Oracle, in the land of SAP:

Right decisions vs best decisions (Part II)

Some months ago, I had to take a decision, and I think I took the right one. Most of the people criticized my choice, like too much noble or stupid, also there were some people who tried to make look that decision as something with bad intentions or saying that I pretended to be a protagonist or hero.

I’m not a hero and I don’t pretend be one. I like to sleep every night without owning anything to anybody, without hurting or destroying, without having bad intentions. 

My decision caused me some damage, but it was useful to help other people. And that’s why I’m proud and not regretting.

Wii Fitness

Wii Sports has an option to check our fitness, based in 3 factors: speed, balance and stamina. Those are measured with 3 activities part of the sports (tennis, golf, baseball, bowling and boxing) chose randomly. My first results were awful, my Wii Fitness Age were between 30 and 60! 

I wasn’t playing for a while as I was busy preparing my stuff to the trip, but I decided to try some days ago and the results were really good: 28 years old. Finally something according with my real age.

I’ll keep checking age… but after my trip.

Ready to my adventure

I did almost all my preparations and I only have to tweak the final details for my first big adventure: cross the ocean and visit Europe. Since kid I always wanted to travel and learn about places, possibly a little integrate with the community and learn from it.

Now I expect a lot of things over there, I hope that all goes well and smoothly. The only thing that worries me is the length of the flight and I really basic German (Guten tag!). For the rest, I am sure that I'll be fine.

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One credit card less

Simplify is my tendency. Today I cancelled a credit card, because it was to expensive and I don’t like to complicate my days being worried about debts. No tears about this one, in facts it was a bad credit card. In the future I’ll be more careful when I got one.

Nokia N95 Problem (part II) – Recovering my apps

I’m continuing with the problem. I can’t recover my apps. I think the problems started when I changed the language of the mobile, sincerely no good idea. Another possible reason was corruption on MicroSD, because later I had problems trying to take the info and put them into my backup card.

To solve the problem, I performed a hard reset, used an empty MicroSD and start again installing the apps. I recovered almost everything, and to achieve that it’s important to know where the data of each application is and how to perform a backup-restore. Here some info:

• Step Counter.- Information is storage in a folder called “StepCounter” inside the mobile or in MicroSD. For each workout exists a .dat file, organized in monthly folders. In my case, I had previously “Activity Monitor” and some of the files are directly in the main directory. Copy all the contents, including subfolders and other files.
  
• Sports Tracker.- Information is storage in a folder called “SportsTracker” inside the mobile or in MicroSD. For each workout exists a .dat file, organized in monthly folders. From previous versions, some of the files are directly in the main directory. Copy all the contents, including subfolders and other files.
  
• Wellness diary.- Database is in “\System\data\wfrdb.sq” in SQLite format, in your mobile or in MicroSD. If yours is in your mobile, you need YBrowser to access the file. You copy and paste it.
  
• Landmarks.- I didn’t find out where is storage, but I know how to backup and restore. In “Landmarks” app, select all and then send them to your mail or by Bluetooth. You’ll receive a “.lmx” file, a XML like format from Nokia to save the landmarks. To restore them, copy the file to your MicroSD and open the file in the mobile using File Administrator. Automatically opens an application with an option to save them locally.  
  
• Nokia Maps.- All info is in the folder “cities” in the MicroSD. Copy and paste it.
  
• MobiReader.- Books and annotations are stored in “eBooks” folder. Just copy and paste the contents. Synchronize with your PC if necessary.
  

To prevent lost of information, the most recommendable is storage everything in the MicroSD, configuring every application to use it. Also sync it time to time to prevent data lost. 

I hope this post will be useful.

Nokia N95 Problem - Web browser can’t open

Today I wanted to test a WAP application and I couldn’t open the Web browser of N95. Googling I found these forums:

http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/discussions/board/message?board.id=apps&thread.id=1424
http://discussions.nokia.co.uk/discussions/board/message?board.id=messaging&message.id=4446

After reading, I took a backup using “Nokia Content Copier”, synchronized it with my laptop and took of the MicroSD card. Then I tried these things in this order:

• Update the firmware.- I run “Nokia Software Updater” but I doesn’t have available updates.
• Take the battery out for 10 minutes.- Nope, didn’t work.
• Erase cache.- I installed YBrowser (http://www.drjukka.com/YBrowser.html) and deleted all the contents in c:\cache. It didn’t work.
• Soft reset.- I had some problems remembering my password but I finally did it. Bad news, didn’t work.
• Hard reset.- My last chance... crossing my fingers I typed *#7370#. Success!

After check that web browser is working, I restored the “Nokia Content Copier” backup. Another problem: incompatibility of language. One week ago I changed the language of the mobile just for fun. I should use the last language and perform the restore. At this point everything was ok.

The real problems started when I put back the MicroSD card. Started a crosscheck validation between the mobile and card, and the result was some corruption of applications. I reset it several times, deleted files and perform restores with all combinations possible, and at this moment these applications don’t work and I can’t re-install them according with corruption of files during install:

• Wellness diary
• MSN Messenger
• Step Counter
• Nokia Maps 2.0
• Moving Ball (due to no longer valid application)

I’ll continue working on recovering my main apps. My plan is perform a hard reset, format the MicroSD and start over again. Next step is making a list of applications and find out how to recover my personal info.