Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Nokia e51 sms message counter

As E51 uses Symbian S60 3rd Edition OS and all phones that uses this OS does not have the sms counter. So I figure out that someone out there must must be frustrated by this and had written a application to solve this.

It turns out finding a message/sms counter for E51 is more work than expected. After several false start, I found one that works,

FreiMinMon : a application with German UI. (Translated Page here)

And to make FreiMinMon runs, Python must to be installed. The Python link in the FreiMinMon pages does not work. Luckily, a quick google search leads to Nokia implementation of Python, Py60. The necessary S60 Python files can be downloaded here.

Follow through with FreMinMon installation and ta da, you have a free message counter for E51

Other application I tried is SMS Counter but it fails to load on my E51. Maybe it will work for other Symbian S60 OS, do let me know as it have English UI.

Also, tried PBC SMS Counter from Nokia MOSH website (for Nokia "vetted" third part software). However, it requires payment to use and it is really silly that the downloaded trail version is expired.

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