Customising Nokie E71 Home Screen to Fit Your Needs

from Nokia E71 Blog for Fanatics

The above home screen has six application shortcuts across the top.

• From left to right: Google Maps, Calcium Calculator, Slick IM, Notes, Music Player, Settings.
• Below the notifications are OWA exchange email, then personal email which uses Nokia Email, then calendar entries, to-do notes, and search.
• Then two shortcuts are Menu and a web bookmark to Google Reader.

What Can Be Configured?

As you can see WLAN search is not on the home screen. Unless you use it WLAN is not necessary to be on the home screen, and normally you can take off the Search: Internet and My Content portion as well.

You can also elect to hide or show email inboxes, the calendar shortcut, and t0-do note shortcuts.

To see these options go to Modes > Homescreen Applications > Enabled Applications. You should see the screenshot below, and this is where you control everything.

Notice where it says "Application Shortcuts" in the second screenshot? You can even get rid of the six app shortcuts across the top, if you don't need them for whatever reason. Some people just don't like all the clutter. Here is how that would look...

Or maybe you just want shortcuts and email...

To control which email inbox(s) will show go back one screen and select Email 1 notification, and Email 2 if it applies. Here you can control which inbox shows and how the preview will look. The Nokia Email shortcut shows as "Intellisync" in the Enabled Applications setting that was shown above.

Needless to say Mode Settings is where you also control your six application shortcuts. Don't forget you can make a web bookmark one of your shortcuts.

Turn Off Active Standby Completely

Lastly, you can turn off all the active standby shortcuts completely. This will allow you to have a blank screen, besides the normal time and notifications. Here the navigational d-pad buttons will serve as shortcuts, similar to most "basic" phones. Up, left, down, and right each do something different.

To enable this go to Settings > General > Personalization > Homescreen > Active.

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