Although Nokia advertises the Nokia E7-00 as being supported by NMT (Nokia Multimedia Transfer), it does not recognize the device in USB or bluetooth modes. I figured an easy way to get the bluetooth mode working.

1. If you’re impatient, just download the profile file from below and copy it to /Library/Application Support/Nokia Multimedia Transfer/Profiles
2. Install and launch Nokia Multimedia Transfer
3. Select Tools and Settings -> Check for Updates now
4. Go to /Library/Application Support/Nokia Multimedia Transfer/Profiles
5. Copy the n8.profile and name it e7-00.profile
6. Open the e7-00.profile with text editor
7. Search for the supportedModels section, which looks like this

			<key>supportedModels</key>
			<array>
				<dict>
					<key>modelNumber</key>
					<string>RM-596</string>
					<key>softwareVersion</key>
					<string>0.1</string>
				</dict>
			</array>

8. Change the RM-596 to say RM-626 (you can double check the model from your device’s side)
9. Change the deviceDisplayName to say Nokia E7-00

			<key>deviceDisplayName</key>
			<string>Nokia N8</string>

Or just download the Nokia E7-00 profile file from HERE

Those of you who have encountered the annoying behaviour of the Nokia N900 when answering a phone call, where the phone will randomly lock/unlock the screen, switch the orientation and in general do everything to get you to press a wrong button on the screen and hang up the call, know what I’m talking about. The rest will probably be incredulous about such a problem existing at all, but it does and it’s officially known as the annoying-as-hell lock/unlock-flicker-when-answering-the-god-damned-phone problem (ok I made that part up).

I just figured out how to eliminate the problem and it has decrease my frustration with the phone by about 300%. The steps are simple:

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The two most common complaints about Nokia’s N900 phone / internet device seem to be the inability to set custom ringtones for different persons and not being able to group contacts into groups. At least the other of these problems seems to have been solved by Marco Barisione with his “Ringtoned” software. (more…)