Solve BSNL GPRS not working in Symbian Series 40 Nokia Phones

Are you a person who have activated BSNL GPRS and downloaded all the settings but nothing outside the crappy in-built browser is working? If yes read on....

How to solve 'Package installation failed' error in Ubuntu?

This is an error occurring after you install Reliance Netconnect Broadband package. If you look at the terminal while installing a package you might see something like this

crossplatformui: subprocess installed 

post-installation script returned error 

exit status 2

This error appears with every installation towards the end after you install Reliance Netconnect.

Though the installation appear to be aborted, all the installed software except Reliance Netconnect is usable. The problem comes when a .deb package with unsatisfied dependencies is installed. As the system does not count the installation of dependency as completed the installation of package is aborted. you might have to retry the installation to complete it fully.

What to do to prevent this error?

As the crossplatformui package is not a ubuntu default one it is safe for removal. But you have to use Synaptic to remove the package. After the removal of crossplatformui everything will be back to normal and further installations will complete successfully.

Build a website - Planning - Generating Ideas

Everything we see around us started as an idea in some one's mind. The computer you use, the chair you sit, the table you use..... everything started as an idea. As a website creator you also need good Ides. Good Idea does not necessorily mean 'million dollar ideas'.
For me any idea that on completion gives me satisfaction is a good idea. Generation of idea is not a static one that gets completed when you decide about the topic of a website, it is a continuous process.
If you already decided the topic of your website you don't have to read more. Otherwise read on...

What is rescatux

Rescatux is the ?abbreviation of RESCue A TUX(Tux==Linux penguin)
Source:

Why the system beeps continuously on startup or power on?

This happened on my dual boot lap with Linux and Windows Vista. I used it for learning programming. The programming languages I handled on this laptop ranged from the primitive machine language to Java and Website designing. I guess excessive use of programming is what teared my system down.

Flashing 'aka' Updating the BIOS in a Dual boot system -can that be done?

Disclaimer - The method described in this blog entry may or may not work for you, there is no guarantee. Use it at your own risk.

Short answer YES. For long answer.... read on......

Upgrade to ubuntu 10.10 - a nightmare

You can read about the grub_xputs not found error  which I encountered during my upgrade from Ubuntu 10.04 to Ubuntu 10.10 in my previous blog entry.

My Ubuntu Story

I began using ubuntu with 7.04. For upto ubuntu 9.04 and part of 9.10 I was running Ubuntu on a dual boot desktop machine with XP. I bought a laptop in jan 2010 and decide to drop windows as by that time I was comfortable with Linux alone. I started on my laptop with 9.10 which worked pretty decently and did not cause me much problem.

Then Ubuntu 10.04 LTS came. Seeing the great positive feed back I upgraded my system to Lucid and my most productive machine was born. I installed kubuntu and edubuntu together with ubuntu and every single program was working like a charm.I could easily run a windows 7 using Virtualbox along with the Linux in full swing. Kubuntu was working alongside Ubuntu perfectly with almost no error at all.

My Ubuntu Horror Story 
 
Then the disaster upgrade came in the shape of Ubuntu 10.10. I upgraded using the inbuilt tools and had no live cd with me. When I finally boot the system up using the method I described in my previous post I found my system almost normal.The problem began when I started playing an HD media file.

How to solve grub_xputs not found error in Ubuntu 10.10 without live CD

grub_xputs not found error occurs when grub is installed in any partition other than the MBR. This blog post targets those who upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10 from Ubuntu 10.04 using the software upgrade option and who does not have a live cd with them.

Solve grub-xputs not found error without a live CD 

1 Go to Supergrubdisk website and download SuperGrub2 Disk (1.44MB) 

2 Burn It to a CD or a USB and boot from that medium. 

3 Select default from the options menu that is displayed you will be booted using the misplaced grub. 

Now if you want to know about how I got the error in the first place and how the solution came to me please read on……. 

My Story 

About 2 weeks after the release of ubuntu 10.10, I decided to upgrade my laptop from Ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10. Even though lifehacker said there were not much ‘must have’ feature in Ubuntu 10.10 I decided to give it a shot. I have free net access on my 2 Mbps connection from 2 am to 8 am hence I started upgrade at about 4 am when I got up.  It downloaded a total of 1.3GB files and took about 2 hrs for installing alone. 

The upgrade was completed at 9 am. The long 5 hr installation was contributed by my delay in answering questions put to me by the system ( coz I slept in between). 

During the installation I made a foolish mistake, I selected the Linux file system partition as the grub installation point instead of the MBR. The next thing that popped up when I pressed the return key was that “This is a bad Idea”. In fact the whole decision of upgrade was ‘bad idea’ but more on that later. Still the installation completed successfully. 

On the reboot my sytem got stuck at a new command prompt which was named grub rescue, after displaying an erro saying that grub_xputs is not found. As I was upgrading from Ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10 from within the OS I had no live CD with me. So boot up from live CD and reinstalling the grub was out of question at that moment. I tried to download a new Linux installation image from Ubuntu site but it was being downloaded at a staggering rate of 20Kbps at the moment. 

I calculated that it will take about 11 hrs to complete the download and reinstall grub. So I began searching for other solutions, wandered lot in ubuntuforums but most of the options I got was using the live CD to rescue the system. 

Then the solution came to me. Supergrubdisk website. This website offers solutions to boot problems in systems using grub. I had three options there 

Option 1. Rescatux 

Download size 334 MB (= 5 hrs download). This file is able to repair all boot problems. It can repair, find missing grub and do just about anything on the grub.

Option 2 SuperGrub2 Disk Download size 1.44MB(Floppy???). This would search and find any missing grub in the system and boot using that grub to an already installed OS. A good option for me as I accidentally misplaced my grub. This option work for Grub2 which is the commonest boot loader now a days

Option 3 Super Grub Disk Download size 4 MB. This would fix grub(also called legacy grub not used much now) but not grub 2(My grub). but can boot to any system. 

I opted for the second one. Downloaded the 1.44 MB file burned it to a CD and booted from it. An option screen popped up on how to boot, I selected the default boot option. The program searched for the missing grub and booted from it.

After Logging into my system I reinstalled the Grub and on reboot my system was booting up like nothing happened…….ever.

Can you serve W3C validation logos from your site?

Yes, you can
W3C validation logos can be downloaded to the image folder of your website and served from there. You can edit the associated html code to serve the image from within your site rather than creating a DNS query.
Advantage of this is faster page loading and optimized performance by reducing one DNS request.
N.B According to the Terms and conditions of W3C you are not allowed to edit the images in any way. You may just serve the images as such.

BSNL GPRS settings - 2

I'm sorry that my previous post is a little longer. I understand that it is a little difficult to find the actual needed information from that post. Thats why I am writing another blogpost for the BSNL GPRS settings only.

In short for getting connected you need to set 'bsnlnet' as the access point in all areas. It is not gprssouth.cellone.in as BSNL say in their website. You might need to add another accespoint if the one downloaded along with the settings do not work.

Connect PC to internet using BSNL GPRS

I am writing this blog post to help those people who are unable to connect to internet using BSNL GPRS using a PC.

My Devices
Phone: Nokia 7210 Supernova
Laptop: Compaq CQ601-TU running on Ubuntu Linux 10.04
My plan : To activate BSNL GPRS one month unlimited plan.
My Fault: I activated the one month unlimited plan without receiving.

First thing I did was to configure my laptop using these settings

How to use Nokia to connect to internet in Ubuntu

There were lot of obstacles in front of me when I tried to activate and use the Unlimited GPRS plan.

First problem was in downloading Internet settings to my phone. For downloading the setting phone make and model number should be sent via SMS but the supernova part prevented accepting my phone's model no.

Then I checked internet to find a way. It was revealed although my phone is called 7210 supernova its actual model no is 7210c.

I tried sending SMS with this newly found number, oops again failed. System is still not accepting the number.

I tried all the possible combinations with the number but with no luck.
I tried to call the customer care they told me that they will send the setting manually but I received none.

One week passed by without having any improvement.
I was almost lost but then idea struck me.

Can I use settings sent to a phone with same software??

I checked my software version. It was Symbian 40 edition 5. I looked up in the Internet and found some models with this same version but has no attachments to its model number.
The phone selected was 6301 I tried sending this number voila...... success and at last there were some working settings were in my phone.

But the problem didn't end there.

I was unable to connect to net using any software other than phone's own poor HTML browser. this browser returned memory full errors when I had 14 MB phone memory free.
Again I contacted the BSNL customer care they said I have to manually enter gprssouth.cellone.in as access point if I want to connect to internet using other software or PC
I tried that also again failed.....'
I was frustrated using the poor inbuilt browser of my phone.
Then I found another useful article here

'Subscribe to Packet Data' error

This article gave something for me to work on..
At last I succeeded and these were the steps

I created an access point manually and named it GPRS South these were the settings in that access point.

data bearer: Packet data
Bearer settings
Packet Data Access Point: bsnlnet
Network Type : IpV4
Authentication: Normal
Username and password were my phone number without any +91

This access point was set as my preferred access point
Then I edited the active accesspoints name from Access Point 1 to bsnlnet

When other programs in my phone also was able to connect to internet, My Ubuntu Magically detected the mobile broadband network available and connected to it.

My BSNL GPRS connection appears to be a good one as it gives me connection speeds upto 200 kbps which is 4 times faster than Dial up connections and only slightly lower than my previous broadband connection.

I feel that BSNL GPRS as a must consider option against the costly 3G , If you are using net for only browsing and downloading files in the range upto 100mb.