Unable to Install Mail for Exchange on Nokia [alternate solution]

I flashed my Nokia XpressMusic 5800 with Xtension Legacy 1.0 firmware, it does really work fast… however, I ran into a show stopper issue: Mail for Exchange failed to install with "Update Error".

Research pointed me to an alternative that works just as well, perhaps better.

http://www.seven.com/

On this site, from "how to get" click on your country, then provider… if provider is not listed, click on the link to try beta. Once downloaded, install and follow prompts. Its working for me so far - if you don't see any updates to this, it means it has been working since the day of posting!

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Troubleshooting: MacOSX stuck at blue screen, no login window

I was working on my computer and electricity went off. Usually, it hardly means anything… just let the system restart. It will take a slight bit longer as journals are replayed and file system checked and fixed. Yep, MacOSX keeps track of its filesystem and prevents inconsistencies. I love that part. But, sometimes… just sometimes… everything doesn't go as expected.

The computer seemed to start up well, but came up to a dark blue screen, then a light blue screen with a rotating circle showing some activity was going on, then flashed back to dark blue screen and kept repeating.

I had seen this issue before and spent two days trying to figure out what was wrong. Today, I just shut down the computer and spent time doing other things while in the back of my mind, I recalled what all I had done to fix it. I had tried scores of different things. Thinking video drivers could be messed up, perhaps some kernel extensions (kexts) were corrupt and myriad other possibilities. I tried creating a second account from single user mode, but that wasn't going as suggested on many sites. I disabled auto-login, but that didn't help either. I was stuck.

Then out of desperation, I tried many different hacks together and the computer allowed me to log into my account. I had found a solution somewhere in those hacks! I didn't think of it much after that… until now.

Finally, after two cups of chai, a few pages of "The Black Swan" a book that talks about random, unexpected events that significantly affect us (like this one, perhaps) and a rant on how to react to bad news (the previous post on this blog), it struck me. I had renamed the folder: /Users/harshad/Library/Preferences to /Users/harshad/Library/Preferences_old

But that wasn't the entire solution, there was more. Didn't have time to think it through. I dived in… started my Mac, got into single user mode did the usual fsck and mount commands (shown right after login) and then renamed the folder

/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /
cd /Users/[USERNAME]/Library/
mv Preferences Preferences_old
reboot

Bingo! That got me to my desktop, which looked like a brand new account (because by renaming, I had effectively removed the Preferences folder for MacOS and it created a new one)

Next step was logical… I remembered last time going through system log messages where the loginwindow server kept crashing over and over… so all I did was copy loginwindow.plist over to old preferences folder, and renamed the old folder to be the current one once again:

in Terminal app

cd /Users/[USERNAME]/Library/Preferences/
sudo cp loginwindow.plist ../Preferences_old/
cd ..
mv Preferences Preferences_new
mv Preferences_old Preferences

Rebooted system after that.

Done!

Heh, I sometimes brag to fellow photographers that I have a technological edge over them because I understand the "digital" medium we work with, this is another example how it actually pays off ;-)

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