Tim Hardy

Following recommendations from Sumesh, Costas and Joyce, I’ve upgrade to the Nokia N95. It’s a great phone and the wireless is fantastic but it does have a few teething problems.

Once annoyance is the lack of a “normal” ringtone - or indeed anything that doesn’t make you look like a tasteless idiot when your phone goes off in pubic.

My favourite ringtone on the N70 was called Nostalgia. It sounds like an old fashioned, British telephone. Unfortunately the N95 does not come with this option.

Thankfully it’s easy to transfer from my old handset by using FileExplorer to navigate to Z:\Noka\Sounds\Digital\ then sending Nostalgia.aac to my new handset via bluetooth. Once saved to the new phone, it can be selected as a ringtone in Profiles.

There’s a bug with the Nokia data transfer application that stops it from working out of the box.

My old phone is a Nokia N70 but this should work for all other models.

If you set up your new phone and follow the clear instructions (that I won’t repeat here) then you will get as far as the N95 transferring an application called “DataMover.sis” to your old phone but no further. Trying to install DataMover.sis will give the warning: “Certificate may not yet be valid, is expired or phone’s date setting may be incorrect.”

The certificate has been incorrectly set to expire on 12 June 2007. To work around this, temporarily set your old phone’s date to some point before that in order to trick it into installing the application. (Tip: just change the year to 2006, it makes it easier to restore the correct date later.)

Once the application has been installed to your old handset the rest of the process should proceed smoothly.