Tips and Shortcut Keys for Nokia E63, E71, even E72
The Nokia E71 and E63 are great phones with operating on Symbian S60 series. They comes with a keyboard with easy to type, sharp LCD, great keys position, and most importantly, long battery life with approximately 5-7 days for an average user. Nokia E71 and Nokia E63 phones comes with a lot of practical applications, including word processor, spreadsheet, simple note pad, email client and etc.
Here are tips and shortcut keys available on the Nokia E63 and Nokia E71 phone, even Nokia E72. In fact, these tips can also apply to all symbian S60 devices.
1. Copy and paste operation.
First, highlight the text by pressing “shift” (do not release) and use the arrow keys (up, down, left, right) to highlight the desire text. Then press the shift key until the “Left Selection Key” appears “Copy” and then press it to copy the text. Lastly, go to the desire position (or any other application) and press the shift key again until the “Right Selection Key” turns to “Paste” and press it to paste it.
2. Bluetooth
* (long key press) activates / deactivates Bluetooth from the Home Screen
3. Switching between Silent and General Profile
# (long key press) activates Silent profile or activates General profile from Home Screen
4. Web Browser
0 (long key press) start web browser from Home Screen
5. List of running applications aka task manager
“Home” key (long key press) any time, any where
6. Another used of back space key
During the listing of sms or notes, use Tip 1 to select the desire sms or notes then press “back space” to delete the sms or notes.
7. Additional short cut keys to launch application
Other then “Left selection key” & “Right selection key”, “navigation keys” (left, right, up & down) can also be used to launch applications. The “navigation keys” can be set through “Menu -> Tools -> Settings -> General -> Personalisation -> Home Screen -> Key shortcuts” (long deep menus…).
The other way to launch application using shortcut key can also be done with the “One-touch” keys. Its config can be accessible through “Menu -> Tools -> Settings -> General -> Personalisation -> One-touch”. There are 3 keys available but with combination of “Short press” & “Long press”, it can set up to maximum of 6 shortcuts. As for the “Home” key, it is not available as by default the short key press is set to “Menu” and long key press is set to “List of applications” aka Task Manager.
8. Quick search on contact during sms
Type in the search criteria on the “To:” field at the top then press the center button of the “navigation” button and the valid search list will appear.
9. Page up, page down for scrolling
Ctrl + up (navigation key) = Page Up
Ctrl + down (navigation key) = Page Down
10 . Phone Serial number
*#06#
11. Symbian software version
*#0000#
12. Wireless hardware mac address
*#62209526#
Most likely, it is needed to access wireless access point with mac address filtering.
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Tags: Nokia, Nokia E63, Nokia E71, Nokia E72, Shortcut Keys, tips
12.Feb.10 
Mobile Phone, tips
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Thanks a lot for sharing the tips. While all of the above were known to me, I WAS NOT AWARE OF TIP 6. I came across your blog in search of MARK shortcut and I found it
Thanks.