[oclug] [OT] Diego? Are you there?

mlist at safenet-inc.com mlist at safenet-inc.com
Thu Aug 24 10:00:12 EDT 2006


Does anyone happen to know where to acquire a copy of Nokia's Diego utility?

I recently acquired a Nokia 6265 from Telus. The camera function makes this
cheesy, stupid, LOUD KachikWeeeezuk! (fake shutter and fake film advance)
sound every time capture is activated. The base phone includes a menu item
to switch off that sound, as shown in the manual that Telus provides with
the camera, but it appears that Telus has hidden the menu item. My Googling
has turned up a way to re-enable that function, but the method requires
Diego to do it. 

Googling for Diego turns up pages of forums and chat links (maybe I need
different search terms), but no source to download the utility itself. I
have never hacked a phone and have no interest in getting intimate with the
Nokia, except that I want to disable that stupid sound... it scares the
wildlife.   I was practically arms-length from a fawn on Greenbank the other
day, and had only my phone (not my real camera) with me. The critter and his
mamma freaked and vanished as soon as the cameraphone started yelling. I
hate that. I think that generating the sound also adds to the cycle time
before the next photo can be taken... plus, it's an additional (small)
battery drain.

Suggestions?  Alternative approaches? Switching phones is not an option for
the next couple of years.

Motivation (yours): Hacking with the utility would also permit removal of
DRM restrictions. Not that I care - I'm not much into music (don't own a
single MP3 file), and I don't do ringtones. But Telus has disabled the
ability to use even homemade audio files on one's own phone. It's not so
much protecting the "digital rights" of suppliers that use DRM, it's
defeating the right to use non-DRM'd files even if you record your own
harmonica-and-bagpipe jam session. Some of the militant types in OCLUG might
think that a little bit much.

Kevin

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