Saturday, September 18, 2010

How to Remove Broken Theme on a Symbian Device


If you installed your themes on your memory card, then all of them will be stored in the following location:
[MicroSD]:\private\10207114\import
Similarly, if you installed your theme in the cell phone’s memory, you can find the installed themes in the following location:
[CellPhone Memory]:\ private\10207114\import
Location and content of a theme

Now you have to manually seek for the theme that is broke, though it might be painful if you have a lot of themes are installed, because you have to look through all the folders one by one.

In every folder, there is a file with the *.skn extension. Basically, this file contains the information about the theme. If you open it with a hex editor, or any other text editor that can display binary contents, you will find the name of theme in the first few lines. (I used a program called WinHex, which is a very good hexadecimal editor, Google it on the Internet and you will find more information on it.
But there is a way out of pain. The broken themes does not contains files with extensions *.mbm and *.mif in the same folder as *.skn. So if you find only a *.skn file listed in a folder, it is most likely it is the broken theme. If you want to make sure that you are going to delete the right stuff, just open the *.skn file with an advance text editor that is capable of displaying binary content.
File name of the theme in the *.skn file
 
But there is a way out of pain. The broken themes does not contains files with extensions *.mbm and *.mif in the same folder as *.skn. So if you find only a *.skn file listed in a folder, it is most likely it is the broken theme. If you want to make sure that you are going to delete the right stuff, just open the *.skn file with an advance text editor that is capable of displaying binary content.

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