E72 Home Screen Shortcuts Customization


Recently I have been asked how to replace the home screen shortcuts, so i wrote the following post which provides some information about customization of the E72 home screen.

The E72 home screen consists of 2 types of shortcuts:

  • Applications shortcuts - 6 shortcuts for running application straight from the home screen.
  • Home screen applications - Interactive application that provide information on the home screen.

Application Shortcuts

Menu-> Ctrl. panel-> Settings->General-> Personalization ->Standby mode-> Mode settings-> Application Shortcuts.

Here you can enable/disable the applications shortcuts or replacing the applications.

It’s also possible to use web site address as application shortcut.

Home Screen Applications

Menu-> Ctrl. panel-> Settings->General-> Personalization ->Standby mode-> Mode settings-> Home Screen Applications

Select the application you would like to have on the Home screen.

Some important applications:

Message Notification – Display notification at bottom of the screen only when new SMS/MMS message is waiting.

Missing Call Notification – Displays notification at bottom of the screen only when you have missing call

Calendar –  Display upcoming meetings from the calendar

Music Player - Display music player control when the musing player is being used.

Email home screen plugin should be configured from different menu :

Menu-> Ctrl. panel-> Settings->General-> Email -> Global settings -> Home Screen . It supports to email accounts: Primary and Secondary (Left, Right keys to switch between them).

Mailbox – Select which mailbox account to display. you need to have mail account configured.

Preview – How to display the headers.

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  • Sups

    I use two sets of application shortcuts based on Business or Personal screen but keep the notifications same across them. Here’s what I have kept…

    Personal:
    Messaging | Sports Tracker | Radio | Media Gallery | Calculator | Switch to Business

    Business:
    Messaging | Maps | File Manager | Active Notes | Converter | Switch to Personal

  • Rafał M.

    The number of shortcuts of 6 is really small. I do not see other use of mode switching except for increasing the numeber to 12 but switching takes time and two positions have to be used for the switch. If there is no way to increase the number of 6 I’d prefer to used e.g. long pushed calendar key for mode swithing but there is no such option in its configuration. Very inflexible. Any hope it could be improved in a next major version?