The gallery button on my Nokia n73 is broken, and because I bought a used phone that has passed it’s warranty, I couldn’t send it back to be fixed.
The only solution was to remap that key to another key when the camera is in use. Luckily there is an app called MagicKeys for the Symbian OS that does exactly that. Unfortunately, Nokia has some strict policies about the release of apps on the Symbian OS that makes it very difficult for many developers to write apps for the phone, so many have released their app “unsigned”.
Unsigned apps can’t be installed on an unhacked Symbian OS (you will receive a certificate error), but you can follow this short guide to hack your Nokia phone (works for most N series and E series phones). Note that this will void your warranty, if you have a non-functioning button and still have warranty on your phone, I suggest that you send it back for repair.
After patching your phone, install MagicKeys which you download from here.
The program uses keyboard scancodes to map keys, and different mappings can be defined for each app. It’s not easy to find scan codes for Nokia phones, but I’ve stumbled upon this set of key codes for the N73:
* – 42
# – 127
Number 0 – 48
Number 1 – 49
Number 2 – 50
Number 3 – 51
Number 4 – 52
Number 5 – 53
Number 6 – 54
Number 7 – 55
Number 8 – 56
Number 9 – 57
Left Soft Key – 164
Right Soft key – 165
Green Key – 196
Red Key – 197
Pencil – 18
Backspace(C)-Key – 1
Menu Key – 180
Multimedia Menu Key – 186
“Joystick Left” – 14
“Joystick Right” – 15
“Joystick Up” – 16
“Joystick Down” – 17
[OK]-Key – 167
Gallery Key – 230
Volume Up – 162
Volume Down – 163
Camera key (focus) – 226
Camera key (take pic) – 227
Power Off Key – 166
Open Slider – 168
Close Slider – 169
Open Multimedia Keys – 172
Close Multimedia Keys – 173
Multimedia Key Pause/Play – 182
Multimedia Key Stop – 183
Multimedia Key Forwards – 184
Multimedia Key Backwards – 185
Navigation key -239
I suspect that most nokia N series and some E series phones will have similar scancodes.
This link has been very useful in my search to find scan codes for the phone.
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