reinstalling apps on a Symbian phone after a hard reset

The Symbian Series60 3rd Edition OS (used on Nokia's E61, E62, and E70 phones, for instance) can be more than a bit flaky. My E70 suddenly stopped receiving SMS messages a few days ago, and the only fix that I found was to perform a hard reset on the phone to wipe all my settings.

The list of installed applications persists across a reset. Furthermore, the phone will try to reinstall missing applications every time it starts up, and will pause for a while and then beep and give you a bitchy message if it's unable to install any of the apps. You can see the missing apps in Menu -> Tools -> App. mgr., but the list unfortunately displays a hexadecimal GUID-looking-thing for each missing app instead of its actual name. I haven't found any good way to get the name, so I'm stuck trying to remember what I had installed before the reset.

For reference, though, a00007a6.sis is Y-Browser and I think that 200018ff.sis is IM+, although I haven't been able to install it successfully. I don't speak (or read) French, but this post appears to claim that you can delete a file using a program like Y-Browser to make the phone stop trying to install an app. I couldn't find the file on my phone.

I also had trouble getting Internet access up and running again after the reinstall. I'm on Cingular-I-mean-AT&T as a former AT&T Wireless customer (a.k.a. "Cingular Blue"). This means that I'm using mMode rather than MEdia Net. Nokia provides a service that will send you an SMS message containing settings for your phone, but I still didn't have any luck after using it ("Nokia E70" -> "WAP/GPRS" -> "United States" -> "AT&T (Former AT&T Wireless customers)" -> "mMode"). To finally get things working, I had to go to Menu -> Tools -> Settings -> Connection -> Access Points, select the new "mMode" connection that was created by the SMS message, choose Options -> Advanced settings, and clear "Proxy serv. address" and set "Proxy port number" to 0 for good measure. Whew.

I swear, one more problem and I'm buying an iPhone. :-(