How to: RSS feeds on your home screen

5 Sep

Hi folks,

Today we came up with a tutorial. It will help you create shortcuts to your favorite RSS feeds straight on your s60v3 FP2 / S60v5 phone home screen.

Just follow the screenshots and short descriptions!

1. Go to Menu > Settings

Menu

2. Go to Personal

Personal

3. Go to Home screen

HS

4. Go to Home screen theme

HS Theme

5. Choose “Contacts bar” theme

Contacts bar

6. Now go to Homescreen and tap the icon with silhouette and “plus” mark

Plus

7. Tap Options button and choose New Contact. Here enter various data for your favorite feed (not obligatory) .Tap Done

Enter data

8. Now contact appeared on your home screen. Tap it

Contact

9. Tap RSS button to add new feed to the contact

Add feed

10. Choose one of available feeds or tap Options > Add new to add new feed

Feeds

11. Enter title and CORRECT feed address

Data 1

Data 2

12. Finish, tap the contact icon on the home screen and enjoy the final result

Final

Final 2

Good luck, geeks! :-)

 

rodakk edit.

The trick works fairly well on S60v3 devices with contacts bar homescreen widget such as 5730, 5630, E5. Instructions provided by kreativtek are the same!

  • http://www.ameyagokhale.com Ameya Gokhale

    Thanks for this, it worked. However, it shows only 3 feeds… :)(

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