2D Barcode Reader for Nokia N73 and N80, get it now!

Freeware - December 22nd, 2006 - Written by Jukka Eklund

Hi all!

Tommi said:

Now, we are finally about to put Nokia’s Barcode Reader application under N80 and N73 support pages, and to the Download! client.

And here it is, my early Christmas present for all Nokia N73 and N80 users! Just start the Download! application (called Catalogs in N80) and you’ll find the Barcode reader right there.

Once you’re done, scan the code on your right
(If you are not able to scan the code: have a Merry Christmas and an interesting New Year 2007!)

Update 19.01.2007: Because of installation problems with certain Nokia N73 versions we decided to remove the download from Download! for the time being. Barcode reader for N73 will become again available as soon as there is a N73 firmware update deployed that corrects the problems. Sorry for this, I’ll let you know as soon as it’s back up!

Cheers,
Jukka

Blackall wrote December 22nd, 2006 at 3:22 pm

it’s the same app like I use in n93?

Jukka, have a merry little christmas, too

Jukka Eklund wrote December 22nd, 2006 at 3:26 pm

Blackall, yes it is. Some differences because of AF optics etc. but they are quite minor.

Darla wrote December 22nd, 2006 at 4:02 pm

Lol right back at ya Jukka!!

Alex wrote December 22nd, 2006 at 4:31 pm

When I try to install on my N73 I get the error, “Unable to install. Component is built in” Any thoughts?

saxen wrote December 22nd, 2006 at 4:32 pm

it works well on my n80! when it will be avaiable on support pages?? or how can i get istallation file from “download!”?? using download! i can install it, but i can’t save installation file..
btw thanks fot info mate…

artin wrote December 22nd, 2006 at 4:37 pm

my n73 does not have a download! folder
i am from australia

Artin

Jukka Eklund wrote December 22nd, 2006 at 4:42 pm

@Alex: then you have it already installed.

@saxen: It should be available in Support pages at some point, but that’s beyond me. I’ll let you know!

@artin: Go and update your phone in a service point or via NSU (http://europe.nokia.com/A4176089?N73). Or wait until it’s available at nokia.com.

Bruce wrote December 22nd, 2006 at 5:07 pm

This is great! (N80 user)

I’ve tried several other barcode readers for the N80 and generally been frustrated and unimpressed. The Nokia Barcode reader rocks!

Alexis wrote December 22nd, 2006 at 6:36 pm

Jukka, those are amazing news for us at Semapedia.org! Truly an early Christmas treat
Best wishes,

Alexis

Roger wrote December 22nd, 2006 at 8:30 pm

Great! Thanks Jukka

Roger wrote December 22nd, 2006 at 8:31 pm

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Too

Jay3gsm wrote December 22nd, 2006 at 10:17 pm

That’s pretty cool. Thanks. Have a great Christmas.

karen wrote December 22nd, 2006 at 10:50 pm

This was fun! Thanks for posting it, and happy holidays!

David Harper wrote December 23rd, 2006 at 5:55 am

Great. Thanks Jukka. It’s nice to get presents! Happy Holiday All.

artin wrote December 23rd, 2006 at 1:55 pm

@jukka - i tried to update my n73 via NSU but none available for my type of n73.

Stan Wiechers wrote December 23rd, 2006 at 7:14 pm

Hey,

I really want to see the nokia barcode app on my N80i, but I’m getting always the message “Some catalogs are missing due to download error” after a while. The only folders I have are “Nokia Software Markt” and “Nokia extra” but none of these contain the Barcode app. Any ideas how to bypass those download errors? My connection is totally solid wifi.

Appreciate it,
Stna

Alex2 wrote December 24th, 2006 at 12:02 am

I’ve a N73 and I also get “Unable to install. Component is built in”. But I cannot find it anywhere in the phone menu. The phone is completely new. I got another N73 (same Softwareversion) which installed the Barcodereader without any problem.

Any ideas?

Alex2

Alex wrote December 24th, 2006 at 1:02 am

Alex2, I haven’t been able to find it anywhere on my phone either.

Jukka Eklund wrote December 24th, 2006 at 11:24 am

@artin, you can either go to a service point to get it updated or wait until Barcode reader becomes available in Support pages.

@Stan: Catalogs problems are also beyond me, but I’ll forward your issue to Catalogs folks.

@Alex & Alex2: this sounds like a problem with the firmware (some part of the Barcode reader is actually there on ROM). This might be solved by firmware update, but I’m not sure.

artin wrote December 24th, 2006 at 12:12 pm

@jukka - thanks jukka! could you leave me in the direction of the support pages so i can keep checking back.

thanks artin

Alex2 wrote December 24th, 2006 at 3:59 pm

@jukka I think that’s the reason. Ive a 49.01 N73 and hope I will get a runnig version soon. Barcode was one of the reasons for me to get a N73 now.

Jukka Eklund wrote December 25th, 2006 at 3:40 pm

@Artin: for Europe the page should be:
http://europe.nokia.com/A4162158

@alex2: 49.01 is not the software version but the language code. What’s the first row of numbers when you enter *#0000#? I’ll check this once the holiday season is over..

artin wrote December 25th, 2006 at 4:17 pm

@jukka - thanks mate!

Martin Ringehahn wrote December 25th, 2006 at 9:12 pm

i have the same trouble as alex2, -component built in-

V 2.0628.0.0.1
10-07-2006
RM-133
Nokia N73 (B4.02)

Alex2 wrote December 25th, 2006 at 10:27 pm

@jukka Sorry, I was a bit to fast 49.01 is the product variant. So here’s the full version information:
V 3.0638.0.0.1
30-10-06
RM-133
Nokia N73 (49.01)

It’s the actual version for my phone.

Thanks!
Alex2

Jukka Eklund wrote December 26th, 2006 at 8:44 am

Looks like we have a problem with N73. I’ve updated the post. I fear this cannot be solved without a new firmware update.

Noel wrote December 26th, 2006 at 10:55 am

Hi Jukka
Worked very well on my N73. Thanks!
Noel from Mumbai, India

Alx2 wrote December 26th, 2006 at 11:09 am

@Noel What is the version (*#0000#) of your phone?

Henrikki wrote December 28th, 2006 at 2:01 am

Got it working. When opening the Download! application it requested for permission to update the application and after doing it the barcode reader was there in the grid. Worked like a charm.

I have a scandinavian N73 turned into N73 ME.

aaa wrote December 29th, 2006 at 10:30 am

thanks its a really nice software

Mads Bjerre wrote January 2nd, 2007 at 2:11 pm

Working fine on my N73 with firmware 3.068.0.0.1 (30-10-2006, RM-133, Nokia N73 (03))

mcmxc wrote January 3rd, 2007 at 4:45 am

I am having the same problem as Alex, it says BUILT-IN? Can any1 help?

Jukka Eklund wrote January 3rd, 2007 at 3:54 pm

mcmxc, all: This issue is being investigated, sorry to say there is nothing at the moment you can do to get it working.

mcmxc wrote January 3rd, 2007 at 9:26 pm

Thanks Jukka Eklund, please let us know when this issue is resolved.

kekr wrote January 4th, 2007 at 12:36 am

molto bello

Jukka Eklund wrote January 4th, 2007 at 3:02 pm

Hi all, the N73 version is now available also on the support pages:
http://europe.nokia.com/A4162158

IP wrote January 5th, 2007 at 9:46 am

I tried to install the barcode reader from http://europe.nokia.com/A4162158, but got the same “component is built-in” error on my n73.

dorys wrote January 5th, 2007 at 3:12 pm

thanks

mcmxc wrote January 6th, 2007 at 3:54 am

Yeah same thing happen to me

Jan wrote January 6th, 2007 at 12:59 pm

Hello, I have similar (patented) system. You can shoot the code and the provider of code can GET REVENUE from use. There are tens of possible uses, from selling media to paying in public transportation. More info is at http://www.1kod.cz/press/ . Anyone is welcome for cooperation. I also have second patent - allowing to pay by just approaching bluetooth or wifi or RFID transmitter. Jan

Terence Reis wrote January 6th, 2007 at 6:12 pm

Hi, N80 user. I’ve tried a few barcode apps already, but that’s the first one using non-proprietary code (which is great). But it seemed to me to be somewhat unreliable. Although it read with ease every code generated at the Kaywa page, it had a lot of pain to read codes found randomly at the web (QRcodes, only). Even the sample at the post above it couldn’t read.

majid bakhtiari wrote January 6th, 2007 at 9:13 pm

Lars Steinke wrote January 8th, 2007 at 3:56 pm

Any chance of getting this up and running on my E70?
It only says “unsupported phone” upon installation…

Jukka Eklund wrote January 8th, 2007 at 7:51 pm

Lars, sorry but answer is no at this time.

Lars Steinke wrote January 9th, 2007 at 5:24 pm

Too bad! I hope that answer will change some time soon, as snapping photos of business cards was one of the reasons I chose a business phone with cam - even though OCR has to be done off-board sadly. Now, the 2D Barcode Reader would be a real treat, provided more and more business cards utilize QRcodes in the near future! A sensible business feature for the top of the line Nokia business handset, I’d say…

Jukka Eklund wrote January 9th, 2007 at 6:17 pm

Lars, it makes sense I agree. But we’ll have to wait for the devices to have better cameras to get a sensible user experience. At the moment the code would have to be bigger than the business card to be able to read with E70 camera.

You could try for example UpCode application at the moment to try it out.

Lars Steinke wrote January 9th, 2007 at 7:56 pm

Jukka, your compassion is appreciated and thanks for the hint at UpCode (although they seem to use proprietary barcode technology like http://www.shotcode.com, instead of QRcodes).

Just want to point out that the Kaywa Reader seems to make do with even older camera technology (although I couldn’t give it a try yet, due to lack of support for S60 3rd…): http://reader.kaywa.com/en

Jukka Eklund wrote January 10th, 2007 at 1:26 am

Yep, I’m also waiting for Kaywa Reader for 3rd Edition (promised for January). It’s very impressive.

UpCode supports standard Datamatrix codes, don’t they?

craig wrote January 10th, 2007 at 2:51 pm

What barcode symbologies does this support.
I just tried code 3of9 and no luck

Jukka Eklund wrote January 13th, 2007 at 8:31 am

Craig, EAN and UPC codes are supported but not Code39. In practice 1-dimensional barcodes don’t decode easily. I also wonder what is the use case of reading a 1D code since the number is already written there below the code. If there was a server that would return something meaningful about the code, that’s a different thing.

Nokia N80 user wrote January 13th, 2007 at 8:13 pm

I can`t make this work. I switch to focus mode … aim at the barcodes for almost 5 minutes and nothing reads. Only once I survived to read barcode dunno how. The light is good. Btw can you read barcodes from monitor ? The screen flickes it is possible to read barcode from monitor ? Anyway I can`t even barcodes from paper

Jukka Eklund wrote January 14th, 2007 at 12:46 pm

Dear Nokia N80 user: what kind of code are you trying to read (1D or 2D, size)?

Reading from monitor should be ok, I tried the code on this page with N80 read from typical LCD screen just fine.

Lars Steinke wrote January 18th, 2007 at 6:12 pm

Hi Jukka,

have given Scanlife Version 3.0QR a try (which is available from Nokia Taiwan) and the results are very impressive, even with the dingy 2MP fix-focus cam of my E70 from LCD screen - so it can be done ;)!

Now I just wish the Business Card Reader for N73 listed there would work as well…

By the way: You might be right that UpCode uses DataMatrix, although I couldn’t find any clear spec on that - in any case, their reader does not come close anywhere near Scanlife on the E70.

Cheers,
Lars

Lars Steinke wrote January 22nd, 2007 at 6:55 pm

yep, UpCode does grok DataMatrix as I could test using Semafox (http://sohne.net/projects/semafox).

Albeit a general UI sluggishness the actual recognition is pretty good, so I have to ameliorate my statement made earlier in comparison to Scanlife (which does not seem to support DataMatrix in the version I have available, sadly…).

One major benefit of QRcodes still seems to be the support for vCards (http://www.pukupi.com/tools/codeatron), at least I have so far not found any possibility of creating DataMatrix codes with directly embedded vCards.

Regards,
Lars

Jukka Eklund wrote January 23rd, 2007 at 6:50 pm

Hi Lars, you are really into this stuff it’s great
I don’t think it matters in DM or QRcode what is the content, so if we made our reader natively support vCard it would work with both codes.

BTW, about Scanlife I couldn’t get it decently working in any of my devices (I don’t have E70). It’s probably to do with the camera viewfinder which has to be somewhat tuned for each device.

Chad wrote January 24th, 2007 at 1:15 am

I’m yet another N73 user, with v3.0638.0.0.30 and the “built-in” problem. (Not “AOLing”, just subscribing to this entry so I’ll get updates.)

Paola Cabrera V. wrote January 25th, 2007 at 8:59 pm

For DM and QR codes generation try also at
http://activeprint.org/codes.php

Jukka Eklund wrote March 13th, 2007 at 11:15 pm

Just noticed Kaywa Reader is now available for some S60 3rd Edition devices:
http://reader.kaywa.com/

Paola Cabrera V. wrote April 23rd, 2007 at 12:17 pm

Fyi: check out the recently launched site

Nokia Mobile codes (Beta)
http://83.145.232.112/

The Mobile codes site can be found currently under the site Nokia Beta Labs
http://www.nokia.com/A4384041
(as reported already by Tommi in his blog entry of April 16 “Introducing Nokia Beta Labs”
blogs.s60.com/tommi/2007/04/introducing_nokia_beta_labs.html )

Miraj wrote April 30th, 2007 at 2:10 pm

i got application installed on my n73 but i dont knw how to make it work lol.. when i open it and start scanning it just focusses on the code but doesnt read it.. how do i make it read the code??

Jukka Eklund wrote April 30th, 2007 at 3:03 pm

Hi Miraj, what kind of code are you trying to read?

zeynel tuncal wrote May 5th, 2007 at 5:38 pm

n73 icin barkod okuyucu

noone wrote May 15th, 2007 at 11:51 pm

HEY, if you want a barcode reader for n73 that really works….
USE KAYWA READER….
http://reader.kaywa.com/getit

nader wrote May 28th, 2007 at 4:34 pm

thnxxxxxxx

Julian wrote June 27th, 2007 at 9:33 pm

Does anyone knows about a DataMatrix(DM) or QR code generator for mobile phones? NOt the reader, but the generator….
Thanx

dipankar wrote July 16th, 2007 at 11:53 am

please tell me a good mobile antivirus.right now m using F secure,bt it wants registration key.how to solve it?

Mastermattie wrote July 31st, 2007 at 6:19 pm

Works fine on Nokia N95 too.
One question: Wich program did you use to generate this barcode?

YY wrote August 16th, 2007 at 6:18 am

Rolando wrote August 27th, 2007 at 6:20 pm

Thanks for it, I try it and work

Rolando wrote August 27th, 2007 at 6:22 pm

anonymous wrote September 6th, 2007 at 11:45 pm

how can i remove this on my n80ie cause i try to remove this barcode scanner and it says that the unable to delete the file?

Zaidimai wrote October 29th, 2007 at 9:12 pm

Thanks for this very much

hostingas wrote October 29th, 2007 at 9:15 pm

Nice work

walmart nokia wrote December 1st, 2007 at 12:23 pm

Nice job !

narsymas wrote December 9th, 2007 at 8:19 pm

Great work

sameer wrote December 30th, 2007 at 10:10 am

hey does any one know about n70 code if any one have the codes of n70 so please send it to smeer_hakim@hotmail.com please please please

Ahmed wrote February 17th, 2008 at 8:13 pm

i wanna to subscribe in this fourm

ddf wrote March 2nd, 2008 at 7:18 pm

jlhkjljk

Mike Brown wrote March 14th, 2008 at 7:43 pm

We need more barcode forums

Steven wrote March 18th, 2008 at 3:27 pm

Any info related to the barcode ads for mobile phones. the only info I fount was here

Domainas wrote May 1st, 2008 at 9:18 pm

Thanks for very useful tool!

v wrote June 20th, 2008 at 6:35 pm

I would not recommend ScanLife at all!
I recommend the mobile scanners in the following order:
1. QuickMark - Fast scanning and read everything I’ve encountered.
2. Kaywa - Fast scanning. However, doesn’t read the phone number from vCard but everything else… O.o Why?
3. ScanLife - Doesn’t scan that fast and has trouble scanning anything too complicated such as a vCard.
4. UpCode - Slow scanning; you need to have patience to keep trying. Doesn’t recognize much. However, does support horizontal barcodes.

All of the above was tried on my Nokia N76. Not sure if problems were model specific, but I doubt it.

Zebra Printers wrote July 8th, 2008 at 5:38 pm

Looks like Adobe is starting to include barcodes in their products. This will help developers design with 2d barcode information.

Alexander Lehmann wrote July 14th, 2008 at 3:20 pm

For scanning UPC and EANs on N73, N95, N78, N82 try ZebraScan at http://www.annotatio.de .

It’s free and I just released a new version.

In addition to scanning it will look up the product name and connect you to Google, Ebay, Amazon to find where you can buy the product and what the current price is.

ameer wrote September 28th, 2008 at 8:22 pm

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