Saturday, 9 July 2011

Hacking all the latest Symbian Firmware

Given below is complete detail of how to hack your latest Symbian firmware. I have hacked my own phone and several other phones with this hack.
It works!! But i will not be responsible if any damage is caused to your phone. Read all the details carefully.

If you agree to this only then read on... otherwise leave this blog....


Symbian S60 applications are certified and we cannot install any thing from uncertified or untrusted supplier. Hacking of phones gives way for the installing of these unsigned and uncertified apps either by signing or by hacking the system by patching the system files.
Hacking not only limits to apps and games but also helps in increasing the phones volume , phones speed , etc.

Hacking won't damage your phone, it will remove the limits of it. Unless you delete important files or screw up the internal memory or try to modify the Operating system.

Once the phone is hacked you can run pretty much any app you like.

There are various ways to hack a Symbian phone.. But first you need the right tools to get started. The most important part of hacking requires you to obtain a 17 capability Developer Certificate. This certificate is used to sign unsigned apps.

There are programs which help sign apps from your phone such as:

FreeSigner
MobileSigner


There are several websites which offer these important developer certificates such as:

OPDA
S60 Certificate Key
DevCert Generator

Of these OPDA and S60 are the easiest to use.

Following are the easy steps to get a 17-caps certificate from OPDA without doing any efforts:

1. Visit OPDA website – Link
2. There, you’ll see “Register” link on top right corner(Beside “Login” Link), Click on it.
3. Fill all the fields according to the requirement, and follow the process to complete the registration.
4. After the registration process is complete, go to Login Page (Link) and write in your username and password and click Login and you’ll successfully be logged in.
5. Now click on “My Certificate” From the top navigation menu. After loading the page, you’ll see two orange buttons on top right with names “Apply Cer” and “Upload Cer”. Click on “Apply Cer” button.
6. You’ll see a page with 4 requirements, i.e. Model, IMEI, Confirm IMEI and Remark. In the Model field, type in your phone model, e.g; Nokia 5800. In the IMEI field, type your phone’s IMEI, which you can obtain by typing *#06# on your phone. In the Confirm IMEI field, simply type in the IMEI which you entered in the previous field. In the Remark Field, write in your remarks, e.g; My Nokia 6710 and then click Submit Application.
7. You’re now almost done here! Now you need to be patient while your request for OPDA certificate is being processed. Mean while, you can check the status of your request by clicking on My Certificate button. (It usually takes between 12-24 hours for your certificate to be generated.)
8. After your certificate is ready, you’ll see Two Links on the right side of the My Certificate page, one is for Certificate, and the other is for Key. Download both of these files by using right click and Save As.. option.
9. Now you can sign any of your applications.

Following are the easy steps to get a 17-caps certificate from S60certkey without doing any efforts:

1. Visit S60certkey website and Sign up in http://s60certkey.com/
2. Now verify your new account by clicking verification link sent to your email address
3.To generate a Certificate and Key for your 3rd or 5th Edition Symbian handset which will allow you to sign your own applications, please follow the instructions below.
  • Enter your IMEI (Serial Number) in the box indicated, numbers only.
  • Click on the submit button.
  • You IMEI (Serial Number) will be added to your IMEI Queue.
  • Allow 24 / 48 Hours for your status to update from Pending to Complete, at which time your Certificate and Key will be ready to download.
Note: Traffic on the above sites has increased to you might have to wait for a while to get your certificate and key so be patient.

Now comes the important part, once you get your certificate and key you can sign your hacking apps.

Given below is the procedure to completely hack your symbian phone:

You will need following applications:

Get the below applications signed with your certificate and key before installing to avoid any errors.

CertHack_installer.sis

CertUpdate.sisx

Rompatcher

Nokia File Browser 

 X-plore

Download the appropriate installserver.exe given below according to your phone OS and Firmware.

installserver 9.1

installserver 9.2

installserver 9.3, 9.4

installserver S^3

Once you download the above files follow the steps given below to complete the hack:

1. Sign CertHack_installer.sis using your own Cert

2. Install CertUpdate.sisx and CertHack_installer.sis (signed )

3. Click on Icon HackIt on your phone

4. Install and run Rompatcher ( I signed it with my own Cert)

Then click on options and select "All Patches" and select "Apply" and finally use nokia file browser or Xplore or any file manager to copy installserver.exe to folder C:/Sys/Bin ( choose the right installserver.exe for your phone)


That's it. If you have done all the things properly then you have successfully hacked your latest Symbian phone.

Go on installing all the apps you like Enjoy!!

Friday, 8 July 2011

Info on Symbian Phones


The S60 Platform (formerly Series 60 User Interface) is a software platform for mobile phones that runs on Symbian OS. S60 was among the most-advanced smartphone platforms in the world but was outdated by the proliferation of the touch screen user interface, particularly the success of iPhone (later named iOS) and Andoid systems. It was created by Nokia, who made the platform open source and contributed it to the Symbian Foundation. S60 has been used by mobile device manufacturers including Siemens mobile, Lenovo, LG Electronics, Panasonic and Samsung.[1] Sony co-created the software with Nokia. Symbian (all Symbian products, including S40 platform) is the most popular smartphone OS on the market by 37.6% of the sector’s total sales, with 111.6m handsets sold in year 2010.[2]
In addition to the manufacturers the community includes:
S60 consists of a suite of libraries and standard applications, such as telephony, personal information manager (PIM) tools, and Helix-based multimedia players. It is intended to power fully featured modern phones with large colour screens, which are commonly known as smartphones.
The S60 software is a multivendor standard for smartphones that supports application development in Java MIDP, C++, Python[3] and Adobe Flash. Originally, the most distinguishing feature of S60 phones was that they allowed users to install new applications after purchase. Unlike a standard desktop platform, however, the built-in apps are rarely upgraded by the vendor beyond bug fixes. New features are only added to phones while they are being developed rather than after public release. Certain buttons are standardized, such as a menu key, a four way joystick or d-pad, left and right soft keys and a clear key.

Many devices are capable of running the S60 software platform with the Symbian OS. Devices ranging from the early Nokia 7650 running S60 v0.9 on Symbian OS v6.1,[6][7] to the latest Samsung i8910 Omnia HD running S60 v5.0 on Symbian OS v9.4.[8] In Symbian^3 the version of the revised platform is v5.2.
The table lists devices carrying each version of S60 as well as the Symbian OS version it is based on.
S60 edition
S60
version number
version number
Devices[6][7][8]
S60 1st Edition
0.9
6.1
S60 1st Edition,
Feature Pack 1
1.2
6.1
S60 2nd Edition
2.0
7.0s
S60 2nd Edition,
Feature Pack 1
2.1
7.0s
S60 2nd Edition,
Feature Pack 2
2.6
8.0a
S60 2nd Edition,
Feature Pack 3
2.8
8.1a
S60 3rd Edition
3.0
9.1
S60 3rd Edition,
Feature Pack 1
3.1
9.2
S60 3rd Edition,
Feature Pack 2
3.2
9.3
S60 5th Edition
(Corresponds to Symbian^1)
5.0
9.4
  • DoCoMo F-07B
  • DoCoMo F-08B
  • DoCoMo F-06B
  • DoCoMo SH-07B
5.2 [9]
9.5[10]
5.2
9.5
Symbian is now progressing through a period of organisational change to metamorph into an open source software platform project. As an OS, Symbian OS originally provided no user interface (UI), the visual layer that runs atop an operating system. This was implemented separately. Examples of Symbian UIs are MOAP; Series 60; Series 80; Series 90 and UIQ. This separation of UI from underlying OS has created both flexibility and some confusion in the market place. The Nokia purchase of Symbian was brokered with the involvement of the other UI developers and all major user interface layers have been (or have been pledged to be) donated to the open source foundation who will independently own the Symbian operating system. The new Symbian Foundation has announced its intent to unify different Symbian UIs into a single UI based on the S60 platform. (Announcements made in March 2009 indicated this would be the S60 5th edition with feature pack 1).

Info courtesy of Wikipedia.