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HOW TO: Update your firmware to the latest GENERIC FW using the Nokia Software Updater tool

Posted on November 3rd, 2006 by Dave.
Categories: Uncategorized.

Upgrade your firmware to a Nokia original version
(without your operator’s personalization) with NSU
(Nokia Software Update – the official Nokia program).

NSU reads the product code of your phone and it searches it’s database for a newer version of the corresponding firmware in order to upgrade it. This is why you will need to change the product code of your phone into a non-branded product code, before running NSU.

Download the NSS software in order to change the phone’s product code.
This is a shareware program that you can download on the site of its author here :
http://bphreaks.brinkster.net/files/NSS/NSS10373b.zip
After that, download the following program: gsm-magic
http://rapidshare.com/files/1236869/…magic.rar.html

(this is not a crack, but a program that allows the activation of any disabled options on no matter what program).
And finally, download NSU here:
http://www.nokia.co.uk/nokia/0,1522,…softwareupdate

NOW WE CAN BEGIN:
Install NSS
Install NSU
Connect your phone and wait for Windows to install the drivers.
Open NSS and click on “Scan for new device” on the right-upper part of the window
Click on the icon « Phone info »
Click on “Scan”
Open « gsm-magic » without closing NSS, then push the button « Enable » of “gsm-magic”.

As you can see, now you can change the product code (on the right of the « phone info »
window of NSS). Type the product code and then mark the case “Enable”.
Now press “Write”, and your phone’s product code will be changed
(you might think that nothing happened, because the phone is still in normal mode, and the changing of the product code only takes a couple of seconds, but don’t worry, the product code changed !).
Close NSS and “gsm-magic” and you can proceed now with the NSU flashing.
When the flashing with NSU is over, start-up your phone and you’ll have the pleasant surprise that your phone’s firmware is the latest Nokia non-branded firmware in date!

Product code E61 0529663
product code N70 0523982
product code N80 0526966
product code N80 Euro Pearl Black 0535762
product code 6680 0521637
product code 6630 0518104

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HOW TO: Install Phoenix

Posted on November 2nd, 2006 by Dave.
Categories: Uncategorized.

I’ve had a lot of requests for this…

What you need:

• A Windows 2000/XP installation which is totally clean from any other Nokia product. That’s no cable drivers, no applications, no nothing. Not even any entries in your registry. (Nokia made a registry cleaning tool, find it here. I don’t know how effective it is, I clean manually by searching the registry and deleting all keys related to Nokia.)
• Nokia Diego v3.07 SP2 (Nokia Diego 3.07 Sp2.msi)
• Nokia Phoenix 2006 (phoenix_service_sw_2006_34_2_156.exe)
• Installation time dongle crack (Nokia_Phoenix_Iinstallation_time_dongle_crack.exe)
• Runtime dongle crack (Nokia Phoenix 2006 - Run-time dongle-crack.exe)

You can also download the entire package (including this how-to) from this link.

Please be aware of that MyShareFile deletes all uploads after 30 days of inactivity. These files were uploaded on October 20, 2006)

You will also need:

• To understand written English
• To read these instructions carefully, and not rush ahead!

Now, with that said, let’s do this step by step…

1. Uninstall everything related to Nokia from your computer.
2. Clean out all Nokia related entries in your registry.
3. Reboot your computer, do not run anything, you would like to have a clean environmant.
4. Unpack the zip files you downloaded above. Do not unpack the executable rar files!
5. Install Nokia Diego, that’s done by double-clicking the file Nokia Diego 3.07 Sp2.msi. There’s nothing special about this installation, just run the msi file and answer the dialog boxes. Do not change any paths or anything else, just make a default installation. Do NOT run the application after installation! It will complain about not finding any dongle, we’ll fix that later… In fact, you will most likely never, ever start Diego by itself anyway..

   Now on with the tricky part….

6. We will now install Phoenix, and this takes some tricks and you need to be a bit careful about what you’re doing, otherwise you won’t succeed.
   1. Start the Phoenix installation by double-clicking the phoenix_service_sw_2006_34_2_156.exe file.
   2. After a moment, you should be greeted by this screen:
      
      Just click the “Next” button to go on.
   3. The application will now start installing…
   4. After a while you will get an error dialog box telling you that installation cannot continue without a dongle. Of course you don’t have one since you’re reading this..

      Do not click any of the buttons in that dialog yet!

   5. Now, start the installation-time dongle crack by double-clicking the file Nokia Phoenix - Iinstallation-time dongle crack.exe.
      Just start it, do not click that “Install” button yet! Your screen should now look like this:

Here comes the part that needs some special attention. To explain it; the crack consists of a couple off dll files that makes Phoenix believe that there is a dongle attached.
The installer has the original files locked at this point, so they cannot be replaced. This is what makes this step a little tricky.
When the “Try again” button in the installer is clicked, the files are released, and can be replaced before the dongle test is made again.

Here’s how it must be done:

1. Check the crack installer window so that the “Destination folder” really points to your Windows’ System32 directory. If it doesn’t, edit the line in the window. (If you don’t know what and where that is, you should definately not even try to install this piece of software since you won’t have the competence to use it anyway.)
2. Arrange the Phoenix installer window and the crack installer window so you can have very quick access to both of them.
3. Click the Phoenix installer’s “Try again” button.
4. Within 1-2 seconds, click the crack installer’s “Install” button. The installation should continue, like this;

   

5. Sit back and laugh at Nokia’s installation protection.
6. If the installation did not continue, and you get the “Dongle not found” dialog box popping up again, then you were not quick enough in step 6.e.iii and iv, or you didn’t get the “Destination folder” right.. So, you will have to go back to step 6.e.

At some point, the installer component root.exe would like to use your network connection. I haven’t seen any problems with that, and frankly I don’t know what it really wants to check. Anyway, if you have your Windows Firewall active, this will pop up (but in your language);

I just allowed it, I haven’t even tried denying it to see if it makes any difference.

You should now be presented with a login box, like this;

Press “Maintain” to add a user.

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