How To Flash Your Symbian Phone

by Derry Pratama, 7611040041

Have you seen people using phone with customized theme, startup, or theme effects on it? For example, there is an old Nokia 5230 phone, but after you try using it everything inside is feels like Nokia N97 phone (the newer phone with Symbian^3), including the homescreen, theme effect, startup screen, ringtones and even the keypad screen is same with N97 phone. And after you see the info on the phone, there is something written on it, yes it’s their own name! They must have customized their phone! Then how they could do that? Don’t you want to try to customize your phone to be like what you want? Then this tutorial might be help.

First of all, here is what you need (click its name to download):

Data Cable that suits for your symbian phone. It is needed to connect your phone to your PC.
J.A.F. by ODEON. This is the most important tool for this job, flashing process to your phone will be done with this software.
NFE (Nokia Firmware Editor). Use it for searching your phone original firmware and editing firmware (cooking).
Custom Firmware (if you download custom firmware from the net). Required files are :
MCU = *.c0r
PPM = *.rofs2
APE = *.uda

Then you’re ready to flash your phone. Just follow this step:

If you want to edit your own original phone firmware then open NFE that you’ve been downloaded. Then you need to download your original phone firmware by input your phone product code (usually found under your phone battery place).
After download your phone original firmware, you can edit/modify it yourself as you want, if you want more modification resource or support you can try ask on dailymobile forum.
Or if you have downloaded customized firmware from the net, you can just flash it to your phone. Please note that the RM-X code and firmware core must be the same as your phone. Example Nokia Custom Firmware v50.0.0.1 RM-588 can only be used in Nokia phone with same core version v50 and RM-588 type.
Now we can flash our customized firmware to our phone. Turn off your phone, then connect it to your PC with Data Cable.
Open J.A.F. that you’ve been downloaded before. Then open BB5 tab. Use manual flash method , as it is more effective. Manual Flash Method: Flashing with 3 files of your custom firmware.
1. Untick "use ini" and crt mode
2. Tick "dead usb", "manual flash" and "normal mode"
3. Rename your core file in the Products'.c00' to '.c0r'
4. Click on the green buttons likewise and select:
MCU = your core files with *.c0r extension
PPM = your custom firmware with *.rofs2 extension
APE = your additional firmware information with *.uda extension
Then click “FLASH” button on the upright side. There is a warning box, just click ok. Then you’ll asked to turn on your phone, just turn it on by pushing power button a while until the log box says that “Phone Found”.
Then all you need to do now is waiting until process finish. It takes only about 2 minutes. Then your phone will turn on with its new customized firmware!