How to Flash your nokia phone.
1.The Procedure
You need these tools. So download them:
Nokia Ovi Suite or Connectivity Cable Driver
JAF tool and Pkey (Nokia Flash Tools.rar)
Install Nokia Ovi Suite & Backup Your Phone
Install Nokia Ovi Suite and back up your phone especially
your contacts, message etc. In fact, just backup everything because
prior to flashing your phone, we need to hard reset it and format your
phone memory card to avoid any potential error later on. Hard reset will
erase all your contacts, message, phone setting etc. So back them up
using Nokia Ovi Suite.
Even if you don’t want to back up your phone, it is essential
to install Nokia Ovi Suite for the driver purpose. Otherwise, JAF tool
can’t see your mobile phone at later stage.
Download Your Phone Original Firmware
Now we need to download your phone’s original firmware using
NAVIFIRM. Originally, we flash our phone using Ovi Suite or PC Suite
right. This suite automatically detects our phone hardware and software
then downloads and installs the relevant firmware for our phone
automagically. However, for this one we need to manually select and
download the right firmware for our phone.
Extract and run NAVIFIRM. Mine is as shown below.
Choose your phone model correctly. As we can see here, there
are 3 variant of Nokia 5800XM. The RM-356, RM-427 and RM-428. Different
model number use different kind of hardware. So, do not download
firmware for RM-427 or RM-428 if your phone model is RM-356. You can
check your phone model by typing *#0000#. Look for Type.
‘Release’s is firmware version. Ensure that the firmware you
are going to flash into your phone (the one you are about to download
using NAVIFIRM now) is newer (or at least has same version number) than
the one that already in your phone. Downgrading firmware will definitely
brick your phone. You may check with your phone firmware by typing
*#0000# too. As for my case, my current phone firmware is 51.0.6. So, I
have to download ‘releases’ version 51.0.6 or later (in this case,
51.0.6 is the latest one).
Next, choose your phone variant. My Nokia 5800XM is for
Malaysian market and has ‘red lining’. Therefore I chose “APAC1 RED
MALAYSIA (0570196)”. If you are not from Malaysia, for example Indonesia
and your phone has blue lining, you may want to choose “APAC1 Indonesia
BLUE (0559960)” variant.
Finally for the files section. Just tick them all. And press
“Download from FiRe” button. Save the files into “Your phone model
number” folder. As for my case, I save them into a folder name RM-356 on
my Desktop
Preparing JAF Tools
JAF
Tools is the software that we will use to transfer your complete CFW
into your mobile phone. So, follow the steps below to prepare it. It
consist of JAF installation and copy paste 2 files (ini file and PKEY
emulator) into JAF installed directory.
Extract “Nokia Flash Tools.rar” (the one you download for JAF and PKey). You will find “JAFSetup_198.62.rar” file, “OGM_JAF_PKEY_Emulator_v 5.rar” and “(.INI FILE)(jaf_nok4models).rar” file. Extract all the 3 files.
Install “JAFSetup_1.98.62.exe” at its default location.
Copy “Jaf_nok4models.ini” and “OGM_JAF_PKEY_Emulator_v 5.exe” into “C:\Program Files\ODEON\JAF” or “C:\Program Files (x86)\ODEON\JAF” if you are using 64 bit operating system.
Then, make a shortcut for “OGM_JAF_PKEY_Emulator_v 5.exe” emulator to your desktop for easy access later on.
If
you happen to use Windows Vista or Windows 7 (32 bit or 64bit), you
have to change JAF PKey Emulator’s compatibility first. Right click on
the JAF Pkey Emulator and choose properties. Click on Compatibility tab
and set compatibility mode to Windows XP (Service Pack 3) and set privilege level as Run this program as an administrator as shown in the screenshot below:
Run the JAF Pkey Tool from your desktop.
Ensure the setting as in the screenshot above. Then click GO.
An error box will appear. Don’t worry, just click OK button.
Then, JAF will start. Click on BB5 tab.
Ensure that Manual Flash, Dead USB, Normal Mode and Use INI are checked. Uncheck CRT 308.
Then select your phone model. As for my case, I have to choose RM-356 as expected. Next, click OK.
If you do everything correctly, your JAF will look like as the screenshot below.
All four green circles will light up (MCU, PPM, CNT, APE Variant).
And ensure the path for the firmware (as in the marked red square) is right.
Next, TURN OFF your phone and connect it to the computer USB. (It
is recommended to shutdown OVI Suite completely. Right click OVI Suite
icon in the tray (if you happen to run it before) and choose exit).
Click on FLASH button.
A warning dialog box will appear, click YES.
Then, press your phone’s “Power Button” for 1 second and release. Just
1 second. Not more. Else your phone will start up. WE DON’T WANT your
phone to start up. We just want to allow JAF detect our phone.
Once the JAF could detect our phone, the flash job will start.
Note: Whenever JAF need to detect the phone, press your phone’s power button for 1 second.
Wait for a minute or two until the flashing process is totally completed (indicated by a series of ‘ting’ sound)
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