JAF Tutorial

This is a tutorial i am creating for flashing symbian phones....

Flashing is essentially re-installing the operating system on your phone with files that have been modified by higher brains...if you don't know what an operating system or a phone is you don't have any business reading the rest of this post :P

Now first things first you have to download a bunch of softwares....they are :
1.Nokia Ovi/PC Suite
2.Navifirm
3.JAF
4.OGM Pkey Emulator

I have uploaded the latter 3 here : Flashing Software

First, the nokia suite (ovi/pc) should be installed in your computer...

Unpack using WinRAR (google it if you dont know what it is...its free...at least for 40 days...)

We'll Download the firmware files nowt

Run the file that says navifirm...you need an internet connection...if your computer is connected then the screen will be something like this...

1. Select your phone model (make sure its the correct RM in the brackets...you can find it out by dialing *#0000# in your phone...it will be displayed under "Type")...Wait for the second section to get populated...

2. Select the latest version in the 2nd section (usually the bottom most entry)...Wait for the third section to get populated...

3. After that select any of the enties in the third section...(if you're fussy you may want to select the entry with your country name and device colour)...Wait for the fourth section to get populated...

4. In the 4th section just click on "All" (in the top right corner)...you will see check marks appear beside every entry in the 4th section...Now click on "Download with Program" in the bottom right area....

5. A popup saying "Browse for Folder" will appear...choose a folder where you want to save the firmware files (i recommend on the desktop in a folder called firmware)...Now a popup will show the download progress...wait till it finishes...

Now, We'll come to the fun part...FLASHING !!

I'm assuming you have downloaded the custom files required for making this process worthwhile...if not here are a few links...

Rohit's Photon
Symbian Anna Firmware

These are for phones like : 5800,5230,5233,5235,5530,X6

You may search for others on google by typing : "cfw RM-XXX" where XXX is your Firmware type (remember *#0000# ?)

okay, now that you have the firmware and the custom files...do the following...

1. Go to C:/Program Files/Nokia/Phoenix/Products, if it doesnt exist create it...

2. In the above mentioned folder create a folder "RM-XXX" (same as before)

3. COPY all the download firmware files into this folder...

4. Now copy the custom files you downloaded into this folder (you will most probably have to unpack a .rar or .zip or .7z file as before)...click on yes for the security question and click copy and replace if the query arises...

5. Now install JAF from the files i have given you...straightforward installation...

6.***THIS STEP ONLY FOR WINDOWS 7/VISTA USERS***Now on the file that says ogm pkey emulator right click and select properties...Click on the tab that says compatibility...then check the box that says "Run in compatibility mode for " and select Windows XP (Service Pack 2)...

7. Now run the ogm pkey emulator...and click on the button that says GO...Now JAF will run...

8. Ignore the error you get when JAF starts by clicking OK.

9. Now You'll see a screen like this :

10. Click on BB5 tab...you'll see this...

11. Check the boxes as shown in the image.

12. Now check "USE INI" and select your phone from the list that appears...same procedure as in navifirm...(for X6 users...download this ini file and replace in C:/Program Files/ODEON/JAF)

13. Now a screen similar to the following screen will appear...check the highlighted areas and make sure the file names of the files you copied into RM-XXX folder are right...if they are not make them right...

14. Now turn OFF your phone and connect it via USB...

15. Click on flash...I will say "Searching for phone...Press power button now !"...when it says so just give a single click on your phone's power button...It should say "Found !"...

16. Try again and again if it says "Files are corrupted or missing"...If it keeps giving error make sure the filenames are correct..

17. Now stay patient as hordes of lines pass on the screen....until says "Done!" Now disconnect the phone and turn it on...if it seems stuck remove the battery and turn it on again...

18. YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY FLASHED YOUR PHONE !!! CONGRATULATIONS !

17/03/11

Wierd day today...I guess yesterday now....Gave a test that I'm quite likely to flunk. Attended a fest that downright sucked in my opinion and well had a dilemna of sorts. Now I can't sleep wondering if I did the right thing. Still I don't feel like the day was a complete waste. WIERD...that's what I'd call this.

There's no simple explanation to why I'm writing this post at 12:32 AM while listening to frigging Steven Tyler croon away Sweet Emotion. I would like to sleep very much but I've failed to do that. I've been tryin since 10:30. There's this endless barrage of questions racing through my head interluded by bizarre, disturbing scenarios. It's a surprise I haven't fainted like what seems to be half the college's guys...

Well, cliched as it is but we gotta learn to prioritise everything we do. We gotta decide where everyone stands in our pecking order. Pretty brutal it is. When you have to choose between doing something you wanna do and hurting someone you love doing that thing. When that someone doesn't like what you're gonna do and at the same time you wanna experience something new. When two facets of your life collide and threaten to tear each other apart. Brutal, absolutely.

I guess I have no choice but to wait for the morning and sort this mess out. I have a feeling there won't be any sleep tonight.

I seem to have regained my skill at painting dark pictures. Is that good or bad I can barely decide....

Moving to the test I mentioned. I don't know what I'm gonna do about this semester. I just can't study. One might say too many distractions but it's just ridiculous that I don't have appetite for a subject I like. It's ridiculous for me at least....My point ? I've lost track where I'm going and I'm losing hope again...I'm beginning to realise my academic performance matters more to me than I make myself believe...I am the cliched Indian student perhaps...

That's all folks...I hope you aren't insomniacs like me tonight and are ready for a good night's sleep after reading all that. Me ? I'll try to find another passtime (not easy as my portable HDD is in somebody else's room...).

The ReReturn...

It seems weird writing after all this time....I thought i didn't need
this blog anymore...but somehow i do. Now, I've read a lot of blogs in
the past few months, and i know i have nowhere near the skill required
to write a successful blog. That's probably the reason i stopped
writing this. But i forgot why i started writing in the first place.
It was for me and not because i wanted to be this famous blogger. And
today, for some reason i feel the need to write again.

Well, things aren't progressing the way i had hoped they would by now.
I feel the old feelings coming back. I spend long periods of time
thinking up insane scenarios. I'm again beginning to question every
fucking thing i do. That's all pretty well, but i don't want to go
back to where i was a year ago. I believed I was becoming a different
person slowly but surely, but now I'm finding myself being pulled back
to the old me and I'm not very enthusiastic about that. I guess you
never really change. I guess that's how we're supposed to complete our
lives, being the person you are.

Of course, everything isn't as horrible as I may lead anyone to
believe. I think this is the happiest I can be at this stage in life.
Things can't get any better I suppose and frankly I don't want
anything to change. Knowing that I can trust someone is absolutely
grand. Very nice and satisfying feeling this. Though it does come with
that little insecure voice at the back of my head.

If I quote paparoach, "Somewhere beyond happiness and sadness, i need
to calculate what creates my own madness", thats what I'm doing. I
think I'm a little too impatient with people. I know everyone has
their quirks, I find it hard to ignore them despite what I might
advise others to do. Quite a hypocrite I am. That is probably the
reason I am the enigma I am. I'm constantly ravaged by this
superiority complex, which apparently everybody born in the year of
the monkey possess. I don't like it. As I recall myself saying today,
people don't like if someone points their faults out. I imagine it's
even worse when you do that yourself....