What an interesting story 😊

Amazing story, thanks for sharing that!

Wow! What a story! I wonder if deleting still works like that on modern tech, but probably not, i'm pretty sure... Anyway, kudos to you, you must have been proud!

@@raphaelkhoury218 Depending on the operating system, it still somewhat does. On Linux as well as Windows you have the option to format a partition by setting every bit to 0. This ensures that even if you get your hands on the data storage itself (whether it's a platter of HDD or chip from flash/SSD) the only thing you will read is all the 0 bits. Deleting files sometimes just marks the file as deleted by the OS, but with external tools you can still find some files and recover them.

I wrote a DCT3 unlocker shell in VB6 and posted it in Nokiafree under the same username I am here. If you can find it, I’d love to know. I was flying blind but I managed it (there were way too many shells, hah)😂

Amazing!!

I'm very impressed by the work done in the Polish modding scene. It's great to go back and look at these roms. It must have been amazing to be a part of this scene in it's heyday.

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I lived in UK (london) at the time,2ths i believe. and there were a huge meeting doing this as well. Stummbled at one day.

@@axinus1841 Po co ci ;) £40 ebay pewnie sa schematy jak samemu polutowac jak ktos ma zajawke grosze by wyszlo

@@axinus1841na ebay uk jest za £33

That's very possible, thank you

Yes, that's true. Screen savers were profile-specific, and and all the other profile-specific settings were about tones. Should screen savers put into separate place, there should have been equal separation in profile setting menu structure to maintain the consistency, which would have been next to impossible in any sensible way. It is questionable though to have redundant menus for profile settings (the per profile setup menu and the tones menu which was exact same for the active profile), because redundancies are the key to clumsy menu surfing and bad user experience (especially when redundancy is not comprehensively and consistently similar in all redundant instances, which is the plaque in modern UI design fashion), but at least in that case the consistency had been maintained. And it is understandable that as the profiles functionality was added on top of the UI of earlier models without it, they didn't remove the traditional tones menu you had with older models with no profiles. So it was actually the beginning of convolution into today's confusing UIs, but little in significance enough to still allow the perfect surfing-thru all the menus without too much redundancies or inconsistencies making you bored or confused.

How about people already fiddled with the ringtone settings and that's about all they knew. New shiny screensaver tech? Add it where people look for settings to change.

​@@TheSimocthat's the dreaded technical debt that plagued all software because removing things is really hard, you never know what might break or who uses the feature.

@@monad_tcp Yes, and on the other hand, too many devs are nowadays also too eager to remove useful features, and let things break, without caring too much about UX.

It wasn’t “mobile data”; that didn’t exist. It was dialup.

@@unlokia Oh yeah, makes sense. The WAP browser had to "connect" to the network every time it was launched. Makes a ton of sense that it was dialing into the telco on the background. Never tought about how WAP actually worked.

@@hrq007heheh yep. I tell Ya what though, it made one appreciate the internet FAR more when each session required all that palaver. Love these times so much. ❤

​@@hrq007Not how WAP works but how mobile data on the 3330 works. It doesn't have GPRS so it literally had to call your provider and use dialup like 90s computers did. That also explains the battery draining. I have a 6310i which does have GPRS (which is the only thing that saves it from not working with modern cell carriers), but still only opens WAP sites, it would have been a blast to use back then but with today's prices for data lol

How is it called???

I found it it is La Bamba how didn't I recognise it

@@7stargr No it's bomfunk mc: freestyler.

Great to hear, thanks!

Siemens had a modding scene too. Those were the days of ElfPack. I used to follow a lot of LG Cookie modders as well, that scene is gone for good.

@@malwaretestingfan Sony Ericsson Elfpack is ported from Siemens btw

@@malwaretestingfan Wow, I used to have a Cookie but I never knew people were modding them. I had a Cookie Fresh actually, maybe by then people stopped caring. Are any of their old pages still up or archived?

@@s8wc3 I cannot link pages, but yes, there are many websites dedicated to the modding of pre-Android LG phones that are up to this day, the KP500 model (Cookie) was particularly liked by these modders, with a thriving scene focused around the creation of native applications (PXO files), customized FW and themes. "Cookie Tutorials - Tools", GSM-Forum, GSMHosting (unfortunately it's attached files are gone) and the Polish forum LGFORUMPL still survive. It's wholly unrelated to this discussion, but a reverse engineer, Buu342, has written an excellent article on his quest to recover assets from the PXO file format ("Ripping Assets From An Old Mobile Game - Music World") which might be of interest to you.

Thank you. It's good to know I'm doing something worthwhile.

I'm glad you enjoyed this and thank you for sharing your memories.

@@JanusCycle I will check someday if I can find all my old phones. If you’re interested I could ship them out to you.

@@enkz0r I'm keen to know which models you have. Thank you. let me know :)

@@JanusCycle I will let you know when I come home from my vacation in about a week or so. I guess contact via Instagram is the easiest then?

I remember the Sony Ericsson modding scene and modding my phone, it was amazing! I will make a video about this one day, hopefully several. I know less about the Siemens scene, but I want to learn more about all that when I get the right models to do it.

Thank you, I appreciate hearing that.

It's amazingly well done.

You did some nice sounding customization :)

The android scene still has some dedicated peeps for getting root acess on all kinds of phones often to the dismay of the manufacturers, and the google pixel phones especially where it's possible to unlock and then re-lock the bootloader while retaining full root privileges

Take you time and enjoy the experience.

hey thanks

Nice, Polish modders did some amazing work. The Sony Ericsson models were also really fun to mod. I had a K750, a beautiful phone. I will be having a closer look one day.

Thank you, there is so much this phone can do, it was time to tell this story.

@@JanusCycle can i please plug a radio into the base or battery of my 3310 & control my tv with it? those batteries LAST

Glad you enjoyed :)

There is even more to the 3310 and beyond story, but I haven't gotten there yet.

You will probably enjoy the sequel to this even more then. I hope you enjoy the channel.

Me too, subscribing ASAP.

Nice, thank you for watching!

PD: Thanks for the video. Logomanager is the SW i used. Bumper the game i used to play. Sad i deleted all the software i had about a year ago, would love to share it with you. Keep it up. Nice content.

I'm glad you kept the cables. Software can still be got bit cables are hard to find. Glad you enjoyed the video.

There are some more possible Nokia videos that I would like to explore one day.

Glad you are enjoying :)

The music is from this track, it's awesome! ukposts.info/have/v-deo/aneFiaR_kZmL2X0.html

@@JanusCycle Thanks very much, Janus. Appreciated! I didn't actually think you would reply, as you probably get 100s of comments a day!

Thank you, it's amazing to go back and look at what was being done with these phone back in the day.

great stuff!

Here are the tools :) cosconor.fr/GSM/Nokia/Netmonitor/DCT-3/Tools/Diverse/

Thank you! I will try and update the firmware myself.

@@JanusCycle Is it work on Windows 11?

@@faridirwan6040 Sorry for the late response. I suggest you use an older laptop running Windows XP for the best compatibility.

@@JanusCycle I wanted to write to you the next day that you sent me the link to the tools but I forgot. So here I am again. Thank you soo much for the tools. I found a Nokia 7110 for around 7$ in the flea market a few days ago, and I wanted to see if I can patch this phone with newer software. This is really helpful for me because some of the text documents inside of the folders are in Romanian! I will rebuild the 7110 battery, the cable for flashing in I will give it a go. Thank you again!

I'm really glad you enjoyed this video and the other one. Operator Logos and Nokia ringtones could be sent over SMS. It's possible the software stored these as SMS messages on the card, and activated in your Nokia. Thanks for watching and your comments.

@@JanusCycle No problem your videos scratch an itch for retro modding and they are really unique and I can see you out effort in them. I hope you get more subs and views, you deserve them. If you don't mind can you look into how mobile phones can use the AT command set? I wouldn't mind a video on that! I was just researching on a program called Gammu and it mentioned that.

And 3G is shutting down this year!