Hackaday have this video featured today, 13 September, 2021. 'Firmware Modding Your Vintage Nokia Handset' 👍

I was writting patches, drivers and even elf's to my sony ericsson phones back in 2008-2011 but with android coming out and price being 300-700usd per phone and being afraid to brick expensive phone I was hesitant to learn modding on android and thus left it... drivers were like the name suggest mostly sound drivers to make phone's speaker output/headset/bluetooth output higher, patches were to eliminate limitations such as low volume message, disable operator logo so it would no longer be shown on the screen, disable limited message storage and many more, with other small tweaks such as replacing on/off animations and such... elf's were a small programs, which mostly let you do amazing things like taking a screenshot in a phone at the time when no feature phone (except early smartphones) had such function... and sometimes hardware mods such as installing LED's taken from other phone flashlight so that it would shine them at rythm of the music...

This is so awesome! Back in the day I used to modify DCT3 firmware files as well. One of my NokiX scripts was a "smart home" appliance. :) Nokia 3310 original batteries used to have a thermometer inside of them. So I created a little NokiX app that would respond to incoming SMS messages and reply back with the current temperature. Then I connected vibrator signal to a relay which was connected to the electric heater. This way I had remotely SMS operated electric heater. Probably not the safest of the implementations, but definitely the most fun one. :)

Takes me back. Still have a carrier bag full of modding, flashing and unlocking cables for the old phones. Have an unlock box too. Good old days.

I remember using my iPAQ to send custom logos onto Nokia phones via Irda. Those were simpler times.

I remember seeing 3310s with custom ROMs back in the day. Been searching for this in quite a while and I'm glad you made a video about it.

The OG firmware modding scene

12:29 that was the most satisfying reload sound ever

That's seriously impressive. Really brings me back when these phones were modded, back to the time the dedicated forums were active.

Wow, awesome video, what a flash back! I was spaceimpact33 on NokiaFREE forums and spent the better part of my teenage years learning to code by modding DCT-3’s. My best mod was porting a flash file system that that used the space between the MCU and PPM. Built some hooks that enabled storage of SMS messages on device instead is the SIM.

I had a Nokia 5110 with internal antenna housing, Blue led screen and slim 6210 vibrating battery - It was so cool!

Never knew modding was possible in phones of this era as well. Awesome

I really enjoyed seeing those bits of software again. Completely forgot the fun I had tinkering with these bricks. Thanks for making this content! Can't wait to see what you have in store for us in the future.

These were such powerful phones. I'd happily go back to something like this today. Week worth of battery.

I'm pretty sure I had one of these as my first cellphone back in around 2000 when I was was probably 16. Telecom had a deal at my high school where you could trade in a Vodafone phone and like $50 to get a brand new Nokia and credit on the phone perhaps. The phones came in bright colours. It might have been a slightly different model, but similar. I recall there was a stubby antennae on them. I went down to cash converters and got a cheap worn out vodaphone phone for the deal. One boy got hold on an ancient bellsouth telephone which was a network here in New Zealand later bought out by Vodafone.

I was thinking about this the other day and look what I found ! My fav channel these days....your content is amazing

i really needed that information 13 years ago😁

Love the channel, mate. About the flash reading issue you had at first - the programme said "press power on shortly", but you held it for quite long. Maybe I'm wrong.

NokTool was created in Lithuania in Jonava. This is my hometown. How fun to see old software from my hometown on youtube.

This is beautiful m8, I used to make games for my Nokia 5110, and I loved it.I used to do that a the way up until 2010ish?I remember needing to clean or buy all new serial cable everytime I don't use it for a while.The dirt comes in and makes the cable unusable.I may start doing this again, I am starting to be interested in retro Nokias again, I guess.I still have my 3 Nokia 5110s, not sure if they have some of my custom games and I am not sure if the batteries still work.Great video, best regards!

6110 and 6150 were my most favourite Nokias of ALL TIME. Love your channel.

I wish i knew about this when i had one of these. I loved my 5110.

That was awesome, thank you for showing this.

This is awesome! Great work.

Seems like Siemens games brought to nokia

This video just showed up on my recommended! I've been using a custom rom on my phone for years now but had no clue these Nokia's were able to have their firmware modified! Awesome video :)

Hi, Janus. If you ever read this comment I just wanted to let you know that I'm your new subscriber from yesterday and already I have watched over 10 videos of yours. What I'm trying to say that I'm grateful UKposts algorithm recommend to me your channel. Really enjoy the content of your channel. Especially I like the videos where you mess up with Nokia phones. In these days owning a Samsung phone I really miss the toughness of Nokia (substitute for hammer 😂). You are great UKposts creator, you deserve 10 fold the subscribers.

That was so cool! Love your work! 😃

I remember some Nokia phones and I like watching Janus cycle

Wow was actually looking for my old Nokia running my version of MadOS the other day, and looking for the old geggo apps lol, thank for this will download and play about ASAP

Oh nice i got a 6110! Will def try this

14:40 U mean bomber man or train i think :D I love little modern Nokias, baloons game and time trial? Motocross balance game ♥

I’ve played the baloon game in a Siemens C45. It was included in stock rom. 😮

What, that's illegal. I'm just joking, great video mate.

I have 2 x 6190 (1900 GSM version), 5190 (1900 GSM), and an AMPS analog add-on module (nickname surfboard), a programming cable that I have switched between the F and M bus, as I had to unlock some of them (NCK). I gave away a few of my collection to a (non technical, old gentleman) neighbor for his collection, so I forgot if I still have all of the above now. I never did any other hacking except for unlocking. I also had a few 5160 (1900 TDMA version) at one time, when a US MVNO had basically free service at one time. I also have a few 3390 as well, but sold them to my friend and I just have kept one. I remember my friend did a firmware update for my first 3390 at the time, as he was working as a tech at a dealer at the time. These are nice phones, I am sad that the GSM network had been shut down a few years ago, making these phones rather useless. (Except for things like in you video). Again thanks for the video, I am glad I bumped into your channel a few days ago by chance . Looks like we have quite a few things in common, but you are more hardworking in this than I am.

The first read out of the 5110 didn't work because you pressed the power button for too long. You need to tap it shortly, NOT hold it to turn on the phone. It even says so in the status bar of Rolis. The reason for that is that a short power button press already makes the boot ROM in the ARM CPU of these things execute. It then either needs to receive the right handshake which Rolis constantly sends to load further code into RAM which then implements the flash read and write routines. If you hold the power button for too long, the phone just turns on and never loads the flashing code from Rolis.

super cool to see

I had one back in the day when I had 6 months in the U.S.P.S. as a Letter Carrier back in '95 I use to until the antenna broke, later I replaced with an updated version.

I don’t understand all this old tech stuff video but I am enjoying the video while i eat dinner

Janus, I have to tell you that I absolutely love your channel. Keep up the great work

This is just amazing, thank you :) Please backup everything and perhaps create own website with download. Thanks.

I am convinced logo manager was exclusively used to load the logo of the phone owner's favourite footy team. Those are the only custom logos I ever saw on peoples phones

Give credit to Dejan Kaljevic for the dct3 flash interface…

Very interesting video. Good work. Just wanted to tell you that there’s an annoying sub bass sound in the video. Below 50hz

Hey that looks like the same phone Brad had in the movie “Resident Evil Welcome to Raccoon City”

nice video sir👌👌

In 2001 I would have been really impressed.

I still have my Nokia 5110, 3310 and Nokia 3350 that is a firmware modded Nokia 3330 with Nokia 3410 screen. Not sure if i still have all firmware files and other stuff somewhere on a harddrive. I did for the most times only modded ringtones, font and menu pictures.

I remember my first mods on Siemens phones with program called vklay 😁

calming voice

me encanta estos mini juegos sobre todo el oficial monkikis castle el primer 3d de nokia 🥵

Years ago i always was wondering how to put more games in my nokia xd

That was cool.

Intreating i had one of those back in days nokianphone and i remember they had program burner to burn firmware on nokia phone

I made a good bit of pocket money thanks to Logo Manager.. Working in a busy warehouse with (seemingly) 99% Nokia use..

What's the internal memory on these phones? Never had one of those. Went from 1610 to 3410 with java straight ahead. Phones weren't that important back then...

nokia 6110 was my first phone. I miss it.

I ran the 3310 clear case with blue led external flashers and led stickers

Tek kelime ile! Bravo.

Amazing. Knowing how to do this 20 years ago would have been so bad ass.

i have a 5110 that i found in the alarm thing that calls the security service guys after someone breaks in the house, i think it has some modded firmware and i want to bring back the old one

How did you find working old phones , connectors , cables? 😲 That's so genius.

Era posible modificar estos celus? Increible😊

Hi where did you buy your nokia 5110 thank you and more power to your channel. Love from my beautiful country the philippines

For Nokia 6xxx, the Extreme rally game can speed up the wap browser to 14.4 kbit/s. All levels must be completed, causing a higher speed. 14.4 is very fast for a browser. 2 h hacsd net maximizes the dara transfer speed.

Hey mate love this vid would love to modd these phones from 2g to 4g dunno if you have any ideas

Nice

Sounds like Deus Ex music playing in background :D

haha ;) I remember this time so well. But we had only serial cables, also for Mbus something in my memory with a max chip... Still have all these things in the closet ... time to wake up them again? :D

I would really interested in modding my nokia with c code, possibilities are infinite as my ram :)

2n part more games 😫

Can u mod simple digital watch

Hello there. Thanks for this instructional video. Where can I get original .fls flash files for dct3 devices? I found flash files with .mcu extension. I converted it to .fls file with “DCT3 flash converter” application. but nokix application gave error. can you help me please

Where did you buy your empty nokia connector from? I have a 5110 in box but it only has power supply with it, I have no serial cable And I also dont want to destroy a good cable to build your cable so I hope someone still makes this connectors new

With the larger battery, it only needs to be charged once a month

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In which lanuage are games/apps written for these DCT3 phones? Ok that was at the end of the video. They are written in C. For DCT4 is it also C or are they using Java?

Could you possibly create a parallel to female usb A adaptor that you then make usb to different adaptor cables?

Is that a Dejan dongle you soldering? I did the same 20 years ago

joao tenho um galaxi samsung android 2.3.6 qual a vefszo mais resente de wids wue da pra instslar

Hi, I recently bought four 6310i phones. Can I use the same procedure to flash these phones? I didn't see the 6310i listed.

iirc after flashing you also need to update the faid and i see in this video that you seem to have a flash file with no faid. how is that done?

Do the .nrx files contain the original code of the games taken from Nokia firmwares, like roms for the NES, or are these games created by fans based on the original Nokia games?

Hello, can we generate random valid IMEI addresses specific to the device with noktools in the video? Where can I get noktools. And is there an alternative software you recommend to do what I said?

Do you think i can use 74HC4050D level shifter instead? (which apparently does not invert the signal) Can i set whether the signal should be inverted or no in the settings?

One problem tho: where can I get a serial cable for the 3310 and does it need a (rare and expensive) box to operate?

i know these phones ^^ the good phones where the alarm rings still the phone is turned off xD

very cool video, have you tried to upload ringtones in .re file?

for some reason after adding some games in the Nokix I have no success flashing the modified file, it says MCU CHK is bad and asks me if I want to solve this, pressing yes or no gives the same result with the "contact service" message on the phone screen, so I needed to flash the original file back to recover the phone. Can't find anything about this problem

Honestly I like Nokia logo design and I also like green light on screen and letter ✉️ I don’t know much but I really want to learn. If you can help me please answer this question how Nokia logo like snake game and Nokia sign two hand .what this knowledge called.I want to learn but not know proper name.😅

One day in future younger generation will forget or will not be in a position handle all the things which are core building block of the hitech gadgets and you will not find any one to fix the software or drivers.

so i have a box and flashing requires mcu and ppm file. how can i convert fls from the vid to mcu+ppm?

You should fab a PCB for this :)

possible to add Bluetooth to Nokia 8310?

Can it be done with an rj45 cable and possibly windows 7 because I would really like to know the answer after seeing this video

Is it possible to change ESN on a DCT-3 Nokia? I would like to activate a CDMA Nokia.

Where did you get that connector you have soldered onto?

please help i need firmware file flashing nokia 3110 with old antenna

OK. Now I want to run Doom on it...