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WARNING: Phone flashing is a double-edged sword; it may be useful and dangerous at the same time. It may brick/damage your phone for good (If not done carefully), so please DO NOT flash your device if you don’t know what the hell “Flashing a phone” is.
In this post I will explain the use of Phoenix (Nokia service software) and Navifirm to flash a Nokia Smartphone (Taking Nokia N8 as an example). Flashing means reinstalling phones firmware (Operating system) files into the ROM chip. There are many situations when it becomes necessary to flash a Nokia mobile (Deletion/corruption of system files for example), besides flashing is also useful to update latest (Or any available) firmware, to install a custom firmware or to install an older firmware over an updated new firmware. Carefully follow the instructions given below as such:
First up, note down your phones firmware version/release (Find by pressing *#0000# at standby, in the form of x.xxx.xx), product code (On the sticker under battery in the form of 0XXXXXX) and type (Look at the sticker under the battery in the form of RM-xxx).
1. Download and install Phoenix Service Software (2009 or 2010) in your PC/Laptop from www.4shared.com or elsewhere
2. Download and install Navifirm from here
3. Run Navifirm and wait until it loads the Products (Phone model names/codes) list
4. Find your phone model and code in the list and select it (For example, select RM-596 for Nokia N8)
5. Wait for a while until it loads “Releases”. Select the desired release (11.12 in case of N8)
6. Wait until Navifirm loads “Variants” (Product code of the phone – you can find yours at the sticker usually below battery). Select the desired variant and wait until Navifirm shows firmware files in the last pane.
7. Check all the boxes and click “Download with program” button below the last pane. Choose the folder where you want to download the “Official” firmware files
8. Copy the downloaded files to “C:/Program Files(x86)/Nokia/Phoenix/Products/RM-596″ (For Nokia N8 in this case) assuming that you have installed Phoenix in C:/ drive. Make the last folder (RM-xxx) if it does not exist (According to your phones code like RM-xxx). Phoenix will look for the files in the above folder when flashing the phone (Nokia N8 in this case)
9. Connect your mobile (Nokia N8 in this case) via Data/USB cable and run Phoenix. Go to “File/Scan Product”, Phoenix will detect the phone. Now select “Flashing/Firmware Update”
10. At the firmware update window, Phoenix will automatically look up and find the official firmware files earlier downloaded via Navifirm. However if it doesn’t find the files
a. Check that the directory “C:/Program Files(x86)/Nokia/Phoenix/Products/RM-xxx” exist, (create if it does not and place the firmware files into it)
b. Check that the above path is present in all the three boxes in Tools/Options/Product Location (In Phoenix), set it if it does not and repeat steps 9 onwards. If everything upto step 10 goes successful, select “Refurbish”, wait until the “Successful” dialog box appear. Press OK, phone will disconnect and restart. Thank God that everything went well….hopefully….
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