[info]Why do you HACK your s60v3 and v5 devices.

[chirogan]

SHOULD I HACK?
if thats what you are also asking then you are in
the right place to find it out.
WHAT IS HACKING?
maybe it sounds very dangerous to you but its
nothing that you have to worry about. your
phone doesnt take any damage. you just take full
control of your phone after hacking it, you can
change almost everything on your phone and
install any application, something that nokia didnt
wanted. a simple example: why should i not be
able to change the nokia shaking hands at phones
startup with something more personal? after
hacking your phone you can do that if you want.
hacking your phone is liberty. *
NOTE FOR THE OPTIMIST GUYS..
unfortunally you will not find any new settings or
functions to change what you want in your
phoneyou have to install other apps or apply
some patches to do that. but the good news are
that other guys already done this things so you
just have to read and follow the given steps and
youre done. *
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if all that just confusing you right now, forget
what i said above for few weeks and just be
happy that you can install any unsigned
application without signing it. *
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WHY NOKIA CLOSED THE PHONES?
you should know that the very first symbian
phones were not closed. We could see all phone
files with an explorer, we could install any
application that came out and so on. unfortunally
virus developers knew that also and after some
time (when Nokia started to sell many S60
phones) many viruses came out because the
phones were not protected at all against that.
After that Symbian had to react. And they did,
bringing out Symbian 9. Symbian had changed
almost everything on the phones software,
making it impossible to install applications that
were developed for the older operating systems. i
think the first thought of symbian was to make
the phones more secure against viruses. some
people also say they did that for the money...and
i think they are also right because everything is
about the money*
SYMBIAN 9.
with the new operating system everything
changed. the phones were closed now. of course
we could install new apps on it but theyhad to be
signed applications. *
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SIGNED APPLICATIONS.
what is that?
Signing is the process of encoding a tamper-
proof digital certificate into an application sis
(installation) file. The certificate identifies the
applications origin, and grants access to those
Capability-protected API's (Application
Programming Interface)in Symbian OS that the
application declared at build-time. Here are several
Capability examples: *
On Symbian OS, protected APIs are those that
allow sensitive operations, such as those that
may:
* access end users private data, thus potentially
breaching privacy
* potentially create billable events, thus costing
the end user money
* access the mobile phone network, potentially
affecting its operation *
* access handset functions that can affect the
normal behavior of the phone
* potentially impact the performance of other
applications running on the phone.
Although Symbian didnt wanted the end-user to
get involved in all this process,(signing etc should
be only for the developers) we got somehow
involved at the end*
If you get a Developer Certificate. this Cert is only
for your phone, you cant use it on other devices
to install applications. *
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I WANT TO HACK MY PHONE WHY DO I
NEED A CERTIFICATE?
Because you have to use an application to hack
your phone that is unsigned (HelloOX) After you
signed and installed this application you dont
have to worry about unsigned applications
anymore. you can install any application now
without signing it. *
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WHAT EXACTLY IS HACKING?
Hacking will disable the security of your phone,
so the phone will not check if an app is signed or
unsigned while installing it. you will also be able
to see all the folders/files in your phone using an
explorer like X-Plore.
*you will be able to add patches in your phone
that will change some things like i said above the
nokia shaking hands at startup, or you wil be able
to mute/add other sounds when you take a pic
with your cam etc. thats cool stuff or not?*
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I WANT TO UPGRADE MY PHONES
FIRMWARE.WILL I LOOSE THE HACK?
Some new phones like the 5800(and the N85 i
think) can upgrade the firmware without loosing
any of your data. But nokia change always
something on the phones security with an
upgrade so its better to be prepared to make the
hack again. *
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the same apply to all the other phones that do not
keep your data after an upgrade.maybe you want
to back up the phones memory before the
upgrade thinking that the hack will still work after
the upgrade but like i said its more likely that it will
not. *
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WHAT ABOUT VIRUSES?
that's a good question.After the hack the phone is
trully open for everything. so in the theory we
can install also viruses. Butuntill now there is no
virus for our phones out. *
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I think its because only few people are actually
hacking their phones (compared to the millions of
sold devices worldwide) so its not the same like
on the early days of S60 phones with the viruses
that we have got back then. *
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WILL I LOOSE MY WARRANTY HACKING MY
PHONE?
Nokia would like to say yes but we know it better
and we say NO lolfirst of all hacking your phone
is not hardaware depended. you just install an
application into your phone that is btw tested
onmany phones without coming in conflict with
the Operating System. *
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Even if your phone somehow doesnt work
properly after hacking (and as far as i know that
never happened...
say IF...) you can format your phone and your
phone will work again without a problem. One
more reason that you dont have to be afraid of
nokia service point after hacking is that they even
dont know about all this stuff, *
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and they also should not check what you have
installed on your phone. its not their business.
(thats my personal expierience). One more
example...Lets say you hack your phone you
install apps and trying out etc etc. And one day
your phone doesnt want to boot anymore..(that
didnt happened to me since i used to use the
3650 tho,but again lets say IF...) *
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If you take your phone to the nokia doc, he will
not be able to see with his tools if your phone
was hacked or not. He will not get any red alert
screen on his pc saying oh oh hacked
deviceSo...there is nothing to worry about. *

[akoian]

hmmm, it is very educational! Especially for symbian os9.x user...
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