Vintage Firmware Modding Nokia DCT3 Phones
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- čas přidán 2. 07. 2024
- The Nokia 6110 & 5110 from 1998 were the first phones with the popular Snake game. These phones were highly capable devices with the first mobile ARM CPU. This was the start of Nokia's third generation of digital phones, DCT3. Many third party games and applications came out of the Nokia DCT3 modding scene in the 2000's. Using the original firmware tools, I set about flashing patched roms with new embedded games into these two Nokia phones.
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Flashing cable for Nokia DCT-3 phones
panuworld.net/nuukiaworld/har...
Yak's NokiX development archives
arkadiusz.wahlig.eu/NokiX.html
NokiaFree NokiX forum
nokiafree.org/forums/archive/i...
NokiX download archive
sourceforge.net/projects/nokix/
Music: Roary - Divides (Nokia DCT3 reprise)
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Hackaday have this video featured today, 13 September, 2021. 'Firmware Modding Your Vintage Nokia Handset' 👍
That's so awesome, I love Hackaday. Welcome to all the viewers from Hackaday :) And thank you to the person that submitted it.
@@JanusCycle came from Hackaday. Now thinking about making an article about this too.
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 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...
I was applying these patches to my Sony Ericsson K750i at that time. I probably had and still have some of your patches in my phone. Thank you so much for the work you did.
bro, i still have some patches on my w850i w595 and w995 but i need a good site with all the firmwares, a certificare converter app from red to brown and some patches to make the phone work without sim on my elm and cedar. if you know any of those, i will gladly take your advice, because omnius owner idk if he is available anymore so i can buy a license.
I have it too 😯😲
How did you make them? Can you send me them?
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. :)
That sounds really clever, thanks for sharing that story!
Wow awesome
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.
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed this.
That's seriously impressive. Really brings me back when these phones were modded, back to the time the dedicated forums were active.
Your Profile Pic looks like Andreas Gabalier
Hi Black Hat!
12:29 that was the most satisfying reload sound ever
Sounds like a gun 🙂
These were such powerful phones. I'd happily go back to something like this today. Week worth of battery.
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.
Never knew modding was possible in phones of this era as well. Awesome
If there's a cpu, there's a will
I had a Nokia 5110 with internal antenna housing, Blue led screen and slim 6210 vibrating battery - It was so cool!
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.
Thank you, I do plan on revisiting Nokia DCT3 phones in the future.
I was thinking about this the other day and look what I found !
My fav channel these days....your content is amazing
I'm honoured, thank you.
6110 and 6150 were my most favourite Nokias of ALL TIME. Love your channel.
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.
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.
i really needed that information 13 years ago😁
NokTool was created in Lithuania in Jonava. This is my hometown. How fun to see old software from my hometown on youtube.
Good software comes from good places :)
It was really a bit mysterious and exciting when I found a Lithuanian email address on these Nokia tools. Maybe someday we will get to meet Rolis. :)
This is awesome! Great work.
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 :)
Glad you enjoyed, thanks for letting me know.
The OG firmware modding scene
That was awesome, thank you for showing this.
Glad you enjoyed. Thanks for letting me know.
That was so cool! Love your work! 😃
Pleased to hear you are enjoying it.
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
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!
Thank you. Great to hear from someone who made their own games. I really like how open and customizable DCT3 phones are.
@@JanusCycle Yeah, better than the less and less customizable, compatible and reliable, more and more bloated and worse and worse UI-designed Android by every new version.
I remember some Nokia phones and I like watching Janus cycle
Janus, I have to tell you that I absolutely love your channel. Keep up the great work
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 CZcams 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 CZcams creator, you deserve 10 fold the subscribers.
I'm really glad you are enjoying my videos. Thank you for letting me know. I hope I can make more that you like.
Oh nice i got a 6110! Will def try this.
Update: you don't even need any fancy connectors. Just jam some jumper cables between the battery and contacts. A 3.3V UART cable is sufficient to talk to the FBUS
I wish i knew about this when i had one of these. I loved my 5110.
14:40 U mean bomber man or train i think :D I love little modern Nokias, baloons game and time trial? Motocross balance game ♥
super cool to see
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.
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.
Seems like Siemens games brought to nokia
What, that's illegal. I'm just joking, great video mate.
Epic
nice video sir👌👌
I don’t understand all this old tech stuff video but I am enjoying the video while i eat dinner
I’ve played the baloon game in a Siemens C45. It was included in stock rom. 😮
That is cool, I wonder how closely related these games are. There are some Siemens phones than can be modded in a similar way. I would like to try that one day when I can get one.
@@JanusCycle hmm i have quite a lot of siemens phones i rescued from ewaste. Sadly i dont think i have any charging cables for those
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
Nope. I got paid to customise all kinds of logos/ringtones, etc for people back in the day.
Rarely was asked for football stuff.
calming voice
Nice
That was cool.
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed.
Very interesting video. Good work. Just wanted to tell you that there’s an annoying sub bass sound in the video. Below 50hz
I'm glad you enjoyed this. I have also since fixed the audio problems. My apologies for that.
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.
Great info, thank you!
Hey that looks like the same phone Brad had in the movie “Resident Evil Welcome to Raccoon City”
This is just amazing, thank you :) Please backup everything and perhaps create own website with download. Thanks.
I'm really glad you enjoyed. I do back everything up. I also provide links and always try to help people find software I use in my videos.
Give credit to Dejan Kaljevic for the dct3 flash interface…
I remember my first mods on Siemens phones with program called vklay 😁
Tek kelime ile! Bravo.
Thank you!
I made a good bit of pocket money thanks to Logo Manager.. Working in a busy warehouse with (seemingly) 99% Nokia use..
Awesome, custom logos were so popular. It seems like everyone wanted one.
nokia 6110 was my first phone. I miss it.
In 2001 I would have been really impressed.
How did you find working old phones , connectors , cables? 😲 That's so genius.
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 didn't realise the 3350 had a higher resolution screen compared to the other 33xx models. Thanks for letting me know!
@@JanusCycle The 3350 and 3410 also had conventional navigation keys rather than the Navi-Key used on the 3310.
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.
I ran the 3310 clear case with blue led external flashers and led stickers
Years ago i always was wondering how to put more games in my nokia xd
Intreating i had one of those back in days nokianphone and i remember they had program burner to burn firmware on nokia phone
Sounds like Deus Ex music playing in background :D
Last Man On Earth
Hey mate love this vid would love to modd these phones from 2g to 4g dunno if you have any ideas
You could get a SIM7600E-H and mount it inside with a non-removable battery to make enough space inside and run software on the Nokia to control everything including GPS. Yes, it could be done, but it would be a huge project.
@@JanusCycle thanks man keep up your awsome videos too
I would really interested in modding my nokia with c code, possibilities are infinite as my ram :)
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...
The 5110 and 6110 have 2Mb of flash with about 700Kb free on the 5110 and less on the 6110. The 3410 has a 4Mb flash and a higher resolution screen. Modders really like that model.
Hi where did you buy your nokia 5110 thank you and more power to your channel. Love from my beautiful country the philippines
Someone gave it to me many many years ago. There are many DCT-3 Nokia models that people have stored away and forgotten about, that are worth finding them and modding. Thank you for your kind message from the Philippines.
me encanta estos mini juegos sobre todo el oficial monkikis castle el primer 3d de nokia 🥵
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?
These are fan created games. There is an .nrx of Snake 2 which I believe is copied out of later models.
@@JanusCycle Is it possible to open the file structure of the firmware as in a normal OS?
@@foxitize I have seen software that can access menu graphics and languages in a sort of filesystem. But I haven't looked further into it . . . yet
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
I took apart an old alarm system a year or two ago and after removing the back plate, I discovered that the system for calling the security company was just an old mobile phone, wired into a couple of printed circuit boards.
I was surprised but thinking about it, it's probably a cheap off the shelf way of doing it for low volume security products like that. Or at least it was.
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?
Plenty of useful Nokia tools here.
cosconor.fr/GSM/Nokia/Netmonitor/DCT-3/Tools/Diverse/
I don't know about IMEI because it's not useful for me.
Era posible modificar estos celus? Increible😊
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?
As long as you convert the level to 2.8-2.9 Volts it should work. There are settings for inverting the signal.
@@JanusCycle well i tried it with two diodes in series on fbus rx and mbus and the dct3 flasher on windows 98 responded to the power button beig pressed but got stuck on some sort of waiting (i forgot the exact text, but it was just after "waiting for phone to power on")
@@JanusCycle sometimes it told me to power off the phone (it sometimes told me with both inverted and uninverted signal so i have no idea) and sometimes it started and after about an second it said done, but nothing was read
@@JanusCycle it said "wait for boot counter accept (tx=high)" actuall
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
With the larger battery, it only needs to be charged once a month
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?
Many DCT4 phones can run j2me Java apps. But these patches only work in DCT3 phones. Because DCT4 has stronger firmware security and can't be patched like this.
Is that a Dejan dongle you soldering? I did the same 20 years ago
Yep, a classic Dejan original circuit.
You should fab a PCB for this :)
i know these phones ^^ the good phones where the alarm rings still the phone is turned off xD
Where did you get that connector you have soldered onto?
I've had that connector for a long time. One way to get these connectors these days is to buy a 5110 'box' cable and take the connector from that.
I wish I could get my hands on this phone
One problem tho: where can I get a serial cable for the 3310 and does it need a (rare and expensive) box to operate?
You can easily modify those cables to work with the parallel port interface. No need for the expensive box.
@@JanusCycle I see. Do you know where I can buy one though?
@@blakegriplingph I would search around for 'Nokia 3310 flash box cable'. Here is one I found. I've never ordered from this company but that cable looks exactly right. There are four pins to connect to the 3310 under the battery.
www.cellcorner.com/xshp/unlock-phone-codes/nokia-3310-rj45-griffin-unlocking-cable.html
It's best to make sure the cable has the ability to also use the battery. Some service boxes power the phone directly over the cable. If you get one of those cables you will need to wire up the battery to the cable as well.
very cool video, have you tried to upload ringtones in .re file?
I do have a ringtone editor/uploader but I haven't tried it yet. I would like to mod another Nokia phone. But I've been having trouble fixing the checksum.
@@JanusCycle I understand, do u use any software to edit the firmware file itself?
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
I had this in a box of old Nokia stuff for a long time. Search for 'Nokia 5110 box cable' and find many options. I found this when searching for example. But I've never ordered from them, I don't know if they are ok. www.gsm-support.net/en/connector-for-nokia-5110-5130-6110-6210-p1124
Hi, I recently bought four 6310i phones. Can I use the same procedure to flash these phones? I didn't see the 6310i listed.
The 6310i is a DCT4 based phone which I don't think is open to the same modification potential of Nokia's earlier DCT3 phones :( It's a pity because they are quality handsets.
OK. Now I want to run Doom on it...
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?
There is a NokiX patch called 'kill faid' that disables the check :)
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.
How very prophetic of you.
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
Finding good fls files can be tricky. Not every fls file I found worked with Nokix. I think you need a full flash which has mcu and ppm together in the fls file. The biggest archive I've found is a Polish site. chomikuj.pl/chomikbox
They have just about every flash file that was available for vintage Nokia.
@@JanusCycle Thanks 👍🏻
Can u mod simple digital watch
Nokia 5110i was the first mobile phone I used. My dad got it from his office. Nokia 3310 was a much better phone. I was so surprised when that phone vibrated.
2n part more games 😫
Could you possibly create a parallel to female usb A adaptor that you then make usb to different adaptor cables?
What is the laptop make and model you are using thx
It's a Toshiba Portege 3110CT
@JanusCycle thx I could not find 1 on ebay so I bought the Toshiba Portege P7140. What is the name of the parallel port adapter you have. I am getting into mod/hacking the the 3310
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
If Nokix is giving an error when modifying flash files then try some different firmware versions. I did have a problem with some firmware files. They were either very early or later firmware versions and I had to use the more common versions instead.
@@JanusCycle thanks, i fixed this problem by adding kill mcu check plugin to the firmware. Now i can finally play Maze 3d and Breaker 😄
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Yep, I gotta do much better with the interference. I have been working to improve this in later videos.
@Janus Cycle I want you to know that I still very much enjoyed the video =)
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