Friday, 19 September 2008

Nokia are at it again, N82's V30 unhackable


Earlier this year, Nokia successfully blocked FCA00000's python S60 v3 exploit... For a few hours. FCA00000 replied with his own version of HelloCarbide - the most powerful .Sis file that has ever existed in the history of Symbian. However, the release of the Nokia N82's V30 firmware marks the beginning of a new chapter in this cat and mouse game between Nokia and FCA00000. One man challenging a company of 117,212 employees.

HelloCarbide no longer works with the N82. There are some claims from some members of Symbian-Freak that following this update method will keep the hack working. I cannot confirm if it works as I don't have a N82 but it should be worth a try, right?

How to supposedly keep the hack on your V30 N82:
1) Format your V20 N82.
2) Hack your N82 using HelloCarbide and copy installserver.exe over to C:/Sys/Bin
3) Back up your phone using Nokia PC Suite.
4) Update your firmware
5) Restore using Nokia PC Suite.

If that doesn't work then you'll be stuck with a standard, locked down N82 until FCA00000 (hopefully) finds another exploit.

Enjoy.


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