How To Upgrade & Use Voip & Ptt On Contract N95 Phone
I haven’t contributed for a long time, really due to not having any info of much use LOL.
A few months ago I decided on getting the N95 as it was the best kick NOT ALLOWED do all mobile going in the UK.
I can’t say best going anywhere as I have seen the Sharp 911SH With TV Tuner.
Anyway, to my dilemma, N95, excellent phone only a couple of drawbacks.
All major phone networks in the UK have taken out features of the N95 to stop you making free calls over the internet (VOIP) and push to talk (PTT).
There excuse, the feature was not tested in time for the release of the phone (yeah right), wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact it avoids paying them huge amounts of money to call abroad.
So for all those who do not like their phones tampered with by these corporate bullies here is how to upgrade your phones firmware and software.
This detailed info will allow you to upgrade most N series phones that are fixed to a set network operator thus allowing these options removed by phone networks to be now working on your contract phone.
1) First you need to backup your phone memory to PC using Nokia PC Suite
to get the latest version from the Nokia Site hxxp://europe.nokia.com/A4144905 25Mb
So connect your phone and backup all your files to pc first.
2) Disconnect your phone from the PC and switch it off.
Then switch it on while holding Green key (this is the make a call button) and the * key and the 3 key.
So switch on phone and hold down the Green + * + 3 all at same time and do not release until phone is booted up and the screen is displaying the menu.
Do not do this unless you have backed up your phone as it will hard reset and all your data will be gone.
3) Next we are going to change the Product code of the phone.
Have you wondered why when you connect your phone to the PC to upgrade using PC suite, Nokia upgrade software says there is no update?
The product code is the reason you can never upgrade your phone where others can.
All major network operators have there own product code, when you connect to Nokia with your phone attached to PC Suite, Nokia upgrade only sees the product code for your network and wont upgrade your phone as the network operator your with doesn’t want you to upgrade (they wont be able to control you).
To change the product code we need to use a cool piece of software called The NSS - Nemesis Service Suite.
www.b-phreaks.co.uk/files/NSS/NSS.zip
Once this is installed connect your N95 to PC in PC Suite mode.
Run the programme NSS that you just installed.
Looking at the picture included in this info:-
1) In the top hand right your see a blue icon (scan for devises), external hardrives can be detected so best to remove them first. Click this blue icon.
2) Click on “PHONE INFO”, this is to display the info you will be altering.
3) Click on “SCAN” this displays your phone version and IME.
4) Click on “READ” this displays the product code that you will alter, this is all that you will alter using this programme.
5) This is the product code. You need to change this to 0534841, this is Euro 1 product code. If you want to use Euro 2 this is 0534844.
6) Tick the enable box
7) Click on “WRITE”, this writes the new product code to your N95.
That's all there is to it, once you have done this close down the programme and run Nokia PC Suite and select "UPDATE PHONE SOFTWARE".
The software will connect to Nokia and amazingly your N95 will now be detected and it says there is a upgrade for your N95 where before you did this there wasn`t.
The upgrade is around 115meg in size, it is best to have your phone plugged into the main while doing this upgrade as having your phone connected to the USB drains the battery of the phone very fast.
The phone may reboot a few times during the upgrade so dont panic.
Once the upgrade is complete PC Suite will inform you.
After the upgrade is complete you can re-install the backup from the PC.
One thing i noticed was that after the upgrade i had VOIP and PTT in my menu, once i installed the back up from my PC they vanished so i just rebooted the phone and they returned.
To check they are there just go on any contacts name and select options for call or txt and you will see them in the menu, you can now call the contact using a internet call or a push to talk once you have set them up in the settings.
Oh and one other thing I noticed reading a few threads, even after people have posted threads you always get some one who shouldn’t be allowed to own a mobile saying they don’t understand, yet they haven’t read the info provided.
Please don’t ask me to explain what I have already said here it is self explanatory.
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