Electronic Gurudev

Learn how to Flash a Nokia Mobile Phone By Using PC Using Phoneix & Navifirm

noreply@blogger.com (Electronic Gurudev) — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:54:08 PDT

Not many words just quick glance at how to use use of Phoenix to flash a Nokia smartphone. Before we proceed to Flash lets understand the meaning of flashing, it means re-installing phones firmware (OS) files.

Please carefully follow the instructions as mentioned below:

1. Download and install Phoenix Service Software 2011 in your PC/Laptop.

2. Download and install the latest version of Navifirm Click here

3. Open Navifirm select your Phone Model and Code and wait for a while until it loads “Releases” select a suitable release. Again wait until Navifirm loads “Variants” (i.e. Product code of the phone which you can find at the sticker usually below battery)

4. After downloading firmware files, create a folder RM-XXX in C:\Program files\Nokia\Phoenix\Products and copy those firmware files in the folder.

(RM-XXX where XXX is your product code(for e.g. Nokia 7210 supernova product code is 436, so RM-436)

5. Launch application “Phoenix” in PC and connect your mobile via Data/USB cable (Select PC Suite mode).

Note - if you have dead phone, means phone is not starting at all, use Dead Phones Flash. To being able to tick dead phone flash delete the USB connection in phoenix. then make it go into "no connection". then open the RM-XXX. the dead USB flashing will now be enabled.

6. Now Choose File>Manage Connection>New>USB. It will then search your USB ports for the phone. When it finds it, hit Finish. Once it has done scanning, Apply then close

7. Select “Scan Product” from the File menu. As soon as scanning is finished, you can see your model of phone and other details at the bottom screen

8. From the Flashing menu, choose Firmware Update

9. Wait for Phoenix to continue looking into to the phone. You will see some information scroll by in the firmware Update window.

- Browse
- See the product code section. You should find your product code in that column.If you see “YOUR” product code, fine otherwise press on the “…” in the given prCode section.

You should see RM-XXX, select that. Variant version =00.

If you will select “Refurbish” so that it will restore it to factory set (Clean and default C:)

10. Hit start and ignore the warning and click yes. Now your actual flashing has started. Don’t touch your phone or press any button until the flashing has finished. Also don’t touch your data cable and your computer system.

11. At the end Phoenix will tell you to remove your phone as the flashing has finished.

12. Now wait for your phone to reboot into latest firmware.

WARNING: Phone flashing is a tough as well as risky; please don't try unless you are sure.

Share Your Files Wirelessly Between Your Desktop & Other Bluetooth Devices

noreply@blogger.com (Electronic Gurudev) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:16:53 PDT

Title says it all͵ we shall not be discussing some rocket science kind of process͵ however I shall highlight a super cool little device with the capability of getting you rid of USB cables. Generally at home we all have different gadgets and devices and most of the time just to transfer a few files between our desktop and other smart tech devices we end up wasting our time in looking for conpatible cable. So to get rid of this hectic situtation. I bought a half inch͵ around of 100 INR bluetooth USB dongle with plug n play functionality.
Isn‘t it a cool and better option to get all your bluetooth devices get connected to your computer without even getting wired :)
Have a look on the following image and see for yourself that how compact it is -

How To Backup apps as .apk files from Android Phone

noreply@blogger.com (Electronic Gurudev) — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:29:23 PDT

Sometimes you need to send your installed android apps or games to your friends. But unless you have the installation apk file, you won’t be able to send them directly. One way to overcome this problem is to extract apk from the installed apps and send it via Bluetooth or some other ways. Here, I'll share two methods which are found easier to extract apk files from android apps which are downloaded from android market.

Method 1 - using ASTRO file manager.

you can download ASTRO file manager from android market. To extract apk:

Open ASTRO file manager.

Touch the menu button and click tools, then select Application Manager/Backup

Choose the applications and click backup.
The extracted apk will be stored in SDcard/ backups/apps

You can do the same using ES file manager also.

One disadvantage of method 1 is it can’t extract apk files of system apps. The ASTRO will not display stock application to backup. We can overcome this difficulty by choosing the second method.

Method 2 - Using Airdroid

This method is the most efficient and is simple too. Read my previous post to know how to get connected using airdroid android application . Its very simple. After you got connected:

Click apps from PC, a window will come with a list of all applications including system apps and application that are installed from android market and third-party apps.

Select the application you want to extract and click Export. It will be downloaded to your PC as an apk file.

Try any method you feel comfortable with and share your feedback :)