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To anyone who found this via googling solutions to S60 hacking, the answer is located here. I'd like to express my thanks to herefortheactualthreads and lord xenu for their contributions, as well as the Russian assholes on IRC who provided me a functional copy of tmquarantine and general documentation on Symbian 9.2's Trend Mobile Security that allowed me to bypass a bunch of hurdles. I'd buy all of you fuckers drinks if I wasn't on the other side of the world.
Kiwibros, I fucked up and ruined a good thing. This is a True and Honest plea for help for anyone here who knows about breaking old Symbian phones or who might have some old .sis files laying around on a drive somewhere.
Back in 2017 I was able to enable the installation of unsigned software on my old Nokia E90 Communicator (S60v3). This allowed me, among other things, to bring it up to date with a SHA-256 compatible web browser (Opera Mini), allowing it to browse the handful of old style forums I still frequent for various niche hobbies. This is literally all I ask from the internet. It was beautiful. The E90 was just the things I actually want on a mobile device: A keyboard of passable quality, the ability to SSH into my work machine, an email client that didn't suck donkey balls, and abso-fucking-lutely nothing else. For years now I've avoided having to put up with Google or Apple's nonsense for more than brief periods and that's exactly how I like it.
Two weeks ago I was forced to reflash the phone during a replacement of the camera module that went wrong. I assumed I could just use the same references and downloads as last time to reinstall everything I needed- I did keep the links bookmarked after all... But I committed the cardinal sin of not archiving the content. I didn't keep copies of the firmware and networking updates. Several of the instructional posts detailing step by step how to hack the device to allowed unsigned software have been deleted or no longer exist. Knowledge was lost and I don't know how to get it back.
A friend of mine on a non-English forum was able to provide me the .sis for the networking upgrade/firmware revisions but said it's been so long he doesn't know much about any of this anymore. I know it's a long shot that anyone here still gives a shit enough to have the Drakkarious .sis or another similar hack laying around, but I'm out of options.
TLDR; I need a means of hacking/bypassing the signed certificate check Symbian performs before allowing the installation of software packages. The norton one currently obtainable via google results never did work with my device; even with the system time and date correctly set. Possibly because of differences in the localized variant sold in the Russian speaking parts of the world. I'm not sure. Previously in 2017 the method I had used was called Drakkarious2.01FP1.sis but all links to obtain this file lead back to two download services that have ceased operations.
I really like this device. I don't want it to become another piece of land waste when I know it's still possible for it to keep on keeping on. Modern Android phones are *so fucking boring* and Google is the antichrist. I don't want a faster processor or modern apps. I just want to keep pretending it's not the 2020s for a little bit longer.
If you have any information or knowledge that might point me in the right direction, please, pretty please, do share it.
Back in 2017 I was able to enable the installation of unsigned software on my old Nokia E90 Communicator (S60v3). This allowed me, among other things, to bring it up to date with a SHA-256 compatible web browser (Opera Mini), allowing it to browse the handful of old style forums I still frequent for various niche hobbies. This is literally all I ask from the internet. It was beautiful. The E90 was just the things I actually want on a mobile device: A keyboard of passable quality, the ability to SSH into my work machine, an email client that didn't suck donkey balls, and abso-fucking-lutely nothing else. For years now I've avoided having to put up with Google or Apple's nonsense for more than brief periods and that's exactly how I like it.
Two weeks ago I was forced to reflash the phone during a replacement of the camera module that went wrong. I assumed I could just use the same references and downloads as last time to reinstall everything I needed- I did keep the links bookmarked after all... But I committed the cardinal sin of not archiving the content. I didn't keep copies of the firmware and networking updates. Several of the instructional posts detailing step by step how to hack the device to allowed unsigned software have been deleted or no longer exist. Knowledge was lost and I don't know how to get it back.
A friend of mine on a non-English forum was able to provide me the .sis for the networking upgrade/firmware revisions but said it's been so long he doesn't know much about any of this anymore. I know it's a long shot that anyone here still gives a shit enough to have the Drakkarious .sis or another similar hack laying around, but I'm out of options.
TLDR; I need a means of hacking/bypassing the signed certificate check Symbian performs before allowing the installation of software packages. The norton one currently obtainable via google results never did work with my device; even with the system time and date correctly set. Possibly because of differences in the localized variant sold in the Russian speaking parts of the world. I'm not sure. Previously in 2017 the method I had used was called Drakkarious2.01FP1.sis but all links to obtain this file lead back to two download services that have ceased operations.
I really like this device. I don't want it to become another piece of land waste when I know it's still possible for it to keep on keeping on. Modern Android phones are *so fucking boring* and Google is the antichrist. I don't want a faster processor or modern apps. I just want to keep pretending it's not the 2020s for a little bit longer.
If you have any information or knowledge that might point me in the right direction, please, pretty please, do share it.
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