I was a university student from 2001 to 2006 in the heyday of Nokia phones. I travelled 4 hours by train every second weekend or so back home for the weekend and back to school. What I used to do on train is to make melodies on request for fellow riders who had Nokia phones. In later years I composed midi files on computer and I was able to beam them using IR port. I even went so far to optimize for various phones (various Nokias and SonyEricssons were the most popular). Shortly after mp3 ringtones came in and suddenly everybody could use any song they liked so my little claim to fame went out :D
Well, that's very interesting! I have this Nokia 3220, where i live, 2g is still around until 2035 or something like that, i also have a nokia with 2g, bluetooth and irda, so i could, in theory, send a song over from my pc to this nokia, then send it through mms to my 3220, and have ringtones that way, but i don't know how to optimize ringtones for phones! Because if i send over a standard midi tone, the phone's disco lighting doesn't react to the "beat" like the original nokia ringtones do in the tones folder! Can you help me or at least, point me in the right direction? Or do you happen to have ringtones for this very particular phone? Greetings my man
@@bramvandenbroeck5060 what you'd need to do is to open the midi file in a midi editor (Vakewalk is free) and you'd need to find out which specific midi messages control the lights (I remember there used to be a pretty extensive documentation on midi implementation for Nokia phones). There was Kao this software called Nokia midi suite or something like that where you could optimize the ringtone for your phone (rather poorly) and add the special effects. Now these thing being already 20 years old I'm not sure if any of them is even still available. I might have something on my very old disk but I'm not sure if I'll have time to dig it out
I cannot believe how surreal it is to watch Nokia 3310 spin vertically on a table due to vibrations caused by music. It's one of those things that are just between reality and magic... maybe I should call it a day and get some sleep.
Wow, what a blast from the past. I was also a DCT-3 hacker back in the day. I concentrated more on the PPM, I wanted to sideload java games onto my 3410 as it only supported WAP install. I reverse engineered the whole damned memory structure and it was eye opening to see that deleting SMS, contacts and call logs etc just set a "deleted" bit. I was contacted by a police force who had used my program to analyse a suspects phone dump they'd taken. He'd factory reset everything but it was all still there and it quickly confirmed to the police that they had the right man and it was worth getting the logs from the network operator as evidence. I think he described it as "bloody magic" how the phone appeared empty but then they could see the SMS conversations on "the night in question". Resetting FAID was the key to 3310 etc hacking, I forget who cracked that, but yeah, that opened the whole scene right up.
Wow! What a story! I wonder if deleting still works like that on modern tech, but probably not, i'm pretty sure... Anyway, kudos to you, you must have been proud!
@@raphaelkgh218 Depending on the operating system, it still somewhat does. On Linux as well as Windows you have the option to format a partition by setting every bit to 0. This ensures that even if you get your hands on the data storage itself (whether it's a platter of HDD or chip from flash/SSD) the only thing you will read is all the 0 bits. Deleting files sometimes just marks the file as deleted by the OS, but with external tools you can still find some files and recover them.
I wrote a DCT3 unlocker shell in VB6 and posted it in Nokiafree under the same username I am here. If you can find it, I’d love to know. I was flying blind but I managed it (there were way too many shells, hah)😂
Omg this took me back, I had the US version of this phone in 2001. I never hacked it, but I had a flashing keypad and I made my own version of Sandstorm on the ringtone composer 😅 I miss these old phones so much, I wish we could still use them. Modern dumbphones are great too, but they're just not the same.
I miss our old Nokia phones. They may not be as fancy as today's models, but they hold a special nostalgia for me. Spent may hours drawing Picture Messages and copying Ringtones off newspapers and books. And the games still hold up to this day!
Oh, I remember that logo and ringtone maker software from a magazine disc back in the day! I was totally fascinated by it albeit still having no (need for a) phone for many years to come. Hearing about a customROM scene and those mobo swaps is really interesting too. Didn't know things were that advanced back then already.
greetings from Poland! i love Nokia 3310 and i used it long time about 2003-2007, and of course witch tuned software, for example i have there Nokia simlock decoder! Now i dont remember the name of this soft but i tnikt i have backuped it in some CD Next phone i have 5510 with mp3 and qwerty keyboard - its the best Nokia forever! only construction is not good and i must frequently cleanig mainboard because it was bad connections between 2 boards and between buttons i hate toutch screens and on-screen-keyboard so i still using Nokia C3 :) and i still use old Motorola International 1000 in my home like a stationar phone!
hi ! , i have two nokia 3310 with english system V04.30 20-08-01 NHM-6 and the other v05.57 05-07-02 NHM-5 , in the list of langages i don't have the french option , i want to download and install french system firmware, what i need for Materials and logicial please. i don't find firmware in the net :(
You would need an old computer with a parallel port and build your own cable as demonstrated in my Nokia DCT3 video. Or find someone with a commercial Nokia DCT3 service box. For firmware you need to find PPM with french language pack.
@@JanusCycle i have an old computer with a parallel port has Windows 2000 SP4 with blackwingcat extended kernel (all programs and hardwares old or newer run on XP run on 2000 ) , but i don't find a worked link for PPM with french language pack :( , if you have please sent me link
Nokia didnt unleash the potential of the platform. Would have been nice to have some of these games even if i had to pay. Could have made a lot of money.
Found my old 3310 in a box last year, managed to get it powered on to be greeted by the Bender "Bite my shiny metal ass" screensaver I apparently put on it about 20 years ago, haha.
When I first got Nokia phone, I think it was 2300, I was absolutely blown away by their menu grouping. It was absolute nightmare to find anything in there. Every setting was misplaced in the worst possible way, so that you can't use common logic and have to remember how to get there.
Here are the custom roms I tested, drive.google.com/file/d/1KpsFBgjZqoMKMvp3k30TRHRiK_wvcEy3/view These are from chomikuj.pl which has every Nokia rom and software you could ever need.
@@JanusCycle Yeah, can totally relate. I was replacing backlight LEDs on those and other phones, and boy ppl can't show restrain there - everyone wanted the flashiest, bluest ones available, hell I think I even did pink a few times.
Very cool :-) I'm using 3310 as my main phone several years now (V 05.03 from 10-10-01). I'm verry happy with it, nevertheless I'm missing one crucial functionality - LED torch. Would it be interesting to you to try to figure out and make video about how to add physical LED light perhaps with dedicated HW switch to 3310 body?
I did this kind of a mod back when I used my 3310, long time ago. The 3310 has a decent amount of empty space on the top part of the phone, under the antenna part, with easy access to battery contacts. It was quite easy to just drill a hole for the LED on the other side of the power button (I think the physical button was not on the center but rather more towards the other side). I then drilled couple small holes through the side of the case where I put two metal contacts through to the same hollow area. LED was connected via a simple BC547 NPN transistor circuit (probably I had it as a two stage circuit instead of one for increased sensitivity by extra amplification), where battery positive was on the other metal contact and transistor base on the other, touching these two at the same time with a finger turns the LED on. Forgetting to put a pull-down resistor on the first transistor base caused the LED also to start flashing when a call or a text message was coming, fun little accident :)
Hello everyone, I have a question, Is it any way to copy games from NOKIA 3310 and 1100 I want to copy "Space Impact" game from my old NOKIA 3310 and 1100 ...... If it's possible then please create a video about it.....
reminds me of the ti84 you could do so much stuff with the link cable and a computer. the screen is only monochrome but people could time the pixels on and off just right to create different shades of gray. there were so many games i played thro mirage os
eBay! Be sure to search for 3315 and 3330 as well. They are sometimes cheaper because they are less well known. But they are the same hardware platform and can run 3310 firmware.
In a few billion years, it is thought that our local star, Sol, will have gone full Red Giant and likely engulf the Earth. It's a sad scenario. Everything you've ever known turned to plasma. Except Nokias. Those will remain after the heat death of the universe and the hypothesized Great Rip.
Someone may have commented already saying this, but you can't run 2G / GSM rogue base stations with the HackRF. It is only half-duplex and a full duplex SDR such as a BladeRF or LimeSDR is required 😀
I still have my modded Nokia 3330 with Nokia 3410 display and firmware from Nokia 3350 :) Iam not sure if a still have all the old files with my modded firmware. Added ringtones and so on. I have not seen that software 6:41 for a very long time. I even manage to lock my first Nokia 3310 so it didn't accept any sim cards at all back in the days xD Could you share a package with all the files you are using? I did have have alot of software and firmware files when a Nokia 5110, 3310, 3330 and 3410 was my daily driver. But i have lost all of the files from died harddrive. Do you know if it is possible to dump the firmware?
Yes, it's possible to dump the firmware. A good tool for firmware dumping is Rolis Flasher. Here is one place with many tools. cosconor.fr/GSM/Nokia/Netmonitor/DCT-3/ Thanks for watching. If you need more help let me know.
Nokia 3310/3330 to even nowadays is for me the most beautiful phone ever made. And that ugly shitty remake just made me mad... Wish to get someone who mod that old desing with bigger colored display, but that shape leave as it is. Tx for vid
i remember these phones sorta from the early 2000's my mom had a full color nokia phone with an advanced color screen and it was a candy bar phone in 2003-2004
I'm very impressed by the work done in the Polish modding scene. It's great to go back and look at these roms. It must have been amazing to be a part of this scene in it's heyday.
As an owner of the 3310 since 2001, I’ve always believed that the reason for placing the Screen Saver at the end of the Tones menu was simply because Tones copied the menu structure of Profiles. The options under Tones basically just allowed you to configure your active profile without having to go through a more tedious way via Profiles.
Yes, that's true. Screen savers were profile-specific, and and all the other profile-specific settings were about tones. Should screen savers put into separate place, there should have been equal separation in profile setting menu structure to maintain the consistency, which would have been next to impossible in any sensible way. It is questionable though to have redundant menus for profile settings (the per profile setup menu and the tones menu which was exact same for the active profile), because redundancies are the key to clumsy menu surfing and bad user experience (especially when redundancy is not comprehensively and consistently similar in all redundant instances, which is the plaque in modern UI design fashion), but at least in that case the consistency had been maintained. And it is understandable that as the profiles functionality was added on top of the UI of earlier models without it, they didn't remove the traditional tones menu you had with older models with no profiles. So it was actually the beginning of convolution into today's confusing UIs, but little in significance enough to still allow the perfect surfing-thru all the menus without too much redundancies or inconsistencies making you bored or confused.
How about people already fiddled with the ringtone settings and that's about all they knew. New shiny screensaver tech? Add it where people look for settings to change.
@@TheSimocthat's the dreaded technical debt that plagued all software because removing things is really hard, you never know what might break or who uses the feature.
@@monad_tcp Yes, and on the other hand, too many devs are nowadays also too eager to remove useful features, and let things break, without caring too much about UX.
My dad used to work for Telefónica back in the day and got the 3330 as soon as it came out. That little WAP browser was a hell of a battery drain. I remember browsing a lot on it during the summer when we were in our beach house (thanks to his corporate unlimited plan, mobile data was outrageously expensive back then). Had to be plugged in all the time. That pinball game was a blast too!
@@unlokia Oh yeah, makes sense. The WAP browser had to "connect" to the network every time it was launched. Makes a ton of sense that it was dialing into the telco on the background. Never tought about how WAP actually worked.
@@hrq007heheh yep. I tell Ya what though, it made one appreciate the internet FAR more when each session required all that palaver. Love these times so much. ❤
@@hrq007Not how WAP works but how mobile data on the 3330 works. It doesn't have GPRS so it literally had to call your provider and use dialup like 90s computers did. That also explains the battery draining. I have a 6310i which does have GPRS (which is the only thing that saves it from not working with modern cell carriers), but still only opens WAP sites, it would have been a blast to use back then but with today's prices for data lol
9:08 No one expected a Polish ROM, no one.... Btw. maybe it's just my opinion, but here in Poland we have the largest community of modders, from Commodore 64, to Nokia 3310, even Windows 10 Lite.... And that's because in the 80s/90s there was a lot of demand for polished/cracked software, which translated into the fact that a good number of people grew up on it. Ok, maybe not me, I'm too young, but even I started getting interested in programming/computers thanks to crack downloads during my youth.
The Bumper game really took me back to my mom's Nokia 3410. Used to play that a lot in about 2003 or so. If you ever get a hold of Sony Ericsson phones from about 2006 to 2011, those had a modding scene too. I remember running Doom on my W910i and modifying it with flash themes, audio drivers and camera drivers. There were at least 3 tools I used to flash firmwares and modify layouts and icons. I still have my modding files from back then in an archive. At one point I even managed to get Android-looking battery and status icons and had a widget on screen with weather data for 14 days. It pulled the data from an xml file that I downloaded every 2 weeks. I miss those days and I still have the W910i, tho its screen is dead and I had to get rid of the battery as it had swollen. One day I'll try and get it back to work.
@@malwaretestingfan Wow, I used to have a Cookie but I never knew people were modding them. I had a Cookie Fresh actually, maybe by then people stopped caring. Are any of their old pages still up or archived?
@@s8wc3 I cannot link pages, but yes, there are many websites dedicated to the modding of pre-Android LG phones that are up to this day, the KP500 model (Cookie) was particularly liked by these modders, with a thriving scene focused around the creation of native applications (PXO files), customized FW and themes. "Cookie Tutorials - Tools", GSM-Forum, GSMHosting (unfortunately it's attached files are gone) and the Polish forum LGFORUMPL still survive. It's wholly unrelated to this discussion, but a reverse engineer, Buu342, has written an excellent article on his quest to recover assets from the PXO file format ("Ripping Assets From An Old Mobile Game - Music World") which might be of interest to you.
I loved this nostalgia trip. I had even forgotten about the dancing (from the vibrator). I remember one of the Swedish operators had a webpage where you could draw your own logos and send them over to the phone for free. I also used to buy tons of cases for both the 3310’s and 3330 I used to have and even had a joystick for them to play snake haha. I need to see if I can find any of my old phones. Thank you for this!
The best part in firmware hacking to me was the ability to add many new ringtones. I still have my 3310 with 65 ringtones. The 3315 tweak was mandatory.
I think it was a very popular thing in poland at the time (2000s). Even my mom had a dozen of custom themes on her k800. I still miss the era where people tried to mod everything.
The android scene still has some dedicated peeps for getting root acess on all kinds of phones often to the dismay of the manufacturers, and the google pixel phones especially where it's possible to unlock and then re-lock the bootloader while retaining full root privileges
I loved those old Nokias back in the day. I went through a few of them because family would just swap with me for different ones. That screen in your background during the intro takes me back too. Logo manager. I used a lot more of that in the early 2000's with phones that had infrared ports (like the 8210), as the laptop I had access to, had an IR on it. Easy to transfer a bunch of stuff over on my phone and my friends. Usually ringtones, pictures, and changing the operator logo from the carrier to whatever fit in that box. Then moved into using it for polyphonic ringtones and Java games on color screen phones like the 7250.
COM port cables are for uploading pictures and logos, resetting settings, fixing checksum errors, removing locks, But cannot flash firmware. The LPT cable can flash firmware with special software and not much else.
I used to love the Sony Ericsson and Siemens custom firmware scene of the 2000s, never realized the humble 3310 could do this much. I got to try this. Thanks for this video!
I remember the Sony Ericsson modding scene and modding my phone, it was amazing! I will make a video about this one day, hopefully several. I know less about the Siemens scene, but I want to learn more about all that when I get the right models to do it.
@ 16:35 _”WAP, or W. A. P. …”_ 😂Lol - you didn’t clarify the acronym mate, you just read out the letters 😂 It’s short for _“Wireless Application Protocol”_
I remember seeing those hacked 3310s around that time. Was quite envious about those custom ROMs though I haven't actually seen a homebrew game until now. Maybe I'd give those a try on my 3310 once I get the resources to do so.
10:45 This is a game from a Soviet clone of Nintendo "Game and watch", called "Электроника ИМ 02". Instead of Mickey Mouse there is a Wolf, the cartoon is called "Ну, погоди".
I was a university student from 2001 to 2006 in the heyday of Nokia phones. I travelled 4 hours by train every second weekend or so back home for the weekend and back to school. What I used to do on train is to make melodies on request for fellow riders who had Nokia phones. In later years I composed midi files on computer and I was able to beam them using IR port. I even went so far to optimize for various phones (various Nokias and SonyEricssons were the most popular). Shortly after mp3 ringtones came in and suddenly everybody could use any song they liked so my little claim to fame went out :D
What an interesting story 😊
Well, that's very interesting! I have this Nokia 3220, where i live, 2g is still around until 2035 or something like that, i also have a nokia with 2g, bluetooth and irda, so i could, in theory, send a song over from my pc to this nokia, then send it through mms to my 3220, and have ringtones that way, but i don't know how to optimize ringtones for phones! Because if i send over a standard midi tone, the phone's disco lighting doesn't react to the "beat" like the original nokia ringtones do in the tones folder! Can you help me or at least, point me in the right direction? Or do you happen to have ringtones for this very particular phone? Greetings my man
@@bramvandenbroeck5060 what you'd need to do is to open the midi file in a midi editor (Vakewalk is free) and you'd need to find out which specific midi messages control the lights (I remember there used to be a pretty extensive documentation on midi implementation for Nokia phones).
There was Kao this software called Nokia midi suite or something like that where you could optimize the ringtone for your phone (rather poorly) and add the special effects.
Now these thing being already 20 years old I'm not sure if any of them is even still available. I might have something on my very old disk but I'm not sure if I'll have time to dig it out
Ah, the joy of watching the 3310 dancing on the table.
Absolutely amazing quality content! Wonderful, I never knew the 3310 can be turned into the 3315 with some small changes.
Thank you. It's good to know I'm doing something worthwhile.
I cannot believe how surreal it is to watch Nokia 3310 spin vertically on a table due to vibrations caused by music. It's one of those things that are just between reality and magic... maybe I should call it a day and get some sleep.
Wow, what a blast from the past. I was also a DCT-3 hacker back in the day.
I concentrated more on the PPM, I wanted to sideload java games onto my 3410 as it only supported WAP install.
I reverse engineered the whole damned memory structure and it was eye opening to see that deleting SMS, contacts and call logs etc just set a "deleted" bit.
I was contacted by a police force who had used my program to analyse a suspects phone dump they'd taken. He'd factory reset everything but it was all still there and it quickly confirmed to the police that they had the right man and it was worth getting the logs from the network operator as evidence.
I think he described it as "bloody magic" how the phone appeared empty but then they could see the SMS conversations on "the night in question".
Resetting FAID was the key to 3310 etc hacking, I forget who cracked that, but yeah, that opened the whole scene right up.
Amazing story, thanks for sharing that!
Wow! What a story! I wonder if deleting still works like that on modern tech, but probably not, i'm pretty sure... Anyway, kudos to you, you must have been proud!
@@raphaelkgh218 Depending on the operating system, it still somewhat does. On Linux as well as Windows you have the option to format a partition by setting every bit to 0. This ensures that even if you get your hands on the data storage itself (whether it's a platter of HDD or chip from flash/SSD) the only thing you will read is all the 0 bits. Deleting files sometimes just marks the file as deleted by the OS, but with external tools you can still find some files and recover them.
I wrote a DCT3 unlocker shell in VB6 and posted it in Nokiafree under the same username I am here. If you can find it, I’d love to know. I was flying blind but I managed it (there were way too many shells, hah)😂
Omg this took me back, I had the US version of this phone in 2001. I never hacked it, but I had a flashing keypad and I made my own version of Sandstorm on the ringtone composer 😅
I miss these old phones so much, I wish we could still use them. Modern dumbphones are great too, but they're just not the same.
You did some nice sounding customization :)
I miss our old Nokia phones. They may not be as fancy as today's models, but they hold a special nostalgia for me.
Spent may hours drawing Picture Messages and copying Ringtones off newspapers and books.
And the games still hold up to this day!
Oh, I remember that logo and ringtone maker software from a magazine disc back in the day!
I was totally fascinated by it albeit still having no (need for a) phone for many years to come.
Hearing about a customROM scene and those mobo swaps is really interesting too.
Didn't know things were that advanced back then already.
I love it dancing at 14:40!!!
I had the 3315 when i was younger, it was a bloody brilliant phone, but i did always prefer the design of the 3310
I used to have cables and software for old Nokia's to change things like the operator logos lol
greetings from Poland! i love Nokia 3310 and i used it long time about 2003-2007, and of course witch tuned software, for example i have there Nokia simlock decoder!
Now i dont remember the name of this soft but i tnikt i have backuped it in some CD
Next phone i have 5510 with mp3 and qwerty keyboard - its the best Nokia forever! only construction is not good and i must frequently cleanig mainboard because it was bad connections between 2 boards and between buttons
i hate toutch screens and on-screen-keyboard so i still using Nokia C3 :)
and i still use old Motorola International 1000 in my home like a stationar phone!
My Nokia 3310 still works like a charm, unlike the "Smartphones" I have with broken screens. Overheating issues. Bad Battery
Your videos bring a whole new level for the saying that Nokia 3310 was a beast
Thanks
i remember enjoying this channel in past times.. finally got a second to sub ...
hey thanks
3210 is my favourite in my collection
Your videos make me wish I was born in this era 🥹
hi ! , i have two nokia 3310 with english system V04.30 20-08-01 NHM-6 and the other v05.57 05-07-02 NHM-5 , in the list of langages i don't have the french option , i want to download and install french system firmware, what i need for Materials and logicial please. i don't find firmware in the net :(
You would need an old computer with a parallel port and build your own cable as demonstrated in my Nokia DCT3 video. Or find someone with a commercial Nokia DCT3 service box. For firmware you need to find PPM with french language pack.
@@JanusCycle i have an old computer with a parallel port has Windows 2000 SP4 with blackwingcat extended kernel (all programs and hardwares old or newer run on XP run on 2000 ) , but i don't find a worked link for PPM with french language pack :( , if you have please sent me link
3310 ppm B cosconor.fr/GSM/Nokia/Netmonitor/DCT-3/Nokia%203310/
3330 ppm E oldhandhelds.com/?dir=Nokia/NOKIA%20FIRMWARE/DCT3
@@JanusCycle Thank you :)
here in the Philippines, it was popular to do this software upgrade for a small fee to get all these additional feature...
Are u gonna do a video about this nokia browsing the web ?
I'm going to need a base station to do that. Check Nostalgia Nerd's video, he did try web browsing on this.
Binging this channel
great stuff!
Bro those custom ringtones are freaking nostalgic 😢
2:52 where did you get this firmware version from?
'firmware 3310 324' is available online for download
@@JanusCycle Thanks for letting me know!
Nokia didnt unleash the potential of the platform. Would have been nice to have some of these games even if i had to pay. Could have made a lot of money.
Seems like most of these firmwares and animated logos are from the Czech Republic and Poland. Cool.
Cool ringtones !
Damn, I miss my 3310; don't know why there was something amazing about it...
14:40 "oh sure, your fancy smartphone can do all these things ... but can it DANCE?" :D you just got to love the old Nokia :)
I noticed that the LogoManager files were in Czech, was it made in Czechia?
Found my old 3310 in a box last year, managed to get it powered on to be greeted by the Bender "Bite my shiny metal ass" screensaver I apparently put on it about 20 years ago, haha.
waw úžastné
I've found your channel these days and I'm addicted. Very good series.
Glad you are enjoying :)
When I first got Nokia phone, I think it was 2300, I was absolutely blown away by their menu grouping. It was absolute nightmare to find anything in there. Every setting was misplaced in the worst possible way, so that you can't use common logic and have to remember how to get there.
Sei un genio
Good luck looking from the past into the future.
Wow polish rom ... nice
Can you find a decent replacement battery that actually holds a good charge?
great telephone
So if one wanted to play around with this where can these roms be found?
9:20 finally something in my native language :D Polish from :D
That moment when all of the firmware is in polish.
Niech żyje Polska
Can the the 105 be customized like this too?
Great video but secret code *#0000# isn't secret. Its the code Nokia has had always since that era up to the last Symbian devices.
João tenho um Samsung Galaxy 2.3.6 da pra instalar windows
So interesting how the sound beeps before or after the sound has been made
What if you plug the phone in the charger first, then remove the battery, could the phone still be on?
In the video you said that you will link all the roms below. Could you please show me where to find this kind of stuff ?
Here are the custom roms I tested, drive.google.com/file/d/1KpsFBgjZqoMKMvp3k30TRHRiK_wvcEy3/view
These are from chomikuj.pl which has every Nokia rom and software you could ever need.
Great vid.
Im Polish and when I saw that Polish text it made me giggle 🤣
Poland had the best Nokia mods!
Damn, those firmwares are impressive, but boy do they lack style and finish, especially those inverted ones - just pile up most flashy things you can.
It was a 'if you can mod it then MOD it time' :)
@@JanusCycle Yeah, can totally relate.
I was replacing backlight LEDs on those and other phones, and boy ppl can't show restrain there - everyone wanted the flashiest, bluest ones available, hell I think I even did pink a few times.
Very cool :-) I'm using 3310 as my main phone several years now (V 05.03 from 10-10-01). I'm verry happy with it, nevertheless I'm missing one crucial functionality - LED torch. Would it be interesting to you to try to figure out and make video about how to add physical LED light perhaps with dedicated HW switch to 3310 body?
I did this kind of a mod back when I used my 3310, long time ago. The 3310 has a decent amount of empty space on the top part of the phone, under the antenna part, with easy access to battery contacts. It was quite easy to just drill a hole for the LED on the other side of the power button (I think the physical button was not on the center but rather more towards the other side). I then drilled couple small holes through the side of the case where I put two metal contacts through to the same hollow area. LED was connected via a simple BC547 NPN transistor circuit (probably I had it as a two stage circuit instead of one for increased sensitivity by extra amplification), where battery positive was on the other metal contact and transistor base on the other, touching these two at the same time with a finger turns the LED on. Forgetting to put a pull-down resistor on the first transistor base caused the LED also to start flashing when a call or a text message was coming, fun little accident :)
I had a 3310 back in the day. I never knew there was a hacking scene for these!
Hello everyone,
I have a question, Is it any way to copy games from NOKIA 3310 and 1100 I want to copy "Space Impact" game from my old NOKIA 3310 and 1100 ...... If it's possible then please create a video about it.....
reminds me of the ti84 you could do so much stuff with the link cable and a computer. the screen is only monochrome but people could time the pixels on and off just right to create different shades of gray. there were so many games i played thro mirage os
I would like to try some calculator modding. That pixel trick sounds interesting, thanks.
I have Nokia 3350 series and having software problem.. but i dont know how to flash it..
😢
I still love this phones very much ❤️
Very interesting!
Used to send those pictures to my crush's mom's phone .
Nice. Now where can I buy a working 3310 nokia today?
eBay! Be sure to search for 3315 and 3330 as well. They are sometimes cheaper because they are less well known. But they are the same hardware platform and can run 3310 firmware.
Anywhere.
@@unlokia no
In a few billion years, it is thought that our local star, Sol, will have gone full Red Giant and likely engulf the Earth.
It's a sad scenario. Everything you've ever known turned to plasma. Except Nokias. Those will remain after the heat death of the universe and the hypothesized Great Rip.
Is it possible to flash Motorola T180 because I didn't find anything.
Motorola can be flashed with EMMI box, but I don't know much more.
That brings back memories. I used to have a Nokia 8290. I used to do mods to the phone by connecting to it over IRda.
You, my good sir, are the man, the myth, and the legend.
I'm standing on the shoulders of giants !
Someone may have commented already saying this, but you can't run 2G / GSM rogue base stations with the HackRF. It is only half-duplex and a full duplex SDR such as a BladeRF or LimeSDR is required 😀
I still have my modded Nokia 3330 with Nokia 3410 display and firmware from Nokia 3350 :) Iam not sure if a still have all the old files with my modded firmware. Added ringtones and so on. I have not seen that software 6:41 for a very long time. I even manage to lock my first Nokia 3310 so it didn't accept any sim cards at all back in the days xD Could you share a package with all the files you are using? I did have have alot of software and firmware files when a Nokia 5110, 3310, 3330 and 3410 was my daily driver. But i have lost all of the files from died harddrive. Do you know if it is possible to dump the firmware?
Yes, it's possible to dump the firmware. A good tool for firmware dumping is Rolis Flasher. Here is one place with many tools. cosconor.fr/GSM/Nokia/Netmonitor/DCT-3/
Thanks for watching. If you need more help let me know.
@@JanusCycle Thank you! I hope a can find my cables and dump my firmware. I did even added swedish language to my Nokia 3350.
That phone is honestly smarter than my current "smart"-phone.
My 7110 had the Nokia software for customising screens and tinesI “Star Trek Voyagered” the shite out of it. 🤣🤣🤣
3210 had screen saver too
Nokia 3310/3330 to even nowadays is for me the most beautiful phone ever made. And that ugly shitty remake just made me mad... Wish to get someone who mod that old desing with bigger colored display, but that shape leave as it is. Tx for vid
That Nokia n1 tablet looks interesting, I'll keep an eye out for one, thanks.
NOKIA 331- MEMES: NOKIA 3310
This is just like custom ROMing a Galaxy Note 3 of the 2000s. So cool!
incredible **___________**
Thank you
i remember these phones sorta from the early 2000's my mom had a full color nokia phone with an advanced color screen and it was a candy bar phone in 2003-2004
My friend and I made some roms for Polish nokia, also backlight mods. Good times😅
Greeat
Custom ROM in Android is Amazing 🤩
But Custom ROM in 20s Nokia 3310 is Mind Blowing and Legendary 🤯
What is the difference between 3315/3330 and 3410?
In terms of hardware, the LCD has more resolution and the memory capacity is doubled. Be sure to see the follow up video.
I used to flash those roms - this scene was quite big in Poland and I really loved all those custom animations. Lots of work and love put into them!
I'm very impressed by the work done in the Polish modding scene. It's great to go back and look at these roms. It must have been amazing to be a part of this scene in it's heyday.
I lived in UK (london) at the time,2ths i believe. and there were a huge meeting doing this as well. Stummbled at one day.
@axinus1841 Po co ci ;) £40 ebay pewnie sa schematy jak samemu polutowac jak ktos ma zajawke grosze by wyszlo
@axinus1841na ebay uk jest za £33
Thanks
You are helping make awesome future videos, thank you.
As an owner of the 3310 since 2001, I’ve always believed that the reason for placing the Screen Saver at the end of the Tones menu was simply because Tones copied the menu structure of Profiles. The options under Tones basically just allowed you to configure your active profile without having to go through a more tedious way via Profiles.
That's very possible, thank you
Yes, that's true. Screen savers were profile-specific, and and all the other profile-specific settings were about tones. Should screen savers put into separate place, there should have been equal separation in profile setting menu structure to maintain the consistency, which would have been next to impossible in any sensible way.
It is questionable though to have redundant menus for profile settings (the per profile setup menu and the tones menu which was exact same for the active profile), because redundancies are the key to clumsy menu surfing and bad user experience (especially when redundancy is not comprehensively and consistently similar in all redundant instances, which is the plaque in modern UI design fashion), but at least in that case the consistency had been maintained.
And it is understandable that as the profiles functionality was added on top of the UI of earlier models without it, they didn't remove the traditional tones menu you had with older models with no profiles. So it was actually the beginning of convolution into today's confusing UIs, but little in significance enough to still allow the perfect surfing-thru all the menus without too much redundancies or inconsistencies making you bored or confused.
How about people already fiddled with the ringtone settings and that's about all they knew. New shiny screensaver tech? Add it where people look for settings to change.
@@TheSimocthat's the dreaded technical debt that plagued all software because removing things is really hard, you never know what might break or who uses the feature.
@@monad_tcp Yes, and on the other hand, too many devs are nowadays also too eager to remove useful features, and let things break, without caring too much about UX.
My dad used to work for Telefónica back in the day and got the 3330 as soon as it came out. That little WAP browser was a hell of a battery drain. I remember browsing a lot on it during the summer when we were in our beach house (thanks to his corporate unlimited plan, mobile data was outrageously expensive back then). Had to be plugged in all the time.
That pinball game was a blast too!
It wasn’t “mobile data”; that didn’t exist. It was dialup.
@@unlokia Oh yeah, makes sense. The WAP browser had to "connect" to the network every time it was launched. Makes a ton of sense that it was dialing into the telco on the background.
Never tought about how WAP actually worked.
@@hrq007heheh yep. I tell
Ya what though, it made one appreciate the internet FAR more when each session required all that palaver. Love these times so much. ❤
@@hrq007Not how WAP works but how mobile data on the 3330 works. It doesn't have GPRS so it literally had to call your provider and use dialup like 90s computers did. That also explains the battery draining. I have a 6310i which does have GPRS (which is the only thing that saves it from not working with modern cell carriers), but still only opens WAP sites, it would have been a blast to use back then but with today's prices for data lol
9:08 No one expected a Polish ROM, no one....
Btw. maybe it's just my opinion, but here in Poland we have the largest community of modders, from Commodore 64, to Nokia 3310, even Windows 10 Lite.... And that's because in the 80s/90s there was a lot of demand for polished/cracked software, which translated into the fact that a good number of people grew up on it. Ok, maybe not me, I'm too young, but even I started getting interested in programming/computers thanks to crack downloads during my youth.
The Bumper game really took me back to my mom's Nokia 3410. Used to play that a lot in about 2003 or so. If you ever get a hold of Sony Ericsson phones from about 2006 to 2011, those had a modding scene too. I remember running Doom on my W910i and modifying it with flash themes, audio drivers and camera drivers. There were at least 3 tools I used to flash firmwares and modify layouts and icons. I still have my modding files from back then in an archive. At one point I even managed to get Android-looking battery and status icons and had a widget on screen with weather data for 14 days. It pulled the data from an xml file that I downloaded every 2 weeks. I miss those days and I still have the W910i, tho its screen is dead and I had to get rid of the battery as it had swollen. One day I'll try and get it back to work.
Siemens had a modding scene too. Those were the days of ElfPack. I used to follow a lot of LG Cookie modders as well, that scene is gone for good.
@@malwaretestingfan Sony Ericsson Elfpack is ported from Siemens btw
@@malwaretestingfan Wow, I used to have a Cookie but I never knew people were modding them. I had a Cookie Fresh actually, maybe by then people stopped caring. Are any of their old pages still up or archived?
@@s8wc3 I cannot link pages, but yes, there are many websites dedicated to the modding of pre-Android LG phones that are up to this day, the KP500 model (Cookie) was particularly liked by these modders, with a thriving scene focused around the creation of native applications (PXO files), customized FW and themes. "Cookie Tutorials - Tools", GSM-Forum, GSMHosting (unfortunately it's attached files are gone) and the Polish forum LGFORUMPL still survive. It's wholly unrelated to this discussion, but a reverse engineer, Buu342, has written an excellent article on his quest to recover assets from the PXO file format ("Ripping Assets From An Old Mobile Game - Music World") which might be of interest to you.
That second custom ringtone just unlocked a memory from my childhood. Absolutely brilliant.
How is it called???
I found it it is La Bamba how didn't I recognise it
@@8alakros No it's bomfunk mc: freestyler.
Watching your videos is a pleasure.
Great to hear, thanks!
I loved this nostalgia trip. I had even forgotten about the dancing (from the vibrator).
I remember one of the Swedish operators had a webpage where you could draw your own logos and send them over to the phone for free. I also used to buy tons of cases for both the 3310’s and 3330 I used to have and even had a joystick for them to play snake haha. I need to see if I can find any of my old phones. Thank you for this!
I'm glad you enjoyed this and thank you for sharing your memories.
@@JanusCycle I will check someday if I can find all my old phones. If you’re interested I could ship them out to you.
@@enkz0r I'm keen to know which models you have. Thank you. let me know :)
@@JanusCycle I will let you know when I come home from my vacation in about a week or so. I guess contact via Instagram is the easiest then?
The best part in firmware hacking to me was the ability to add many new ringtones. I still have my 3310 with 65 ringtones. The 3315 tweak was mandatory.
bro calls this easy? that looks hard af, im 99.9999% sure id fuck up in 2 seconds
I think it was a very popular thing in poland at the time (2000s). Even my mom had a dozen of custom themes on her k800. I still miss the era where people tried to mod everything.
The android scene still has some dedicated peeps for getting root acess on all kinds of phones often to the dismay of the manufacturers, and the google pixel phones especially where it's possible to unlock and then re-lock the bootloader while retaining full root privileges
14:39 That wandering phone got me laughing, I don't know why it's so funny...
I loved those old Nokias back in the day. I went through a few of them because family would just swap with me for different ones. That screen in your background during the intro takes me back too. Logo manager. I used a lot more of that in the early 2000's with phones that had infrared ports (like the 8210), as the laptop I had access to, had an IR on it. Easy to transfer a bunch of stuff over on my phone and my friends. Usually ringtones, pictures, and changing the operator logo from the carrier to whatever fit in that box. Then moved into using it for polyphonic ringtones and Java games on color screen phones like the 7250.
Can you explain the point of constantly switching between the COM and LPT ports and building a custom cable for that? I don't get it
COM port cables are for uploading pictures and logos, resetting settings, fixing checksum errors, removing locks, But cannot flash firmware.
The LPT cable can flash firmware with special software and not much else.
I used to love the Sony Ericsson and Siemens custom firmware scene of the 2000s, never realized the humble 3310 could do this much. I got to try this. Thanks for this video!
I remember the Sony Ericsson modding scene and modding my phone, it was amazing! I will make a video about this one day, hopefully several. I know less about the Siemens scene, but I want to learn more about all that when I get the right models to do it.
@ 16:35
_”WAP, or W. A. P. …”_
😂Lol - you didn’t clarify the acronym mate, you just read out the letters 😂
It’s short for _“Wireless Application Protocol”_
I miss monochrome TFT phones so much
bro downloaded backrooms in a nokia 😭😭
I remember seeing those hacked 3310s around that time. Was quite envious about those custom ROMs though I haven't actually seen a homebrew game until now. Maybe I'd give those a try on my 3310 once I get the resources to do so.
10:45 This is a game from a Soviet clone of Nintendo "Game and watch", called "Электроника ИМ 02". Instead of Mickey Mouse there is a Wolf, the cartoon is called "Ну, погоди".
The Types Of The Nokia 3310 Include The Nokia 3310, 3315, 3320, 3330, 3350, 3360, 3390, And The Nokia 3395.