Hi guys
I got the N97 and it honestly gave me lots of troubles, but regardless it is a very good phone, minus the horrible memory and lack of language support.
My phone is the Nokia N97 RM-507, bought it in North America, I actually expected it to have chinese support like the Iphone do, but unfortunately, it does not support chinese and Chinese support is essential in my daily business work.
So as much as I did not want to, I had to flash the firmware to RM-505 Hong Kong version. Lost the FM transmitter 😞 oh well what can i do.
So now that the new firmware update is 21.0.045. But when i try to update it using NSU, it detects my phone as RM-507, which does not let me update as my phone is RM-505 now. So i did some search and found that I need to change the product code, and I did that via JAF, but it still recognize my phone as RM-507!
If anyone have experience pleasee help me out
IM dying for the firmware, as I read it allows more memory.
Thank you so much
Eric
An offtopic question: I know that the NAM version comes with WCDMA 850/1900/2100 and it's quadband GSM. The European, and Asia Pacific versions come with WCDMA 900/1900/2100 and quadband GSM.
When you change the firmware, how did it go with the reception of 3G? Did you get a phone working only on 900/1900/2100 over 3G???
I'm sorry I did not reply your question :redface:
jaSalta387 wrote:An offtopic question: I know that the NAM version comes with WCDMA 850/1900/2100 and it's quadband GSM. The European, and Asia Pacific versions come with WCDMA 900/1900/2100 and quadband GSM.When you change the firmware, how did it go with the reception of 3G? Did you get a phone working only on 900/1900/2100 over 3G???
I'm sorry I did not reply your question :redface:
The 3G bands supported depend on the hardware, not the software.
mrochester wrote:The 3G bands supported depend on the hardware, not the software.
I understand that... however the software is made to run over certain hardware.
As far as I remember, other models (e.g., N95) have a slightly different hardware configuration between Europe and North America versions. Therefore, it wasn't even possible to flash a model from one region with the firmware from the other region.
I know the case of old Motorola phones: they came with the same hardware configuration world-wide, but with different software per region. In fact, a phone in Europe would be GSM 900/1800/1900, and the same model in NAM will be GSM 850/1800/1900. However, if you would flash a phone with the firmware of the other region you will get the missing frequency band working.
That's why I'm wondering how it is in the case of the N97, do you"gain" the missing band? anybody knows?
you lose 3G band by transfering product code from rm-507 to 505. If you need 3G 850 band in Canada, it will not work. 😛
What you need is to flash rm-507 with latest v.21 firmware but replace the language pack from rm-505 then you have the best for both world. The bad part is, whenever there's a new firmware update, you have to do this instead of NSU.
Here is the instruction. If it's not allowed to post it here, please remove it.
It looks complicated, but it's not too bad if you follow it step by step.
http://forum.dailymobile.se/index.php?topic=9864.40#quickreply
In the 2nd page, I posted a picture of the detail JAF settings which I followed it myself 2nd time when v.21 was available.
Language file for RM-507 is RM-507_21.2.045_prd.rofs2.V28
Language file for RM-505 is RM-505_21.0.045_prd.rofs2.V25
The last 3 digits indicate the version of the language pack. In my case, V25 instead of V28.