Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Install NOKIA OVI MAPS with Free Navigation licence on incompatible or unsupported devices

I have written on how to get nokia ovi maps free licence or free navigation for life time and given you nokia official site for this feature, if you put your eyes on you will find that up to i posted this, the feature is only compatible for some devices like : 

  • Nokia X6, 
  • Nokia N97 mini, 
  • Nokia N97, 
  • E72, E55, E52, 
  • Nokia 6730 classic, 
  • Nokia 6710 Navigator, 
  • Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic, 
  • Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition, 
  • Nokia 5230. 




How about others (devices) ? well i am pretty sure that nokia will release it soon. I don't know exactly !
So what happens with them? As i know Nokia maps still will run but when you put Navigation ON it will continuously asking you a valid licence because you have it expired, annoying huh?

But it doesn't mean you can not get this feature completely !
By some little tricks i get my wife's cell phone the N95 8GB free navigation hands-on, hahaha. 


Yes i did my self and of course I'll share to you here




How to get this working?
  1. Install Nokia Ovi Maps (NOM), see HERE or HERE
  2. Open Nokia Maps from your cellphone.
  3. Put your Nokia Maps Internet ONLINE.
  4. Get the satellite signal become green.
  5. Navigate somewhere by drive to or walk to
  6. When it's telling that your licence expired than prompt you to renew, select NO.
  7. Back and select options, Shop and licences, My licences
  8. Choose "Update"
  9. Let NOM check online your licence and updated until finish.
  10. You will get new message "No Update available" but check your licence, you will find it "Valid until dd/mm/yyyy" that is the date in future and the icon change from triangle red to circle green. That means your licence in not expire anymore.
  11. Try navigate somewhere again, and tell me that NOKIA will guide you by FREE. (you can put OFFLINE before trying)

I did with N95 8GB and I got 167 days validity exactly !
But may be you are wondering how about after then, don't worry just do the same, yes just UPDATE IT, that's all ! you will get more validity ahead.
Even  I tried I set my cellphone date to a day to expiration date of my licence, then hit UPDATE the licence and TADAAAA.... I got another 167 days validity ! Cooool..!
So no need to worry about huh! Meanwhile Nokia will release for the rest of phone. 


Nokia, billions thank to you have made it FREE FOREVER...
Anyway I'm still waiting for the next release for the rest of phone.

Update for E71 is here

how about you is it working with yours ?(leave a comment please)





5 comments:

Seputar Linux said...

Thanks, infonya mantap :)

abdul rahman said...

you're welcome, semoga bermanfaat

Anonymous said...

why not setting phone date to 26.7.2060...you´ll get life-time lisence - tada

Anonymous said...

Doesn't work in Mideast. Or do you need to have had some license?

abdul rahman said...

No, when i did the trick on N95 8GB i don't have even a single remaining day of valid license...
the firmware was v20.0.016 (old one)

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