This is way of topic, but I felt I would find more Nokia owners who use linux exclusivly here then any where else.

I am looking for a way of updateing my N95-3 firmware under linux.

From what i can see online there is no way to do this. Many people seem to be trying. I have tried windows via virtualbox and this fails to see the Nokia phone.

If anyone else has managed this please point me in the correct direction.

If not. Given how nokia is using the OS community to develop os apps for the IT series. It seems reasonable that we ask them to provide at least a flasher like command line utility to there symbian phone.

Anyone know of a online site trying to convince Nokia to do this. Or the address of someone high in the company we could start a letter writting campain to.

Many Nokia employees frequent the site, so you've made a good first step. Otherwise I don't know how they're structured internally - - the linux riff raff may be completely separated from the slicksters who deal with the N95.

Linux rif raf?

I should be offended by that. But when I look in the mirror I find it hard to disagree.

This may get easier if Symbian keeps its promise to become open source within two years, which is what they said recently as they became the Symbian Foundation.


This probably doesn't help at all, but there does seem to be a command line mode on Symbian phones. When you reflash some of them, it will go through various modes (safe mode, test mode etc) and one mode, on some models at least, is a command line. It actually looks like MS-DOS, and has C:/> with "Symbian Copyright 1998" at the top.

No idea how you access that though.