Since Belle is so “hot” now eventhough it’s still in BETA. So I would like to share bits some of my tutorial to help those who is eager to try Symbian Belle on their device. Take notes, the tutorial only works on Nokia N8 since the firmware is only suitable for this device.
Preperation:
1. Backup all your important data
2. You need this 3:
Video Tutorial:
Guide:
1. After download Phoenix, Belle Beta Firmware and Anna Firmware, install Phoenix first, then extract both Belle Beta Firmware and Anna Firmware to your desktop.
2. Copy RM-596 folder (including everything inside), then paste it into this directory “C:\Program Files (x86)\Nokia\Phoenix\Products\”.
3. Run Phoenix applications, go to File>Open Product, then search RM-596 by using the filter. Found it, select then click Ok.
4. Connect your phone via USB Cable in Ovi Suite mode
5. Click Flashing>Firmware Update, then select the variant supposedly “Product code: 0598797. Description: china_prc_dark_grey”, click OK.
6. Check “Dead Phone USB Flashing” and then click Options.
7. Delete both RM596_APE_ONLY_ENO_11w15_v0.148.fpsx and RM-596_M025.44.emmc.fpsx.
8. Change the:
- RM-596_022.014_79.92_prd.core.fpsx to RM-596_111.010.0606_79u_prd.core.fpsx
- RM-596_022.014_28.01_Chinese_PRC_79.92_prd.rofs2.fpsx to RM-596_111.010.0606_13.01_MEA_A_79u_prd.rofs2.fpsx
- RM-596_022.014_C01.01_PRC_79.92_prd.rofs3.fpsx to RM-596_111.010.0606_C04.01_MEA_1_79u_prd.rofs3.fpsx
- RM-596_022.014_U02.01_79.92.uda.fpsx to RM-596_111.010.0606_U07.01_79u.uda.fpsx
9. Click OK
10. Click Refurbish, then follow the instruction as below:
- Disconnect USB Cable.
- Press Power Button at least 8 seconds. ##I highly recommend you press a little longer than 8 seconds till you feel your phone vibrates 2 time
- Connect USB Cable. (it will immediately recognize your device)
- Click OK
11. Phoenix will start flashing Belle firmware for your phone. You may need to wait a little while though
12. After flashing Belle firmware is done, it will appear a SUCCESS message. We’re still not finish here yet.
13. If your phone boot differently than the previous firmware like Anna/Symbian^3, means you have successfully installed Belle firmware into your phone.
14. After setting up your Nokia account (or just skip it like in the video), do a hard reset using *#7370# in order to reduce the potential of bug (since it’s still in BETA).
15. Restore your phone with the backup you have made
16. Then have fun with your Belle 
Problem you might face:
In case if the flashing didn’t work out, try again from step 1. This may happen because you did not press power button long enough till the phone vibrate 2 times like in step 10. If that’s not the case, it might be that you did not install Nokia Ovi Suite or update the driver inside your pc.
If your phone wont start/bricked, Press Power buttons like more than 10 second, then press power button again so the phone could start again. If this doesn’t work, try 3 hard reset button: Hold “Volume Down + Camera Key + Menu Key” and press power button until your phone vibrates.
How it would be after flashing:
*Do it at your own risk
my phoenix says…Instal a nokia dongle !whats that ?
I thinkit means u need to install the appropriate driver for your phone. Did u install ovi suite?
hey i do all the steps it dosnt work my n8 died and its a black screen with a white nokia and i cant do the Warning: Unable to communicate to product after flashing
hey i too hav a same prob flashing is over but my n8 is dead and every tym i switch on it a black blue screen appears with nokia in white blinking abt 3 to 4 tyms n again found itself dead plzzz comment……….
I couldn’t do the flash in dead mode so I did it in “connected mode”. Instead of selecting no connection, select the usb which the phone is connected to, then do the firmware update without dead phone selected…worked fine for me
I had the “official realese” of anna installed before flashing. Used the chinese anna files to put into the products folder and then edited the files to belle as described in tutorial videos…thx guys!!!
great ui just greattttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt better than the official anna anna has nothing great in it except for the visual icons and dats easy to get wid the help of themes
Have fun with Belle. hehe
I could watch Schidlenr’s List and still be happy after reading this.
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why download symbian belle to n5800xpressmusic
can the same technique be applied to nokia c6-01 running on symbian anna?
Same as freddywigo. Starting from N8 (059C3H1) with official Orange dg FR 013.016 (pretty old PR1.1). Fed up with Orange apps as well as “old fashion” PR1.x…
Phoenix in “connected mode” (not “dead usb phone”), and followed instructions.
Back to work now !!!
need nokia dongle…=(
Great tutorial! Works like a charm! Now my Rogers (Canada) phone is unbranded and no more bloatware. Thanks Eh!
No problem, glad to help
Hello
I have an unbranded N8 (France) , and received Anna via OTA this morning; Which steps do i have to skip in your procedure to installe “Belle” ? Thanks and “bravo” for this great job
You don’t have to skip, works on Anna too
oops ! sorry. i have to download (and reinstall) Anna again as well or only Belle ?
@Sebaast – If you meant reinstall Anna through ovi suite, then No. If you ask whether u should download one or both file, then yes yo u have to download both anna and belle. after download 3 of this: Phoenix, Belle Beta Firmware and Anna Firmware, follow the guide.
ok, tks
Suppose this fails. How do I get back to my official version of symbian anna???
Try google how to downgrade to Symbian Anna from Belle.
thks you soo much! i succeded it.awesome!
Thank you so much for the feedback
merci ça marche nikel!
Absolutely stellar! Worked like a charm and I LOVE the new interface.. Thanks so much for the tutorial!
Thanks for the feedback
Hi…this is clear for me now. many thanks. I ll try tonight and i cross my fingers !
Follow the instruction carefully. Well, goodluck mate.
I’ve just followed this and sucessfully flashed my UK N8 to the Middle East firmware available on NaviFirm. Use the Symbian Anna firmware in the link above but substitute the Belle beta for mea_omu_dg available from NaviFirm. Hope this helps anyone who wants Belle but can’t get it in their country yet
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plz..! i need a help!
i tried updating to belle, it ended up crashing my N8
phone is just showing black screen “Nokia” and it doesnt boot after!
is there any way to get back? or like downgrade to Anna?
While Phoenix Refurbish,
Flashing started
Creating product data items list
Product data items list created
Backup not required
Flashing phone
Initializing
Scanning image files…
Waiting for USB device…
Loading secondary boot code: 15168 bytes
Secondary boot loaded
Loading update server code: 825059 bytes
Update server loaded
Partitioning….
Partitioning complete
Erasing….
Erasing complete
Asic CMT: Start programming 280041 KB…
Asic CMT: Programming data sent: 0%
Asic CMT: Programming data sent: 10%
Asic CMT: Programming data sent: 20%
Asic CMT: Programming data sent: 30%
Asic CMT: Programming data sent: 40%
Asic CMT: Programming data sent: 50%
Asic CMT: Programming data sent: 60%
Asic CMT: Programming data sent: 70%
Asic CMT: Programming data sent: 80%
Asic CMT: Programming data sent: 90%
Asic CMT: Programming data sent: 100%
Programming complete
WARNING: Asic CMT: NAND status reported bad blocks
Asic CMT: programming succeeded
Asic CMT: programming succeeded
Asic CMT: Verifying communication to device…
Waiting for communication response: 25
Waiting for communication response: 24
………..
And it Never Does!
Recoverying phone
Initializing
Waiting for communication response: 1
Error 0x8401F121 communicating to phone. Unable to verify comm.
Warning: Unable to communicate to product after flashing
Scanning image files…
Unable to set the phone to flash mode. Unable to flash.
Plz HELP ME
Please tell me dude how did u fixed this error.. I am getting the same error.
I had to install the original Scandinavia firmware using the above mentioned steps and then installing Belle using the steps suddenly worked.
Will this process work of your running an N8 with Symbian 3(OS before Anna)?
what is the nokia Dongle ???
hello followed evertyhing here. but something went wrong.
this is it the message usually occur
The flashing failed. Do you want to retry the flashing?
HRESULT 0x8401f141 (-2080247487)
Flash: Boot rom was not detected after phone boot up. Unable to start flashing.
what am i going to do? HELP please!
8. Change the:
RM-596_022.014_79.92_prd.core.fpsx to RM-596_111.010.0606_79u_prd.core.fpsx
RM-596_022.014_28.01_Chinese_PRC_79.92_prd.rofs2.fpsx to RM-596_111.010.0606_13.01_MEA_A_79u_prd.rofs2.fpsx
RM-596_022.014_C01.01_PRC_79.92_prd.rofs3.fpsx to RM-596_111.010.0606_C04.01_MEA_1_79u_prd.rofs3.fpsx
RM-596_022.014_U02.01_79.92.uda.fpsx to RM-596_111.010.0606_U07.01_79u.uda.fpsx
9. Click OK
** THE RM-596_111.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx FILES ARE FOUND IN THE ‘BELLE BETA FIRMWARE’.
So change the path when you click on Edit. The source file should be in the Desktop.
will older contacts and apps will remain there
If you did not make a hard reset then yeah it will remain there
hi Hazelnuts..sorry for stupid question but about Step 8 : when you say change xxx to yyyyy. You mean rename the file via phoenix ? how to do if yes
Check the video then you’ll understand
ok i got it…i did it BUT IT fails all the time after step 10 when flashING ” The flashing failed. Do you want to retry the flashing?
HRESULT 0x8401f141 (-2080247487)
Flash: Boot rom was not detected after phone boot up. Unable to start flashing. ”
think my phone is not recognized when i reconnect the usb cable
any idea ? THANKS
DONE ! IT works fine..thanksssss a lot Hazelnuts….if you find french language package somewhere… tnaks again for this great job !
hey!
I also got the same message you got, see below.
What did you do to succesfully flash the device?
Did windows also recognize an USB device for just a second and then didnt see it anymore?
Any help it greatly appreciated,,, since my phone is bricked after an official update =(
——————————————————————————
The flashing failed. Do you want to retry the flashing?
HRESULT 0x8401f141 (-2080247487)
Flash: Boot rom was not detected after phone boot up. Unable to start flashing.
Okay…
I bought my N8 From London update it with ovisuite to Anna I have pick up scandi language pack thru navifirm plus and phoenix. Now I try to upgrade it to belle with tutorial and files found here. When phone suppose to start flash phoenix inform me that it was not able to find some file and it was not able to start flash..
After that phone stopped install apps from ovi, don’t find available update list (ota) and ovi says it should install two anna update’s to phone.. stil can’t do it. If I just try to re-install 022.014 there always something goes wrong in the end..
Phoenix don’t regonize the phone.. Neather DP1.0 or DP2.0 not found or the product can’t be identified when I scan it and try to get product information out..
Any ideas how to procceed? Phone work some what okay just not aple to install new or old apps from ovi.. some error comes every times in the end..
thanks guys!!! but i m waiting for a greek pack!!!
Worked like a charm. One word of advice, though, is after you hold the power button for 8 seconds, and then plug the USB in, make sure the background window begins to communicate with your phone before pressing OK, else it will just sit there for a few minutes, then error out, making your repeat step 10 over. The hard reset is actually taking longer than the flashing did. Still in the process now, but I already love the look and feel!!!!
@Menno Van Ginkel
i finally did flash it. The issue was coming from USB connection with Phoenix or Windows i guess.
Think you have to click on ok as soons as usb cable is reconnected. If you wait too much and windows pop up displayed then too late
What the heck… I recharged my phone the whole night, and the next morning it just booted Anna 24.001 like i didnt spend those 8hours+ trying to fix it… LOL.
now, lets flash it to Bella
Will this work with Anna 024.001 ? Also when I update to this Belle can I get future official Belle update without bricking the phone?
It working!! Thanks.
Please remember to uninstall OVI Suite
can I use this method to flash my c7 running anna? Thank you
woowwwwwwwwwwww updated successfully thnnxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx alottttt! B)
no product code appears on the variant help
OH NO!! I think I just bricked my N8. Really badly. I can’t even start my N8 now. Any solutions to this? >.<
if i would want to reinstall the Symbian 3 again, how would i be able to do that
flashed it yesterday perfect, and very good battery life….
YOUR THE MAN BEST TUTORIAL EVER WAS ON ROGERS CANADA NO DEBRANDED AND I GOT ARABY !!!! TWO BIRDS AND ONE STONE!! I ACTUALLY WAS LOOKING FOR ARABIC LANGUAGE TOO! THANK YOU BA3ED GALBI
YOU KNOW WHY THIS WAS GOOD FOR ME CAUSE STUPID CANADA AND AMERICA HAVE NO ANNA UPDATE!
phoenix is not geting loaded from site,,.how to dowbnload..
thnx i hav installed it…will take some time to know abt this new update…thnx..
How can I flash my C6-01 with belle
I already install nokia ovi suite and phoenix.. But once i run the phoenix, the error massage came out says that “Install a nokia dongle”.. is there any problem with my computer or the phoenix software itself? currently run on windows 7 Ultimate.
I updated to the August 30 2011 Asia-Pacific build of Belle using your method.
I did not use Dead Phone Method. I kept it on during flash. Phoenix programmed the Phone but then it was unable to verify, as it was unable to communicate
So I thought my phone was bricked. But I was able to switch it on and Belle was there!!!
It is light, and total VFM.
When Belle gets released, and I want to update to my region (whichever region India is located in), what do I do?
Okey.. Belle Is done… Thank you so much!!
the phoenix sw is not cracked i had to download it frm othr site http://www.mediafire.com/?0amggv94w4mx3dm
gonna try it today..!! downloading firmware..!! pray for me n my buddy ‘n8′
wish me luck
dude!! Thanks a lot!! it works well!
well, I have to say it.. this thing made my phone go dead, not even bootable! tried to even format using the 3 hard reset buttons but didn’t work!
Any body has any idea how to fix this thing?
P.S. I’m not complaining, as it says “do it at your own risk”..
Press power button >10 seconds.
If that doesn’t work, try charge your battery for 30 minutes and press power button till on again.
If not, you have to send your phone for warranty
dude, i don’t think n8 battery is removable.
can i still update normally with SW update….
my n8 isn’t working now.after i press the power button it vibrates thats all.i tries to restore symbian anna after i update to belle coz it’s slowed the phone littlebit after that this happend.when i connect to the usb the charging light of the usb flicks abouth 10 or 15 times thats all.and hwen i tried to update again an error comes after 80% saying that ‘Asic-CMT:NAND status reported bad blocks.please help me out guys.thanks
I’m not sure what happened in my situation. I had PR1.2 installed before i performed the update. The whole flashing process went through fine, but under device manager i have 022.014.28.01 as my software version. I believe this is ‘anna’. Why did belle not get installed? Or do i have to do it again.
I could not find Mail for Exchange anymore after I flashed my N8 to Belle. Can anybody help? Thanks a lot.
Never mind, I found it. The name is changed to Exchange ActiveSync. Great Tutorial by the way. Thanks a lot!
Do you guys get 6 home screens? I still have only 3 of them. I am wondering if it is because the load is beta or I have missed some setting on the device. Thanks.
Flashing SUCCESS without “pressing the power button for 8 seconds” til the phone disconnects the battery.. Also successful without checking the “Dead phone USB flashing”… I followed the rest of the steps and I have yet to encounter a bug. The UI is much smoother and nicer! I will be testing the rest of the features this week and I will try and report back.
i get a pop up after clicking flahs update… neither dp1.0 or 2.0 was found any help??
why is there only 3 homescreens…. is there suposed to be 6….
Have you guys noticed the front button is now doing nothing? So basically you can not do multitasking anymore with this beta load.
A hard reset fixed the problem.
I have just noticed there is already newer version leaked which comes with 6 home screen.
http://techprolonged.com/index.php/2011/09/07/symbian-belle-update-111-020-0203-leaked-6-home-screens-nokia-n8/
I just flashed my N8 to the newer version of Belle. Exactly the same procedure. Now I have 6 home screens. Cool,
This one comes with 4 languages: English, Indonesia, Melayu, Simplified Chinese
Hi,
Works very well, only 10 minutes and my phone is new. With that Belle and my futur N9, all the best of Nokia.
Thanks a lot, for this topic.
i jus love u
It is not possible to switch the message storage from internal memory to SD-Card in symbian belle n8?
It is possible to switch the message storage from internal memory to SD-Card in symbian belle n8?
Warning: Unable to communicate to product after flashing
and black screen and whit NOKIA all what i got ane hilp ?
Creating product data items list
Product data items list created
Backup not required
Flashing phone
Initializing
Scanning image files…
Waiting for USB device…
Loading secondary boot code: 14912 bytes
Secondary boot loaded
Loading update server code: 520994 bytes
Update server loaded
Partitioning….
Partitioning complete
Erasing….
Erasing complete
Asic CMT: Start programming 280041 KB…
Asic CMT: Programming data sent: 0%
Asic CMT: Programming data sent: 10%
Asic CMT: Programming data sent: 20%
Asic CMT: Programming data sent: 30%
Asic CMT: Programming data sent: 40%
Asic CMT: Programming data sent: 50%
Asic CMT: Programming data sent: 60%
Asic CMT: Programming data sent: 70%
Asic CMT: Programming data sent: 80%
Asic CMT: Programming data sent: 90%
Asic CMT: Programming data sent: 100%
Programming complete
WARNING: Asic CMT: NAND status reported bad blocks
Asic CMT: programming succeeded
Asic CMT: Verifying communication to device…
Waiting for communication response: 25
Waiting for communication response: 24
Waiting for communication response: 23
Waiting for communication response: 22
Waiting for communication response: 21
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Waiting for communication response: 19
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Waiting for communication response: 11
Waiting for communication response: 10
Waiting for communication response: 9
Waiting for communication response: 8
Waiting for communication response: 7
Waiting for communication response: 6
Waiting for communication response: 5
Waiting for communication response: 4
Waiting for communication response: 3
Waiting for communication response: 2
Starting to recover the phone
Recoverying phone
Initializing
Waiting for communication response: 1
Error 0x8401F121 communicating to phone. Unable to verify comm.
Warning: Unable to communicate to product after flashing
Scanning image files…
Phone recovery completed. Waiting for phone to boot up
Bootup successful
Verifying communication to product (before flash finalizing)
Failed to verfy communication to product
Verifying communication to product (before flash finalizing)
Communication verified
Verifying communication to product (before flash finalizing)
any hilp ?
I’ve got he exact same problem!
is this a hacked version? i’ve already installed it to my n8 but it cant install games .jar that i already downloaded.. pls help
I COPIED RM-596 folder .But wen m opening phoenix in filter it is not showing rm 596.
from where can i find these files??RM-596_111.010.0606_79u_prd.core.fpsx
I downloaded the files and did it exactly as the instructions said and now when you push the power button my phone, the nokia sign comes on the screen then goes off and comes back on again about three or four times, as if trying to power up but fails and tries again, then it just powers off. I can’t do nothing with this thing!! I had the Anna update, the official one from nokia on there for a couple weeks prior to this.
I tried the three button reset but nothing happens differently. It just comes up with the nokia sign and goes through that on of slow flashing nokia on the display then powers off. It doesn’t matter how long I hold the keys for.
Is there ANYTHING else I can do..?? I’ve had this phone for a LOOONG time now, got it when it first came out so I’m sure my warranty is up. Please help…
Hi Ramone, did u get any solution for this error. I am also getting the same error
Waiting for communication response: 2
Waiting for communication response: 1
Error 0x8401F121 communicating to phone. Unable to verify comm.
Warning: Unable to communicate to product after flashing
Flashing phone
Initializing
Scanning image files…
ERROR: Failed to set phone to flashmode
Flashing phone
Initializing
Scanning image files…
ERROR: Failed to set phone to flashmode
Flashing phone
Initializing
Please help me if u got any solution.
Hey Shishir,
I did get it up and runnin, but with an italian version. I am not At home now To send you The files…Will do ewhen i get In….
apakah firmware anna termasuk bahasa indonesia?
i tried but phone is dead, plz help iam worried
Asic CMT: Verifying communication to device…
Waiting for communication response: 25
Waiting for communication response: 24
Waiting for communication response: 23
Waiting for communication response: 22
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Waiting for communication response: 3
Waiting for communication response: 2
Starting to recover the phone
Recoverying phone
Initializing
Waiting for communication response: 1
Error 0x8401F121 communicating to phone. Unable to verify comm.
Warning: Unable to communicate to product after flashing
Scanning image files…
Phone recovery completed. Waiting for phone to boot up
Bootup successful
Verifying communication to product (before flash finalizing)
Failed to verfy communication to product
Verifying communication to product (before flash finalizing)
Communication verified
Verifying communication to product (before flash finalizing)
any hilp ?
HAZELNUT!! can you please help us regarding this situation, i cant use my phone now it was dead, i’ve read all on this blog, and you are’nt answering questions regarding these, how are we going to use our phone now? plss help. thx
i did it BUT IT fails all the time after step 10 when flashING ” The flashing failed. Do you want to retry the flashing?
HRESULT 0x8401f141 (-2080247487)
Flash: Boot rom was not detected after phone boot up. Unable to start flashing. ”
think my phone is not recognized when i reconnect the usb cable
“Neither DP1.0 nor DP 2.0 was found for the Product, or the Product cannot be identified.”
This is the error i get when i go to “Flashing>Firmware Update” (just before selecting the variant), (5th step mentioned above)!
Please help me….
Please someone help me for the below error
Waiting for communication response: 2
Waiting for communication response: 1
Error 0x8401F121 communicating to phone. Unable to verify comm.
Warning: Unable to communicate to product after flashing
Flashing phone
Initializing
Scanning image files…
ERROR: Failed to set phone to flashmode
Flashing phone
Initializing
Scanning image files…
ERROR: Failed to set phone to flashmode
Flashing phone
Please give me some help
Starting to recover the phone
Recoverying phone
Initializing
Waiting for communication response: 1
Error 0x8401F121 communicating to phone. Unable to verify comm.
Warning: Unable to communicate to product after flashing
Scanning image files…
ERROR: Unable to detect device 0x8401F145. Check USB connection
ERROR: Product recovery failed
Unable to set the phone to flash mode. Unable to flash.
Starting to recover the phone
Recoverying phone
Initializing
Scanning image files…
Phone recovery completed. Waiting for phone to boot up
Bootup successful
Verifying communication to product (before flash finalizing)
Failed to verfy communication to product
All operations completed
Firmware updating failed.
my N8 didn’t work. it doesn’t boot up
what can i do? please help……
plz..! i need a help!
i tried updating to belle, it ended up crashing my C6-01
phone is just showing black screen “Nokia” and it doesnt boot after!
is there any way to get back? or like downgrade to Anna?