It was November 2005 when I first held my brand new Nokia Ngage QD and my journey to the world of symbian began. Before I bought NgageQD I had Philips 350 and boy that was a really bad phone. Learning from that experience I searched the internet for best mobile phones that won’t cost me too much as I was only a student at that time.
During my search to find good mobile I got introduced to series 60 world and after knowing some more I became a fan of s60 devices.
NgageQD was the cheapest s60 device available here in India at that time but I didn’t had even that much amount to buy it. Just for my luck my brother bought that phone for me as a reward to my help in managing his marriage party and also for my dance i did in the reception. Here a short clip from that dance attached at the bottom of post.
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After that time i was completely immersed in that phone and began to try and learn each and everything I do with that phone. I searched internet for hours to find new applications, trying them, getting bored up soon and searching again for more. It became my life and i was thinking 24×7 about the phone.
One thing to mention here that I had no computer at my home. I never had one and still don’t have any. I use Cyber cafes to do all the internet related stuff. Most of the cyber cafes have deep freeze installed in their computers that doesn’t allowed me to install PC suit or bluetooth drivers to install. I got another challenge and after doing some research I learned to crack deep freeze passwords. Then I was able to connect my phone to the computer.
After loading so many softwares to my phone ( most of them were cracked) I became fan of the (in)famous cracking group BiNPDA. Then I thought of cracking softwares myself and the searching began again to figure out “how to crack mobile softwares?”.
I found some tutorials ( written by 18+2) to read. I downloaded all the required softwares (IDA pro, winhex and others), learned the assembly language for ARM processor and reverse programming. But i never really cracked any software because I only wanted to learn and I couldn’t give so much time as I was a medical student and was in my M.B.B.S. final prof.
While searching for good apps I found two of the killer apps that changed my life. First one was not one app it was group of ebook readers like mobipocket reader, repligo reader, isilo reader etc and the second one was Opera mini. These two softwares let me get most out of my cellphone.
Having ebook reader 24 hours in my hand I got treasure of knowledge as I am a voracious reader. I used to find free and pirated ebooks load them to my phone and reading them from rising in the morning till dropping into sleep really late at nights. I read all types of ebooks like fiction ( Harry potter series. The Da Vinci code and all other books written by Dan Brown, my childhood favourite Robinsson crusso, lost world and others), self improvement books (Chicken soup series, The Alchemist, monk who sold his ferrari, etc.) many medical books and some programming books (HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Python, ASP.NET) and many more. I learned a lot from those books ( except from programming books as I cant do the practical stuff as I dont have a PC).
Opera mini was the most important software I found. It gave me access to the internet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year. I learnt lot from internet using my phone. I even made my first blog using opera mini.
I have read a long back that ” knowledge in any field never gets wasted”. By seeing my this knowledge of mine about mobile phones and internet my good friend DEV, who is owner of a cyber cafe now lets me use internet for free in return of the knowledge i share with him which i have learned from my Ngage QD and now my nokia N72.
If someone can help me dig more into this really amazing world of symbian and other mobile, feel free to contact me.
And thats my symbian story…
Hi, wery funny story and well done with your dance…
I just start symbian with my N95 but I need more time lol
Great Article and Thanks for All Bye
Thanx Syl21. It wasn’t supposed to be a funny story but if you liked it then the job is done.
Take your time as this world of symbian and smartphones is so deep and interesting you will definitely enjoy.
hello im just new here and i am one of your fans for cracking such symbian os.
BINPDA,can you help me and my friend with something? Please! Send me an e-mail and i will describe you what problem we have in cracking some firmware in SE…Everyone with P990i is counting on YOU! THX
Nice dance and very lucky of u to have an Ngage QD at that time. I can only dream of it back then. I have used many nokia phones so much that i cant used any product other than Nokia. I started my Nokia journey with Nokia 1100 with flashlight then 1200, 2626, 2630, 2600, 2680, 5310 XpressMusic, 6500 Slide but now im in the world of symbian. My first symbian phone is Nokia N85 which i love very much coz of its massive memory card and features. Im still new to it and im learning something new everyday.
Well, This is a very interesting topic… I will tell my friend and I’m so sure that they will like this.
Hey very nice blog!! Man .. Beautiful .. Amazing .. I will bookmark your blog and take the feeds also…
hey do u have some tuts to learn from
now…that needs a thumbs up..i m a blind fan of BINPDA..using n73. since my ist days of purchase im using BINPDA cracks….never had a complain…..thanx guys…..:)
I feel you binpda, i ve searched all day for ur forum, cuz i ve been using ur cracked apps from ipshit and sharemobile, pls i want u to mail me on davidlivingstone001@yahoo.com i ve a lot of things to learn from yo. Ur ma man. Thumbsup
Well done..
I was also in 2nd mbbs when i got my first colour phone nokia 6030 (some body forgot his/her 6030 at my bro’s std shop, otherwise i was nt able to get) its when , when u got ngage.
then i entered in this phone n click the earth icon(web services) n start the surf.before this i have only seen the people n frnds to surf internet in pc.
N within 15 days i was with opera mini.me too were use morning to late night.
Bt it was only a java phone
n always dreamed 4 a symbian
bt it was costly 4 me.
Then again my bro bought me nokia 5200
then nokia 6300. I was scared by virus so i didnt buy a symbian..
I completed my studies by my phones . I always shown the name BiNPDA on my friends symbian phone with cracked software..
n with my 1st salary i bought n73 n in searching BiNPDA for to install unsigned application i reached here n writing this.
n yes, even nw i dont knw how to handle pc.
Thanx admin to share with us that made me known that ‘mujh se b bada mobile freak doctor h’
i want to tell this to my collegemates.
hi frendz,,,,,,,,,
i m also a symbian lover and and
LONG LIVE BiNPDA !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi! I’m a final year MBBS Student like u ! I’m great fan of urs ! I’m always searching 4 ur softwares ! Great job !
hello nikhil.
I am not BiNPDA I am just a fan like you are. Anyway thanks for comment.
hey….m a huge BiNPDA fan…..i spend the whole night searching for cracks….anyways nice story…..!
BiNPDA i really need your help, i’m from Brazil and i need to “hack” my N95 8gb RM 421 v 32.2.001
but i can’t find any way on the web until now so, i’ve read good things about you… so… Can you help me???
The main problem is the firmware i think so… that’s v 32.2.001
if you can help me send me an e-mail, i’ll be waiting…
oh… my e-mail is: matheusrn89@hotmail.com
please help me…
This is a nice blog i must say, usually i don¡¯t post comments on others¡¯ blogs but would like to say that this post really forced me to do so!
Hi friend nice story and about u r life . . . Great work u r very lucky my friend . . . . . U r crazy about hacking like me . .. . . Nice to meet u
really great i also learned somewhat like this but my first symbian was nokia 7610 bought a second hand from my frnd and there is no cyber cafes here so relied entirely on slow mobile connection now frnds come to me if they had any problem with any phone i really laugh when i think how i tortured that phone and how many times i hard resetted it
really ” knowledge in any field never gets wasted” reminds me when i had nothing except that phone…