Branding...

[TrueTenacity]

I've heard lots and lots of horror stories about "branded" phones and unfortuantely had to endure using one for a few days too, VLive on a motorola V3....

Anyways, I'm getting a N95 soon, and it's most likely going to come vLive branded....

Will it be possible to de-brand it and would it be advised?

 

[odin]

i cant stand branded phones either, done some research

apparently you could use nokia's own updater to er update the firmware http://www.symbianv3.com/new-firmware-for-nokia-n95-version-100002

but that only works if the updater finds a product code on your phone that it recognizes as un-branded... you can use this software http://muj.edisk.cz/soubor/stahni/15613/Gsm-magic.rar_151.94kB.html
to set that.

so maybe you can try debranding your phone and tell me if it works?

 

[TrueTenacity]

Well let me get it and then i'll see how well it works with vlive and if necessary, try debrand it...

Just hope that vodac doesn't object to a debranded phone connecting to their network...

 

[Silent_Bob]

to debrand a nokia go to a nokia service centre and tell them to do it

 

[adsl3g]

Well let me get it and then i'll see how well it works with vlive and if necessary, try debrand it...

Just hope that vodac doesn't object to a debranded phone connecting to their network...

They wouldn't know about it. My old N70 was erroneously debranded by the Nokia update service and no problems - in some case you might find that MMS videos are not displayed correctly (like my N70 after the debranding)
I also have an E70 which is not a vodacom phone and have the same problems with MMS videos. They are displayed as thumbnails and not full screen.