Jan "Jenkings" Škoda - blog

Today, I took the Nokia out of the box of incoming phones. It's a Nokia 500 with Symbian Belle. It's nothing special or particularly interesting, but it still has my favourite OS. It is in really good condition with no missing parts. It also comes from an age when it could be charged using either the standard Nokia 'needle' charger or a micro USB, which simplifies things a lot.

So I immediately did the jailbreak to get rid of all those stupid 'Cannot install, certificate verification failed' errors when installing any SIS/SISX. It went relatively well, with no problems. I chose and downloaded many interesting games that I wanted to install. I copied them to the mass memory and installed them all. It was a long process, but most of them installed without any problems. More than nine out of ten installed, which was quite a success.

However, when I tried to run them, things got worse. Almost every installed game malfunctioned. Some of them didn't even start. Others were stuck on a black screen. Others completely distorted the screen with random colours, shapes and fragments. Some displayed a runtime error. A few of them caused the phone to freeze and reset. I only managed to get a few games working, and I tried at least a hundred different installers in total. Quite sad.

I am wondering if it is a problem with the phone or a combination of software issues, as I am used to many different Symbian phones and have never experienced such a high failure rate. Of course, I have sometimes encountered games that I was unable to run, but this is absolutely crazy.

Fortunately (or maybe unfortunately), I have two more of these phones on the way, so I will definitely run some tests on them to find out where the problem lies.