{"id":82,"date":"2009-06-07T19:43:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T18:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2009-06-07T19:43:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T18:43:04","slug":"nokia-unlock-bb5-for-6630-6681-6680-n70-n71-n90-n91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/07\/nokia-unlock-bb5-for-6630-6681-6680-n70-n71-n90-n91\/","title":{"rendered":"Nokia Unlock (BB5) for 6630 6681 6680 N70 N71 N90 N91"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all,<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_83\" style=\"width: 315px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83\" class=\"size-full wp-image-83\" title=\"6680\" src=\"http:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/6680a.jpg\" alt=\"Nokia 6680\" width=\"305\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/6680a.jpg 305w, https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/6680a-166x300.jpg 166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-83\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nokia 6680<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Having just upgraded to the iPhone, I then had the task of disposing of my old phone(s) &#8211; The problem is that the kids always want to steal my previous devices, but are on a different network to me.<\/p>\n<p>One of the phones (a Nokia 6680) was SIM-Locked to Orange. This phone is of the type &#8216;BB5&#8217;, this means that the only way to unlock this till recently has been to take it to a shop. Well not any more!<\/p>\n<p>This is the step by step guide to unlocking Nokia&#8217;s of the type: 6630, 6681, 6680, N70, N71, N90, N91<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get a DKU-5 (or equivalent F-Bus) cable. The normal USB cable that comes with the phone is not suitable, it must be an F-Bus cable.<\/li>\n<li>Install Nokia PC Suite (any recent version)<\/li>\n<li>Plug the cable into the phone and then into your USB port and let your phone get detected.<\/li>\n<li>Close down any Nokia Applications that might start up.<\/li>\n<li>Right-Click on My Computer, and then on &#8216;Manage&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Click on &#8216;Hardware Manager&#8217; in the left-hand pane<\/li>\n<li>Expand the &#8216;Ports&#8217; section and check which port the Nokia phone is on &#8211; NOTE THIS DOWN!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ok &#8211; Next stage is to get the software.<\/p>\n<p>You need to get the BB5 Calculator from here: http:\/\/users.net.yu\/~dejan &#8211; [Direct Download <a href=\"http:\/\/users.net.yu\/~dejan\/download\/bb5.zip\">LINK<\/a>]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unzip the file to C:\\bb5_unlocker<\/li>\n<li>Edit the &#8220;bb5_unlocker.cfg&#8221; file and change the COM Port to the one you noted above<\/li>\n<li>Double-click on install.bat<\/li>\n<li>Click on &#8220;READ PHONE&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>When it says &#8216;Done&#8217;, click on &#8220;MAKE LOG&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Copy the xxx.log file (e.g. 317617303633274_BB5.log) from the \/logs subfolder into the \/psw folder<\/li>\n<li>Click on Exit<\/li>\n<li>Double-Click on BB5_calc.exe &#8211; it should say &#8220;Done&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>In the \/psw subfolder, there will now be an xxx.psw file. Open this is in Notepad, and you will have all the unlock codes. You can either enter these manually, or :-<\/li>\n<li>double-click on BB5logunlocker.exe<\/li>\n<li>click on SP Unlock<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Following these instructions, I managed to unlock two 6680&#8217;s in 2 mins flat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all, Having just upgraded to the iPhone, I then had the task of disposing of my old phone(s) &#8211; The problem is that the kids always want to steal my previous devices, but are on a different network to me. One of the phones (a Nokia 6680) was SIM-Locked to Orange. This phone is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internet-tools.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}