How To: Update Nokia N73 Firmware to Internet Edition

December 8th, 2006 • Mark Guim • Filed Under •

The Nokia N73 Internet Edition Firmware 3.0638.0.0.43 update is now available. The Nokia N73 Internet Edition was only announced in Taiwan and Hong Kong, but anyone with the N73 can change their firmware to take advantage of the new firmware’s features by tricking Nokia Software Update. How is the Internet Edition different from the recently released Music Edition? Find out now as well as the instructions on how to update your Nokia N73 firmware.

Nokia N73 Internet Edition

The Nokia N73 Internet Edition contains all of the features of the Music Edition, but the multimedia key in the Music Edition goes straight to the music player. The Internet Edition retains the function of the original multimedia key where you can configure your own shortcuts to applications. They also included Windows Live Messenger and a few shortcuts to popular websites in the Internet folder. Otherwise, same as the Music Edition.

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Updating to the Internet Edition is similar to the guide I wrote earlier on updating to Nokia N73 Music Edition.

Download and install: Nemesis Service Suite and the latest Nokia Software Update.

  1. Connect your phone and wait for Windows to install the drivers.
  2. Open Nemesis Service Suite and click “Scan for new device” on the right-upper part of the window
  3. Click on the icon “Phone info”
  4. Click on “Scan”
  5. UPDATE Change the product code to
    0539366 (Hong Kong’s language pack: English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese)
    0539364 (Taiwan’s language pack: English + Traditional Chinese)
    0539295 (Arabic, French, English) (People say it is ME edition)
    0539269 (Swedish, Norwegian, English) (People say it is ME edition)
  6. Mark the case “Enable”.
  7. Press “Write”, and your phone’s product code will be changed (you might think that nothing happened, because the phone is still in normal mode, and the changing of the product code only takes a couple of seconds, but don’t worry, the product code changed !).
  8. Close Nemesis Service Suite and run the Nokia Software Update.
  9. Make sure not to touch the cable or the phone while your phone is updating or else you will break it!
  10. That’s it! When you restart your phone, it should now be the Nokia N73 Internet Edition!

You may also want to change for black Nokia N73 faceplate housing to black to make it look more like the real Nokia N73 Internet or Music Edition. You can read more about how to change the Nokia N73 faceplate guide that I wrote previously.

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  1. Rcadden on 8 December 2006:

    You say it retains everything the Music Edition has, does this include the improved Music Player software?

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  2. Mark Guim on 9 December 2006:

    Yes…. a few people who have done it already reports that it is the same thing as the Music Edition plus shortcuts, multimedia key, and MSN Messenger.

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  3. Han on 9 December 2006:

    It working fine, i have successfully update my N73 ME to internet edition. It rocks and those feature in ME remains, now the media key with not bring u to music player anymore. Thanks…

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  4. Paul on 10 December 2006:

    I just tried on my 1 day old N73. Download follow the instruction closely but somehow it fail! I don’t know what went wrong, my phone batt was full bar, once connected I didnt touch it anymore and running on cable network. However after updating of software thru Nokia Software Update and starting of the installation for about 3-5 mins it suddenly stop and prompt installation fail. Next I saw my phone screen was blank and not able to turn-on anymore! Damn it, my 1 day old N73 was gone!!!!!

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  5. lightzvs on 10 December 2006:

    I upgraded to IE version but cant see the internet folder.

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  6. lafiel on 10 December 2006:

    question for hk firmware

    when taking photo, can the shuttle noise be turn off?

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  7. Mark Guim on 10 December 2006:

    Internet folder should be in the main menu.

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  8. Roderick on 10 December 2006:

    Damn… I was kind of hoping they would’ve included the Orb application they are offering now in the N80 internet edition.. (..or perhaps even Skype that Three delivers on their x-series > http://www.three.co.uk/xseries/index.omp )

    Guess we’ll have to wait for those. Maybe on the european firmwares?

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  9. Ashok on 10 December 2006:

    If we update to internet edition. can we chnage it back to the normal edition

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  10. hanz on 10 December 2006:

    Hai,

    I update mine n73.

    The only thing i regret is that the Music program will be running
    even if you dont open it. No way to close it.

    Other than that, its ok.
    :)

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  11. lafiel on 11 December 2006:

    hanz: when taking photo can the shuttle noise be off in silent modE?

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  12. lightzvs on 11 December 2006:

    Nope.. i cant find the internet folder in the main menu either…

    haizz

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  13. lafiel on 11 December 2006:

    someone reply me pls~~

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  14. Mark Guim on 11 December 2006:

    I know the Asian Nokia N93 firmware force the shutter sound to stay on, so I don’t know if they did the same for the N73. LOL why…are you planning to take upskirt pics??? just kidding… Can someone who updated please let us know?

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  15. Roderick on 11 December 2006:

    hanz:
    On my music edition, I discovered you can close the music player by going into the equaliser menu and selecting ‘options > exit’ from there.

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  16. msc on 11 December 2006:

    can u tell me what are the differences between firmware of the original n73 and that of the music edition and interent edition firware actually are? please

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  17. Kunal on 11 December 2006:

    I have sucessfully upgraded my n73 to Internet Edition but after update my phone’s display got worst and letters are also not so clear…….kindly help how to get back to Music Edition or original firmware……

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  18. kunal on 12 December 2006:

    Just put your phone in sielent mode………shutter noise will be off…………..

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  19. James on 12 December 2006:

    Hey dudes - has anyone tried this with a UK Operator Handset?

    ie: Vodafone?

    I’m thinking about trying it but I remember changing my product code via NSS before and trying to upgrade my firmware and it went wrong…

    Anyone had any success - I must admit - I am tempted!

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  20. James on 12 December 2006:

    Hmm.. it worked for like 10mins.

    Then I got “Phone start-up failed. Contact the retailer.”

    Arse.

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    Catherine on 1 November 2008

    I have the same thing happening to my phone. HOw did you resolve it?

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  21. Lafiel on 12 December 2006:

    NOT ALL REGION FIRMWARE CAN GET SHUTTER NOISE OFF IN SILENT MODE ALERT TONE OFF
    SO IM ASKING IF THIS HK IE FIRMWIRE CAN GET THE SHUTTER NOISE OFF

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  22. Tosh on 12 December 2006:

    Please help!!

    My N73 is not working..It doesnt even turn on after i update it…Well it said it failed to upgrade…What should I do now??Please help

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  23. Mark Guim on 12 December 2006:

    Tosh, sorry it didn’t go well. You may need to send it to a third-party flasher to unbrick your phone.

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  24. Linch on 12 December 2006:

    Anyone Upgraded from N73 to N73ME then to This?

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  25. Han on 12 December 2006:

    Yes, i updated my hp from me to ie. It rocks and working fine…

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  26. James on 13 December 2006:

    Any vodafone users had any success?

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  27. Patrick R on 13 December 2006:

    Now here’s a strange one for you all…

    I have two UK Nokia N73’s, with O2 firmware inside (code 0539976)

    A while ago, I changed the code on one of them to the generic European code, to allow me to update the old 2.0628.0.0.1 O2 operater firmware, to the newer version 3 software.

    Doing this, you get all the bug fixes, but NOT the Music Edition new player, and stereo widening etc. (I know this, as I did exactly this).

    BUT… you also keep the original fonts throughout the phone, which to me are MUCH BETTER - the fonts that come when you flash to the M.E., or the I.E. N73, are old fashioned looking, and jaggy to me.

    I later again updated this phone from Music Edition, to Internet Edition, but like many others found that whilst it changes the nature of the Media Key back to how it used to be (that is, can be configured, not specific only to the music player), I found however that it did NOT install Windows Live Messenger, Gmail, etc etc. it is meant to.

    So I have happily been running an N73 Internet Edition with the newer (worse) fonts, and the new music features etc, for the last few days, alongside my original O2 firmware 2.0628.0.0.1 Nokia N73 handset with the older better fonts, but old music player too.

    Today, I decided to update this other phone slightly too, but NOT to the ME or IE edition as I dislike the fonts so much.

    So I used Nemesis to change my product code to 0537289 (Euro 1).

    I connected to Nokia Software Updater, it downloaded and installed the update (by my reckoning, this code should allow an update of the STANDARD firmware, not any special edition?)

    And when my phone was re-booted, I found I was using the nice new “Stave” theme, but with my original, preferred fonts.

    Cool. But wait… I loaded up my music player… and lo and behold, I have the new player, complete with album art, and stereo widening!

    But with my ORIGINAL, better fonts!

    I have no idea how I have managed this, but it’s the truth.

    My version numbers now show as:

    ‘none’ M.E./I.E. edition handset with the original style fonts-
    V 3.0638.0.0.30
    30-10-2006
    RM-133
    Nokia N73 (01)

    And for the Internet Edition handset with larger jaggy fonts -
    v 3.0638.0.0.43
    30-10-2006
    RM-133
    Nokia N73 (10)

    Strange indeed.

    Can anyone else yet to update, let me know how they get on too.

    For me though, I am over the moon to find I have the best of both worlds - New Music Player and Stereo Widening, but with the original, and IMHO better screen fonts.

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  28. Shadab on 13 December 2006:

    i updated it…
    working perfect…

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  29. omar on 13 December 2006:

    Hmm update worked fine allright, but the internet folder is nowhere to be found.

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  30. lightzvs on 13 December 2006:

    There is no shutter sound for N73IE HK version

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  31. Shadab on 15 December 2006:

    downloaded the hk version…
    internet folder cant be found

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  32. David on 15 December 2006:

    I bought N73 ordinary and i updated to ME and works fine,,now there is IE..i dont use much internet in phone so is there any use to update to IE or i can keep this ME..i like music more than browsing net..LOL..anyone advise me..thanks friends..

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  33. Josh on 16 December 2006:

    @ James - I am on Vodafone and I have updated it just fine. No probs so far.

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  34. alfie70 on 16 December 2006:

    can you help? do i need to remove nokia pc suite before i can change to internet or music n73? nss wont find my device? windows didnt install any drivers? alf70

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  35. phil on 17 December 2006:

    is anyone else having problems downloading the suite, all i seem to do is rotate between the software page and the description

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  36. Den on 17 December 2006:

    hmmm lets say we flash from N73 to N73 IE version … then later on if we downgrade it (N73 IE to N73) is there a detailed step on how should it be done ?

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  37. Den on 17 December 2006:

    Also when installing the Nemesis program, which should i choose ? virtual USB ? F1 ? or what ?

    and also when i plug in N73, it ask me to select music player, storage, pc suite, etc . which shall i choose too ?

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  38. MikeMaMan on 17 December 2006:

    >> Patrick R
    FW
    V 3.0638.0.0.[b]30[/b]
    30-10-2006
    IS for Music Edition!!!

    Bcoz normal N73 has
    V 3.0638.0.0.[b]1[/b]
    30-10-2006

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  39. MikeMaMan on 17 December 2006:

    And for thoose, who get Update Failed error in NSU, continue to Rerty!!!, i did it 4 times, and my phone finished flashing, and works fine!!!

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  40. lightzvs on 17 December 2006:

    For the internet Folder, once you had flash the f/w, you will get it. But once you had do and backup from PC, it will be lost.
    This wat I get from other forum hehe :)

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  41. Raul on 18 December 2006:

    Hello Patrik R… the “standard” code you used is for ME EURO 1 version …

    Regards Raul

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  42. alf70 on 18 December 2006:

    sorted it out you need to install usb in nemesis den! all cool now cheers ha ha nokia! i am on the 3 network and it worked just fine!

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  43. H0CKEY on 19 December 2006:

    Mine has the Internet Folder…but No MSN messenger icon in it

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  44. tyt on 20 December 2006:

    hey guys, how do i scan for my phone using NSS?? I installed and keep scanning but nothing is shown on the NSS screen?? can somebody help me??

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  45. blackvest on 20 December 2006:

    pick the vitual usb

    and for the other guy, i updated mine without installing the usb , dont worry just press the read the device which is located on the upper right corner(*which you can see the phone beside the magnifying glass..) if it detects you phone then it work and oh yeah pick pc suite

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  46. SteveC on 20 December 2006:

    Hi
    Changed my N73 to Internet Edition everything cool apart from fonts aren’t as nice - but I guess thats cause it’s no Hong Kong stylee!
    One Question: Can you remove the standby application menu from the home screen?
    Cheers
    S

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  47. nayeem on 20 December 2006:

    thats good.

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  48. SteveC on 20 December 2006:

    Igonore last post - That’s easily changed!
    However; I really don’t like the fonts on my updated N73 IE. Is there anyway to change back to the original Euro ones? Gutted I didn’t read Patrick R’s post earlier.
    Bring me back my old fonts please!

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  49. gerrymoth on 21 December 2006:

    Updated my Three branded N73 to 0537289 (Euro1) ME and it rocks. Music player is great (why not have this in the normal version????) and the whole thing runs faster. Also goto the Download! app in Applications and you can download a free Zip Manager, Barcode Reader, YahooGO and Wireless Keyboard.
    Now have X-Series and only thins I can’t download from the three internet site are MSN Messenger and Mobilcast. Got the MSN 1.0 version downloaded from elsewhere and its been working fine (Also looks better). Mobilcast was crap, just download S60 Internet Radio and have any shoucast radio station play on it.

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  50. Tarek on 21 December 2006:

    plz can any one tell me the code for internet edition has the arabic on it

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  51. matt on 22 December 2006:

    I unable to download the NSS suite, as one poster mentioned ealier it just rotates between the software page and description. Is there another place to download NSS?

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  52. Lee on 22 December 2006:

    Can someone help me out ?
    I updated my phone to Music Edition , the only reason being that I wanted the newer Music Player.
    But , once I updated my phone , Music Player does not refresh the library ( Options > Refresh Music Library ) , It gives an error message saying ” Music: Already in use ” . Assuming that it was because Music Player was already open , I closed all other programs ,including Music Player and again tried it , yet the error keeps coming up .
    It doesn’t even find any songs on searching ( I let it search for 5 hours ).

    Anyone know what to do ?
    Please help !!!!

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  53. Gang$ta $ingh on 23 December 2006:

    Yo man i updated my N73 TO I.E from standard and i have alll the internet edition applications etc…- and i also have the old smooth font.

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  54. elio on 25 December 2006:

    hi, what’s the product code for english, french, arabic language packs

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  55. Mark Guim on 25 December 2006:

    Thanks for being patient. Just finished all my final exams. I updated the post to include the product codes for the Euro versions of the Internet Edition. Enjoy!

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  56. elio on 25 December 2006:

    thanks man… ur da BEST!!!

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  57. Matthew Kwong on 25 December 2006:

    >Mine has the Internet Folder…but No MSN messenger icon in it

    Me too, I dont have Messenger icon in it, guess it is related to the service provider issues?

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  58. Lorenzo on 26 December 2006:

    Great work …i upgraded my vanilla n73 to the music edition and it rocks. I am thinking about upgrading it to the internet edition as I am missing my shortcut key.

    Although am i right in saying that when upgrading to the ie version you will not have sms predictive text support for european languages - ie italian, french etc ?

    Please let me know.

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  59. binbin on 27 December 2006:

    Hi,

    I just upgraded to IE version, i am just wondering can we connect to the internet using USB? Instead of GPRS thru the telcom provider that’s cost a bomb…

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  60. BV on 27 December 2006:

    i have changed my code to 0537289 but i get a “internal module error” while running NSU :S

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  61. Tarek on 28 December 2006:

    Mark Guim i wish u did well in ur exams any way the code u inter for IE (0539295) it’s for ME not the IE . so if u can be sure about the code for the Internet Edition (Arabic, French, English)
    it will be nice
    Thanx

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  62. Vlada on 29 December 2006:

    So which product code should I use to upgrade to IE version but to have normal font, I’m confused a little bit about which one to use? Would be thankful for quick answer. Cheerz

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  63. Link on 29 December 2006:

    Hi,

    will there be an N73 Internet Edition with German language or is it not planned yet?

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  64. sidmeier on 29 December 2006:

    Hi, I was reading this thread and its so amazing . .
    I will update my n73 to the IE on monday . . .
    since my n73 already has a lot of bugs . . .
    question:
    will the IE upgrade has bugs fixed for my n73?
    and I want to have the english version, which product code I need to enter? i need to have the english one coz when i installed my oggplay on my phone it wont display the fonts , just the chinese fonts . . .
    and one more thing which nemesis software i need to download? I’ll wait for your email as soon as possible . . . thanks so much

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  65. Saad on 30 December 2006:

    Hey guys hows it going, hope everythings good. I just wanted to run something by you guys; i’ave upgraded my N73 to Music Edition quite a while ago around there, four weeks and i love it and just yesterday i was just browsing the net after a while and i saw that a new firmware Internet Edition is avaiable so i decided to update it and i know all the product changing codes thing, so i changed my product code to “0539295 (Arabic, French, English)” cause i live in Saudi Arabia and if the phone does’t have Arabic then i can’t sell it, now i know i’m gonna keep the phone for a while but just incase i’d rather have Arabic, ok so i changed the code and the ran the Nokia Software updater and it detected my phone but said that it was already upto date and no updates are avaiable but my is the Music Edition in which the firmware is .30 at the end, so i then changed the code to “0539364 (Taiwan’s language pack: English Traditional Chinese)” and the same no updates and its the same for the “0539269 (Swedish, Norwegian, English)” but when i changed it to “0539366 (Hong Kong’s language pack: English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese)” the Nokia software updater said that an update is avaiable, could someone please tell me whats happening cause i really miss the Multimedia Key and i wanna upgrade the phone to have Arabic, Thanks

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  66. Mark Guim on 30 December 2006:

    Hmm..so it looks like the Internet Edition is just made for Asia.

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  67. SpenZ on 30 December 2006:

    just changed product code to 0539269 (Swedish, Norwegian, English) and updated, but got music edition firmware v3.0638.0.0.30 changed product code again to 0539366 (Hong Kong’s language pack: English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese) and update is available, but battery nearly dead (will do in a bit0. so i say use 0539366 (Hong Kong’s language pack: English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese)

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  68. Saad on 30 December 2006:

    Thanks for you replies guys, i indeed used all the product codes and only on the “0539366 (Hong Kong’s language pack: English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese)” i was allowed to update so i trid it and it said that it was updating but then at around half way it stoped and said update failed and just below it said that there are no updates for my phone, i just thought that maybe it lost connection from the server or something so i tried again and the same, i did it a couple of times but still however MikeMaMan said that if you keep trying then maybe it’ll update, but Mark you could have a point saying that it may only be for Asia and SpenZ please do try posting the results after you update your phone. Theres just one other thing that i think could be a possiabality but this is just a theory of mine; you know each different product code gives a different number next to the “Nokia N73 (01)” here in the Euro2 product code its 01 however for the gulf one its (08) when i bought my phone (i live in Saudi Arabia so its most prob gulf one) i had (08) mine is just the regular Nokia N73 however i upgraded it to the Music Edition (this was when the Music Edition firmware was just newly announsed) using the Euro2 product key and so i then got a (01) after the Nokia N73 and i no longer had Arabic (which sort of scared me), but yesterday i saw a list of product codes for the N73 Music Edition and i saw that there was a Gulf region one so i changed my original product code to that and the ran the Nokia Software Updater and it said that my phone is fully upto date however i can chose to reinstall it so i did and now i got the (08) back as well as Arabic and its Still a Music Edition so in a way i’m really happy and kinda relieved cause i got Arabic back. Ok after i update my phone i change the product code back to the original one i had when i bought my phone (i don’t know why it just makes me feel better) and now if i run the software updater it says my phone is upto date but i don’t have the option to reinstall, Now when i try chinging the code to one of the Internet Edition codes the software says that my phone is upto date and i also can reinstall but no uodate to the Internet Edition,…Now Sence people have successfully updates their phones to Internet Edition i have a few questions for them: Did you update your regular N73 to MI and then IE or did it just go stright to the IE and this question is for people like me who have upgraded their regular N73 to ME and now to IE: Could anyone who has successfully updated their Music Editon N73 (and by Music Edition i mean preveously ugraded from regular N73 not the off the self N73 ME) could you please give the product codes that you used to upgrade your phone and what was their firmware version (i mean the number after Nokia N73) before they upgraded it, I think that, that number after the Nokia N73 has something to do weather you can upgrade your phone or not, Thanks again

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  69. Saad on 30 December 2006:

    Hey Guys i just found a few scran sots of the menu of the N73 internet edition at: http://forum2.mobile-review.com/showthread.php?t=57492 and its diffeent to the regular and music edition N73 as the camera is now on the main menu and the folder icons are different they are like the ones in N80, could someone whos upgraded to N73 IE please comfirm this , Thanks again

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  70. Fahad on 31 December 2006:

    Hello,

    how are you everybody hope all of you r fine
    my question is to mark guim that i have done
    step by step i have updated my phone successfully by this code 0539295 but this code is for music edition so please tell me the code which updates my phone to internet edition i will be so much thankful to you …

    and to all of you guys i have updated my phone without any errors so dont worry about that lets yourself update your phone

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  71. wildkat on 1 January 2007:

    Does anyone have screenshots of the fonts, before and after? Thanks.

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  72. H0CKEY on 1 January 2007:

    0539366 (Hong Kong’s language pack: English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese)

    INTERNET EDITION

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  73. Tarif on 2 January 2007:

    n73 upgrade to ME. Music player’s background is missing. Ive bin editing themes and I know there is a separate image for the music/audio player in the stock n73. now the n73 me doesnt :S

    this theme shud have a sunflower in the music player screen. see link below
    http://www.ownskin.com/theme_detail?t=zcXmXpIS

    please check on n73 un-upgraded and then n73 me. I kinda like visuals and this really sucks!!

    do check on updated IE n tell if it shows. Id wud update my ME to IE then. thanks

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  74. Rocky on 4 January 2007:

    So after reading all of the above I still a little confuse. So can you update original to IE(must be Hong Kong’s language pack) then change back the language pack to something else so the font is better?

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  75. dulber on 5 January 2007:

    Hello, I’m located in the Philippines.
    I just completed a successful firmware flash from N73(1) to N73(14) Hong Kong product code 053966. Very nice. I also have the jaggy font but the music player is better. I just have to figure out how to get the album art to transfer from CD to phone.

    Thanks for the information.
    It was a smooth process, all 73.5Mb download & software upgrade.
    I didn’t get to check out all options before restoring my back-up through PC Suite. I don’t have MSN Messenger but I suppose this is provider dependent. I got a dictionary and modem. Dictionary doesn’t work yet and I haven’t tried the modem.
    More as I tinker with this new firmware…

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  76. Floydian1 on 5 January 2007:

    The update always stops at around 80% says connection the phone is lost, I can restart the phone by removing the battery when it restarts I seem to end up with a cross between the music edition & the internet edition, ie. I get the update player which is on all the time but can still use the media key to select various apps and don’t get any of the msn messenger stuff, firmware reports itself as the current uptodate. Also some software like XpressPrint is missing, any links to redownload this?

    The firmware version is now:

    V 3.0638.0.0.43
    30-10-2006
    RM-133
    Nokia N73 (14)

    Everything seems to work okay so far (apart from some missing apps like xpressprint) I can also shutdown the music player by selecting exit in the equaliser settings.

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  77. dulber on 5 January 2007:

    Hello Floydian1,

    Where are you located?
    It seems the extra applications are location/operator dependent.
    I didn’t encounter the error at 80% during the update though.

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  78. Floydian1 on 5 January 2007:

    I’m in the UK on the o2 network, I must have done it at least 20 times and it stopped at 80% in on every attempt, the phone is stuck in testmode when it stops and you have to remove the battery to reboot it. On rebooting the phone seems fine and reports the above firmware version.?

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  79. dulber on 5 January 2007:

    Is it possible that something is interfering with the update procedure? Check to see that the anti-virus in your PC is disabled.
    Monitor your PC resources while the update process is ongoing to see where the hang-up could be at. It’s a good thing the phone is still alive after an incomplete update. Have you restored your backed-up data to the device yet?

    The update was a one time, no frills affair for me. Thank goodness.

    I regret not fiddling longer with the default settings before restoring my backed-up data. I should have taken down the new things available after the flash. Oh well, I’ll find a “victim” who’d be willing to flash their “virgin” device here and make sure to take down notes, he heh…

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  80. sidmeier on 5 January 2007:

    Hi, I just had upgraded my phone recently

    im from the philippines

    I selected Hongkong’s variant, upgrade last for 2 hours.

    It is the first time for me to upgrade my phone’s firmware.

    And I wanna thank you for this ….

    - my phone works faster

    - characters on my oggplay is now coming up with fonts

    - better battery management

    and a lot more

    but there are still some bugs remained on my phone

    - cant zoom a 3Mp image to more than 50%

    - still can’t delete themes

    - some installed themes disappeared on application manager

    - image viewing on gallery has changed … now new image will appear counter clockwise

    also i don’t have any msn messenger installed

    but im quite satisfied … since upgrading isn’t that difficult …

    Now i love my phone more … the sound is great, compared to n93, I would still choose this phone …

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  81. hL on 5 January 2007:

    If i flash from normal f/w to IE f/w, can i flash back to noral f/w?

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  82. Mark Guim on 5 January 2007:

    I’m glad a lot of people got it to work! I notice a few posters are from Philippines… Kumusta and Mabuhay! (I was born there).

    I’m sorry for those that can’t get it to work. Thanks a lot to the readers that try to help others.

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  83. Floydian1 on 6 January 2007:

    Well I’ve given up trying to update, running windows in clean boot mode with all security apps disabled made no difference, the phone seems to be fine, everything works on it, loaded a few a games and apps on it without problems.

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  84. sidmeier on 6 January 2007:

    Hi, nice to know that you’re a Filipino . . . talagang matatalino ang Pinoy :)
    But i do have one problem right now . . after my upgrade, my mass storage wont work anymore :(
    I tried evrything . . . after I tried formatting my sd card, , it worked fine , , so I installed back my apps .. but again mass storgae wont work again. . . any help please . . ? thanks

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  85. blackvest on 7 January 2007:

    To lee:
    yeah it happens to me too, what you have to do is go to “now playing”>then options>then equalizer>then exit, ill close your music player then once you go in, ill get your songs and that’s it

    To sidseimer:
    i think you can zom, its on the options>digital zoom > then you put it on i think, works for me

    to all people who try to use this, beware since it’s 100% working in asia phones, not really shure bout US i upgraded mine and works flawlessly(*except the fact bout 2gb’s bug, its kinda pissed me but everything’s well)

    and one thing i notice, if you put a new theme on your internet edition, it takes off your internet folder, which is okay for me but not to others

    and about the themes, its not that it cannot delete the themes, its just something is missing on the theme that makes it undelete, just download sysexplorer at m420 forum and you’ll find it there or use your mass storage and delete it at sys folder (*i dont know the folder number but you’ll find it by using search>type the name of the theme>viola once you find the file delete the whole folder with it)

    and to my pinoy people, kamusta haha gleng ng n73 haha

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  86. Mats on 7 January 2007:

    Thought I´d gather them all:)

    Here are all the codes I know so far, ENJOY!!!

    Regular N73;

    0527009: RM-133 CUST.TRX EURO 1 (Deep Plum)
    0529568: RM-133 CUST.TRX FRANCE (Deep Plum)
    0529569: RM-133 CUST.TRX ALPS (Deep Plum)
    0529602: RM-133 CUST.TRX EURO 2 (Deep Plum)
    0529603: RM-133 CUST.TRX TURKEY (Deep Plum)
    0529604: RM-133 CUST.TRX SOUTH AFRICA (Deep Plum)
    0529605: RM-133 CUST.TRX SCANDINAVIA (Deep Plum)
    0529606: RM-133 CUST.TRX BALTIAN (Deep Plum)
    0529607: RM-133 CUST.TRX RUSSIAN (Deep Plum)
    0529608: RM-133 CUST.TRX UKRAINE (Deep Plum)
    0529609: RM-133 CUST.TRX CIS (Deep Plum)
    0529780: RM-133 CUST.TRX HUNGARY (Deep Plum)
    0529781: RM-133 CUST.TRX BALKANS (Deep Plum)
    0529782: RM-133 CUST.TRX GREECE (Deep Plum)
    0529784: RM-133 CUST.TRX LEBANON (Deep Plum)
    0529785: RM-133 CUST.TRX GULF (Deep Plum)
    0529786: RM-133 CUST.TRX ISRAEL (Deep Plum)
    0529787: RM-133 CUST.TRX ROMANIA (Deep Plum)
    0529789: RM-133 CUST.TRX ISRAEL (Met Red)
    0529790: RM-133 CUST.TRX EURO 1 (Met Red)
    0529792: RM-133 CUST.TRX EURO 2 (Met Red)
    0529793: RM-133 CUST.TRX TURKEY (Met Red)
    0529794: RM-133 CUST.TRX BALKANS (Met Red)
    0529795: RM-133 CUST.TRX UKRAINE (Met Red)
    0529796: RM-133 CUST.TRX GREECE (Met Red)
    0529797: RM-133 CUST.TRX CIS (Met Red)
    0529799: RM-133 CUST.TRX HUNGARY (Met Red)
    0529801: RM-133 CUST.TRX ROMANIA (Met Red)
    0529803: RM-133 CUST.TRX GULF (Met Red)
    0529804: RM-133 CUST.TRX BALTIAN (Met Red)
    0529805: RM-133 CUST.TRX FRANCE (Met Red)
    0529806: RM-133 CUST.TRX ALPS (Met Red)
    0529807: RM-133 CUST.TRX SOUTH AFRICA (Met Red)
    0529809: RM-133 CUST.TRX SCANDINAVIA (Met Red)
    0529810: RM-133 CUST.TRX LEBANON (Met Red)
    0529811: RM-133 CUST.TRX RUSSIAN (Met Red)
    0537287: RM-133 CUST.TRX BELARUS MOLDOVA (Met Red)
    0537288: RM-133 CUST.TRX BELARUS MOLDOVA (Deep Plum)

    N73 ME

    0537289 Euro 1
    0539193 France
    0539207 Alps
    0539239 Euro 2
    0539256 Turkey
    0539265 South Africa
    0539269 Scandanavia
    0539278 Baltains
    0539279 Russia
    0539284 Ukraine
    0539285 Bulgaria
    0539289 Hungary
    0539291 Balkans
    0539293 Greece/Cypurs
    0539294 Lebanon
    0539295 Gulf
    0539298 Israel
    0539299 Romania
    0539341 Belarus

    N73 IE

    0539366 (English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese)
    0539364 (English Traditional Chinese)
    0539295 (English, Arabic and French Languages)

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  87. Tarek on 8 January 2007:

    Mr. Mats how is the ME for gulf is 0539295 the same like IE 0539295 !!!!!!

    N73 IE

    0539366 (English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese)
    0539364 (English Traditional Chinese)
    0539295 (English, Arabic and French Languages)

    N73 ME

    0539295 Gulf

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  88. Rockafeller on 8 January 2007:

    hey there! mabuhay! i just upgraded my N73 to internet edition.. I admit the music is great.. but the font sucks.. But i guess thats the result of having a great music player.. anyway, im just waiting for a new firmware to comeout.. (for the original N73) because i really miss the orig fonts.. anyways thanks for the info’s here.. helped a lot.. by the way, im also from philippines.. (caloocan to be exact) cheers!

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  89. Rockafeller on 8 January 2007:

    By the way i heard that you can change N73’s fonts.. is there an application for that?

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  90. sidmeier on 9 January 2007:

    hi mark, just wanna ask whats all about the 2gb bug?

    coz im planning to buy a 2gb mini sdcard, currently im using 1 gig , , ,

    and about the themes, im still trying to find out how to uninstall it hahah

    yeah, ur right, n73 is simply amazing. . . its almost perfect. . . :)
    to rockafeller, hi din, im from marilao, bualcan, im working here in makati, a tech support in a callcenter :)

    for oggplayer users, at first Im having some problems using the sound widening on the music player,

    coz equalisers in the music player are functioning well while im playing my ogg files on the oggplayer,

    just find out that you need to play a music on the music player (with the sound widening and loudness turned on) and then pause it, open oggplayer and play music

    you will hear the difference and the effects of the audio effect coming from the music player :)

    i really love this phone, the best music player so far

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  91. sidmeier on 9 January 2007:

    for me the fonts are fine and its the same fonts i have from my phone . . . i dont think that theres anu software yet for changing fonts :)

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  92. sidmeier on 9 January 2007:

    to mark:
    about the zoom its really a bug promise . . :) the zoom wont work fine on a 3mp image,
    i hope there will be a new firmware update release soon

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  93. Rockafeller on 10 January 2007:

    hey guys.. i just want to ask if anyone of you knows a product code for N73 ME that supports Filipino language? (philippines) thanks..

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  94. dulber on 10 January 2007:

    RE: 2Gb Mini-SD storage.
    There’s a bug? What’s the bug about?
    I’m using a Kingston Mini-SD 2Gb card and it’s working fine.

    RE: 3MP image zooming
    Correct me if I’m wrong.
    The bug reported is the inability to zoom in on a 3MP image?
    I’m doing it right now and it’s working without a problem.
    All my photos are taken in this resolution and so far no problems encountered. I get a memory warning after using the phone applications for sometime indicating too many applications active and to close some to enable zooming in again. I just turn off the power. It’s probably a memory resource handling issue. I have the F-Secure mobile security program always running in the background.
    I always try to disabled the music player also.
    By the way, my F-Secure trial period is expiring in 9 days.
    I haven’t decided to renew yet, one year subscription is 34USD .

    RE: For changes in fonts go to http://www.symbian-freak.com and check out the modding thread. You have to be a registered member to access it though. I’m fine with the fonts for now.

    Has anyone tried aftermarket Nokia audio adapters for their other brand headsets? I tried an AD-41 yesterday from a friend but it didn’t work. I can’t source Nokia audio adapters from Nokia Care at the moment to try out their “original” Nokia accessories.

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  95. matt on 10 January 2007:

    Just updated a vanilla N73 to IE f/w but it doesnt seem to have installed msn or any of the stuff i was expecting. i am using 3uk.

    any ideas on how i can get msn messenger on my phone.

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  96. johan on 11 January 2007:

    Nice stuff. But to my question, I have a uk phone with english dictionary, if I update using the swedish/norweigan/english phone code, do I then get these dictionaries?

    If you want messanger to your phone, there is a nice guide on how to do it here
    http://s60.blogg.se/program.html
    You can download the installer from the chinese messenger site.

    cheers

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  97. johan on 11 January 2007:

    I can now inform you that if you change the phone code to whatever you want it to be, those languages will come with it. So now I have english and swedish…yay! At nokia they told me that it was impossible… lol as if :)

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  98. wilmar on 12 January 2007:

    hello there..I have an original N73 and i just update the firmware yesterday (original firmware)…Now im trying to update it to N73 Music Edition and goes me to no update available since my firmware is fully up to date…Btw previously I tried to update it from orig to ME edition and it works ..but coz of curiosity i update it back to original..now i want to go back to ME and it doesn’t work anymore (firmware fully up to date)..Helping me for this matter is fully apreciated…and thanks for such info and it helps..
    Thanks in advance

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  99. sidmeier on 13 January 2007:

    to dulber:
    on 3mp zooming:
    sometimes it works, sometimes not :)
    2gigbug: im asking if theres any coz it was mentioned on the thread by blackvest

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  100. Mark Guim on 13 January 2007:

    Oh wow, sorry I haven’t had time to reply. Thanks/salamat to people who are helping out replying with answers (Dulver, mats, Blackvest). I don’t have a Nokia N73 phone with me so I’m afraid I cannot answer a lot of questions here.

    Anyone wanna donate me one? … lol just kidding.

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  101. someone on 13 January 2007:

    if u wanna msn messager, here’s the offical version from Nokia Taiwan for N73 IE, dun worry it comes with english interface

    http://nds1.nokia.com/files/support/china/phones/software/NokiaEmailSites_for_N73_N80_N93.SIS

    more software if you can read Chinese :-)
    http://www.nokia.com.tw/nokia/0,6771,99450,00.html

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  102. someone on 13 January 2007:

    oh sorry, wrong link
    the first one is “Email Sites”

    here’s the MSN

    http://nds1.nokia.com/files/support/china/phones/software/Nokia_MSN_for_N73_N93_N80.sis

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  103. Alex Slane on 14 January 2007:

    Hi there ,
    Just been reading all your post’s , and after some heavy thought decied to take the plunge in to the unknown , After getting my n73 four days ago & seeing this guide on how to change to Music edition or Internet Edtion , went ahead and did the firmware update.
    All went according to plan and the phone is now a nice shiny internet edition in vanilla ( which i am planning to change , thanks to the gudie that you gave ha ha ).
    Well i got to say the only thing i regret is the font that the internet edition has is pooh ! i dont like it at all , is there anyway of changing back to the Standard n73 or getting to fonts changed on the handset , its not that i dont like the Internet Edition its just that the fonts are killing me and i am very happy with how much quicker the handset works.
    Would it be a case of changing the handset back to the euro 1 standard code and would this include the updates.

    Well again thanks for all the help and will speak to you soon hopefully !
    Get back to me guys
    Alex Slane (Wales u.k)

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  104. Rockafeller on 15 January 2007:

    @Alex Slane

    hey.. there is a way (i think) to change ur N73’s font. but its kinda hard.. but you can read the posts on this site on how to change the font. im also in the process of changing my fonts coz i dont like it. i also have an N73 IE. here’s the link.

    http://www.symbian-freak.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5957&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

    but you need to be a member so just sign in..

    i’ve also heard that some people managed to go back to the old N73 firmware after flashing to ME / IE. but i havent tried it yet. sounds complicated and risky.. anyway if ur interested, here;s the link.

    http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=355583

    you also need to be a member i think.. hope that’ll help you.. ^^

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  105. mahal on 15 January 2007:

    Ok I upgraded to IE with HK language and noticed there is a dictionary but it cant be used. Is there a way to get rid of it as I noticed there there was a europe code that I want to use. Can I do this to change hk fw to eyrope fw?. Also y cant I close the music player it always runs in the backgorund

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  106. joncom on 15 January 2007:

    @mahal:
    You can close the music player by playing a song, then go to equaliser and cancel. This closes the music player. I always do this when I first boot my phone since I use LCG Jukebox as a MP3 player instead.

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  107. mahal on 16 January 2007:

    Thanks joncom but I want it to always exit when I stop playing and I dont really want to use a 3rd party app to play. Does the ME edition allow u to exit? I wanna try and go back to ME now from IE if its possible and also can I change the language code to Europe with the 5 european language files.

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  108. dulber on 16 January 2007:

    sidmeier:
    I see. The vanilla N73, mine, at least, used to have memory problems when zooming into images. It said low memory or something.
    After the flash to IE I didn’t experience it anymore.

    I use a Kingston 2Gb MiniSD and it’s working flawlessly.

    My only gripe is after flashing to IE I restored data from a full back-up I ended up with a couple of themes I can no longer un-install (they came with the back-up).
    By the way, I flashed without the MiniSD card.

    I’m going to re-flash to vanilla flavor later after I get off work.
    Then re-install apps from scratch. This time around no data restore to make sure the version I get is “pure”.

    Like mahal posted I also have a dictionary that doesn’t work.
    I believe it’s an English to Simple Chinese version and a modem app that only connect via infrared. Go figure.

    Mark Guim:
    I suppose no matter how much we thank you it won’t net a new N73
    How are service providers in your location? Maybe they can offer you something irresistible for less quid?

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  109. VaguelyAmused on 16 January 2007:

    Hi Mark,

    Sorry to ask a slightly unrelated question - but the picture of the N73 you show on your blog has black side shortcut keys, IMHO that looks really nice with only the top navigaton keys in silver. I’ve looked everywhere for a replacement keypad like that and although I can find “black” keypads they still have silver side shortcut keys - does you, or anyone else, know where you can get a keypad that looks like the one in the picture on your blog??

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  110. mahal on 16 January 2007:

    I think his 1 is original ME Model which comes in black.
    Ok so I found this 0539269 (Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish, English)So can I flash this agin on my IE version to change the language and will it get rid of the useless dictionary?

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  111. Mark Guim on 16 January 2007:

    Vaguely, the phone above with the black keypads is the actual Internet Edition phone being sold in Asia. Right now, the only way you can that color keypad is by buying/trading it off from an N73IE phone owner in Asia.

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  112. tron on 16 January 2007:

    The upgrade worked for me! I went from 0539297 to 0539366 with Nokia updater version 1.2.3. It did stay at 80% upgraded for a few minutes, but I just waited and it eventually finished.

    I do have the new music player and internet folder, but no msn, gmail or other internet links or icons. The new music player was worth the upgrade, and yes it is runningin the background all the time. Stereo widening does sound better. The phone is faster. Camera still makes shutter sound in silent mode. The fonts don’t look that bad, although the original fonts were chubbier and anti-aliased.

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  113. Rex on 17 January 2007:

    Ok so it worked for me-on the second try. The first time I tried, my computer rebooted due to a power surge. Result- RIP N73.
    After a week chasing the care center folks, they reflashed it to a newer bios. Once again I changed the code to Hongkong and tried it. It failed at 80%..then I retried, and it worked!

    Now here’s the weirdness…I changed the theme to a custom theme and the phone crashed. On rebooting-the ‘Internet’ folder had vanished, and its contents (downloads,search and Web) were in the main applications folder!!
    The function key works normally, the music player is the same updated one (with balance, stereo widening and loudness, and album art support).
    Firmware version is now the same as other IE-
    3.0638.0.0.43
    30-10-2006
    RM-133
    N-73(14)

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  114. mahal on 17 January 2007:

    To mark Guim