How To: Change Back To Smoother Fonts On The North American Nokia N95 8GB Using FontRouter LT

July 7th, 2008 • Mark Guim • Filed Under •

After the upgrading to the latest firmware v20.2.005 for the North American Nokia N95 8GB, you probably noticed the rougher fonts due to anti-aliasing getting tuned off. There’s no option or settings in our phone for us to change it back, but I’ll show you how to turn it back on by simply installing FontRouter LT.

Anti-Aliasing on Nokia N95 8GB
Anti-aliasing OFF vs ON

All you need to do is install FontRouter LT (I suggest to your memory card). Reboot and you’re done. Others use FontRouter to change the font type on their phones, but I’ll save that for another post.

There’s no icon to access the FontRouter application and there’s no need to change anything. If you’re still curious, you have to access and edit the e:\data\fonts\fontrouter.ini with a file explorer like X-plore. Reboot after making any changes. The setting that forces anti-aliasing is:

FontRouter.ini

More Comparisons

Anti-Alias ON
Anti-Alias On

Anti-Alias OFF
Anti-alias OFF

With anti-alias on, texts are more pleasing to read.

This tip also works for other phones with anti-aliasing turned off, but I don’t know which exact models those are. I’m confused why the Nokia N95 8GB’s fonts got altered after the firmware upgrade since I’m sure people like anti-aliasing turned on by default.

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  1. Symbianespanol on 7 July 2008:

    I read some ’scary’ comments about people bricking their phones after installing FONT ROUTER. In N95-4, there is no memory card, so you don’t have the chance to remove it and safely initiate.

    Anyone already try installing in a N95-4?

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  2. Mark Guim on 7 July 2008:

    This was installed on my nokia n95-4 to the E drive aka mass memory.

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  3. Symbianespanol on 7 July 2008:

    GREAT. Any known risk installing on the PHONE MEMORY?

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  4. Symbianespanol on 7 July 2008:

    By the way, could you please point me to a SIGNABLE or already sign version? I donwload this one: FontRouter.LT.for.v9.Build20071109.unsigned.sis

    But I’m unable to sign it.

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  5. Symbianespanol on 7 July 2008:

    I find it. Working now. Tnx!

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  6. Mr. H on 8 July 2008:

    All the versions on that site seems to be unsigned, and uninstallable. Any help?

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  7. Mark Guim on 8 July 2008:

    Mr. H There are sources online on how to sign application. It’s really such a big pain in the A$$. If you want to easily install unsigned applications, you need a hacked s60 phone. <— read the how to.

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  8. ayush3090 on 11 July 2008:

    i own a 5700, n its update wasnt available in any region other than HK when i wanted to update to 4.21
    so i changed my product code to HK from india
    n i experienced the same NO anti-aliasing problem in the HK firmware
    but this thing further screwed it up by over-enlarging the fonts

    v4.21 (indian firmware - some1 else’s phone) - [img]http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/2452/screenshot0023yu9.jpg[/img]

    v4.21 (HK firmware - no anti aliasing) - [img]http://xs128.xs.to/xs128/08220/screenshot0006144.jpg[/img]

    v.21 (HK firmware - after installing font router) - [img]http://xs229.xs.to/xs229/08285/screenshot0007583.jpg[/img]

    anyway thanx for this tip

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  9. abenia on 19 July 2008:

    Hello
    I’m Andrés.
    I have tried installing it in a Nokia E60.
    Installed Fontrouter and modified fontrouter.ini.

    However it bricked my phone. I dont know if it is the fact that I have s60v3 and not s60v3 fp1 or any other cause… but mi phone won’t boot.
    It just turns on, the word Nokia appears.. and afet about 2 or 3 minuts it dissappears, the screen goes white and the phone hangs (I know because I try to turn it of and it does not work).

    Do you know of any means of booting the phone without loading apps?

    By the way.. people try installing it on the memory card and not on the phone memory, at least if it won’t work… you can extract the memory card…

    Greetings from Uruguay.

    Andrés

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