So I wanted to install DivX on my Nokia E61, but the installer kept giving me a “certificate error, please contact phone supplier” and since I wasn’t going to contact eBay about it, I had to poke through the menus a bit, which is something I needed to do anyway, and still have to on a daily basis, because a Nokia UI is a tad different than the Motorola one I’m used to…
Anyway, I guess the issue is similar to trusted content on the web, and the phone’s trying to protect me from installing something that says it something else, but in this case I downloaded the file from DivX, so unless they’ve been hacked, I’m about as safe as I am installing, well, pretty much anything else that I find on the interweb.
So. To install software that has a certificate error, you need to change the installer setting to “ignore the certificate,” which is probably less safe and may result in 553 yaks appearing in your living room, use your judgement, etc. To start the madness, follow this menu path:
Menu, Tools, App. manager, Options, Settings, Software installation, and change this to “all.”
In my case, it let me watch AVI files from Google Video (downloaded and transferred from a PC). Now I’ve got to go buy a bigger memory card… Knowledge is expensive!
kaisar | 17-Apr-07 at 6:00 am | Permalink
Thanks man! It was good help. I looked everywhere but the application manager. E61 rocks!
-Kaisar
Ecki | 13-May-07 at 8:10 am | Permalink
Thanks man. I was almost loosing it with my new e61. You saved the phone.
greg | 07-Jun-07 at 10:00 am | Permalink
My god, I was beggining to think the only thing this phone was good for was throwing at my sister, why oh why dose the manual have 4,000 pages of rubbish in it and nothing to atually help you?
Jason | 07-Jun-07 at 11:35 am | Permalink
I hear that. I was really excited when I got it, but I really haven’t used it much so far. Is there an E61 user documentation project wiki out there? ‘Cause Nokia needs to promote one.