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Solution to Problem Transfering Data from the Nokia N70 to the N95

There’s a bug with the Nokia data transfer application that stops it from working out of the box.

My old phone is a Nokia N70 but this should work for all other models.

If you set up your new phone and follow the clear instructions (that I won’t repeat here) then you will get as far as the N95 transferring an application called “DataMover.sis” to your old phone but no further. Trying to install DataMover.sis will give the warning: “Certificate may not yet be valid, is expired or phone’s date setting may be incorrect.”

The certificate has been incorrectly set to expire on 12 June 2007. To work around this, temporarily set your old phone’s date to some point before that in order to trick it into installing the application. (Tip: just change the year to 2006, it makes it easier to restore the correct date later.)

Once the application has been installed to your old handset the rest of the process should proceed smoothly.

This entry was posted on Saturday, September 8th, 2007 at 12:31 pm and is filed under howto, Nokia, Symbian. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “Solution to Problem Transfering Data from the Nokia N70 to the N95”

  1. billibala Says:
    September 30th, 2007 at 3:05 pm

    I found your post from google. This is really helpful. I wasn’t able to transfer data from my new E61i. It’s OK now with your help notes.

    Thanks

  2. Tim Hardy Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 7:41 pm

    Glad it helped!

  3. Asher Says:
    October 22nd, 2007 at 7:55 am

    Honestly! This post of yours (the trick about changing the date a year back) solved me a month-long quandry of how to data transfer….Thanks a lot…:)

  4. Tim Hardy Says:
    October 22nd, 2007 at 10:02 pm

    You’re welcome Asher. Transferring the data manually would be way too irritating :)

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