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If anyone's interested here's [0] a Mediafire archive of Symbian developer sources of all kinds, from compilers and SDKs to manuals.

[0] https://www.mediafire.com/folder/79jhy594xb3uk/Symbian_Devel...

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Thank you, this is gold. I have discovered a couple of nokia phones in my drawer and I was wondering how the hell I could develop on them. Since then I have discovered the whole "cooked ROM" scene, which has of course died in the meantime. I hope that archive will answer my questions. Btw, if anyone knows, is a special piece of hardware needed to flash the firmware of a nokia symbian phone?

Symbian devs had their own flashing stations/cradles but at some point it became possible to flash newer phones over USB. The software tool was called Phoenix and used regularly be leaked.

Thanks. I wish I knew about these back to high school days 2001. Instead, I learnt J2ME and.... weill still a Java dev until today :p

For what it's worth, I took a mobile software dev course in University, and it targeted mainly Symbian. I learned that I definitely do not want to do that. It was a painful experience.

I ended up doing mobile development anyway, but not until Qt was a viable option for Symbian.

Any way to get those onto archive.org?

The same set files seem to be mirrored at https://katastrophos.net/symbian/mirrors/delight/. Probably more wget-friendly than Mediafire.

Also, «Symbian Archive»[0,1] project has a lot of mirrors of Symbian source & software.

Here is a list of active Symbian software developers* (+ links to its projects).[2]

P.S. I'm luckily archived/mirrored LCG's X-plore[3] & ProfiMail[4] apps source repos in time when it was released into Public Domain by LonelyCatGames* team (now official repos is disabled).

[0] https://mrrosset.github.io/Symbian-Archive/index.html

[1] https://github.com/mrRosset/Symbian-Archive

[2] https://github.com/mrRosset/Symbian-Archive/issues/10

[3] https://github.com/Symbian9/X-plore_free

[4] https://github.com/Symbian9/ProfiMail_free

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