Nokia 5230 Free Navigation / Maps

Recently Nokia made Navigation free atleast in India. However if you now tried to connect for free navigation it still asks for you go to the store. The reason for this is that Nokia has allowed free Navigation using Ovi Maps only on the new version of the software.

So if you have bought your phone couple of weeks ago there is a very good chance you are on the old version. What you need to do is go to the Nokia site and upgrade your version of Ovi maps to the latest version.

There are two ways of getting this done, one is to download the software on your computer and then Sync with your phone which would then automatically upgrade the version of Ovi Maps that is present on your phone.

The second option is to directly download the software to your phone and run it from there. However this would require a data connection from your service provider.

The link for downloading the software is here

If you want to get the map data stored directly on your computer you should go through this post.

http://piglings.blogspot.com/2010/01/nokia-5230-maps.html

Nokia 5230 Maps

My dad just got his Nokia 5230, nice phone that comes with Ovi Maps 3 installed however there were no map data available. Since he didn't have GPRS enabled on his phone I decided to do some digging around to make use of the GPS device bundled into the Nokia 5230.

Credit to symbian underground for helping me get this to work.


The first step is to have you your external card ready. Run Nokia Maps on your phone once before you add any maps or voices. This will create the required folder structure on your memory card. Quit the application after that.

On my Nokia the folder structure is cities with a subfolder called diskcache, filled with 16 subfolders called 0 to 9 and a to f, and each of these folders have another 16 subfolders 0 to 9 and a to f.


For India, download the following file from Nokia itself

India Maps

Extract the zip file into your local computer, once done copy drop the 16 folders called 0-9 and a-f into the diskcache folder of the Nokia 5230. You can do this by connecting your device as a external hard drive via the Micro USB port.

Thats it, maps should now work. You should now disconnect the connection to the computer and only then run maps again.

If you want voice as well download the following files

English or Hindi

Extract all the files into the cities folder. That is it.




For other countries check the maps links here
http://diabo.freehostia.com/symbian/indexmaps.htm

The voice links of other languages are here
http://diabo.freehostia.com/symbian/nokiamaps/voices001.html

If you want to enable free Navigation, do read this post
http://piglings.blogspot.com/2010/02/nokia-5230-free-navigation-maps.html

Hope it helps, do leave me a comments. No files are hosted on this site !