Monday, April 12, 2010

Changing Nokia 5800XM Fonts

Hey Everyone,

This is especially for the folks, who have the great 5800XM device. You can change your system fonts very easily. To make it quick, following are the steps:
(Assuming that you are on Windows)
  1. First create a folder in you PC (eg: on Desktop) named "Fonts" (without quotes) and copy your favorite font from windows (Times New Roman - this has to be truetype)
  2. Then make another 3 copies and rename them all to;
    • s60snr
    • s60ssb
    • s60tsb
    • S60ZDIGI
  3. Connect the phone to the device using "Mass Storage" mode.
  4. Copy the Fonts folder to E:\Resources\ - assuming that your memory card is taken as E:
  5. Now disconnect and restart your phone.
Now I believe that you have your device decorated with your favorite font. I have installed "Times New Roman" and some screenshots are here;

So it's your turn to see what your device's got... ;)
If you have any problem or other solution related to this, please don't forget to comment

3 comments:

Kasun (කසුන්) said...

I forgot and I know that you people won't think that only windows isn't the solution for this. You can do this trick whatever the system you have on your computer... ;)

Anonymous said...

Charter guide eka. Thoge 5800 eka XM wune kohomei?

admin said...

I use "Tahoma" in windows and would like to change the default fonts to "Tahoma". I have noted down the procedure and will follow it. Hope that every things goes well and i am too surprised with new look of my phone.

Thanks!

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