Nokia Symbian Certificate Closed since June 23, 2011[Updated August 25, 2011]
Bad news are aplenty for Symbian users these days, the latest one being that OPDA (and countless similar sites) has stopped working since June 23, 2011 to give them an IMEI-specific cer/key file, required to sign an unsigned app sis/sisx file. This is because some now rules and procedure is used by Symbian certification.
The following article is a step by step picture guide on how to acquire the certificate and private key for your Series 60 Smartphone using OPDA free service.This article describes how to sign/unsign S60 Symbian SIS/SISX package files with your own certificate signature using SISContents by Aquarius.
The prerequisite to signing S60 Symbian applications (.SIS/.SISX files) is to have both your phone’s certificate (.CER) and private key (.KEY) files in hand.
One of the reliable free services around to obtain your CER/KEY is using cer.opda.cn service.
Step by Step Picture Guide
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Here’s your comprehensive step by step guide on obtaining your OPDA CER/KEY:
| Step 1: Opening cer.opda.cn in Chinese Browse http://cer.opda.cn/, so it shows the website in Chinese. | |
| Step 2: Changing cer.opda.cn’s Language to English Click on the UK flag on the upper right corner, so it changes the language to English. | |
| Step 3: Register Click on “Register” on the upper right corner, so it shows the registration form. | |
| Step 4: Registration Data Entry Fill in your desired username, password, email, and the CAPTCHA, and click “Submit and register.” | |
| Step 5: Registered Successfully If your information is correct, it should display “Registered successfully.” | |
| Step 6: Login Now it will automatically redirect you to the login form. | |
| Step 7: Login Data Entry Fill in your username and password, and click “Login.” | |
| Step 8: Login Successfully If your information is correct, it should display “Login successfully.” | |
| Step 9: Certificates Table Now it will automatically redirect you to your empty certificates table. Click on the “Apply cer” button. | |
| Step 10: Apply for Certificate Now it shows apply for certificate form. | |
| Step 11: Apply for Certificate Data Entry Fill in your cellphone brand/model, its IMEI (dialing *#06# on your cellphone), and a short remark of your phone, and click “Submit application.” | |
| Step 12: Operation Successfully If your information is correct, it should display “Operation successfully!” | |
| Step 13: Applying State Now your certificates table contains your S60 Smartphone’s certificate in “Applying” state. | |
| Come back in a while (a few hours or more), and follow steps 1 and 2. Then click on “Login” on the upper right corner, so it shows the login form. Now follow step 7 to login. | |
| Step 14: Normal State Now if the certificate is ready, the state should be changed from “Applying” to “Normal”. | |
| Step 15: Download CER file Click on “.cer” to download your phone’s certificate. | |
| Step 16: Save As CER File Save the certificate, selecting a proper filename with “.cer” extension. | |
| Step 17: Download KEY file Click on “.key” to download your private key. | |
| Step 18: Save As KEY File Save the private key, selecting a proper filename with “.key” extension. |
AFTER DOWNLOADING .KEY AND .CER WHAT DO U HAVE TO DO NEXT?
OR IN OTHER WORDS WHAT WILL BE THE NEXT STEP.
SHALL I SAVE IT IN MY MEMORY CARD?…WHERE?
.CER and .KEY files should be applied to each .SIS / .SISX Symbian application you’re going to install on your smartphone. This article describes how to do so.
After using OPDA program, i received .cer and .key. I download them and from this step starts my problem. Both files, i rename to .cer and .key accordingly. Not any problem with .cer , i mean with the rename automatically became ‘security certificate’. The key file, it is downloaded as HTML file (i don’t know why) and even if i rename to .key, continue to be html file and NOT ‘registry entrie’ file (as must). With results program ‘signSIS-GUI’ to not recognize it.
Please, if you can, give me a solution how to resolve that problem. Thank you in advance.
Using drag’n’drop, open both files in Notepad to check their integrity:
The .CER file should start with “—–BEGIN CERTIFICATE—–” followed by Base64-encoded content.
The .KEY file should start with “—–BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY—–” followed by Base64-encoded content.
But my free signer does not read the .key file
You can also use “Martik SIS Signer 3.1” to sign yor SIS apps, games and themes.
When I click key it downloads the certificate and yes, cer downloads certificate. Is this normal?
login after 3 to 5 day…….daily this page is open on opda……..plz help
how much time does OPDA take to create .cer and .key files. it has been 2 days and it is showing status “being produced”
This procedure is expieried. It show’s only Being produced, What will we do. We will search another option to get certificate and key, Plez anybody knows plez tell me another option plez plez plez. To send the Procedure Do.it.ragu75@gmail.com.
OPDA doesn’t works!I’m waiting more than 2 weeks…
i cant login please help me
OPDA stopped working since June 23, 2011.