15 May
Darla Mack has written a nice tutorial on how to change the defaults fonts on Nokia S60 3rd Edition based N-Series/E-Series mobile devices such as Nokia N95, E60, N93, N80 etc to that of a Windows Vista or XP based computer. Windows Vista has introduced some nice, large fonts about which I had talked about earlier in the Guide to installing Windows Vista/Outlook 2007 Fonts on Windows XP/Outlook 2003.
Here’s a brief step by step on how to go about doing the same on your S60 mobile device:
1) Goto to Start—>Run and type Fonts. It will take you to the C:\WINDOWS\Fonts folder which contain all your system fonts
2) Create a new folder on your desktop called Fonts
3) Copy TTF fonts from C:\WINDOWS\Fonts to the Fonts folder on your desktop
4) Rename the Fonts on the folder on your desktop to match the names of the preinstalled Fonts on your mobile device found under Z:/resource/fonts (Z: is your Flash ROM) such as:
nosnr60.ttf = Nokia Sans S60 Regular
nssb60.ttf = Nokia Sans S60 SemiBold
nstsb60.ttf = Nokia Sans S60 TitleSmBd S60
S60ZDIGI.ttf = Series 60 ZDigi
5) Connect your mobile phone in the Mass Storage mode to the computer or use a card reader to access your memory card (E: drive)
6) Copy the Fonts folder from your desktop to the E:\Resource folder on the memory card. If you get a file copy or in use error, try copying the folder using a USB card reader.
7) Change the mobile device mode to PC Suite, unplug it and reboot the phone
If you want to undo this, simple remove your memory card, reboot the phone, delete the Fonts folder from E:\Resource folder and put it back again.
Warning: Do this at your own risk
6 Responses
Don Chong
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:39 pm
1About changing fonts on S60 3rd Edition.
Hi, i am using a Nokia N80, the firmware is V5.0719.0.2, RM-92, Nokia N80 (11) dated 24.05.2007.
After reading this post, would like to try to change font on my N80. However, my z:/resource/fonts/ .. showed only these three ‘font’; S60SC.ccc,
S60TCHK.ccc,
S60ZDIGI.ttf.
Its all different from the type of fonts mentioned.
I did a trial by using a sample S60 San font from the web, rename it to S60SC.ccc. The result turned S60SC.ccc.ttf. Also tried other font, rename it to S60TCHK.ccc, but became S60TCHK.ccc.ttf.
Last, transfer those ‘rename’ name to my memory card’s E:/resource/fonts.. Rebooted, but sad to say nothing happen, nothing changes.
Please help and advise, greatly appreciated.
Don
osrootofos
November 12th, 2007 at 8:22 am
2hi
give me the names of the files in your z(rom)/resources/fonts.
Dio
January 25th, 2008 at 11:32 am
3Hi,
I also have 1 N95 , update to firmware 20.0 from Nokia website.
In Z:/resource/Fonts, I see 3 fonts :
S60SC.ccc
S60TCHK.ccc
S60ZDIGI.ttf
I tried your method : copy Tahoma Font, Arial Font, Verdana Font and rename them to exactly like these 3 fonts, then copy to E:/resources/Fonts,
But after reboot, nothing happen.
Could you help me ? Thanks a bunch buddy
davood
March 27th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
4Hi,
I also have 1 N95 , update to firmware 20.0 from Nokia website.
In Z:/resource/Fonts, I see 3 fonts :
S60SC.ccc
S60TCHK.ccc
S60ZDIGI.ttf
I tried your method : copy Tahoma Font, Arial Font, Verdana Font and rename them to exactly like these 3 fonts, then copy to E:/resources/Fonts,
But after reboot, nothing happen.
fönix
July 27th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
5help N93 E:/Resource
forwhat
August 6th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
6hello guys,
First thing on renaming files, use the winrar program. Open winrar, explore to the directory where you see the file, press F2 to rename. The extension will be changed successfullly, and you wont have that error which Don Chong have. (”.ccc.ttf”)
Second thing, on how many files to rename. When you go to the phone directory “z:/resource/fonts/”, note down the number of files there and their names + type of extension.
Third thing, choosing your font. Note: One font at each time, not three different fonts for three files. Copy your selected font to duplicate the number of files in your Z directory. So, if your Z directory has 3 files, copy your selected font so that it duplicates to three files. Then, use the winrar program to rename them exactly as you have it in Z directory originally and their extension as well.
these three things should clear the doubts in the excellent tutorial above.
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