Comments on: The definitive guide for signing your own applications

By: paul

paul — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:12:37 +0000

or you could just install the unsigned file. google for “drakkarious signer”.

By: nikolakis

nikolakis — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:12:41 +0000

hi!i have the certificate problem as other has and i tried the way that beatzyboy gives but i have always the same problem at step 28 where gives my alway the same error that says that something went rong and i have to try again but now not to do anything from entering my imei.pleaze hepl.sos

By: tiziano

tiziano — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:24:33 +0000

hi, using the online procedure as shown on

http://www.simplysymbian.com/2008/03/04/how-to-symbian-sign-applications-using-open-signed-without-a-publisher-id/

i receive this error message :

FAILURE: Submitted .sis file uses a UID that is not allocated to the account holder matching this email address (0x200087b5 )

can u help me ?

By: schnuck

schnuck — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:15:08 +0000

hi gareth,

there seems to be a way to get around this, please read this:

http://www.simplysymbian.com/2008/03/04/how-to-symbian-sign-applications-using-open-signed-without-a-publisher-id/

hope this helps!

By: Gareth

Gareth — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:16:14 +0000

Any one know how to get a developers certificate without paying the $200 for a publisher ID?
“Developer Certificates will be ENABLED for users who have a Publisher ID ONLY.”

By: markuz

markuz — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:15:45 +0000

symbiansigned.com now has a notice on the front page:

Developer Certificates will be ENABLED for users who have a Publisher ID ONLY. (during GMT office hours)

Is there any way to sign them without a publisher id?

By: stuart

stuart — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:17:50 +0000

Thanks beatzyboy
That worked for me. I did have trouble with devcertrequest. The installer refused to load. If anyone has the same problem, there appears to be an updated version. See this whirlpool link: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/880511.html

By: beatzyboy

beatzyboy — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:23:32 +0000

I recently successfully self-signed RotateMe using a guide that is very similar to the ones mentioned above, however it also includes info on how to get a free email address (from http://www.2ip.com) that SymbianSigned will allow for use in their registration:
http://symbianwebblog.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/8/

It sure is a lengthy process, but the instructions are easy to follow.

P.S. Its not possible to create a certificate (for example a “My95″ cert.) and then share it around, as each certificate is specific to a phone/device, which makes it a freakin pain if, say, you need to test a variety of software on a large variety of different phones :\

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:38:29 +0000

I did a guide to free signing a while back. You shouldn’t ever need to pay to sign apps just for you. It’s free to sign just one IMEI. You can generate a certificate that will last 10 years for each IMEI then signing an app takes a minute or two.

http://kid666.com/blog/2007/05/28/how-to-sign-nokias-s60-symbian-sis-applications/

By: pavlos

pavlos — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:31:42 +0000

well i tried to follow both links and when i download the device certificate request i just cant get it to run and install… anyone got any suggestions?
btw great site admin… i ve been following you through the very beginning even if it is the first time i post something

By: admin

admin — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:19:29 +0000

Thanks schnuck,
you learn something new everyday.

Stuart, if the site accepts myn95.com for a domain name maybe we can work something out and give users a redirect so that they can get a certificate.

By: schnuck

schnuck — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:48:55 +0000

certs are IMEI-specific and ‘locked’ to one particular phone. they therefore cannot be shared.

By: stuart

stuart — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:48:30 +0000

The issue for me with signing applications is the unusual restrictions on emails at symbiansigned.com.

Both my internode and ozemail email addresses (both POP3 addresses of course) are rejected, as is my Three email address (I get the ‘Registration from this email domain is not allowed.’ or ‘Your email has address has been rejected as we do not accept registrations from publicly available email domains (e.g. gmail, yahoo, hotmail etc).’.

If you check the symbian developer forum there are possibly hundreds of requests to whitelist particular domains. It isn’t clear to me why these arbitrary restrictions are in place. What does symbian expect to achieve by limiting access in this way? Needless to say I am not going to buy a domain name just to get access to symbian signed!

BTW This is a fantastic site. Invaluable for N95 owners.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:53:05 +0000

I am *all* for not having to pay to get apps signed.
If people have other methods, please share them here.

Perhaps we can just get a myN95 cert made up and share it around?

By: henare

henare — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:08:56 +0000

Please note, signing S60 applications with a developer key will _never_ require you to pay for a certificate.

Whilst this ‘definitive’ guide hasn’t been tested, it looks good to me as it matches a similar one I followed:

http://www.simplysymbian.com/2007/12/18/how-to-symbian-sign-your-freeware-applications-so-you-can-install-stuff-like-rotateme/

Note that once you’ve signed one or two apps it becomes simple and you can do it in a matter of a minute or so.

Remember that you’ll need to sign new versions of beta applications as they come out and you wish to install them on your device.