The definitive guide for signing your own applications
Applications, General, N95 January 15th, 2008Hi everyone,
I’ve seen quite a few comments recently on people struggling with ‘beta’ apps and not being able to sign the application.
Here is a guide I found today which step by step shows you exactly what is needed to sign your own apps.
I haven’t tested it myself yet, but I will over the next couple of days.
In the meantime, anyone else that has the time, give it a go and see what you can find out.
Bear in mind it may cost you a few dollars to get your own certificate, however once you have it you’ll be able to sign any of those unsigned applications that you have laying around.
You can view the guide at this website http://n95-nokia-phone.blogspot.com/2007/09/advanced-and-inquisitive-symbian.html
January 15th, 2008 at 5:08 am
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.
h
January 15th, 2008 at 7:53 am
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?
January 15th, 2008 at 10:48 am
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.
January 16th, 2008 at 12:48 am
certs are IMEI-specific and ‘locked’ to one particular phone. they therefore cannot be shared.
January 16th, 2008 at 2:19 am
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.
January 17th, 2008 at 11:31 am
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
January 17th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
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/
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:23 am
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 :\
January 24th, 2008 at 10:17 am
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
February 28th, 2008 at 1:15 am
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?
March 13th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
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.”
March 30th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
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!
March 31st, 2008 at 9:24 pm
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 ?
April 7th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
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
May 20th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
or you could just install the unsigned file. google for “drakkarious signer”.