how to get a console shell on my symbian phone?

Question

How do I get a bash or a similar shell for my new Symbian s60 rev 5 phone (Nokia 5800) ?

I already installed putty for s60, but it does not have telnet and it seems that there is no local ssh server running.

Answer 1

• There's eshell but it is usually not included in phone SW that is put on the device. You can use it on emulator though.

• There's a port of zsh that you can also run on the device. It's way more powerful than eshell.

Answer 2

Here is an article which explains text console in Carbide. You just should add -dtextshell parameter. It will work for emulator, but I'm not sure if it works on the device.