merten3000
15-04-2005, 12:02 PM
Total FLASH guide for DUMMIES
Info:
- Firmwares are the software of your cellphone... (the windows / linux of your phone :))
- Firmwares are being improved all the time and little known bugs (like the kalenderbug in old
versions) are fixed in newer firmwares.
- Firmwares can sometimes be changed (modded) by 'hackers'. That way you can modify the
entire phone as long as you have the right programs and knowledge
- Those (modded or newer) firmwares can be flashed into your phone replacing the old
firmware.
- The D500 does not have voice-dialing/voice-commands. TIM a italian provider had his own
branded unique firmware which DID have voice-dialing/voice-commands (D500E). So you
can flash that firmware if you want those futures. Unfortunately that's an older firmware with
some bugs. At the time of this writing there is not yet a way to remove those but I know for
sure that there will be one in time. What has been done is removing the annoying branding of
TIM so now you can flash the 'unbranded' software to your D500 and make it a D500E with
voice-dialing/voice-commands.
* Firmwares are shown as:
examples: D500CEEB3 or D500AIDK6
type *#1234# in your phone to see which firmware you have.
D500 stands for the type of samsung phone
CE / AI = branding type or coutry/region (CE is western europe, AI is TIM branding etc)
E / D = Year of the firmware release (D=2004 E=2005 F=2006 etc)
E / K = Month of the firmware release (A= januari B=februari....L=december)
3 / 6 = revision number of the software in that month (example CEEB3
is 'newer' than CEEB2)
Flashing:
1) Buy a serial cable and a 9v battery:
for example at http://allgsm.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=302&osCsid=abc18469df05299629cd7e735c2b9936
Not expensive and they deliver fast (england to holland 5 days!!)
2) Download the firmware you want to flash (must be 3 files: a tfs a cfg and a bin or cla file)
See for nice firmware downloads:
* http://avi-stuff.irde.to/files.php?catid=116
* http://www.samsung-stuff.de (look in the database)
* http://www.samsungworld.net/forum/index.php
* http://www.cell-base.com/4free/files.php
3) The flashing :
- Remove simcard, and make sure you have a fully charged battery (of phone)
- Connect the cable to the phone and attach 9v battery to cable.
- Open corona downloader and hit start. (it will say to power on your phone)
- Push phone 'on' button shortly.
- Files are being read. (about 30 sec)
- You now can do a NOR and NAND backup if you want but you can skip this step.
If you do you will get a 30 mb and a 128 mb .hex file. Rename the 30 mb to .cla and the 128
mb to .tfs and you have your own backup.
- Press the 'format' button under NAND flash. (takes about 15 sec). Do this or you will have
empty 0 kb pictures in your picture maps which you can not delete in your phone.
(If you do not erase the NOR flash all names/numbers will not be affected, your
mms and wap settings will be lost!! So write them down before flashing)
- Select 'tfs+bin' and in the browse buttons select the .tfs file and the .bin (or .cla) from the
firmware you want to put in your phone.
- Now hit download.
- Wait for about 3 hours and your done. The program will say when it's done.
That's all folks
Enjoy...
Greetz Merten
Info:
- Firmwares are the software of your cellphone... (the windows / linux of your phone :))
- Firmwares are being improved all the time and little known bugs (like the kalenderbug in old
versions) are fixed in newer firmwares.
- Firmwares can sometimes be changed (modded) by 'hackers'. That way you can modify the
entire phone as long as you have the right programs and knowledge
- Those (modded or newer) firmwares can be flashed into your phone replacing the old
firmware.
- The D500 does not have voice-dialing/voice-commands. TIM a italian provider had his own
branded unique firmware which DID have voice-dialing/voice-commands (D500E). So you
can flash that firmware if you want those futures. Unfortunately that's an older firmware with
some bugs. At the time of this writing there is not yet a way to remove those but I know for
sure that there will be one in time. What has been done is removing the annoying branding of
TIM so now you can flash the 'unbranded' software to your D500 and make it a D500E with
voice-dialing/voice-commands.
* Firmwares are shown as:
examples: D500CEEB3 or D500AIDK6
type *#1234# in your phone to see which firmware you have.
D500 stands for the type of samsung phone
CE / AI = branding type or coutry/region (CE is western europe, AI is TIM branding etc)
E / D = Year of the firmware release (D=2004 E=2005 F=2006 etc)
E / K = Month of the firmware release (A= januari B=februari....L=december)
3 / 6 = revision number of the software in that month (example CEEB3
is 'newer' than CEEB2)
Flashing:
1) Buy a serial cable and a 9v battery:
for example at http://allgsm.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=302&osCsid=abc18469df05299629cd7e735c2b9936
Not expensive and they deliver fast (england to holland 5 days!!)
2) Download the firmware you want to flash (must be 3 files: a tfs a cfg and a bin or cla file)
See for nice firmware downloads:
* http://avi-stuff.irde.to/files.php?catid=116
* http://www.samsung-stuff.de (look in the database)
* http://www.samsungworld.net/forum/index.php
* http://www.cell-base.com/4free/files.php
3) The flashing :
- Remove simcard, and make sure you have a fully charged battery (of phone)
- Connect the cable to the phone and attach 9v battery to cable.
- Open corona downloader and hit start. (it will say to power on your phone)
- Push phone 'on' button shortly.
- Files are being read. (about 30 sec)
- You now can do a NOR and NAND backup if you want but you can skip this step.
If you do you will get a 30 mb and a 128 mb .hex file. Rename the 30 mb to .cla and the 128
mb to .tfs and you have your own backup.
- Press the 'format' button under NAND flash. (takes about 15 sec). Do this or you will have
empty 0 kb pictures in your picture maps which you can not delete in your phone.
(If you do not erase the NOR flash all names/numbers will not be affected, your
mms and wap settings will be lost!! So write them down before flashing)
- Select 'tfs+bin' and in the browse buttons select the .tfs file and the .bin (or .cla) from the
firmware you want to put in your phone.
- Now hit download.
- Wait for about 3 hours and your done. The program will say when it's done.
That's all folks
Enjoy...
Greetz Merten