Total FLASH guide for DUMMIES

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=abc18469df 05299629cd7e735c2b9936
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

Hi ... i have the correct cable for flashing but do not have the 9v battery connection with it.. also i have tryed downloading corona downloader but when i try to open it , it says not a valid win32 file what you reckon is the problem can you help please

Last edited by xux99 on Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:53 am, edited 1 time in total

Maybe you have a serial data cable without a battery connector. This cable is not suitable for flashing the phone, it can be used for data transfer only. You can buy a serial flashing cable. Alternatively there is also a USB flashing cable. Try downloading Corona Downloader from this site.

hello
I have got a usb data cable and I want to now de procedure to do flashing for my d500

Read above then. Please search forum this question has been answered before.

I am attempting to debrand my 2 D500's (currently Orange, firmware D500BVEA1 and D500BVEB1) and am using a serial cable with 9V battery (using a new duracell for safety!), and Corona Downloader 3.2

When I click 'START' on Corona, it asks me to power on phone... but as soon as i touch the power button I get..

** Send '0x44' to SWIFT Chip
Bad Response from SWIFT Chip (0x81)
** Send '0x44' to SWIFT Chip
Bad Response from SWIFT Chip (0xFF)

This happens with BOTH phones. I have checked that my COM port 1 is set to 115200 and have tried on 2 different PCs (both XP SP2).

ARRRGGGGGG!!!!! HELP!! PLEASE! what am I doing wrong???!?!?!?

Okay, after 2 USB cables I finally got the Serial Cable.
I have a brandnew 9v battery, but when I attach everything, nothing happens.
Easy Studio/PC Studio can't find the phone and Corona also cannot find it. Tried all the settings and both com ports.
Does anyone have an idea what's wrong? Is the cable defect?

.

** Wait for Connect Request from Mobile...
** (POWER ON the PHONE!)

This is the only MSG i get.... And its on...and i did all the steps except i don't have the cable with batery, but just usb one...

Any ideas??? or i have to wait longer

oo yea my version of software installed inside is..d500bded1

Hi
As above i have hit download, but a third of the way through downloading i have a check sum error. What do i do now?
Any help much appreciated.
Cheers

Hello, 'im french,

I just want to know "How make the *.CFG file for restore fw backup"
because i have the correct two files (NAND and NOR) dumped from a D500E ORANGE fw... and i want to restore that backup... but Corona_Downloader needs the .cfg file (linked to the TFS file) to do a right "flash-restore" !!!

Please >>> "How make that file *.CFG"

i made my own D500-serial-data-flash-cable (with +9V battery)
http://stephane.aubert.free.fr/SGH-D500/
...i would flash... but i need to be sure to do a restore...before...

Thank you very much.
Stéphane

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