A M65 of my in-laws seemed broken so I took it home to play around with my DCA-510-cable. It showed firmware rev. 15 … the current one was rev. 58. I read somewhere that older firmware WILL produce problems so I was glad that it might be a software problem instead of a hardware one.… Read More: Siemens M65 »
The 660HW-67 was distributed in Germany as the “WLAN Modem 100” through the Arcor ISP. It came with the firmware QD.7 which seems to be originally made for AOL. To get the router ready for ADSL2+, I needed the QQ.7 firmware which is the original one. Firmware crossgrade Manual: dslrouter-hilfe.de The big problem is that… Read More: ZyXEL Prestige 660HW-67 »
I got a Samsung ZM-60 from T-Mobile (incl. SIMlock). The first shock came after switching it on for the first time: Everything was in the T-Mobile magenta color. After some research, I found out, that it’s originally a SGH-Z300. Firmware flashing Instructions on how to flash a new firmware are on handy-faq.de. There also was… Read More: Samsung SGH-Z300/ZM60 »
Service mode Hold keys 1, 4 and 7 while turning on the phone. You will see the display test. Service menu Power-on the phone into service mode and type 76200 (4000er series) or 46395 (2000er and 3000er series) to get to the service menu. There you can… Read More: SIEMENS Gigaset »
To use these keys with e.g. Segher’s Wii.git, you have to put them in binary files, i.e. use a Hex-Editor and paste these keys so that you get a 16 Byte long file for each key. Segher’s tools expect them to be located in ~/.wii/<keyname>, e.g. ~/.wii/common-key. common-key sd-key sd-iv md5-blanker
Download Details Looking at the firmware file, the header starts – as usual – at 0x00. It consists of the string UMDA! followed by the firmware revision in octets. For the v1.2.2.1 I found the bytes 01 02 02 01. After that are some bytes which might be a checksum. The line looks like this:… Read More: AudioMate Firmware »
The MPlayer Christmas Edition for Wii supports SMB browsing. You can configure the login data of the desired SMB share through the smb.conf on the SD card as follows: For it to work, you MUST use a dedicated user in Samba. Guest shares won’t work. Also make sure you have security=user set in your Linux… Read More: Wii MPlayer and Samba »
The Sansa’s have different features for different countries/regions. E.g. the Japanese radio frequencies ranging from 76 to 90 MHz are partly used for Police radio and thus it is not allowed to tune to these forbidden frequencies. SanDisk achieved this by removing the Japan region from the Radio region selector. In European models of the… Read More: SanDisk Sansa Feature Bits »
Firmware: sksapps.com (Latest is 0.41)
After playing around a bit, my Aspire One (v3114) got bricked after a normal reboot (blank screen, power led and fan on, nothing else). There’s a nice recovery procedure for the BIOS at macles. Somehow an A150L with the v3114 BIOS didn’t let me update it to v3304. The Power-LED was blinking and the LED… Read More: BIOS Recovery on the Acer Aspire One »