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title: Siemens M65
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language: en
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layout: default
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created: 2009-02-02 21:39:52 +0100
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updated: 2009-02-02 22:26:57 +0100
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toc: false
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tags:
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- know-how
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- hacking
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- hardware
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- siemens
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- phone
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---
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A M65 of my in-laws seemed broken so I took it home to play around with my `DCA-510`-cable.
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It showed firmware rev. 15 … the current one was rev. 58. I read somewhere that older firmware WILL produce problems so
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I was glad that it might be a software problem instead of a hardware one.
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Upgrading firmware
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==================
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So I got the latest firmware from [allsiemens.com](http://www.allsiemens.com/flash/M65.htm) and tried to flash the
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phone. Damn! The M65 was from Vodafone and thus the ID was `M6V` instead of `M65`. Since I hate brandings, I needed a
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way to change that value.
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After some experiments I found instructions at [gsm-multifund.de](http://www.gsm-multifund.de/board/showthread.php?t=8864)
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(which seems to be offline now).
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I needed *[x65flasher](http://www.allsiemens.com/soft/flashers-1.htm)* and since I updated the phone to [M6V v50](http://www.allsiemens.com/flash/M6V.htm)
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before, I needed the supplied Java-Midlet `px75v1` to calculate the Hash and ESN for my phone. This needed around 3-5
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minutes. After that, I was able to download a backup of the phone's firmware and then chose *Advanced* → *Change phone
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model* to change it to `M65`. After writing it back to the phone, I did a *FFSinit* (see allsiemens.com) and was
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finally able to flash the rev. 58 using *WinSwup*.
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Also a nice page with many tips and instructions: [gsm-free.com](http://www.gsm-free.com/index.htm).
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Patching the firmware
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=====================
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You can use [Smelter](http://www.allsiemens.com/soft/flashers-1.htm) to generate a list with possible patches for the
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supplied firmware file which you can then apply using [V_KLay](http://www.allsiemens.com/soft/flashers-2.htm). There
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are patches to e.g. disable some debugging (which makes the phone a bit faster) or enable the network monitor
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(aka. *Develop. setup*) in the "My Menu".
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Internal Filesystem
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===================
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If you want to get rid of the "Load games", "Load Ringtones", etc. menus, just use the [VSOFS-Plugin](http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/vsofs.html)
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for [Total Commander](http://www.ghisler.com/) to delete the file `\\M65\Config\Default\MagicLinks\MagicLinks.xml` and
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the directory on the phone.
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