Activating 3G Mobile Data for Prepaid card Singtel, M1 and Starhub

Singtel

Call *363 then follow on screen instructions

Value surfer pack = $1 for 10MB over 7 days
Super surfer pack = $7 for 1GB over 7 days

Additional block is 2.7¢ / 10kb


Starhub

Call *131# then follow on screen instructions

Maxmobile value $2 = $2 for 30MB over 3 days
Maxmobile value $4 = $4 for 200MB over 3 days
Maxmobile value $7 = $7 for 1GB over 7 days
Maxmobile value $15 = $15 for 500MB over 30days
Maxmobile value $20 = $20 for 1GB over 30days

Additional block is 5¢ / 10kb


M1

Call #100*7# then follow on screen instructions

Sunsurf = $7 for 1GB over 7 days

Additional block is 20¢ / 10kb




Note: The accuracy is correct during writing 16th Nov 2012

Reference: Singtel , Starhub, M1

Hard Reset Samsung i5801 Galaxy Apollo

Method 1 (Android recovery mode)

When you device is fully off

Press and hold vol up + vol down + home + power buttons
Press vol down to scroll to wipe data factory reset
Press Home button to selection

Method 2 (Keypad code combination) Enter *2726*3855# Warning!!!! please back up prior to entering the code. Because that will not be confirmation or cancelling option after you key in the code.

Hard Reset / Format Motorola Atrix 4G MB860

Come used if you had forgotten your android password or draw pattern. Hard reset normal is with button combination that gets you into recovery mode of android where you can wipe factory reset or clear your mobile caches.

For motorola atrix 4g MB860:

1. Turn of your phone completely.
2. Press and hold power and volume down button 
3. Till you see fast boot on the screen
4. Press volume down to scroll till you see "Android Recovery"
5. Press volume up to select
6. See the android logo with exclamation mark pop up

• Froyo 2.2 tap your right bottom corner of the screen
• Gingerbread 2.3 press on volume up and down together 

Watch the video for a clearer picture

Android Firmware letter Code

Letter Code

CE---> Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands

DC---> Thailand

DD---> India

DX---> Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam

DZ---> Malaysia, Singapore

JA---> South Africa

JC---> Algeria, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia

JP---> Arabic, Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria

JV---> Tunisia, Turkey

UG---> North America

UH---> Latin America, The Caribbean

XE---> Bulgaria, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine

XX---> Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, United Kingdom

XW---> Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Nordic, Spain, United Kingdom

ZC---> China, Hong Kong

ZH---> Hong Kong

ZS---> China, Hong Kong

ZT---> Taiwan

Flash the Samsung Galaxy S2 (SII) Back to Stock ROM

Notice

27/05/2011
1. I have changed the format with which I compress the archives. They are now .7z self-extracting files that have .exe at the end. This is because this compresses the files more and so makes for faster upload and downloading and also makes it easier for you to extract the package. Just double click and it will extract the .tar package for you without the need to use any program to unpack.

2. Also feel free to translate the guides to any other language and link to the files elsewhere, you don't need to ask for permission. All I ask is that you include a link to XDA-Developers in your write up.

07/06/2011

Carrier branded firmwares have been moved to a separate thread and can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1113928

20/06/2011

MAC Users I have found this utility that can handle .exe files to extract the archives called The Unarchiver. Link: http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html

20/06/2011

Thanks to Pulsar_S2 I have now been able to separate the component section of the thread into separate posts to make things less complicated. The first post has the tutorial and guide and the firmwares have been moved to separate posts right below. I hope it's a better layout.

20/09/2011

Please do not post links to packages from other places in this thread. It will help to avoid a lot of confusion when helping others when I know about the packages, when it's from elsewhere I cannot know what has been done to them and will not help people who use stuff I don't know about.

26/09/2011

Do not ask me questions about SamMobile, packages from SamMobile or from other places. How do you expect me to know about stuff from other websites?
These questions will be ignored


20/10/2011

I've started to package the tarball archives with the md5 hash to maintain the integrity of the packages. Just treat the tarballs in the same way as you would without the .md5 at the end. DO NOT CHANGE THE NAME OF THE ARCHIVE


15/11/2011

The quick root guide has been updated to make use of a much simpler tool to achieve root without the need for Odin or insecure kernel

20/01/2012

I've started to use 7Zip archives instead of self-executable ones to accommodate members using Macs and Linux as their primary OS. You can get 7Zip for free and it handles multiple formats Here we go guys, latest official firmware. Oldest firmware are listed first and newest will will be the last/bottom of the list. These can be found in the second and third posts of the thread

PDA refers to the build version of the firmware

Phone refers to the baseband/modem version

CSC is the consumer software customisation and is specific to geographical region and carriers. It contains the software packages specific to that region, carrier branding and also APN settings for data connection, MMS etc for your service provider.

CSC has nothing to do with what languages the firmware supports and it will not add keyboard language support either.

.PIT refers to the partition information table you only need it if you screw up your partition table or if the firmware specifically requires it because of a change in the partition table layout. It's very likely you may never have to use this.

If the package only contains one .tar archive then it will have everything, pda+phone+csc, in the one file.

If it has multiple .tar archive then:

• The .tar with modem in the name is the phone/baseband bit of the package
• .tar with csc/multi-csc in the name is the csc bit of the package
• .tar with code/PDA in the name is the PDA part of the firmware package

If this is the case you will need to put these .tar archives in the specific areas of Odin to flash the update

The stock kernels are to be used to restore the kernel version after rooting and are not needed for updating the firmware.

You do not need to root or unroot the device to update the firmware.

Please ensure that KIES is closed and not running in the system tray! Kies doesn't like Odin, it's like the big brother who's always jealous that his little brother is getting to flash all the phones so he starts to flash block.

Iphone 4 video mode not working (Solved)

My iphone 4 used to work fine. One fine day the video mode just not working. Camera is working, switches to video is working, flash and auto focus are fine however the moment I pressed the record button, the video mode just grey out with no other choice except to press the home button...

Solve???

Turn out the JB app "FastSnap" is the root of the problem. You just uninstall the app from Cydia or just deactivate Silent Shutter to let video mode work again. Version 1.4 has this problem, install 1.34 may not cause this problem. Leave a comment if this helped you :)

Samsung wave s8500 bricked (Solved)

Hi everyone, long story short. I tried to update the leaked version of Bada 2.0.1 firmware S8500XPKG5 and broke my phone shortly half way into the process. So the case for me is a phone with one line of white on a pure black screen. Just that. So if I remove the battery or force shut down, the next moment when I on the phone, its pure pinky red screen of death. Scared the hell out of me for 2 days till I solved the whole broken down process.

Trouble shoot = Nutshell, I flashed on the wrong Multi loader. I did it on the v5.62 (WRONG!!!)
Warning : Make sure your phone is not carrier lock, sim lock or password lock of any kind.

So you are here with a bricked phone, this is the step that I took to recover my broken bricked wave S8500.
These are the full step by step to flash a firmware, follow only the red highlighted if your phone has broke like mine.

1) Make sure that the standard theme is installed
2) Download s8500xpkg5.rar and unpack the files
3) Install the included usb-driver before connecting your phone
4) Connect with Kies and restore the drivers
5) Close Kies
6) Start Multiloader
7) Drag and drop the files into Multiloader (All 8 files from "bootloader" to "ShpApp.app")
8) Select LSI, Full Download and Master ROM
9) Remove SD-Card, SIM-Card and battery, put the battery back in.
10) Click "port search" and after it finds a port "Download" (if it doesn't find a port, try a different usb port)
11) Wait until it is done! Takes about 10 minutes. (DO NOT POWER OFF)
12) Kies -> restore drivers
13) You can only sync contacts.

14) *#5239870*# --> PreConfig --> *#27236*# -->confirm --> XEU (UK setting)
15) *#33284*# --> Low (to avoid bluescreens)


Here is a video I made to show you my process, leave a comments if this helps you :)