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tdinc
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 | | Subject: ENGINEERING MODE WARNNING to ALL USERS Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:55 am | |
| Attention CECT P168 owners. If you are in engineering mode NEVER NEVER NEVER select or turn on"High Speed SIM" option.
YOU WILL BRICK YOUR PHONE!!! This is a serious firmware bug that is not well known. I happened to find this by doing a deep search on Google where some owners decided to do this. Whats happens if you do select this option. A countdown begins and the phone will say "shut down in 3 sec 2....1....then shuts down. And it is never possible to reboot the phone after.
IN engineering mode:
THIS DEADLY OPTION IS LOCATED UNDER OPTION (5) Misc. STAY AWAY FROM OPTION (2) "High Speed SIM" DO NOT EVEN HIGHLIGHT IT. IT COULD SWITCH ON.
Everybody that has pressed the High Speed Sim on has had there phone shut off and could not restore the phone. There is no such thing as a high speed sim all of our sim cards are either 32kb or 64kb.
the "only" way to fix your phone is to do a complete re-flash.
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Admin
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| | Subject: thanks Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:30 am | |
| | tdinc wrote: | If you are in engineering mode NEVER NEVER select "speed simcard" option.[u]
YOU WILL BRICK YOUR PHONE!!!
Admin please move this post to correct "Tutorial section" |
thankyou, that will probably come in very handy for us all  |
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tom1982
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Join date: 2008-08-25
| | Subject: Re: ENGINEERING MODE WARNNING to ALL USERS Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:25 pm | |
| I had that bed luck to turn on High speed sim. As you wrote there is no other way to fix that problem but refleshing complete firmware.
Too bad I didn't know for that before.
But now I was fix that problem |
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fer_jo
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Join date: 2008-08-28
| | Subject: Re: ENGINEERING MODE WARNNING to ALL USERS Fri Aug 29, 2008 6:35 am | |
| | hi : where I have to ener the code #3646633# in order to acces to the enginering mode? |
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chicago1
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Join date: 2008-08-09
| | Subject: Re: ENGINEERING MODE WARNNING to ALL USERS Fri Aug 29, 2008 8:24 am | |
| | What's the purpose for eng mode? |
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Judee,the cect168+ Killer
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| | Subject: Re: ENGINEERING MODE WARNNING to ALL USERS Fri Aug 29, 2008 8:33 am | |
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What's the purpose for eng mode? |
TOO KILL YOUR PHONE DEAD! THAT IS ITS PURPOSE. NOT KIDDING EITHER.. If you don't have any idea what to do in there, don't go.... Have a great evening.
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klsmurf
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| | Subject: Re: ENGINEERING MODE WARNNING to ALL USERS Fri Aug 29, 2008 8:39 am | |
| | fer_jo wrote: | | hi : where I have to ener the code #3646633# in order to acces to the enginering mode? |
The phone's keypad, but if you have to ask, don't even go there! There is very little to accomplish in engineering mode other than messing up your phone. It is used for the phone's hw and sw developers.
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DBoca
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Join date: 2008-09-06
| | Subject: Re: ENGINEERING MODE WARNNING to ALL USERS Sat Sep 06, 2008 2:57 pm | |
| | tdinc wrote: | Attention CECT P168 owners. If you are in engineering mode NEVER NEVER NEVER select or turn on"High Speed SIM" option.
YOU WILL BRICK YOUR PHONE!!! This is a serious firmware bug that is not well known. I happened to find this by doing a deep search on Google where some owners decided to do this. Whats happens if you do select this option. A countdown begins and the phone will say "shut down in 3 sec 2....1....then shuts down. And it is never possible to reboot the phone after.
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I did what I do to fix it?
if I could take the steps they agradeceria and I thank you very much guidance |
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jennyann
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Join date: 2008-08-06
| | Subject: Re: ENGINEERING MODE WARNNING to ALL USERS Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:30 am | |
| interesting....so how do we fix a phone that has accidentally pushed the high speed sim? luckily i did it wit the first cect hahaha so whats the solution if any?
jenn |
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Zep
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Join date: 2008-10-19
Age: 43
Location: Maine - USA
| | Subject: Re: ENGINEERING MODE WARNNING to ALL USERS Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:44 am | |
| First it will make your face do this... 
Engineering mode is a way to force you into learning about Flashing your Phone. Buying a Flashing Cable and Making the same posts all over this Forum.
Then Meeting some great poeple on here with the temperment of helping you learn  |
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jennyann
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| | Subject: Re: ENGINEERING MODE WARNNING to ALL USERS Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:00 am | |
| LOL OKAY MY FACE DID DO THAT LOL!!!!!! so i'm guessin i needa get the spiderman and get the tool and ...blah blah blah....and oh its nice meeting you! while i'm at it i'll probably upgrade my old cect too LOL!
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Zep
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| | Subject: Re: ENGINEERING MODE WARNNING to ALL USERS Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:44 am | |
| | Pleasure to meet you as well Jen. What Games and Java did you get to work on your C+? |
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testing567
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Join date: 2008-11-13
Location: New York, Long Island
| | Subject: Re: ENGINEERING MODE WARNNING to ALL USERS Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:15 pm | |
| If you screw up a setting in engineering mode and the phone dies, there is a way to fix it with out having to completely reflash the phone. You don't need a flash backup to do this but you still need the flashing cable. In Flash Tools there is a button that says "Format" on the top bar. You click it, and it will come up with a new window. Select "Manual Format FAT" and where it says "Begin Address [Hex]" put "0x00E00000" and under "Format Length [Hex]" put "0x00200000". (That region of the phones memory stores all the settings.) Press "Ok", connect the phone to the cable with the power off and hold down the power button until the red bar goes across the screen. This will COMPLETELY RESET ALL SETTINGS TO FACTORY DEFAULTS. When you turn the phone back on it will go straight into the pen calibration screen. After that, your phone should be brand new.
Engineering mode does have a couple of good uses. I had to disable the 850mhz because my service doesn't use it and it was connecting to it forcing me to be stuck in "Emergency" even when I had reception just because the 850 signal was stronger. I also raised my audio levels for my main speaker and headphones. (Although you can blow the speakers if you go nuts with those settings.) |
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Bigmac
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| | Subject: Re: ENGINEERING MODE WARNNING to ALL USERS Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:54 am | |
| The more you post the more I like you. Keep teaching me somthing.
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jennyann
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Join date: 2008-08-06
| | Subject: Re: ENGINEERING MODE WARNNING to ALL USERS Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:00 am | |
| hey testing GAHHHHHHHH thanks for that info i may try it LOL
RU THE GUY THAT MAKES THE YOUTUBE VIDEO??
IF SO URKEWL :LOL
JENNY |
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