Motorola V635 Modding: 2007

Friday, 9 March 2007

07d0 Bootloader info requested

The file is available from my 4shared download site, its .shx file so simply flash it with RSD to your phone, and it resides in memory, It does not hinder the operation of the phone in any way, and was originally designed to help unlock the phone, and enable some special seem edits, different versions with same name are available for different phones, I have the correct one and its safe to flash ontop of any monster pack you have on the V635.

To view the bootloader, switch off phone, load rsd on pc, press *+#+power/end keys, keep pressed for a couple of seconds and then let go, rsd will then recognise phone, and click the info line for the phone, and the top box will then show u the bootloader, since this version does not show up on the main screen on v635 phones.

(Dont forget your pc must be setup before hand with p2k drivers and flash drivers etc. ie. phone recognised by pc for it to work!)

Wednesday, 7 March 2007

Connecting Phone to Computer

Before you can start Modding or Flashing phone, it has to be recognised by your computer, The appropriate drivers need to be installed, look at this link for detailed instructions, http://forums.mobiledia.com/topic48216.html
also you can follow this video tutorial http://www.themotoguide.com/getconnectedold.php
or use this method http://www.motox.info/showthread.php?t=18372
and another http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/Stu/cdigiamo/tutorial/v220/tut.html

The quickest method is to load the p2k v2.9 drivers to a directory on pc, then load RSD and connect your phone, the pc will recognise a new device and prompt you to load or point to location of drivers, which is the p2k as above. Load p2k drivers from http://www.motox.info/showthread.php?t=1297 look through this page for all modding programs and files you will need.

Just take your time, and read carefully onscreen.
Once all done, reconnect phone and u can proceed to modding & flashing phone!!!

Backing up with FB 3.0.053

With this version, set your directory where u want to store backups from Settings tab (create directory beforehand), connect phone, click on Read Data, phone profile: choose generic for bootloaders upto 07d0, dont tick 'cut empty bytes at end of code groups', choose pds, leave backup format as fb3-cab, select Read Data. Wait for fb to complete process.

Do similar and make backups of bootloader, and then Full 32Mb.
Also for safe measure make copies with different backup format.

Make copies of these files and store on another hard disk, another directory on your hard disk, cd, another computer, usb stick or whatever medium you have available.

The above is a safe guard incase u need to restore and minimises loss of errors and chance of mistakes.

Backing up V635 with Flash & Backup

FlashBackup 2.62
This program will back up your phone's memory. There are 3 choices of backup.
1) B/L backup 2) PDS backup 3) FULL backup
In any case the following settings should be used for the V635.
First select Backup type Then select phone memory size as 32MB Then check box to disable compression Then at Select Loader, from the drop down box hit Select Another, Browse to the location of the FlashBackup program file and open RamDld Pack And select 32MB (08A0).ldr Then just hit Create.
A B/L or PDS backup should take about 15 seconds A FULL backup should take about 4 – 5 minutes.
Please remember that in order to restore any backup made by FlashBackup you MUST have B/L 07.D0 installed.
Be advised that even though FlashBackup may have made good backups of your phone you may possibly have a problem restoring to the phone. Some users have had problems with the USB port configuration and/or USB and P2k driver issues. If you are trying to restore the PDS backup and it takes more than 15 seconds to complete then you may indeed have this USB problem.
Here is more information on the FlashBackup USB problem. http://www.motox.info/showthread.php?t=8525
(This USB problem can also appear when using Scotty2 v2 downloader program when the process seems to leave a dead phone but the remedy here is to just re-flash the firmware to the phone.)
It is advisable to run each backup a couple of times and store each set seperately. You can change the backup save location in the FlashBackup Setup Menu.