Convert SL45 into 6688. Possible?

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Hello all,

I would like to know if it would be possible or if anyone has ever succeeded to convert the SL45 into 6688.

I would like to have a chinese support so I can read with microreader some Chinese files in order to study mandarin.

I tried to use a firmware V55 for 6688 in the SL45 but later it gave me "wrong software" so I went back to my ol V56 version.

ANy help or suggestion to read mandarin text for learning would be greatly appreciated

Thanks
 
It's surly posssible imho

Just use FW v55 again and use Freia to unlock your phone - First way

Second way:
Save EEP from your phone (use UniSiemens if you like)
Write back v55 chinese
Write back your saved EEP

Please I'm not sure that this work. I just heard from someone that he converted 6688 to SL45 so it's surly possible to do the opposite
 
I have tried to use Freia, but can't make any connection with the phone. Maybe it's because of win2k?

Also I have found this today:


it's the important part that make me think it's not possible. Sounds quite possible that the eeprom is different to contains chinese char database...
Any thoughts about this?
 
http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=184196

Look here. I know only from S45 that the chinese version uses bigger Firmware. Unfortunally patchcleaner (the author of the thread above didn't wrote if he used v56 in his 6688)

Sorry I can't help - but your info about using different hardware seems to kill every hope. Hmm... how is the filesize of your chinese fubu? The normal storage is about 6megs, I think chinese is 8megs
 
Many thanks for your concern.
The firmware I found for a 6688 in a chinese website is the same size as for SL45.
That's why I feel also a bit confuse.
I one hand, I found info that says chinese version need a bigger epprom, which is quite reasonnable to store chinese characters.
And on the other hand, the firmware is the same and when I look in programs like freia, there is no difference in eeprom start address and length...

Ok, I will continue to seek more for info. But before I try to flash again and maybe unlock or do other stuffs, is it possible that I completely screw up my SL45? If I backup everything, is it always possible to make it work again, or maybe there are things I shouldn't do( like unlock with freia, or map...)?
I'm not so experienced... (but enough to screw it up

Thanks and regards,

Ps: I wrote to riza at noon and he just gave me this answer:
*) Make your phone "Wrong Software", then
*) Use Unlock function from FREIA ...

That's it !

I will try tonight at home...
 
SL45 is undestroyable via flashing
Best would be to Backup your current software. And if you fail, just flash it back.
In best case make to copies:
First your Fullflasch
Second only the EEP part


Please report your results. I'm interested in it
 
@sl45vietnam

Using WinSwup is the same method as I descriped in my first posting as "Second Way"

Winswup only updates flash from 0x000000 to 0x5F0000
0x5F0000 to 0x600000 is EEProm area
 
Ok, good news...
I have followed your advices. So I uploaded the chinese firmware I found.
Then i got the message "wrong firmware" and then use freia and simply unlocked the phone.

Then everything was fine. Except that now I have everything in chinese I just changed language to english.

But wow... I just wonder who did that firmware... it's really incredible... I think it even display the temperature, bip every hour, and has also many other funny things... If one want to try I uploaded it here. Only problem is that it is chinese and need to search a bit how to change it to english.
PS: chinese unicode file with english can be read with microreader chinese version, so I can set some chinese-pinyin-english vocabulary file. Feel happy. SL45 is really a wonderful and incredible phone. Eventough it's a bit old now, it's still full of resources



Hope this can help ppl like me...
 
Ah well I think you can't upload it here, attachments are limited to 100kb

Better is you post the link of the FW here
 
http://patchslik.nm.ru/eh.student.utwente.nl/~landy/Tools(unlock,flashers,etc)/Winswup32.zip or http://eh.student.utwente.nl/~landy/Tools(unlock,flashers,etc)/Winswup32.zip
+ xbz
http://eh.student.utwente.nl/~landy/SL45i/SL45i_5508_xbz.zip
login: mobile
pass: elibom
 
@seklth : Is it the same Firmware as the one I have? Coz the one have found is really customized. It has lot of nice feature, like beep one time every 30 min, 2 times every hours, display the temperature, mp3 relooked, and also many other features I still haven't understood(coz it's in chinese and translator are not accurate enough to understand...)
I am really amazed by this firmware coz lot of things have been completely review
 
***, now it seems I have some problems to transfer files via infrared coz the device is now SLCK and not SLIK (c maybe means chinese while i means international??)
Anyway... it seems there are some tricks to do in order to make the notebook recognize this new mobile
Whenever I turn on the IR on the mobile, win2k says it found a new hardware called SLCK and ask me for the driver.
As for quicksync or browsing phone, nada, nothing happens.
I tried to change some keys in the registery to switch the SLIK into SLCK but it seems the registery keys are locked coz win2k doesn't let me rename them.
Anybody has suggestion about it?
 
Hi, can anyone help me out, got my hands on a Siemens 6688, I wanto to use it in Movistar Mexico, I put my SIM into it and it won't ask for a subsidy code, but it wont log into the network although it detects it.
 
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