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UPDATE: 12th May 2008

Sorry if you have experienced ’spam’ or URL redirections from this page. This has been caused by someone hacking my Blog (again!) – Let me know if you spot any more dodgy pop-ups going on. Cheers, Paul

Hi All,

We can you believe it? Finally we get WM6 (for Free!) from Samsung for our sexy little Euro-Blackjacks!

The link is: http://www.samsungmobile.com/promotion/i600/index.jsp

Countries now supported; Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and Ukraine – Austria still greyed-out….

OK, here are the steps required:-

1. Visit the link above and click on UK
2. Enter your version number, this should look something like i600???? to get this information, simply dial *#1546792*# on your phone, select 1 (Version), 2 (Software Version) and then make a note of what is detailed next to PDA Version
3. Complete the contact details, along with the serial number on the back of your phone (under the battery). The Serial should be under the bar code and look something like R7WP44????? (*last 5 digits hidden for obvious reasons!)
4. You should now see a screen that looks like this
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5. Install ActiveSync 4.5
6. Right-Click save the Samsung Driver and then unzip into a folder somewhere and install using the “Setup.exe”
7. Connect your i600 (It will re-detect the drivers for the phone at this point)
8. You may be asked to ‘delete’ a profile (e.g. Windows PC 1) as it the Samsung only holds 2 profiles… just delete both as it makes no difference…
9. BACKUP EVERYTHING!!!!! using ActiveSync… Well… Sync everything anyway. The Samsung FAQ’s state “During the update, all of your data, including your applications, contacts and games, will be erased Please note that it is possible to re-sync your outlook data once your new Firmware is installed, but this depends on your Active Sync settings and saved PC data before you upgrade.” – Browse to the phone and backup all your pictures, sounds etc.
10. Download the Firmware Updater (I suggest using something like “GetRight” as its 90Mb!!!)
11. Run the Updater…. wait a looooonnnnnggggg time
12. Let the phone reboot as required, and there you have it…. Windows Mobile 6

Of course… all you need to do now is restore all your files and applications back again

NOTE: i600XXGD1 firmware (i.e. “De branded” WM5 as detailed in my other listings) seems to come up with “Invalid Version Number” when you run the Updater…. I will post more as and when I solve this….

Patrick, the Technical Director walks into the Comms Room to find 5 people all gathered round a rack-server….

“Whats going on here?”, Patrick asks.

A few embarrassed faces look round from the rack. One of the tech-heads nervously answers, “We are… well what happened was…”, he flounders, looking desperately at his comrades for assistance.

“It was like this…”, a second propeller-head starts, but stops again just as quickly.

“For God-sake tell me what-the-f**k is going on!”, Patrick snaps.

“OK… TJ asked us to open some firewall ports to get his laptop working from home”, the first tech-head begins, referring to Terry James (one of the home-working programmers). “He didn’t say why, but we guessed it had something to do with his last trip to the Philippines.”

Again, the engineers all look a bit furtive and embarrassed…

“Go on”, Patrick urges.

“Well… It appears that TJ has set himself up a chat room on our server to arrange English weddings.”, he continues.

“WHAT?!”, Patrick exclaims.

“It gets worse”, the engineer quickly resumes before Patrick can interrupt any more, “He has somehow managed to set up a back-to-back web page called ‘Filipino-girls-get-naked.com’”

“I don’t understand”, says Patrick, worry creeping into his voice.

At this point the head of the technical group raises his hand slightly and says, “Perhaps I can elaborate a little?”

“Go on”, TD snaps, a look of concern now scampering unfettered across his face, and parking itself firmly in his furrowed brow.

“It seems that TJ has persuaded all these nubile girls to register on this ‘find a husband’ site, and as part of the sign-up, they have to strip-naked and perform various acts with vegetables and things…”, Patrick is looking pale at this point but head-boffin continues, “He is then posting these videos on the other site for the saddo’s to pay for and download.”

“Oh my god….”, TD utters, looking sickly white now.

“It gets worse”, head-boffin continues, whilst Patrick notices some smirks appearing on the other faces, “It seems that our own Managing Director is downloading all the videos onto his PC upstairs as we speak. It seems that he has subscribed to this second site!”

TD glances quickly around the room, “Shut it down. Shut it down right now.” and storms out of the room with the sound of tittering in background. As he walks towards the canteen, the mobile phone holstered at his hip vibrates. Glancing down at the display, he notes with disgust that it is Tony, the MD. “Hello.”, he answers abruptly.

“Ah Patrick. Glad I caught you. Having a little problem with my PC.”, Tony’s staccato conversation fall on Patrick’s astonished ears, “Can’t seem to get this bloody PC to work properly. Won’t let me download stuff anymore. Can you send one of the boffins up? Cheers, Bye.”

Patrick looks down at the display, and with slumped shoulders, walks back to the Comms Room.

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“What do you mean it’s ‘Dead’?!”

“Well…. When you push the big red button, the flashy-light-thingies on the front, don’t… well…. flash…”

“Very funny. Seriously though…. what is wrong with it?”

“Where do I begin?… You remember when we talked about adding all those drives and RAID controllers to back up the server every night?”

“Vaguely…”

“Well the controller died.”

“OK. Well that shouldn’t be a problem, it was ‘RAID’ after all.”

“Ah… now there’s the crux of the issue. If we had stayed with the cheapo SATA drives, life would be fine. Unfortunately these all-singing-all-dancing RAID cards tend to kill the drives as well.”

“Oh my god. You’ve got to be kidding me.”

“That’s not where it ends… When the controller died, it took out the USB ports as well. So the extra backups we had also died.”

“But we do have them in a fire-safe somewhere don’t we???”

“Er…. did you write a policy on that?”

“Great. Just f***ing great. Now I’m going to have to download all that porn… er I mean… financial information again.”