How To Activate your Amp'd Motorola Hollywood E816 on Verizon Wireless, Flash it with the Bell Mobility Firmware and get Java, OBEX OPP and VZW MMS working

Use At Your Own Risk!

Credits

Much of the work that went into making this possible was done by kbman and Goldmembr. Aenemic Royalty put together all the best Java App Packs for the E815. I would never have reached the level of understanding that makes it possible for me to write this document without Mark Venture's pages. And who knows where we'd be if Superdavex and jzidarski never bought V710's

Disclaimers

There is no way to go back! There is currently no E816 firmware available unless one is leaked your will always have the Bell firmware on your phone. You will lose "Airplane Mode", "Media Sync", "USB Drive" and PTT. The AMP'd firmware already supports OBEX Object Push Protocol with a seem edit so the only thing you will gain is Java. It couldn't hurt to do a full filesystem backup before you begin, but that falls outside the scope of this document.

Things can go wrong. If the flash goes awry it could brick your phone. I cannot be held responsible for anything that goes wrong with your phone. This procedure worked for me. It may not work for you.

This procedure requires software that is not readily available to the general public. You are responsible for your compliance with software licsences. I cannot tell you where to get any of these programs.

Prequisites

• An Amp'd Motorola Hollywood E816
• A Verizon Wireless Account
• The Motorola SKN6311C USB cable and charger that came with it
• Motorla PST 7.2.3
• Qualcomm QPST 2.7 build 215
• P2KSeem4V710.exe
• These files downloaded and extracted:
  • The Bell Mobility E815 Firmware
  • kbman's Bell_MMS Pachage
  • Some Additional Bell Files
• Wreckless Abandon

Activate Phone

• Log into your Verizon Wireless account
• Click the "Activate Phone" in the "My Phone" dropdown menu.
  
• Click "Activate Equipment"
  
• Fill in the required information and hit "SUBMIT".
  The ESN can be read from the phone menu:
  MENU ==> Phone Status ==> Other Information ==> ESN
  Alternatively it can be read from behind the battery.
  I usually select "Other" as a reason for the change, although you may have your own reasons.
  
• If all goes well you should see a confirmation message.
  If you get a message to call customer service then do so. They will probably activate your phone. If they do then continue on to the next step.
  
  
• Wait 10 minutes then Dial *228 from the phone and select option 1. When programming is complete test your phone by placing an outgoing call and recieving an incoming call.
  If that works proceed to the next step....

Flash to Bell Firmware

• Remove the battery from the phone.
• With the USB cable disconnected from both computer and phone, plug the charger into an outlet and connect it securely to the port on side of the USB Cable
• While holding down * and # connect the cable to the phone. The phone should now read "BOOTLOADER USB INIT" If it doesn't disconnect and repeat.
• Connect the phone to the computer. The computer will detect a "Motorola Flash Device"
  
• Click "Start"-->"Run" and browse to ""C:\Program Files\Motorola\PST\MultiFlashFlex.exe"
  "Click "OK"
  
• MultiflashFlex should show an "MSM6500" as "Connected"
  Under Flash Setup check "Enable Flash" and browse to the extracted Bell Firmware File
  Check The to overide existing phone software.
  Click Start.
  
  Status should change 3 Times.
  DO NOT UNPLUG OR TOUCH THE PHONE
  
  
  
• DO NOT UNPLUG OR TOUCH THE PHONE
  The Phone will now read "SHUTTING DOWN"
  Wait Until the Display comes back "Unable To Charge"
  You may now disconnect the phone, put the battery back in and power it on.
  Check the MENU ==> Phone Status ==> Other Information ==> S/W Version
  It should Read "E815_BM_X_1.7.1P"
  
• Test your phone by placing an outgoing call and recieving an incoming call. If that works proceed to the next step....

Load Seems

P2Kseem4v710

• Create a folder to backup your existing seems
• Open Motorola PST and minimize it
• Connect your phone to the computer
  The computer will detect a "USB Composite Device" and several other virtual devices.
• Double click the P2KSEEM.EXE from the folder you extracted the files to earlier.
  P2KSeem for V710 should say "connected" in the lower left.
  
• Type 0000 into the "Bytes" field.
  Type 29a0 into the Seem field.
  Type 0001 into the Record field.
  
• Click "Load from phone".
• Click "Save to file" and save the seem to the backup folder you created
• Click Load from File and browse to the 29a0_sample.seem in the Bell_E815_MMS folder
• Replace the x's with your 10 digit phone number, making sure to skip a space between digits
  Use the arrow key, not the space bar.
  
• Click "Save to phone"
• The procedure for the rest of the seems in the Bell_E815_MMS is a litte simpler:
  
  • Type the number in the Seem field
  • "Load from phone"
  • "Save to file" browse to your backup folder and save.
  • "Load from file" browse to the Bell_E815_MMS folder and load the seem file.
  • "Save to phone"
  
  Repeat this procedure for each of the following files:
  • 2742_0001.seem
  • 2997_0001.seem
  • 299a_0001.seem
  • 299b_0001.seem
  • 29a1_0001.seem
  • 29a9_0001.seem
  • 29ab_0001.seem
  • 29b2_0001.seem
  • 29b3_0001.seem
  • 29b6_0001.seem
  • 29ba_0001.seem
  • 29bb_0001.seem
  • 29bc_0001.seem
  • 29be_0001.seem

That's it for seems. Close p2kseem but leave Motorola PST open for the next step.

Load WebSessions

• In Motorola PST Click "File" --> "Open RTT 1xBrowser", browse to the Bell_E815_MMS folder and load the "VZW_MMS.rtb" file.
  
• Click on the 6.x tab
  
• Click on the Proxy 2 Tab.
• Replace "MIN" under username with your 10 digit phone number.
• Click on the "Write to phone button"
  
• Close the Browser file but leave PST open for the next step

Flex Phone

• In Motorola PST Click "File" --> "Open pFlex", browse to the Bell_E815_Files folder and load the "Create_dir_scarlet.hs" file.
  
  
• Click "RUN"
  
  
  
• You're done with P2K mode! Close PST and reboot your phone

Load Files

This portion of the tutorial uses QPST which means we want the phone to be detected as a "Motorola USB Modem". If it is not unplug it from the computer. Turn it off and back on and plug it in again. If you have trouble with QPST go here

• Open QPST Configuration
• Highlight Your Phone
  
• Click "Start CLient" --> "EFS Explorer"
  
  
• Browse the phone's filesystem in QPST and drag the following items into place on the phone.
  
  • Bell_E815_Files\brew\appdb\j2me.settings TO /brew/appdb/ (possibly overwriting an empty file)
  • Bell_E815_Files\brew\en\jeodeken.bar TO /brew/en/
  • Bell_E815_Files\brew\en\jeodekfr.bar TO /brew/fr/
  • Bell_E815_Files\motorola\system\mma_ucp TO /motorola/system/ (overwriting the existing file)
  • Bell_E815_Files\motorola\system\mma_dcp TO /motorola/system/ (overwriting the existing file)
  • Bell_E815_Files\motorola\shared\jeodek\* TO /motorola/shared/jeodek/
  • Bell_E815_Files\motorola\shared\jeodek\skins\moto\* TO /motorola/shared/jeodek/skins/moto/
  • Bell_E815_Files\motorola\shared\jeodek\skins\techno\* TO /motorola/shared/jeodek/skins/techno/

Tweaking Settings to make MMS work

Navigate on your phone to MESSAGE CENTER==>MESSAGE SETTINGS==>PIX MESSAGE SETUP==>SERVER INFO==>VZW then MENU==>EDIT

Service Name should be VZW
Server Name should be http://mms.vtext.com/servlets/mms
Web Session Shoud be VZW_MMS

Now mms should work.

Adding Java Apps

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