Elton One

Here is the code you can enter on a SE K800i and K610i (and probably most SE cells) to enter the service menu:

> * < < * < *

In the Service Menu there are several other menus. In Service Info you can look at Model, Software and Configuration Information. In Service Settings you can Turn On and Off USB charging (might be useful if your phone is acting crazy with USB charges like a few people I know). You can view all your Text Labels, but not change them, and also discharge the flash if you have one. The best thing however is that you can do some service tests - that’s testing the various devices on your cell including Main Display, LED/Illumination, Keyboard, Speaker, Earphone, Microphone, Vibrator (ladies), Camera, Video Call Camera, Meomory Stick, FM Radio, Real Time Clock, Total Call Time and Security.

If you select Main Display you get a nice set of 3 variations of RGB colour bars followed by a ravetastic blury rainbow which cycles over and over. New rave seems to have taken one too many pills and ended up a sweaty incomprehensible mess in the corner but old rave still lives on. Fuck designer glow sticks and expensive gigs - all you need is a few SE cells and you’re ‘avin it rampant. I really want to get loads of people together with SE cells and go for some kind of record - 1000 people all with their phones raving out. Haha, who’s up for it?

You don’t get to see your IMEI number in the Service Menu, so if you want to do that you can use:

* # 0 6 #

You can also enter the Personalise Menu where you can view your network locks and if you have your NCK code remove any network locks but you can only access this menu if your phone is locked to a network. If your phone is unlocked to all networks as mine is, you seem to be unable to enter this menu. The code is:

< * * <

Since installing Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibon I have had noise coming from the left channel of my Macbook Pro both from the line out and from the internal speakers. Oddly enough, even when I am using the line out I get noise from the left speaker. It sounds very similar to the noise produced when using the line out of a G4 with mirrored double doors; you can hear this crackling electronic noise that I put down to the processor cycling and poor shielding - mouse over the dock or use system resources and you get an increase in the rate and intensity of the noise - clearly poor shielding within the G4 but everyone G4 owner will tell you it’s one of the loudest computers ever. But back to Ubuntu on the MAcbook Pro..

I have never had this problem with my Macbook Pro and OS X so all I can assume is the gain table in the ALSA driver is somehow wrong in Ubuntu 7.10 causing a much lower signal to noise ratio than in OS X. This would also result in a much lower maximum and overall volume output when using Ubuntu, and this is indeed the case.

With the release of Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron and the inclusion of the PulseAudio sound server hopefully things will improve. Until then the following solution solves all the above problems for me except the left speaker noise while a line out is plugged in. You’re probably using your line out for louder sound like me so this will cover up the problem for the most part so it’s not really a problem any more.

From http://ubuntu-utah.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=611345. Thanks to Volanin for the solution and everyone who contributed to this thread.

1. Open a terminal and type:
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/options

2. Add the following line to the end of the file:
options snd-hda-intel model=[MODEL_BELOW] position-fix=2 probe_mask=1

You must select the Intel HDA model that corresponds to your computer:
intel-mac-v1 : Intel Mac Type 1
intel-mac-v2 : Intel Mac Type 2
intel-mac-v3 : Intel Mac Type 3
intel-mac-v4 : Intel Mac Type 4
intel-mac-v5 : Intel Mac Type 5
macmini : Intel Mac Mini (equivalent with type 3)
macbook : Intel Mac Book (eq. type 5)
macbook-pro-v1 : Intel Mac Book Pro 1st generation (eq. type 3)
macbook-pro : Intel Mac Book Pro 2nd generation (eq. type 3)
imac-intel : Intel iMac (eq. type 2)
imac-intel-20 : Intel iMac (newer version) (eq. type 3)

For example, I have a Macbook 2rd generation, and the setting that worked was model=macbook-pro.

3. Save the file and type in the terminal:
sudo update-initramfs -u

4. Reboot your computer.

5. For BEST sound, if the above works, open a terminal and type:
alsamixer
And set the FRONT and SURROUND sliders to their maximum.
It might be necessary to unmute them with the ‘M’ key.
Press ESC twice to leave the program.

Solution:

Install X11 from your OS X install disc. The downloads from the Apple site DO NOT WORK.
If you don’t have your disc try this link for download locations of X11 that work.

I wanted to install X11 to run Eagle (a PCB layout editor) but in the past I have seen that X11 needs to be installed to run Open Office.

According to Apple:

“X11 for Mac OS X is compatible, fast, and fully integrated with Mac OS X”

From http://developer.apple.com/opensource/tools/X11.html

Hmm.. Is it now?

X11 is not installed by default with OS X although you can select to do this. Searching the Apple download site for ‘X11′ links through to this page. The install from this location DOES NOT WORK and always tells you there is a more recent version installed (which in my case there is clearly not). The 1.3 update here does the same .

To get around this luckily you can install X11 from your OS X install disc. Open the disc, scroll down and run the Optional Installs package, choosing to install only X11. I read here that installing the X11 SDK installs additional libraries so I installed this too by running X11SDK.pkg located in XCode Tools/Packages. After this to run X11 in Terminal you can type

open /Applications/Utilities/X11.app

Then launch what ever X11 application you are using. This worked fine for me!

The fact Apple has not picked up on this or rectified the problem reflects on their sustained lack of development of existing bugs and problems with their OS in favour of adding whistles and bells. And that’s why Open Source will win the day.