Motorola Tips, Tricks, and Mods Tutorial Part Three

Alright, here we go: time to turn that beautiful little Motorola phone into a full fledged camcorder. The first thing we have to do is backup the seem that we will be editing. The process for backing up and restoring seems has been covered in the last tutorial, here. The seem that you’ll need to back up is 004e_0001. Back it up, as described previously, then continue.

Connect your phone, and load up P2K Advanced Editor. Click ‘Connect in P2K Mode’ and wait till your phone is 100% connected. Once everything is set, click on Phone services and find Video. Click it. A new dialog box will appear with a few settings and options. Dont mess around too much. Click ‘read from phone’ to get your phones default settings. Click on the arrow to the right and change it’s box to ‘MB’. Click inside the dialog box with numbers in it to the left of where we just were, and change it to 32. This will set your phones maximum video length to 32 MB. That’s a lot of video. Now, at this point I must say this setting is different for various phones. For the SLVR, ROKR, and RAZR, it works perfectly. For other phones, you may need to adjust it to 9 or 10. Trial and error is required. Click ‘Write to phone’, then close, then reset.

Now, to test the changes. With your phone on, navigate to the camcorder, and start it. Press the menu button on your phone and find ‘Video Settings’. Under ‘Length’, change it to ‘Maximum’ if it isn’t there already. Now take some video and see how it goes. Make sure your phone records some movement in light, otherwise the results will be inaccurate. If everything is good, and it records for as long as you want it to (or till your memory is full) then you’re finished. If it doesn’t work, then you must return to the previous step and try again with different numbers. Give it time.

Here’s a little troubleshooter I put together, because this is a tricky mod, and requires a lot of try-try-again.

Problem: Camcorder won’t start period.
Solution: Re-upload the backup seem you made. You have set a video length that is incompatible with our phone.

Problem: Phone records same length no matter what the settings are.
Solutions: You have a couple. Your phone could be out of memory, in which case you need to delete some stuff (or wait for part four, which discusses clearing out a phones useless files to make more room). Another solution? Change the ‘MB’ mentioned above to ‘KB’ and try some new numbers, in increments of 128. That would mean 128, 256, 512, etc. 1024 works very well on most phones, but isn’t too great as far as length goes.

Problem: Phone freezes while storing video.
Solution: Re-upload back-up seem. You have unplugged or agitated the phone while the changes were being saved.

Problem: No sound in video.
Solution: Turn phone off and back on again. If the problem persists, re-do the process, starting at the beginning. Restore your backup seem first, however.

If anyone has any more problems, don’t forget the Help and Release thread here. Ask and you will receive! I will continue to make tutorials on Motorola modding, and all I ask in return is this: Tell your friends about the Cellular blog, and please post comments and suggestions for future tutorials! Your feedback is appreciated, and will help me to do more for the community. Stay tuned for my next tutorial, which will allow you to remove those ridiculous built in ringtones, alerts, pictures, and MMS templates that take up so much space on your phone.

Alright, here we go: time to turn that beautiful little Motorola phone into a full fledged camcorder. The first thing we have to do is backup the seem that we will be editing. The process for backing up and restoring seems has been covered in the last tutorial, here. The seem that you’ll need to back up is 004e_0001. Back it up, as described previously, then continue.

Connect your phone, and load up P2K Advanced Editor. Click ‘Connect in P2K Mode’ and wait till your phone is 100% connected. Once everything is set, click on Phone services and find Video. Click it. A new dialog box will appear with a few settings and options. Dont mess around too much. Click ‘read from phone’ to get your phones default settings. Click on the arrow to the right and change it’s box to ‘MB’. Click inside the dialog box with numbers in it to the left of where we just were, and change it to 32. This will set your phones maximum video length to 32 MB. That’s a lot of video. Now, at this point I must say this setting is different for various phones. For the SLVR, ROKR, and RAZR, it works perfectly. For other phones, you may need to adjust it to 9 or 10. Trial and error is required. Click ‘Write to phone’, then close, then reset.

Now, to test the changes. With your phone on, navigate to the camcorder, and start it. Press the menu button on your phone and find ‘Video Settings’. Under ‘Length’, change it to ‘Maximum’ if it isn’t there already. Now take some video and see how it goes. Make sure your phone records some movement in light, otherwise the results will be inaccurate. If everything is good, and it records for as long as you want it to (or till your memory is full) then you’re finished. If it doesn’t work, then you must return to the previous step and try again with different numbers. Give it time.

Here’s a little troubleshooter I put together, because this is a tricky mod, and requires a lot of try-try-again.

Problem: Camcorder won’t start period.
Solution: Re-upload the backup seem you made. You have set a video length that is incompatible with our phone.

Problem: Phone records same length no matter what the settings are.
Solutions: You have a couple. Your phone could be out of memory, in which case you need to delete some stuff (or wait for part four, which discusses clearing out a phones useless files to make more room). Another solution? Change the ‘MB’ mentioned above to ‘KB’ and try some new numbers, in increments of 128. That would mean 128, 256, 512, etc. 1024 works very well on most phones, but isn’t too great as far as length goes.

Problem: Phone freezes while storing video.
Solution: Re-upload back-up seem. You have unplugged or agitated the phone while the changes were being saved.

Problem: No sound in video.
Solution: Turn phone off and back on again. If the problem persists, re-do the process, starting at the beginning. Restore your backup seem first, however.

If anyone has any more problems, don’t forget the Help and Release thread here. Ask and you will receive! I will continue to make tutorials on Motorola modding, and all I ask in return is this: Tell your friends about the Cellular blog, and please post comments and suggestions for future tutorials! Your feedback is appreciated, and will help me to do more for the community. Stay tuned for my next tutorial, which will allow you to remove those ridiculous built in ringtones, alerts, pictures, and MMS templates that take up so much space on your phone.