TheMotoGuides

by sebgonz

This guide will help you understand a very crucial part of moto modding; seem editing. We will be covering two methods of seem editing in this guide, since there IS a difference in the two.

Those of you that are familiar with seem editing might still benefit from this guide. Seeing as there is a difference in how you must get the seem from your phone.

What you will need:

P2K Tools 3

XVI32

Seem 0032_0001 from your phone

Seem 004a_0001 from your phone

Lets get started.

Method 1.

First, we will be editing seem 0032_0001 to get a picture grid view. Like this one.

Open P2K Tools and make sure your phone is connected.

1. Select the phone on the top left and then select p2k mode.

2. Your phone will disconnect and then reconnect. Once its reconnected, select b>Refresh from the top menu.

1. Select the Seem Editor tab.

2. In box 2, there are two text boxes. In the first one (Seem), type 0032. This is the seem that we want to change. In the second box (Rec) type 0001. This is the record that we are trying to get to.

3. Select From Phone. This will load the seem and record that we typed into box 2. Make sure you type in the seem you are looking for before you load from the phone.

Once that seem is opened, select To File. It should automatically give the name of the seem. Leave it as it is and save it in a location where you can easily find it later.

Now open XVI32. You should get a screen similar to the one below when its opened.

Go to File and select Open. Navigate to where you saved your 0032_0001.seem file and open it.

Lets take a break for a minute and learn a little about counting in hex, since its handy to know while seem editing. This was taken from the seem map and is a very useful little lesson on hex. Thanks goes to XLR8 for his work on the seem map and this little lesson.

Forget what you learned about counting to "10" in Kindergarten; lets count to "10" in hex...
00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 0A, 0B, 0C, 0D, 0E, 0F, 10 (exciting, huh? wanna count to "10" in binary? 00, 01, 10 EASY!)?

Now that you know how to count in hex, lets continue. You will understand more of what we are doing now.

You have opened your 0032_0001 seem. It should look something like this:

Lets get to editing the correct offset to get our picture grid view.

This is what the seem map tells us to do to get this done correctly.

seem 0032_0001 - offset A2 - bit 5: Picture Grid View (1 on, 0 off). 0 means unchecked. 1 means checked.

There are two ways to find the correct offset that we want. You can either select Address from the top menu and then select Goto, or you can press CTRL + G. It does the same thing. I?ll be using CTRL+G.

Press Ctrl + G and you will get a box that looks like this. Make sure that in the Go to box, hexadecimal is selected and that in the Go mode, absolute is selected. Select the box in go to and type A2. Then press ok. It will take you to the correct offset.

Now Select Tools and then Bit manipulation

You will then get a popup that looks like this. Yours may have different bits checked. Each bit does different things. When you take a look at the seem map, you will understand what I mean. Each Offset has 8 bits corresponding to it. Each bit will activate or deactivate certain functions of the phone. For us, we want to make sure that bit 5 is on (checked).

Once that is done, select Set. If your bit is already checked, just select Set.

For this seem edit, all we had to change was one bit. So now we are ready to save our seem and upload it back to our phone. There are other mods that require more than one seem edit to work. Just follow this same procedure.

Select File/Save As?

Make sure you save your seem as 0032_0001. I would also save it in a different folder than the original seem. So as to make sure you have your original, unmodded, seem handy incase something goes wrong.

Now, lets load the seem back to our phone. Go back to P2K Tools 3.

Once you are back in P2K Tools, select Seem Editor again. Make sure that in the Seem and Rec boxes it looks like the screenshot does here.

1. Select From File. Navigate to where you saved your modded seem and open it.

2. Now select To Phone. When I press this, nothing ever happens. But the changes are made.

Now all you have to do is restart your phone.

Select the phone on the top left of P2K Tools 3 and then select Restart Phone. Once your phone reboots, you are done. Check out your new picture grid view.

Method 2.

This method of seem editing applies to certain seems only. Mainly seem 004a_0001 and 004b_0001 but it does apply to others also. Check out the seem map to see which ones those are.

In this section, I will only be showing the difference between the two methods. Before, we covered how to do seem edits using bit manipulation. Well, seem 004a does not have bit manipulation. So what do you do if you want to change parts of it? You do some hex editing.

Download your 004a_0001 seem from your phone using the method above. Once you have it, open XVI32.

We are going to be doing this seem edit:

offset 4D (00 SIM card NOT required for phone access, 01 SIM card required for phone access)

Now what is the first thing you notice when looking at this? It SHOULD be that there is no bit. How are you going to modify this seem if there is no BIT??!! Easy. Lets get to hex editing.

Press CTRL + G. You?ll get the Go To box like before.

Type 4D in the box and press OK. You will go directly to that offset.

Now here is the difference between what we did before and what we?re doing this time. In seem 004a_0001 and others, you will just change the value in the box. In our case, it says 01 in the box. We want to change that to 00. So? just type 00. Once you are done, it will look like this:

The offset in red is the one we just changed. Once you type it in, it will change and then jump to the next offset.

Now just save your seem. Make sure you save it in a different folder. I usually save mine in a folder named Modified K1 Seems. You can save them wherever you want.

Now that that iss done, just upload it back to your phone following the same steps as in the previous Method. Congratulations. In the total time of about 20 minutes, you have learned two ways to seem edit. Now, go show your friends.