SEEM Edit Guide

SEEM Edit Guide for Motorola P2K mobile phone

This guide is made to answer questions, such as "How to seem edit?", "What is SEEM edit?", etc.

SEEM? I don't know why it called SEEM. In my words, SEEM is the memory area in the P2K phone that works as parameter table or data storage. With different parameters, the phone can behave differently, have different options, enable/disable some features, etc. SEEM is also used to store user data, such as SMS, Databook entries, phone information, call history, etc. There are many SEEMs and they are identified by SEEM ID. With P2K software, like P2K Tools, you can read the SEEM from the phone and update the SEEM back to phone. The SEEM is represented in HEX format in the SEEM editor. There are many customized SEEM edit software out there, but you can always Hex edit the SEEM file, when you fully understand how the SEEMs work.

The words you need to understand:

SEEM or SEEM ID: the id that identifies a particular SEEM, such as 0032-0001 and 004a-0001. The first 4 digit is the SEEM number, while the second 4 digit is the record. One SEEM number can have multiple records.

Offset: the address of the byte in the SEEM. one byte has 8 bits.

Bit: the 0-7 bits in the byte. usually each bit represents an option. we enable or disable the option by turning on or off the bit. "on" means "tick the bit" while "off" is "uncheck the bit".

Once you understand the above, doing seem edit is pretty easy. You need a SEEM editor software (P2K tools, Motokit, Moto4Lin and many others). Let's do it by examples. In example 1, we will edit an offset in the SEEM. In example 2, we will write a seem file to the phone. (It is recommended that you always save the SEEM to a SEEM file in your PC/Mac, before writing the SEEM to the phone.)

Example 1: edit seem

In this example, we want to enable usb charging, and we know that the seem for usb charging option is "SEEM 004a_0001 offset 0207 bit 0: (1 enable, 0 disable)". You can read [v360 seem list] to find out the seems for other options/functions.

Now let's start.

Here is a screenshot: [Screeshot of P2K Tools]

1. open p2k tools, click seem edit icon
2. in the Seem (num/rec) box, enter 004a and 0001, then click "load from phone"
3. find offset 0207, which is row 200 and column 07
4. select the offset, then enter "01" or uncheck 1-7 bits and check 0 bit using bit operations. (Hex value 01 represents binary value 00000001, FF will be 11111111. You can either update the hex value or update the bits. It is your choice. Sometimes bit operations is not possible, then you have to do Hex edit. For those SEEMs that store user data, you can only Hex edit it.)
5. click "save to phone" and restart the phone. It is done.

Example 2: upload seem file

In this example, we want to upload the 005B-0001 seem file to the phone. Here are the steps:

1. open p2k tools, click seem edit icon
2. in the Seem (num/rec) box, enter 005b and 0001, then click "load from file"
3. select the seem file and load it
4. click "save to phone" and restart the phone. It is done.

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