For those who own this modem and wish to compare other phone operators' services this is the HowTo to unlock the Huawei E220 modem (i.e if it will not accept foreign card)

Optionally debranding software to change your modems inbuilt software (which comes branded with the logos and settings of the phone provider) this is usually referred to as the dashboard. (you will have to manually enter the settings, these are usually APN, username and password of the network u wish to use at the given moment) e.g. http://www.huawei.com/mobileweb/en/doc/list.do?type=-1&id=736

Insert your modem in the USB port and confirm it exists in the device manager under modems,

Start the QMAT tool, click on hardware forensics menu, select “Use Com/USB port”.

Under Serial/Com port, click on the drop down to select (something similar to Huawei Mobile Connect – 3G PC UI interface com XX)

Click on send command and u shld see some output on the status window. In the Diag functions, the default is set to “Save memory to file” change this to “Read EFS” and click on “Let Go” button. You shall be prompted with a SAVE AS dialog box to and name of the dump file.

The process shld take like 7-10mins to dump the memory of your modem and will create a file of exactly 65,536KB.

Once done, quit QMAT and open your hex editor, locate the file created by “Read EFS” function and open it. Using the search feature of the hex editor, search for the occurrence of HEX STRING “53 62 2C 00”

On the right hand side of the hex editor, you shall see a block of eight numbers. Congrats that is your unlock code.

With the modem still plugged in, run the E220 unlocker, key in the eight digits and press unlock. Presto! U may now use your previously locked modem with subscriber sim card of your choice.

safcom safaricom or blank in a 3g coverage area saf/data (or any words u may choose for username/password)

2009/6/30 Steve Obbayi <steve@sobbayi.com>

I think i copied the binary and the source code to Alex but gmail rejected the mail coz of the binary. Let me see if i can avail it elsewhere

Steve Obbayi,

From: skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke [mailto:skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke] On Behalf Of Peter Karunyu
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:03 AM

To: Skunkworks forum
Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Safaricom Modem and Orange line

If I may, Steve did the hard work of creating a C++ app to read the archives and save them to a mysql db, I was to write the PHP code to do the searching from that db.

Steve did a version 1 of that C++ app, but he had to make some changes to that app. I am not sure whether Steve had sambazad the source code to Gakuru?

Status of the project: In progress, sort of.

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote:

There was an ongoing effort by some skunkers to have the previous list-archives in a mysql db and then have them searchable on a php site. I havent heard what became of the project :( .

Steve Obbayi? Need some help?

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