Hack the MobiBLU Cube

MobiBLU

By: Grahm Skee on January 17, 2006 2:53 PM

Are you sick of looking at the same screen animations on that monochrome blue OLED screen? Well you are in luck. Guillermito emailed me to let me know about his hack of the MobiBLU DAH-1500i & DAH-1500. The hack allows you to modify the startup screen as well as the other animations within the Cube. Interestingly, he found animations for games like black jack inside of the firmware. Weather or not they can be played has yet to be discovered.

Now this hack is not for the faint hearted, you must be well verse in hex editing and all of that geeky stuff. Nonetheless, this is a great guide to the firmware inside of the cube as well as instructions on how to go about changing the startup animation. Hack away…

[Site thanks Guillermito]

Comments

Guillermito on January 15, 2006 8:49 AM

Thanks :) Actually, it would be quite simple to do a very easy to use tool, so there would be no more hex editing. I'm just lazy.

onlysublime on January 21, 2006 3:59 AM

This is so awesome!!! Please do the utility!!! Another reason the cube rules! :)

Bill George on February 10, 2006 1:19 AM

I own a Sandisk Sansa 512. Its dump is in the same format (including the DEDE's).

RVH on February 12, 2006 3:03 AM

Where is the link for the hack? PLEASE let me know where to get this information, PLEASE!!

shiggityshiggityshwa on April 2, 2006 5:03 PM

i would also like to know where the hack is. i'm a noob at these things.

shiggityshiggityshwa on April 2, 2006 5:03 PM

i would also like to know where the hack is. i'm a noob at these things.

jlo1010 on April 4, 2006 3:35 PM

you can find the hack program on his site;
www.guillermito2net/code/cube/index.html

I've bookmarked it so that when my cube arrives, I will be modding it as soon as I can!!

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