Disclaimer: Use these at your own risk! Remember to create backups of your SEEM files in case you break something – you can always load those files back if your phone has problems.

General tools you will need:

• Motorola SLVR L6 GSM phone (other models may also work, but I only tested with this)
• Mini USB cable
• OS X (I have only tested this on a Macbook Pro running the latest version of OS X)
• Moto4Lin (There are two versions that I’ve seen – this one is the tar that unzips into an .app file)

Connecting to the Moto4Lin interface

1. First, drag the Moto4Lin.app into the /Applications directory.
2. We need to dump the device list into a temporary file, so open Terminal window and enter the following command: ls -la /dev > temp
3. Now plug in your L6 using the mini USB cable and a USB port on your Mac.
4. Wait a few seconds, and in the same Terminal window, enter the following command: ls -la /dev > temp2
5. Step 4 dumped the device list into a second temporary file. Since we had plugged in the L6 after created the first temporary file dump, we are able to now distinguish differences between the two files. So to find the differences, go back to the Terminal window and type the following command: diff temp temp2 | grep cu
6. In the differences, you’ll see a line that has something with the name ‘cu.usbmodem’ followed by a group of numbers and letters. Copy the entire line starting from the cu and ending at the last character.
7. Run the Moto4Lin application and at the bottom in blue text, you will see something like ‘[info] Phone pluged as AT’. Click on the ‘Preferences’ button in the application and replace the text in the ACM Device field with just ’/dev/’ and then paste the cu.usbmodem* text after the last slash. So the result could be something like ’/dev/cu.usbmodem0000107D2’.
8. On the same preferences window, click on the ‘Set As AT Device’ button, then click on ‘Switch To P2K’. You will see blue text that says ‘[info] Switching device /dev/cu.usbmodem* to P2K mode…’ – the text should update with ‘[info] Phone is unpluged’ then with ‘[info] Phone pluged as P2K’. Now click on ‘Update List’ – there should be a short pause as it loads up all the P2K Devices. Once the device list shows up, scroll to the very bottom until you see the Motorola device. Highlight the device and click on ‘Set as P2K Device’.
9. One note: after clicking on ‘Set as P2K Device’, if you notice the IDs match between the P2K Product ID and the AT Product ID, then your phone wasn’t detected properly. These IDs should be different. If they are the same, disconnect the mini USB until the Moto4Lin blue text says ‘[info] Phone is unpluged’ and reconnect again. Repeat Step 8.
10. Once Step 8 is complete, you should see the blue text updated with ‘[info] Phone pluged in as P2K’. Now your phone has correct settings. Click on ‘OK’ in the Preferences window to set it.
11. Click on the ‘Connect/Disconnect’ button. Black text will appear saying ‘Try to connect’. After a short pause, it will update with blue text saying ‘[info] Phone connected as P2K’. Your phone is now connected to the Moto4Lin interface.

Deleting and Uploading Files

1. Click on the ‘File Manager’ button – or you can click on the window titled ‘Directory’ in the top left hand corner. Now click on ‘Update list’. After a short pause, the blue text will update with ‘[info] Found drives: [ /a /c ]’ along with detailed information on drives and files. Click on drive ’/c’ and then on ‘mobile’. Inside there, you will see an audio directory, kjava directory and a picture directory (along with some other directories).
2. For funlights and ringtones, you need to upload them into the /c/mobile/audio section. To do this, click on the audio subdirectory, then click on the ‘Upload’ button. Your file browser prompt will show up and you can select any valid file. This is the same process for deletion – click on the file you wish to delete in the subdirectory and then click on the ‘Delete’ button. After any of your changes, remember to click on the ‘Reboot’ button so that your phone restarts and has the updated list of files ready.

Editing SEEM files

1. Click on the ‘Seem Editor’ button. Right by where the ‘Read seem’ and ‘Write seem’ buttons are, you will see two Seem text input fields with something like 0032 in the first box and 0001 in the other. This is where you can enter a particular SEEM that you want to do editing on. Once a particular SEEM is read, you will see a grid of values horizontally and vertically.
2. Backup your current SEEM onto your computer, in case you mess something up and have to revert. With the grid of values still on the SEEM editor interface, click on the ‘Save to file’. Your file browser will show up and you can save in a desired location on your hard drive.
3. When provided with SEEM modifications, you will get the following information: SEEM value, offset value and bit state (on or off). To complete SEEM instructions, you need to enter in the particular SEEM value into the two input fields, click on ‘Read seem’ and then search the grid this way: if the offset value is 63, then you would search the leftmost column for 006_ and the topmost row for _3. Click on the item where the two numbers meet and that will be where the offset 63 resides. In the ‘Bit editor’ box directly below, you iwll see the list of bits, and possibly some of the numbers (from 0 to 7) checked off. If there is a checkmark, that means the bit is ‘on’. Conversely, if the box is unchecked, it is ‘off’.
4. After making your changes, click on the ‘Write seem’ button. This will write it to your phone. Now click on the ‘Reboot’ button and wait for the phone to restart and the blue text will update with the message ‘[info] Phone pluged as AT’. At this point, you can disconnect the mini USB cable and close Moto4Lin.

Various SEEM mods

• Enable Funlights (Ring Lights) – upload a funlight.pat file of the same name (do not name it anything else) to /c/mobile/audio/ and set the following SEEM code: SEEM value = 0032 0001, Offset 63, Bit 2 set as ON, Bit 3 set as ON. This one shows the ‘Ring Lights’ option in ‘Ring Styles’.
• Enable Funlights (Event Lights) – set the following SEEM code: SEEM value = 0032 0001, Offset 65, Bit 0 set as ON. This one shows the ‘Event Lights’ option in ‘Ring Styles’.
• Enable Club/Rhythm Lights – set the following SEEM code: SEEM value = 0032 0001, Offset 59, Bit 3 set as ON. You will be able to see this in the ‘Personalise’ options.
• Enable Quadband support – set the following SEEM code: 0025 0001, Offset 00, Bit 0 set as ON, Bit 1 set as ON, Bit 3 set as ON. After this is done, write the SEEM file to the phone and now set the following SEEM code: 0032 0001, Offset 50, Bit 0 set as ON.
• Enable Autoupdate for Time/Date (if you only have the manual option on your phone) – set the following SEEM code: 0032 0001, Offset 00, Bit 0 set as ON, Bit 1 set as ON. After this is done, write the SEEM file to the phone and now set the following SEEM code: 0032 0001, Offset 55, Bit 2 set as ON.

I will add more modifications and tips as I discover them – enjoy.