Last week I tried to update my brand new Samsung LE40b652 LCD TV.

The proccess is quite simple, download the firmware, extract to a USB-stick and load the firmware from the USB-stick.

But..

For some reason my TV didn’t find any firmware files, until I found the solutions.

If you download the firmware from the “normal” samsung support site, there is a change that the last symbol of your TV-type is not the same.

The download site of the LE40B652 only has downloads for the LE40B652T4W, but my TV is a LE40B652T4P.

There is no way to find the exact type on the normal site.

Go to:

Samsung download

Here you can select the exact type of TV you own!

Now the firmware update worked!

If your Internet Explorer 8 installation (upgrade from 7) fails all the time.

Run this code:

<code>

‘——————–8<———————-

Const HKLM = &H80000002

arrNeededSvcs = Array(“BITS”,”wuauserv”)

strKeyPath = “SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SvcHost”
strValueName = “netsvcs”

strComputer = “.”   ‘ “use “.” for local computer

Set objReg = GetObject(“winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\” & strComputer & “\root\default:StdRegProv”)

objReg.GetMultiStringValue HKLM, strKeyPath, strValueName, arrValues

‘ create string from array, easier to check for existence this way

strValues = “|” & Join(arrValues, “|”) & “|”

bolUpdateNeeded = False ‘ init value

For Each strNeededSvcs In arrNeededSvcs
If InStr(1, strValues, strNeededSvcs, vbTextCompare) = 0 Then
‘ service is not in array, add it
intArrCount = UBound(arrValues) + 1
ReDim Preserve arrValues(intArrCount)
arrValues(intArrCount) = strNeededSvcs
bolUpdateNeeded = True
End If
Next

If bolUpdateNeeded Then
objReg.SetMultiStringValue HKLM, strKeyPath, strValueName, arrValues
End If

MsgBox “Done!”, vbInformation + vbSystemModal, “Netsvcs check”

</code>

If you have problems sending SMS after a manual restore of the SMS.db.

It’s properly a security-rights problem, you iPhone cannot write its outgoing messages to the database file.

Fix it this way:

Open Putty and connect to your iPhone as root (default password ‘apline’) btw you SHOULD change this for security reasons.

Run:

chown mobile -R /var/mobile/

And:

killall SpringBoard

Now all folder and files are reset to the correct settings.