My first phone as a kid was the Coca-Cola A1018s. At the time it was an extremely affordable way to get a phone, and collecting the tokens only took 2-3 days at school from discarded bottles. It was not jus the startup logo, but also there was a special ringtone it had too.

I’ve never seen someone brick a phone so calmly 😂

My own theory about why only Eastern Europe got this firmware is: The phone may have been selling well in Eastern Europe, because of the price decrease that would have happened over the two year life span. Maybe carriers were selling the phones for cheaper than initially. In Eastern Europe not many would have been able to buy the latest and greatest phones. This phone might have been selling better in that region than the rest of Europe, which may have moved onto newer models by then (by 2001 we already had camera phones with colour screens, smaller footprints, smaller antennas, etc). I believe the Polish telecom Era was advertising one of these big boy Ericsson phones back in the day, but I can't remember what year it was (very late 90s I believe).

Pretty sure my dad had this phone when I was a kid, I'm sure he's glad it didn't have tetris on it or I probably would have stolen it from him a lot more often lol

I remember modding my Sagem mobile phone with an RS232 cable in the year 2000. I was able to add a lot of extra functions, for example a screensaver. It was also usable as a 9600 bit dial-up connection with the RS232 cable. I got one of the Coca Cola cases for it a year later, it took an hour to swap the case.

This channel deserves at least a thousand subscribers.

This was my first own cellphone ever! I've had it in the exact colour scheme you have here! It was always funny when I've dropped it, it broke into four parts: main body, front cover, battery, antenna (I've rarely used the belt clip). Had no Tetris though...

Thanks for sharing your experience. It was my first phone ever and I heard a rumour that Tetris can be insalled some way on the phone. I was trying to find it out, how, but I never managed to have all the info for that, so I was really disappointed. Now 22 years later I feel relieved finding out that it would be a really complex task for my young and dumb self :D

i love how theres more then whats being said on the CC. feels like im reading your thoughs as well.

Now that's some hardcore stuff man. Been a very long time since I've seen the things that you did on the video. Mad props.

Dude, I love your videos! It's so cool to see someone else absolutly in love with old & obscure technology :)

That was my first mobile phone 99/20s. I do not have that in my collection. Only 2 Ericsson i have is R320s and T65. They have Tetris and one of my favorite games ever. Still playing that daily.

This was my first phone, thing was solidly built and felt like a brick in your hand, even has a melody composer so you could have one custom ringtone.

I had a great T39m on Orange in the UK. It was made in 2000. Over 10 years later I would occasionally take it to work and take calls on it. People would be amazed at the audio quality. It had snake which played sideways. I flogged it on eBay but always wish I hadn't because it was a great reminder of what dedicate hardware should be like. I always wanted the T28 world because that phone was way ahead of its time and looked amazing!

Hi. I love your videos. You are showing a part of mobile phone history that seems lost and that is awesome. Where do you find all the software that you use? I have a Nokia 2300 with an erased imei that cannot pass to the “SIM not valid” warning and i would like to fix it.

I owned this phone in 1999, but sadly I'm over here in Asia and never knew this was going on, never mind that this firmware wasn't released out here. Damn...

Nice to see this phone, you don't really see it at all online! My sister had one around 2000, it was on the one2one network in the UK.

Thanks gsmarena for bring me here.. nice video

I also have a similar Toshiba laptop I randomly found at flea market and bought because it was too pretty and slim. It had windows XP installed on it but it wasn't activated so only thing I could do was enter in safe mode and run another XP setup from there since there were no other way to boot into a setup because it only had one USB port on board and it couldn't boot from it. I am missing a charger so I used female jumpers since they fit if you remove one of theirs plastic cover around the pin. The current draw sometimes makes the cables get too hot though. I remember using a random 12V LED power supply with the tuning pot turned all the way up to get a voltage close to 15V. Do you perhaps know what type of connector is used there so I can make a proper solution. I also got a ethernet cart and even a wifi cart and tried connecting to Internet. It was problematic since no browsers were available. The lack of modern instructions sets on the CPU limited it even further, more than using 32 bit XP. Wifi did not work for me since it was probably too outdated so security protocol didn't let me connect. It was fun to mess with it. It run AoEII like a champ. Couldn't get any other games on it though.

I play that game as well with my Ericsson T28

Brilliant video.

Nice info, thanks for sharing it :)

That was a fun ride! 😄

Oh my heck, it looks like that Kobo thing has a microSD card slot that isn't normally accessible! If that slot really isn't open into the case, then that's pretty weird!

That was my first phone and would have died to know I could get a firmware update...

That Outro song and your skills 💪👍👌 today you have a new subscriber :)

"Through the magic of buying two of them..."

my first phone was Ericsson GA 628 and my second was A1018s, both were previously owned by my father, then my mother and then I would get them, and my father probably broke over 10 of those antennas on both models

I remember playing this on my uncle's t28 and t29! Good times!

Have you done a vid on a benefon io? With its not-tetris and afaik first t9 text prediction shipped on a phone

Hey, Czech Republic is not eastern europe :D

"Then in 2001 a couple of things happened." 💀💀💀

I have bricked only one phone I was flashing! Really back in the days. It was Motorola RAZR v6 I suppose. And I'vemade it, then, I've made a mistake that I've been warned and forgot - I tried to flash backwards, so it was bricked. I even get it to specialists but no luck. So I've injured since then... And I felt it again when you've got your first error. 😭 Maybe, when you've got everything fixed... Healed me! Thanks you

Flashing Mode needs +12V on pin 7. How did you arrange this voltage level with just a TTL adapter?

Had Ericson T28 as my first phone, played quite a bit of Tetris with it.

My dad had this phone!!! So classicc

Hi, can you give me a link to the connector or perhaps its name? Also, have you checked what voltage the battery nibs on the back of the phone give when it's connect to a charger? Mine has a 7.8v rated charger that gives out 8.33v but the nibs read only 4v and can't charge the battery which is rated at 4.8v but gives 5.19v currently. The battery only manages to light the phone for a second and it dies. I wonder where the problem might lie - phone's charging circuit, charger or battery. The phone runs fine when connected to a 5v power supply instead of the battery. Thanks a lot!

This is my type of video lol. Thank you, algorithm x

Thanks for sharing. 😉👌🏻

I had an A1018s that I modded the crap out of. Took it to work put it down and it got stolen, did get a replacement but without the mods :-(

You'd get beat up if you had a phone like that now. 😂

Please help me win 98 pc which feature I need to install 98 on the computer I need my old computer on the new one, what kind of computer do I need what date computer do I need

Checking image checksum AFTER erasing the PROM? Whoever wrote this is a freakin sadist.

This is so nerdy, I'm litterally programming in my free time, and I can't deal with this.

If you could not use USB for the serial port, what would you try? PCMCIA?

hey you're back! :)

Great work! Would You be kind enough to provide links to the necessary software? Thank you!

Excellent video! I have same phone and it still works and it powers up, but once i insert new sim card....phone only works for 30min then i keeps saying NO Access to network. I tried to search for networks available but it only shows one2one, vodafond and bt cell net. Is there a way to update network list????? Thank you

Plz help me. Where can I buy this connecting port for my A1018s and what is it called. I searched online and couldn't find it. There are many different sony ericsson ports and all look almost same but they are very different. How can I identify the specific jack that fits for A1018s that you have?

Can you find bosch phone i have it in highschool here in the philippines

Janus,can i know what that connecter name? Where we can get it?Thanks

I don't think it being locked to any network is going to be a problem

I think the first colour lcd cellphone available worldwide was the Siemens S10.

I think this was my second or third mobile… I actually liked it.

Where did you buy your ericsson 1018s thank you

Great phone. GSM from 80k plus

Where to buy it

The Soviet government owned the Tetris rights, so it may be that they'd only allow the game to be included in the firmware intended for "friendly" countries (i.e. Eastern Europe)

Dam why am i finding this out now. They used to have 3 beeps when turning them on anyway this was my first phone back in 98/99 and the battery lasted for a whole week and the area info was pretty nifty back then and it was locked to Vodafone then a bit later i got a t29s the blue display was great just wish it was a bit bigger

It was my fave too

Haha, nice video, thanks for it!

my first phone!

my first cellphone

Because Tetris. (I feel like that should be a bumper sticker.)

hi, where can I download these old flashing tools for ericsson. I can't find them most of the download links are dead. would you please send these files to me?

While the technology just wasn’t actually there yet but it didn’t stop ericsson to just put tetris on their phones from that era of time.

To mi je bio prvi mobilni telefon, ali se zvao erikson 808 ili cigla.

Joao onde arruma esses telefones

Ericsson R320S was the King. All those who chased Nokia 3310 back in a day looked mentally sick to me.

Can you still buy the case to make the cable??

cool

The T36 was actually T39. I still have one. Same features as the R520 in a package barely bigger than the T28.

just that using usb to ttl rs232 adapters against pretty much anything brings up the problem that when using a normal max232 or 'something simular' the power to that ic goes out at the same time the power to the rest of the target system goes out. the max232 itself is usually just fine with input levels higher than vcc as that is what it does anyway. all day long :P -however- the uart or microcontroller -behind- it, can usually not handle a 5v signal while vcc is 0 (as it's turned off ;) connecting rs232 stuff together directly over ttl is therefore usually not such a bright idea :P (also it won't handle potential differences that well that way ;) stuff that does do that nontheless usually has all kinds of external circuitry (atari sio bus (but that's also because it's some point to multipoint setup, etc)

My first phone, i have it fom 1999-2003 when battery has weaken. I'm form eastern europe but i dont remember tetris and i didnt update firmware. I then buy Esisoson T18s as my second phone.

I never understood why people bought Ericsson phones (at around the year 2000). Typing a short message on an Ericsson phone (in my case T10s) was an unbearably laggy procedure. Nokia phones were responsive, durable and had long battery life. And that weird charging port on Ericssons: It went from wabbly to plastic pin broken. While Nokia's was simple and sturdy.

How exactly the logo is made?

Can you do hypertapping?

RULe#1 - never flash your phone without reading full )

Omg esato forum 😂 toshiba portege, you are so lucky

in 1999, while I still not afford to have mobile phone, most of my friends have this model. Nokia was a bit expensive and this was cheaper.

Could you put the link of the firmware update?

sheesh music is very loud at the end

I have the exact Toshiba notebook

Wtf with the jump scare at the end

Yeah, why didn't they just try it from the very beginning?

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"This computer has no serial port." Yes it does have one; just not that old-school type. Did you forget what the S in "U *S* B" stands for?

Okay Czechia is Eastern Europe NOTED

This laptop is slim for a 1998 cpu.

Tetris was originally created by a Russian guy, which is probably why it’s only in Eastern Europe models.

I wish someone open-sourced all these flashing protocols and made them work on normal OSes like Linux.

14:21 was this program somehow related to Ukraine, as its icon is the Ukrainian flag?

a game from USSR ~

Leaving a room for "Ericsson trans" joke

8:20 что за флаг?)

"The USB to serial adapter..." * USB to _standard/legacy_ serial adapter.

hey! i've been trying to find that logo manager program. can you please share it? do you have faebook?

The T68m was NOT the first mobile phone with colour display , the Siemens S25 was also it was the first phone with internet connectivity