Extended Service Menu after Enabling Hotel Mode

[habee]

As a frequent reader of this forum and owner of a PN50C550 I would like to contribute something to the community.
The reason why I am very interested in modifying Samsung firmwares is, that I currently own a PN50C550 and a Blueray BD-C5500. Next year
I will return to Europe and I plan to take them with me. So it would be good, if i could use them in Europe, and modyfiing firmware is one step to this. (I know
that it would not be possible to use the tuners, but the Set should work using HDMI, as I have a Sat-Receiver using it.)

This is how my Info Screen in Service Mode looks:


I got extended options in the service Menu after enabling and disabling Hotel Mode. This is what I did:

Enter Service Menu using : Mute - 1 - 8 - 2 - On
Go into "Option"

It shows this options:

Go into "Hotel Option"
Enabling Hotel Mode
Then "Clone USB to TV" (to get a current channellist)
After that i Disabled Hotel Mode
Pressing "Exit" to get into Option Menu again

Then it looked like this:

and I got much more options when I entered the Sub, Config and Sound Submenus:







I enabled PVR Mode, but I cannot see a difference. How can I check if this is working?

Thanks for all the work

Bye habee

EDIT 19.01.2011:

The above procedure works on a PN50C550 with 1016.0 or 1014.0-Firmware only. Right now I have a PN50C590-Board in m Set which I bought as sapre part (if something goes wrong ). This has Firmware 1004.0 on it an it does not have the Clone TV to USB-Option in the Hotel Mode Settings. But with this firmware I can accesss the Top Debug Menu over Ex-Link:

You have to press the following sequence (blind) on the console :

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====================================
      [ TOP Debug Menu]   
------------------------------------
  1  : SubSystem Print On/Off    
  2  : Platform Print Setting    
  3  : TD Print Setting    
  4  : Performance Print Setting    
  5  : Sdal Print Setting    
  6  : Sdal Trace Setting    
  10 : Factory Debug 
  11 : TD Debug
  12 : SubSystem DBG 
  13 : SubSystem Info Print
  20 : Performance File Write
  21 : Louvre Print Setting 
------------------------------------
  70 : Jade Debug
====================================
  99 : Exit 
====================================
DBG> : 11

==============================
 [ TD Debug Menu ]
------------------------------
 0x01  : TDc Debug 
 0x02  : TDi Debug  
 0x03  : SDAL Debug 
 0x04  : SPCScreen Debug 
 0x05  : Sequence Test  
 0x06  : Amp mute on/off  
 0x07  : SdAVDec_Debug 
 0x08  : SdMisc Debug
 0x09  : SdTSData_Debug
------------------------------
 0x20  : System Shell
 0x21  : Get SDAL version
 0x22  : Get Kernel driver version
------------------------------
 0x99  : Exit Debug 
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TD>: 0x04
================================
 SPCScreen Ver. Jan 15 2010 19:03:02
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	TridentSX debug menu			
================================
0 : version 
1 : Enable/Diable Screen				
2 : s_GetScreen				
3 : Fill graphic buffer directly
4 : Fill graphic buffer with FillRectRop
5 : s_ChangeScreenRes
6 : s_HwCreateImage
7 : s_HwDestroyImage
8 : Dump buffer to USB
9 : Check Enable flag
10 : Bitblt scale test
11 : MHP test
12 : OSD FHD test
13 : OSD HD test
14 : A test
15 : gfx_ChangePlaneDisplayWindow
40 : print off				
41 : print on					
================================
50 : Sync Monitor					
================================
255 : exit						
================================
cmd: 0
version 2010_01_12_1
================================
 SPCScreen Ver. Jan 15 2010 19:03:02
================================
	TridentSX debug menu			
================================
0 : version 
1 : Enable/Diable Screen				
2 : s_GetScreen				
3 : Fill graphic buffer directly
4 : Fill graphic buffer with FillRectRop
5 : s_ChangeScreenRes
6 : s_HwCreateImage
7 : s_HwDestroyImage
8 : Dump buffer to USB
9 : Check Enable flag
10 : Bitblt scale test
11 : MHP test
12 : OSD FHD test
13 : OSD HD test
14 : A test
15 : gfx_ChangePlaneDisplayWindow
40 : print off				
41 : print on					
================================
50 : Sync Monitor					
================================
255 : exit						
================================
cmd: 

[mamaich]

You will get the same extended menu if you'll press 0000 while "Advanced" menu item is active. Read service manual for your model (if you can find it), it is explained there.

[habee]

You will get the same extended menu if you'll press 0000 while "Advanced" menu item is active.

That definetely does not work on this model. You have to go through the procedure I described above. It is also not enough to just enable and disable Hotel Mode, you have to
download channel list to USB. Only after doing this the extended options get available.

Read service manual for your model (if you can find it), it is explained there.

I do not have one, can you give me a source (I already did a search on elektrotanya)?

I have seen that main units for this Plasma are available for auround 80 $. Maybe I will buy an extra main unit to have one to play around...

[habee]

Wasn't there a code to enter hotel mode ?

Try this:

How to Enter Interactive Menu:-
This mode can be entered directly by pressing key combination (MUTE + 1 + 1 + 9 + ENTER) when TV is powered ON.