Samsung SCH-X430

The Samsung Anycall SCH-X430 is a High-end Flip phone released by Samsung specifically for South Korean network SK Telecom in the year of 2002. This phone is one of the early Samsung phone with colour screen. boasting resolution of 128x160 and a active-matrix TFT screen.

This phone can be commonly seen in silver or white, though the white one are prone to yellowing due to age and kind of plastic used. being a high-end phone, this phone boasted some feature set that was very good at that era, like colour screen, 40-polyphonic ringtone, Mobile wallet, roaming mode, and many others.

Variants

 * Samsung Anycall SPH-X4200/SPH-X4209: An almost similar model. the only difference is in the software branding and operating band used.
 * Samsung Anycall SCH-X430S: Slightly improved model with better LCD quality, some changed ringtone, Released 2003

Related Phones

 * Samsung SCH-A562: A rebranded SCH-X430 for Israeli CDMA Operator "Pelephone".
 * Samsung SGH-T100: International GSM version of this phone released the same year.

Acessories
Supported Batteries: Supported Charger: Supported Accessories:
 * Removeable Lithium-Ion battery (800 mAh)
 * Samsung 18-pin charger (TCH016KBK)
 * Data Comm Cable (PCB016SBK)

Firmware
Only one firmware dump of this phone are known to exist. the file name says "X430_A562" which maybe indicates a cross-compatibiloty between these two phones.


 * MEGA

Hidden Service Menu
A hidden service menu containing some setting and information is accesible using a simple well-known method. This service menu contains some information like SW/HW version, Changing SIO mode, Debug screen, etc.

To access this menu, do following steps:

1. Make sure the phone is powered on and showing the standby screen

2. Open "Home" Menu by pressing UP key

3. In Home menu, press 0 briefly, when password screen appears, enter 9720

4. Service menu will be opened.

To exit service menu, press END Key.

Quick Booting Mode
Certain early Samsung Anycall phones (like SCH-X430) have a feature called Quick Boot Mode. When this feature enabled,the phone will skip the boot animation & sound, skip network search animation, and quickly show the standby screen. Hence the name.

It will show a message with a alert sound every time the phone powered on, letting the user know that the phone is being powered on in Quick boot mode.

To enable this mode:

1. In standby screen, type 5809540*45680 (SCH-models) or 25836218712358 (SPH-models)

2. type 56. if the phone support this mode, a text will appear, "QUICK BOOT?" (else, if it does not say anything, it means the phone does not have such function supported.)

3. Type 1, and press OK(확인) key

4. Type 02 to restart.

To disable this mode:

1. Do step 1 and 2 agaim

2. When "QUICK BOOT?" appears again, type 0 instead.

3. Save by pressing OK(확인) and restart.