Samsung BD-P1600 - Region Free Unlock code

[L.A's HiGhEsT]

Kay i figured out a easier way to make the samsung (bn-p-1600 blueray player) play avi files or xvid in the U.S.A.. I just downloaded the up to date firmeware from the brasilian website.. Then i changed the RUF file to XAA with that hex program i got in here, then i used a program to put it on ISO image... Then i used Roxio Creator to rip the ISO image to a cd, then i loaded the disc in the blue ray player it read it rite away and it asked if i wanted to up date my firmware and thats it, it just let me have You-Tube noting else, but i dont use that crap its jus to watch movies you know. Now i dont know why sum one did'nt upload the ISO file yet to save every one sum hassle here in the U.S.A. So here it is jus down load it, rip the ISO image with ripping software that can burn ISO image and put on a blank cd and load it in, it will read it whitch takes a couple mins then it will ask you if you want to update with the new firmware and click yes, simple and hassle free, enjoy...Jus download and unpack wit WinRAR.........
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FK77NHC2

[Ryan74]

Hi, I have a BD P1600 Blu Ray from the USA. I live in Hungary, so I can use it with a voltage converter. It's working well, but I can't unlock it, so I can play only US DVDs and Blu Ray films. It has the newsest firmware, ver.2.18./XAA
I tried several method:
1. downloaded Brasil and Singapore, etc... firmwares, modified the firmware with editor (to XAA), but it's not working. Tried to update from USB and from CD...
2. I tried the unlock codes, not working too...

I can't play Divx films as well... only mp3 and youtube is working..

Has anybody got any good idea to solve this problem? I know, the easiest way to change the BD to another one, but I would like to use this one...

Thanks a lot!!!

[jman98]

You'll probably never be able to unlock it since you bought it in the USA. Manufacturers make hardware changes all the time and very likely the old firmware change idea simply doesn't work with currently available US hardware. Do note that the firmware change is VERY risky and we've had reports of players getting bricked when people tried to do this. Or it will work but it will then make the player a Brazilian locked player, which is useless to someone in Europe.

I'm not aware of ANY Sony BluRay player currently sold in the USA/Canada that can be unlocked by ANY method. The ONLY ones I've heard of recently that can be unlocked at all are a very limited number of players sold in other parts of the world, usually Australia.

[Ryan74]

Thanks for the answer! At this momment I can use this player only for mp3 and audio CD playing and for Youtube watching... Is there any way to change the firmware for Divx playing? I know, its a very big risk, but now I have an audio player only... so it's not a big risk to try to change the firmware. But I don't know the method... I know, I can't watch European Blu Rays by this anymore... But maybe divx movies... ?

[Ryan74]

My firend has a flash/EEPROM programmer machine for different sockets. Maybe he can owerwrite the current US firmware wint the Singapore one, but he needs the installed version for that. Is it possible to download it from any site?

[wishbone1976]

I actually got the region free to work on my Samsung bd-p1600 region 4 for a couple of american TV series they didn't show in Australia before i upgraded the firmware but that stopped them playing. No matter how many times i tryed i couldn't unlock it again..... Until yesterday when i had my plasma wall mounted and had to set everything back up and thought i will give it one more go.

I selected the channel for the player. but nothing came up when i turned on the player,

I then noticed the HDMI cable was out before i turned it on, the player was on at this stage... so i connected the cable with the player on and on the screen it said language selection (which i've never seen this screen before) so i selected English and the the region code 4 was in the top of the corner which is when i frantically had a moment of genius and pushed 9 (region free) now it works .. Woo Hoo!!! none of the annoying codes then hitting the repeat button, Hope this works for someone else as i may sound like a nut and wouldn't believe it myself but psych works now so i can put my old Panasonic away...

Whats with the codes anyway who could be bothered copying a blue ray when the discs costs more than the movie to buy.

[jman98]

Whats with the codes anyway who could be bothered copying a blue ray when the discs costs more than the movie to buy.

The original purpose of region codes on DVD was to prevent people from buying a movie in another part of the world before it came to theaters in their part of the world. Hollywood has mostly moved away from that model so now region codes simply exist because Hollywood can't let you have anything without restricting it in some way.

That's not true that blank BluRay discs cost more than the movie. Well, maybe if you only buy your discs at Frys or some other physical store, but if you buy online the price is substantially lower.

[wishbone1976]

I see the point for region codes however our local stations start a TV series then either stop it half way through, change the time its on for 2am in the morning without advertising that so you can set it to record or stop it on the season finale... very annoying which wouldn't be so bad if the DVD stores here got it in to buy or rent but it usually takes years to get to Australia. And i don't mind spending money to support movies as i like having the original product. And our local cinemas are well fairly crap and for $15.50 they can at least clean the place.

and the blank BluRay discs may be cheaper but by the time you download the film, hire it to copy, print a cover it's a lot of trouble to go to instead of waiting for the price of a film to drop to $10. I usually buy three for thirty. & i just brought the back to the future trilogy for $19.95 anyway these days i just chuck movies on a hard drive and watch them, then if there any good buy them. I learnt my lesson buying films strait away as i had 235 original DVDs but traded them for credit a the local video shop, as i found i really don't get time to watch a film twice these days, specially now that Skyrim just came out, oh and those baby things take up alot of time... anyways was just trying to help as i can watch psych again as they took for years to bring seasons 2 & 3 here and just brought season 5 from amazon, maybe they should stop stores exporting if they don't want it released or just release it worldwide all at once. Anyway thanks for your reply have a good Christmas.

[krishnanair]

Could any one suggest how to unlock region code for Samsung BD-P 1600 purchased from Sydney. I tried all measures that were posted in video help.

[Carteria_Cushing]

Hello,
Is it me or the firmware trick no longer works? I tried with the Brazilian version and Singapore version, nothing to do! Is anyone able to lately? I saw that there are now two places where you have the potential to change the country code.

Thanks!

[jman98]

Manufacturers change hardware and/or firmware often during production. These changes can break unlock hacks that worked in the past. That is probably the case now. Samsung and Sony are rather infamous for making players that cannot be unlocked so this is no surprise to me to read that it no longer works for you.

[BobShan]

It's quite easy to hack this player, if you follow the tutorial. I actually updated my firmware to the most recent before I found out about this hack, still worked 1st time.

For those of you wanting to change your blu-ray region this is also possible by hacking the update file. It's not difficult to do and in some cases will actually enable youtube content. You have to be careful not to hack to a region not compatable with your tv though.

For the person that bought their player in Dubai.......Download the update file for your player from the samsung BRAZIL website.

Open the RUF file in a hex editor http://www.handshake.de/user/chmaas/delphi/download/xvi32.zip is good.

You will notice right at the top SAMSUNG BD-P1600 XAX, change the XAX to MEA, must be in capitals......do NOTHING else and save the file.

Use this file to update your player using the instructions in the manual and you should be good to play dvd's and blu-ray's in your region.

For the person that bought their player in the USA......Do exactly the same but replace XAX with XAA.

Hope this helps

Pretz

Hi I have a Samsung BD-F5100 blu ray player bought in India. I can change the region to any number from 1 to 6 and it stays there when I check if it indeed changed, but it still does not play blu ray cds bought from UK. Also I observed when I try to save the 9 code it goes back to zero. Any suggestions? M

[usually_quiet]

Hi I have a Samsung BD-F5100 blu ray player bought in India. I can change the region to any number from 1 to 6 and it stays there when I check if it indeed changed, but it still does not play blu ray cds bought from UK. Also I observed when I try to save the 9 code it goes back to zero. Any suggestions? M

Normally there are no hacks available to change the Blu-ray region on a Blu-ray player, only the DVD region code. The Blu-ray region is typically controlled by a chip, not the player's firmware. The chip must be replaced or reprogrammed, and both of those things are beyond the scope of what consumers can do at home.

[Edit] Also, you don't have any of the models previously discussed in this old, dead thread. If Pretzal's hack worked for you on the DVD side, that is practically a miracle.

[RuffinAround]

So, this was my first time doing anything like this, and I wanted to contribute and, hopefully, help anyone with a region 1 player. My Samsung BD-P1600 is from Canada which has been notoriously difficult for people to crack.

I bought this Blu-Ray/DVD player at Value Village for $9.99, so I figured if I accidentally bricked it, it wasn't a huge financial loss.

These are the steps I took to get it region free:

1) Download the Brazilian firmware from the Samsung website: https://www.samsung.com/br/support/model/BD-P1600/XAZ/
(This file will be called BEv2.21_120515_BDP1600_XAZ. Even with this being v2.21 it still worked, so don't worry about that.)

2) Unzip the firmware.

3) Download a Hex editor (I used HxD: https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/. It gives you the option of running HxD editor at 32 or 64 bit, I selected 64bit because that's what my computer runs on, but I honestly don't know if it would matter. I'm not a professional coder.)

4) Open the firmware file in HxD and edit the first instance of 'XAA' to the region that matches your device (for example, mine was region 1, Canada, so I changed it to 'XAC'. You will need to know which three letter code corresponds to your device. On mine, it was printed on the back of the device next to the product number, but you can also go into the settings and check what the latest firmware for your device is. The three letter code for your device will be located in the file name of its currently installed firmware).

5) Load the firmware onto a USB stick. I reformatted the stick before uploading the firmware to it.

6) Turn on your bluray player and wait for it to finish powering on. Make sure there is no disc in the player.

7) Connect the USB to the front USB port and wait. A message should pop up saying that it is checking the firmware. This step will take a couple minutes. When it is done a prompt will appear asking you if you wish to load the new firmware. Press 'Enter' on your remote to say 'Yes'.

DO NOT TURN OFF YOUR BLURAY PLAYER OR REMOVE THE USB FOR ANY REASON AT THIS POINT. DISRUPTING IT CAN CAUSE DAMAGE TO YOUR MACHINE.

8) Wait until the firmware has finished loading. The Bluray device will automatically turn off when it is done and at this point it is safe to remove the USB.

9) Power on your bluray player, and at this point it will prompt you to select your language.

If this is your first time updating the firmware you should repeat step 5 to 8. If you reinsert the USB and an error message comes up, do not worry, this is normal and happened to me. You can disregard repeating the steps. Eject the USB.

10) Power off your bluray and then turn it back on.

11) When the 'No Disc' message appears on the top left hand corner of the screen, press and hold the 'Repeat' button (Not the 'Repeat A-B' button) for 2 seconds and then enter the region 4 code: 76884. Because we have now installed Brazilian firmware onto the bluray player, you only need the region 4 code to access the hidden menu. Some people have complained that the red icon indicating you can't use the 'Repeat' button appears on the screen when you press it. This is normal and does not prevent the code from being accepted.

12) When the number 4 appears in the left hand corner of the screen, press 9 to make it region free.

If you want to check if the player has accepted the region 9 setting you can power off the machine, turn it back on, and follow the steps of pressing the 'Repeat' button and the region 4 code: 76884. This time, a 9 should appear in the top left corner.

Congrats! You have unlocked your DVD player!

Notes about this process:

Make sure you do this on a nice day when you know it is highly unlikely you will suddenly lose power. Losing power during the firmware update can severely damage it.

Also note that while the player is now region free, my TV doesn't accept PAL signals. For instance, I was able to play the Japanese version of the Matrix DVD I own which is encoded with NTSC, but I couldn't play my French copy of the Matrix which is PAL. Both are region 2 and the DVD player WILL play both, but the TV is a North American TV and wont handle PAL. (I am getting an external PAL/NTSC converter from Walmart that's like $20 that will hopefully solve this problem as there are a number of Australian films I am eager to get my hands on).

So, for people who struggle to conceptualize what we've done here: We have taken a Bluray player which has firmware for one country that doesn't allow access to a hidden menu, and replaced it with firmware that does allow access to that menu via the remote prompts. Keep in mind the bluray player has not been region hacked, only the DVD player, that being said, from what I understand most blurays pretend to have region coding and don't so it's worth testing out blurays that claim to have region coding because sometimes that's just a marketing ploy.

Because this was a second hand unit I wasn't sure if the firmware had been updated before, so I tried to repeat the steps as it suggests on the Brazilian website, but the bluray player kept saying that the file on the USB had an error. Like I said, I decided to disregard repeating the steps and I found that it worked anyways.

If anyone has any questions feel free to ask. I know this is an old unit, but it looks nice and runs everything really well. And the fact I got it for so cheap made it worth trying out.