Sony Ericsson Flashing

We spent are last few weeks working hard on a new goal. “The new hope”, what we call our lifestyle…
An amazing new forum, to bring the best of Sony Ericsson World.
So now, get moving! Go to SE-Lifestyle.com, and register, start downloading our content, read tutorials, ask for help (in flashing or anything), or provide your own data, help us that way, play in our Arcade (games collection).
The other thing I must talk about is a brand new blog, located the same place, SE-Lifestyle Blog! We will have the latest news about Sony Ericsson there, keep informed!

DB2010 phones are K750, D750, W800, W300, Z530, etc. Use DBCIDExplorer to know what your phone is.

We always focused on DB2020 platform as our phones (mine and Akshay’s are K550@W610 models). We talked about the Quick-Access thing, without mentioning the history of patching.

Now it is clear that using JDFlasher is better than using SeTool2Lite, because it is faster and you can apply several patches with it without disconnecting the phone. read all »

A black day in our history, 8th of July 2008.

I was just working on a brand new JavaScript-based forum for seflashing.extra.hu, our used-to-be forum, when I discovered, I can’t open the page with Firefox. I first thought it was a server problem, but then I couldn’t log on the ftp server of it, and neither extra.hu itself. It says “User seflashing is blocked.“, I think they didn’t like our free content… but those files were legal, the only copyright problem may occur with the firmwares, which we never hosted (only had links for a short time).

So I guess that’s it folks, seflashing.extra.hu is dead for good now. As of 2008.07.08 we had 1097 files, 179.16 MB of SE flashing data, and people download files from it 62403 times, which is 627.94 for each day.

Despite that the ftp and the http surface doesn’t work, I could manage to rescue the SQL server’s content, users, forum.

This isn’t the end yet, at least maybe it isn’t. We might resurrect the portal for forum, but I doubt it will have any downloads, we don’t want to be banned again. Sorry, guys. :’(

Many CID53 Firmwares don’t work properly and have bad headers. You can’t flash such a firmware into your phone.

There may be many problems in a firmware. And recently many CID53 when used with jdflasher output the following error or something similar.

PutFiles<putfile<putfile_flash<flashbabe<flashbabe<header<send header error 15>>>>>

Hence its better to check the firmware before you flash it.
You can check it using the program babeck. Its basically babe-check. babe is SE standard firmware header.
Download babeck. Babeck can be used to check any sony ericsson firmware.

Instructions on how to use babeck.exe.

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This is not really a flashing subject, though many people would like to know how to do it. So convert your SE phone to a media center where you can watch movies!! Or at least watch video clips.

The application I suggest using has the slogan “does for FREE what other encoders CAN’T do for money”. It’s worth a try.

It is SUPER © Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer, the best you can find. A very nice application, with very frequent updates. That is the main reason why I’m not uploading it to the download site.

So you have to get it from their own site, which is pretty hard to do, the first part of this tutorial will be about obtaining the newest SUPER. read all »