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Installing USB Flash Drivers

To connect phone in flashing mode, and perform tasks like flashing the main firmware, FS or to upload files to FS you must have USB Flash drivers installed on your computer.

With out installing USB Flash drivers, you can’t use XS++ or SeTool 2 lite or JDFlasher.

In good old days we used to use SEUS to do this automatically for us, but now SEUS updates phone to CID53 which is not desirable, so hence we install USB Flash Drivers manually. Here is the tutorial ! Please read the tutorial carefully and completely and also check out the video tutorial given !

Download the necessary drivers.

Index

1. XP Install.
2. Vista Install.
3. Automatic Installer. (Recommended for New users)

Important Note: If your phone C key and Power On button are the same then Hold 2+5 while connecting phone to USB Data cable instead of C key. In many new SE phones the C key is same as power on.

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By Akshay – January 29, 2008

XS++ FSX Tutorial/Guide

Using FSX you can upload anything to FS of the phone. Its Just like FAR MANAGER.

You can add flash menus, change camera driver, change acoustics, add languages with FSX

The Video Tutorial attached explains how to upload stuff to the phone. Download Video

If you not made GDFS backup then please do it first, you also need have to have USB Flash Drivers Installed Continued…

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By Akshay – January 24, 2008

Flash Firmware/Debrand With XS++

Here we discuss how to flash the firmware. Also debranding a phone is flashing the phone with a generic main and a generic FS of your region

SE phone Firmware has two parts.
Main Firmware which contains all the phone software. Main firmware file has the .mbn extension.
FS is a firmware which has settings and all other data like the default Images and Ringtones and all other files that is used by phone. It has .fbn file extension. Continued…

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By Akshay – January 23, 2008

Red Light Blinking, Dead ?

You try to start your phone but the red light at the infrared port blinks 5 times and phone refuses to start. XS++ and SeTool 2 lite no longer detect your phone. Your computer also does not identify your phone. ANd its seems to be completely Dead..Read On, We will fix it. Continued…

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By Akshay – January 22, 2008

Creating SysGfx : Tutorial Version 2.0

SE Image Tool for db2020 phones has now greatly improved and now making sysgfx patches is really very easy ! They by applying Sysgfx patches with JDFlasher or SeTool 2 lite you can easily replace the default pictures in the phone.

As example here are screenshots of my phone, check out the new battery, signal and the radio in the following screenshots of my k550@w610

Download SE ImageTool (mirror download), Also do visit its official website for updates and newer versions !
Download your phone’s main firmware from topse russia or 4shared search also see download page for links
Download Babe2raw.

SE Image Tools supports both MBN and RAW files, but its better to convert MBN to RAW using babe2raw. To convert just drag and drop the Main firmware MBN file on Babe2raw.exe and the output will be the raw file. Opening the main firmware .mbn file will also work but will take a few extra seconds to load. 😉

Here is a screenshot of SE Image Tool in Action.

Using the buttons at top you can replace images that you want. And SE Image Tool shows images replaced along with size of bytes left and size taken by replaced images in the left window. It has search feature that you can use to easily find images. Also you can check the options to show the names of the Images which makes searching easier.

If your new images are greater then the images in phone raw then you can deleted un necessary images from the RAW that are not used. you will find many weired images that you have never seen in your phone. So if you new images need more space, create space by deleted not wanted pictures. When you are finally done Just Click Make VKP button to get the vkp patch. Apply the patch using JDFlasher.

To apply SysGfx patches use JDFlahser, because its faster compared to SeTool 2 lite.
Thanks to Magister for Db2020 SE Image Tool

Regards !
Akshay

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By Akshay – January 22, 2008

MegaBass For All SE db2020 Phones

Yup That’s right !! Till now megabass had been exclusive only to walkman phones. But now by applying patches you can get the wonderful megabass feature in your Sony Ericsson phone.

An important thing about MegaBass: it is not related to the phone’s sound quality or loudness, nothing changes. Only your MediaPlayer/Walkman’s Bass equalizer preset will be different, much like the real MegaBass. To make the phone louder, follow this one.

These patches can be applied on db2020 phones, For Example S500, k550, k610, k770, k790, k800, k810, Z Series Etc !

Here are few patches to get megabass on your SE K-series phone !

Follow this tutorial on how to apply patches. First apply Quick Access patch and then go ahead and apply these patches. Continued…

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By Akshay – January 17, 2008

Menu Modding

In this tutorial we discuss changing the SE Menu Icons and more !!

In the File System (FS) of any SE firmware you will find a MENU.ML file at FS\TPA\PRESET\SYSTEM\MENU\**MENU ML HERE**

The menu.ml xml file controls the complete behavior of the SE phone menu. Continued…

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By Akshay – January 15, 2008

Free Unlock Sony Ericsson db2020 Phones

This is about unlocking your db2020 phone

DB2020 phones are k530 k550 k610 k770 k790 k800 k810 and w580 w610 w660 w710 w830 w850 w880 etc. You can find out if your phone is db2020 or not form the secret service menu.
To enter the secret service menu use this sequence of key strokes at phone standby screen -> * <- <- * <- *
Where -> is right arrow on keypad and <- is left arrow on keypad and * is the button below 7 and left of 0. Continued…

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By Akshay – January 14, 2008

Flash k530 to w660

Yes you heard it right ! k530 can be easialy flashed to w660 !

A k530 flashed to w660 works like great ! with absolutely no bugs !
You will get Walkman player 2 with Megabass and flash menu support !

To flash k530 to w660 you need a W660 Main and a W660 FS and a W660 Cust pack ! Continued…

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By Akshay – January 14, 2008

Extracting an FS

Download Main2Raw and SEFS Click here

Also you can use Babe2Raw, Instead of Main2Raw , Download here.

Download FS of your choice from the internet. If you don’t know where then contact me. Best place is Topse Russia.

Create a folder by name “ext” or any other name in C:\

copy and paste the FS that you want to extract. Here i take the W610i FS for the tutorial. Rename the FS as w610. Its better to have a short name for the FS then the normal long name W610_R6BC002_FS_S_ASIA_LEVAN_RED52.fbn

copy main2raw and sefstool to that folder
Then in Click the Start > Run
type cmd in run and press ok
Now DOS Prompt will open up Continued…

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By Akshay – January 12, 2008