Hello,

I have read about 10 stickied posts, and I am stuck at the first step - installing USB drivers. Here is my issue. I use T-mobile, but I bought a Cingular phone. The person who mailed it to me had already unlocked it and I assume installed new firmware. That is fine, it has worked for me for a long time. However, now I would like to add the missed call notification patch.

Here is what I do to install the USB driver

1) download the drivers from Sony's site and from another site (tried both).
2) hold 'C' and turn on phone
3) browse to device manager, see device and update drivers
4) I direct the program to search in the downloaded drivers, the drivers that came with the cable, and with the other drivers I found and NONE of them work. They all say Vista cannot find the appropriate drivers.

From there I am stuck. Could anyone lend some advice?

By the way, here is my phone info
Model: W810i
Firmware: R4DB005

Did you download seus?

I downloaded this driver zip, unzipped it, and then told vista to look in the folder for the driver file
http://ma3-origin.extranet.sonyericsson.com/drivers/

I will download the update service now.

Now it seems I am getting another error when backing up my gdfs

21:50:48| XS++ v3.1 (Darwin) Ready !
21:50:48| Executed on Microsoft Windows Vista
21:50:57|
21:50:57| Attempting to open the interface...
21:50:57|
21:50:57| TURN OFF PHONE!
21:50:57| Hold 'C' button on phone and connect phone NOW.
21:50:57| You have 30 seconds...
21:50:57|
21:51:30| Error: Cannot open phone communication port
21:51:32| Disconnected... Unplug the phone
21:52:01|
21:52:01| Attempting to open the interface...
21:52:01|
21:52:01| TURN OFF PHONE!
21:52:01| Hold 'C' button on phone and connect phone NOW.
21:52:01| You have 30 seconds...
21:52:01|
21:52:08| Baseband ID: 8040
21:52:08| Protocol Version: 3.1
21:52:08|
21:52:08| Sending db2010_cid00_prodid_p3l.bin...
21:52:09| Applet ID: 061113 1250 ALUCXC125872_COMPACTPRODUCTION_ID_LOADER P3L
21:52:09| This is a PRODUCTION_ID loader
21:52:09| Activating GDFS...
21:52:09| Cannot open GDFS
21:52:09| Activating GDFS...
21:52:09| Cannot open GDFS
21:52:09| Activating GDFS...
21:52:09| Cannot open GDFS
21:52:09| Activating GDFS...
21:52:09| Cannot open GDFS
21:52:09| Activating GDFS...
21:52:09| Cannot open GDFS
21:52:09| Warning: IMEI name does not match GDFS name (IMEI:W810 GDFS:n/a)
21:52:09| ...using IMEI name
21:52:09|
21:52:09| Profiling SEMC phone...
21:52:09| Platform: DB2010
21:52:09| OTP CID: 49
21:52:09| EROM CID: 49
21:52:09| EROM Color: Red
21:52:09| IMEI: 35235001xxxxxx
21:52:09| Phone ID: W810
21:52:09| Region: n/a
21:52:09| CDA: n/a n/a
21:52:09| Firmware Version: n/a
21:52:09| EROM: n/a
21:52:09| Ready for operation!
21:53:14|
21:53:14| Sending db2010_cid49red_cs_r3a010.bin...
21:53:16| Applet ID: 070524 1030 AN2CXC1327364_COMPACT_SEMC_CS_LOADER__R3A010
21:53:16| This is a CHIPSELECT loader
21:53:16| Activating loader...
21:53:16| Activating GDFS...


and now it sits waiting

and now phone won't turn on!

Ouch, I haven't even done anything yet.

Got it figured out. Had to flash the main.

Did you get the phone from ebay by any chance?