Flashing A2 phones with A2Uploader

Flashing phones is not risky as long as you follow this tutorial. Still, I ,photographer, nor the se-nse.net staff or members will take responsibility in case you kill your phone by not following this tutorial. You do this at your own risk.



This tutorial was written by SE-NSE.net moderator Photographer and belongs to se-nse. Therefor this tutorial is NOT to be published on any other website. Linking to this tutorial is always alowed of course.



Is my phone A2?
These are all A2 phones as of 06-09-2009:
C510, C702, C902, C905, G502, G705, K630, K660, K850, T700, V640, W595, W705, W715, W760, W890, W902, W910, W980, W995, Z750, Z770, Z780.

Why would I want to flash my phone?

• Debrand (Remove Vodafone, Orange, etc crap)
• Upgrade to increase performance
• "Reset" everything you modded

What do I need?

• A2 uploader release 4 with limited CID53 and DB3200 support.
  Disable your AV software before downloading. the_laser uses themidia encryption to prevent people stealing the sources and loaders of his A2uploader. AV software recognises this as virus/trojan horse but this is a false alarm. This software is completely safe.
  If you can't download from rapidshare, use this mirror.
• A2 firmware for your phone.
  Get them From my esnips
  From Gani's esnips
  From 4shared
  From topse.ru
  From SE Users
  From iprotebe.cz
  All of these sites are free but some require registration.

Which firmware do I need?

The latest firmware always has the highest number/character combination. e.g. R3EA037 is newer than R3DA031.
If you want an unbranded phone you have to choose a generic firmware, this will be stated in the name. For example W910 R1FA035 MAIN GENERIC SH RED52.
Always choose the right FS with your main firmware, these are the languages that are included in the different FS versions:

Regions and languages for A2 phones:

ADRIATIC en - sq - bg - hr - fr - de - el - it - ro - ru
AMERICA en - pb - cf - nl - fr - xl - es
APAC-ANZ en - nl - fr - de - ms - id - tl - th - vi - zs
BALTIC en - et - lv - lt - ru
C-ASIA en - ar - az - fa - kk - ru - tr - uk
CENTRAL-EUROPE en - bs - hr - de - cs - hu - pl - sr - sk - sl
CHINA en - zs
FRANCE en - fr
HONG-KONG en - zh
HUTCH-WORLD en - da - de - it - sv
ISRAEL en - ar - az - fa - fr - tl - he - hi - ru
JAMAICA en - pb - nl - fr - es
NORDIC en - sq - ar - hr - da - fi - is - no - sv - tr
ORANGE-CH-SI en - fr - it - de
ORANGE-SIGN en - eu - ca - nl - fr - gl - de - pl - ro - sk - es
RUSSIA en - ru
S-ASIA-LEVAN en - ar - az - bn - fa - fr - tl - he - hi - ru
S-CENTR-AFR en - ar - nl - fa - fr - ha - de - ig - st - yo - zu - pt
S-E-EUROPE en - sq - bg - hr - el - hu - mk - ro - ru - sr
TELEFONICA en - eu - ca - fr - gl - pt - es
TAIWAN en - zt
T-MOB-INT en - hr - cs - nl - de - hu - mk - pl - sk - tr
VFE-LIVE-A en - eu - ca - nl - fr - gl - de - it - pt - es
VFE-LIVE-B en - bg - hr - cs - de - el - hu - sl - ro
WESTERN-EUROPE en - eu - ca - nl - fr - gl - de - pt - es - tr




Let’s start!
(Be sure to have the USB drivers installed, run GG setup that comes with the A2uploader archive)

Before we start your battery has to have enough power left, 80% or more. Flashing with a low battery percentage can kill your phone.

Main screen:

This is the main screen of A2uploader. With the identify button you can check your IMEI number, current firmware and device name.

Add the firmware:

Press the button add and select the main firmware file you just downloaded, it must have a *.mbn extension. Now pres sok, you’re back on the main screen and the firmware file is added to the box.
Again press add and now select your FS file, this file must have *.fbn extension.

Press flash:

Press the flash button.

Now the program will ask you to hold C and connect your phone.

Turn off the phone, hold C (see picture below) and now insert the USB cable while holding the C button. You can release the C button when new text appears in the big box on the left.

(If holding C doesn't connect the phone connect while holding the 2 and 5 key, this applies for W760)





Woo! We’re almost done!

A2uploader will now flash the firmware. During this process do NOT disconnect your phone.
The green bar at the bottom will show the progress of the flashing operation.

Flashing my phone took ~400 seconds. Flashing newer A2 phones will take a bit longer as the firmware files are larger.

A2 uploader will say “ready” at the bottom when the flashing process is done, now you can safely disconnect your phone from the USB cable.



Congratulations! We’re done… oh nos! We have to add the custom files to make the phone work!


You can get the custompack from here:
http://www.esnips.com/web/A2Customfiles
or from most of the sites where you just got your firmware files from. Again the custompack needs to suit the region you chose for your FS.

What to do with the custompack:
Remove the two firmware files that are in the box and add the custompack you just downloaded (still ZIPPED!!!) to misc files with the “…” button.

Now press flash and connect the phone again holding C, like we did before. Then wait till A2 uploader says “Ready’ again and disconnect.

You can allso manually add the custom pack, unzip it the zip file, press filesystem tool on A2 uploader, connect your phone while holding C (check back for an in depth description) and then navigate to tpa/preset/custom and drop all files from the zip file there.

That was not so hard was it? Congratulations for making it all the way down here and happy modding!

© Photographer, March 2009
Respect: the_laser for A2 uploader.

Changelog:
March 29 2009: Initial release
August 9 2009: Refreshed the A2 uploader URL for the new version

P.S. Do not PM me with questions about this, this tutorial can't be clearer.

Nice ! I always wondered how to flash with A2Uploader . I prefer the SEUS way, but now I can link to your tutorial when giving guidelines to newbies who want to flash their phones the old-fashioned way

Nice one

gud tut buddy

Good tutorial
A small addition, if I may say so...
Why do double the work?
When I flashing my phone, then just choose the main + FS, then add customization to misc files.
So I have to connect the phone only once.
And another thing: not all phones need to hold "C", but some need combination of buttons "2+5"

nice one dude.........

Nice

Good work will surely help people

Very nice work photographer....but i have a slight request...if you could help me...take another look at my topic here http://forums.se-nse.net/index.php?showtopic=39533 and see my problem related to the acoustics folder/error... thanx

W705 and G705 custpacks are missing..

@Photographer



Include this to your tutorial,because my A2 firmwares are password
protected!

well done photographer... well done my friend

seusers.com giving away the firmwares now

We don`t need the other sites,anymore!
Because the most files over the internet are from
this site

genius genius <in a jolly mood>
i was actually just wondering what file extensions we need for a2uploader

I showed this topic to a complete noob friend and he actually managed to flash he's phone...you should pin this topic because it's very useful and it will be easier to find in time

PLEASE HELP WITH SONY Z780i ARGENTINA!!!

i followed the flashing instructions and everything went fine, but when i insert the sim and power on the phone a message says "configuration error, contact your phone company". i think i need some configuration file from PERSONAL, the company that gives me service. is this it? please please help! thanks.

Which files did you use?

You need the custom pack.

where can i get it?

Look in first post there plenty of links, you should have 1 x .mbn file, 1 x .fbn file and 1x .zip file

i installed the custom pack for my carrier and the problem is solved. thanks!

No problem

Here's a pretty interesting case. I'm not 100% on the following though since I can't seem to find the firmware again.

So I found this NORDIC W715 firmware a couple days ago when I was stupidly tinkering with my phone. However, if I remember correctly, the files weren't .fbn and .mbn and stuff. I believe it was just one huge file. How would you upload that with A2Uploader?

Thanks for the tutorial. I tried 5 different firmwares along with quite a few matching custom packs from different sites. I always ran into the "configuration error" problem, until a lucky search turned up "Customize.xml", which I modified to match my region, accepted language, and CDA. And then voila, my K850 worked. It was kind of stupid, now that I realize I could've just cracked open the custom pack's zip file and popped those files in \TPA\PRESET\CUSTOM\ manually...

Regardless, it turns out the write script was never writing anything to my phone.. After each write, I would check \TPA\PRESET\CUSTOM\ with FileSystem tool to find... no files. Could anyone give some insight as to why this happened?

Anyways, thanks again. And to anyone who's having problems with the custom pack, try using FileSystem tool, and copying the files in the zip (or just Customize.xml) to \TPA\PRESET\CUSTOM\.

(Fix'd the directory.. Sorry for misleading anyone.)

I would be carefull with that... I don't think A2uploader will accept it anyway. There is no W715 firmware on topsony yet, nor on seusers and any of the others sites... Just G705 and W705.

when you com to adding cust pack it doesnt work if you click write script.

it works if you click flash

And What Firmware is best ?

Haha, no clue.. For all the ones I tried I was always stuck with "Configuration Error", until I figured out my mistake. Right now I'm using R1EA037 America, because it happened to be the last one I tried. From my very poor knowledge, I'm guessing latest firmware = less bugs (so I'm probably gonna update to R1FA035). Though it also depends on what you plan to mod and/or what's modding is available for that particular firmware -- I think .

R1EA037 Is Good Firmware, but i have in he Configuration error..
I don't have Configuration error on R1FA035

back to topic now please

Look here: http://www.seusers.com/ ...create an account and have fun

You need 3 files, a .mbn, a .fbn and a custom pack.

Some off topic posts have been removed. This is not a topic for requesting firmware.

GOOD ONE!! IM FLASHING MY W910 NOW! wish me luckk! xDD

Anyone suffering from signal problems? Or any other problems with the w910i after flashing?

Nope.

I rememeber i converted my s500i to a 'w' series and the signal problem occured. It was strange.

I have flashed mine and other phones numerous times, just like probably everyone else here. No-one had problems with signal that i have heard of

Well I had it on my s500i which i converted. Would this risk w910i of domaging quickly?

I never had a problem with a damaged phone due to flashing

Anyone here tryed flashing there w910i and got it 100% functioning? Probaly the flash was bad.

I flashed my w910 and it works fine....why do you ask?....i really have no problems with it...the signal is ok...it responds normally....only problem is that the firmware i use is R1fa035 and it's a bit buggy, meaning that from time to time..the phone resets but it's strictly a firmware problem..not related to the flashing procedure...

I would'nt want a phone which ramdomly restarts lol... Why didnt you reflash it?

Mine worked fine after flashing yes.

If you are referring to my phone....well let's just say it that when i bought it...it also had some bugs...at least once a week it would shut down...no restart..and i had to pull the battery out in order to start....now...i'm proud to say...it restarts )

yes, i have tried this step, and it's working good
before that, my phone always show message "configuration error."

thanks a lot, mate

But, Carnt that problem be fixed?

It says "Insert correct sim"

Any help Thanks

After you flashed the phone? Also, what phone is it?