[WizaJ]

Firstly, moderators may move this to the appropriate section because it doesn't only cover firmware, but a general user's guide to getting around SE-NSE and finding the information you need to make the most out of your Sony Ericsson

DO NOT REPRODUCE ANY OR ALL PART, ANYWHERE OF THIS GUIDE WITHOUT DIRECT PERMISSION FROM ME - WIZAJ.

Thanks go out to diezil, diezil and diezil, my fellow n00b helper, a great friend.
Special thanks to the experts on the list at the bottom of this guide for letting me put their names here

So what's this guide about?
Read above, newbie

I wanna mod my phone NOW! So where do I start?
Well, let me break it down for ya....
All SE phones are basically broken down into groups... Since this is a quickstart guide, I'll be defining terms very concisely....
You'll need to find out your phone's Platform, CID, EROM, Colour and Firmware version... for a start

CID is basically the protection system used on your phone, it determines the loaders used to break into it
Current CIDs in use by SE are 29/36/37/49/50/51/52/53
The most common CIDs are 36, 49, 51/52, 53
The most modifications that are available on SE-NSE can be applied to the above mentioned CIDs, apart from 53, which is still under research and development, but there are tools that work with this type of CID

EROM is Erasable Read Only Memory. This is the base part of the software which isn't flashed in normal update operations. It controls the flashing interface, the boot loader, etc.

EROM Colour:This "colour" defines what kind of phone you have.
RED Phones are typical retail phones
BROWN phones are phones used in development and testing
BLUE phones are the units that were assembled at the factory but never programmed with firmware/IMEI/GDFS

PLATFORM is the hardware 'chipset' used in the mobile you own. DB2000, DB2010, DB2020, DB3150 are the most common platforms, and DB2010 to DB3150 are supported by most free tools

FIRMWARE is the 'operating system' of your phone, it is divided into two parts; MAIN Firmware and FS (File System). The FS contains the system files that are required for operation of the phone itself, and the MAIN is the actual operating environment.

Now to find out this info, we'll use the basic SE moddin' tool, which is XS++ (download)
Where to get it?
We use The R&D Supersticky™
It's a topic made by WizaJ DB2010/20 Firmware specialist, APF/ZAPF/WBXML Acoustic expert, Elf expert, Patch expert. ACEEL Co-founder
steadyontherem8 -DB2010/20 Expert, Firmware finding guru, K800/10 Owner.
nknwn666 -DB2010 Expert, K800/10 Expert, K750@W800 Owner
Wally_Dog -Knows all there is to know about the W810, W810 Owner
Mattwood -Phone Repairs Expert (Some Nokia & Motorola too). 3 Yrs Experience
weirdwilli -Pretty much useless, but hey, it's worth a shot
Nick14 -Smartphone Expert.
number1 -DB2010/20 Expert. K810 Expert, K800@K810, W300i Owner. C702 Owner & Expert
KrX -W580 Owner & Expert. Can help with most DB2020 problems

DB3150 Quickstart coming soon.

[SnowiffiC]

Pinned!

[Ly]

This is great Wiza

[ThilinaC]

this is really a gr8 idea....well done bro

[weirdwilli]

finally finished huh! Nice work Wiza!

EDIT: Maybe you could add links to where to get XS and Setool 2 and whatnot

This post has been edited by weirdwilli: 28 May 2008 - 01:02 PM

[WizaJ]

Thank you Iouri, Lynott, Thilina and Will
I have added the link Will

[steadyontherem8]

Nice guide, I say again and I'm 2nd on the list

Me, on 2nd on the list? I'm not that experienced

[nknwn666]

nice...keep up the good work wizaJ

[WizaJ]

Thanks steady, and nknwn, and thanks for allowing me to add your names to the expert list
btw, if anyone feels they know a particular phone or platform etc very well, and are willing to take noob PMs, they can send me a PM and I'll add them to the list

[thugz mafia]

awsome!! must've taken u quite a while to do all this!! and this is exactly what we need for the daily n00b

[SnowiffiC]

Lol, so now Im not an expert anymore? Fine! Just wait till post 5000!

[WizaJ]

It took me about an hour
@Iouri
You are no mere expert

[SnowiffiC]

Alright man, your list, you decide who's who.

[WizaJ]

Somethings up with the status indicator thingies though, I think I messed something up

[weirdwilli]

OOO! Can i be an expert!

[thugz mafia]

ah thanks fer the honour lol!! but im no patch porting guru!! i can only do simple patches with winhex!! can i be an elf or elf installation specialist instead??

This post has been edited by thugz mafia: 30 May 2008 - 10:54 AM

[Nick14]

i got a k810 which is blue what should i do ????

[WizaJ]

Yes Will, you can PM me the missing details I should add though
I have corrected it thugz
Well Nick, PM your areas of expertise then =)

[number1]

Can i join your expects list, i know pretty much most phones db2010 & db2020.

[WizaJ]

Thank you number1