Esato

Forum > Sony Ericsson / Sony > Software, Firmware and Drivers > Things you can do to your phone with the FAR Manager.

Author Things you can do to your phone with the FAR Manager.
g-roxx0304
W800
Joined: Nov 20, 2005
Posts: 127
PM
Posted: 2006-06-21 03:17
Reply with quoteEdit/Delete This PostPrint this post
Credits goes to the Darkmen,Vicser,Aksd,max_wedge,jasond,Top Sony and others

Reminder : Remember to always back-up the files that you're going to change. And also,do this at your own risk. Good luck

a) You can expand your SMS Memory:
http://forum.unlock.no/index.[....]10183&st=0&p=55541&#entry55541

1. Browse to the folder /ifs/settings/messaging/ with FAR Manager
2. select pref_store.txt an hit F4
3. Just change "/smsdata" in "/tpa"
4. Save the changes
5. go back to "root" like mb-new description and shutdown the loader
6. Now restart your Phone and be happy

b) set ring volume as player volume
Copy file farfield_play.apf to any folder of PC, rename it to farfield_ring.apf and copy back. So file farfield_ring.apf in phone is replaced by file with settings of farfield_play.apf.
Now we have 2 same files but different names.

c) killing camera sound
go to FS/tpa/preset/system/sound and delete file camerashutter.3gp and for killing autofocus sound delete file camerafocus.3gp.

d) killing MobilePrint
go to FS/tpa/preset/system/ams and delete MOBILEPRINT.jad and MOBILEPRINT.jar and have additional 361kb free memory. Unnecessary standard games & midlets are in FS/tpa/preset/default/java and to be deleted if you wish. In FS/tpa/preset/wizard you can delete 5 biggest by size GIF files.

e) Change sms sounds
FS/tpa/preset/system/sound

delete message alert and put new one but with same name (messagealert1,messagealert2....)

f) get rid of discharge battery sound
go to FStpapresetsystemsoundlowbattery.mid and replace it the same name file with zero size.

g) Shutdown Sound
navigate to /fs/tpa/preset/system/settings

place any mp3 in there and rename to SHUTDOWN_SOUND_SEMC.mp3 and it will play it when you shut down the phone.

h) Change your menu layout (K750/W800)
Just go here. Learn about it there.
Se-nse "Pimp Your Main Menu"
And here.
Se-nse How to

i) Change video recording quality
Go here using FAR. FS/ifs/settings/camera
Edit the driver.
Change the video recording to:

VR_NORMAL_MODE_FR=44;
VR_NIGHT_MODE_FR=28;


You can learn more about it here.
Se-nse "Patching Camera Driver"

j) Get Rid of Hissing in Music Playback (Thanks to aksd)
With the FAR plugin replace these files located at: ifs/settings/acoustic

with:
http://rapidshare.de/files/23376730/No_Hissing.rar.html
Aksd's thread is located over here.
Aksd "Hissing Noise"

k) Backup your jar files
Go to tpa/perset/system/ams/
And copy the files in there to your computer.

l)Removing the SE Links in folders
Go here tpapresetsystemcustmenu, and
tpapresetcustom

Removing all the files from the custmenu folder, and all the .itm files from the second custom folder successfully removed the content hooks, as well as resetting my Play Now icon to the default SE one.

itm's are tar files with images and xml files inside. The itm sits in presetcustom and get's unpacked to presetsystemcustmenu on master reset. So DESKTOP_HOOK_1.itm contents get unpacked to
presetsystemcustmenuDESKTOP_HOOK_1 when the phone is reset.

m) Increasing the size of the mms that you can send
FS/system/settings/messaging/mms
edit this.
< message-swing-size>100<.message- swing -size >
change to.
< message-swing-size>300<.message- swing -size >

n)To backup & restore contact voice comands
tpa/system/voicecontrol/stby
(Voice comands still need to be manually enabled after master reset, but this is no great problem - just a reminder!)

o)To backup & restore contact image associations
tpa/system/pbook/image
(These are not the actual images, just links to the files, so make sure you don't change the location of the files between resets!)

p)Change the delivery report sound
create a midi file named notification.mid and copy it into FS/tpa/preset/system/sound

[ This Message was edited by: g-roxx0304 on 2006-06-27 08:17 ]
kristianm
W800
Joined: Aug 12, 2005
Posts: 490
PM, WWW
Posted: 2006-06-21 09:34
Reply with quoteEdit/Delete This PostPrint this post
Thanks for putting up this summary/quicklist.
masseur
P910
Joined: Jan 03, 2003
Posts: > 500
From: Sydney, London
PM
Posted: 2006-06-21 10:01
Reply with quoteEdit/Delete This PostPrint this post
excellent, lets please keep this as a summary thread so things are easy to find, and use the main discussion thread for detailed discussion and issues

thanks
Viper6787
K750
Joined: Jun 16, 2006
Posts: 4
PM
Posted: 2006-06-21 10:26
Reply with quoteEdit/Delete This PostPrint this post
Thanks for the post, but I still can't delete any files, I delete the camera shutter mp3 (it disapears in FAR) I then quit FAR restart phone and the noise is still there, go back to far again and yup file still there. Why won't it delete?.

Thanks all.

_________________


[ This Message was edited by: Viper6787 on 2006-06-21 09:27 ]
anophelus
K750
Joined: May 28, 2006
Posts: 14
PM
Posted: 2006-06-21 10:37
Reply with quoteEdit/Delete This PostPrint this post
Thanks for the really helpfull summary. I think it deserves a STICKY. It will be easier also for adding futher dicoveries
Rob123
Xperia X10 Black
Joined: Jan 13, 2003
Posts: 75
From: South Africa - JHB
PM
Posted: 2006-06-21 10:48
Reply with quoteEdit/Delete This PostPrint this post
@Viper - you need to navigate all the way back up to the root of the file system till you see the message "do you want to shut down ......" etc.
Only then will the changes be saved... - read the instructions.....
Vicser
K790
Joined: Apr 20, 2006
Posts: 264
From: Moscow
PM
Posted: 2006-06-21 12:37
Reply with quoteEdit/Delete This PostPrint this post
Auto Playlist Creator Thanks to Ushakov
Get here
After creation of file list *.pml in mp folder you must move it by FAR plugin to fs/tpa/system/multimedia/mp/pl of the phone. Now you can create common playlist of all the folders (Like in All Music) incl. subfolders. It's fantastic.
P.S. Wait a bit. Coming soon in English.


[ This Message was edited by: Vicser on 2006-06-22 07:21 ]
dinho666
W800
Joined: Jun 07, 2006
Posts: 103
From:
PM
Posted: 2006-06-21 15:16
Reply with quoteEdit/Delete This PostPrint this post
congratulations to g-roxx0304... this is a good compilation.


thanks for that!!!!!!!!
Who Wanna Live Forever???
*|No Hissing| 7.12(e_erzan edited) camdriver |menu icons edited |media player skin| Slim Fonts|W810 AcousticsR1BC002 AMERICA 2 |Unlimited SMS capacity |
-"W750" mooded, K850 full debranded
paternoster
W800
Joined: Dec 03, 2005
Posts: 87
From: Belgium
PM
Posted: 2006-06-21 16:54
Reply with quoteEdit/Delete This PostPrint this post
You change the startup sound on W800. it's called STARTUP_SOUND_SEMC.mp3 and located in /fs/tpa/preset/system/settings.

On W800i there's no shutdown sound located there ...
Kristoffer
W810 black
Joined: Oct 31, 2005
Posts: 53
From: Denmark
PM
Posted: 2006-06-21 17:06
Reply with quoteEdit/Delete This PostPrint this post
Great post. Thanks...
kotoyu22
T68 gold
Joined: Jun 22, 2006
Posts: 1
PM
Posted: 2006-06-22 02:27
Reply with quoteEdit/Delete This PostPrint this post
as far as i can understand we can change all the settings in the w800 only by using this far manager?
i saw that it is possible to change almost everything but i am interested mostly in camera settings.i have far manager but i don;t actually know what to do with it.i have r1bcoo2 software version and as i said i would like to change some camera settings.i looked over some links but i'm not really a computer guy.would anyone be so kind to guide me step by step? i know it is not an easy job but remember how you felt when you asked someone to help you and nobody answered.........thanks!
minin16
T68 gold
Joined: Apr 27, 2006
Posts: 19
PM
Posted: 2006-06-22 09:22
Reply with quoteEdit/Delete This PostPrint this post
Hi!

Please help me out with this by giving step by step details.
I went to that other thread mentioned in this thread above but couldn't understand anything.

PLEASE HELP ME OUT.
Can any1 give a step by step procedure on how to do this please.
QuickShare
P990 no flip
Joined: May 06, 2006
Posts: > 500
From: MYR
PM
Posted: 2006-06-23 01:31
Reply with quoteEdit/Delete This PostPrint this post
Quote:

On 2006-06-21 16:54:12, paternoster wrote:
You change the startup sound on W800. it's called STARTUP_SOUND_SEMC.mp3 and located in /fs/tpa/preset/system/settings.

On W800i there's no shutdown sound located there ...


On my K750i also didnt have the Shutdown sound .. but hey, just create
SHUTDOWN_SOUND_SEMC.mp3 and copy to your phone.. it works
sethzg
W800
Joined: Jun 21, 2006
Posts: 13
PM
Posted: 2006-06-23 12:20
Reply with quoteEdit/Delete This PostPrint this post
Quote:

On 2006-06-22 09:22:35, minin16 wrote:
Hi!

Please help me out with this by giving step by step details.
I went to that other thread mentioned in this thread above but couldn't understand anything.

PLEASE HELP ME OUT.
Can any1 give a step by step procedure on how to do this please.


Nobody said there is, just create one...
numb
K850 Blue
Joined: Feb 07, 2005
Posts: > 500
PM
Posted: 2006-06-23 12:39
Reply with quoteEdit/Delete This PostPrint this post
Please people

Messing with far manager is potentially dangerous and could render your phone completely dead.

To those that dont understand any of the extensive information given so far in this and other forums, and still havent a clue what its about and how to use it, I cincerly reccomend not to mess with this at all.

And to those that do understand the information, please consider twise before trying to make step by step detailed instructions to be followed by those without a clue. Instead of helping you may just as likely "help" people ruin there phones.


Access the forum with a mobile phone via esato.mobi
Unlock this Topic Move this Topic Delete this Topic