Camera Trick for Sony Ericsson Z600 / T610 / T630

This trick will works on T610 with R3c firmware and above, T630 and Z600.
Because with the recent firmware, Sony Ericsson decide to compress the camera pics to reduce its memory size. So the pics taken will looks blury and pixel. You can transfer the pic back to PC then back to phone again and it will looks much better and of course occupy more memory space.

Now, you don't even have to transfer the camera pics back to PC then phone to increase its quality, you can simply do this:

After you press the capture button to take the picture, then continue pressing in the joystick on T610/T630 or the middle button on the Z600, because we are trying to save the pic before the phone compress the pic to reduce its quality, you will know if you sucess or not by simply seeing the screen around turns black after save. Then you know its done. You can now go to my pictures and check the pic u just taken, its clear and not blurry and check the memory space, its also small.

But after you taken more than 1 pics, the phone will automatically increase the memory size of the previous pics u taken, but the latest one will still occupy a small memory size while the quality is good.

Sony Ericsson K750, W800 ,K500, K700, S700 ,K600, Z800,W550 tips and tricks

Expand SMS Memory
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

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.

Killing camera sound
Go to FS/tpa/preset/system/sound and delete file camerashutter.3gp and for killing autofocus sound delete file camerafocus.3gp.

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.

Change sms sounds
FS/tpa/preset/system/sound delete message alert and put new one but with same name (messagealert1, messagealert2....)

Get rid of discharge battery sound
Go to FStpapresetsystemsoundlowbattery.mid and replace it the same name file with zero size.

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.

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;

Get Rid of Hissing in Music Playback (Thanks to aksd)

With the FAR plugin replace these files located at: ifs/settings/acoustic
with: Nohissing
( SEE ATTACHED FILE NO HISSING.zip ) :

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

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 success****y 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.

Increasing the size of the mms that you can send

FS/system/settings/messaging/mms
edit this.
<>100
change to.
<>300

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!)
To backup & restore contact image associations
tpa/system/pbook/image
(Theseare not the actual images, just links to the files, so make sure you don't change the location of the files between resets!)
Change the delivery report sound
Create a midi file named notification.mid and copy it into FS/tpa/preset/system/sound

Sony Ericsson P800 Secret Codes

Service Menu - Jog dial Up -> * -> Down-> Down-> * -> Down-> *
Silent Mode(when flip attached) - Press C button on Flip
Menu Key(when flip attached) - Keylock on/off, Silent on/off, Calls, status, Applications
Speaker Phone(when flip attached) -
When on call Open Flip, close to off Speaker Phone
Show IMEI - *#06#
Volume Adjust - When On call, Move the Jog Dial for Volume Increase
Move jog dial down for Volume Decrease
Busy Tone
When receiving a Call to send a busy tone to the caller press the Jog dial Outwards.
MMS navigating
While going through a MMS, turn up & down to go within the pages.

Sony Ericsson Unlocking Secret Codes

The most often asked question was how do I unlock my Sony Ericsson phone?
One way you can try it is with a free unlock patch generator, such as the one I found here.
The method involves several downloads, including a flash driver, a USB cable, Windows, and only works with Sony Ericsson DB2020 phones, (including such models as the K550, W610, K610, and W880) but it seems like a legit way to unlock Sony Ericsson cell phones, provided your understand your trying the method at your own risk. Back everything up!

To figure out if you have a DB2020 phone, type -> * <- <- * <- * to reach the Sony Ericsson Secret Menu screen. Enter the Service Info screen followed by the Software Info screen and look for EROM. If DB2020 is in the EROM name, the method should work. Here's some other Sony Ericsson Secret Codes we tracked down : To reset the theme: <0000>

Lock Status : <-**<- Get network information : <**<>*<<*<*> or >*<<*<*>

Sony Ericsson K500i / K700i Secret Codes

Service Menu - >*<<*<* Shows you hidden items Firmware Info - >*<<*<*11 Shows which firmware you are using Silent Mode - "#" or "C" Puts your phone quickly in Silent Mode or disables it. Sony Ericsson T300 with MCA 25 Communicam

Sony Ericsson T300 with MCA 25 Communicam

Silent Mode
When On Standby mode Keep on pressing the "C" button for around 2-3 seconds. Then a menu will pop up with the title Standby Menu. Now you could press 1 to turn on silent press 2 to lock keypad.
Volume Up/Down
During a call is in progress you could Move the Volume slider Up & Down to adjust the volume.
Service Menu
Joystick Movements are constituted with these symbols <>
>*<<*<* Check IMEI *#06# Call List When on Standby keep on pressing the Yes key for 2 or 3 seconds, this will pop up the Call list. Zoom (+)(-) While taking pictures using the MCA 25 Communicam, You may move the joystick on the the Right to Zoom in, Move the joystick to Zoom out. Status Information Standby mode, move the Volume slider to view the Status Information.

Universal Secret Codes Sony Ericsson

Getting your IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity):
Number: *#06#

Access Software version:
> * < < * < * Reach last dialed numbers: 0 then # The Sony Ericsson Secret Menu screen: -> * <- <- * <- * Change to Default Language (English): <>

Info about SIMLOCK:
< * * < Opening phone without a SIM card: **04*0000*0000*0000# followed by on ‘Wrong Pin’ number

Sony Ericsson T28
*#06#
for checking the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity)

>*<<*<* for checking the firmware revision information (software release) >*<<*<*>
1-row text strings. if pressing yes you can check the phones text programming in currently selected language.

>*<<*<*>>
n-row text strings. if pressing yes you can check the phones text programming in currently selected language.

The Service Provider (SP) Lock
The Service Provider (SP) Lock menu is used to lock the cell phone to the SP's SIM card. Once the cell phone is locked to a specific operator, if one inserts a SIM card from a different operator the phone will refuse to accept it! The cell phone will however accept another SIM car from the same operator.
To activate/deactivate this lock one needs a special secret code that is not available to the end user.

Here is how to activate the menu:
<**< Lock to Network? if pressing yes you have 5 attempts to enter NCK. <**<< Lock to Network subset? if pressing yes you have 5 attempts to enter NSCK. Warning: Your phone can be locked to a service provider FOREVER by doing this! If an invalid code is entered all five times, the menu will exit and be deactivated! Any further attempt to activate the NCK/NSCK lock Menu will result in the response "Not allowed"! However the NCK/NSCK lock can be recover through a direct clearing in the EEPROM. Shortcut for Last Dialed call menu If you for some reason don't want to enter the 'Last Dialed calls menu' by using the 'YES' key you can use the following key stroke instead: First '0' then '#'. Message Report When you are writing a message, place at the start of it the code *0# and continue with your message. It's job is like nokias report. It gives you information about the sended message.


Sony Ericsson T10
Shortcut for Last Dialed call menu
If you for some reason don't want to enter the 'Last Dialed calls menu' by using the 'YES' key you can use the following key
stroke instead: First '0' then '#'.

Access menu without Sim card

To access to the menu in your phone without having a card inside do the following: type **04*0000*0000*0000# When display say "Wrong Pin" press NO and you have access to the all menus: Info, Access, Settings, Calculator, Clock, Keylock On?, Mail, Phone book. NOTE if you try this on your phone may stop at Keylock On? menu and you´ll have to take your battery out to turn the phone on again. And this will not care about Phone lock !


Sony Ericsson T18
*#06#
for checking the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) Information you get from the IMEI:
XXXXXX XX XXXXXX X

TAC FAC SNR SP
TAC = Type approval code
FAC = Final assembly code
SNR = Serial number
SP = Spare
To access SIM-Locking menu of your phone, press: < * [CLR] < Be careful or you may lock your phone. Message Report When you writing a message, place at the start of it the code *0# and continue with your message. It's job is like nokias report. It gives you information about the sended message.