Addons to your Sony Ericsson phones with Elf pack

This is about to addons some advanced features to your Sony Ericsson phones with Elf pack.
Read carefully and its for K750/W700/W800/W810/Z550 only!

Q. What is ELF?

A. An excerpt from wikipedia:

In computing, the Executable and Linking Format (ELF, formerly called Extensible Linking Format) is a common standard file format for executables, object code, shared libraries, and core dumps. First published in the System V Application Binary Interface specification,[1] and later in the Tool Interface Standard,[2] it was quickly accepted among different vendors of Unix systems. In 1999 it was chosen as the standard binary file format for Unix and Unix-like systems by the 86open project.

Unlike many other proprietary executable file formats, ELF is flexible and extensible, and it is not bound to any particular processor or architecture. This has allowed it to be adopted by many different operating systems on many different platforms.


Q. What will it do to my SE phone?
A. It will add more functionality.

Q. Which SE phones are supported?
A. The following phones are supported with the indicated firmware ONLY. Please do not attempt to run/install it on other phones and/or the phones indicated below with different firmware. Consider it as a WARNING!

K750 - R1CA021
W700 - R1CA021
W800 - R1BD001
W810 - R4EA031
Z550 - R6CA009

Q. Any other catches?
A. Yes, you will need to edit the relevant .vkp patch file for your phone if you use the SYSGFX patch.

Secondly, some users haf reported conflicts with the Confidentiality patch in W810i. So it may or may not work for these users.

Q. Any Precautions?
A. Yes, backup everything - SIM/Phone/Memory Card data - as usual before proceeding.

Q. Any Prerequisites?
A. Yes, you should be comfortable with the procedure of applying .vkp patches to your phone.

You can use one of these:
1) FAR Manager with SEPP plugin (be careful about the evaluation msg!)
2) SE Tool 2 Lite
3) XS++ 3.1
4) GSlide

Plz search the net for relevant guides on flashing.

You may also go through these articles. But be sure to obtain the correct files (phone model and firmware), check everything and then proceed:
http://mannuforall.blogspot.com/2008/11/remove-security-prompts-on-se-phones.html
http://mannuforall.blogspot.com/2008/11/patch-sony-ericsson-phone-to-improve-on.html

Q. What do the bundled ELFs do?
A. Attached are 4 ELFs:

1) Screenshooter
With this ELF you can capture a screenshot of the phone and save it to the Pictures folder by pressing the Music Key. This can be disabled by a short press of Power Button. You guys gotta test it coz it didn't work for me

2) Status row clock and minute ticker (both are to be used together)
This ELF will display the time in 24 hour format in place of battery in screens other than standby (like in K790i etc.). The battery indicator is replaced by a green bar (I don't like this colour!) Screenshot will help you understand the working of thie elf better. Again, didn't work for me. I'll start debuggin now. I want this!!

3) Heap monitor
Shows the free memory over the signal icon area. I find it ugly, plus the next elf provides heap monitoring funcationality too; so I don't use this elf.

4) Bookmanager and bookman.ini
The most useful of the lot! This is like a task manager for your SE phone. After installing this, when you give a one short press to the power button, it takes you to bookmanager (or task manager). It shows heap info (free memory) on top and gives you a list of the running processes. You can switch from one process to another.

What does this mean to you? Effectively its like multi-tasking on your SE firmware based java-enabled phone!!! You can minimize on app, switch to another. Finish work there and come back to the minimized one. Now who-ever said multitasking is not possible on firmware phones!!

You can also add shortcuts to the included bookman.ini after refering to the menu.ml file for quick access and minimization of running process.

Q. How to install this?
A. Here are the procedures....

For K750i/W800i/W700i:

Before installing create folders by the names ZBin, Config and Daemons in Other folder.

For W810i/Z550i:

Before installing, create a folder ZBin in Other folder. Now create 2 folders by the names Config and Daemons inside the ZBin folder.

Common step for all phones:

Now unzip the attached file, again unzip the file relevant to your model and firmware and place DYN_CONST.bin in the Config folder IN PHONE MEMORY. Place all the .elf files (after unzipping each elf rar file) in ZBin folder again IN PHONE MEMORY.

You may not wanna use all the ELF given above. So decide which ones do you want and copy those .elf files to Daemons folder IN MEMORY CARD.

Create a folder named: "ini" inside Other folder and place the bookman.ini in it IN PHONE MEMORY.

The location (phone or memory card) is important so do exactly as indicated!

Now you will need to unzip the .vkp files included in the phone-model_firmware.rar file and patch your phone with the 2 .vkp files. After patching restart the phone and all these will be activated. Enjoy!

Q. How do I disable an ELF?
A. Remove it from the Daemons folder and restart the phone.

Q. Ok, Where are the ELFs?
A. The attached file: ELF.zip contains the elf files and the patches for the above mentioned phones and firmwares.

These kinds of programs (ELFs) were abundently used in Siemens phone for internal use. A lot of code has been ported for SE phones. So it is likely that we may see more of these elfs in future. And you guys thot modding is all over for previous generation SE phones!

Download all Attached Files:
ELF.ZIP

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The screenshot button works too! However guess I need some practice to activate and de-activate it since a short press enables the task manager and a long press switches the phone off. The duration has to be somewhere in between. If you restart the phone, then its activated by default. Screenshots are captured by pressing the Play/Pause music button on the side. The pics are saved as high quality bitmap images (.bmp files) in Pictures/Snapshots/ folder.

Here are the screenshots of my phone, captured using the screenshot elf (they haf been converted to .jpeg files for lesser size and uploaded):
StatusRowClock.zip

Well, W710i/K790i etc. haf the clock by default. So its not for those phones.

source:thinkdigit