Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Modding the Sony Ericsson Hazel for better sound on headset (Also applicable for w995,c902 etc)

Tools you will need:
1) Sony Ericsson PC companion- Have it installed first before doing this.Here is the link. Select your phone and download the pc companion software. http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/support/phones/?cc=in&lc=en

2) SEMC Flash Driver- (Far manager wont detect your phone otherwise)
Here is the link: http://www.4shared.com/file/8BGF-7B2/ggsetup-2203.html?

3) Far Manager with SEFP2
Download: http://www.4shared.com/file/2E1P2JE0/Far20b1263x86.html?

3) Download the Acoustic files. Extract to desktop so that you can find it easily.
Here are the acoustic files, clear, good bass according to me... http://www.4shared.com/file/uie-lHJj/Hazel_Acoustics.html?


4) Data Cable for Sony Ericsson Hazel


Far Manager: 


(CLICK ON PICS TO EXPAND)

Things I will be refering to during the tutorial. 


Start Far Manager. It will look like:
Click ALT+F1 and select SEFP2
 Click on connect
 Connect your cable to the system. Switch off your phone... and press and hold c and then connect the cable to your phone...
You will see the following.

 If you see the following error, just click on ok..
 Now you are in the phone. Double click on ifs
 Now double click "settings"
 Now double click on acoustic
 It will list all the acoustic files.
 Now click the '...' on the right hand side just below "Name". The screen on the right side indicates files on your system.

Select the acoustic files in the folder "ifs" you extracted on the desktop.

Right click the files to select each one of the them.

Click copy at the bottom tab
It will copy the files. After thats done, click the '...' on the left hand side twice as required to go back to the main folder. Now select TPA

Double click tpa and it will take you to the following page.
Double click preset
Double click on acoustic
On the rightside, select the folder "tpa" on your desktop.("Click the '...' on the right hand side top below "Name" as many times as required to navigate to your desktop) rightclick each of the files to select them and click "copy" at the bottom. Click copy on the resulting page as well. 

Once the files are copied. Disconnect your phone. Remove battery and put it back after 10 secs.. switch on... ENJOY your modded phone!

The Files- The files I have attached with this post are by far the best one's for hazel. The other's I have found on the net are not good enough, either too loud or too much of distortion. And Im not smart enough to create my own wbxml files :)  (I used the files under the name "Audiophile v9.6 acoustics" i found on the net which worked clearly with the phone. I tried lots of them like "Aino_U10_Mollina's XPlooD HD+ Acoustic", "Jockep's DeepBass K850i" "SPC Acoustic WBXML MegaBass v.1.0 by Borus213" etc...None of them are as clear as Audiophile. You are free to download and try any of these. Since Hazel is a new phone, u have to use wbxml and csv files of older phones like w995,c902 etc) 

"Audiophile" files made the music sound pretty clear.. Quality is however better than what hazel originally offers...

Incase of errors: In case your phone shows any issues which is unlikely or you end up messing it etc, use pc companion to update the phone. Updating will restore everything to its original state. There is no option of backing up of original files in this version of far manager, so we'll just have to use pc companion to reset the whole thing. 

(Hint: If pc companion shows that "Your phone is updated with the latest firmware" there is an option to "repair" click repair and everything will be restored.)

OTHER Accoustics: (If you want to experiment)
Aino_U10_Mollina's XPlooD HD+ Acoustic: 

Dolby Acoustic for Hazel

Jockep's DeepBass K850i (Will work  with Hazel)

SPC Acoustic WBXML MegaBass v.1.0 by Borus213



vFinal_rev7



W995_R1HA036_original_acoustic


Hope my post helped.. thanks! 

5 comments:

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  2. @rahul: You havent been reading the instructions properly rahul. There is no way it can be made anymore simpler. First connect the data cable to the system. The press and hold c.. (I repeat- Press and hold C) Then only connect the switched off phone to the cable. Leave the "c" key only when you hear the system detecting the phone.. (You hear the device connected sound and it shows SEMC flash device detected). It works 100% bro

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  3. wow.. this is great!! finally i find modding tutorial for my hazel..
    not trying it yet,still completing my material..
    maybe it would be better if u can tutor modding for hazel appearances.. :)

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  4. I have tried but getting 'no permissions error 0x04' Please give any solution.
    Is it possible to hide / move operator logo with this.....

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  5. @Nick-end a.k.a tecchan: why? so that u can copy the stuff and put it on ur blog? :P
    @csn144- Probably a connection issue. Check cable. try again. If not, find another cable. U can hide the logo, its possible. You will have to find some other tutorial for that.

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