is flashing Main & FS faster than finalizing

i have a w550i cid49 brown

i want to know whether the process of flashing the Main&FS is faster than finalizing the phone later on,if so why ?

my friend, if you don't finalize your phone it won't start... Finalizing means flashing the MAIN. this how my W810i CID 49 RED works!
read here to http://www.seuniverse.com/forums/sho...r+certificates

hes right, you have to finalise, other wise you get an error message when you start your phone

i know about flashing Main and FS, but what i wanted to know was why finalizing takes 5hrs on cid49 phones

i hope u guys get this finalizing is adding custom files to phone CDA10.......

umm i dont think i finalized what i did to my k750 was just flash the main to add the walkman and that was it walkman works and everything seems ok,

what i would like to know is that why would one flash the filesystem if u just want the walkman on the k750

Finalization takes so long coz it does BRUTE FORCE. Brute force is process of trying to find the password/code by trying all possible combinations. It can take many hours. You can use FAR MANAGER and try not to use brute force and save your time. I don't know if this can work for your phone. MAIN and FS are just copied to the phone... No brute force used here.

I use Phone XS to upload FS then FAR to finalize phone and then upload MAIN with XS++. :-D

Greets

danielch can u plz tell me which order to flash phones

is it 1.main 2.fs 3.finalize

i am able to upload files to phone using phonexc and changed icons and menus too

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Originally Posted by jordaniict

danielch can u plz tell me which order to flash phones

is it 1.main 2.fs 3.finalize

i am able to upload files to phone using phonexc and changed icons and menus too

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Can anyone answer this please so I know too :O)

There are three ways I know:

1) Using only Phone XS or XS++ - This means this programs to do all of the three: upload MAIN and FS and do a "brute force" to set customization.

This one doesn't work for my K310. Neither XS++ nor Phone XS.
2) Using only FAR Manager with SEFP (Sony Ericsson Flash Plugin) - you need to upload special MAIN (which is called 'breaking') which allows FAR to intrude your phone without "brute force".

This one works only partially for me. I cannot access FLASH, only FS.

3) Using WHAT-IS-POSSIBLE :D
I do this this way:
- first upload FS with Phone XS v2
- make a customization with FAR (First you need 'breaking' MAIN for this of course)
- upload MAIN with either XS++ or Phone XS (I used XS++)
- enjoy your new firmware and thank all TopSony users :D

There are GUIDES here in TopSony which describes what you need to do if you wanna use Far Manager or Phone XS/XS++.
See Tutorials & Guides