flashing brown phone without debranding cid49

[DarrenD]

@Bachgoro
Yes, my first phone is definitely a factory BROWN one as it came from ORANGE UK on a contract (actually 3 phones on 3 contracts) and all showed as BROWN when I did a Test Cable with DaVinci. I managed to get rid of 2 of them as I was told a BROWN phone is horrible to work with. The final phone I still have. Also it has a problem with the keys 1 4 7 and *. They no longer work. They used to. Of course I cannot send it for repair as it no longer has the original ORANGE UK software on it.

I followed the instructions on http://forums.se-nse.net/index.php?showtopic=7480 as it talked specifically about BROWN phones and I managed to update the FS with R1CA021. However, I think the old software on the phone was R1AA008. Is this a problem? I also noticed that when I used PhoneXS++ at the end it said that there was a difference in the IMEI and GDFS of phone name. The IMEI said it was a W800 while the GDFS said it was a K750. I wonder if the main phone was originally meant to be a W800 but Sony changed their mind and simply put it in a K750 housing and flashed a K750 software. The IMEI number starts with 359672.

[goog123123]

what does this brown and red phone thing mean? also, i think you can edit that in phone xs

[XuT]

can i flash my phone with PhoneXS and with RED fw and than finalize with sefp?

[Magicnet2]

what does this brown and red phone thing mean? also, i think you can edit that in phone xs

The brown phones are developer models, meaning like, still developing, and the red are usual retail phones gone in to selling.

[therapper]

you can flash cid49brown with Far plugin SEFP for cid49 brown

[blkdragon]

although its a w300i flashing guide, http://restlessobsessive.blogspot.co...lkthrough.html

is also a good place to start if you dont know about your phone, or are confused by some apects of the whole CID, red/brown business.

or you could read:

http://www.topsony.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28

very informative and very good.

[SoBe]

you can use far manager+sefp cid49 to flash it and access to the FS

[axxel]

I'm kinda new on this flashing thing but I need to know how to put flash menus to a w600 CID49 BROWN.
Please just tell me what program/s to use and where to get them or what other things I need. (I only have DCU-60 usb cable) since I've read that you need a service cable or something like that.
I've been looking for a way to convert BROWN to RED but I'm having a hard time.