Yey! I’m slowly climbing the information ladder when it comes to flashing/modding my Sony Ericsson W850i, also called Sirius. If you can still remember, I posted my own version of a tutorial on installing flash menus. Now, I’ll be sharing the steps on how to change the fonts.

To get an idea on what I’m really on about, you might want to watch this video first:

Ok. That’s only one of the many videos I saw on YouTube that really drove me to finding the means to change the menus. I was able to install flash themes thru XS++ before, but never really tried to delve in further. I pretty much know that these things can be achieved using the same powerful software (XS++), I’m just not sure where.

Warning: What may happen to your phone while following these steps is NOT my responsibility. You’re the one doing them, not me. So if in case you did something wrong and ruined it, point your blaming finger on no one else but yourself. You have been warned.

Okay then.

First of.. If you don’t already know this, you ought to have XS++ installed. You need the same stuff like last time: USB data cable, the phone itself, XS++. Aside from that, you’ll be needing a true type font, in this case, the Sony Sketch Font (the font of the Sony Ericsson logo). You can Google this yourself, as I forgot the exact URL of the site where I got it from. Will post it again in case I remember.

• Now, connect your phone to the USB cable, and then to the PC. Run XS++

• Click Connect. After this, you MUST turn off your phone, and then press AND hold on the C button. Don’t let it go until the software says you can.

• Under Configuration, click FSX

• Click Start FSX

• Wait till the explorer window is now flooded with the file system directory of the phone.

• go to tpa / preset / system / fonts /

• Remove all files there. Note: You don’t have to delete all, actually. If you still want to keep the original fonts, you can keep them there, but you’ll have to delete the FONTS.xml file.

• create a new FONTS.xml file somewhere and paste this code inside:

• drag the FONTS.xml file (the one you created) and the font files (ttf) into the Enumerated Files listbox.

• with that done, click Shutdown and close. Unplug your phone. Note: If after this, your phone doesn’t turn on. Relax. Take the battery out, then put it back in, and then turn it on again.

And voila! The new font is now being used!

Edit: You can use any true type font (those with .ttf as their file extension). I tried using a different one, called Ampersand, so now it looks even better.