I’ve covered just about everything there is to know about modding your phone – from basic customization of the menu icons to flashing firmware and filesystem. I’ve shared everything, and then some, for all your reading pleasures. My instructions may seem vague and too summarized but still, I tried, and that’s all that matters anyway.

This one may or may not be the last post I’ll write (not for the blog, no) under cellphone modding. I might put all these under one sub category under Tips and Tricks for easy navigation too, so that you don’t have to look so hard under that parent category once it becomes populated with things other than those related to modding.

Right then.. I’ll be sharing how to install elfs this time. I don’t know what elfs are technically, but you can take a look here if you want to know more about it. In the current context though, which is modding, it adds a feature to your phone that is unavailable otherwise (unmodded). Let me cite an example:

*sigh* I am obviously a fan of Edward Norton.

Anyway, clear shots huh? these are taken, not by a third camera (although that’s another way of achieving the same result), but by the phone itself – or, to be more specific, by an elf called Screenshooter. Screenshooter,as what the name implies, is an elf that takes a screenshot of the phone screen by pressing a predefined key (in this case, the Play button). It comes in very useful, especially if you’re troubleshooting an error and needs proof or, simply showing off clearly to your friends what modifications you’ve done to your mobile. It’s like a desktop’s Print Screen function, only, it’s a mobile edition (like Windows Mobile is to Windows XP).

To get started, you’ll be needing:

- your phone, full charged
- USB data cable
- SETool
- the screenshooter elf
- Elfpatch

Note: elfpatch and screenshooter can be downloaded from Se-NSE forum.

Steps: Again, assuming that you’ve read all the posts on how to connect using SETool and that you know how to patch. If not.. geez.. where’ve you been?? Kidding! See here.

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This should be done in the phone memory. Again, PHONE MEMORY.
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- create a folder named ZBin inside Other
- inside ZBin, create two folders named Config and Daemon
- inside Config, copy the file called DYN_CONST.bin inside it
- inside Daemon, put all the elfs you want to use (Screenshooter, bookmanager, etc)

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SETool
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- turn off your phone
- apply the patch using SETool. There are two patches in total, one named Elfpack_v10 and w810_ea031.lib. You must apply them both.

Note: if you applied the sysgfx patch, you must comment the four lines in the Elfpack patch. To do that, open the file using Notepad and look for this line: comment these lines when “total graphics replacement” is installed. Comment the four lines after it by placing a semicolon ( ; ) at the start of the line and then save it.

after restarting and everything, browse to (in your phone) others > ZBin > Daemon. You can start using an elf by selecting that elf and pressing Start (left softkey).

Note: There’s another patch that puts a fifth tab in your File Manager. The fifth tab lists down available elfs. But again, that’s another patch.

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Please feel free to leave a comment for questions/suggestions/violent reactions. thanks!

credits: To the creators of the elfs and the tutorials I followed on SE-NSE.