If you used to search the web for a 3GP version of your favorite video so that you could enjoy some high quality movies on your mobile phone, your search is over. No you won’t have to ask others to compress a video for your mobile phone because at the end of this tutorial, you’ll be able to compress any of your favorite video or movie to a high quality .3GP format movie yourself.

If you regularly watch videos on your mobile phone, you already know how pixelated and badly compressed most of those movies look. With this tutorial, we’ll follow some steps, use a nice compression software, and tune up a few things so that you’ll get videos with the the highest quality possible, and even that with a minor increase in the file size.

In order to compress the movie, first you’ll be needing this very nice audio/video compression tool called Super © video converter, to download it go here and you’ll see a very lengthy page, go to the very end of the page and you’ll see a link saying “start downloading Super (C)”, click on that link and you’ll be forward to a final page, where you can download the program (Yes, I know the download is a little awkward, but thats how the Super (C) wants people to go through their pages before they’re able to get a download).

After you’re done with downloading the setup for Super C video converter and install it. During the installation process, you might get a few messages just ignore them.

Once Super C is installed, open it up (if you’re on vista, you might need to right click on the icon and run it as an administrator). Super C will check some requirements that it needs, whatever message it gives, just press ok (as normally any current PC is ok to run Super C, unless you want to compress huge videos as then you’ll need more RAM and CPU power).

Since we’ll be compressing our videos to 3GP format, select “3GP” as the output format, MPEG4 as the video codec and AAC LC as the Audio codec just as shown in the pictur below.

After choosing the right options, now we have to select the video options. If you’re using a phone like Sony Ericsson’s K750, W700, W800, W810, W550 etc, then select the 176:144 “Video Scale Size” from the Video row, 25 frames per second, with 250 kbps bitrate.

If you’re using Sony Ericsson’s K790, K800, K810, K850, W850, W900 etc then because of the large screen and powerful mobile cpu you can choose 240:320 “Video Scale Size” (which’ll give you far superior video quality (as you can see from the top image of this post)). Same 25 frames/sec video speed and choose a bitrate of 450 kbps for the video, just like as shown in the screenshot below.

The next step is to select some nice audio options so that you can enjoy a good audio experience along with he nicely compressed 3GP video. Choose 22050 as the sampling frequency, 2 Channels and choose the bitrate to 96 kbps (if you’re using K750, W700, W800, W810 etc you can also choose 64kbps audio quality if you are going to compress very long videos like movies for example, it’ll save your mobile videos from lagging). Select the options as shown in the screenshot below.

After choosing these options, now all you have to do is to select your favorite movie or video, and get it encoded by Super C. To select the media file that you want to encode, (1) right click on the area below OUTPUT, as shown in the following image, and (2) click on “Add Multimedia Files”.  A browse window should open up and now just locate and select the required video file.

Now you’ll see the video file in the list. In my case I’m compressing Alizee’s La Isla Bonita (very famous video of this hot and nice singer). After the video is in the list just click on “Encode (Active Files)”. Make sure the video is ticked in the list just like as shown below.

Now give Super C a little time to compress your video. The compression doesn’t take very long, time-taken depends on the video size and the compression options. After the compression process is done, your compressed 3GP file will be stored in C:/Program Files/eRight Software/Super/Output directory.

As you can see by the status bar screenshot below, Super C has compressed a 49MB file to a nice and neat, high quality 13MB 3GP file (320:240 version),

i’ve followed the 320:240 size as I wanted this video for my Sony Ericsson K790. For the 176:144 video phones like K750, W700, W800, W810 etc, the size of the compressed 3GP video file will be much smaller.

The end product will look something like this:

I hope you’d love the end product  This 3GP video is now worth watching over your cell phone over and over again. Oh and do comment about how you found this post, and of course, how hot do you think Alizee is?

So you want to install one of those .vkp patches to add more functionality to your Sony Ericsson phone? Well I’ve been thinking about writing an easy guide to patch your phones without any trouble.

After you’ve followed this tutorial, you’ll be able to add more such patches to add other extra features to your phone. If you don’t know about .vkp patches, let me tell you what .vkp patches can do. Patches actually let your phone do alot of things than it isn’t allowed to do therwise. For example .vkp patches can:

1. Remove java restrictions so that you won’t be annoyed by those permission messages everytime opera mini tries to access the internet or every time you start a file reading program
2. Add extra menus on the phone’s desktop for easy accessiblitity
3. Increase sms (inbox) storage size to thousands of sms msgs.
4. Add a blacklist (call-blocking) feature so that certain people can’t call you.
5. Add other smaller features like make your phone vibrate once when you call someone and they attend the call.

Installing the .vkp patches:

We’ll be using a program called Far Manager to apply the patches to your sony ericsson phone. Get Far Manager from here, now we’ll be using the SEFP plugin (Sony Ericsson Flash Plugin), you can download it from here. Now install Far Manger and  and don’t run it yet. Extract the SEFP  plugin file you just downloaded. You’ll get a folder named ‘SEFP’, copy that whole folder to C:/Program Files/Far/Plugin/

Now beffore we can use FAR manager with your phone, you’ll have to install the USB Flash Drivers for your Sony Ericsson phone, google search for the flash drivers for your certain model, after you’ve downloaded the flash drivers extract them to a temporary folder.

Now turn OFF your phone, keep the ‘C’ button on your phone pressed and connect the USB cable. Keep ‘C’ pressed and windows will ask you for the drivers of  the USB Flash device, just point it to the temporary USB Flash drivers folder and it’ll install the drivers. Now disconnect your phone, take out the battery for a few seconds, put it back in and start FAR manager.

Press alt+f1 and you’ll see see a menu, click ‘0- Far Manager’ as shown in the image below

You’ll see a new window pop up, select your phone from the list, and select the rest of the options as they appear in the picture below. In this case I’m using a K750 so I chose the K750-w800 option from the phones list (make sure you phone is CID36)

You’ll see two options on the right side list (Flash and FS), select Flash and you’ll see a loading screen, where data is being passed. Wait for a while and now you’ll see “Memory” written on the right half of FAR manager. Now navigate the patches folder in the left half of FAR manager (the patches should be in .vkp format and be for your phone (i.e. apply patches that are for your phone model and firmware only)). Select the patches folder as shown below

After selecting that patches folder on the left side of far manager, double click it and you should see your vkp patches that (.vkp format, remember).  Now click on any patch that you want to apply to your Sony Ericsson phone and click on copy, as shown below.

Again you’ll see a new window, don’t change anything and press ‘COPY’ from the new window as shown below.

In the next window, tick the “process VKP script” option, and click on “Flash” as shown below. The vkp flashing should start now.

After the flashing is done (which takes a few seconds per patch), you’ll see a completion message.

Now you’re done. You can either choose another vkp patch to apply or you can click the “..” over the memory on the right side of far manager and choose shut down option. Once done, just take out your battery, put it back in, and turn on your phone. You are now the lucky owner of a patched sony ericsson phone with extra features  Good Luck.

P.S. You can get lots of other .vkp patches from here.

You’ll be needing a flashing program (XS++ v3.1 in this case), a DCU-60 cable (the USB cable that you got with your phone) & the two flash files (Main + FS). So first

1. Get the flashing program, XS++ v3.1 from here (go to the applications folder to get it)
2. If you own a K790, K800 or K810, get its flash files (Main + FS) from here (go to the Firmware folder and select the subfolder for your specific phone. No download the MAIN and FS files. In my case I chose K790_R6BC002_FS_America_2_RED52.rar & K790_R6BC002_Main_generic_EV_RED52.rar . Notice the difference in the two files, one is FS and the other is Main, both FS & Main should be the same version (R6BC002 in this case) and both files are CID52 (see? the files end with RED52).If you own a K750/W800, you can get you FS file from here and Main file from here directly. If you own some other model of Sony Ericsson, you’ll have to google search for its FS & MAIN files.
3. Extract the FS & Main files to a temporary folder if they are compressed

Next we’ll start the flashing process by starting XS++, just extract the XS++ file that you downloaded earlier. Click on the ‘connect’ button, then turn off your phone and press the  while keep pressing the ‘c’ button on ur phone connect the cable. XS++ should detect your phone now and you’ll see a screen like this:

If XS++ is unable to detect your phone, don’t worry, google search for USB flash drivers for your specific phone and try again then.

Once your phone is detected by XS++, its time to select the FS & Main files in XS++, then select your phone model from the dropdown box below, tick ‘flash Main firmware’, ‘flash file system’ & ‘customize file system’ and click the ‘Flash’ button.

After that, wait patiently till XS++ flashes your MAIN and FS files one by one. XS++ will finalize the flashing in the end. Just DO NOT unplug the phone or turn off the PC before XS++ asks you to do so.

After XS++ asks you to disconnect your phone, do so and take out your batter, put it back in and switch on the phone.

You are now a happy owner of a reflashed fresh sony ericsson phone. Hope this guide helps you out in your quest.