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.

Ok guys, take this with a grain of salt or two. This hacker called StreetskaterFU over at PS3HAX has apprently found a way to load Blu-Ray games off the PS3′s hdd. PS3HAX has confirmed as the claim being legit and people are actually confirming this hack as been working.

Well it sounds too good to be true, but if its really workin’ then its great news ‘the scene’. Currently its stated that the hack works for older games only. Games claimed to be working with this hack are Warhawk, Gran Turismo 5, COD3, MotorStorm & RFOM and that both legal and illegal copies can be played (should be bad news for $ony). Check out the following video of this hack in action if you want want to believe.

Hit the read link for more info.

[Read] [via engadget]

Nintendo has sold millions of Wii consoles each with a DVD drive of course, but with the DVD movies playback functionality locked. Big N wants to make some more money by selling seperate DVD playback units for the Wii. Well, ‘the scene’ has been workin’ on adding DVD movies playing functionality to your Wii lately, and with the advent of hacked channels, there are now apps to actually play DVD movies on your Wii without any modchip.

The mod takes advantage of the current ‘soft hacks’ and allows you to install a version of mplayer that lets you play DVD movies on your unmodded wii.

The straight forward hack requires you to add Homebrew Channel, you’ll also be needing the Twilight Hack (as it’ll be used to run homebrew apps etc on your unchipped Wii).

Next step is to download the DVD installer package and install the installer.dol file to get a DVD-capable version of mplayer. Mplayer lets you play dvd-audio and movies from your SD cards also, though its still in experimental phase. So, who’s still willing to shell out cash on Ninty’s DVD playing unit for Wii? Hit the read link for more information.

[Read] [via MyDigitalLife]