With the solution provided here, you can easily create backups of your phone’s FS or parts of it, like pictures, sounds, flash menus etc.
First you need FAR Manager and my application, Sony Ericsson Sripter (1.1).
If you don’t know how to use FAR Manager, the first read Akshay’s tutorial about it.
So open FAR Manager, connect your phone and navigate to FS directory like this:
Then navigate to the path of the files that you want to copy, if necessary.
Copy the stuff you want with FAR Manager, for example select the tpa directory, select a place on the other panel and hit F5 to copy it. This way FAR Manager creates 0 bytes big files. That is bacause it can’t read the FS, only copy to it and delete from it.
Now you can disconnect FAR Manager but it is not necessary, because soon you’ll have to upload a file to it.
Open SESC (Sony Ericsson Scripter, my app 
) .
Click Select button and open the directory where you have put all those 0 bytes big files with FAR Manager.
Then wait for a while, according to the number of files…
The program makes the script on the bottom panel.
It should look like this.
The top panel should contain file names that begin with tpa, ifs, system etc. If not, then modify the “Directory on Phone FS” textfield as necessary. Also if you are downloading only the camera driver, then you must write the path there, paths must be correct!
When the file list looks OK, you can Save XML file with the button at the bottom, save as customize_upgrade.xml (as default).
Then you open FAR Manager again (if you closed it), navigate to tpa/preset/custom folder and upload customize_upgrade.xml there. Then disconnect FAR Manager with the usual method (navigate up and up, till it asks about disconnecting, select yes). Unplug the phone and reinsert battery.
Start the phone. It will say ‘Please Wait’ as it copies the selected files to the usv directory.
Now connect your phone to the PC (do not shut it down), we’ll do a file transfer.
When it asks, choose File Trasfer mode, and download the data to the PC from other\FS folder. (You can also use MyPhoneExplorer and then you don’t have to switch to File Transfer).
That’s it, you have the backup of the FS. It wasn’t that hard, now was it? 
Note: As far as I know this only works with CID 51 and 52 phones, but I’m not sure about that. I couldn’t download my ifs folder but tpa is downloadable for sure (Sony Ericsson K550i -> W610i), the application SESC is a beta, so it is not perfect yet!
Regards
Peti
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I GOT IT WORKING!!!!
ok instead of usb at the start use “tpa/user/backup”
but make sure you have a folder called backup in your phone memory. and you can view them on ur phone. also if you have blue tooth on ur compy, then you can get them easily.!!!!
may i know wat is ifs, fs, gdfs ?? is the backup of gdfs same with the fs mention here ?? in any case if i mess up while exploring and changing the fsx using the xs++ will restore gdfs back to wat is was before ?? example if i delete the default menu.ml and replace with new one then if i do a write on the gdfs (backup) will it restore back the original default menu.ml ?
ifs is the place where phone drivers are. FS is the file system, contains all files and drivers. GDFS is a set a variables, many of them are necessary to start the phone.
GDFS doesn’t conain files, won’t restore anything. Restoring GDFS is only necessary if the phone can’t boot up.
akshayy how r u i m the new user i really impressed from ur tutorials the only thing i need is a video tutorial for converting my k550i to w610i from far manager+jdflasher help me
This is my tut, not Akshay’s. I’m afraid we don’t have such a video tutorial. Only text, isn’t it ok?
New way, just install quick access patch, open jdflasher put setting on qa2020 then connect, press BFS select folders and press copy. Then go to the folder where you copied and there you go. No 0kb files!!
Random !!! you got some probs ??
thanks for your solution other wise.
Thx peti for ur nice tutorial.. I followed ur tutorial step by step. When i switched on my phone (W580i) i saw the screen saying “Please Wait” and then it went off and my phone started. But unfortunately i could’nt find any folder by the name of /FS in both phone memory and card memory. However my phone’s memory decreased from 5.5mb to 810kb.
I applied these steps again for the second time but this time my phone doesn’t go further than the “please wait” screen. I took the battery, reinserted and switched it on again, but still it hangs at “please wait” screen.
Could you (both peti and akshay) please provide any solution for both of these problems?? Should i delete the customizaiton_upgrade.xml file to solve the second problem??
forget. just reflash our FS and Main and CDA all will go right. you won’t loose much.
hi akshay.i dont know how to transfer sms from phone mem to mem stick.pls help me.is it advisible 4 a first time user to use the far manager.and how shud i take backup of all my system files to avoid any type of risk while using the far manager
naa its not possible on db2020
you can move SMS from phone to computer using myphoneexplorer.
nothing to worry, you will loose only content that you added. so just backup Memory card.
Hey Akshayy, i had the same problem as KK. i couldn’t find the folder either in the phone memory or card memory. Also my phone memory got reduced. i think i got it copied to the FS as when i start FSX in XS++ an additional directory called USB is shown which has the same TPA inside it as the one outside. Can i delete this directory to regain memory.
akshayy, to download the IFS part of the filesystem, you need to specify it in capitals. like, IFS not ifs, because the FS differentiates between the two
hope that helps..
sorry, Peti even
soham.. chill out. nothing wrong with memory
newer firmwares take more memory.
ok.. lol
Hi all, just some feedback. First of all i have successfully debranded and unlocked my k610i(THANK YOU ALL). Following on from the above threads, for backing up ifs needs to be IFS for script to work. Farmanager did not work for me for backing up fs. I copied fs from phone memory to M2 memory(it took a while…) and then they were visible. After flashing main, fs and cda, i had to transfer my backup tpa\preset\custom file to avoid config error.
Hope this might help some of you.
so exactly what is the FS? sorry bout the noob question i seriously dont know and need to know. I think my phone sim doesnt work anymore coz i didnt install the EUROPE 2 FS. btw do u hav a EUROPE 2 FS available for download coz i really need it
Platform: DB2020
EROM CID: 52
EROM Color: Red
Phone ID: K790
Region: S_ASIA_LEVAN
CDA: CDA102568/110 R6A
Firmware Version: R1KG001
EROM: R3A022
i need erom and cda files for my phone (details are as ablove).can you get those files for me. waiting for yr reply. thank u.
@ashok
select it according to your region
http://www.4shared.com/file/46373217/149ac869/K790_CDA102568_7_R5A_GENERIC_C_ASIA.html?s=1
&
AMERICAN
http://www.4shared.com/file/32582994/5b20c299/K790_CDA102568_107_R4A_Generic_AMERICA_2.html?s=1
Hallo. I maked the backup of Fs and iti is stored in phone memory not in my M2. I can see the folder backup from phone but from pc i can`t do it. With bluetooth don`t works becouse it don`t download and folders. have anybody same solution to download the backup from my memory card? or other solution to going the backup directly in my M2. thanks. … sorry my english…I`m from romania
hi, my phone (k800 @ k810) said please wait with the loading bar, but it keeps saying please wait without the loading bar.
Please help
@ Ermal
loading bar??
where you get this?
Hi Peti,
Can you tell me how to go about copying a section of the FS to my computer – I don’t have any problems connecting the ‘phone or seeing the FS, but I want to copy a part of the FS that ISN’T displayed in files. I want to copy/save/move, or at least READ, deleted SMS messages. I think the FS range is something like 45400000 – 45EFFFFF, but I’m not sure. Would it be possible to extract the FS with SETools2 lite by “read flash” in a binary file? If I could manage to get a copy of it to my computer I could then worry about finding an application to open it as text, but FIRST I need to get a copy of it, and this is what I’m having trouble with. Can you help, PLEASE.
GregT, SMS are not stored in filesystem. its stored some where close to gdfs area.
Hello peti…Can u display a xml file of a 0byte big file..So that i can get the correct path of all the files..
S der any any update in u r application…?
Nice,simple GUI design in SESC 1.1..Keep it up:)..
Jims
contact him at the forum!
K..Bhuvan..So how to extract fs from a db2010’s .fbn file
Jims
tutorial is there dude
check it out
dont forget to write extension of every single file in cmd!
Ya..But i found only 2020’s extraction method..Using babe2raw nd sefs4..
Can’t able to extract 2010’s using dis method..
S der ny other way to extract(fs) it directly from phone.?
Jims
u can try dragging and dropping thing…
but if files extensions are same…in db2010 then u can give a try
i never tried it on db2010 firmwares…extensions are same…i hope this will work!
else google ur firmware with word extracted…ull get many downloads!
also at http://www.4shared.com
Bhuvan
Dragging and dropping is not supported in these models..S there any tutorial for se z200.?Coz d mainfile which i’ve downloaded is in .arm format. Is flashing s same as like of other se phones.?
@jims
its arm platform!!!
no flashing supported
sorry
Bhuvan, all Sony Ericsson runs Arm processor
jockep
but its platform is ARM!!!!
saw in phone db….
So s there any way to repair the red light blinking problem.?
Jims
as far as i think NO!
but u can give a try by going at our support forum
like jockep said something
i really dont know much about ur cell phone
so may be u can get something there