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SECTION 3: FLASHING AND FLEXING GUIDE

Before we start here's a list of things you should have ready:

1. PST 7.1.1 installed and working, (Just for your reference, if you've installed PST n it gives you security alerts or errors ,etc this means you havnt installed the patch!, so search for it n install it n then PST will work properly and allow you to flash/flex your phone)
2.The Flash/ Flex files ( To get the following Flash n Flexes n more go Here )

Currently there are the following flash and flex files floating around:

95R Flash file
7F Flex file
59R Monster file which also contains the 7C flex file all bundled as 1 ( hence the term ->monster)
The 97R & 98R
3. USB cable
4. P2kman ready to reload your previously modified seems

Important Note:

When performing a firmware upgrade (or Flashing) , be advised that you will lose your current existing firmware and settings like any new skin directories,custom media/graphic files etc. And also correspondingly, when Reflexing your phone you will lose all your Seem edits and other settings too. So Back - Up all your media files - sounds,images,gifs etc & modified Seems as well if you are reflexing BEFORE you perform the relevant upgrade.

Steps for Flashing:

Once you connect your e398 to the pc with the USB cable

1. Go to the folder where you installed PST and locate the gold MultiFlashFlex.exe icon and click on it:



2. Once the MultiFlashFlex has opened up you will see it like so:



3. Confirm that your phone is listed and is Connected as shown above. If not check your USB cable for any lose contact or reinstall PST

4. Now since we are flashing the e398 check the "Enable Flash" button and then using the "Browse" button browse to where you unzipped the 95R file

After uncompressing the 95R file you might see 2 files:
(1) R372_G_0E.20.95R_reflash.shx
(2) R372_G_0E.20.95R_lang002C_reflash.shx

We need the R372_G_0E.20.95R_reflash.shx file

The other file - R372_G_0E.20.95R_lang002C_reflash.shx - is just a language pack so DO NOT flash it onto your e398.



5. Once you select it you will see the selected flash file in the box as seen below, now check the following boxes - "Override existing phone software even if its newer than the superfile software" , "Master Clear phones after flexing" and "Master Reset phones after flexing"



6.Take a deep breath, then click Start

7. If you dont change programs and run any other programs you may see a progress bar but regardless dont worry if you see nothing. Just dont get impatient if you dont see anything happening and close the program (this could seriously screw up your phone) .. It will take around 5 minutes max for the flashing to complete
Once you get the dialog box saying it's all done. Unplug your e398 then do a Master Reset and Master Clear. .... by going to Settings> Initial Setup> Master Reset , n then Master clear

Once you have flashed your phone you have a choice of flexing it .. Flexing is not that necessary as if your happy with your current Flex you dont have to change it , the benefits of the 7F flex are the USB storage straightaway but you can get this with a seem edit as well ( the seem edit only works on the later s/w versions i have tried to enable it on the 34R but didnt succeed)

Steps for Flexing:

We do this a different way than Flashing:

Again connect your e398 to the USB cable first.

1.Click on the PST phone Programmer icon on your desktop ( this is placed when you install PST if you dont have it then go to the folder where you installed PST and click on the UT_NVM.exe icon)



2. Then click on File->Open->pFLEX, and browse to the directory where SE7333AXXN107F.hs resides.



3. Click on Run after the 7F flex is loaded




The flex takes around 20 - 30 mints to finish so dont get impatient and close PST , just wait it out!!


4.After this is done, master reset and master clear your phone again and voila you're all done !

Addendum:

You might lose the ability to customize the Smart Key on your E398 after new firmware upgrade. So to this happen; Just edit your mma_dcp and mma_ucp files with hex editor, changing "EVoiceDial" to "AVoiceDial" in both files, and set offset 0C bit 1 to "on" in seem 0032_0001.

N you'll get customization option back again