To use a Flash menu on your phone you have to "hack into" it's FS (File System) so that you will need a tool called A2Uploader or FAR Manager with sefp2w plug-in.( Download A2Uploader Download. )
Flash menus are Flash Lite 2.0 animations programmed to behave as menus. These come as SWF files.
Once the menu is on the phone, you will have to slightly modify a theme so that it loads that menu when applied on the phone. To do that you will have to use Sony Ericsson Themes Creator. At last you will copy that theme and set it on your phone. Before we begin you have to know a few things.
The main problem that appears with flash menus is branding. Most people buy their phone from an operator. Operator has his own mods to the standard firmware and places all kinds of restrictions. One of them is: flash menus - disabled.You can easily see if your phone would support flash menus. All phones supported on this web page should have at least one flash menu preinstalled. So try all original themes to see if a flash menu appears. If not, you need to debrand your phone. That means your phone's memory will be completely erased and flashed with a generic Sony Ericsson firmware. Backups advised! Transferring to the phone :- You can send the SWF and PNG files to your phones via Bluetooth. It is recommended that you send the PNG file first. You can also use the phone's USB cable. Copy the files to the "pictures" folder, either on the phone or the memory card.
With some the PNG files you get will be in a secifically named folder. In that case you must use USB. Make sure you put the downloaded files in that way to the phone. The relative path (from the SWF) to images has to be the same as it was when you extracted them.
A2Uploader
Since it "hacks" into the phone your antivirus will most likely block the application. I'm using a2uploader since it came out and I can assure you there is no virus.
Now, let's begin. This process is divided into 2 parts so it would be easier for newbies, once you learn it, all will go really fast. It takes a minute to apply a new flash menu on my phone.
Part 1 - Flashing the menu to your phone
1. Launch a2uploader.exe and the interface like one in the image above should appear. Do not launch the program from within the zip/rar archive! If you receive an error when trying to launch the application that means your antivirus disabled it. Some antiviruses report that A2Uploader is a threat, that report is false. If you don't want to use it, you can try FAR Manager with sefp2w
2. Click "FileSystem tool" button.
3. Turn your phone off, remove the battery and put it back in.
4. Hold the "c" key and connect your phone to PC via the USB cable. (You might need SEMC Flash Device drivers if you haven't used Sony Ericsson Update Service before)
It usually takes up to 15 seconds for the connection to be established. If there is no response from your PC there might be a problem with your phone-with-cable connection so check the metal contacts.
5. Once connected, the A2Uploader interface will look like this:
6. Navigate by double clicking: tpa > preset > system > desktop > flash.
7. Add a new menu by dragging and dropping it in the a2uploader:
8. Once the uploading to phone is finished you must click "Shutdown FS manager" button.
9. Close the program, unplug your phone, and power it up. Head on to part 2!
Part 2 - Assigning a menu to a theme
Do this part only if you didn't get a theme (*.dm or *.thm) with the menu.
Download a theme from the internet that you will use with the menu.
Warning! If the theme you will use has Media/Walkman Menu skinning, the background pictures will be deleted by Themes Creator. Therefore backup the theme, after assigning the menu to theme (the following tutorial) use WinRAR (or some other compression/extraction software) to extract the media backgrounds from the backed up one and MPSkinner to put them back in to the modified theme.
And now... To assigning a menu to a theme.
1. Launch Sony Ericsson Themes Creator (Advanced Editor mode) and load the theme you are about to modify. Once you load it the warning message like this might appear:
2. Click Yes, if it appears. Warning! This will remove the Media Player backgrounds, even though you clicked Yes.
The lines that are on the list are the elements that define the look of Media Center, from some reason Sony Ericsson still didn't incorporate it to the program.
3. Click XML Editor button.
4. Scroll down and add the following line just above the last one:
<Desktop_style Source="MenuName.swf" Type="File"/>
The Source must contain the name of the menu you want theme to load. So... Replace the "MenuName.swf" with the file name of your menu. Extension ".swf" is required. A few examples:
<Desktop_style Source="TargetingOrangeC2.swf" Type="File"/>
<Desktop_style Source="Glassy-BlueW3.swf" Type="File"/>
<Desktop_style Source="ClockMenu1K1.swf" Type="File"/>
<Desktop_style Source="GleamingGoldC1.swf" Type="File"/>
5. Click OK, and in the warning that will appear click Yes.
6. Click the Save button. If Themes Creator cannot save the file it might be set as Read Only. (Right-click the file, select Properties, uncheck "Read Only" and click OK, then you'll be able to save).
7. Close the Themes Creator, copy the theme to your phone and activate it.
Now it will load the menu you specified in the XML …Now You can make own themes what u like?
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