Adding Games to the Sync with the USB cable - HOW TO

[will1384]

Let me start off bt saying thanks to all of you, great forum,
and thanks to


"psabo's" post about How to: Delete the Cingular default pictures and ringtones

"Robdec's" post about Access to the Sync file system

"jdhood1's" post about the "phonedb.00"file

Put them together and you get a way to put games on your phone,

Here is my version, based and copied from the above




Hacking The SGH-a707

Before you begin:

----Hacking could lead to a dead phone----

I have done this many times to my phone with no problems

"But try at your own risk"

-Lets Start-

Make sure you've changed your phone's USB configuration from Samsung to Qualcomm.

Here is how, type in *#0523#

keep hitting # till you get to

[1] Debug Screen
[2] Version Information
[3] RF Test
[4] UMTS rf nv
[5] Read gsm rf nv
[6] Write gsm rf nv
[7] Band Base
[8] Audio
[9] Common

press 9

you should see

[1] Batt, Temp
[2] FTM NV read
[3] FTM NV set
[4] FTM NV unset
[5] Version Info
[6] USB Configuration
[7] DIAG Configuration
[8] Power on info
[9] Camera Tuning

press 6

you should see

[1] Samsung USB []
[2] Qualcom USB []
[3] PictBridge USB []

press 2

leave the phone exactly as it is- don't press anything else.

Then download the Qualcomm USB driver at
http://www.rexnet.it/firmware/utility/qualcomm_usb_driver.zip

and unzip the contents to a temporary location. Connect up your phone
via the USB cable, and manually select the qualcomm drivers you just
unzipped. Two devices should appear, a USB modem and a USB
diagnostic port.

Once you've reached this point, download Bitpim

http://www.bitpim.org/#download

and install it. Run the Bitpim program for the Start menu. I believe when you first
launch it, it asks if you want to detect a phone. If this doesn't come up automatically,
just go to Edit -> Detect Phone. Click on the Phone Wizard button in the BitPim
Settings window.



The phone setting that worked for me was the Samsung SPH-A740.



Click next, and then a list of COM ports will be displayed. You need to find the
one that says Qualcomm Diagnostics Interface. Do not try to use the auto option, it
won't work. If you don't see the Diagnostics interface, make sure that you
installed the drivers successfully.



Once you've found the proper port, click next and then Finish. Don't bother with
the detect phone button that's displayed, it won't work.



Select View Filesystem from the View menu. You should notice a file cabinet
icon appear in the menu on the left. Select the filesystem view. The root of the
filesystem should appear as a blue folder with a plus next to it. Click the plus
to expand the view and you'll see a message that says “Retrieving Data”.
Wait a few seconds, and you should see the directory structure of the phone.



Now, to get rid of the Cingular images and ring tones, you need to go
into the SystemFS folder. From there, go down to Media, and then into
Graphics or Audio. Find the file you want to get rid of and right click
and select delete. You can also do a hex dump of the file, save it,
or overwrite it.



Next go to Exe then to Java - that were all the demo games are - you can
delete them



To add java games , and and erase the Icons for the demo games
- Warning you will lose some data -

You will loose your address book,call logs,placed calls, missed calls, etc

You can back up your address book with the Samsung software,
- You will not lose any thing on your sim card -

I store my address book on my sim card , plus you can get rid of the service
numbers that way, by telling the phone to only show the numbers on the sim,
its one of the phones options under

Settings/Application Settings/Address Book Settings/View Contacts From

Ok well back to the story LOL

Browse to the following directory on your phone: "/Media/Games"



Create a new directory for each game. in "/Media/Games"

Copy your *.jar and *.jad files into that newly created directory,
Repeat for as many games as you want to







The trick now is getting the phone to run the game. and erase the Icons for
the demo games This is the part where you're going to loose data. Still in
BitPim, browse to the following directory on your phone:

"/DB2/phonedb/backupDB".

Delete the file called "phonedb.00". It gets recreated by the phone when it
detects that it's missing.



Turn your phone off and back on. On the phone, browse to "My Stuff" -> "Games
and Apps". You should see the games you added

And thats it - Good Luck

BTW if you JAVA games don't have a .JAD file you can download JADMaker
and you can test Java games with Sun Java Wireless Toolkit - run them by double clicking on the .JAD file

[aborchi2]

Thanks for the write up!
Moved to Tutorials and Walkthroughs.

[Robdec]

Wow that has to be one of the best first post I have even seen!!!! Great work

[faintltron]

Hooray for this post! Going to try it later.

[freshsynCer]

EXCELLENT! Believe it or not, I just did this whole process myself a day ago, but gave up before i deleted that DB file. It makes perfect sense, FINALLY a way to upload without a WAPload! Thanks!!

[will1384]

Thanks

I wanted some games, and don't have internet on this phone,

I have done it over and over, maybe about 30 times, every time I find
a game I want to try, 90% don't work, the rest seam to be for a phone
with a smaller screen, thats why I needed a way to test them on the
computer first, I looked and looked all I found was the Sun Java Wireless
Toolkit, but it seams to work well enough, most games that run on it seam
to run just fine on the sync,

Now we just need a list of places to get games,
oh wait, here is a post by "freshsynCer"

Fresh Links for SYnc compatible Games

Thanks!!!

[gtswift]

made sticky

[timma05]

So I followed all directions step by step and in my file system the new game folders with the games are in the right place, but arent showing up on my phone itself, suggestions?

[will1384]

So I followed all directions step by step and in my file system the new game
folders with the games are in the right place, but aren't showing up on my phone itself, suggestions?

The games that don't show up, don't work, a lot of games dont, also make sure you power off your phone
by holding the red phone button down till the screen goes blank, and that each game has a .JAD and .JAR file

[Robdec]

These games have been tested to work with the Sync
http://www.thesynchole.com/viewtopic.php?t=585

[will1384]

Just put some of the games here on my phone Thanks , and tried the "Reboot Phone" option in BitPim and it
works in place of powering off your phone

[timma05]

So I followed all directions step by step and in my file system the new game
folders with the games are in the right place, but aren't showing up on my phone itself, suggestions?

The games that don't show up, don't work, a lot of games dont, also make sure you power off your phone
by holding the red phone button down till the screen goes blank, and that each game has a .JAD and .JAR file

I used all the games on Rob's post and the new list of working games and when i downloaded them i put them straight onto the desktop, then put those to my phone.

[timma05]

Maybe I went about putting the games into the file system wrong? I made a new subdirectory and named it as the game then right clicked in that folder and added the file> In the file system it shows the game folders i put in but only one difference, i dont have the little plus sign on the new game folders icons, yet the game .jar file are in all the folders

[will1384]

Maybe I went about putting the games into the file system wrong? I made a new subdirectory and named it as the game then right clicked in that folder and added the file> In the file system it shows the game folders i put in but only one difference, i dont have the little plus sign on the new game folders icons, yet the game .jar file are in all the folders

I am not sure why it does that about the "plus sign" it seams like it would only do that to a folder
with subdirectorys and there was even one on mine that did not have a "plus sign" but had files in it,
strange

Were you able to get it working?

[timma05]

Nope still havent got them to show up on my phone, even tried deleting them all and re-doing all of them, still nothing, only shows the old games I had. It sucks but hopefully either me or someone else finds what I did wrong