Luiejongen's Ultimate Modding Guide

This is my modding guide for the Samsung Impression. Enjoy!

Flashing your phone:
Find out how to flash your phone here: http://www.samsung-impression.org/samsung-impression-how-to/how-to-flash-the-samsung-impression/

To change your phone's color scheme:

WARNING: This will delete EVERYTHING not backed up. Backing up means transfering everything to SD card and transfering contacts to the SIM, or using PC Studio to transfer all your data to PC. I am NOT responsible for anything that goes wrong, including your house catching on fire, your pants falling off in public, or your dying goldfish.

To change the color scheme of your device, you must change a line in the nv_default.ini file found under Settings/Default/NV. Navigate to the directory I just mentioned in TKFE.

Copy the file over to your desktop. Then double click on it and a Notepad window should open up (at least, it opens up for me under Windows 7, if you cannot open the .ini file, just change the extension to a .txt for now).

Look for this line:
NV_SI_SKIN_COLOR_TABLE=11

You can change the number to any number from 1-11. 11 is the default.


After you change it, then copy the file back to where you got it. It should overwrite the existing one automatically. If you changed it to a .txt file, change it back to .ini first.

Then, do a master reset on your phone. To do a master reset, you must dial these numbers like making a phone call: *2767*3855#

After your phone reboots, go (on your phone) to Menu, then Settings. Your menu color scheme changed! (If the number you chose while editing nv_default.ini changes the menu.) Now go to Messaging and hit Create Message. Try out the virtual keyboard. It could have changed too!

If you messed up your phone but can still boot up your phone and get access to the dialer, then do a preconfiguration reset. Dial this code in the dialer: *#6984125*#, then tap Pre-configuration. Your phone will ask you for a operator code, the operator code is *#73561*#. Then hit Install. After the reset everything should be back to factory defaults.


To change the boot screen:
This will not erase any of your files, contacts, or settings. It simply changes your boot screen and doesn't touch anything else.
1. Download plaguethenet's firmware editor here: http://code.google.com/p/samsung-firmware-tools/

2. Move the application and all its files onto the desktop. Then open the application.

3. You need to download the firmware (if you don't already have it). Get it here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=14IZ2NYY

4. Now open up the .rc2 file using the firmware editor.

5. Click on Plugins in the menu bar.

6. Hit Export.

7. Boot screen should be located where the firmware editor is located (the desktop).

8. Open up any of the pics with any photo editor. Remember it must be the same resolution and size. Put all the pics together in a folder on the desktop.

9. Go back to the firmware editor, hit Plugins again, and hit Import. Then locate the folder that you just created.

10. Go to Multiloader. (Download link: http://www.samsung-impression.org/general-samsung-impression-discussion/maybe-this-is-the-firmware/?action=dlattach;attach=4952)

11. In the section in Multiloader that says "control", select "MSM6275/MSM6280/MSM6290". Then click on the Rsrc2 button.

12. Locate your rc2 file that you just edited.

13. Plug in your phone in bootloader mode (hold down the down volume button while booting up phone).

14. Click on Port Search in Multiloader.

15. It should find your phone. Then click download.

16. Wait...

17. When it is done downloading, pull the battery from the phone. Then unplug phone.

18. Put battery back in, and turn on your phone.

19. Enjoy.

More to come later...

Ok. Tell me if it works for you (not that all the mods don't work for me...they all do).

Thanks for the cookie  .

i downloaded the firmware editer, but it saves it as a wordpad with a bunch of mumbo jumbo stuff...it dosent seem to be a program at all

To edit the .ffs file (FactoryFileSystem):
This will erase your settings, and anything not backed up...(you ARE messing with your phone's file system after all.


1. Download Winimage (http://www.winimage.com/). It does not matter if you use the trial or paid version.

2. Open up Winimage.

3. Click on the icon of the folder in Winimage.

4. Locate the .ffs file.

5. This is exactly like TKFE from this point on, except no disconnected errors. One difference: to put files into the .ffs file, you simply drag and drop it into the directory you want it in. Example: I want to install Uno on my phone. I use Winimage and go to Exe>Games, then on my desktop I make a folder called Uno, drag the .jar and .jad into the Uno folder on my desktop. Then I drag the Uno folder on my desktop to Winimage. It will prompt me if I would like to "inject" the folder into Winimage, I click yes, and Uno is in the .ffs.

6. After you are done with your editing, you click on the icon of the floppy disk (the save icon).

7. Just exit out of Winimage.

8. Open up Multiloader.

9. Connect your phone in bootloader mode.

10. Click on port search in Multiloader, and your phone should show up.

11. Click on the button that says FactoryFS, then locate the .ffs file you just edited.

12. Click on Download.

13. Wait...

14. After Multiloader says that the download is complete, unplug your phone, and pull the battery.

15. Turn on your phone.

16. Done! (You can install games this way if you are desperate...I'm thinking that I could maybe install widgets through Winimage...)

Hey i wonder. I looked into the .ffs folder and i saw a folder called widget. Maybe for people who dont have a data plan can inject the widgets from this site into that folder and then flash it to the phone. Do u think it would work?

It may be possible to install widgets. I did see a guide for another phone. But just putting the widget inside the folder will not work. I can guarantee that. Also when modifying the ffs file you can add and delete what you do not want. But you cannot increase the size of the ffs file for some reason. So if you add apps, you will need to remove something.

Alright cool. Hope we can figure it out with the widgets. Thats weird that you cant make the ffs file bigger. I wanted to add all my games and apps into it. Ahwell.

LOL.
You can preinstall some apps, as long as .ffs is same size. Americo got rid of default apps and put in other apps, such as Google Maps.