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An account dedicated to information, aesthetics, and more about retro phones. Banner is the Motorola E815 "Blue Bliss" wallpaper.

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Welcome to the Old Phone Preservation Twitter account! If posts about all sorts of retro phone goodies interest you, then you're in luck! Click on each image's alt text to learn what to expect around here! Open this thread to find links on other resources⏬
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Ever wanted to use Discord on a J2ME feature phone? Thanks to gtrxAC, that's now possible! I personally have wanted to see something like this for years - glad the same someone who ported a Game Boy emulator to #MTK MRE took on the challenge!
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Since making this post, discord-j2me has received some updates! Definitely keep an eye on the GitHub page if this sort of thing interests you.
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Ever wanted to use Discord on a J2ME feature phone? Thanks to gtrxAC, that's now possible! I personally have wanted to see something like this for years - glad the same someone who ported a Game Boy emulator to #MTK MRE took on the challenge!
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Thanks to the effort of multiple people, the device where Android started (the HTC EXCA300, or the #Google Sooner) has been dumped!
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Some GUI screenshots of phone interfaces from the mid-late 2000s. See the alt text for more info! This is possible on many Qualcomm-powered feature phones thanks to the documentation out there for its diagnostic interface.
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Around 12:00am for each time zone in the US, #Verizon 's CDMA cell service went quiet. Here are some photos shared by ROMphonix members as the network became weaker, before eventually shutting off altogether. Images courtesy of CloneLocker, MC4f, and W.A.T.P.
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More ringtone sample source discoveries! Every single sample used in the #Samsung "Techno Dance" ringtone has been found, making a lossless recreation possible! Here's a quick example of such:
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Yet another Real Hardware Ringtones request complete. This time it's for the #Samsung SGH-D980 DUOS. Full video here:
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Another sample source discovery! The "Euro House" tone by Yamaha uses the Eurotech sample CD for the beats.
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This #LG LF1200 preloaded ringtone and this song from a certain Nintendo game sound a little too similar... (LG LF1200 video courtesy of Sunyerid on YouTube)
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Here's the Windows "Passport.mid" MIDI as played by 5 different phone synths. Download links to the separate audio files and a higher quality version can be found here:
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CMX Studio, an in-house Qualcomm tool used to make ringtones, has recently been uncovered and it simulates Qualcomm "Brew" software synths quite accurately. The setting used in the video is "CMX 2.X". Download it here:
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Obligatory Valentine's day post. This comes from a tone on the #Samsung SCH-X839 called "Valentine", with animation included.
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The original samples used in a #Samsung shutdown sound heard on phones like the SGH-E335, SGH-E900 and others have been found by @edentrix1 ! They were found in Ueberschall Sample Libraries.
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The file hosting site has announced that it will delete "old, long unused files" by November 16th. This is important because there are dozens, if not hundreds of accounts that have uploaded firmware files and other tools pertaining to older phones.
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The "Space War" game included on the #Samsung SGH-X426 has a title theme similar to one from a Sega Mega Drive game... wonder if it's more than just a coincidence.
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This sound (Bell 6) from the #Samsung SGH-T500 may not be a ringtone banger, but it almost sounds like the startup sound to some sort of early 90's "future" PC. The differences in some Yamaha MA-x tones really shows how capable it can be.
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This is a #Qualcomm Reference Device, the example here is specifically known as the "6280 F-US" as noted by the sticker below the screen. It's a very interesting piece of tech, including both BREW and J2ME runtime support as well as having a plethora of debug and testing apps.
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Some more screenshots from the prototype #Samsung SPH-M250's user interface:
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#DidYouKnow ? These two #Samsung ringtones use the same FM8 default patch! Take a listen:
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The miniBAE software synth that was used in tons of #Nokia phones (and others) was open sourced a while ago, but a fork from zefie has made it usable on PCs! In the video, "Jig" from the Nokia 7260 and "Frenitian" from the Sony Ericsson P800 are played.
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This sound file seems to be on almost every #Samsung phone with a Yamaha SMAF sound chip. No idea what it's for (if anything) though. This comes from the SGH-C260, but it can be found on many more models.
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An odd unused .pmd media file from a recent Audiovox CDM-8910 firmware dump. It calls itself "Vow solution".
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One of the menu themes from the #Samsung SPH-A790 / IP-A790 as a single GIF. Oddly enough, this and a few other Samsung Sprint phones store certain menu graphics and the boot animation as lossy JPEG frames!
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Here's a sample source finding that doubles as a neat fact. The #Alcatel "SteppinIn" ringtone is based off a Ueberschall 2 Step Garage demo!
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#DidYouKnow ? In #Samsung "Anycall" phones, it's often possible to take screenshots by quite literally dumping the memory locations that the framebuffer uses! Shown are framebuffer screenshots from the SCH-G100, SPH-W5000, SPH-V6900, and SCH-V600.
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On the #Samsung SGH-E330, one of the preset images is named "Otter.jpg". That's no otter though! (It's a ferret)
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Thanks to the AOSP source code including it, the Sonivox FM (or "arm-fm-22k") software synthesizer is now available as a standalone Windows program! Here are 3 phone MIDIs rendered by it:
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Custom ROMs for feature phones in 2024? Believe it! Here's one for the #Motorola E398: I could not possibly go over everything added in 1 tweet alone, so definitely give the MotoFan forum post a look: or a YouTube video by EXL:
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Many new sample source discoveries from #LG ringtones have all come from one single sample disc! Here are just a few found in "Airport", "Calling Trip", and "Orange HardDISK":
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The Nokia N-Gage is a quite well known attempt at a gaming phone, but both LG and Samsung had a go at this concept as well. Shown below is the #LG SV360 and #Samsung SPH-G1000.
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An interesting tidbit about the #Samsung GT-B5702 is that one of its wallpapers was also in Windows Longhorn build 5048. In fact, this isn't the only example of "Longhorn" content appearing on a Samsung phone.
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Decided to finally release the progress of the "High Resolution Phone Wallpapers" pack. There's still lots to add though! Hopefully the link will stay the same as it gets updated too.
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Some graphics ripped from the recently dumped #Samsung SCH-V740, decoded and dumped thanks to dffn3 and kraze1984:
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These two ringtones from the #Nokia 3560 and #Samsung SPH-A560 sound suspiciously similar to each other. Wonder which one is "inspired" by which...
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Another unreleased prototype #Samsung phone has been dumped! This is the Samsung SPH-M250, a Sprint version of the SPH-B2500 (or SCH-B250) that was canceled before release. Firmware dump is available on the Dumbphone Repo as always:
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Custom ROMs were also sort of a thing in the era of old phones too. Many #Motorola phones such as the E398 had "Monster Packs" that included many custom skins and other features such as native ARM .elf program loading and more. (MotoMix and MotoG are the ones in the pictures)
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"Jack2", with two Jacks:
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Glad people enjoy old phone history🙂
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3 images of the elusive #Samsung SGH-D307 have been found. Before these were uncovered, much of the content available showing this phone was limited to decade-old 240p YouTube videos and 3D renders.
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If dumping RAM on Qualcomm-powered feature phones wasn't over-the-top enough for getting UI screenshots, the same process with JTAG might just be! Memory searching and JTAG test points were utilized on the #Samsung SGH-X427m and Gravity TXT to get clean rips of their interfaces.
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#DidYouKnow ? A certain bootup sound found on many early 2000s LG phones uses a stock KORG Triton preset for percussion!
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#DidYouKnow ? Faith Inc., the organization that worked with Qualcomm to develop the CMX audio engine, also worked with chip manufacturers to produce hardware sound LSIs. There's even an authoring tool for them! Here's "Melody 7", originally titled "May", from the Samsung SGH-E620
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Found this old youtube channel named "KouTetsuGumi" that has many covers of video game music supposedly done on #Yamaha SMAF chips. Listen for yourself! (actual video link is )
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Custom themes known as "skins" for #Motorola phones such as the RAZR V3 were all the rage in the phone's time. Here are some of the most fitting mid 2000s looking themes I could find. (credits to and )
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Welcome to the Old Phone Preservation Twitter account! If you're looking for misc. retro phone aesthetics and information (such as phone wallpapers and other random goodies), you've come to the right place! Link to High Res Retro Phone Wallpapers:
Hi-Res Retro Phone Wallpapers (not finished).7z

Contains both original ripped graphics from phone's firmware / filesystem and the highest quality versions that can be found right now

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4 Words. Sony Ericsson Bluetooth Car.
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Been a while since I've uploaded one of these, but here's a preview of the newest Real Hardware Ringtones vid. This is one of the tones from the #Motorola i265 called "Lowdown".
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#DidYouKnow ? Older Sanyo devices released in the U.S. have standby pets known as "MyBuddy", similar in concept to machi-chara on NTT Docomo devices. In the case of the MM-5600 and SCP-8400, it's a 3D model!
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(1/4) In this thread I'll be posting the animated wallpapers ripped from the #Samsung SGH-D307, starting with the only option once "Digital Clock" is selected.
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Happy 25th anniversary to the Internet Archive, and happy 20th to its Wayback Machine too! Without tools like this, there'd be no good and interactive way of seeing how websites were back then. Not just that, but the immense amount of things backed up too. #InternetArchive25
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Here's a shortened preview version of "Real Hardware Ringtones - Samsung SGH-T429". You can hear the rest of the tones and other sounds played here:
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Some GUI screenshots from the Sprint #LG LX400:
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Some random animations that would show up on early 2000s #LG phones. Because why not?
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Here's a sneak peek of something in the works.. High resolution phone wallpapers! In this simple teaser photo, a default wallpaper from the #Motorola C139 is shown in the phone's original resolution (96x64) and in high resolution (2048x1366).
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Nearly 9 months after tweeting this and ~3 years after the phone was first (re)discovered, a working example has been found and dumped!
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3 images of the elusive #Samsung SGH-D307 have been found. Before these were uncovered, much of the content available showing this phone was limited to decade-old 240p YouTube videos and 3D renders.
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And now for some other examples of "Longhorn" content on #Samsung phones (these sounds weren't actually in any Longhorn beta, but they were thought to be for years)! This time it's sound related.
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The ROMphonix website now has a section dedicated to phone sounds recorded off of real hardware! (make sure the beginning of the link says HTTP, this site doesnt have HTTPS yet!)
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One old phone that still fascinates me is the #LG Crystal (or LG GD900). A keypad that was clear and also lit up was surely a futuristic look for phones, especially back in 2009! Photos curtesy of yugatech, mobilegazette, and goodgearguide.
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"Mystery" wallpaper from the #Motorola SLVR L9. This digital art piece was made by Steven De Loenen.
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This dump is version "htc-29386.0.9.0.0", which has its own BetaWiki entry: Because of this development prototype's open nature, all it took was a few commands from the Terminal app and a microSD card! Download here:
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#DidYouKnow ? The Spectrasonics Atmosphere VST was used to make the Samsung Sonic Wellness track "Forest". More specifically, the Dynamic Sprinklers patch.
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4 default wallpapers that were seen across many different #Motorola phones during the mid 2000s. These were usually called "Scarlet", "Techno", and "Moto" (for both the pics on the bottom row).
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The #Nokia 7376 is a never released 3G clamshell phone made by Nokia in late 2006. The image below is one prototype known to exist.
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Who doesn't love Hello Kitty special edition phones? Samsung needs to take notes from their decade-old devices. (Samsung GT-S5230 Hello Kitty edition)
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Better Call Saul never explained the origin of this
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The #Helio Ocean, also known as the #Pantech PN-810A, has been dumped! This is the only phone released in the US to use the Yamaha MA-7 sound chip - the last in the SMAF series. Firmware is available on the Dumbphone Repo as usual, and sounds are available on phonetones!
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Didn't know this was a thing, but there are official plush dolls of the character for Brazil's "Vivo" phone carrier. Yep! That exists!
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#DidYouKnow ? There's a program called mSnap that functions as a screenshot tool for older Motorola phones. As an example, here are some screenshots taken from a #Motorola RAZR V3. Credits to @wackypacc for taking these.
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Always nice to see the commercial i-appli backup scene slowly but surely build up! From what I've seen, said cable was made by shorting pins 8/9/10 in a FOMA data cable. It took approx. 8 hours to dump the phone! Keep in mind SD backup decryption still has a long road ahead.
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More good news on the Japanese feature phone game preservation front! User "xyz" dumped an N901iS via a debug cable. In doing so, they preserved Dragon Quest 2 (first volume) and N-Golf 3D, both preloaded games. This new method will be tested on other phone models.
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All of the animated menu icons from the recently dumped #UTStarcom CDM-8955 as one GIF. These icons, as well as many of the phone's other graphics, are in Curitel's proprietary "AP" image format.
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Happy to announce that I am now part of the Andrelouis Phone Tones archive! Most of that will probably be giving real names to ringtones and other sounds, as the majority of the archives are named Sound_1.mmf, Sound_2.mmf, and so on.
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Developer credits rarely appeared in mobile phones at all. However, thanks to recent contributions, members of ROMphonix Club were able to rip this unused graphic from the #Samsung SPH-E2000!
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A wallpaper from the #LG L1100. Original image is known as "Black and white cat sniffing". No credit for the picture is listed but this photo seemingly originated from Photodisc.
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A few music player visualizer animations that were included in many mid-2000s #Samsung phones. These ones in particular come from the SGH-D900.
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Some Hello Kitty themed Samsung phones from the mid to late 2000s.
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The Korean-exclusive #LG SV360 (a.k.a. CYON Mobile 3D Motion Game Phone) has been dumped! This is version SV360521, dumped using the phone's JTAG interface. Firmware is available on the Dumbphone Repo as usual.
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#DidYouKnow ? This 1024x768 wallpaper is included as a test file in certain #LG phones, such as the GS390 and GU295. On both phones, it's simply called "A.jpg" and can be found in the LGAPP/Pxo/ directory.
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It's known by some that many Motorola ringtones were arranged by Keith Manners thanks to credits in the MIDI files. A similar story is true for the tones on early 2000s #Kyocera phones! Many were composed by someone named Michelle Fuhrman. This pic is from "Kyocera_Ringer1.mid".
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While it's not a very substantial phone, the MetroPCS-branded Samsung SCH-R100 has had its firmware dumped!
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3 years
Some boot splash screens from older #Samsung phones, all featuring certain patterns of 3D rendered orbs.
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3 years
While not strictly a phone, there is an emulator of the #Palm m515 that has some good progress. It's called "Mu", and can be used with RetroArch if that's your thing.
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3 years
Was not aware of this until recently, but RGB light modding was a thing for old phones too! The phones in this post are certain #Samsung devices with some extra LEDs added.
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3 years
(will be amazed if Twitter crops this right) You might not expect many layers to something like old phone info, but there's been some interesting things found recently.
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8 months
The #UTStarcom CDM-180 has been dumped! Originally thought to have no JTAG test points present on the board, it turns out they were hidden plain in sight on the TTA-24 (TAS.KO-06.0028/R2) connector itself.
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8 months
Happy Halloween! This is the "Holloween" wallpaper from the #Samsung SGH-T500. The original stock photo is known as "Jack-O-Lanterns", and was once available on Media Bakery. Unfortunately all of the links are broken :(
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1 year
"Jack3" with what appears to be window panes floating past them:
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3 years
Default screensaver from the #SonyEricsson T300.
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@OldPhonePreserv
2 years
The #Samsung SPH-M270's firmware was dumped recently, of which opened up access to its filesystem. Strangely enough, the image below of someone hex editing Sprint-branded LG and Samsung firmware is hidden inside of the filesystem...
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2 years
#DidYouKnow ? Even old flip phones had emojis! These four come from the emoji set that #Sanyo and (post Sanyo merge) #Kyocera used on many of their devices.
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2 years
Wallpapers from the #LG L1200 that was dumped yesterday. Besides the first pic, all of these are standard LG wallpapers from the time except with the Cingular logo edited in.
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3 years
One of the startup and shutdown sounds from the #Samsung SGH-E800 (and other phones), deconstructed to the samples and streamed audio the files use.
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10 months
#DidYouKnow ? Despite using J2ME for app distribution, some Sprint-branded (and by extension Sprint MVNO) #Samsung phones still contain traces of Qualcomm's BREW platform! Shown here is an SPH-M240 on the AppManager, a replacement known as AppUI, and a BREW 2 version of Pac-Man:
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3 years
While by no means the first of its kind, the Z520 is one of few Sony Ericsson phones to feature animated ring lights around the frame of the phone. This is just one example of the few patterns the phone has to offer.
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2 years
Tomb Raider on a BREW feature phone? Believe it! This is a software-rendered port of OpenLara done by usernameAK, and the phone the homebrew BREW app is being played on is an #LG VX8610.
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2 years
Sticking to the #Google Sooner topic, thanks to the aforementioned dump, the prototype's ringtones have been ripped and uploaded! (Replace HTTPS with HTTP if you click the link, Twitter redirects force HTTPS which this site does not have!)
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3 years
Just a few wallpapers included in the #SonyEricsson J200i.
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3 years
Remember this #Android 4.1 wallpaper? Here it is at 1080p quality! (pulled from a Motorola Droid 4)
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2 years
Now this is a first when it comes to things in phone firmware dumps - 3D image textures! These belong to the animated 3D wallpapers found on the recently dumped #Samsung SCH-M309.
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@OldPhonePreserv
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@OldPhonePreserv
2 years
Thanks to generous donations by both Clonelocker () and Rare Noggin Stuff ( @RareNogginStuff ), the following #Samsung phones have been successfully dumped: SPH-A860 SPH-A880 SPH-A800 SCH-M309 (potential prototype)
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