The UIQ Evangelist has reported that the Walkman 3 player is now able to be put onto the P1 thanks to the hard work of some very clever folk.
I won't repeat the isntructions here, as there are already some decent tutorials out there - first off, you need to download the files that make up the Walkman player: Walkman 3 files. Next, you need to enable access to the system files on the phone. This requires you to install Python on to your PC along with the Sony Ericsson smartphone suite. Links to both, and an excellent tutorial on the process are here: UIQ 3 hacking page.
Once you've enabled access on the phone, copy the walkman files to the memory card (I just created a folder within "Other", then use Swiss Manager to copy the four folders to the C: drive on the phone. It prompts to overwrite the folders - jsut say yes, as you're actually adding new files, not overwriting existing ones. Once done, reboot the phone, and the Walkman player is in the application list (I made a shortcut on the desktop to it, replacing the one I had for the built in music player).
So what does the new player offer? Functionality wise, not much... it will organise music a little better into artist/album and so on, and you can also tab albums or individual songs with "moods". This means when you're "happy" you can get it just to play through all your happy songs! The best part though is the visualisations. The screens flow nicely from one to another with some transitions, and the backgrounds are animated with items flying across behind the actual text and information. Search YouTube for some videos showing this.
All in all, a recommended mod - you don't junk the existing player so it's fairly safe to do, although bear in mind you are putting files into the system folders on the phone so take care to follow all the instructions carefully. Enjoy!
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This player is much cooler than the default one in P1i. The visualizations are awesome, mood and rating assignment is really useful and its "smart sorting" is better than the default player: I guess it sorts by track number, so does P1i's, but the latter puts the tracks with different artists in the end of the list!
The only downside is that you cannot change the volume with jog dial: moving the jog dial opens the list of the current album's tracks. You should first press either 2 or 8, then change it with the jog dial. (Actually this flaw is in this cracked version, I've checked it in a W960 and changing volume works fine with jog dial.)
Hi guyz......... i have s e p1i mobile. but i want to install walkman 3.0. plz.. help me.
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