It was 1 month ago when I had my first brush with the SE W960i’s Messaging problem. As discovered then, the problem is related to the phone’s Contacts. After fiddling with it for a month, I finally found a permanent solution to the problem.

First of all, here are the possible symptoms of the Contact/Messaging problem:

The cause of all the above symptoms is you have contacts saved in your SIM card. To fix the problems, remove all contacts from your SIM card and reboot your phone.
To do this on the SonyEricsson W960i, go to Contacts -> More -> View folder -> SIM. After that, More -> Mark -> Mark all and then More -> Delete. Now all you have to do is reboot your phone and all your problems will be gone forever (hopefully).

This morning Outlook gave me a big scare. Nope, it didn’t deliver a particularly nasty email, but it crashed as soon as it started. Here’s a look at the nasty error message:

No amount of begging and coaxing would make Outlook start normally, so I started Outlook on Safe Mode and after it managed to start without error, ended it in hopes that it will fix whatever stuff that is wrong when the program quits. And guess what? It did.

So, for anyone who encounters the above error, the first thing you can do before trying the myriad of troubleshooting suggestions found on the internet, give Outlook a chance to fix itself by starting it in Safe Mode. To start Outlook on Safe Mode go to Start -> Run and type:
outlook /safe

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A weird Messaging problem occured on my one-week-old Sony Ericsson 960i handphone. When I viewed the SMS list from the Messaging application, only the senders’ numbers appeared (normally, the senders’ names will appear instead if they are in my Contact list). Furthermore, when I tried to view any of the SMS, an error message saying the message is incomplete is prompted to me followed by another error message saying Access is denied .

This immediately triggered a severe panic sensation as I frantically searched the internet to look for any causes/solutions for this problem. After reading up all the available information, I gather that the cause of the problem is most probably to do with my Contact entries. It’s weird since all my contacts are imported on the day I received my phone and I’ve only added a couple of new entries. I deleted all the new entries (and some junk contacts that I can’t even remember how they got into my list) and rebooted the phone, it was still giving me the errors. When I was about to give up and schedule a suitable time to bring my baby to the clinic, it hit me. I added some voice dial commands the day before and when I tried to voice dial today, it failed. After that incident, the weird Messaging problem started.

I quickly deleted all the voice dial commands and viola, the Messaging problem went away.

So, for those who get the same error messages shoved into your face, the problem most likely lies in your contact entries.