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Sony Ericsson W960i and USB

yk — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:41:41 +0000

My W960i is making me lose hair again. After using my non-original car charger to charge my phone, I am not able to charge my phone with my regular wall charger anymore. I wasted no time in sending in the phone since it’s under warranty and after a few days, I got it back (bravo to the Sony Ericsson service centre for the super fast service!).

In my pursuit of privacy preservation, I did a master reset to clear all the data in the phone before sending it in to the service centre. The first thing that I did when I got it back was to plug in the USB cable in order to restore the data that I backed up. Immediately, I was confronted with repetitive poppings of yellow bubbles in my system task bar saying:

USB Device Not Recognized

After some painstaking plugging and unplugging of USB cables, uninstalling and installing Sony Ericsson software and drivers, the problem was solved when I tried another USB cable. So, it turned out that my USB cable was fried.

Here In My Home available for download

yk — Sat, 17 May 2008 11:51:17 +0000

Damn, I just can’t stop listening to the song! And now Malaysian Artistes For Unity has made the song and video available for download! To ease their server’s load, I’ve taken the liberty to create torrents for the files and add them to a torrent tracker. Here are the torrents:

Songs:
Here In My Home [mp3]
note Â» mp3 version + 192 kbps + song duration: 4:07

Here In My Home [cd quality]
note Â» full bandwidth version + 16 bits + 44.1khz + song duration 4:07

Here In My Home – karaoke [mp3]
note Â» mp3 version of karaoke mix + 192 kbps

Here In My Home – karaoke [cd quality]
note Â» full bandwidth version of karaoke mix + 16 bits + 44.1khz

Videos:
Here In My Home – video [for computer playback]
note Â» mov format + 640x480 + requires quicktime

Here In My Home – video [for computer playback]
note Â» mov format + 480x360 + requires quicktime

Here In My Home – video [for streaming or mobile phone]
note Â» mov format + 320x240 + requires quicktime

Here In My Home – video [for small screen mobile phone]
note Â» 3gp format + 176x144

Help me spread the wonderful song and video guys, so open your favourite torrent clients and download and seed the files!

Here In My Home

yk — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:27:13 +0000

Malaysian Artistes For Unity (MAFU) released a fantastic song today that mirrors the sentiment that most Malaysians feel in their hearts. Here’s a YouTube version of the music video:

SonyEricsson W960i Contact or Messaging related problems

yk — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:40:35 +0000

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:

Contact’s name and/or picture does not show when a call comes through

Contact’s name does not show in Messages

When trying to view some/all messages, an error message saying the message is incomplete and/or Access is denied is displayed on screen and the messages cannot be viewed.

When a voice command is added to a contact and the phone is rebooted, the above symptoms appear. However, if all voice commands are deleted and the phone rebooted, the above symptoms disappears

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).

Hi!

mickey — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:53:00 +0000

Hi Mr. Dragon,

I think your website is really cool… Anyway, hope you don’t mind i complain my work and office here. Ha Ha Ha…

Sony Ericsson W960i weird Messaging problem

yk — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:33:25 +0000

A weird Messaging problem occured on my one-week-old Sony Ericsson 960i handphone. When IÂ viewedÂ 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.