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K850 Firmware Overview |
jhands
Joined: Apr 25, 2008
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Is changing the CDA free? |
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coldfire0101
Joined: Oct 15, 2007
Posts: 23
From: brighton uk
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updated shortly after firmware was available on seus, only problem i have is with media player and am wondering if anyone els is having same problem, ok i make a folder in windows, name the folder after the album i want, i put mp3's in, make a playlist, connect phone and choose media transfer then copy my album folder to the memory stick music folder, now before the update i would go to media player then music and then album and there was the album i just copied, since update albums i copy over dont go into the phones album folder full stop and im lucky if the folder shows up at all, funniest thing is that if u search long enoungh u can find all the individual mp3's inside unknown folder with a load of prank mp3's i have anyone else had this problem |
Tervel
Joined: Jun 30, 2003
Posts: > 500
From: US, TX
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On 2008-05-04 23:43:23, jhands wrote:
Hey guys, I went from a branded Rogers (canada) firmware to another one branded as 3 Planet (UK). Rogers one had many blocked features. But anyways I now have the R1CA029 firmware.
I heard a new firmware came out today but when I go to the SEUS it says no updates are available. I really want to get the generic firmware on my phone and also the old firmware is way too buggy.
Any help in this regard?!
Where did you hear that a new firmware came out today??? This is plain spreading rumors I think - there hasn't been a newer release than R1EA037 as far as anyone on this board has seen. If you're stuck on R1CA029 most likely something in the firmware is such that SEUS can't give you a newer firmware - you'll have to use a third party tool to flash it (and I recommend changing the base of the firmware to either unbranded or something fairly generic while you're at it). I recommend Davinciteam.com < very easy to use. I would recommend staying AWAY from wotan based on my previous experience and other problems I have read on this board.
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bavlondon2
Joined: Jan 28, 2006
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Hey all can anyone confirm if the problem with the dust behind the lens cover was only on older models and not any newer ones?
Thanks
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DanGrover
Joined: Feb 07, 2008
Posts: 7
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Just got BROD on 37. Upgraded as soon as it was available. |
vegetaleb
Joined: May 03, 2002
Posts: > 500
From: Lebanon
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I have a December model and never had dust under the lens
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Tervel
Joined: Jun 30, 2003
Posts: > 500
From: US, TX
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On 2008-05-05 12:50:29, DanGrover wrote:
Just got BROD on 37. Upgraded as soon as it was available.
Just to clarify because people will take this and go with it anyway they want - You mean R1EA037 and not R1CA037 right? |
bavlondon2
Joined: Jan 28, 2006
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Whats the difference between EA and CA versions?
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Holdit
Joined: Apr 07, 2006
Posts: 148
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Check page 1 - From what I gather, EA is based on 031 in attempt to get rid of the BROD issues but it still exists so they failed on that part
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zombiecat
Joined: Feb 25, 2005
Posts: 3
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Hmm.
My K850 has always been a stinking turd of a phone; now it's a stinking turd of phone that doesn't work...
f/w updated to 037, phone seems a little faster. Then the (in)famous BROD. Try to update with SEUS, it finds the phone, but that's that.
Bloody thing then dies totally. Just a red LED under the on/off button. Kulankendi can't find it. Suppose there's nothing to do but to send the damn thing back to where it came from (hell, I supect, or the local cheap-chinese-crap-shop?)
Any of you chaps/ladies have other ideas about how I can rescue it without sending it back? Suggestions along the lines of stamp on it/throw it into the canal/burn it are welcome, although not especially helpful in the circumtances 
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bavlondon2
Joined: Jan 28, 2006
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If I were to get one of these it seems updating via the phone or SEUS is a bad idea. Should I only take it to a service centre to get the fw updated?
Also does the phone reboot randomly or when you do something specific?
I thought the latest 037 fw solved everything. Did it take this long for the K800 to get stable? I dont even remember having any problems with the k800.
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vortigern
Joined: Dec 10, 2007
Posts: 60
From: London
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@zombiecat .. sounds like your battery is flat.
When it's BROD it won't charge, so you'd need to get a desktop charger (I got 2 batteries and a charger for a few quid on ebay)
kulankendi should then find it when the battery has charged which should fix it, although needs a full format.
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meiso
Joined: Mar 06, 2007
Posts: 63
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@ Zombiecat:
This happened to my phone without having BROD first. I did have the same red light on the top of the phone, and neither Davinci or Wotan recognized it, just SEUS but then it couldn't do anything.. I had to send it to Sony to fix.
Good luck. |
alanjrobertson
Joined: Mar 07, 2004
Posts: 96
From: UK
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Hi
I've been having real difficulties trying to get my T-Mobile UK K850i to update to the latest SW version. It's taken multiple attempts for SEUS to get to the 'identifying' step (rather then the phone loading into phone transfer mode) only to be told no update is available!
I took it into my local Carphone Warehouse - they 'updated' it, which seemed to solely consist of them doing a master reset given it was return with identical FW to that it was handed in with! (R1DA038)
T-Mobile telephone CS have been useless so I'm about to write to the Director of CS to see if I have more luck but would be interested to know if any other T-Mobile UK customers have managed to get their phone past 038?
Thanks
Alan |
catalinux
Joined: Oct 17, 2006
Posts: 108
From: Romania
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Tomorrow my phone will have one month since the purchase date. During this period I have experienced exactly 4 (four) reboots, none of them unrecoverable. The phone rebooted once while adjusting the equalizer in media player, once when I was looking at my pictures using "Media" menu and switched to next and previous picture (way too fast for its processing power), once while searching for bluetooth enabled devices in order to send a file. I can't remember the circumstances of the fourth reboot.
My device is a December 2007 edition and so far did not accumulate any dust under the camera lens cover or under the screen cover.
FW version is R1DA038.
I wrote to Sony Ericsson AB, explained what BROD is and asked them if they have heard about this strange problem. The first reply was gibberish as they completely avoided the answer, instead giving me directions about how to update my FW. I wrote back, asking them again about BROD and making it clear that I know how to update the phone's software but I am afraid to do it because it might render the phone unusable. The very next day (today, that is) they answered. Guess what they said: the last software version available for the Sony Ericsson K850i is R1DA.
I'm baffled. According to them, R1EA does not exist. Chew on that, K850i users!
K850i was the SE's most superb phone. And failure.
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