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Supa_Fly
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I just don't know why so many ppl are having issues with this new firmware?! I guess its just the sheer number of ppl that have this phone in europe vs the rest of the world.
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DCUK7
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Can I suggest a moderator split this thread from the first post of a user who wants to keep this up to date?
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rdnymllnsktr
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On 2008-07-06 14:14:05, HiddenTreasu wrote:
Huh? Of course it's possible to use flash menus and themes on any K850 firmware... and you forgot to mention Davinci for flashing the phone... you can flash any file and the price is 10 Euros, which is about $16. Not tooooo expensive, if you ask me.
I already have 9 different flash themes (including flash menus) on my K850 and I'm loving it! 
Wait...what??? I saw a flash was about $89 USD...but then again, I wanted to customize my main menu by removing the PlayNow icon, and also add the option to select ONLY the 3G network. Do you know if this is indeed cheap, or was my pricing for what I want to do about correct? I don't need to unlock or unbrand, as my phone is already both. I'm just so confused on DaVinci, and I've read that their support is horrible, so I'm very hesitant, but I really would like to get rid of the PlayNow button and also add in the ability to select only 3G (as opposed to 3G AND EDGE) from my phone. It sucks having to connect to a PC and open up MyPhoneExplorer everytime I reboot my phone...
On 2008-07-06 11:45:58, jbbrs wrote:
On 2008-07-06 01:53:39, catalinux wrote:
The camera lens cover started to misbehave and doesn't always open. From what I read, this WAS solved in the past.
I am getting the same, and I think I had it two versions ago. I think it might be related to over-agressive power management and the cover sometimes being a little stuck. If the cover doesn't open, all I need to do is to connect my k850 to a charger or to a usb port and try to open the camera cover while connected. It has fixed the issue every time until now, and usually the cover will work perfectly for some time before getting stuck again. My only problem is if this happens away from a pc or a charger...
I actually had this problem. If you gently but very firmly press directly around the lens and keep activating and deactivating the camera, it should finally close.
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Nacron
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On 2008-07-05 02:15:03, meiso wrote:
Well.. I'm fed up with this phone.. I've had three of them in the last 6 months and all three broke down eventually. I've owned top of the line phones before and never have I been as disappointed as I am with this shiny little brick.
The camera is only good for one thing - shooting photos outside on a sunny day. If you want to shoot indoors, or at night, forget it. I've taken thousands of photos with this phone in all it's different modes and only about 10% of them are even acceptable by low standards for posting on the web. When I go through my iPhoto (which has 14,000 photos in it) the shots I took with my k750i are far superior in color balance, and lighting..
The interface is slow. I don't care what anybody says when you use the Media player it's atrocious how slow it is. Pathetic. My 1st gen iPod is soooo much faster than this phone. Try going through your photos - and it feels unbelievably sluggish.
Don't get me started about the touch sensitive buttons. If Apple can design a proximity sensor to disable their touch screen when the phone is close to your ear, why can't SE (who have been building phones for a decade or more longer) come up with something similar.
Maybe Sony will have a winner with that new 8.1 Megapixel phone.. But I'm dumping my k850i next week. I'm just glad I didn't pay a lot for this phone and recouped any costs by selling the ones that didn't work so well any more.
How can such a sophisticated intelligent company like SonyEricsson come up with such an unbelievably pathetic hunk of shit? I don't know. But getting rid of this phone and telling everyone in my network not to buy this phone is the best thing I can think of to say F*ck you to SE.
I'm glad I'm up for a hardware upgrade coz I'm gonna USE IT!
[ This Message was edited by: meiso on 2008-07-05 01:17 ]
Updated to R1FA last night and noticed that the touch sensitive keys no longer activate with my face. I think they're using the light sensor to determine weather or not it's on your face. |
vax-vanson
Joined: Jan 26, 2008
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Das fantastische!
Do you mean the touch keys no longer active in a dark room? |
Duran
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On 2008-07-07 16:06:02, vax-vanson wrote:
Das fantastische!
Do you mean the touch keys no longer active in a dark room?
Mine still work when i totally cover the sensor with my hand... |
sniper_supra
Joined: Feb 16, 2008
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I think they just lowered the sensitivity of the touchscreen, coz too much current that activates the touchscreen ruins it ( the case of misbehaving softkeys on R1DA). And too much sensitivity also consumes a lot of power which makes the phone slower.
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jorgerolonpy
Joined: May 31, 2007
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I flash my k850 with cruiser box, now i wanna update with SEUS, the sonyericsson direct link will be appear in my multimedia screen after update? now after cruiser the direct links no appears., thanks
Goodbye W810, goodbye k790, k850 en estreno!! |
larry 68
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I started having problems with the lens cover not opening after my last o2 update, only had RIF since Saturday so hoping that it's been resolved.
Not had any reboots so far but had a very strange thing happen this morning when I turned on the phone , just as the o2 screen was loading the screen froze and the phone wouldnt do anything and I had to switch it off and on again which took a few seconds and several attempts, was a panic moment, thought it was about to BROD.
As far as the soft keys go, mine still activates when my face touches them. |
darrengf
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On 2008-07-07 20:31:32, larry 68 wrote:
I started having problems with the lens cover not opening after my last o2 update, only had RIF since Saturday so hoping that it's been resolved.
Not had any reboots so far but had a very strange thing happen this morning when I turned on the phone , just as the o2 screen was loading the screen froze and the phone wouldnt do anything and I had to switch it off and on again which took a few seconds and several attempts, was a panic moment, thought it was about to BROD.
As far as the soft keys go, mine still activates when my face touches them.
The camera lens not opening isnt anything to do with the the firmware but the lens it self, It can become stuck.
Regarding the freezing. Ive had it on all my phones.
what i normaly do is that as i eneter my sim card, i wait a further 2 seconds to allow the system to catch up with it self and it then works fine.
If i rush the phone, it can stutter on start up and causes the phone to freeze.
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I know alot of people on here mention the brod, Im also one of them in my first 2 k850is i had.
I was orginal told it was a java script error on boot up.
The phone is trying to boot up the screen and the script on the memory is corrupt or damaged. (Just lie your home computer software can become)
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rdnymllnsktr
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Did anyone see my question?
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Duran
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On 2008-07-07 00:27:05, DCUK7 wrote:
Can I suggest a moderator split this thread from the first post of a user who wants to keep this up to date?
I'd be willing to keep everything up to date.
Problem is i've never seen a mod around  |
vortigern
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On 2008-07-07 21:03:55, rdnymllnsktr wrote:
Did anyone see my question?
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vegetaleb
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Me too I had a heart attack when my K850 took the aspect of a BROD for 4sec but it was just an ''ordinary'' reboot!
You can say what you want but he old good 037 was and is still the MOST STABLE FW
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Supa_Fly
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R1F ... has anyone gotten RSS Feeds to work.??
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