Yay, SPM is finally over!
Pardon the slowness of updating my blog, it isn't prioirty.
Around this of the year, back to december. lol, once again, I have high plans for this blog, but you know me....
So, to start of, lets do a tutorial on something...
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How to Update Sony Ericsson Spiro (W100i)
Yes, I got this phone.
White one!
Really cheap, as descrive previously in my postiee.
So, it started to act up within a week , as shown by the main blogs, in fact still does.
(eg, OUT OF MEMORY, random restarts,hangs)
So after I bought it, I realised you don't get a microUSB cable with the phone, buy it outside for RM12, its realatively cheap, sides, the hp can't do sync with the computer, no backup of messages and contacts, and copies songs videos thru the cable at a VERY SLOW SPEED. so... better off taking your MicroSD card out and slotting it. Any third party USB cable would work (principle, if the hole fits, it works)
Next, go get this software:
http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/support/mobilephones/downloads/subject/updateservice/1.774197?cc=gb&lc=en
yeah, around 39MB download...
Double click to install, next next, accept agreement without reading (lol, you should tho I do not, who does anyway, we are all bounded by laws) done, then,
Run the software, choose your phone.
Follow on-screen instructions.
NOTE: IT IS A VERY GOOD IDEA TO BACKUP YOUR PHONE, everythign on the phone will be wiped out. Exceptions to the memory card though. (speaking of which, kudos to Sony Ericsson for switching to MicroSD cards on this phone, instead of dumb proprietary M2 cards)
There will come to a point that tells you to plug your phone in using the MicroUSB cable and pressing the C key (delete key) on the Spiro... do just that.
I got into an obstacle here, the phone did not want to make love (opps, i mean connection) with the computer, so no fear, when you fail, try try and try again, just redo as it says. Be patient tho, if after 30 secounds still nada, retry....
Finally you should get something like this:
Then it will simply update your phone.
And you are DONE!
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Nonetheless, this update still GIVES you problems, like OUT OF MEMORY error. Still, the Update does iron out a few problems...
Yishes, its just this phone...
Its not as if my microSD card is full or even phone memory...
Someways I've found to remedy this problem, temporary fix...
(MENU>SETTINGS>push right twice>under Display)
1. Set the wallpaper to none
2. Set the theme to Flow.thm (Samba seems problematic, and other themes do not really work with the Spiro)
3. Screensaver Set it to none.
4. Also, deleting older SMSes seem to help, yes, sentimental they might be, but what are we to do..
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You cannot really play Java Games on this phone. and when the phone is too stressed or you ask too much of it (which isn't much) it will breakdown by restarting itself lol.
Hope this helps the pained users like me.
If anyone has a better fix cbox me!
Till then, hopefully many more posts to come, tata!
PS: those who are thinking of this phone, do not buy it, get Sony ericsson cedar instead. or stay away form sony ericsson! (ya hear that, maybe you wanna fix my phone now?)
