Happy Mothers' Day!

To all moms out there, Happy Mothers' Day!

To my one and only Ina... despite our slips and mistakes, the great deeds you did and still doing for us, your children, are simply immeasureable. Naming a few wouldn't fit in all the pages of the entire world wide web.

I wish that the Almighty God give you good health, so that you could continue guiding us, including your grandchildren.

God bless!

RANT: Sony Ericsson P990i

RANT ON!

I contacted Sony Ericsson because I am receiving error which says:

The operation you have selected requires more storage space than is available. Free some space, for example by deleting files, and try again

That is when downloading emails with large attachments (emails that are larger in size than the internal memory's free space). And so I was given #71213775 as the case number. After several days, I got the following reply:

Dear Mr. [customer],

Thank you for contacting Sony Ericsson on the World Wide Web.

Answer:
Unfortunately, it is not possible to save messages on memory stick.

Best regards,

Sony Ericsson Call Center Philippines

If we can be of further assistance, please email to us at questions.ph@support.sonyericsson.com
For latest news and further product information, kindly visit our website at www.sonyericsson.com or text SE HELP to 2960 (P2.50 per text)

OK! I've got a response from SE that it's impossible for P990i to store emails in Memory Stick. And so, I cannot use this phone to download emails with large attachments as it would choke the phones internal memory. Unless of course I would buy a third party email client for UIQ3 Platform, which has the capability to use the Memory Stick as its storage.

So this P990i - a smartphone, business phone, cannot store my business related emails all the time.

I wonder if Sony Ericsson's new smartphone, the P1/P1 has this capability. But if it isn't capable, it wouldn't be capable of downloading larger emails as well. I could be wrong though...

My suggestion is research a lot, before buying any product. Don't be afraid, ask the salesrep questions you have in mind. Search the net...

RANT OFF!

My Sony Ericsson P990i Debranding Adventure

This happened more or less three weeks ago...

I bought this "Smart and Powerful" phone, the Sony Ericsson P990i and was excited to update to R6D23 - the latest available firmware for this phone. That is because according to what I've read, aside from R6D23 fixes most of the known bugs discovered in the previous versions of firmware, R6D23 makes P990i more responsive. But to my disappointment, I found out that what I've got was using 162008/69 (Taiwan Generic) version R5A02, which is not included in the list of CDAs that could be upgraded to R6D23 (so far).

Downloaded Sony Ericsson Update Service (or SEUS), installed and ran, hoping that I would get the R6D23. After like 30 minutes, when SEUS is finished and after all the things you have to do after a firmware update, I finally was able to check the current firmware loaded - R6A01!

Did some research. Found out that this CDA thing could be changed. But needs to buy credits from kulankendi.com! No free? Greenhills?

I am stuck with R6A01?

What now? Google! Fired up google and it brought me to one of the topics at esato.com forum. Read, read, read, read... and read. The trick was to replace two files from a certain folder. The files to be replaced are somehow confusing! But then again, I must do it. I have to change the CDA. In about an hour, after some combinations of - turn OFF, remove battery, replace battery, hold 'C' button, release 'C' button, etc... lucky enough to get to 162007/1 with R6D23 firmware! Whew!

By the way, SE Phones' CDA, though I haven't got the exact meaning of it, as I've read, refers to the region or country where the firmware is intended to. It's the CDA that SEUS uses to update the firmware, so the 'trick' works, and witnessed and done it myself.

Moving on...

Oh yeah, I just moved!

As you can see, I just registered today, and posted several entries! Well, those came from my old blog site (which I will not mention, o yeah... you lied).

So here I am now, in blogspot.com!

Thanks blogspot.com!