V800 upgrade problem - please help

Hi Neil

i have had a similar problem with my P910i

I had tried off and on for weeks now and suddenly today it worked.

My instructions are different to yours most probably due to model, but
I would do everything as instructed and then came the BIG wait, with NO
indication of any progress.

I tried leaving it for over an hour, i tried pushing more buttons maybe
I had missed some? Nothing worked!!! As I could not tell if anything
was going on in the background I was at a loss.

I have broadband so it could not be that either.

Today i did everything I had done before - it worked first time!! Until
it came time to transfer what had been downloaded onto my PC to the
phone, you have to remain connected whilst the transfer from PC 2 Phone
is done.

I once again was not able to tell if anything was going on, this time I
decided I would not give up, I had gotten this far!!

After "back paging" a few times it eventually got going - BUT 3 times I
landed up with "uh oh" Sony Ericsson make great phones .... etc. etc.
which under any other circumstances would have been funny. i did not
find it slightly amusing to say the least.

I pushed on - eventually I had some indication of life when it notified
me that it was about to begin transfer from PC 2 Phone - thank G_d for
that as one of my worries was that it had written a certain amount to
phone before stopping.

This was not the end though - after more of the same the transfer was
complete and I was instructed to remove my phone and continue.

I now question if it was a good move or not - the phone seems sluggish
now, even though a number of my apps are "missing" the funny thing is
that most of the missing "apps" are of the SMan / BlueEyes / Photo
Editor variety - these are all apps that allow you to peer that bit
deeper into the system.

No well behaved, compliant app that just sat on the surface and did a
complimentary job to the phone has gone AWOL - is SE doing what M$ has
done with some of their "updates" used them to "kill-off" apps they
were not too keen on??

No matter I have the originals and many back-ups of my phone.

Bottom-Line - if you are sure this is a good thing to do then push on -
do not assume "something" is going on - if you have waited what you
consider to be a decent time with nothing going on - it ain't - so
begin again, after perhaps allowing another minute or two ;-)



Neil Hindry wrote:
> I wonder if you can help me.
>
> I am trying to update the software (firmware) in my Sony Ericsson V800
> mobile phone.
>
> I follow the instructions and everything goes okay until I get to the final
> stage (I think its the final stage).
> The stage I get stuck at is where the new software is being sent to the
> phone.
>