My Sony Ericsson k800i started playing up recently. A known bug with the Firmware, when trying to use applications it would simply say ‘Unavailable’ or something like that. Anyway, rather than send it to Orange for repair I thought I’d investigate fixing it myself. And well, I did. I was so pleased I thought it worth sharing with fellow owners of the phone:
1. Go to www.wotanserver.com and buy some account credit
2. Download the Wotan Client
3. Follow these instructions, they’re fairly simple
Once you’ve done that, your phone will have the original firmware it was meant to have. It’ll even have a software update option to upgrade the firmware directly from Sony Ericsson, as and when updates become available.
Oh, and download MyPhone Explorer from the MyPhone site. I can honestly say it is the most awesome software I’ve had for a phone. It lets you back up your text messages! (for me, this is a novelty having never investigated before).
Thoroughly recommended anyway.
Also recommended are the following applications: Google Mail Mobile (go to: www.gmail.com/app on your phone), Google Maps Mobile (go to www.google.com/gmm on your phone) and Opera Mini (go to: operamini.com on your phone).
Comments
wotanserver is SHIT software. it took my money and is now giving STRANGE exception errors!!! this is a rip-off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Dan
Posted 1 month and 6 days after the item.
Sorry to hear you’ve had problems. It all went fine for me.
Tom Kiss
Posted 1 month and 6 days after the item.
well as you have a w800i you might like this site http://www.myw800.lasyk.net/ lots of themes and other intresting stuff, all for free.
Finaly got my phone to play teh r2d2 sound when i get a text i know its not orignal but it keeps me happy :P
albear
Posted 2 months and 27 days after the item.
Dude! How goes it?
Freeking hell!
I clicked on an ancient HTML link in an old Utopia design and ended up here….
Great blog
How are you buddy?
Looking older and wiser. Nice zombie pic too!
Cheers
GB
Glenn
Posted 3 months and 21 days after the item.
All went well right up until the last possible moment, then…...phone hung on “PLEASE WAIT” and has been like it for two hours or so now. Any ideas?
John Kell
Posted 7 months and 8 days after the item.
Ouch. Doesn’t sound very good. Maybe try starting it again from scratch…? Otherwise contact Wotan?
Sorry can’t offer much more help than that…
Tom Kiss
Posted 7 months and 8 days after the item.
als wat julle praat is net n klomp kak.dit help mens nes poes.julle almal is n klomp mal poeste.naaiers
jonez
Posted 8 months and 29 days after the item.
Hey
Thanks for your firmware, I’ve flashed it and it’s working a treat. I’ve also downloaded Myphpne Explorer, but when I try to syncronise with the phone it tells me I’ve got an OBEX error…..? Can you help?
Pedro
Posted 10 months and 1 day after the item.
my k800i games and my application file dont work ive reseted the phone but it still does not work what should i do
ali
Posted 10 months and 22 days after the item.
I hope some body helping me , to send me upgarde package of K800I to deal with arabic as writing , so the read is responsable, but writing is not
please , help me
Qasim
Posted 10 months and 25 days after the item.
what the different between k800i orange with not orange
please , refer me
Qasim
Posted 10 months and 25 days after the item.
Wotanserver is a total RIP OFF!!!!! They say you only need ONE credit to upgrade but if phone doesn’t upgrade the first time because of battery issues or whatever .. and you have to have a second attempt it allows you then stop the upgrade midway. You go to the server and buy another credit .. but it just swallows that credit and gives you nothing in return ... then they don’t respond to emails. I’ve been defrauded!!!!
dave
Posted 11 months and 14 days after the item.
Hi,
I am having the same problem,
my apps and games folder wont open,
If you have found a solution, please e-mail me soonest,
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
thanks
YM
Posted 11 months and 14 days after the item.
You got ripped-off cuz you are feeble-minded. Why the hell are you gonna believe this guy in the first place?
Fashiznit
Posted 11 months and 19 days after the item.
YM - The solution was kind of the point of this blog entry, it solved the problem for me and so I posted it to help others out with the same issue.
It seems that some people are having problems with Wotan though so use it at your own risk.
Tom Kiss
Posted 11 months and 26 days after the item.
hey plz tell me that when i leave my mobile k800 in stand bye mode its back light keeps on glowing whch loses battery tell me how to fix this how to make it go off in stand by.. plz do mail me early as possible… i ll be very thankfull
zeeshan
Posted 1 year and 26 days after the item.
Can someone just help me find a complete solution for my sony k800i’s firmaware update… my phone is giving me so much shit and i cant do without it
blizzard
Posted 1 year 1 month and 1 day after the item.
Wotan is useless.. Does anyone know where you can get standalone software to flash the phone.
Chief
Posted 1 year 1 month and 28 days after the item.
For the K800i I recommend you just flash & debrand it yourself rather than rely on Wotan or Davinchi, Use the XS++ program instead and add the firmware and system files yourself (which you can find on a download site called 4shared.com) Its very easy to do, I’ve debranded & fixed lots of Sony Ericssons this way W550i, W810i, K800i are just a few. AND ITS FREE!.
Marcel
Posted 1 year 1 month and 29 days after the item.
I can also recommend a cool app for Sony’s. It’s called i-Citizen and it came out recently. It’s the world’s first 3D world and the k800 works like a charm on it. Its fun to play and you can meet people and chat to them as you might have guessed. They have promotions where they give away PS3’s and Xboxes to people in a place called i-Bid in the app. Its beta release was announced in March 2008 and anyone can give it a try. You can get it from your mobiles browser or your pc by going to http://wap.icitizencommunity.com.
calllie
Posted 1 year 2 months and 7 days after the item.
Can the resoultion of video recording on S.E K800i be increased or updated somehow?
Andre
Posted 1 year 3 months and 23 days after the item.
i can’t enter the apss and games folders, what can i do? i foun some strange programs like DC++ , do they work?
andreidmann
Posted 1 year 4 months and 5 days after the item.
hi.
every time i turn on my k800i an error message shows on display something about the menu.ml file sayin that it may rendder the menu unusable,also i cant acces my aplications and games"operation failed” is displayed.please help me .....
dime_richie
Posted 1 year 4 months and 7 days after the item.
The Wotanserver stuff revived my completely scrambled K800i without any problems - thanks for the info. Sorry other people had problems.
Intermax
Posted 1 year 8 months and 9 days after the item.