Debrand Sony Ericsson c905a

I figured I’d make a list of a few things I have noticed since debranding my C905a.

FIRST and foremost, WiFi is back and VERY nice!! “Menu” > “Setting” > “Connectivity” > “Wi-Fi” brings you to the Wifi menu where you can do a usual search for local hosts or go to “Options” and choose from “Search by name”, Connection status”, “Manual setup”, “My MAC address” and “power save”…. very cool stuff!! I mention this first because it goes hand in hand witht the Email which you can set up for PoP or IMAP… makes sending full size images and video much better….

Second (at least for me) is the restoration of RSS feeds… in the “media” section “Web Feeds” gets its own place and you can not only pick the “usual” sort of updates (Every hour, twice a day, Once a day or Once a week) but you can also select specific times for it to update…. VERY NICE feature for those of you who (like me) enjoy following texts from last night or FmyLife…. LOL

Next…. FREE GAMES…. NOT TRIALS…. FULL GAMES. Chess, Need for Speed and Tennis (multi player support) are included.

Also, the “Smile” shutter is back…. I personally don’t care about this but I’ve been reading that lots of others do… so figured I’d mention it.

Another not so biggie but kind of nice is FULL LENGTH MP3 support for ring tones….

Okay.. now on to the “honorable mention” stuff :smileyhappy:

1- Center key brings you to the “Menu” now and not “MEdiaNet”…

2- When viewing an image, if you push “up” on the control pad you have four options now “As message”, “As email” (really nice), “To Website” (which Picasa is included), and via BlueTooth.

3- You can actually turn off “3G”…. provides slightly improved battery life.

4- Google maps is included (although sadly without support of latitude) and the GPS works with the installed app (v2.3.1)

Okay… now for a few things I don’t like…. some are a result of debranding, some not (in no particular order).

Ringtones and alarms are not very loud

No “silent” option for shutter sound (not even when phone is placed in silent mode.

No ability to force the flash to fire as a “fill flash” with every picture(only “auto”, “red eye” and “none”:smileywink:… this would be nice for outdoor daylight portraits or macro.

Source: AT&T Forum

http://forums.wireless.att.com/cng/board/message?board.id=sonyericsson&thread.id=43014&view=by_date_ascending&page=1

For debranding firmware go here:

http://www.wotanserver.com/en/supported-phones/sonyericsson-c905-debranding/