Tips & Tricks

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Post here your tips and tricks for all the SE phones that you may know. I'll try to put all the tricks in this first post so everyone can read it. You can also request info on your phone if not listed here already... i'll try to sort it out for you.

Rules for posting:

- Mention the Model Name (e.g. T610, K700i etc.)
- Mention how to do the trick
- Make sure the trick do works, if not mention on which firmware version it does

I'll update this post as soon as possible /required.





Sony Ericsson F500i
Service Menu - >*<<*<*
Shows you hidden items

Silent Mode - "#" or "C"
Puts your phone quickly in Silent Mode or disables it

Camera Toggles
When using camera use press:
"1" For switching Resolution
"2" Turning NightMode on/off
"3" For Special Effects
"4" Self-Timer
"Joystick Up or Down" Zoom
"Volume Up/Down" Brightness adjust

Phone Status - Volume Key In Stand-By
This will show your phone status

Quick Menu - "C" in Stand-By
This will show-up a small menu with the options: Silent, Profiles and IR



Sony Ericsson K700i
Service Menu - >*<<*<*
Shows you hidden items

Firmware Info - >*<<*<*11
Shows which firmware you are using

Silent Mode - "#" or "C"
Puts your phone quickly in Silent Mode or disables it

Still Camera shortcuts
1 - cycles through picture sizes
2 - toggles night mode on or off
3 - cycles through the effects
4 - toggles self-timer on or off
5 - turns the light on or off

Video camera shortcuts
1 - toggles video size
2 - toggles night mode on or off
3 - cycles through the effects
5 - turns the light on or off

Make any sound your ringtone
In entertainment choose the "Record sound" record your sound and press save when done you can press more, rename and give it a useful name then go to settings, profile, edit profile and change the ringtone to the sound just recorded.

Note: to listen to your sound in the media player you need to move the file to the sounds folder. After you have renamed your sound click on Recorded sounds, then more then manage files, move to folder and then sounds.



Sony Ericsson P800
Service Menu - Jog dial Up -> * -> Down-> Down-> * -> Down-> *

Silent Mode(when flip attached) - Press C button on Flip

Menu Key(when flip attached) - Keylock on/off, Silent on/off, Calls, status, Applications

Speaker Phone(when flip attached) -
When on call Open Flip, close to off Speaker Phone

Show IMEI - *#06#

Volume Adjust - When On call, Move the Jog Dial for Volume Increase
Move jog dial down for Volume Decrease

Busy Tone
When receiving a Call to send a busy tone to the caller press the Jog dial Outwards.

MMS navigating
While going through a MMS, turn up & down to go within the pages.



Sony Ericsson T300
Silent Mode - When On Standby mode Keep on pressing the "C" button for around 2-3 seconds. Then a menu will pop up with the title Standby Menu. Now you could press 1 to turn on silent press 2 to lock keypad.

Volume Adjust - During a call is in progress you could Move the Volume slider Up & Down to adjust the volume.

Service Menu - >*<<*<*

Check IMEI - *#06#

Call List - When on Standby press the Yes key, this will pop up the Call list.

Zoom (+)(-) - While taking pictures using the MCA 25 Communicam, You may move the joystick on the the Right to Zoom in, Move the joystick to Zoom out.

Status Information - Standby mode, move the Volume slider to view the Status Information.

Activate Infrared
Press the Menu key and Press 3. This'll activate Infrared.

Access Mobile Internet Sites
Press the Menu Key and Press 4. This'll take you to your homepage.



Sony Ericsson T610

Call Voice Mail
Press 1

Receiving Calls
Press the Yes key or an alternative Joystick.

Word Editing
When Typing SMS to edit a word press the More Key. This is valid when using predictive text input.

Key Pad Lock
Press the More key then the * key to lock & unlock the keypad.

Phone Status
Press the Volume key to findout about the status of your phone.

Activate Infrared & Bluetooth
Press the More key and scroll down and press the On Infrared or On Bluetooth to make the ideal actions.

Silent Mode
Press the More Key and scroll to On the Silent Mode.

Post Note
When in Standby press More Key scroll down to New Note in the menu and then select it.

Delay Timer
When in Camera press the More key & select the Self-Timer.


Camera trick for T610/T630/Z600
This trick will works on T610 with R3c firmware and above, T630 and Z600

Because with the recent firmware, SE decide to compress the camera pics to reduce its memory size. So the pics taken will looks blury and pixel !! You can transfer the pic back to PC then back to phone again and it will looks much better and of course occupy more memory space !!

Now, you don't even have to transfer the camera pics back to PC then phone to increase its quality, you can simply do this:

After you press the capture button to take the pic, then continue pressing in the joystick on T610/T630 or the middle button on the Z600, because we are trying to save the pic before the phone compress the pic to reduce its quality, you will know if you success or not by simply seeing the screen around turns black after save ! Then you know its done. You can now go to my pictures and check the pic u just taken, its clear and not blurry and check the memory space, its also small.

But after you taken more than 1 pics, the phone will automatically increase the memory size of the previous pics u taken, but the latest one will still occupy a small memory size while the quality is good.

The pics u just taken, its not blurry and pixel any more, also no need to transfer back to PC then phone again to increase the quality.



Call List Trick
Go to any number in the call list and press the info key, then select edit before call, the no. appears, clear the no. with "c" button and then press yes. Then phone will dial to "unknow" then hang up. This will change two features of the call list:

1- The first no. will always be the last no. no matter what type, it could be last dialled/recived or missed, unlike the original last dialled.

2- When you dial a number for a second, third, fourth,...etc, time it will not record over the previous time. For example if i dial "Adam" at 9:00 pm and then i dial him again at 9:30pm i will have two entries in the call list one at 9:00pm and another at 9:30pm.

To return to the original call list mode:
goto call info>options>clear call list>this should return it
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