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The Sony Ericsson P1i has a great Calendar feature that syncronises appointments and reminders with Outlook 2007, I use it as part of my day-to-day event management and it’s quite effective to have on me at all times.
My grief with it is the lack of a fortnightly repeat frequency, it seems more and more workplaces [...]

QR codes (known as ‘Quick Response’ barcodes) are being used extensively in Australian mobile marketing campaigns to distribute mobile content downloads, promotional messages or links to mobile micro-sites. QR codes can now be decoded using the 3.2 mega-pixel camera on the Sony Ericsson P1i with a free third-party application called i-nigma.

I’ve known about this issue for some time affecting the Sony Ericsson P1i but never published the article. Sending a SMS from a pre-paid account with insufficient credit creates a error report loop that is very difficult to escape as new error report messages flood the Inbox.
This SMS rejection flood bug affects the latest Australian [...]

Visitors have encountered problems installing custom themes on their Sony Ericsson P1i, I want to clear this up by explaining step-by-step what to do so we can move onto more exciting topics!
Download your UIQ 3.1 theme
As your Sony Ericsson P1i is built on the UIQ 3.1mobile platform is makes use of standard *.utz files for [...]

conditioner3 asked…
how can we delete unused applications installed on P1i?
It turns out the Sony Ericsson P1i does have an uninstaller for removing software/applications you no longer require in your phone memory. The Uninstall feature can be accessed from:

Open Main Menu
Open Control Panel
Open Other
Open Uninstall
Select the application you would like to uninstall from the list
Press Uninstall
Press [...]

Antu28 asked…
how to disable area selection in Sony Ericsson P1i model which comes in main screen below the Network Name?
This one’s easy!

Open Main Menu
Open Control Panel
Open Messaging
Open Area Information
Uncheck the fields Cell information and Area information
Press Done

I’m not sure why Sony Ericsson decided to place this function in Messaging on the Sony Ericsson P1i but [...]

avreen asked whether this was possible on the existing Sony Ericsson FAQ page, I had to call upon Kwok from p1iblog to help take on this challenge.
I don’t have access to a video projector so this is merely a concept, but we’re both confident this is very doable. Let me know how you get on.

Download [...]

The Sony Ericsson P1i is supported by several popular GPS navigation systems, Wayfinder, TomTom and Garmin all connect to the Sony Ericsson P1i using the available Bluetooth port. After research, Garmin Mobile XT is the best product currently on the market.
When you purchase a solution you are provided with a GPS Receiver as well as [...]

Press More from the Standby screen
Open Accept calls
Select your preferred filter

All callers
Listed callers only
Contacts
Speed dial
No one

You have now filtered incoming calls on your Sony Ericsson P1i.

Open Main menu
Open Control panel
Open Device
Open Flight mode
Remove the check from Prompt me with the Phone on or Flight mode choice when I press the On/off button
Press Save

You have now removed the Flight mode startup prompt on your Sony Ericsson P1i.