Sony Ericsson Cedar - user opinions and reviews
- Rohit
- 2Zj
hi guys i purchased this phone CEDAR 9 days back and in this 9 days i have charge this phone 4-5 times it never shows 100 percent battery and i have updated it 2 times and 1 time reset all but then also i charge it 4 hrs and i shows 100 percent battery BUT after 10 minutes (without any use) it reachs 93 then after 1 hr it reachs 86 percent any one please help me.......thanks
- AnonD-3608
- vj1
bought it today! red is cool!!!!
cant wait to update it! surely tomorrow!
question guyssss.. can i update it over the air?
- polaroid
- L90
Cedar is a great value for it's price. A photo and video camera, an MP3 and video player, extendable with the cheapest memory modules, uses bluetooth, has email client, web browser, is easy to use as HSDPA modem for PC-s, and, of course, it's a speakerphone. A load of great functions, and many annoying details for demanding users. It seems like SonyEricsson spent sound resources on making this device not-too-comfortable but still OK. First thing is the standby information, more precisely the lack of it. This is not only SE-disease. You look at your internet-phone which is stuffed by tons of up-to-date information: time, calls, messages, communities, push email, location, etc. and what information you get visually: nothing. You have to touch the phone, press a button to make the screen light up amd get the first speckle of information. A Tamagochi: if you want to keep informed, you have to pet it. An e-ink or a b&w lcd gives the visual information permanently with no power effort, no power expenditure. A "green heart" solution is worth to consider iving information even when you don't turn on the backlit colour tv. Former SE-s (like K600) had translucent LCD which gave some visual information even in standby, this screen is totally black. At least a flashing led should indicate if you have incoming message waiting. The other is the shortcuts. Many useful functions, but you have to click through menus. The selection keys (soft keys) are not customizable. Upper right key is "Web" in standby, "Back" in menus. If you press "Back" one more times than needed, you launch the internet browser and potentially spend your money. How nice and easy would have it been to make the basic function of the soft keys selectable. Also, press and hold of number keys in standby would be great shortcuts to your favorite functions if SE made this selectable. In general, Cedar's user interface is made as simple as possible, they avoided many setting options. This makes it easy to use from one hand (not many options to mess up), but also losing many useful possibilities. An example to this is the online map application. This phone does not have built in GPS receiver, but theoretically you could use an external bluetooth GPS antenna. One tiny software part is missing from the maps client: use of the external GPS, which otherwise can be paired to your bluetooth phone for no use. In summary, for a fairly reasonable amount of money you get a rugged phone rich in functions, bittered by irritating inconveniences which are hard to believe not intentional. If you can get used to, if you are ready to accept it "as is", Cedar may be a great choice for speaking, messaging, listening to radio and mp3, reaching your important emails and browsing internet on a qvga screen. The built-in Facebook and Twitter widgets don't work on my phone, the time widget is useless, but all works fine with the Opera browser, which you can download on the Cedar handset. Don't expect sync to Google calendar.
- Buddha
- vwY
i brought new handset. i dowenloded theams. But it not applaying to my handset. kindly guid me abt that.
- ashish
- KFP
UMAIR, 11 May 2011Should i go for Nokia C2-01 or Sony Ericsson Cedar??? Totally confused... PLzzz suggest... Tod... morecedar is more better than nokia c2-01
- Anonymous
- U@2
Battery back up poor. Phone heats up when connected with internet via pc. Or at the time of downloading. Overall the phone is good to use. It supports 3d games wich is awesm
- nik
- 7tD
i sujjest to u that is sony ericsson cedar is better then nokia c2-o1 phone.
- AnonD-7895
- 8YC
AnonD-2965, 12 May 2011Have you updated your phone?
Usually the battery's full capacity shows up after 5th charge.... morei didn,t update my phone yet. and normal 2g calls i have taken and received for 1 or 2mins maximum of 5 minutes only.
can i use the phone while charging? and how to update my phone? and there is no any full charged message like other phones.
- Anonymous
- 8YC
AnonD-2965, 12 May 2011Have you updated your phone?
Usually the battery's full capacity shows up after 5th charge.... morei didn,t update my phone yet. and normal 2g calls i have taken and received for 1 or 2mins maximum of 5 minutes only.
can i use the phone while charging? and how to update my phone?
- AnonD-2965
- up1
AnonD-2965, 12 May 2011Have you updated your phone? Usually the battery's full capacity shows up after 5th charge.... moreWhat was the brightness level too.?
- AnonD-2965
- up1
AnonD-7895, 12 May 2011hi wreck
at very 1st time i plugged in the phone to charge for around 3.5-4hrs hrs(within 3... moreHave you updated your phone?
Usually the battery's full capacity shows up after 5th charge.
How much time was spend on calls? 2g or 3g? Not number of them time.
And once the phone reaches 100% charging, it stops itself. The energy saver charger halts until the charge is below 95%.
So till then the battery left keep going down 99,98,97.... Until it starts charging again at 95%.
Also if possible after fully-charging try using the phone without charging until the battery reaches 5% left.
Keep note of the time you last charged and unplugged the phone.
Keep in mind total cal time,
Music time , net time, video time,n.o of mesages incoming and outgoing...
even Under heavy use it should stand atleast 40 hours, if the battery is ok.
Also you dont need to worry about 1%...
the calculation is accurate.Every 1% takes the exact time other did. And not like nokia s40 devices, once it reaches 40% left dead in 1.5 hrs.
- AnonD-7895
- PWD
hi wreck
at very 1st time i plugged in the phone to charge for around 3.5-4hrs hrs(within 3 hrs it shown charging status=charging 100%) same result for another 1 hr then i thought now it fully charged so i plugged it out. after 1 hr phone started to discharge(charging status=90%) so i plugged in again for charging. after 2 hrs charging status was 99% it never went for 100% then i plugged it again stared to use. on 2nd day after very normal use (i think its around 6-8 calls only, no music ,no entertainment)charge status=75% for each call charging level going down by 2%. without any usage charge level going down by 1% per hr. so i started to charge on 2nd day with charging level 70% after 4 hrs charging level was 99% (again it never goes for 100% while charging status 99% suddenly goes down for 96% within 1hr why happening like this)so i plugged it out phone(96%)but today i started with charging status=96% and i listened 25 songs, calls 25(imcoming,outgoing)these everything happened within 20hrs gap after these 20hr gap rcharging level is jst 20% balance i think this is worst battery life i don't knw what to do so pls pls pls help me anyone about this probe?
- Anonymous
- U}}
UMAIR, 11 May 2011Should i go for Nokia C2-01 or Sony Ericsson Cedar??? Totally confused... PLzzz suggest... Tod... moreDont think twice.
Cedar much better.
- upendra
- uvu
please tell me how to synchronize my contacts with cedar which are in my MS-outlook. both pc suite & pc companion are not able to do this . please help me..
- AnonD-8293
- 7qB
AnonD-2558, 26 Feb 20111.)how come everytime i receive new messages, it only appears as a NEW EVENTS? is there an opt... moreTo add new events like older
SE phones change the menu.ml file.u can also add code memo dude
- AnonD-2965
- s81
AnonD-8051, 12 May 2011Dear wreck,
can u tell me where i can update my cedar,in SE web site?Go to sonyericsson website> cedar's page> support> download sony ericsson update service.
Install it, run it.
Follow the steps shown by the software.
- AnonD-2965
- s81
ash, 10 May 2011mine antivirus free trial period jst got xpired & i don't want 2 buy it so if any1 do hav ... moreThis is a java phone .it doesnt got an os. The unknown file format can only be send or deleted, it doesnt work on its own.
So no need of an antivirus.
Antivirus is needed for those phones with OS like bada(samsung), symbian....
- AnonD-7983
- YTK
ash, 10 May 2011mine antivirus free trial period jst got xpired & i don't want 2 buy it so if any1 do hav ... moretell me which antivirus do u use?maybe i can fix it for u.i have a collection of about 25 antiviruses (all activated and cracked already) which are made for SE phones....i am also using one of them
- AnonD-7983
- YTK
Anonymous, 10 May 2011i hav CA-101D nokia data cable can i use it for cedar?cedar uses microusb v2.0 connector which is a universal port connector.these cables are easily available at a mobile shop near you.i got a nokia usb cable for cedar for just Rs.100 ,working perfectly
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