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C905 earpiece dead/failing fix |
Bialynia
Joined: Jun 13, 2008
Posts: 337
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Well I am pretty sure we can find a fix to the earpiece failing. My earpiece went this morning and I was ready to ship it off to get fixed when I read that someone here had pressed the "C" button and gotten it to work, well I can get sound in the earpiece by depressing and holding the "C" key, when I let go it disappears. So is this a hardware soldering bug or is it software related? Clearly the earpiece still works which is good news and gives rise to some optimism. So I would suggest that those that have the earpiece failure play around with the phone and see if anything can fix it. I will do a master reset and I will reflash the phone tonight to see if that may resolve the issue, I will update tomorrow. |
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sibluenose
Joined: Dec 14, 2008
Posts: 26
From: Stourbridge, England
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This sounds grim. I only got my phone on Saturday and am horrified to see how many folks are having this problem.
Surely this is more likely to be a hardware issue than a software issue but I guess with the complexity of the phone there is an outside change that reloading might work.
If it is hardware there will be a few hundred thousand being returned and that ain't good news!  (
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marty mcfly
Joined: May 20, 2007
Posts: > 500
From: England
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My poor friend at work had his replacement handsets earpiece fail yesterday! The first one got sent back for the same thing, now he's stuck where he was three weeks ago!
I did a master reset for him, but to no avail. And yeah, the trick with the 'C' button brought it back but only for a minute. This is kind of why I jumped ship, because there were so many niggles with this handset.
Here's hoping it gets fixed soon 
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se80
Joined: Nov 22, 2008
Posts: 191
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I had this fault.
No need for it. A high end phone you expect the phone part to work. I was two weeks with no C905 due to this fault. |
SilveR.
Joined: May 03, 2002
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had mine from friday, hope that wont happens to me, more than 5houres talk, so far so good, it seems design fault..
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Bialynia
Joined: Jun 13, 2008
Posts: 337
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Flashing and resetting the phone did not work. |
gtr83
Joined: Sep 27, 2008
Posts: > 500
From: Indonesia
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I think the latest firmy still doesn't have this bug covered yet. |
HiddenTreasu
Joined: Dec 07, 2007
Posts: 8
From: Germany
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I got the same f**kin problem... spent nearly 500 Euros for this (otherwise great) phone and now the earpiece went dead on me... wtf?
The thing is... where do you send it to in order to get it repaired or even a new one? I got mine on eBay and still got the receipt, but I would like to know if you could go to any Sony Ericsson service point and get it fixed or not?
Thanks in advance,
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yea g
Joined: Jul 02, 2008
Posts: > 500
From: New Zealand
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Any se service center should fix it.
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golemsmate
Joined: Nov 09, 2007
Posts: 442
From: United Kingdom
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just tried the "C" button trick and... it works!!! but it isnt comfy to hold n it fades out sometimes defo sending it back to mr sony
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Coconuts
Joined: Dec 26, 2008
Posts: 2
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Im gutted.... my earpiece went on Christmas Eve so Ive been stuck talking on loud speaker or pressing the C button which doesnt allways work!
Ive been into 02 but they said come back in the new yr so they can send it off for repair... Will this prob get fixed ??? how bloody long will it take ??
Ive been over the moon with this phone til this happened, then now have discovered all you have had probs too....
Some one pls give me some answers why?? its made me miserable...
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Toney_Ericsson
Joined: Feb 20, 2005
Posts: > 500
From: United Kingdom
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I had this too, luckly it happened within 11 days so took it straight back to CPW for an replacement so far so good.
Seems to of been a dodgy batch!
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darrenf23
Joined: Oct 22, 2007
Posts: 3
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The earpiece stopped working for me the other day. I was just trying to find out if others had experienced this problem and found this thread. But just now I remembered that I recently turned "open to answer" and "close to end call" on -- so I've turned them off, and the earpiece has started to work again. |
Homeless
Joined: Jan 26, 2008
Posts: 107
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I had this also after a month. I swapped it fortunatly for a new one so far so good. Id love to no weather its hardware of software related. And if its down too a manufacturing week. You reckon theirs anyway of finding out. |
duhprest
Joined: May 13, 2007
Posts: 37
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Are sony ericsson gonna give a public message about this? I think they should say something like, if it's true,
"We're working on the problem and it should be able to be fixed in the next update."
..Something along those lines and I think that would help a lot of people.... |
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Posted: 2008-12-16 21:42
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