K750i joystick problems

Anyone else had trouble with the K750i joystick? Sometimes it won't
scroll up or down.. I keep pressing, then all of a sudden it works,
shooting past the item I wanted to select, then it won't work backwards.
It's driving me crazy!
The phone is on O2 contract - should they replace it? I've had it about
6 months.

spo wrote:
> Anyone else had trouble with the K750i joystick? Sometimes it won't
> scroll up or down.. I keep pressing, then all of a sudden it works,
> shooting past the item I wanted to select, then it won't work backwards.

The one on my k500i is just the same; pretty sure the contacts are full
of crap. I reckon a good cleaning would sort it, but I can't figure out
how to open the case without risking a high probability of breaking it
totally; so I live with it and use key presses instead wherever possible!
David

"spo" <two_bangs@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Anyone else had trouble with the K750i joystick? Sometimes it won't scroll
> up or down.. I keep pressing, then all of a sudden it works, shooting past
> the item I wanted to select, then it won't work backwards. It's driving me
> crazy!
> The phone is on O2 contract - should they replace it? I've had it about 6
> months.

Totally common, it's just dust. If you could open your k750i, you'd see jsut
how much dust gets in it!

http://forums.se-nse.net/index.php?s...=870&hl=ripped

.......has details of some things you could do... this guy managed to do it.
The secret is to be gentle!

spo wrote:
> Anyone else had trouble with the K750i joystick? Sometimes it won't
> scroll up or down.. I keep pressing, then all of a sudden it works,
> shooting past the item I wanted to select, then it won't work backwards.
> It's driving me crazy!
> The phone is on O2 contract - should they replace it? I've had it about
> 6 months.

I had two brand new ones that had a similar problem. Gonna try a third
tomorrow, getting it from a shop so will check it first.

two_bangs@yahoo.co.uk declared for all the world to hear...
> Anyone else had trouble with the K750i joystick? Sometimes it won't
> scroll up or down.. I keep pressing, then all of a sudden it works,
> shooting past the item I wanted to select, then it won't work backwards.
> It's driving me crazy!
> The phone is on O2 contract - should they replace it? I've had it about
> 6 months.

Run the homeupdate service to upgrade your firmware.

www.sonyericssonmobile.com then support.
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Regards
Jon

"Jon" <spam@jonparker.plus.com> wrote in message
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> two_bangs@yahoo.co.uk declared for all the world to hear...
>> Anyone else had trouble with the K750i joystick? Sometimes it won't
>> scroll up or down.. I keep pressing, then all of a sudden it works,
>> shooting past the item I wanted to select, then it won't work backwards.
>> It's driving me crazy!
>> The phone is on O2 contract - should they replace it? I've had it about
>> 6 months.
>
> Run the homeupdate service to upgrade your firmware.
>
> www.sonyericssonmobile.com then support.


If anything, that'll make things worse. Most phones update to r1n035 now,
the old r1L firmware only had 4 positions for the joystick; the new firmware
has 8 (basically includes diagonal directions), so that's why folk are
finding things funny. Plus, the dust problem.