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 firmware revision for the Sony Ericsson P1i, I would expect this to occur across other regional firmware releases too.

The only way to cease the incoming error report flood is to:

1. Open Messaging
2. Open Messages > Draft (scroll to the left of the Messages menu item 2 times)
3. Delete the message or assign it as a Draft

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 themes. Themes for your phone can be easily be downloaded from a variety of free and sponsored sites. Just look at these examples.

Once you have downloaded a theme it needs to be transferred from your computer to the phone and opened. We’ll cover transferring files now.

Transferring theme files to your Sony Ericsson P1i

Files in general - be that images, document or theme files - can be transferred to your mobile in the following ways:

• using Sony Ericsson PC Suite for Smartphones and a wired USB connection to your computer
• via an Infrared connection to your notebook
• via a Bluetooth connection to your notebook
• over a Wireless LAN (801.11b) connection

Create a directory on your phone memory or optional memory card called “Themes” to hold your theme files, I recommend storage on your memory card as these files are infrequently accessed.

Using one of the above methods transfer your theme file into your new “Themes” file.

Open theme file on your Sony Ericsson P1i

The Sony Ericsson P1i stores themes within restricted memory, this is to ensure system data is safe. Using the theme manager on your phone you can add and remove themes with ease.

1. Open Main menu
2. Open Tools
3. Open File manager
4. Navigate to the “Themes” director you created earlier
5. Open your theme file
6. If your theme includes sounds you will be presented with the option to preview them
7. Press Apply

Your new theme has now been applied to your Sony Ericsson P1i.

I will need to revisit this article shortly as I want to add step-by-step instructions on how to transfer the theme file to your phone via each of the methods listed.