Xperia Companion – Sony’s new PC software to manage your Xperia device. Xperia mini and Xperia mini pro (44) Xperia miro. XPERIA and X10. Hey, if I Brock the u20i can I put it into the pc companion and use the repair option to put back to stock firmware? Sent from my GT-I9000 running remICS.

Battery life was great – for a modern smartphone. During a review weekend of utterly hammering the poor Xperia X10 Mini with app installs, GPS tests, music playback, photo and video recording and more, we managed to get two days of rather full-on use out of one charge. If you're careful with it, you'll even be able to risk leaving the house without a charger or first checking your battery status. Something of a rarity with today's power-hungry smartphones. There's one nod to battery life provided by Sony Ericsson, in the shape of a widget that enables users to switch data traffic on and off.

This is actually pitched as a way to reduce accidental roaming fees when away from your usual network, but it'll also help stop the X10 Mini hoovering up battery to confirm that you haven't got any new emails. Connectivity Rather smartly, Sony Ericsson's installed its PC Companion desktop software on the phone itself, so the first time you hook it up to your computer you'll be prompted to install the tools. Once installed, you're able to then install yet more SE software, like its Media Go tool, a Support Zone helper and Sony Ericsson Sync – the company's own way of ensuring your phone numbers are all backed up in case you drop your phone down a drain while out on a drunken escapade. Or, in the case of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini, swallow it. Media Go is refreshingly simple for a supplied app – it's little more than a fancy Windows Explorer screen, letting you select PC folders of your music and dump them onto phone, or organise your mobile playlists and subscribe to podcast feeds. Fortunately, you don't have to use it at all – the X10 Mini will pop up as an external drive when connected to a PC, for your easy dumping of media. We haven't returned to the year 1998 after all.

Of course, Google still pervades the experience beneath the X10 Mini's heavily skinned exterior, so if you're not bothered about using Sony Ericsson's Sync features you can stick in your Gmail details and let Google's servers back up and organise your phone data. Obviously the phone comes with 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi which connects quickly and painlessly, plus A-GPS for all your location-aware entertainment.

Android 2.1 also brings a big increase in Bluetooth functionality to the X10 Mini, with photo, video and contacts now transferable via Bluetooth. The Android sharing menu now includes a Bluetooth option, giving us yet another way to share data from our phones with PCs or other people's mobiles. You're also able to send and receive web links and MP3s from the updated X10 Mini via Bluetooth. Pinnacle Studio 11.1 Patch more. Big improvement.

Click to expand.Thanks for the tip and link, I'll look into that update service. Unfortunately, my friends and myself aren't gamers or hardcore pc enthusiasts so their comps/laptops are around the specs, fine for web/mail and chat. A relative has a dual core and suffice ram for pc companion, but only dodgy 256k dsl in a rural area. Would be an hour + drive and would end up having to spend a week there while it downloads. It'd be less hassle to buy a new pc. Thanks again for your help, muchly appreciated! Yeah my system is above the minimum specs for the Update Service, however it crashes my PC in exactly the same way PC Companion did.

Switched the phone off, plugged cable in whilst holding down the back key, the windows usb thing detects a flash device. SEUS continually shows the graphic to plugin the cable and hold down the button, waited around 15 mins I noticed with my system stat monitor there's no bandwidth being used as it should be checking for/downloading the update, CPU is frozen at 30%. Mio Spirit 380 Maps Free Download. Windows locks up, can't even get the task manager open, can't do anything aside drag the frozen SEUS/PCC window around and have to forcefully reboot. Gonna try on a similar spec AMD system in the living room, both systems are secure, stable and have no problems with any other software.

If I get the same result on the other PC it's definitely the first and last Sony Ericsson phone I ever buy. Same goes for other Sony products in general.