Top Freewares to Connect Sony Ericsson Phone to PC
Being a Sony Ericsson phone user, who’s currently focusing on reviewing phones and finding tip and tricks in SE phones to make the best use of phones, thought of posting the best free wares available to connect your Sony Ericsson phone to PC using Blue tooth, USB cable or Infrared port.
Unlike the general free ware software, which do not have complete options available, these are open source softwares which give you lot of options to control your phone from PC.
Here is the list of Sony Ericsson free ware for PC connectivity;
1. floAt’s Mobile Agent:
FMA is a opensource software application which allows you to connect to your mobile phone from your PC.
FMA is a powerful phone editing tool allowing users to easily manage all of the personal data stored in their phones, via a number of different connections methods. FMA allows easy management of Phonebook (both SIM and Phone memory), SMS, Profiles, and Files stored on the phone. FMA can also allow you to pickup and dial calls directly from your PC.
FMA is a SMS Manager, Mobile Phone Monitor, Remote Control Agent, Phonebook Manager, Organizer, Fun and much more. FMA supports connectivity by Blue tooth, Serial post and Infrared.
Sending and receiving SMS is pretty simple using the FMA interface. The home page shows inbox, outbox, calls, phone details (which include battery temperature, charge, software version, voltage, manufacturer, serial number and much more) and personal details.
FMA can also be used to upload files into the phone. Using FMA phone can be used as remote control to control your PC. FMA supports all Sony Ericsson phones except the P series. Although people have tested compatibility of FMA with other manufacturers like Nokia, full features are only available for SE phones. The user manual can be downloaded from here. Check out the FAQ section for more details.
2. MyPhoneExplorer:
MyPhoneExplorer is a free and useful program with the help of which you can control Sony-Ericsson mobile phone from your PC. Connect your phone via cable, bluetooth or infrared and you’ll be surprised how easy and efficient you can manage your phone with this compact software.
Here are some key features of this software are;
· Adressbook - with direct sync to Outlook, Outlook Express and Thunderbird
· Organizer with calendarview and direct sync to Outlook, Sunbird, Thunderbird, Rainlendar and net shared calendars (WebDAV, FTP)
· SMS - archive, export, import, excessive messages.
· Filebrowser with cachesystem to minimize datatransfer.
· Set phoneclock.
· Handle your calls via PC
The interface of MyPhoneExplorer is neat and simple and easy to use.
MyPhoneExplorer is optimised for Sony Ericsson phones. The software is available in the following languages: German, English, Slowakisch, Czech, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Italian, Netherlands.
Apart from these two softwares, there is Sony Ericsson PC suite, which comes with the handset CD. This is also a useful software with less options. There are also few other sharewares to connect phones to PC like the MOBILedit.
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Jun 5th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Thanks Nirmal for this Post.
Jun 5th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Good Post. Just Stumbled.
Jun 5th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Shankar,
Thanks for the stumble.
Jun 8th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
I use MyPhoneExplorer and I swear by it. I am also able to send Flash Messages using it, though I cant send it using my phone alone.
Its simple and easy to use and the backup feature is amazing as well.
Jun 8th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
Vijay,
MyPhoneExplorer is a great software for SE phones. Simple and easy to use.
Jul 9th, 2007 at 8:42 am
Any idea how to edit sony ericsson w700i phone book? - I need to add and delete a lot of phone numbers on that list.
I cannot sit and key in some 300 entries which are readily available on an Excel sheet.
Keshav
Aug 17th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
@ Keshava
I believe this would work. But only you can confirm that if you test it.
(I use MyPhoneExplorer[MPE], so will use that as an example)
MPE allows import of contacts in various forms, including csv.
Export your excel sheet as csv to your desktop.
Then:
MPE > Contacts > Phone > Put cursor anywhere in the right contacts pane > Rt.Click > Context menu > Import > Point to your CSV file on your desktop > OK
MPE will import all your contacts.
(Be sure to match up the format of you csv file with that required by MPE)
Now to get the new contacts into your phone:
MPE > Contacts > At the top click the |Synchronise] button/icon.
(Be sure to set up the sync parameters so that you don’t lose any contacts during the syncing process)
Hope this helps.
@ Nirmal:
Would you agree with the above process?
Aug 18th, 2007 at 10:39 am
@RJ,
I agree with the above process, it allows you to import contacts.
Sep 10th, 2007 at 1:10 am
The myphoneexplorer is good. My search in internet was easy to locate this software and my job’s done in no time. Thanks.
Oct 4th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
can v send audio and video files in this softare
Oct 13th, 2007 at 1:09 am
can any i tell how to improve the signal quality of w700i
Jan 22nd, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Can anyone tell me how to transfer the SMS from sony ericsson W700i to my new Nokia N73? Where will the messages in ’saved messages’ be stored - in phone memory or SIM? Thanks in advance.
Jan 22nd, 2008 at 5:32 pm
@Indu,
You can use MyPhoneExplorer software to export all SMS and contacts from you w700i and then use this to import to N73.
Feb 2nd, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Mar 12th, 2008 at 10:51 am
very very very very excellent soft Sony mobile. thank you show much.
Mar 16th, 2008 at 11:13 am
I downloaded and installed both the softwares together, but started using FMA first, and the features of that grabbed me the most and till now I have not used MPE, the comments here recommend me to check that… I will do …..
Apr 8th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
how can i download software to connect the phone to the pc?
Apr 8th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
@Kim,
The download links are available in the post itself, check it.
May 7th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
how abt symbian phone? like W960i?
May 25th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
HEre are the results of my comparison fo the two software to download SMS messages to my PC, tested on a Sony Ericsson w810i.
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Sony Ericsson w810i
1) Float Mobile Agent (FMA)
export formats
CSV MIDDLY recognized directly by excell, uses “”, as delimiters
XML
HTML
Takes all the received message, phone memory PLUS SIM memery together
Fields: Doesn’t take the names as set in the mobile phone to establish exported file. (when exported message, doesn’t map the names to the phone numbers exported with every message).
Pros: Restablish a database on the computer and works whithin ITS OWN configuration, for messages at least.
Elaborated and many functionnalities.
Direct answering to SMS messages.
Handles all messages, complete in that sense.
Cons:
Merge SMS message, on phone memory and SIM memory
Export of SMS message don’t recongnize expedient’s name as set ont the mobile phone
Doesn’t retrieve draft messages
Doesn’t handle parts of multi-SMS message very well.
2) MyPhoneExplorer
export formats
SMS native format, hexadecimal
CSV good formatted better recognized directly by excell, uses “”; as delimiters
XML
HMTL well formatted
TXT text
Fields: It does take the names as set in the mobile phone to establish exported file. (when exported message, it maps the names to the phone numbers exported with every message).
Pros: VERY HANDY, outputs data as we want them directly, human readable
really simple interface like the handy phone itsefl
Does retrieve draft messages
Really works like the phone itself, with same menu and configurations
Retrieve the expedient’s name as set in the mobile phone when exporting messages.
Cons: simple and seems more limited than FMA
In the saved items, mixes message SENT from me as well as message RECEIVED by me. But this as set on the mobile phone.
It seems there lack some original messages in the exported messages (found 1 over about 40 during a test).
Conclusion RJ
I choose FMA software as it is more complete and raw treatment of data. I use XML and CSV as standard formats.
FORMAT de BASE:
J’utilise le logiciel FMA
je prends le format CSV comme reference de base. C’est -à-dire que l’export officiel est fait dans ce format.
Je prends aussi le format XML comme reference officielle. Car le XML est plus complet que le HTML et le CSV. Il est plus standard et peut simplement etre derivé dans ces autres versions.
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