W880i flashing screen

Hey Wayne, either way that you get it out wont hurt the information on the flash drive as long as you have transferred all the data prior to pulling it off. But if I was you, it only takes an extra second to right click on it and eject it from the my computer screen...

Sometimes when a flashmemory stick or USB external hard drive fails because it was not removed fromthe USB port properly. If the device is removed byjust pulling it out of the USB port, it can cause the flash device to fail, youmust click on the Safely Remove Hardware icon on the Task Bar and select thedevice you wish to remove and only do so when instructed to do so When the flash memoryUSB hard drive device appears to malfunction it maybe possible to restoreit by reformatting it. Insert the flash or USB hard drive into the USB port then Click on Control Panel - AdministrativeTools - Computer Management - Disk Management. Then right click on Disk 1removable drive and click Format. After the flash drive has been formatted itwill indicate that it is Healthy. You need to format the flash or external drive. Format thedrive as primary drive and in FAT32. (FAT32 will allow data to be exchanged betweenMACs and PCs also between XP/Vista and earlier versions of Windows).

Follow these steps :
1.1
Plug the flash drive into one of your computer's available USB ports.
2.2
Look for the "Found New Hardware" balloon to pop up in your system tray. When the installation is complete, you can either click the balloon or go to "My Computer" and double-click the flash drive to open it.
3.3
Open the folder containing the data you want to store on the flash drive. Either copy the files and paste them into the flash drive's folder, or drag and drop.
4.4
Click the "safely remove hardware" icon. This is an icon with a green arrow in the system tray in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. When you click it you will see a message that reads "Safely remove USB Mass Storage Device." Click that message box.
5.5
If your flash drive has a light, it will turn off when the drive can be removed. Otherwise, it is safe to remove the drive when the message box goes away. Remove the drive.

no it shouldn't crash. you can just pull it out but i guess the "proper" way is to go to MyPC right click it and click eject

u can try to look in the controll panel to see if there is a restore button in there insted of using a cd

I had the w880i phone with the same problem, do a Master reset and chose (reset all) it worked for me...

dear,

fully charge your battery and try again

regards,

Ok, so whoever said you need the flash, shold flash their brains! Your backlights are burnt on the LCD - to change it costs about $80 because you need a new LCD screen at the same time.

Hi

Im about to make your day (Hopefully)

The same thing happened to me, i just fixed mines 2 minutes ago.

Follow this link

http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/support/softwaredownloads/detailed/updateservice/w880i?cc=gb&lc=en

Download the software

and follow instructions.

it will even tell you how to connect to the computer
even if it doesnt switch on.

Follow it trust me it helped me :)

However some of your things might be lost.

But NOT Sim contacts.
Mines have not gone
so there is a possibility they might stay.

Its just a software update.

By the way, when you have to chose the phones from the menu

pick the w880 as their is no w880i option
it works the same

So there you go

http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/support/softwaredownloads/detailed/updateservice/w880i?cc=gb&lc=en

same link


Good Luck :)

Hi andyb,
is your mobile phone W880i? try to remove the battery for about 5 mins and then turn it back on, give me a feedback. :)