Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc

[Night Train]

I've just got this phone as an upgrade (though it is more of a backwards step from my old W995).

Does anyone know how to get the calendar to work?

I can open it and see the various day, week, month layouts with the correct day highlighted but when I tap a day to add an entry a popup appears over the entry page saying:
No Calendars
You have no Calendars

When I click the ok button it goes back to the calendar and won't let me put an entry in.

Any thoughs?

Also my W995 played my music as WMV files, the Xperia only plays MP3.
Is there a quick way to convert some 2000 tracks from WMV to MP3?

Cheers.

 

[Night Train]

Well, I've managed to sort the music, there was hidden software to download that converts my entire library to MP3 and uploads to the phone.

Still can't get the calendar to work though.

 

[Night Train]

Sorted now.

A very nice woman at Orange tried to talk me through the process over the phone while experimenting with her manager's Xperia Arc.

It seems that to have a calendar I need to have a Gmail account and it needs to be set up at the first start up of the phone.
That meant resetting the whole phone, losing all my changes, setting and phonebook and starting from scratch to put a Gmail account on the phone.

It seems a daft and backwards step that the phone can't do a basic stand alone task without being sync'ed to Google so they can harvest my diary details and phone contacts.

 

[amaferanga]

Most Android phones do have an inbuilt calendar, but it's a little pointless having an Android phone without a Google account.

 

[Night Train]

Most Android phones do have an inbuilt calendar, but it's a little pointless having an Android phone without a Google account.

I didn't really want an Android phone.
I wanted a phone that had a good camera, could play music and do the general phone things that have been available for the last 10 years.
All I could get that had that was this phone.

The sales chap lied too, he said the speaker playback was in stereo and it isn't, there is only the one speaker.


However, a new problem.

I am unable to convert the video, that is Mpeg4 to something that my PC can play and that I can post on line.
The 'MediaGo' software will import it to my 'library' but that is the only place I can view it.

My previous SE phone was a W995 and the video format is the same but I was able to use http://www.convertfiles.com/ to convert them to WMA files. Now it will convert but the resulting file has size but no content and doesn't play.

Any advice?

 

[Night Train]

After an hour on the phone to Sony Ericsson I have a solution to my video downloads. Not an elegent solution but it will have to do in emergencies.

I have to convert the Mpeg4 to 3GP and then convert the 3GP to WMV.
The aspect ratio changes from widescreen to 4:3 so everything is squashed.

Can anyone suggest a good mp4 video converter please.