Are joysticks really that bad?

Dman001

Im thinking about gettin a k750i but is the joystick a major issue cos if it is i probably get the 6280

carrotcake

Apparently it's a fault across all Sony Ericsson phones. I have a K700i, and the joystick started giving me trouble after a few months. I love the SE user interface, but the crappy joystick has put me off buying another phone from them.

BopNiblets

Mine is finicky too, have to push it a few times to egt anything moving, I've asked a few times on here where I can get it cleaned but no one answers!
Somewhere near Celbridge!

maxitwist

yup the one on my v6001i is sometimes so bbad that if i wanna scroll down on a piece of text I have to lift up the joystick with 2 of my fingers or else it will think I'm pressing it down and go to send/reply
its damn annoying, never gettin an se again.
does anyone know if I can reture it for this? it also freezes sometimes, got it june, 5-6 mí ó shin.

byte

I had the same problems with a SE phone (model no. escapes me now) but after about 6 months it just started acting up, sometimes working, most times not. Then it just stopped working, and I just stopped buying any phone with those joysticks, in favour of phones which navigate with D-pad kind of buttons

I think it's just a case of the contacts inside the joystick aren't well protected from the likes of dust and grime and eventually it stops contact being made, whereas with the buttons, there is usually a membrane across all the contacts to protect them.

Dman001

So i should go with the 6280.Anyone know any other good 2megpix camera

Umiq88

Yeah its quite annoying although can easily be fixed just give it a blast of air at a petrol station and will keep it going for another while

Sony Ericsson have fixed this with the w810i and w900i by putting a d-pad in and the same with the w850i so theres no need to move away from SE cause they really do make fantastic phones

carrotcake

Too late, I have an LG Chocolate beside me charging for the first time

neilled

carrotcake wrote:

Apparently it's a fault across all Sony Ericsson phones. I have a K700i, and the joystick started giving me trouble after a few months. I love the SE user interface, but the crappy joystick has put me off buying another phone from them.

I've been a sonyericsson user starting with a t610, k700, k608 and now k800. All of my old handsets are in use with other people at the moment and have not had any failures on their joysticks. I also worked for o2 during the summer there in one of their experience stores and the rate of returns on sonyericssons with joystick problems was not greater than other handsets being stocked by the store. Its the one weakness the phones have (caused by dirt accumulation under the joystick) and apparently the designers have solved it on all the new models.

Urban Weigl

The SE 610im does not have a joystick.

maxitwist

do you have a link? I searched it, the k610im came up, but that does have joystick

TerrorFirmer

I used a few SE phones and never had any major problems but my sister did have, and my girlfriends brothers one was in bits after a few months.

My favourite 'joystick' phone was probably the Nokia 6600, was great for playing emulators and games, used 2 or 3 of them, very well built and designed phones.

Urban Weigl

maxitwist, the K610im does not have a joystick. I own one so I know. The knob in the middle just looks like a joystick, but in actual fact it is a button.

APM

had really bad problems with the W800i joystick as has been described all over the internet. Sent it away under warranty to be fixed and came back telling me there was water damage externally which I totally dispute as the phone was never exposed to water (at the charging contacts) and thats the reason they told me the joystick wasn't working. Have since left meteor because paying €345 for a phone and them not fixing it after 8 months is a bit ridiculous.

Dman001

What about the k800i joysticks

byte

psittacosis wrote:

Yeah its quite annoying although can easily be fixed just give it a blast of air at a petrol station and will keep it going for another while

Sony Ericsson have fixed this with the w810i and w900i by putting a d-pad in and the same with the w850i so theres no need to move away from SE cause they really do make fantastic phones

Tis good to see they've seen the error of their ways and fixed them.

zilog_jones

I found the disassembly guide for a T630 online somewhere (random Googling FTW), and tried cleaning out the joystick on two of these (brother's and a friend's) with contact cleaner (isopropyl alcohol spray) and a can compressed air. Made a bit of an improvement but they still weren't great.

To take them apart, all I needed was a small Torx screwdriver (T3, T4 or T5 - I forget) and some flat things for pryin'.