{"id":13649,"date":"2011-05-20T15:14:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T15:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13649"},"modified":"2011-05-20T15:16:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T15:16:32","slug":"our-sony-ericsson-xperia-arc-shuts-down-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/05\/our-sony-ericsson-xperia-arc-shuts-down-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc Shuts Down Unexpectedly &#8211; A Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our International Manager, Richard Moore, bought a Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc and he loves it. It does have one small design flaw in that when you place it down on a hard surface, or bump it slightly the phone switches itself off. A nuisance that\u00a0occurred\u00a0up to a dozen times per day.<\/p>\n<p>this is not a software fault, it is caused by the battery jumping out of it&#8217;s seat ever so slightly and causing a hard re-boot. Richard&#8217;s solution was to get a couple of \u00a0felt pads from his daughter&#8217;s craft set and stick them to the inside of the back cover, and these dampen the battery movement sufficiently for the problem to cease.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13650\" style=\"width: 189px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-13650\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/05\/our-sony-ericsson-xperia-arc-shuts-down-solution\/xperia1\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13650\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13650\" title=\"Problem Solved - Xperia Arc Auto Shut down\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/xperia1-179x300.jpg\" alt=\"Xperia Arc Back Cover\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/xperia1-179x300.jpg 179w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/xperia1-269x450.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/xperia1.jpg 1552w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two Green Felt Pads Approx 1.5mm thick solved the problem.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It turns out that Richard is not the only person to have this issue, and modded the back cover themselves, <a href=\"http:\/\/talk.sonyericsson.com\/thread\/15683.pdf;jsessionid=92D1566CF1BAE02AE4B8850BE5B7F68B.node0\">mczakk<\/a> has too.<\/p>\n\n<!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 2.0.27.4 -->\n<div class=\"quads-location quads-ad1\" id=\"quads-ad1\" style=\"float:none;margin:0px 0 0px 0;text-align:center;\">\n<div id=\"bari-widget\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our International Manager, Richard Moore, bought a Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc and he loves it. It does have one small design flaw in that when you place it down on a hard surface, or bump it slightly the phone switches itself off. A nuisance that\u00a0occurred\u00a0up to a dozen times per day. this is not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13649"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13656,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13649\/revisions\/13656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}