Is there any way to get rid of demo games?

[#1]

Hi all. I hope someone can help. I would like to get rid of the demo games that came pre-installed on my shiny new Xperia 10X Mini, but the option does not seem to be there. I go to Settings/Applications/Manage Applications, click on the demos, and no option to delete them is there. I really do not want these demos I will never play taking up room I could be using for useful stuff! Can anyone help?

Before anyone suggests using the PC application manager, I'm afraid it won't help... I'm on a Mac.

Thank you for reading!

[sushidushi]

I hadn't noticed before that there was no uninstall options for demo games.  Is there any way of connecting the phone to the Mac and accessing the files, similar to seeing the phone as a separate drive on a PC?  If so, you might be able to delete the files from your phone in that way.  If not, the only way might be through a friendly person with a PC - and to petition Sony Ericsson for software that can be used on a Mac!

[#3]

No luck on a pc. Mini pro...

ROOT?

[sushidushi]

I just tried uninstalling something to try to explain how it might be done on a PC, but realised that I couldn't do get to the applications, and as you and the original poster have said, there is no uninstall option for demo games.  Seems odd!

No idea about rooting the phone, but it would seem like a bit of a risk just to get rid of one crappy old game...

[#5]

What was SE thinking?! It`s just stupid... Give us an update, so we can delete it...

[#6]

Thanks, Sushidushi. I did try that. I can connect the phone to my Mac via the USB cable, but the only thing that comes up is a disk titled PHONE CARD (my previous Nokia mounted two disks, one the card and the other the phone memory) and that's it. I can modify the contents of the card, it seems, but I can't see into the phone itself.

Weird that these things should be un-deletable. I can understand not being able to delete core bits of the phone's functional gubbins, but Monopoly? Surely we do not need this!

And now I find I have managed to change the SMS alert tone to something I can't actually hear and can't change it back... it is 'Notifications' I want, right? I've changed it in Settings, but it hasn't taken. Hmm.

I might just have to badger SE about Mac support. I know Sony don't hate Mac. Who knows, they might just listen.

[sushidushi]

gubbins

People in Canada don't seem to know that word.  It's one of my favourites.

Strangechilde wrote:
Thanks, Sushidushi. I did try that. I can connect the phone to my Mac via the USB cable, but the only thing that comes up is a disk titled PHONE CARD (my previous Nokia mounted two disks, one the card and the other the phone memory) and that's it. I can modify the contents of the card, it seems, but I can't see into the phone itself.
Weird that these things should be un-deletable. I can understand not being able to delete core bits of the phone's functional gubbins, but Monopoly? Surely we do not need this!.

I must have been thinking of Nokia.  Seems that yoiu're stymied for now, and will just have to live with the dead Monopoly game.

And now I find I have managed to change the SMS alert tone to something I can't actually hear and can't change it back... it is 'Notifications' I want, right? I've changed it in Settings, but it hasn't taken. Hmm.

Yes, it should be easy to change the alert through the Notification ringtone bit of sound settings.  Have you checked under Sound & display - Ringer volume to check the notification volume?  It might be that you just need tio turn the volume up a tad.  But you should be able tlo change the tone anyway, of course.  Can't think of any reason why you wouldn't be able to do so.

[#8]

Yes, it should be easy to change the alert through the Notification ringtone bit of sound settings.  Have you checked under Sound & display - Ringer volume to check the notification volume?  It might be that you just need tio turn the volume up a tad.  But you should be able tlo change the tone anyway, of course.  Can't think of any reason why you wouldn't be able to do so.

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Yup, I did-- sound and display/notifications. Thing is, I was mucking about with it last night and my husband came through to say something to me, so I just hit something at random and stopped mucking... I'd selected the 'On the Hunt' sound, that kind of goes 'fnnrrr-rrt' in a low pitch, so it's quite extraordinary that I even managed to hear it when I received a text later. The vollume is set to max, but I have specific range hearing damage that makes that fnnrr-rrt pretty hard to hear. I'd changed it to Tweeters, but it is still playing the fnrr-rrt. Perhaps I should switch it off and back on again?

I'm glad you like 'gubbins'. It is a most satisfying word.

*I don't know how to do quoted text on this forum, so I'm guessing. Please forgive me if I get it wrong.

[sushidushi]

It certainly can't hurt to switch the phone off and back on again to see if that makes any difference.  I don't know what to suggest otherwise.  I'll play with mine and see if I can work something out.

To quote the message to which you're replying, just click on the speech bubble overlaid with inverted commas icon above.  If you want to quote only parts of the message, just delete the bits you don't want to quote.  Repeat as necessary if you wish to quote differencve parts of the message.  There is probably some sort of code you can use to achieve the same thing, but I don't know what it is - just that it isn't what you tried...!

[#10]

Interesting. I can't see a speech bubble with inverted commas. Maybe I'm blind?

I can confirm that the restart was the charm! It's fine now, schringing its high-pitched little SMS alert heart out. I do thank you for your help. This is the first Smartphone I've ever had, so I'm still swimming up the learning curve, as it were.

Edit: it didn't work. I was wrong. After fiddling around a bit more though, I know why I was wrong and how to fix it, so if anyone else has this problem, this might help.

There are two places where you can set the tone for incoming messages: one, the obvious one, is under Settings/Sound and Display/Notification Ringtone. However, you can trump this setting if you go to Settings/Sony Ericsson (subtitle 'application settings'). From there, you can set the tone for your messages under "messaging' and for your e-mail under 'e-mail', so, conveniently, you could have a different tone for SMS and E-mail. It worked for me!