Comments on: Sony Ericsson C902 camera won’t open - doh!

By: Guli

Guli — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:58:13 +0000

sonofagun ! ive just charged mine, and have been cursing sony ericcson to bits for not making it simple enough.

i then went online and saw video of sliding, which did not work. after pulling many hairs out i saw this page.

thx dude !!

By: Gemraid

Gemraid — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:19:08 +0000

thew was thinking this thing is bloody stiff lol thx :)

By: kalvin

kalvin — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:04:06 +0000

Thanks for this advice Mate.

Even i was dumbstruck and tried opening Lens cover for 2 hrs and thought of sending my mobile back to 3 but googled your Valued advice and Hooreka……….. Its opened

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:45:54 +0000

cheers mate!!! :D i was getting so frustrated about this. thanks!! :D:D

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:16:54 +0000

Same as above, i tried for ages to get the camera to open, i thought i was going to break the phone. And the battery cover wasn’t exactly child’s play either.
Its going to be horrible for those of us that like to keep the plastic screen cover on though.

By: Deanna

Deanna — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:27:03 +0000

:-) I thought I had a bad set as well! Felt a bit silly after I read your blog and realised the simple solution!
Thanks very much!

By: April

April — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:40:38 +0000

OMG thankyou so much !!!!

By: joe

joe — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:12:10 +0000

youre a stress saver! was going mental earlier trying to figure out what was wrong..

By: Pierce

Pierce — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:58:04 +0000

Thanks alot you saved me a big headache! I was getting really annoyed with this! Nice to know its only my stupidity holding me back….

By: admin

admin — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:42:31 +0000

Thanks for all the thanks. Nice to know I’m not the only one who rebels against the designer’s intentions.

I treat my phone so badly - chucking it in my pocket to rub against my keys etc. So, I like to keep the plastic on for as long as possible.

Its crazy to think of them spending thousands of pounds in their labs, testing the phone, and they forget such a simple thing - the pesky plastic cover.

By: Debz

Debz — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:48:22 +0000

omg i did the same thing. how crazy is that ahhhhhhhh.lol

By: Ros

Ros — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:43:38 +0000

I did the same thing!!!

By: John

John — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:49:57 +0000

I also fell for it, nearly snapped the phone at one stage nice one for the help.

By: Arlo

Arlo — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:53:05 +0000

Likewise I was ready to send mine back. I even took plastic cover off, finally got it opening then put it back on to protect it, then had same problem. So frustrating once realised the cause of it not opening!

By: London

London — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:45:58 +0000

Thank you for this tip. This phone is worse than a Rubik’s cube. I spent 30mins trying to get the battery cover off. (Paperclip is very useful). The prospect of trying to figure out the camera was just too much - I was so grateful for this tip. Huge vote of thanks. The moment i took the plastic cover off the screen was covered in fingerprints, shame.

By: ronny stalker

ronny stalker — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:08:12 +0000

Arlo wins the contest. ;o)

By: Zoe

Zoe — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:52:42 +0000

Thanks!!! Its was really frustrating me I couldnt get it open no matter how hard I pulled!! You would think they would just add a line into the instructions!

By: Anon Idiot

Anon Idiot — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:07:00 +0000

Yeah.. I feel pretty stupid.. I knew the answer was out there, but I didn’t think i’d have to hold the phone at both ends and pull like a cracker, but only once the protective film is removed, to get this to open!

By: elina

elina — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:47:28 +0000

thanks ive been pulling the camera all eveing thinking what a crap phone after reading this i took the film off the phone and yipee it opened
how dumb !!!! thanks

By: claire

claire — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:52:21 +0000

OMG ive been trying to open the lense cover for the past few hours
my sister had a go too it looks so easy in the book sure theres no hidden buttons to press was going down the t mobile shop tommorro
till i read your article still thought yeh yeh that wont make a difference its jammed or faulty took the screen cover off and IT WORKED !!!
how stupid of me thanx u saved my time

By: marc

marc — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:17:52 +0000

thank you!

By: shellsuit

shellsuit — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:07:57 +0000

And again, someone else who thought they had a dud phone lol!

Thanks for the heads up, luckily I didn’t spend too long trying to find out how to open the damn thing!

By: Claire

Claire — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:34:11 +0000

OMG, can’t believe I too have overlooked something so simple. I have scoured the troubleshooting pages of the manual and pulled prodded my phone for ages. I googled too, but didn’t much more than reviews of the phone. Finally I found your page - what a sanity-saver!

By: Cat

Cat — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:04:22 +0000

Thanks! who’d have thought a sticky piece of plastic could cause so much frustration! lol thank god for you and google!

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:15:45 +0000

F**KIN PIECE OF PLASTIC

By: mushi

mushi — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:45:40 +0000

hey i cudnt understand bro i have no plastic cover nether on front camer nor back 1…still it stucks..dusnt works…plz help me out of this crap….even my flash light isnt working shud i try updating device??

By: John

John — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:47:18 +0000

well mushi - if there is no plastic cover and you are still having trouble - it looks like you’ve got a wrongun’. i’d send it back.