Installing Sky for Mobiles On My W960i

See Using Sky For Mobiles On My W960i for a description of Sky For Mobiles in use.

In Sky Anytime On Mobile I was disappointed because Sky Anytime on Mobile would not install on my W960i because the phone was not supported.

The great news is that I have now found the links and now it really is possible to install Sky Anytime on Mobile on my W960i although some features are not fully working.

Sky for Mobiles

The main reason I want to run Sky for Mobiles on my W960i is so that I can use my phone to send remote record to my Sky+ box to record programs when I am away from home.

Register With Sky Anytime

Before installing Sky for Mobiles on your W960i you will need to create a My Sky account at www.sky.com.

Next register with Remote Record which will require you to enter your account details and Sky Viewing Card number. I performed this step long before I got my W960i so I don't remember the specifics and I certainly don't want to meddle with something that is currently working.

The W960i is not compatible with Sky Anytime...

Unfortunately you won't be able to use the Sky website to complete the Sky Anytime install on your W960i

Connect To sky.com

I had a devil of a job opening these links. At first I could open the web folders and download the files but later I started to get HTTP 403 Forbidden errors. Sometimes I find I can still access the files so if you have problems I recommend that you persevere and you might get lucky.

Open Sky for Mobiles...

Hopefully this will work for you...

Start Internet Explorer and connect to http://mobile.sky.com. You must view this page otherwise you wont be able to open the next link.

Use this link to get Sky for Mobiles...

Next open the web folder at http://mobile.sky.com/SBM/SonyE_vid. You may need to cut and paste the URL to the address bar in Internet Explorer.

Download To Your PC

The web contains 2 files called SkyMobile_SonyWithTv.jad and SkyMobile_SonyWithTv.jar. Right click each file and select Save Target As... to download the files to your computer.

If you can't open the above link then try to link to the files directly.
http://mobile.sky.com/SBM/SonyE_vid/
http://mobile.sky.com/SBM/SonyE_vid/SkyMobile_SonyWithTv.jad
http://mobile.sky.com/SBM/SonyE_vid/SkyMobile_SonyWithTv.jar

If none of the above work then try these links
http://mobile.sky.com/SBM/SonyE_novid/
http://mobile.sky.com/SBM/SonyE_novid/SkyMobile_SonyWithoutTv.jad
http://mobile.sky.com/SBM/SonyE_novid/SkyMobile_SonyWithoutTv.jar

If the links don't work at first then keep trying...

Install on W960i

Attach your W960i phone to your PC using the USB cable and select USB Normal Mode, Now start Sony Ericsson PC Suite for Smartphones and click the Application Installer icon. Select either of the above files and download to your W960i.

Install Sky by Mobile...

Hmm... Expires on 26/10/2008?...

Install in your phone memory...

Almost done...

I'm not sure what this means. It has something to do with those annoying java warnings...

Installation complete...

You need to have a My Sky account to login...

Hint: You must have a My Sky account to login and to get past this screen you should enter your password first followed by your username.

We're in!!!

Thanks to macjasp and peterwwood at http://www.esato.com for getting me started with Sky For Mobiles.

See Using Sky For Mobiles On My W960i for a description of Sky For Mobiles in use.

The information here may be helpful to owners of other Sony Ericsson Symbian UIQ 3.0 phones such as P1i, W950i, P990i and M600i.