Debranding my C905

I have a general hate relationship with Vodafone. I am not a Vodafone subscriber, I am a Vodacom subscriber. Vodafone bought some shares in Vodacom and now most if not nearly all Vodacom cell phones are now Vodafone branded.

I bought a Sony Ericsson C905 and one feature that everyone was talking about was the conversation thread you could have on your SMS messages. Vodafone in their wisdom decided to take it out of their Vodafone branded C905 cell phones.

Another thing that bugged me endlessly was the fact that my Java applications was so slow, very slow. I assumed it was the C905 that was not too good with Java applications.

I eventually decided to debrand my C905.

I found a nice post on debranding my C905. It took a while to get all the software ready and in place but after following the easy steps my C905 is now working the way it should be.

Not only do I now have SMS conversation support, my Java applications are much faster too. So Vodafone even broke the JVM on the C905.

I unfortunately did manage to reset my MAC address to 00-00-00-00-00, so no Wi-Fi for me. The fix is quite easy, but I will do it at a later stage.