Getting Gmail to work with a SonyEricsson phone.
Thursday, 24. January 2008, 12:56:08
I've done this with the W910i, but I think it will work for all other recent SonyEricsson Walkman phones.
First step: Create a new e-mail account and type-in all the settings from
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78799
No more work is really acceptable, now it really should work, but its different: You need to find and download the right certificate and install it on your phone. I find it very uncomfortable to just download it from some (very) untrusted source, but its the only way I saw, since I couldn't get it from SonyEricsson, Google or Thawte directly.
So, my source was this, and it worked, but please don't blame me if anything nasty will happen. I'm not sure, but I think the names of the necessary certificates are
. Have fun.
First step: Create a new e-mail account and type-in all the settings from
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78799
No more work is really acceptable, now it really should work, but its different: You need to find and download the right certificate and install it on your phone. I find it very uncomfortable to just download it from some (very) untrusted source, but its the only way I saw, since I couldn't get it from SonyEricsson, Google or Thawte directly.
So, my source was this, and it worked, but please don't blame me if anything nasty will happen. I'm not sure, but I think the names of the necessary certificates are
- Equifax_Secure_Certificate_Authority.cer
- ThawtePremiumServerCA.cer
- ThawteServerCA.cer
. Have fun.






