Hmpf, I'm major pi**ed off, mates. Last night - while reading an eBook - my XDA2 just stopped working. Soft resets didn't do any good - the process always stopped at the first O2 screen and nothing then happened anymore. So I ended up doing a hard reset!
OK, now it's back, but I like to know what heppened and how I can prevent iy happening again... I think it may be related to the 32 processes limitation... I am running the ScaryBear tools to kill double-listed processes, but I haven't done a soft reset for a week or so before last night...
What do you guys think. How frequently do you soft reset your device?
Removing the battery sometimes helps.
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I don't know why I'm having this problem but at least twice a day I have to soft reset my phone because of a program not closing or opening "hanging" the phone in state where nothing works. I also have to soft reset because of bluetooth problems. Sometimes the phone will tell me that it doesn't have bluetooth hardware or I won't be able to open the bluetooth window to turn it on or off or discoverable. Then I must reset to get it to work. What a pain! These problems are driving me nuts and I don't know what to do about it. I am considering abandoning this phone because of it's unreliability but it has so many features that it's hard to let it go. Please help me!
First of all - don't abandon the phone; this is NOT normal behavior for this PDA/phone and there should be a solution to your problems. I have had this phone (i-mate) for months, and it has always been stable and trustworthy.
Next, it would be helpful for you to post your current ROM information - (Start -> Settings -> System -> Device Information)
Next, list the programs you have installed.
Have you tried Hard Resetting the device (after backing it up) and using it for a while without installing ANY additional software? This will tell you if the base hardware/software is performing correctly. If that works, try installing any additional software ONE AT A TIME and using the device for a while after each one to make sure that one works. Then, if that one is OK, install the next one. This should pinpoint any software that causes the problems.
Let us know the results of your tests.
1. When did you last HardReset? - Sometimes a few hours of work make your life really better! :lol:
2. What's the ROM version? - Possibly you should upgrade.
3. Did you notice that you are using WindowsMobile2003 - usage of internet connection with WindowsXP without a couple of restarts never happened to me, so I don't expect Windows Mobile work with more stability! :wink: Kidding!
Conclusion: don't give up the phone - you just have to make clear what goes wrong! Good luck!
Nope, not normal usage. I've been using my i-mate for 2 weeks without a hard reset now, but just today it hard resetted on me (due to wisbar advance 2.) I'm not sure how wisbar does it, but it always gives me problems w/ it installed.
my observations
I'm a new user of the XDA I, and I find that I haven't had any unexpected hard resets yet (fingers crossed) but that I do need to soft reset at least once per day, usually to get the machine to (re)connect thru ActiveSync...
I only get the dreaded, continious soft reset problem when I install loads of crappy software.
Have you installed any share/freeware latetely.
If so only a hard reset will fix it.
SoftResets are tolerated, HardReset - once upon 2-3 months. If more often or auto - change the ROM. Auto HardReset happened to me twice - always after flashing.
So I'm a stickler for stability and it drives me nuts (we all have our weird problems ) when things don't run stably.
i.e. I take very good care of my Windows XP PC, it's been running for 12 weeks straight now without needing a reboot, power down, nothing. Rock solid. I love it.
I'm running the Cing 8125 with the new QTEK AKU2 ROM. It's been running pretty well but I'm having the same problem I had witht he original Cingular ROM.
For whatever strange reason and ONLY when I'm not using the 8125, it seems it will soft reset which makes it impossible to pinpoint the cause. I know it has soft-reset because
a) My memory is back at like 23MB free which is what I have after soft-reset.
b) None of my apps are running anymore - duh!
c) Best of all, I have a today plug-in that keeps track of uptime so I know EXACTLY when the soft-reset happened.
I can't understand what would trigger it, when I'm actually using it, the device is fast and solid. I'm not running any crazy apps that I would think could lead to this unstability.
How long have you gone without a soft-reset? What's bizzare is the most recent soft reset happened this morning at exactly 1:00AM!!!! What are the odds of a random reset happening exactly at 1AM? No, I don't have any notifications, alarms or anything around that time.
Here's the uptime meter I'm using if you want to try it out:
http://www.freewareppc.com/utilities/uptimemeter.shtml
I wish it would soft-reset when I was using it so I could at least know what was causing it.
The same is happening to me, although it soft resets once every 2 weeks or so. I must say I turn off the device every night, but it has happened to me 3 o 4 times since I installed de Qtek AKU2 ROM.
Any solution?
I mentioned this once before on here. I catch mine doing it at night sometimes (in the day its usually in my pocket so I don't know if it does it there).
I've only seen it a few times, maybe once every 2 weeks.
The odd thing is, that when restarting after it's random soft reset, it doesn't require me to enter my pin code. It's almost as if it knows that it's been naughty and was hoping I wouldn't notice
Maybe it's a "feature" of WM5?? :roll:
Hey guys,
of course AS 4.1 is rubbish, so I found a good alternative in SPB backup. However, it's supposed to soft reset after backup (I scheduled a daily backup), but sometimes it just hangs the OS. When this happens I cannot get any incoming calls or messages until I SR myself.
Anyone has that too?
Thanks!
At first I was having this same problem. I'd wake up every morning (setting my phone to backup at 1am) with the thing completely hung up and almost out of battery power.
I switched to having it not soft reset, had that run for a couple of days, and then I switched it back to soft reset. In the 3 days since I've done that it hasn't hung up - and has successfully soft reseted itself.
I don't know exactly what the problem was.
CameronJ said:
At first I was having this same problem. I'd wake up every morning (setting my phone to backup at 1am) with the thing completely hung up and almost out of battery power.
I switched to having it not soft reset, had that run for a couple of days, and then I switched it back to soft reset. In the 3 days since I've done that it hasn't hung up - and has successfully soft reseted itself.
I don't know exactly what the problem was.
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Thanks for sharing man. I had the same drill, (a few days without SR, then back again) but after a while it started to hang again. I think there might be a registry solution for this or a software conflict to resolve, but that's beyond my PDA knowledge. I was hoping the experts here would save the day...
Me too
I'm having the same problem (and alas started another thread before I found this one) and have turned off the reset feature as well. I'm using skschema to perform the soft reset.
Hello, guys!
Could some of you post a bug report about that at http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/backup/askquestion.html?en? SPb team always answer very promptly. and they will for sure fix it in the next release.
i also have this problem.
no SR problem here on AKU2. I'm running the Qtek rom.
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Hello, guys!
Could some of you post a bug report about that at http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/backup/askquestion.html?en? SPb team always answer very promptly. and they will for sure fix it in the next release.
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I did this.
Hi All,
Since I have my T-Mobile MDA (MDAII/QTEK2020) I have been experiencing several spontaneous hard resets. Very uncomfortable to say the least..... :?
Did anyone experience the same problem and what can be done to prevent this?
Help me please!
Thanks!
BTW: I already make daily backups of my MDA just to prevent data loss, however it is still very annoying when a hard reset occurs, as at that time I loose all my data incl. contacts and a restore takes approx. half an hour to complete.
maybe a newer rom would solve the problem
Have had the same problem starting today. In fact, it seems the phone will hard reset itself every time power is turned off, even after auto- poweroff. Extremely annoying!
It's quite a common problem (at least, i've got the same problem ). If you're running on WM2003, updating to WM5 might solve the problem, i've heard WM2003 can be quite a ***** when it comes to the battery power and hard resetting.
ran the freeRAM service that comes with sktools, and the phone froze. No biggy, so first instinct was to let it sit, which i did let it do. After a few minutes i soft reset the phone and it just hung at the htc mobile splash screen. I tried several times to soft reset, but nothing was working. I was in the end forced to hard reset and loose all my data.
Any1 know what the heck happened?
Ummm...if you were able to hard reset and get the phone to come back, it's not bricked.
Title is a little misleading, don't you think???
I have been running SKTools on my WM devices for 4 years now and have never encountered such a conflict. It is possible that as FreeRam attempted to close dormant program(s) that the program(s) themselves reached conflict and therefore froze your device.
In my experience with SKTools, it has flawlessly maintained my device and I have found that 95% of the time that the conflict resides within apps/programs not playing well with each other. Have you recently installed apps/programs?