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Hi all
I have installed Bluetooth Tools, and it is great, as it has allowed me to use my headset.
however my battery is now running very low!
Any ideas?
Ran into the same problem: installed BHT 1.1.0 a week ago, and had two events where battery was almost empty after one night, though it was fully loaded the evening before.
Anyone any clue why ?
1. The PDA oftens crashes having previosuly used the phone
2. The TomTom 3 crashes haven driven a short distance
3. The GPRS connection won't connect for a second time without a reset
4. You cant have bluetooth on without flightmode turned off
5. Horizontal Black line across photos in bright light
6. The other caller gets a bad echo when I turn the speaker phone on, even at lowest volume.
7. The last email account added, doesnt download mail
The list goes on. This is truly a terrible device. If it wasnt for the times that things did work fully (rare) and the money I paid for it, it would truly be in the bin!!!
I have read the forums and even after all the hard work people have put in to try and isolate the problems, all of them seem to end up unconclusive regarding the issues I have. I am at my teathers end with this device (
How can the XDA people get away with this, surely they have been approacned about these things? And they say the 2i is better than the 2, blimey I dread to think.....
end rant, thanks for listening
a very disheartened XDA2i user
I recently got an XDAIIi and agree with your post, although 4 is understandable as you shouldn't really be using bluetooth on a plane
I think a lot of the problems are related to third-party software - it might be useful to compare lists of what we have installed, for example I tried out TomTom too and found it ruined the device's stability.
The multiple GPRS connection problem is probably caused by the GPRS monitor program that came on the CD. I had this problem, I uninstalled GPRS Monitor, and GPRS connects correctly every time now.
The camera software is completely flawed, each alternate horizontal line is interchanged before conversion to jpg hence the rubbish quality of the images. Not sure about the horisontal line, but in indoor evening light my XDAIIi was only able to take blurry silhouettes, probably a bug in the automatic brighness control. The camera driver seems to have been sloppily ported from a version for different hardware, and released untested.
The mic pick-up is terrible, and the AGC doesn't seem to make any difference, I get far more people unable to make out what I'm saying than with the plain XDAII. I presume this is another software bug in the AGC.
7 might actually be the bug with all pocketPCs - only the email account currently "open" will auto-download new items periodically.
Also the alarms seem even worse than on normal pocketPCs. As ever I installed WakeupTweak but this time I still missed alarms on a 60s wakup, and had to extend it to 90s.
I have installed Pocket Informant, TT3 (this didnt seem to make anything worse) and have a 1Gb Lexar SD. I did install the GPRS monitor but have since removed it. I think my SD card could be faster, but we keep making excuses for this device.
Re 4, well this was to experiment, as the TT3 crashing has been suggested to be caused by the phone changing cells, but being a Bluethooth GPS I needed flightmode on aswell as BT, which is just about possible but with no definded method other than to confuse it?!? Why the blue blazes they try to force these things I don't know!! I am hoping TT5 will improve this.
re 7. yes i undertand and accept that, but the last one I entered just wont do anything, but not too bothered.
So, as a phone, its rubbish (no speaker phone, crashes, bulky), as a camera it's especially rubbish, as a PDA its ok with wireless in the home, but so long as you dont ask it to do anything out of doors, or even indoors.
These appear on startup, they probably need updating, but not sure where to get the official UK ones
R 1.00.00
G 1337.39
D 1.10.00 WWE
Look forward to hearing about other peoples gripes, next stage with me is probably back to the shop and probably an arguement with some o2 dude.
Perhaps I'm being picky, perhaps I should be happy about giving money away for nothing.
Just scanning through your posts about the IIi. I have had one for about 6 weeks now and haven't experienced any of the problems you describe (not complaining, of course )
I agree that the camera and AGC are not great, but mine behaves itself -- almost typed 'perfectly' there, but that's tempting fate.
I have TT3.07 & Alturion (via a Navman 4410), PocketBreeze 4.3, SPB pocket Plus (+weather add-on)various wifi scanning type programs (I'm a computer tech), a bluetooth neckset, not headset/earpeice and misc. other GPSDash type apps.
Added to this I'm trialling some VITO (navigation/remote/voicedialler) apps and about 300MB of MP3's on a 1GB Sandisk SD card.
My Rom versions are the same as tauria's -- I guess we should all have the same -- there aren't any upgrades/mods yet are there?
The only thing I don't use is GPRS -- don't need it!, otherwise its straight out of the box and saturated in utils and mahjonng/solitaire ( a techies life is sometimes a solitary one :wink: )
I can't offer any advice or help with your problems because I'm not experiencing them, just wanted to add my experience to yours as a sort of balance.
Is it possible you have a couple of rogue devices? or is it possible someone just crayoned an 'i' on mine before sending it out :lol:
Me again, I have rememebered that I performed a hard reset and opted for a corporate install, based on some posts relating to the O2 Active software causing problems -- do you have this installed?
I seem to recall there were several thread on this issue, so I went the corporate route to minimise problems.
Maybe that's an area you could look at?
blackfoot I was wondering if you could answer a question.
I just got my mobile phone number transferred to my XDA's SIM today so have used it as a phone for the first time, if i switch off the device (so it's a black screen but phone still active) and it rings it switches on but it just freezes (this only happens with pocketbreeze on the today plugin) I see the fact that the phone is ringing but the box doesn't pop up.
Is there anyway to make pocketbreeze not refresh its data when a call is incoming ? Or does anyone have the same problem?
I remember someone mentioning that the wizard (in my case the K-Jam) reboots sometimes.
I have had mine about 2 weeks, and have not noticed this...... until I enabled the phone SIM lock that is! I first noticed this when the phone was on whilst charging.
I know now when it is rebooting, as the SIM lock appears again. I am using the SD card, and I heard that had something to do with it.
I have the latest ROM from Imate, as it was the new batch that shipped.
Does anyone know what causes this or if there is a fix? how many others have found this?
Mine K-Jam has rebooted 3 times last 2 weeks. Once during a phonecall. Once while connected to my computer and one time while navigating.
I first thought it had something to do with my magnetic car holder. I have a small magnet on the back of my battery door and I thought that while driving the battery would have lost it's connection so I put some ducktape on it... :wink: But then it happened when connected to my pc and doing nothing :?:
I don't see a patern yet..
Wouter
No random reboots here - had a KJam since the first week in October with a 1GB miniSD card and SIMLock on since day 1.
KJam info:
ROM v1.1.9.3
ROM date 9/16/05
Radio version: 01.01.10
Protocol version: 4.0.13.16
ExtROM version: 1.1.9.104
Forgot to mention. I got my simlock on since the beginning (14-10-05)
Wouter
As said before, mine started rebooting after I installed SKYPE, once I removed SKYPE the problem went away.
I don't have Skype installed...
Wouter
I have had Skype installed since the off without issue. Currently running the latest Skype release, installed on the miniSD card.
I have the same problem ... it reboots very often, the funny thing is that it doesn't ask for pin when rebooting, it automatically logs on the GSM network...
I also often receive a message "unable to launch /Program Files/Skype/Skype.exe or so" ... I moved skype from SD to device but it didn't help ...
PS: I have a german Vodaphone VPA compat II (same hardware but different look) ... maybe it has something to do with a buggy ROM ? ...
Same here on my Qtek 9100.
I even missed out on a date waiting on a phonecall, did not know that my phone had secretly rebooted and was not loged into the network.
My dopod is rebooting since the very first day. I had installed verious ROMs > no difference. I can't find any reason for it. As someone mendioned already, it is very embarassing sometime since you don't know when the phone reboots and you are off line. I can tell you I would not buy this phone anymore. For me this shoiuld be a working tool and not a toy. My pda phone before (Blue Angel) had also some problems, but over all it was working much better then this piece of s....from Dopod. (Sorry my language). If you browse in this forum you must get the impression noone has evre tested these pda phone before drop them to the market. I just hope there are poeple in Taiwan at HTC and at Microsoft who read some of those forums, so we can hope to get some improvment the next future..
By the way this is the 3rd HW, the first two pieces where not working at all.
I also experience the same problems because of Skype. My
k-Jam came from Expansys with Skype on the extended ROM and of course SIM free. Skype couldn't even start on the pre-installed version. I unlocked the Extended ROM and threw out Skype and the AV (no more annoying prompts). Now the device seems to work fine, a bit slow though. I tried ti install the latest Skype version for slow CPU and experienced the same problems. High CPU works but hardly connects. I am still not sure how to have Skype runnung on my device as I travel a lot and can definetly use it with Wi Fi.
It seems skype has something to do with those reboot problems; but it's not the only one -- yesterday my 9100 was rebooting every few minutes (5-10); I then removed the miniSD as suggested above, it seems to have fixed the problem... need some more days to be sure. I'm gonna try to reformat my miniSD (which I formerly used on my SPV C500, some strange problems from time to time as well, but not so frequently) to check if it helps,
let's see !
gilsas
same here; spontaneous reboots. Did not use Skype when the first reboot occured.
Maybe it has to do with the programs intalled on the SD card?
I used to have those spontanious resets for a long time and I used to install a lot of programs on my mini sd card.
I haven't had any for a month now (and I had the latest light version of Skype installed) since I installed all programs in main memory. Of course not all programs. TomTom Navigator is on my storage card but I never leave it open when shutting my k-jam down.
Wouter
I get a few a week (maybe more that I don't notice) Uninstalled Skype from the beginning. Mine simply reboots and goes back to the today screen.
The treo 650 has a key combination that tells you what problems caused the soft reset, anything like that on the KJam (Wizard)
Well so much for my not having any spontanious soft resets anymore.
I just had another last night
I had a couple of programs open (Pocket Informant, Resco Explorer, TCPMP, MyPersonalDiet and Inbox). Maybe it was TCPMP because it plays files from the storage card... :?:
Wouter
After I've kept my QTEK 9100 on for 5-10 minutes (seems to be 7 or 10 minutes) without using it, it suddenly reboots, showing the ROM-version and all that (booting up).
My thoughts are that there's a problem with the automatic power off function (controlled by "power usage" in the Settings) that makes it reboot instead of just turning off the device but I havn't changed the automatic power off time limit enough to know if this really has something to do with it. Anyone else tried this?
EDIT:
I've now tried to change the automatic power off to 1 minute:
After one minute the QTEK power off, but after 5-10 minutes it reboot itself (turning itself on again). That means, from all that I understand, that it has nothing to do with the power off function.
I should probably mention that I have Skype 1.2.0.89 installed. What versions of Skype do you have? Anyone with Skype -installed- not experiencing the spontaneous reboots? I don't think you need to have Skype running to experience these problems - it seems to be enough that it's installed?
Anyone know if it has something to do with what ROM you're using?
QTEK 9100 (bought around 2006-01-10) with Swedish OS
ROM-version: 1.3.7.13 SVE
ROM-date: 9/29/05
Radio version: 01.04.10
Protocol version: 4.0.13.17
ExtROM-version: 1.3.7.125
I use a dopod 838 and I have the same problem as well. Strangely, this is not widely mentioned in this forum. I get one or two resets a day, and can be rather disturbing.
I do not have Skype installed, but have several games installed in the miniSD.
I'm currently using the Kjam rom, but I have had the same experience with the origianl DOPOD rom as well as the O2 rom.
I have Wisbar 2 (beta for WM5) installed, and had thought it to be the problem, but I got a reset even after it was removed.
I do not have SKYPE.
I have TCPMP installed, but rarely use it.
I'd really like to get to the bottom of this. Should I have this device turned in for warranty?
i found this problem alot when using the tweaks 2k2, when i moved the shared dll files to the storage card it keeps on restarting every two minutes or so. but that was the only situation that it reboots, other than that, never.
i have this rom:
rom: 1.1.9.3
date: 9/16/05
radio: 01.01.10
ext: 1.1.9.106
device: K-Jam
but once i redo the process, i never had a rebooting problem, that was 3 weeks ago.
Maybe if we compile a list of what we have running, we can find some common elements. I'm using the K-Jam
I have:
TCPMP - rarely use
MS Voice Command
SPB Pocket Plus
Pocket Weather
PocketZenPhone - currently disabled
PhoneAlarm (beta but the resets were happening before installation)
GSPocketMagic
Sunnysoft Backup Manager
MortRunner
StartUp Menu Contents:
bkpMgrDeleter (party of sunnysoft)
CapNotify (not sure of this)
GSPocketMagic
Init_Tray
poutlook
sddaemon (what is this)
Services
Voice Command
I have made the speed improvement hacks
Hi guys, I've had a look around, but can't find an answer on what I'm babbling on about, so I thought I'd join and ask outright.
I brought an MDA Vario last week on T Mobile, and having used PDAs since the Psion Organiser feel that I'm fairly competent with the technology.
It seems that when ActiveSync or Messaging have been running for any length of time the device slows down to such a grinding halt that it is barely usable. Is this a common issue, and if so, is there a resolution on the horizon. At present, I see the phone as a major downgrade from my 3 year old Axim X5, and I'm hoping someone can reassure me that I haven't been sold a turkey.
Thanks
PG
I think I have the same problem. When I plug in during the evening for a recharge and sync, the device's green LED flashes like normal, but if I press a button or the screen, it is slowed to a ridiculous and unuseable speed (like minutes to draw a screen such as Programs), and a soft reset is needed.
It does happen on AS connection or during/after syncing; I am using AS 4.1 and a T-mob vario with a selective ext ROM install.
Anyone got any ideas please?
Joe
Glad I'm not imagining it. I found a regitstry hack that gives you application cache that seems to improve it, but I still do at least three reboots a day.
Hi,
I got a QTek9100 2 weeks ago and noticed exaactly the same thing. For the first few days, the device was really fast, but it slowed down days after days.
Even a soft reset doesn't fix this.
I finally fixed that yesterday (hope so) and it's again pretty responsive.
What have I done:
- Removed synchro to Outlook e-mails (I don t use it anyway)
- Emptyied the Outlook e-mail box
- In Activesync: Declared that I was connecting to a Server, changed schedules to "Manually", then removed the server.
Since then, no more ActiveSync starting by itself (it still works perfectly when I connect via USB), no more slowness.
The other IMAP and POP3 mail accounts works well, and the performances are good.
Hope this will help.
Thanks the add/remove serversync tip helped me.
After having tried the direct push my device never had more than about 7 or 8 MB free program memory.
Now I am back on 11 to 12 MB. Still not muchm but better than it was.
I still dont know why i have so little memory available.
I am only running in background:
IIWPO
SmartSkeys
MS Voicecommand
and few extra today plugins:
Wireless
SIM status switcher (Wivit, WM2003 version)
HTCTodayscreen
Cant imaging this (together with the WM5 overhead takes up 32 of the available 45MB program memory!!!
Any extra clues??
Hi,
Searching why my D2 is dead some mornings whereas the batteries are good on the evening, I found out that the D2 freezes at 23h55 - and that sort of deadlock consumes the batteries during the night.
It's now 3h20AM, I have put the screen on (D2 was in standby mode, screen being off) => it mentions 23h55, and it is frozen (no response either with the stylus or the buttons).
To what could that freeze at that very particular time could be linked to?
I must add that sometimes during the day the clock is desynchronized (10 minutes late for instance, as if the phone has entered a deadlock during 10 minutes and came back to life after...)
(I created this particular thread from the batteries problem one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4780101#post4780101
as this one is a very specific behaviour, not related to 3G or common optimizations regarding batteries).
Markot said:
Hi,
Searching why my D2 is dead some mornings whereas the batteries are good on the evening, I found out that the D2 freezes at 23h55 - and that sort of deadlock consumes the batteries during the night.
It's now 3h20AM, I have put the screen on (D2 was in standby mode, screen being off) => it mentions 23h55, and it is frozen (no response either with the stylus or the buttons).
To what could that freeze at that very particular time could be linked to?
I must add that sometimes during the day the clock is desynchronized (10 minutes late for instance, as if the phone has entered a deadlock during 10 minutes and came back to life after...)
(I created this particular thread from the batteries problem one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4780101#post4780101
as this one is a very specific behaviour, not related to 3G or common optimizations regarding batteries).
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it's scared of the midnight ghost hour so it stalls before it gets there?
seriously though, i would check/delete the alarm registries (and any other time based notification you can think of)
I remember people getting ghost alarms (which would often freeze their phones) in WM5 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-242103.html)
good luck
I had the same problem, unfortunately only found a hard reset resolved the problem.
That's indeed what I've done 2 days ago, since then all runnin' fine (let's wait for 1 week to be sure, sometimes I hadn't any problem for an entire week).
I can't think of other suspects than RTremote and Galarm that were the only "sleeping" programs I had on my D2...
In the past I also saw my phone waking up at midnight, yesterday that wasn't the case.
Problem still there :-(
My phone froze Sunday evening at 23h54 (time still mentioned as it was after midnight).
This time the phone was charging, whereas being full the battery led remained orange (last times even no charging, the freeze occurred).
Only the power button was still working as previous times (to put the screen on/off).
My configuration is the following:
- Model: Touch Diamond2 T5353 (French Orange)
- ROM: 1.39.406.1 (49068) FRE (date 16/06/2009 - official 21/07/2009 HTC ROM)
- Radio version: 3.43.25.19
- Protocol version: 61.20t.25.10U
- SPL Olinex 1.83
- Lock on (code to be entered after 5min max to be enable to use the phone)
- No "dormant" application installed (as could be RTremote or Galarm)
- Applications installed: Resco Explorer (+plugings), Resco Audio recorder, Diamond Ati D3D drivers, Microsoft .NET CF 3.5, Marathon, LSD2008 Lite, GPS2Blue, ShakeAndSave, Hologram, TaskMgr, dwRuler, hdWobble, PowerRadio.
I can’t see what the source of the problem is… Any ideas?
Any similar behaviour on your phones?
Hello!
I had the same issue and realized that it was Galarm that "haunted" my Diamond 2 every night at around 23:58
As long as you don't have the above application, I would suggest a hard reset and then check D2 without installing any apps for the first night
Hello,
i have the same Problem as Markot. Only the Power-Button works. No timebased App is installed. The problem is in most cases the TD2 is connected to a charger, not only on midnight.
Bye MyPass
Hi all,
I think I got it!
Actually, to be more comprehensive with my "flashing history", I did first, some months ago, the ROM flashing with SPL Olinex 1.33 (HTC official WM 6.1).
Then I discovered "the bug" I described in this thread (and in another thread before, the battery leaks, finding my phone dead in the morning...)
Doing a hard reset did not change anything.
2 weeks ago, I decided to try the official HTC WM 6.5 release (I previously installed SPL 1.83 after having installed WM 6.1).
But not completely satisfied, I put back WM 6.1 WITH SPL 1.83 THIS TIME.
And it's working fine since then, no freeze anymore during 1,5 week.
So the problem was related to flashing WM 6.1 with SPL 1.33 - whereas when doing it with SPL 1.83, all runs like a charm.
Another clue is the blinking led on sms received (default behaviour): after flashing WM 6.1 with SPL 1.33, I have never seen it. After flashing WM 6.1 with SPL 1.83, the blinking appeared.
Cheers.
Guys,
If you are using Galarm, there is a register value "midnightwakeup", try to set it "false"
i made a hardreset and the problem was solved
i had this problem last night. as you expect i was very veri surprized. almost to be late for work. anyway, since i have bought the phone it did nothave such problem. This may be the problem "Setings tab->All Settings ->personal -> phone ->Time Zones Tab." i have remembered that i played with this particular setting last day. now i have disable it and we will see what will happen tonight.
look at yours TD2 and if this thing is checked, then unchecked it. it may help. At least wount harm
no problem so far, after unchecking this setting.