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I have an O2 XDA2. I just took the phone out of my jacket pocket to find that it wanted me to calibrate the screen. It went on to take me through the whole set-up wizard and then I found that all my data and installed programs had been lost
I'm guessing the phone decided it wanted to reset itself!
Does anyone have any idea why this might have happened so I can avoid it happening again?
The phone had plenty of battery power (approx 80%). It had plenty of space space (approx 28MB). I hadn't recently installed any software although I did uninstall Pocket Money on the weekend. I also created an IMAP email account then but I've had no problem with the phone since then until now.
Any ideas? Thanks very much
would prob be a good idear if you stated the rom version you are using
Sorry, It's 1.60.00 WWE
I have never upgraded it as I haven't the first idea how or what the implications are.
the latest officail rom is 1.72
if you get that from their site you will not get warrenty issues
when i used 1.66 i had lockups from time to time
after i got 1.72
i havent had any issues
I don't really feel comfortable upgrading it as I haven't the first idea what to do.
How do you normally reset a device? Is it something I could have done by accident?
there is a little hole in the buttom of it in the right corner if you press that using something thin like the stylus while you press the on button
then it hardreset
but there is software which let you do it as well
the upgrade is really pretty simpel
Thanks very much. I know the reset button, I use that every now and again. There's no way I could have pressed it and the on switch by accident given tha the phone was in an otherwise empty jacket pocket.
Oh well, I guess my phone just had enough of life. I'll look into upgrading the ROM when I feel a bit more adventurous
Fabulous...My phone has again decided to reset itself out of the blue.
I have no idea why it does this but it's a pain in the rear. Has anyone seen this before? Does anyone know if there's anything I can do to prevent it? (other than upgrading to the Universal when it comes out!!)
And it's happened again...seems to happen approximately once a month.
Has this spontaneous hard reset issue not happened to anyone else?
I suffered this audacious curse only to find that by removing my 1gig sd card remedied the problem.
I'm wondering if the sd card draws too much power/resources or whether I have a dodgy sd card.
Either way, without it I'm flying. I pop it in when I need to use my TomTom and as it's on charge in the car cradle it doesnt matter about resource usage etc.
So, try removing your sd card and see what goes
SD cards seem to be causing all sorts of problems. I kept getting the eternal spinning timer when copy, paste or deleting files, if the card was inserted. Did a soft reset today to be met with the calibration screen as from a hard reset. Such fun isnt it. :roll:
Hi Guys
Thanks very much for your comments. Unfortunately it isn't the cause as I have had my SD slot empty for a while now (my SD card is in my new car radio/MP3 player )
I'm starting to think that after 15 months my XDA2 has decided that it's had enough of the world. My colleague told me that it's seeking revenge as it's heard me salivate over its younger sister (the Universal).
As you say having the phone hard reset itself is a whole lot of fun!
I have the Sprite Back Up programe so all is not lost - it creates an exe file on the SD card that you locate and select thus restoring everything just how it was before it was lost
one can also just have activesync do an inc backup at each sync
and if the device hardresets one can connect as guest and restore the backup from ones normal profile
The nice thing about the Sprite software is that you can restore when you're out and about unlike the active sync method which means you need your pc close by
Over the past couple of months I have noticed a number of small issues with my Athena, and have resorted to soft-booting more and more often.
Recently I tried both MemMaid and Pocket Mechanic. The former found a number of registry issues, the latter several problems with microdrive. Several e-mails to the PM guys had me running a de-bug version of their scandisk program, but I never got it to sort out the microdrive.
So I hard re-set
MUCH better - at least for a week or two. Decided to put in a bigger SD card (8gb) which arrived yesterday. When I looked at the music folder on the microdrive, one folder was completely corrupted, so I copied only programs and data from md onto sd card, then reformatted the md
Just went to look at a program on the microdrive and Total Commander froze. Soft reboot and everything fine again. But now I am concerned the microdrive is on the way out.
The machine is 3-4 years old and is used every day. Syncs to both home and work e-mail/calendaring and contains my life, frankly. I do not want to change, but would appreciate any advice.
Should I just forget about the microdrive and keep everything on the sd card?
Thanks
Robert
It does sound like classic hard drive "beginning of the end".
I'd be tempted to just stick everything on an sd card and leave the Micro Drive alone.
Thanks, good advice.
If by any bad luch the machine is actually on its way out, what should I replace it with? Is the x7510 a better bet?
I have my car all set up for the Advantage and I love the 5" screen, so not really attraced to the HD2 at present
Similar issues w/ Microdrive
Yeah, I've been having trouble with my Athena (X7500) for a couple of months now.
In early January, my device got stuck in the bootup phase of any soft-reset; only way to fix the problem was a hard-reset to delete all of my memory. (I keep all of my important stuff backed up, so the only inconvenience is re-installing software and getting my data restored.)
About a month later in February, the device hard reset itself and blew away everything I had loaded. This time, my MicroDrive would not show up for about 2 hours while I tried to figure out how to fix it.
MD began working again, and everything is cool now, but I decided to use the MD for data only (and keep it backed up, of course) and install my programs to the SD card (8GB).
We'll see how it goes. I'm fortunate enough to have purchased a friend's old Athena "super-cheap" after he fell into a lake with it. I managed to get everything working except for the VGA/USB Host port. (The USB sync port works if you plug it in, then go to standby/powerup again.) I'll try taking the MD from this device if mine goes out.
Still having issues, even after moving everything from the microdrive and running just from memory + SD card.
Question: does the main memory degrade? Will a hard-reset do anything? will a re-flash acheive anything a hard-reset doesn't?
I am loath to part with this work-horse. And concerned about buying a second-hand one from e-bay without understanding a bit more
Appreciate any suggestions
Thanks
Hey everyone, I really need your help.
my 16GB microsd died last night, here's what happened:
I had gotten google music beta on wednesday, last night i was showing it to a friend, then clicked home. I have Watchdog installed, which told me music was taking up a lot of CPU, so i went in and killed it. instantly, android notified me that the sdcard had been ejected. then it popped up and told me that a blank card had been inserted. I was confused at first, but didn't do anything with the card, I took it out, reseated it with the phone off, started backup, same issue. I put the card into a card reader on my win7 pc, no luck, the card really is dead. It shows up with a drive letter, but notifies me that the card needs to be formatted.
Does anyone have experience recovering data from flash drives? I always backup my roms to the card, and apps using titanium, but I never ever thought of backing up the entire contents of the sdcard elsewhere. HELP!?
http://www.piriform.com/recuva
Use that on windows, it worked when my sd got messed up. This is assuming the files are still on the sd and not gone completely. You could try the repair option in windows if you have Vista/7, not sure about macs or linux.
Thanks but right now windows is telling me that the drive is not accessible. recuva is also saying "the parameter is incorrect". I can't see anything on the card. I think i need some low level scan type stuff, but I have no idea what program goes that deep.
phuzznut said:
Thanks but right now windows is telling me that the drive is not accessible. recuva is also saying "the parameter is incorrect". I can't see anything on the card. I think i need some low level scan type stuff, but I have no idea what program goes that deep.
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Sorry, don't know of any software like that. You may need to format if you can find no solutions.
I had the same problem a couple of weeks ago, but the last application that I used and caused the card's premature death was some FM radio app.
Since it is not recognized in any device whatsoever, I don't see any software that can help you even attempt to recover, fix or format the card.
But I learned a lesson: I always used to do backups once in a while, but when the card fubared I just learnt the hard way that I wish I had made backups more frequent...
This weekend I was driving along and my CoPilot stopped working. Then I noticed that a couple of other apps weren't working and that the camera said it wouldn't take photo's until I inserted the SD card. I've had an 8GB card in there for the last 18 months.
Taking the card out of the phone and putting it in the PC does nothing. The PC at first says the card needs formatting but if you say yes it just says, insert a card.
I took some pictures at a friends Stag Party and I really need to get these pics off the card. I don't care about anything else.
I've tried a few of these "recover your images from a corrupted or formatted card" programs but they all require the card to be visible to the PC for them to work.
Has anyone get any ideas? Please help me
You could try a differnt card reader/different pc and hope that it works then, but tbo if its borked then with paying lots for data recovery, I'd say your out of luck
Sadly, I think you might be right. Looks like that card has gone to silicone heaven to be with all the calculators.
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Sadly, I think you might be right. Looks like that card has gone to silicone heaven to be with all the calculators.
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I would try every usb plug you have on your computer. i had the same problem and i kept at it. it took me several days to finally get it to work & to be honest im not sure why/how it did but i was thankful none the less.
i used this program & like i said i just kept trying. what worked 4 me was i held the card in the computer but only half way which the computer then was able to see the card. if you format the card you will lose everything on it so if you want pics off it & you format it you wont be able 2 recover them.
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if you format the card you will lose everything on it so if you want pics off it & you format it you wont be able 2 recover them.
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Thanks for the advice I'll give it a shot.
I thought at least if I could get it formatted then I could use some picture recovery software to get the pics back. It's so frustrating because there are only about 10 pics that I'm even bothered about. Everything else it backed up
hopefully that program will let you see that card, it did with mine eventhough though computer wouldnt. odd i know. i wouldnt apply or mess around to much with that program if you dont know what your doing because you can make it more difficult to regain your images. i gave the link 4 version 5 but i used version 6. i couldnt find it earlier 2 post, sorry. they do have a data recovery program that i used as well but ill have to hunt it down 1st & then i'll post the link.
i bought a hacked 16gb memory stick off ebay (!%$#@&$) that became corrupted and i was able to recover some of my files using the programs below. hope this will help you out.
MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition 6.0
MiniTool Power Data Recovery
Thanks a lot man. I'd managed to find those from your first link. In fact, Partition Wizard actually suggests the 2nd program if the first one doesn't find anything
I've run Partition Wizard against it. It took all night after starting it at about 9pm it finished at 8am this morning. It thought my 8GB card was a 2TB drive but hey, at least it could see something which is more than any other tool.
I didn't find anything using that one but I'm going to try the Power Data Recovery tonight. Fingers crossed.
Strange problem this morning.
I was moving pictures around using Fish Bowl Gallery. The app froze while deleting a picture/photo and had to reboot to get things going again. My phone then now cant read the external SD card. The phone is asking me to re-format.
I've very reluctant to format and looking for advice on what else I can do to fix this without reformatting the SD card.
With my reckoning I doubt there is much more I can do but thought better to ask just in case.
Strange:
I'm in the office so it's hard to use my PC for diagnostics as I don't have Hi Suite or drivers installed on the office PC.
Went up the road an bought a multi card USB adaptor ($7). The PC reads the card fine (which is great as I can now do a back up).
Will play with it a bit more and see what happens.
Maybe I am lucky but...
after backing up the SD card I popped it back in, rebooted and everything is back to "normal".
I had something like that on my card... i had to format it, and worked again, but know it corruptes the files or they disappear.
I runned some diagnostics tests and nothing appear.... no idea of what is happening with my samsung card :S