So I came across a tmobile mda (wizard g3) from a buddy of mine. He was having a couple problems so he bought a new blackberry curve. He was having a couple issues with it so i decided to take it and play with it a bit. I own a Wing so I am pretty familiar with the phone.
My problem is this. Just recently the phone started malfunctioning. The keyboard will sometimes not work at all, and other times only some buttons work. In addition i'm pretty sure that some of the buttons on the front of the phone were malfunctioning too. Other than that all is good.
I took the phone and CID unlocked it and installed a couple different ROMs to see if it were possibly a software problem. It was giving me problems with all of the different roms. Currently it is running the oem Tmobile 2.26 rom.
Has anyone had any issues like this. It almost seems as if there is a bad connection to the keyboard. Can anybody shine any light on this problem?
any help is appreciated!
mrmikemcguire said:
So I came across a tmobile mda (wizard g3) from a buddy of mine. He was having a couple problems so he bought a new blackberry curve. He was having a couple issues with it so i decided to take it and play with it a bit. I own a Wing so I am pretty familiar with the phone.
My problem is this. Just recently the phone started malfunctioning. The keyboard will sometimes not work at all, and other times only some buttons work. In addition i'm pretty sure that some of the buttons on the front of the phone were malfunctioning too. Other than that all is good.
I took the phone and CID unlocked it and installed a couple different ROMs to see if it were possibly a software problem. It was giving me problems with all of the different roms. Currently it is running the oem Tmobile 2.26 rom.
Has anyone had any issues like this. It almost seems as if there is a bad connection to the keyboard. Can anybody shine any light on this problem?
any help is appreciated!
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It's definitely not a software problem,it's more a Hardware, either the keyboard needs cleaning or it's faulty and must be replaced.
I was thinking the same thing. im going to take it apart and clean it up. If all else fails, where can I find a keyboard?
mrmikemcguire said:
I was thinking the same thing. im going to take it apart and clean it up. If all else fails, where can I find a keyboard?
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You can get a new one from ebay,check for their prices.You can also search this forum there are some members who are offering their phones for sale,there was one ad the other day for putting up his wizard for sale,hmmm let me check if I can find out the link for you...... yeah ! it's right here,check out this and see if you can cut a deal with him for keyboard only
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=327778
Cheers
Its been a while since ive been on here. I didnt know if anyone had found a solution to the MDA locking up issue.
My phone sometimes locks up 2-3 times a day and others not for 3 days. I find it locks up more when i receive a text message.
I recently cracked my screen and just wanted to let you know that since my screen cracked 2 weeks ago, my phone has not locked up once. I have been texting and calling people the same amount but it has not locked up on me once.
Just thought it would be a useful tidbit of info in case you guys are still working on it. If solution has been found please point me in the proper direction.
Thanks
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Anyone famaliar with the MDA freezing issue?
Also how much of an upgrade is the Wing compared to the MDA? When i looked over them, they looked about the same as far as processer/ram
I am about to get a p3600i in a few days.. any warnings or anything i need to know about this phone. i flashed my himalaya into non existance many years ago and my tornado is running wm6 now and i love xda-dev but from what im reading in the forums, no one knows jack about this device yet.... can i network unlock it? supercid??? etc etc. tried following posts but too much confusion with having p3600 and 3600i in the same froum so i cant always make sense of whats being posted.
Any help appreciated!
EDIT REASON: GOT THE DEVICE!!
Well thanks for the heaps of input guys
only irritating thing i found with this device (p3600i) so far is the stylus being right next to the camera button so every time i go for the stylus i start camera. definate annoyance!
I have been searching for a couple of days now and cannot find any information about this, so I'm hoping someone has an idea.
I caught a glimpse of a friend's Nokia N95 a few days ago and noticed it showed the time on the LCD while the phone was locked. I find myself unlocking my Touch HD constantly to check the time so I'd find something like this very useful.
Obviously it would need to be dim as to not waste too much battery power.
Has anyone seen anything like this for the Touch HD?
FuLLm0On said:
I have been searching for a couple of days now and cannot find any information about this, so I'm hoping someone has an idea.
I caught a glimpse of a friend's Nokia N95 a few days ago and noticed it showed the time on the LCD while the phone was locked. I find myself unlocking my Touch HD constantly to check the time so I'd find something like this very useful.
Obviously it would need to be dim as to not waste too much battery power.
Has anyone seen anything like this for the Touch HD?
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A few options, my personal favourite being LockMeLite V1.3 which display date/time/sms notification though there is plenty of other apps out there. Duttys latest WM6.5 rom has a similar app pre-installed which also displays date/time/sms notification
Hello - I've been searching these forums and the wiki and Google too looking for a solution to this but so far, can't find a solution so hope members here can help:
I recently got another XDA Exec and a week ago, the phone mic stopped working. I know its not a hardware problem as the phone can record my voice for notes.
I've done a few hard resets and each time, nothing changes, so am truly baffled.
I'd be very grateful for any answers to this, and apologise in advance if I have missed an answer that has already been posted - I have tried searching, honest!
Cheers,
JB
Jon Brown said:
Hello - I've been searching these forums and the wiki and Google too looking for a solution to this but so far, can't find a solution so hope members here can help:
I recently got another XDA Exec and a week ago, the phone mic stopped working. I know its not a hardware problem as the phone can record my voice for notes.
I've done a few hard resets and each time, nothing changes, so am truly baffled.
I'd be very grateful for any answers to this, and apologise in advance if I have missed an answer that has already been posted - I have tried searching, honest!
Cheers,
JB
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Try another ROM...perhaps?
I could do, but before I attempt anything like that - something I've not done before - I wanted to figure out how to remedy it with the existing ROM, which is the O2 one installed without all of O2's own stuff.
It was working perfectly well with this ROM before....in fact the only thing I can think of that might somehow have caused this was me pairing the XDA with a bluetooth handsfree set the same day. It might just be coincidence, it might not - I can't tell.
I suppose what I'm hoping for is some guidance re any settings on the device that I don't know about that have caused this, or the necessary registry edit to remedy the problem. Its odd that the phone mic worked before then stopped working, despite hard resets with the same ROM. Forgive my naivety, but I thought ordinary user-level tweaks didn't affect the core settings of the ROM....or am I wrong?
Cheers,
JB
PS - Lower Hutt! I remember seeing it through the mist one day after catching the ferry from the South Island before heading off to Cuba Street for a boozy afternoon...
Yup, got exactly the same problem before buying my HD.
I thinked that my micro was dead and didn't try to fix it before.
Just now i got here to search another rom to test and i saw this thread highlighted
The rom on my universal is TOMAL 8.0 or more i don't exactly remember the version, what's yours ?
I will download another version to check if the micro will be alright and give some feedback
Jon Brown said:
I could do, but before I attempt anything like that - something I've not done before - I wanted to figure out how to remedy it with the existing ROM, which is the O2 one installed without all of O2's own stuff.
It was working perfectly well with this ROM before....in fact the only thing I can think of that might somehow have caused this was me pairing the XDA with a bluetooth handsfree set the same day. It might just be coincidence, it might not - I can't tell.
I suppose what I'm hoping for is some guidance re any settings on the device that I don't know about that have caused this, or the necessary registry edit to remedy the problem. Its odd that the phone mic worked before then stopped working, despite hard resets with the same ROM. Forgive my naivety, but I thought ordinary user-level tweaks didn't affect the core settings of the ROM....or am I wrong?
Cheers,
JB
PS - Lower Hutt! I remember seeing it through the mist one day after catching the ferry from the South Island before heading off to Cuba Street for a boozy afternoon...
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Could be a range of reasons, from some program install or addition to the software set to files going missing. Trying a new ROM or reflashing with the original (but believe me, once you try new WM6.1 You'll probably never go back) might be one of the solutions. Flashing of ROM is a piece of cake, however, I recommend reading as much as possible on the procedure and ways to remedy the unexpected situations before you begin. Everything you may possibly need and answers to all your questions is contained in a Wiki - have a look and ask questions if you cannot find answers and are completely stuck.
Heh, Lower Hutt is on the opposite side of the harbour, coming from SI.
I reflashed with TOMAL 8.9 and micro works very well now
i readed too fast yesterday and didn't see that you're using the original rom, like enigma1nz suggest you, i suggest you too to try a 6.1 rom, it's really great and improve a lot the speed/touch felling/etc for the universal.
Plus it's really easy to flash a rom, it's not necessery to read a lot of documentation,
you just need to connect your universal to pc with activesync (4.5)
and launch the exe file from the rom