I would be very grateful if anyone could help me as I am hoping I have not lost all my contacts and data.
I have an MDA compact which addmitedley I have dropped a few times in the past 8 months, but luckily for me it has always worked fine after. That is until this morning, for some reason it has just died. The battery won't charge the phone will not power up. I have cleaned the battery connectors thinking it might be a battery issue but still nothing.
This after noon I took a visit to my local T-mobile store and upgraded my mobile to the MDA Compact 2. The problem is that when transferring the sim I remebered a few weeks back having a little clearn up and copying my contacts to the phones memory and deleting all data on my sim, stupid me I forgot to copy it back again. So now I have a dead compact that I am trying to retrieve data from to copy to my new compact 2.
I have tried using the new battery from my new compact on the old , but still no power, and it turns out that the old battery is working fine.
If anyone knows how I might be able to access the bulit in memory of my old compact I would be very, very gratful. I am more than willing to take the phone apart to achieve it.
Thanks for any ones time.
Chuck
Did you ever sync your unit with Outlook? Maybe someone with very special electronic equipment and knowhow could help you out.
ever get a utility to do this?
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Hi All
Have searched to see if this has been covered before ! but a bit of help for a newbie please
Is it possible to remove & replace the sim card without the unit losing all data etc ??
Only had the XDA11 for a couple of weeks,,all set up ok ?? with tom-tom etc, The other day had to remove the sim card for the day, so disconnected the battery for under 30 sec's, to remove the card, and replaced later that day, also within 30 sec etc, on powering up again,
all data was lost and the unit started to reload as a new unit again, is this correct,
Hope this makes sense
Best Regards TJ
I have a number of devices that I swap sims with regularly and have no problems as you describe.
Changing the SIM shouldn't cause it to hard reset only soft reset.
I have had a device that had the main battery flat but still kept its settings over a weekend on the backup battery.
Have you checked the level of the backup battery in the Power screen to see if there is any charge in it?
Thanks tyfy
Yep checked the batt levels before taking the card out, about 80% and 100 on backup etc,, but as you say, it did a hard start
Regards TJ
I can confirm the hard reset thing when I swapped SIM cards. Annoying at the time, but provided an impulse to update to 'latest' ROM. Haven't removed the SIM since, for fear of the same thing happening. If I could ever get home PC, work PC and home iMac properly synched and backed up, I'd remove it again to see what happens. Occured to me at the time that T-Mobile might have been up to some software tricks, then the paranoia left as suddenly as it arrived
Thanks Guys
I need to remove the sim card, so to fit the inbuilt carphone, O2 do not do 2 cards on the same number as yet !!
So !! is it possible to swap them around without having to do a hard start every time ??
Regards TJ
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=10673&highlight=twin+sim
Hi cruisin-thru
Thanks for the link, not quite what i am looking for,
I need 2 cards ?? with the same number, or a way of moving the card from the XDA to the car and back again without doing a hard start every time ???
Regards TJ
Did a full back up to my SD last night, then checked the battery levels, = all OK, pull the battery and SIM, counted to 42 reinserted the SIM, battery and catch for battery, and everything normal. ALL data intact.
If you have a sim that is a few years old it is possible to clone it, the modern sims however will not work as the protection has yet to be cracked, if you do search on sim clone in google you will get lots of info. If you do manage to clone your sim make sure that only one phone is switched at at any one time or you may find that the security system on your network will zap the sim if it sees 2 identical numbers logged on.
Hi Guys
Thanks for the help,, been away over the weekend,
Took the card out Fri night, (took less the 20 secs) to put into the car system,,,,guess what, another hard start,, now sat here reloading all the stuff again (ie Tomtom ) etc
Had about 80% batt power with 100% backup,, i must be doing something wrong somewhere, can not belive this happens every time the card is removed !!
Regards TJ
Are you turning the PHONE off as well as the PDA? ie: set to flight mode before you turn it off. Maybe that's the problem?
Hi All
I think GaZ,s suggestion might have cracked it !!
Remove the tom tom chip, did a back up to storage card, and put the phone into flight mode, then removed the sim card within about 15 secs,
all OK !!,, have tried a couple of time and so far all ok
Many thanks to you all for the help, appreciated
Regards Tim
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
I switch between my Wizard and Universal on and off and when I pull out the battery from wizard in order to take the sim out and put back the battery, the wizard shows the wrong time then what it had few mins ago. Universal doesn't do that at all and about two weeks ago wizard was fine too.
Any suggestions/help would be appreciated.
my Wizard has always done this. It erks me when I'm away from my PC but I live with it...
-Mc
Mine, too.
at the beginning, it is OK, but recently, once I take out the battery, the time goes back to 12:00, and date goes back to 1st Jan, 2005.
I think, maybe the backup battery is exhausted? but I check with Resco Explorer 2005, it shows that the backup battery is full.
I'm quite confusing now...
Does anyone have any solutions or insight? If there is anything that can be done, I'll be greatful and if not and someone knows that there's nothing we can do, then I will like to forget this and move on.
Hey guys,
i have a dead i-mate k-jam/wiz 200.
Until about 6 months ago i didn't know i could have soo much fun modding my phone, then a friend forwarded me here. within 20 minutes i had my spl unlocked and was modding away, best thing i ever did with a phone.
Now, my wizard is dead and i had to purchase (god forsake it a nokia 6121 classic), yes you have full permission to shoot me for a fairly un moddable phone however, it lights up and makes phone calls while i drool at the HTC diamond...
my main question is i have everything backed up on mini-sd from the wizard and would like to know is there a dedicated PC only program (like pimbackup) that i can use to retrieve the data, i have almost 200 contacts i can't retrieve plus some sms messages i DO need and hope their is a PC based software that does the same as PIM backup does for the phone?
does anyone know of a dedicated PC software that can handle the work?
Well lemme ask you this, how is your Wizard dead? Does it not boot? Not charge? Not turn on etc..? And what did you do to get it to the way that it is...it may be reversable with the proper steps.
If you can't connect it to something (be it GPRS, WiFi, or ActiveSync), you can't retrieve data from it, that's pretty much going to be the end of that story, unless someone can point out a test bed you could plug an unpowered phone into and retrieve data with.
This is why you should always:
Back up important contact numbers to your SIM card, so you can switch phones on the fly without losing contact info
Sync your phone and duplicate your contact lists with Outlook (or you can try Thunderbird/Finchsync), so you can recover after a critical failure
try not to brick your phone
Still confused...
ashasaur said:
Well lemme ask you this, how is your Wizard dead? Does it not boot? Not charge? Not turn on etc..? And what did you do to get it to the way that it is...it may be reversable with the proper steps.
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To be exact for about 4 days it would power on but after around 1-2 minutes it would fade to white on the screen, i somewhat suspect water damage, but i have been careful with the device.
Never modded something i was at least unsure of. now even if i try charging it doesn't work, even with a replacement battery i tried. It shouldn't be the rom cos i haven't had problems other than the usual you get with a few weeks use.
hasn't been overclocked (although i have been extremely curious about O/C'ing a phone )
Miss my k-jam
Myrddin Wyllt said:
If you can't connect it to something (be it GPRS, WiFi, or ActiveSync), you can't retrieve data from it, that's pretty much going to be the end of that story, unless someone can point out a test bed you could plug an unpowered phone into and retrieve data with.
This is why you should always:
Back up important contact numbers to your SIM card, so you can switch phones on the fly without losing contact info
Sync your phone and duplicate your contact lists with Outlook (or you can try Thunderbird/Finchsync), so you can recover after a critical failure
try not to brick your phone
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Sadly i only have a mini usb cord to use as charger so it narrows possible fault finding options down
i still have the data on mini-sd but now-days nowhere has SD capability and i backed up to PIM backup regurlaly.
Always synched it (with the company i was working for, since then they've deleted the profile for reserve space )
would push the boundaries but nothing that *should* brick the phone itself..
for a while it would power on, get to the windows 6.1 splash screen, boot then just randomly fade to white..
only thing i can put it down to is weather damage..but even then?!
any way i can retrieve the data from a pim backup file?? (that's on the SD card itself?)
2 years later...
Well I fixed the unit finally.
Seems that the battery went completely flat and wouldn't charge which i resolved by splicing a USB cable and attaching to the battery itself.
Now that the phone charges i can't connect to PC in Win 7 x64, XP etc. i think my soldering job on the mini USB port is to blame.
The rom i previously had loaded crashes (fade to white then restart) whenever i open the text messages menu regardless of how many messages may be stored etc.
What i'm hoping to do is flash an old official rom, trial for a few days then re flash a new rom, is it possible to flash directly from an SD card?
The information i've found so far is rather vague and from what i could find says you need to run mtty and winhex but that's where it ended.
Anyone else attempted the SD card method?
Device info:
Rom's a TNT based one WM 6.1.0.0 (don't have original RUU anymore so don't remember specifics)
G3 Wizard
IPL - 3.08
SPL - 3.08
GSM - 02.19.11
Hi,
I've had my Omnia over a year now and it's just developed a problem. The phone can be working fine all day long, but after a while I'll realise that's haven't get any calls/texts/emails for a while even though the phone tells me it has signal. I turns out that it doesn't and I need to reboot the phone to get reception again.
However, when it reboots the battery is drained to the point that battery saver kicks in and the phone needs to be recharged. It's very annoying because you can't tell that the phone's stopped working as it looks fine until you try to use it.
I'm thinking that it either needs a hard reset or repair. Before I try a hard reset I'd really like to back up as much as I can, specifically the SMS messages as most of the rest is cloud based anyway. Is there a tool out the that can fully backup my phone before I try a hard reset or reflash?
Also, with regards to a repair I see that Samsungs UK warranty is two years and transferable between end users. I bought my phone from someone who had it as an unwanted upgrade from T Mobile. I have their original purchase receipt, they included it in the sale. If a reset doesn't work, do I have the right to a warranty repair as the handset is less than two years old and has never been unlocked, tweaked or tinkered with.
DC