How could that happen to me?
Two days ago there was a heavy rain shower and I left my beloved wizard in the outside pocket of my laptop case. I didn't realized that the rain was so heavy that the wizard got wet :evil: When I took it out of the pocket the keyboard and the speaker were really wet. So I took out the battery, let it dry for some time and the good news is that it is starting up and running perfectly at first sight.
But now comes the strange & sad part
The conn manager key (key 5), the left softkey and the internet key (upper right key) are showing REALLY strange behavior. When I press them eighter the right softkey menu opens up (contacts, mail context menu, ect.) or it jumps to voice dial (normally key 4). That happens with all the three keys!
I thought it might be some dirt left by the water inside the wizard, so I opend it for cleaning (did that before, so I know what I was doing ), but everything looks all right and no sign of a water "damage". I noticed another strange thing during the tests: When I press one of the three keys the keyboard lights are turned on :?: That's not normal, or?! They aren't lighting up when pressing for example the camera key.
Really strange, does anyone has a good idea what might have gone wrong? Or does one of our experts has a tip how to fix it or what might be the cause?
Any help would be fine, because I would like to try to avoid to buy a Hermes for some more time :?
Thanks in advance,
Jago
P.S.: I just found out that the keyboard left and right softkey aren't working the way they should eighter. But all other keys seem to work like they should...
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Jago said:
How could that happen to me?
Two days ago there was a heavy rain shower and I left my beloved wizard in the outside pocket of my laptop case. I didn't realized that the rain was so heavy that the wizard got wet :evil: When I took it out of the pocket the keyboard and the speaker were really wet. So I took out the battery, let it dry for some time and the good news is that it is starting up and running perfectly at first sight.
But now comes the strange & sad part
The conn manager key (key 5), the left softkey and the internet key (upper right key) are showing REALLY strange behavior. When I press them eighter the right softkey menu opens up (contacts, mail context menu, ect.) or it jumps to voice dial (normally key 4). That happens with all the three keys!
I thought it might be some dirt left by the water inside the wizard, so I opend it for cleaning (did that before, so I know what I was doing ), but everything looks all right and no sign of a water "damage". I noticed another strange thing during the tests: When I press one of the three keys the keyboard lights are turned on :?: That's not normal, or?! They aren't lighting up when pressing for example the camera key.
Really strange, does anyone has a good idea what might have gone wrong? Or does one of our experts has a tip how to fix it or what might be the cause?
Any help would be fine, because I would like to try to avoid to buy a Hermes for some more time :?
Thanks in advance,
Jago
P.S.: I just found out that the keyboard left and right softkey aren't working the way they should eighter. But all other keys seem to work like they should...
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it's probably because the water shorted out those keys. I've spilled water on my PC's keyboard before and all the keys got garbled. Y's because O's and T's became S's. It seems to me like the same sort of thing.
You will need to let it completely dry out. I'm not sure if you problem will slowly go away or not if you keep using it, but the surefire way to fix a wet wizard is to let it sit someplace warm with the battery out for 3 weeks.....
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Hi Guy's
I am getting annoyed with Internet Explorer. It keeps opening when I recieve a call. As I end the call there is a pop up box asking if I want to connect. I allways say no and then close IE. Does anybody know how to stop IE doing this as it is a pain. I only want to open it when I want to go on the internet and not on almost every call.
TIA
this could be a dumb question, but are you accidentally pressing the IE button with your cheek when you make a call?
Maybe not such a dumb question, considering where the button is it is possible the when i put the phone to my ear it does touch my cheek without my noticeing it. I will experiment.
if it is the case is ther a way to dissable that button
TIA
I cannot imagine that is the case; you have to press the button pretty hard (on my device anyway); I think you would hurt your ear or at least hear the "click" if you happen to accidently pressing the device that hard to the ear.
Martin
believe it or not there have been multiple TyTN users that never noticed the top rocker button... and there have been more than a few complaints about IE and Mail starting in the middle of a conversation...
coincidence? Methinks not...
My TyT sometimes srarts up IE for no apparent reason... ummm... Holy Crap! That bar over the lights is a rocker button? Crap, I've been using this thing for over three weeks and never knew about it. Thought the drawn on icons were just to represent the lights (internet happens to be above the WiFi light). Wonder how I missed that, considering I have read the entire instruction booklet.
Hi Guy's
Well I have solved my problem with IE, as goestoeleven pointed out I could be pressing the "WnW" button by mistake. Well I had a call today which I did not put the phone to my face but used the speaker, yep it still did it.
The problem I found was not to me pressing the button on the phone but putting it into the case supplied with the phone. As you can see the buttons are slighly raised (this does not help).
Every time I put the phone into the case, because the lid has two strong magnets it slaps shut quite hard. This force causes the button to be pushed in and thereby starting IE. This tends to happen mainly if the screen is facing out.
I thought it was every time I answered a call that IE started but it was already on from the last time I put it in the holster.
To resolve this make sure the screen is facing inward so the magnets are on the back, this should reduce the impact.
But!!! I supposed if you have the phone on the holster and nock into something this cauld also trigger IE.
It would have been better if the button were recessed then it would not happen.
I hope this will solve this issue for some of you at least
P.S. This will might also answear the "Mail" starting on its own as the button is also on the same rocker although this has not happend to me...
mutsoft said:
phone on the holster
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Its a phone not a gun :lol: :lol: :lol:
This problem has happened to me a few times and ive put it down to me touching the wnw button at the top when taking the phone out of the case.
I'm having a strange problem with the hard and soft buttons on my phone.
I went to the park to take the kids to the pool yesterday. No, I didn't get within 100 feet of the pool with my phone. It was not placed anywhere wet and no one, as far as I can tell, got close enough to drip on it. It acts like it got water inside, but unless it somehow condensed from the air or from sweaty hands, I don't know how that could have occurred.
Anyways, I had set my phone up and when I picked it back up, it was like I kept pressing the messaging and IE buttons. Eventually letter keys on the keyboard like Q and E kept appearing as well. Every now and then it would work fine for a few minutes and then start up again. After leaving the phone out in the direct sun for awhile, it stopped doing that even as much but some of the keyboard keys and most of the soft keys seem not to want to work at all, neither do the two phone keys or the directional pad. Pressing the middle button on the directional pad causes the alignment screen to come up (???).
Making matters more confusing is the fact that on a couple of occasions when I did a soft reset the buttons would seem to function normally for a time. Most recently it happened last night when I went out to lunch. I had reset my phone and all of the buttons seemed to work fine again for several minutes. I got back from lunch and proceeded to browse the forums here. When I went back to my phone a bit later and had to wake it from standby, the issues returned. I have since flashed to a new ROM but have experienced no change in the symptoms and have not gotten the buttons to work with a reset since, though I've admittedly only tried a couple of times. When I tried doing a hard reset, it instead went to the bootloader screen.
So, yeah, I'm confused. It acts like it got moisture in it but I don't know how that could have happened unless it was just from my hand. In any case, trying to dry it doesn't seem to have helped. Does anybody have any ideas on this or am I buried? It's several months still before I can upgrade to a new phone at a discount with my provider and I really don't have the money to do so in any case. I can use the touch screen but, let's face it, the WM interface is a lot easier to navigate sometimes with the buttons. I'm holding out big hope for the WNAIP project to succeed here though. Of course, that's not to mention I can't play games like Tetris without a working directional pad.
Okay, it's pretty much gotten to the point where none of the physical buttons works, hard or soft, and even some of the kb buttons don't work.
Anyone?
My HTC Prophet's DPad has partially stopped working.
First of the UP stopped working, then several hours later the LEFT key didnt respond. Ive tryed cleaning the DPad and a soft reset to no avail.
When i leave the phone after 5 seconds it acts a if the left direction is being pressed and held. This action stops when i press the right or down key.
Anyone know what may be going on?
Back up your info then try hard reset.
It sounds like a hardware problem, but thats the only way to be sure.
Unfortunately if this is a hardware fault the only solution would be to take it to the lab.
Moving to prophet section.
Tryed HR, no avail.
Im pretty sure its hardware issue. There is grass stuck inside the casing which is impossible to reach. Everynow and again a small piece falls out.
Since yesterday im now able to scroll left. So i can only not scroll up now. Ill have to drive over some cobbles with the phone in the cradle to try dislodge some more.
My M700 (orange rom, new radio rom) is having problems with the buttons (or is it?)
Basically, I noticed things were happening without me pressing buttons, occasionally (like when Im in a phone call) it will flash up that I cannot put this call on hold (though I didnt try to)- or when I'm in GPS (TomTom) it occasionally goes back to the options screen without me pressing anything.
I also noticed that occasionally the scroll wheel wont work on the side, and if i press the memo button opposite, it goes to the "realign my screen" program (which happens when you press them both together) but then it works normally again
Finally the little directional pad at the bottom has stopped working sometimes (including the button in the middle, but not the buttons surrounding them ie ok, windows hang up, make a call etc) -
Anyway - it seems to me like either there is a software problem, or that one of the buttons is being activated continuously, possibly by dirt, which might explain the intermittent nature of the fault.
Does anybody have any similar experience?
And...
What should I do - look at potential software problems, or hardware - (Im thinking hardware) should I take it to bits and clean it?
Thanks for reading my lengthy post, and I really appreciate any help from anyone, especially from people who've had this problem and fixed it
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Whilst examining my pda, I dropped it onto the floor, and everything started working again - I'm beginning to think that its the silver button in the middle of the direction pad that is causing the fault, as when I hold it on it has all the same effects -
So, if this is the case, does anyone have any ideas, how to clean it easily? (if it is a hardware problem that is- it lives in my pocket and get pretty dusty so it could be)
Recently the end key button on my Titan has become a button that I need to press with a good amount of force on the very left or right side of it to have it work. I have ruled out a ROM problem (was using a prior DCD rom, now using 3.2.6) and I have never dropped my phone or had any extreme pressure/vibrations.
Has anyone else has this happen? The button still sounds like it clicks like all of the other buttons. Are there instructions out there for taking apart the Titan, or at least the front of it?
suprax said:
Recently the end key button on my Titan has become a button that I need to press with a good amount of force on the very left or right side of it to have it work. I have ruled out a ROM problem (was using a prior DCD rom, now using 3.2.6) and I have never dropped my phone or had any extreme pressure/vibrations.
Has anyone else has this happen? The button still sounds like it clicks like all of the other buttons. Are there instructions out there for taking apart the Titan, or at least the front of it?
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how do you carry your phone? My VZW case would press my down arrow in and that caused alot of issues with the arrow. might be your case just wearing it out. remember, you dont have to drop it to wear out the metal contact underneath the button.
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how do you carry your phone? My VZW case would press my down arrow in and that caused alot of issues with the arrow. might be your case just wearing it out. remember, you dont have to drop it to wear out the metal contact underneath the button.
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I carry is in my right side pocket in my pants, without anything else in there (keys, etc). I've had it since January of this year and babied it pretty well so I'm just surprised that with normal usage the button would become that hard to press.
I guess my options are taking it apart to look or bringing it to Verizon.
i posted a similar thread about the End key not to long ago... I had to press it extra hard to get it to register, then it just finally stopped working... i then had to use the touch screen end button... I got tired of it, so i took it back to sprint and they replaced my Mogul for free (as of 10/27/08). i also had issue with my keyboard, which keep repeating certain letters and having to type very hard to make them work. I searched and found a zip-file program that fixed that issue... but if you cant find a solution to the End Key problem, take it back to the store and let them handle it.
The Titan keyfix cab has fixed many of our problems with the keyboard and hard keys. Worth a shot I guess...
was your phone insured to be replaced?