I raised this a while back on Modaco, so sorry for anyone seeing it again.
My Vario2 has a problem where it goes into a long (about 2min) lock-up when I try to access the phone app (where you change ringtones etc). Nothing else causes it to hang, just that. It makes not difference if I have a memory card in or not.
Last time I had this, I did a hard reset and it went away. Now it's back and I can't bear reinstalling all my apps again! restoring a backup last time also restored the problem, so I guess it's a software issue.
Is this a known problem for anyone else? Is there a fix?
Thx
PP
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Hi folks, I receieved an sms whilst away from my phone (so i didnt see a preview) and now nothign works! Backlight is on all the time and the bottom of the screen has OK and Menu - in that order which is odd as OK is generally on the right. I have tried a soft reset and a battery removal but its still the same. Short of a hard reset is there anything else I can try?? Does that sound familiar to anyone else?
Many Thanks
Seems not after all. I kept resetting and it envtually came back ok.
aprmike said:
Seems not after all. I kept resetting and it envtually came back ok.
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Yes, it's curious how sometimes it takes a few soft resets to overcome an issue. You would think that having the battery removed for a while would have removed anything lurking around in temp files and memory.
Mike
Is the system responsive at all?
Ie can you do anything except hard reset?
Try syncing with your PC, and then you might want to erase a few of the default databases, eg pim.vol, in case they have become corrupted.
V
I've had my unlocked Cingular 8525 for about 3-4 months now, and never really had a problem with it. At first it worked great, but recently more and more when i have it open to text and then close it the screen would get garbled and messed up, easy fix of just hittin the end call button a few times and it would clear right up. Well friday my phone apparently decides it has had enough of me.. It froze up. So as a fix all on my part i just ripped the battery out and put it back in, worked fine for a few seconds then froze again. So i thought maybe it was because i had so many text on my phone (over 8000 in my inbox and around 7300 in my outbox), so i started deleting all of those. After doing all that it continued to freeze and lock up in the middle of doing things. It has been doing it since friday morning now, and i have no idea what to do to fix it. It had all the original 8525 rom and os and everything on it, i just flashed to Windows Mobile VI - Black Edition 3.0.1 a few hours ago, and it worked perfectly...for like 45 minutes. Then it went right back to freezing all the time, when it freezes it doesnt have to be in standby, i could be writing a text, or clicking through a menu, or changing a setting, ANYTHING. I love the phone but idk what made it start doing this, i didnt change a single setting and i have never uploaded any programs or anything, just the stock progs from cingular and i uploaded a few ringtones. I have read that it could be the storage card, but it seems odd that it would just start doing it after the card i have has been in for months now (Sandisk2.0G). Idk what it could be, im at a loss..
ok guess my phone is just jacked then...
My old Alpine used to freeze up with TomTom (before they patched it to 5.21) because of the SD card problem, but I don't think it's related to the problem you're having.
It sounds more to me like a hardware problem - do you get any other symptoms exhibited by the handset when you get the freezing issue, or does it just happen without any warning?
Have you tried installing something like acbTaskMan to monitor your CPU usage and maybe log to a file to see if there's any excessive CPU usage before a freeze?
Hi there,
I have a HTC trinity with the hellboy rom on, Just randomly today it has started restarting in a loop, it won't go into windows, it gets the Unlock button appearing but then goes straight back to the begining , I have no clue as what is wrong but I can't use my phone atm. Its really annoying and I don't want to have to go back to an LG viewty. Does anyone have any ideas as to what is wrong?
I don't have a clue what might be happening, but did you try to hard reset the device? You do have a backup, don't you?
Yeah I do
I do have a backup, and have tried a hard reset, However I have managed to get it loaded, All I had to do was leave it restarting, it has taken a couple of hours. Its a really wierd problem, I am gonna keep an eye on it and see if it does it again. I'll keep people abridged of my issue in-case no one has had this 1 before.
Cheers for the reply
-Dave
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Drobilliard said:
I do have a backup, and have tried a hard reset, However I have managed to get it loaded, All I had to do was leave it restarting, it has taken a couple of hours. Its a really wierd problem, I am gonna keep an eye on it and see if it does it again. I'll keep people abridged of my issue in-case no one has had this 1 before.
Cheers for the reply
-Dave
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just so anybody who has the same problem as me, I fixed this by warming the phone up, I believe it was damp/moist inside, I had just been in a steamy location just before I had this problem.
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Has anyone else experienced this?
Sometimes (5-6 times in the last 24 hours) when the phone is sleeping, it will not wake when I hit power/unlock. I have tried installing no lock, hoping it was a glitch in the lock screen, but it still happens. The only way to fix it is to pull the battery.
Any advice?
Web sites are over-rated, when you have apps like these
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Has anyone else experienced this?
Sometimes (5-6 times in the last 24 hours) when the phone is sleeping, it will not wake when I hit power/unlock. I have tried installing no lock, hoping it was a glitch in the lock screen, but it still happens. The only way to fix it is to pull the battery.
Any advice?
Web sites are over-rated, when you have apps like these
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Are you running setcpu? Mine was doing this when I would lower the speed with a screen off profile. I just uninstalled setcpu for now. I don't think the kernel supports it anyway.
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No, I had it, but since I can't overclock yet, there was no need to keep it installed. I did a factory reset, so we'll see if this fixes things.
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No, I had it, but since I can't overclock yet, there was no need to keep it installed. I did a factory reset, so we'll see if this fixes things.
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let us know how it goes... If you experienced any unable to wakes after the reset...
Seems to be working fine. I'm not sure what the problem WAS, but the reset seems to have fixed it.
Root and busybox were still intact. Had to re-do the lag fix. (Method 1)
I'll update if I get the issue again.
My phone is just so...VIBRANT
Samething happened to me yesterday morning. Woke up found my phone wouldn't go back up. I thought it was dead, until I pulled the battery. I haven't Root hack it or installed SetCPU.
Sorry to throw this issue in this topic, but anyone have any problem with the phone rotating sideway for WEB and Messaging? I thought when I first got it, it worked.. now it doesnt..
There is probably a common app here or something causing this because I don't ever recall hearing this type of issue with the Vibrant before this thread.
I had the same thing happen to me and found after much trial and error that when I pulled my SD card out I was then able to wake the phone up. Apparently there was some problem with my SD (I was using it with my previous phone..MT3G) that was causing the Media scanning process to get stuck.
I ended up backing up what I needed from the SD and reformatting it. Since then I haven't had any issues. We may or amy not have the same root cause but hopefully this does help.
I'm thinking the problem HAS to be software related. After the reset, I've reinstalled everything I had before, and it's working like a charm! I've even used Titanium Backup to remove a lot of the bloatware, and still ruining great!
I just wish we could get a logcat, but when it happens, the phone is dead until you pull the battery.
My phone is just so...VIBRANT
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I'm thinking the problem HAS to be software related. After the reset, I've reinstalled everything I had before, and it's working like a charm! I've even used Titanium Backup to remove a lot of the bloatware, and still ruining great!
I just wish we could get a logcat, but when it happens, the phone is dead until you pull the battery.
My phone is just so...VIBRANT
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I am almost 100% SETCPU is the problem..
My phone would not come out of sleep.. I had to pull the battery and when I turned it on it would say "auto update of time and date".. That made me think the phone lost its internal battery and the phone was bad..
It started doing it right after I configured SETCPU... I installed the program last Thursday but never clicked on it.. I set it for on demand and that is when it started not coming out of sleep..
So I removed SETCPU and it still would not come out of sleep..
So I did a wipe all user data and it started working fine.. I installed SETCPU and it was still working fine.. I setup SETCPU for performance and it started messing up again and not coming out of sleep..
So, I wiped all user data again last night and it has been working perfectly since.. So I do not plan on reinstalling SETCPU...
Hi guys, this is my first post here and I hope someone can help me please!!
I got my phone 5 weeks no problem till last night,
basically when I am in screen lock state and then go unlock, I keep getting this anoying WHITE screen which coveres the whole screen and only on the top in narrow blue band it say "wiedges setting" to get out of this, I have to press the return button (on the right ) and it goes away , this happens everytime I go to lock position (after it stays in that position for 5 minutes or more),
Also I noticed even DURING my call after about 5-6 minutes through out the call this white screen appears and it ALWAYS goes away as soon as I press the return button.!!
so please tell me how to get ride of this?
if not, how to reset the phone without losing my apps and data? if I do factory reset is my apps will stay in andriod market, or do they also get deleted?
my phone IS NOT rooted phone.
what can I do, this is really killing me, as its everytimes into my face.
Please help me...
thanks so much
ps. is there any way that I can reset the phone to previously saved version! (3 days ago lets say),?
Sounds to me like an app causing this, as it seems it wants you to alter some settings.
Can you think of any apps you have installed since it started happening? It is usually always the fault of a dodgy app when you have issues.
I am not sure you can restore the phone back 3 days if you havent already done a backup.
Restoring your phone won't necessarily help as you will probably end up re installing the bad app once you are done.
I would try taking off some apps that you installed recently or anything you think might affect the screen.
Good luck and i'm sure someone else will be able to help
Biff.
edit: if it only started last night, is there anything you've installed just before it happened?