Right, So I've decided that it's time to go with the custom rom due to some problems I've been having.
I am not able to transfer files from the phone to my pc or browse the windows folder with my pc.
On top of this I have other problems.
For starters the phone refuses to turn off on it's own. I have it set to turn the backlight off after 30sec and the entire display off in 1min. The backlight turns off ok but the screen never does. I can turn the phone off normally with the power button but as soon as a notification occurs the phone turns on and never turns off. This has been killing my battery on the nights I forget to plug it in.
The other problem I have is activesync just doesn't work. Most times it just sits there saying retrieving settings forever, I can browse the phone but not sync it. If I delete the partnership and recreate it I can get it to sync once but not again. Most other times the phone just says waiting for network when I try to sync.
I also have been getting alot of random crashes on the phone and really slow response. So I've been attempting to downgrade to the 1.8 rom so I can SIM unlock with Lokiwiz. I believe I've got the right rom from XDA's ftp but I can't seem to get it to install.
I get to this message and it just hangs
"Running machinagod's HTC Wizard Unlocker"
I get this when I try a straight upgrade to the 2.26 custom rom as well.
However nothing happens to the phone, I can close out the bat window and disconnect the phone and nothing ever happens.
I know I've got the right versions to beable to do all this but alas nothing seems to work.
Here's my bootup screen.
IPL: 2.26
SPL: 2.26
GSM: 02.25.11
OS: 2.26.10.2
Can anyone help me out or has t-mobile done something to completly cripple my phone?
EDIT:
I've done a bit of troubleshooting and it seems the trouble I'm having with SIM and CID unlocking has to do with the ability to transfer from the device to the PC. The unlock programs are trying to create lock_backup.bin but that file never gets written cause I cannot transfer any data from the MDA to the pc.
Is there a regedit that might beable to fix this? I've tried everyting, multiple pc's disabling all firewalls, even uninstalling firewalls does nothing.
I figured it out.
apparently my firewall had some registry entries after an unintall.
Removed those entries and all is working fine now.
Related
(Apologies to those who've read this elsewhere)
After shifting the location of my PC and plugging everything back in ActiveSync has stopped detecting my i-mate.
Things I have tried so far:
a) been through the steps of the troubleshooter
b) removed ActiveSync 3.7 and installed 3.7.1
c) did virgin install of AS 3.7.1 on different PC
All with no luck. AS resolutely refuses to detect my device. What can have gone wrong? Heeeeelp!
Do a soft reset in the device and reboot the pc, then try the hot synch again. It should work.
Should it not, here is the place to find out other options:
http://www.cewindows.net/faqs/t-shootactivesync.htm
Thanks, but tried all to no avail - getting quite depressed now! I had a quick look at your link but no immediate solution seemingly.
Happy New Year!
Well, I've just tried installing ActiveSync 3.7.1 on a third PC - still no luck. I'm thinking that maybe the problem lies with the device? Maybe I've killed a registry entry whilst being over zealous with something. Does anyone know what the registry entries are in case one has gone walkabout.
Otherwise looking at hard reset and if that doesn't cure problem I've got a very expensive phone!
Thanks
i've had several times that the xda was charching in the craddle,
& i got a removable usb disc in windows, that activesync didn't connect. What worked for me was play a little with the usb-connector in the PC or change it from usbport, so in my case it was some kind of bad contact,
You've probably checked this but I'm only trying to help:
From activesync go to tools/options/options and under 'When cradled' check USB is selected for sync connection.
Sync Problems
I had the same problems with ROM 1.03. I backed up, did a COLD BOOT then tried activesync, it worked. Then I did a restore and it still worked. I did notice one thing, I was playing with the notifications. I deleted some that I thought were redundant. Things wern't running well after I did that including the sync. After I restored, I didn't mess with the notifications except with the tool from ScaryBear.
Hope this helps,
Brandon
Brandon: Maybe you've given me the answer, thanks. It is entirely possible that I got overzealous with an excellent little program called Remover. I, too, have the ScaryBear notifications program but it seemed to leave a lot of notifications behind, so........
I'm just girding myself for a hard reset and then I will, as you say, leave the queue alone.
Plum: Thanks but yes, I had tried that. Also, selecting a baud rate and then selecting USB again to 'refresh' it.
Hi guys,
My TyTN appears to freeze up EVERY night while on charge, which is a pain if I have alarms set. The only way to get it working again is to soft-reset it. There is usually nothing running in the background, and it has the standard Orange today screen set.
Any ideas?
Are you using Sprite Backup? I found that mine would freeze at the start of the backup (with option to backup to PC) until I disabled "advanced networking functionality" under Connections... USB to PC.
Never got a clear answer why, or for that matter what that "advanced functionality" is...
No, not using Sprite backup. I might just hard reset the thing and make sure its not buggered!!
Have you got a minisd in. If so you could try leaving this out.
BTW if you gave complete info about your device [ROM, software, sdcard,...] you may get more help.
I have the same problem, every night freezing
I have the I-mate Rom, APPZ running are: SBSH pocket wheather, batti, activesync
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=59007
i have the same thing happening on mine, from what i can tell the problem only occurs when you Dont shut off your device and it is on for some time. If you press power and let it bee it always works fine, but for example when you talk on the phone for say 30minutes, during these 30minutes you dont turn the pda off, then when your done talking you will notice it is hung and you have to soft reset it. so remember, turn the pda off!
i am also led to believe this might be because of the strange battery meter, maybe someone can test this: use the phone so it sais 90% or less, start mediaplayer and play music for 1hour or so, with the screen on (set it so it never turns off in settings), then after 1hour check if the device works? i think the screen freezes when the battery drops from 90% to 80%...
sorry for the long post
This happens to me as well, I never had it running through a single night.
But for me, it is related to this problem: http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=60543 (TyTN does not detect any SIM cards).
My device detects the SIM card with a probability of 1:10 and then runs for 5 minutes or 5 hours until it locks up (while still draining the battery), e.g. overnight. The TUF (time until freeze) obviously depends on the signal strength (i.e. the number of failed connection retries), which is why the problem is hard to explain in the mobile shop downtown.
At home, most of the time it already hangs on the PIN screen (device PIN, not the SIM card's) or during the blue "Windows Mobile" startup splash screen, shortly after the left LED flashes.
I have to return it.
Provider: E-Plus, Germany, GSM1800/UMTS
P/N: 99HCE036-00
S/N: HT628F......
ROM Version: 1.18.257.2
ROM Date: 05/30/06
Radio: 1.03.03.10
Protocol: 32.34.7010.01H
ExtROM: 1.18.257.9620 (Germany, E-Plus)
Hmmmm interesting...I bet some of you experiencing this problem have Agile Messenger installed?
same here, but only since 2 days and during the day, with or w/o BT on.
My Orange SPV M3100 freezes with no reason at all. I've done a hard reset & loaded no programs whatsoever. I've enabled push email & normally have wifi & 3G activated. My device is freezing upon waking it up from sleep mode & when charging overnight. It doesn't happen all the tme but it does happen quite regularly.
At first I thought it might be a program I loaded but even now it still does it. I'm reverted back to using my Wizard as main phone until Orange can get this sorted out.
I want to try a different rom but not until there is way to go back to the original rom.
I'm a user of a Dopod 383 Pro.
Also experiencing the hanging every night problem. Also trying to isolate what is causing it. I suspect it is either:
1. Bluetooth (it seems to hang when I leave bluetooth on)
or
2. MicroSD card (I am using a 2GB Sandisk card, it didnt seem to hang when I was using a 1GB Sandisk card)
And yes, I do have Agilemessenger installed - although not sure if that has to do with anything.
hardcore said:
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2. MicroSD card (I am using a 2GB Sandisk card, it didnt seem to hang when I was using a 1GB Sandisk card)
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I inserted the card using the adapter into my PC SD slot and checked it.
It (FAT 16) was heavily fragmented, I've defragmented and since today (2 days) non more overnight freeze
anyway ny tytn doesn't freeze overnight, BUT i don't use BT on during sleep. probably i had freezes during the day when BT was on, so... could you please check if freeze occours with BT on?
Progress in freezing problem analisys... Never used BT overnight, I've checked and stopped any app using SD card and now I haven't see any freeze.
Also I have the storage card disappeared from windows media player menu.
Checking the card my MSMETADATA dir is "invalid" from Total Commander menu. If I select "update library" all storage card files are detected, but not added to library
I delete it , update and the storage et voila', the card re-appears!
I am almost sure that the freezing problem in my device is a storage card writing problem, NOT related to storage card.
In stand-by mode the storage is "unmounted"? No power? Low Power?
Same happens in first wizard ROMS...
Update: I was experiencing overnight hanging problems on my Dopod 838 Pro (with the Dopod ROM).
Recently I flashed it with the imate ROM - and no more overnight hanging! I tried it with Bluetooth on as well - its okay.
It Agile Messenger! i have had all the roms and found my phone crashed over night and i missed my wake up alarms and if someone tries to call, it will ring on their end, but my phone will not respond so i dont even know who's called.
anyway, i reinstalled the imate rom afterwards again, without Agile Messenger and it's fine.
but now have a new vodafone v1605 with the voda rom and so far so good.
DONT install Agile Messenger.
I have Qtek S200 for 3-4 months.
First I had wm5 2.20.7.34. The phone used to hang sometimes. Usualy if the wifi was on and I suspend it it will hand when I wake it up. The screen stays lit and no button/touchscreen works. The power button also wont work so I had to do SR.
I thought upgrading to wm6 will fix the problem and I tried pda mobiz 20.b3 and b4.
The phone still will hang sometimes. Finlay I installed Prophet Touch v6. Its great rom but it also hangs and sometimes its 2 times in a day..
There is no way to predict when it will happen but usualy its more often when I use Internet gprs or wifi. Most often when I use the wifi( I guess
I have upgraded to the latest Radio ROM but I cant see any diference.
So my question is, How often u guys get hangs on your prophets?
Is this normal?
Is there a way to make it work with no hangs at all or this is the way it is?
Im not using overclocking and the phone usually hangs when its left alone not while I use it.
In wm5 it usually used to hang right after I wake it from suspend while in wm6 I just cant wake it, it stays dark.
Well, when I had the original i-mate ROM I almost never needed to do an SR, unless I was really messing with it.
Then I tried PDAmobiz b4 and I got the phenomenon you describe:
Some times I would turn on the device and notice the clock was an hour or two behind and the device would not respond. Basically it hanged quietly and I didn't even know.
After suffering this for a week I changed the ROM to my current PDAViet 4.0.0.0.6 Touch and it seems fine so far (better then the original).
Perhaps a different ROM, maybe a WM 5 not 6 will work for you.
Also you should see what kind of programs are running in background on your device. Maybe one of them is the problem.
Actually I had the problem u described with the original wm5 ROM not with the wm6 roms.
The thing is that the original rom had many other problems and for this reason I dont want to go back to it.
For example I could connect with gprs without problems but after disconnecting I was unable to connect again. The device was saying "The answering modem has disconnected" or one of 2-3 other messages like that I was in a phone session and so on. The only solution was to restart the phone app...
The phone dialer was terribly slow. When pressing the dialpad buttons it was taking about a second for the phone to respond
Also I noticed that the same problem u described when the device freezes just after wakeup will generally happen if the wifi was left on.
If I switched it off I had almost no freezes.. but u know Ive got this phone to use its network capabilities and it looks like the network part was most buggy
All this is about the original wm5 qtek rom.
With wm6 I only have this case when the phone dont want to wake up. It just stays dark when I press the power button.
It will also freeze somethimes when I work but not very often..
Currently I use Prophet Touch v6 by gullum
I few months ago I have read that windows has some delay bringing up the sd card online after suspend and that this may cause problems if some program tries to read the Storage card before its online. For that reason there was suggestion to install all system and most used programs in the internal storage.
Now I have noticed that SPB Insight was installed on the storage card and I use its today plugin so I reinstalled it to the internal storage to see if this will help.
I have the same problem
Please help me to find out why my S200 hanging and hanging and hanging
i have got same problem in my prophet...my model is orange m600............is there anybody to help....
With my x7501 I can connect in bootloader. Just flashed factory ROM, the Michy's 6.1 clean. In both ROMs I get the "failed to connect" sound from my PC in the fisrt boot screen, just when the red text disappears (and of course, then, nothing happens reagrding the connection). I can connect my wizard and sync.
Lately:
I installed Shantz Today Changer, uninstalled a dumb Minsweeper game (my four-year-old loves the OEM version). I've been having some PC issues, like dropping wifi every few minutes, Google Chrome crashed the OS so I uninstalled, and Quicklaunch icons show up funny occaisionally. My BT also isn't working, (Broadcom stack) software can't find the local device.
So whatever happened to "cable is stable"? Anyone up for a puzzle and kind enough to give me a clue?
Next steps: restore from Sprite Backup and keep popping out my card to exchange files (sneaker mail, anyone?). I'll probably live without Desktop Outlook until I get this solved, since I started using Flexmail and Pocket Informant, I can pretty much do what I need to do on the handheld and have to take it with me, but what a hassle (yes, I'm spoiled). I will try another PC, too.
Working for now
I waited overnight, let it reboot twice as per my nightly routine, this morning unchecked "Enable advanced network functionality" under USB-to-PC in the system tab of Settings. I have a funny feeling that anything I did didn't make a difference, since it all happened so early in the ROM loading process.
I hope the thread helps someone who runs into the same problem.
I am so tired of all the WTF moments in WM. I guess, no matter what, if you want it all, you have to fight for it and deal with the setbacks.
I tried to load Manilla 2d on friend's Mogul and would not work. Uninstalled it and it got rid of the Home plugin as well. I downloaded the home plugin and installed it on phone. NOW, phone starts up, opens and freezes on Activesync screen. It will not allow you to do anything.
This is a friend's phone and she is terrified of losing all her contacts and soft resets do nothing. I just need to get this phone in some kind of working order soon! It has WM 6.1 and is a stock ROM.
Can anybody Help me???
Slight Update...
It looks like the activesync screen is no longer popping up upon soft reset, but phone still freezes wherever it is. It appears that once the phone tries to display the home plugin, it freezes. I've tried disabling it before it could with no luck...as well as trying to get a full screen 'something' to load so it doesn't have to load it yet. It will actually connect to activesync on computer, but as soon as phone freezes, it "disconnects" from activesync. So again, no luck.
Perhaps there is a way to disable the plugin? I've heard there is no safe mode.
If I could save the contacts, I would be ok with performing a hard reset.
Any suggestions, or anybody have or heard of someone who had a similar problem?
If the phone has mortscript installed on it I may be able to help you out. If it doesnt I still may be able just let me know. You also have to have a micro sd card and a reader or another way of copying a autorun folder and a couple files to it. PM me and I will get you up and running.