Hi everyone,
Am new to all this and please beare with me. Here I go.
I got a MDA on T-Mobile but I use a O2 sim.
When I got the phone a few months ago, when I write a text I could swap between text and numbers by going to 123 and it would swap. Now what happens is that some times when I try to swap between text and numbers it wont let me and it jams. So when that happens I have to do a soft start and fingers crossed it would work but sometimes it wont.
Could anyone please tell me why this is happening and what I need to do to solve this Flipping problem. It sometimes winds me up that I feel like throwing it across the room LOL.
Please Please Help Me
Try to go to T-mobile and get a replacement, it seems like you might have to Hard reset your device, but dont bother if you are still under warranty, dont forget to remove the O2 sim otherwise they gonna be angry.
Sidd
It could be a software that you installed. Be sure to make a backup first or at least sync your device with outlook and do a hard reset. It takes only a few seconds to find out if the problelm is coming from the device instead of immediately sending it for replacement.
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Hi all,
After spending 2 days with my vario my dreams of a half-decent smartphone are shattered.
I've got a C500 which hasnt really caused me any problems in over a year, now 2 days after having a vario i'm almost pulling my hair out.. can this phone possibly have been released in such a bad state or is it just mine?
For starters it crashes, not now and then, but like it's a hobby of the vario's, i dont think i can leave it for an hour, come back and find it hasn't hung in some form.
Sometimes i have to do a soft reset, sometimes, i can press the power button, get the screen to light up but can't do anything. Sometimes I get icons but when I click them i'm told the shortcut doesnt exist.
Ooh another thing it seems to like doing is randomly going into flight mode, and one really good crash was when i called it and the source phone could hear the ringing but the vario was just sitting there doing nothing.
So is it just mine or is this the most unstable phone the UK has ever seen? Is it worth me asking for a replacement, or just flashing the k-jam/qtek rom over the t-mobile one? Is there a way to backup my t-mobile rom and flash it back should i find the qtek/kjam rom does the same?
I've tried hard-resetting then cancelling all the t-mobile gubbins that loads from extended rom, but that didnt make any diference.
Any advice gratefully appreciated
Thanks
Personally, I'd say get T-Mobile to replace it! Unless you've installed a buggy piece of 3rd party software (but if you did, you wouldn't on here complaining about the phone you'd be complaining about the software, right?).
I also have an MDA Vario. I haven't touched the Extended_ROM (was going to, had a look and decided it was running fine so don't mess with it).
It's solid as a rock. As per a thread on howardforums asking how many times per day have I soft-resetted the phone and my answer was an average of zero.
I hard reset it on the day I bought it (after installing GPRS Monitor which knackers the backlight turning back on after sleep) and took the battery out after T-Mobile decided to disconnect me from their network (at their support line's request).
Anyway, it's on 24/7, never needs a reset of any kind, gets mobile emails via ActiveSync and is generally a wonderful piece of kit!
List what apps you've installed (even if they're T-Mobile supplied ones from CD) since buying the phone as there may be something buggy there. If not, definitely get T-mobile to replace it as it's certainly not a crap model (mine is absolutely fantastic).
Thanks Andy,
I've literally not installed anything, i'm just about to install pocketcommander but that will be the first thing i've actually installed. I've hard reset the phone this morning and it's already hung once on me (
I'll give tmob a call and see if they can send me another out today or something
Yeah, then you've definitely got a knackered phone. They should replace it (how long have you had it) without problems.
Hope you enjoy the replacement, they really are a great bit of kit
Well just had my first ever dealings with tmobile supoprt and it's as bad as the phone
They say because my contract/phone is only 3 days old i need to go back to the people i bought the phone off to get a replacement, problem is they'l want me to send the whole boxed thing uip and all the box etc is at home since i work away during the week
That's got to be faulty, like others have said.
WHen I bought mine, (T-Mobile shop in Leeds), I was told that if it was faulty within the first 28 days, there'd be a straight replacement issued immediately.
Don't accept anything less.
For what it's worth, I always try to be exceptionally pleasant when returning things rather than going in "all guns blazing"; it gets results a lot more often than the "I know my rights" approach. Of course, when it all comes down to it, the "i know my rights" approach might be necessary, but hopefully it shouldn't be.
The phone is superb, so stick with it even tho it is a bit of hassle for you.
good luck!
hi there no problems with my vario either. seems to work fine. no soft/ hard resets needed so far. have had it for 10 days. only thing is after the xteended rom instals there is a file called canned text in words which opens up in a crazy language. does not go on hard resets. but does not cause a problem either. any ideas on what this file is. have othar vario users noticed this file. please help.
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Thanks Andy,
I've literally not installed anything, i'm just about to install pocketcommander but that will be the first thing i've actually installed. I've hard reset the phone this morning and it's already hung once on me (
I'll give tmob a call and see if they can send me another out today or something
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may not be relevant to your problem, but if skype is installed on yours from the hard reset install, it may be worth removing, on the k-jam as soon as i removed skype, reseting stopped happening
Hi there, please help me out. I have the O2 mini and been using it for half a year and all of a sudden I can't read any text messages. I see I have unread messages but nothing can be read.
Also sometimes, it shows 0k along the righthand side of the screen from top to bottom but nothing can be read again. Does anyone know why?
What happens when you put the SIM card in another phone? Can you read SMS then? It sounds like the XDAII isn't getting the complete SMS from the network.
I tried inserting the sim card into another 02 mini and it works so something must of happened to my phone. my current rom is
1.11.00wwe
radio version: 1.11.00
extrom version: 1.11.922 wwe
Please help. My phone still has warranty and I have a relative going back to the country where the phone was bought so I'm thinking if I should get them to bring it to the store where I got.
Also, does anyone think upgrading the firmware will make a difference? If yes please let me know which one I should use. I am in Canada.
Why don you try a hard reset..!
Regards
Carty..
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A hard reset means pressing the reset button (the small hole on the lower left hand side of the handset case) and holding down the power button simultaneously for at least 2 seconds. The phone will then reboot. Be sure to save your contacts to your SIM and back up any pics to an MMC or SD card if you have one inserted in the SDIO slot.
thanks for the help. I did a hard reset then reinstall my rom and now it works.....strange....oh well it works now thanks for the input
SMS problem
hey all sorry to jack this topic but my jam sends duplicate sms's. not all the time but every now and then i get friends saying they got the same msg twice? i've checked my bills and i'm not being charged for the extra sms. i know that this happens occassionaly because of the networks but this is happening to much and becoming a bit of a pain!
No problem, 2k3silver.
boh113, I have this problem from time to time as well with my MDA II. Sometimes I try sending a reply but the network simply won't send it because I won't get a on-screen confirmation and the MDA II won't immediately store the sent SMS in the "Sent Messages" folder. However, the SMS does get sent and then the recipient tells me that they got the SMS more than once.
A hard reset seems to be the best solution since the ROM probably gets corrupted/unreliable with time.
Do you guys use any task management app to make the default tmail.exe application to close rather minimize? Dont! tmail.exe application should be minimized and i think that causes the problem of sending multiple sms.. Try it cz i may not be very sure..
Regards
Carty..
That could be the issue but not for me since I don't use any kind of task manager. Even if I did, I would have tried ending after reading about your suggestion. Is tmail.exe the general SMS/e-mail program on MDAs using T-Mobile ROMs?
Yeah the default mail application..Tmail.exe! That application should be minimized and not closed.. Cz when i used to close it with wisbar before, i had the same problem but now ive made the settings in wisbar to minimize it and now it goes fine..
Regards
Carty..
Thanks for the clarification. I did a soft reset this morning and the SMS that had been stuck in the Drafts folder for a couple hours was sent right after I tapped Send.
Anyways I've got the Wizard and for what ever reason screen alignment has been off so i try calibrating and a no go, the center of the screen seems dead as it doesn't respond and I tried a hard reset. Now it's stuck on the Alignment screen and i cant use the phone.
Two questions, a) is there a way to flash it back to the regular Windows Mobile 5 so i can send it to HTC or Cingular who ever takes care of repair so they don't go wtf! You have a modded rom! even though the rom isn't the problem.
b) is there a way to atleast skip the alignment so i can use the phone?
Try http://www.htcamerica.net/support/8125/software-downloads.html -- should be the shipped ROM.
Thanks, Cingulars sending me a new phone. Is there a way to call cingular or go somewhere to get my text messages that are still on the network? I have a few new ones from after the point where i reset my phone so they're still on the network. I dont have another cell phone to use so that's not an option.
Or how about somehow avoiding the touch screen alignment?
Please help, I recently bought the O2 XDA Flame. I had been using the device for a couple of months. As time went on the speed of the phone has deteriorated. At first i thought it was nothing, so i would restart the phone. But then came another issue, after the restart the device would take even longer respond to any command. It would just hang during phone calls also would have isseu with opening the contact etc. I even tried to Hard reset the darn thing but it would not work and would just keep hanging on me.
Please if anyone has any information it would be helpful!!!
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Please help, I recently bought the O2 XDA Flame. I had been using the device for a couple of months. As time went on the speed of the phone has deteriorated. At first i thought it was nothing, so i would restart the phone. But then came another issue, after the restart the device would take even longer respond to any command. It would just hang during phone calls also would have isseu with opening the contact etc. I even tried to Hard reset the darn thing but it would not work and would just keep hanging on me.
Please if anyone has any information it would be helpful!!!
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sounds like it could be HW issue or SW as well. if it's still covered by wty better send it to SC. we don't want to void the wty right? hehehe if WMG has ROM upgrade you may want to try and upgrade it and see if problem still persist
hey i need a bit of a hand here guys 8i just picked up a second hand wing however the touchscreen seems to work when it wants to so I did a hard reset thinking it may have been software rlated not i can't get past the welcom screen. Any advice
yonu said:
hey i need a bit of a hand here guys 8i just picked up a second hand wing however the touchscreen seems to work when it wants to so I did a hard reset thinking it may have been software rlated not i can't get past the welcom screen. Any advice
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create a file named "welcome.not" (just a empty file!) - copy it to the SD-card - reboot ...
it kinda depends i have not been able to get it to work on the WM 6.1 roms
thanks will give it a shot but if i can ask will this help with the touchscreen not working? hey i have to ask
ok question I left it off since my last post turned it on just now and the touch screen works but it is odd one tap may work the next won't but if i keep repeatedly tapping it will register them this is after a hard reset so i assume that this is a touchscreen hardware issue?
it might be the cable is loose call tmo and they might send 1 to u for like 9.99 for shipping iv done that many times but make sure u backup your contacts they will make u do a hard reset lol
i will look into that i opedn up the phone and checked and they are all tight so i will try giving them a call
ilikepu said:
it might be the cable is loose call tmo and they might send 1 to u for like 9.99 for shipping iv done that many times but make sure u backup your contacts they will make u do a hard reset lol
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Hi, I have the same issue. What cable are you referring too? Can you please post a pic or if there is a pic somewhere could you link it here? Also, if you don't have warranty on your phone, than you cant get the cable? I am a novice at this please excuse me.