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MDA compact II does not turn on

Just as in the subject! I tried everything: soft, hard reset, removing batery, removing simcard, waiting for upto 20 mins staring at t-mobile screen. Nothing seems to work. I can see t-mobile white starting screen withIPL,SPL,GSM,OS versions and that is it. If I am lucky - waiting cursor appears.
This is the second time it happened, previousely I managed to turn it on after 30 mins of struggle. Not this time though.
I am affraid that if I - hopefully - turn it on this time and the battery runs out of power I will be left without a handset!
Absolutely no damage, no dropping, virtually new. Any ideas?

You said you tried hardreset? So, you actually sees the screen that said, "to restore to factory setting press Send", then it said formatting ROM etc.., right? If after hardreset you still have the problem, I would suggest that you send your handset back to them to have it fix. Where are you now? (better if you would have your country and network operator logo set for this forum, so that people can advise you based on your location/operator)
I had my MDA Compact 2, which works for 2 weeks before the speaker died off. Then, after I sent to them to fix, they've got the speaker done, but the entire unit now works .. weirdly. Thats is whenever I had the speaker on, the entire unit will heat up so much that, the battery meter will go down-stream even I have the AC power attached (good for a hand warmer though). Anyway, I sent the thing back to them, and they sent it back to me, with the note "change of the circuit board" (something like that), which I think it is a serious problem that I don't think anyone can fix. Good thing is that my unit is still under warranty, costed me a GBP10 for the postage, but I'm happy that I have it working in full order now.
I wonder if your problems are similar to mine.

hanmin said:
You said you tried hardreset? So, you actually sees the screen that said, "to restore to factory setting press Send", then it said formatting ROM etc.., right?
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This means that I did not try hard reset then. Holding the power button+stylus reset does nothing more than soft reset. It just goes dark and reboots.
I am in UK on T-Mobile. I think I will go to the shop I bought it in and demand replacement. Pity I loose all data... But I would do hardresetting anyway...

sabestian said:
hanmin said:
You said you tried hardreset? So, you actually sees the screen that said, "to restore to factory setting press Send", then it said formatting ROM etc.., right?
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This means that I did not try hard reset then. Holding the power button+stylus reset does nothing more than soft reset. It just goes dark and reboots.
I am in UK on T-Mobile. I think I will go to the shop I bought it in and demand replacement. Pity I loose all data... But I would do hardresetting anyway...
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thats not how you hard reset, hold down camera and record, tap the stylus button at the bottom and keep holding the other 2 until the prompt comes up

dave106 said:
thats not how you hard reset, hold down camera and record, tap the stylus button at the bottom and keep holding the other 2 until the prompt comes up
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According to the manual: hold power and tap reset with a stylus! Page 79, "To perform a hard reset". Do they know what they sell?
Anyway, thanks! It worked, it did start now. I will check everything now.

sabestian said:
According to the manual: hold power and tap reset with a stylus! Page 79, "To perform a hard reset". Do they know what they sell?
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Apparently not, that part is for the original MDA Compact on WM2003SE.
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Dead Wizard won't hard reset

My brand new HTC Wizard has died and I can't re-flash it (as activesync won't detect it) and the hard reset function doesn't work (with hardware buttons). Anyone know of an other way to hard reset? It is rather urgent and I'd rather not have to send it back.
O2 XDA Mini-S branded, starts up radio screen but then goes completely white. LEDs still seem to flash, it won't connect to my PC and it won't respond to anything
EDIT: After posting this the phone finally decided to play nice... Why is it as soon as you look for help it decides to work?
PS. I had to hold com manager, voice record, power AND reset. Not a comfortable possition at all.

Tyr said:
PS. I had to hold com manager, voice record, power AND reset. Not a comfortable possition at all.
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The Hard Reset function is supposed to be hard to press, to keep it from happening in a pocket or something. I guess that's a good thing considering how may buttons on my phone get pushed when I sit down with it in the provided leather case ^_^

Tyr said:
EDIT: After posting this the phone finally decided to play nice... Why is it as soon as you look for help it decides to work?
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Well at least now it's working :lol:

Cardcaptor_RLH85 said:
Tyr said:
PS. I had to hold com manager, voice record, power AND reset. Not a comfortable possition at all.
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The Hard Reset function is supposed to be hard to press, to keep it from happening in a pocket or something. I guess that's a good thing considering how may buttons on my phone get pushed when I sit down with it in the provided leather case ^_^
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Not so hard that you require finger contortionists or two people to get it to work. For a start you have to press the soft reset button which is inside the device. It is impossible to hard reset this model by accident, or my Alpine for that matter.
DavidT. said:
Tyr said:
EDIT: After posting this the phone finally decided to play nice... Why is it as soon as you look for help it decides to work?
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Well at least now it's working :lol:
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Yeah, got everything back up and running in the end. Just a pain to figure this thing out.

killed my orbit 2 - volume screen on startup window

Hi,
I've managed to kill my Orbit 2! Everytime it starts up it gets as far as the Windows Mobile splash screen then shows the volumn control (both levels turned down) but goes no further. The power button still turns the screen on and off and the screen still dims after a while with any key bringing it back to full brightness, but nothing happens!
Has anyone else had this problem?
Also, I've looked in the forums, but can't find details anywhere of how to hard reset this phone! The only instructions I've found relate to non-existent buttons!
http://www.hardreset.eu/htc_touch_cruise_polaris_hard_reset_soft_reset.html
Can anyone shed any light on why this is happening or how to hard reset!
Thanks in advance,
Nick

it is the bottom two buttons (below the answer & hang up) and the stylus for a soft reset.
When it asks for a confirmation hit the green answer button
Hope this helps

Thanks NC35 - that did the trick!
Luckily I backed it up on Sunday so shouldn't have lost too much!

Thanks
Having tried ( now three times with no help ever) to speak to O2 and ask how to hard reset following the start menu completely failing..... I was told it was "impossible" you will need to return it and use the "28 day" repair service.....
I have at last managed to restore - thanks to this posting!!
No comes the reseting process - which is a bit of a bore!!
O2 seem to have dispensed with any actual tech support at all!!
Dave

The procedure of performing hard reset is perfectly explained in the manual that comes with the phone. "hard reset" is included in the index of this manual, so it takes only a couple of minutes to find out what you have to do.
After all, RTFM ;-)

bizon said:
The procedure of performing hard reset is perfectly explained in the manual that comes with the phone. "hard reset" is included in the index of this manual, so it takes only a couple of minutes to find out what you have to do.
After all, RTFM ;-)
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Now, thats not very hepful is it, especially when you're away on business for a few weeks and don't happen to carry the manual with you everywhere you go...
nid

i killed my o2 xda orbit II as well, but unable to hard reset
sorry guys. I vae the same porblem as nick666 with my xda orbit II. however, hard reset failed!! the window splash screen came back after I hit the green button & it becomes static. I am really worried now. I have done so many paperworks with that xda..anybody please help!!

honeyyati said:
sorry guys. I vae the same porblem as nick666 with my xda orbit II. however, hard reset failed!! the window splash screen came back after I hit the green button & it becomes static. I am really worried now. I have done so many paperworks with that xda..anybody please help!!
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calm down. read this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=381600
most likely flashing another rom will fix your problem

I have downloaded the hard-spl. I'm completely stuck. I can't connect my pda to activesync. activesync didn't detect my pda. by the way, when I reset the pda, screen that asked to press SEND for restore to factory setting turn up few minutes after resetting. press green button, screen automatically shows windows mobile startup screen. I'm still stress, |I'm sorry but I can't helped it..

sorry guys. I have read the instruction wrongly. now it works fine.
many thanks cr1960 who has kindly response to my silly worries
thnaks again.

honeyyati said:
sorry guys. I have read the instruction wrongly. now it works fine.
many thanks cr1960 who has kindly response to my silly worries
thnaks again.
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NP. Glad you got your problem sorted

Phone Lock Reset Wizard Mda Vario T Mobile KJAM Singular 8125

Having looked all over for a couple of days
I came across a picture with instructions for
hard resetting a wizard, which is resetting the phone
thus the phone lock as well.
Dead easy really
1. Press the Comm Manager button (top left)
together with the Voice Activation button (top right)
for 2 seconds.
2. Keep holding the 2 buttons above and press the soft reset
(middle right little hole) with the stylus for another 2 seconds.
3. When the black screen appears it'll ask you to click Send
That's it All done !!
The wizard's going to reboot and reset himself.
Hope this is going to help some of you.

This is called 'Hard Reset' and perhaps its known to almost every wizard owner,its supposed to be known though !!!
Anyways ! thanz for the info!

ATENTION PLEASE... Thanks.
Nice Thread...
but...
what is a hard reset?
what is a soft reset?
what is a cold reset?
what is a simple reset?
what does it do for us?
What da heck!?
Let me recomend this as sticky....
NOP even tough... as a new topic forum...

Multiple Windows Live Profiles... how'd that happen? :/

Hi guys... well as you can see by the title, i'm confused as to how this may have happened. I've tried to do a reset (settings > about > reset) but that doesn't seem to rid the thing back to square one... anyone got any ideas? This is really bugging me big time... is there a way to hard reset with bootloader screen like holding certain buttons down with power button as well cus i haven't seen any info on that either
Thanks in advance if someone can help me on this one

SOLVED... full format is...
hold vol DOWN and CAMERA buttons and then power up device... press windows button twice when prompted to wipe the thing!

TheShowStopper said:
SOLVED... full format is...
hold vol DOWN and CAMERA buttons and then power up device... press windows button twice when prompted to wipe the thing!
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Goes to the Wiki, millions of thanks

anaadoul said:
Goes to the Wiki, millions of thanks
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You're welcome mate. Only took a few battery pulls and trial and errors on my part to guess the right combo! lol
Glad to be of use at last!
*THINK* Now can someone help us Windows XP users out and finally crack this blummin XAP and SDK problem as commented on on many posts i wonder? As luck would have it, probably not!