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So I bought a TyTN around two months ago... I use it on the Cingular network with no problems the entire time.
Today around noon it starts bugging out on me. It freezes, so I restart it and it isn't reading the SIM for some reason. I restart again, it takes ten minutes to recognize the SIM, and when it does it freezes.
I looked up on how to hard reset it, and it seemed to be going all right, but then it continued to have the same problems. Now it doesn't even recognize the SIM.
When I connect the phone to my laptop via USB it gives a quick three tones and Activesync is not registering anything. I need to know what to do to try and get my phone functional again...
Just a suggestion... if you want people to read your post how about a more informative heading?
HTC TyTn Issues....
We know you have a Tytn/Hermes, cause this is a Hermes forum and we know most people posting have issues... what they are is the important thing.
How about... Sim Not Being Recognised. Then others who have had this problem will imediately see the post and reply. Otherwise many people will not bother to read it.
IMHO
Hi, this is my first post on this forum after going through it for days, and i think i can ask this question without being referred to a wiki or previous post related to my problem. Here goes:
So i just bought a (second hand) QTEK S200. Now, when the guy i bought it from demonstrated it worked flawlessly, but when i got home and reset the whole thing, i can't get bluetooth to work properly.
Let me just note that i've worked with plenty pda's before and have a pretty good (intermediate) knowledge about bluetooth (had a nokia 6680 before, bluetooth heaven btw).
So when i go to settings>connections>bluetooth and i turn bluetooth on (wich works, the blue leds blinks) i try to install a few bluetooth devices (none installed so far), so i click devices>new partnership. It starts to search for devices and show them with theire mac address, he doesn't want to show the device name like all bluetooth enabled device do.
But ok, nevermind that it could be somekind of feature, you never know. So ok i recognize the device i want to add (only two showing, the gps and my pc) and click on it to install it. It asks for the pass, and here i notice that the blue led isn't blinking anymore, so i enter the correct password for the gps (i've added him thousands of times on my ex-cellphone and my GF's cellphone, the code is 0000, like almost all gps mouse) but then it says that the password is incorrect. I try multiple times and nothing.
So ok, i notice the flashing blue led stopped so i re-enable the thing and try again, this multiple times again with the same result.
But then i tried tricking it to keep the blue led flashing, i was trying to make the pda connect to the internet through usb, and that way i got in the settings>connections>connections menu. When i press the 'Add a new modem connection' link you can select a modem that runs on bluetooth, so i got the idea to try and add the gps through this menu. This time it worked, the devices found showed the correct names, and i could add them OK.
So happy as i was i added the com ports and such, all worked ok. Then i started tomtom6, all good, i added the gps with no problems, but when i actually got to navigate, the bluetooth connection dropped constantly, always like: no gps device found for like 40 seconds, then it resumes the navigation and 5 seconds later the connection gets dropped again, so this goes on in a loop forever i guess (tried it about an hour).
Oh, and working with that Comm Manager program doesn't help, i don't think it even works properly, that program doesn't know if the bluetooth is running or not, it just remember the state the button was in last, or something, cause it almost always indicates that the bluetooth is running without it actually running, so i click on it, it 'shuts down' the bluetooth, and when i click on it again, the bluetooth then works for real.
So my conclusion was, i need to get a working firmware or whatever there is some software-related problem here. Because the hardware does actually work, maybe not for long, but it does when it does.
Also, i feell like the pda is running in slowmo, slow reaction times (i know it's not a uber fast device, but sometimes it's really ridiculous how long i have to wait for a program to boot up, or just pressing the start button)
So i checked out the wiki to see if i have a G3 or G4 chip, so won't ruin the s200 when flashing it.
But i just can't make out if i have the G3 or G4. I suppose i have the G3 because SPL shows: 2.09.0000 (all zero's, but 4 of them) but the IPL shows 2.09
everywhere i read about those digits they always compare it to *.*.0001 for the spl and ipl. But there is no 1 at the end! Does this 1 matter? Or is it just the 4 digits at the end?
So this is what my screen shows on the boot up:
IPL 2.09
SPL 2.09.0000
GSM 02.07.20
OS 2.9.7.24
I think this is pretty old.
And another problem (this just doesn't end!) the SD card reader doesn't always show the storage card! I mean like, this is so basic, i don't understand why it doesn't, i've tried with multiple cards, on my pc it works but on the S200 it doesn't.
I hope someone can help me.
I'm also looking into unlock the CID first, and ofcourse it all depends on the type of chip i use, can somebody please confirm what i have?
Also, since all the roms have been removed, and there are soo many, wich is the right one for me? What are those AKU roms? Are they compatible with g3 chips? I don't really know the difference, how does this work?
/edit: ok found out what those aku roms (just updates?), but what then is the difference with the other roms available? And the sd card reader still doesn't work, it's been hours now, i've tried everything. Please someone, help!
Maybe i should shorten my first message:
Bluetooth drops the connection constantly, when i search to pair a device on the s200, when the search is over, the bluetooth shuts down (blue led stops flashing) and i can't add the devices it found, wich is logic, how can you make a connection when bluetooth is disabled? How do i keep bluetooth enabled no matter what? While still being able to shut it down manually.
Comm Manager doesn't work properly (bluetooth shows on when it's off and vice versa)
My SD card reader suddenly doesn't want to work, tried multiple cards, and simultaniously checking them on my computer card reader.
Sometimes slow respondtime.
I've tried everything multiple times, with multiple hard resets.
There's no software installed, everything been tested on a 'clean machine'.
Would upgrading the ROM (wich rom?) solve my problems? And how would i go about that? I've read the wiki but i'm none the wiser (half of the links don't work, i've read the post that everything's been taken down)
Why thank you for all the help. Thought i would at least get a "sorry but it seems your ... is defect you will have to replace it" or "here [link] you will find similar stories with a possible solution"
anyways, to update my post, i rma'd my s200 and it's been two months and two weeks since.. is that normal?
Hello, sorry for my english, is not the best.
I've BIG problem with my P3300. originally it came with WM5, after some time I got update from official site for WM6. Had WM6 maybe for 4 months, everything was just perfect while one day my HTC started do funny things like go off it self (white screen when using navigation). It was a once in a week. After some time it started to be like this few times in a day. I thought what I need to do hard reset. Did. Didn't helped. Than I tried to flash my phone to WM6.1. Phone went mad, was constantly switching off it self, screen just freezes and after that you even can't start the phone around 5-10 min. it just want do anything, even if you plug in the charger, indicating orange light want come up. Than I tried to flash with original WM5. Did that, everything was fine for a day, but after the day it went off, i restarted, and than gone wireless and screen started move to the left and to the right aprox 2 mm. When is connected to computer it want connect to ActivSync, it's coming up message: Can't find IP address, try to disconnect phone and connect again... I did manual configurations in network cards and computer, so when you're looking in network connections looks everything fine, but it's still not recognized by ActiveSync :/ Than i send the phone to recovery mode, connected to the computer and updated to WM6. Same thing, screen shaking, wireless not working, goes off. Is strange thing too, in aprox 24 hr memory is filled up to maximum - than is coming up the message: Storage is full, please delete some programs. :/ Hard Reset have to do every single day... Any idea what's can be wrong with my phone? Tried already a lot of things, no more ideas. I think it's software problem... :/
If anyone have any ideas please share with me... Thanks for everyone.
Anyone any ideas? Please, someone... i don't really wanna put phone in to the bin...
Its a hardware isue
Sorry, I have same problems and try same thinks, finaly I send to service and they say its a commone hardware error on electrical micro connections inside cosed by droping the phone down. Before I send it hangs up 2-3 time at day, now its hapen 1 in 10 day if I accedentaly drop the phone
Hardware issue
I think this is hardware problem..., I have some experience with repair HTC smartphones. Freezing, restarting, problem with screen..., GSM etc,,..
In all cases helps Hot air soldering station, find right chip or module (gsm , proc..) and reheating this.. A frequent problem is BROKEN tin joints BGA chips , after impact of equipment. .. sorry for english...
I'm facing the same problem with my old Artemis.
Since I upgrades, I gave it to a friend. It was working perfectly fine months now, until last week.
The phone keeps freezing, doesn't always boot, many times won't even respond to charger pluged in.
Randomly resoldering the board's chips, sound like a long & hard solution :/
A few days ago, I bought an 8525 phone off my friend for $25. He told me that he only used the phone for a month, so it was practically brand new. I have been tinkering with it for the past couple days, using Wifi to download games and things, and it has been fine. The phone worked, texting worked, everything was perfect.
About two days ago, I accidentally dropped it about a foot onto wet asphalt. The battery fell out and the touch screen got a few drops on it, but I dried it all off, turned on the phone and tested everything; no problems from dropping it.
At some point later that night, the phone started having problems. It would randomly freeze every few minutes while in use, and I would have to take out the battery to reset it. Some buttons on the touch screen wouldn't respond at times, but then work later (the buttons next to volume, service and wifi or whatever). Then my texting and phone service stopped working. I couldn't get service anywhere that I walked, and the Settings button wouldn't work. I also tried to reconfigure the connection, but that didn't help.
I came home and found the phone I had previously, and I put the SIM card into it to see if that was the problem, which it is not. The old phone works fine with the SIM.
I don't know what the problem is, but there are a few things that may have caused it to happen:
-dropped it in rain
-plugged USB into a laptop that only turns on, but does nothing else
-maybe got virus from browsing internet on Wifi
-overheating (there was a point where the back was really hot after sitting on the USB)
-games/applications installed messing with system
Those are some examples of what I've done with the phone, but that's it.
Here is device info:
-Hermes 8525
-Windows Mobile 6 Pro
-CE OS 5.2.1948 (Build 18548.0.7.0)
-Processor: SC32442-400MHz
-ROM Version: Schap's 4.31
-ROM Date: 10/03/07
Sorry if I haven't provided enough information on the problem, I'm new to all of this stuff, but I hope somebody can help.
Actually, my problem has changed.
I attempted to put a new ROM on, and it seems I did something wrong. When I turn on my phone, it does the boot animation, and then the screen turns white and doesn't do anything else. I attempted to hard-reboot, but nothing happened.
I went into My Computer on my desktop, and the folder 'Mobile Device' showed up. I clicked inside of it, and apparently my entire OS is gone off the phone. How do I install a new OS?
I hope you had Hard SPL V7 installed or you will need to find your shipped stock rom.
If you did, great.
1. Format 2Gb or less sd card FAT32. Copy .nbh file of rom onto it and rename to hermimg.nbh.
2. Insert sd card into Hermes and boot into bootloader.
3. If you did everything right then follow onscreen instructions.
If you didn't & can't find your shipped stock rom, you are now the proud owner of a Hermes paperweight....
Instead of taking the battery out, there is a reset hole on the bottom near the IR port. Push in with your stylus.
I have the "No GSM" text showing up when I turn on the phone, and then it goes to the white screen. I tried to do the mtty.exe thing, but I couldn't figure out how to use the program.
I was going to try the fix that uses Visual Studio and Windows Embedded, but I'm pretty sure my phone doesn't have kitl (which I need to do that).
Most of the fixes suggested require using ActiveSync to connect to the phone, however, my ActiveSync doesn't connect. It knows the phone is there, but it can't connect, which disables me from updating the ROM.
When I attempt to flash a ROM, it says that the current ROM image on the phone is ' ' (just an empty space) and it asks if I want to update to the newer ROM image. It gets to the point where the progress bar appears on my phones screen, but as soon as it hits 1%, the whole thing fails and I get an error on the computer saying it could not connect.
Currently, I am attempting the method to fix the white screen by removing the battery for 20 minutes, and then I'm going to try the method that says to remove the battery and put it back in multiple times to fix the 'No GSM', but I'm pretty sure I messed the radio up.
@ultramag69 - I have an SD card, but I don't have a port or anything small enough on my computer to insert it. What should I do to do what you said?
Buy an adaptor, should only be a few bucks...
SD method is the easiest way to fix the problem BUT as was said earlier , you need Hard SPL V7 on your Hermes 1st.
You could also try putting your Hermes into bootloader, attaching it to the USB and flashing that way. Just make sure that "Allow USB Connections" has been unticked in Activesync on the PC.
At least you might be able to install Hard SPL V7 that way...
I have been relatively calm about the shortcomings of my HD2. I understand when purchasing anything even slightly touched by the delicate hand of Microsoft that you will have to tweak, fix and workaround - this is all part of the fun with the phone.
Today however the phone went one step too far. I awoke this morning to find my HD2 had yet again forgotten my PIN number, so on unlocking the screen I was informed that I had entered the incorrect PIN(!). I soft reset the device, removed the SIM card, let it stand for a few seconds then booted up again to no avail.
I have now entered the 'incorrect' PIN too many times, and so my device has deleted all information on it... losing all contacts, photos etc.
For a phone to get something so basic so wrong is unforgivable. Coupled with the issues with SMS (i.e. texts sitting in the outbox, and when it finally decides to send them, they go to the wrong people, taking an age to load conversations), I think HTC/Microsoft have a problem they need to address.
Sorry to hear of your problems, but by far the majority have not had any of the problems you have mentioned. Try a hard reset and remember to back up your device.
Mine has lost connection settings and 2 email accounts at the same time. Your problem is much worse of course. Instead of a finished phone i feel like part of an experiment at the moment, and HTC will finish the Rom whenever they can be bothered..
jimhaddon said:
I have been relatively calm about the shortcomings of my HD2. I understand when purchasing anything even slightly touched by the delicate hand of Microsoft that you will have to tweak, fix and workaround - this is all part of the fun with the phone.
Today however the phone went one step too far. I awoke this morning to find my HD2 had yet again forgotten my PIN number, so on unlocking the screen I was informed that I had entered the incorrect PIN(!). I soft reset the device, removed the SIM card, let it stand for a few seconds then booted up again to no avail.
I have now entered the 'incorrect' PIN too many times, and so my device has deleted all information on it... losing all contacts, photos etc.
For a phone to get something so basic so wrong is unforgivable. Coupled with the issues with SMS (i.e. texts sitting in the outbox, and when it finally decides to send them, they go to the wrong people, taking an age to load conversations), I think HTC/Microsoft have a problem they need to address.
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I have had this incorrect PIN message also. sometimes when left over night and occasionally during the day.
So far a soft reset has solved it. Since having my HD2 I've had to reset it 1 - 2 times a day. Not very impressed at its lack of stability.
I have a SIM free unlocked UK HD2
Is this all happening on the stock rom or cooked roms?
band27 said:
Is this all happening on the stock rom or cooked roms?
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stock rom i have the original 1.43 i think and i have had this problem, was begining to think i was the only one!
Also My HTC HD2 lost its password already twice
Hello, I can add to this threat that I also had an unexpected and incorrect ' wrong password' experience twice, where my password (8 digits, correctly entered) was suddenly not accepted anymore. Soft resets did not help and I had to restore previous backups loosing recently entered data. Very annoying and in my view not acceptable.
regards,
Danny Groeneveld
The Netherlands
Very annoyingly this has also happened to me. My phone ran out of battery last night, and when plugged back in a few minutes later, the device didn't recognise my four digit pin.
Is there some sort of generic pin it resets to?
Am now locked out for 30 minutes at a time, and very worried the next time I try and get it wrong all my data will be wiped.
Can I back up my contacts/data on to my PC despite the phone being locked? (Am at work right now so can't check for myself)
Great phone but this is unacceptable
2 Options:
1) don't lock your phones with a pin code
2) flash a cooked Rom as they have been more stable based on feedback that I have been reading.
band27 said:
2 Options:
1) don't lock your phones with a pin code
2) flash a cooked Rom as they have been more stable based on feedback that I have been reading.
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The problem is I have to have my phone hooked up with my work email/calendar etc and for some reason it insists on a pin
Sorry but - what does "flash a cooked rom" mean?
Thanks
Sam
oh and soft resets haven't worked here either
sam8384 said:
The problem is I have to have my phone hooked up with my work email/calendar etc and for some reason it insists on a pin
Sorry but - what does "flash a cooked rom" mean?
Thanks
Sam
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How to flash a cooked ROM:
Step 1:
Read the first page <<HERE>>..
Step 2:
Then select a cooked Rom From <<HERE>> in the list where it says [ROM]. Read <<THIS>> for more guidance. But it's not necessary to read it because if you go BACK TO STEP 1 there is also a video that shows you what to do with the ROM FILE after you have downloaded it. REREAD STEP 1 when you have everything in place as it's that simple. Make sure your read the WHOLE PAGE OF STEP 1 before you begin and even during the process there is TROUBLE SHOOTING DETAILS THAT ARE IMPORTANT.
thanks band27
I've had to hard reset and because I couldnt connect my phone because it was locked I'm not been able to back up some bits.
Reading elsewhere it appears like a WM 6.5 problem. absolutely pathetic, but why htc hasnt sorted it as well is quite a disgrace.
i've decided not to get my work emails back on my device so i don't need a pin, its my own mobile anyway so they can take a walk!
password dissapear
hi.
i have had some experience of passwords dissapearing so each time i use one of any of my 3 email accounts on the hd2 it requred me to re-enter my password.
the same thing logging into latitude on google maps
i figured out i can repeat the fault every time by installing swipe keyboard, or un-installing it !!
dont even know if this is the real reason it happens but it works ( or fails ) each time and i tried it on a few different roms now !
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i have the same problem and i have been tring to unlock phone after restart and it keep saying incorrect pin and im locked out.
Not recognizing my pin (again)
I bought the HTC HD2 end of january. Nice phone. But after 1 week it didn't recognize my pin anymore. Fortunately the shop where I bought it, has a '14 days not happy with the phone get another one'-policy. So I gat another HTC HD2. Had to install everything again and lost everything I had stored on the other phone. But the new phone worked !
Till yesterday evening. Again the HTC HD2 didn't recognize my pin
I tried to install the ROM-update. But that doesn't work, because you have to unlock the phone for that (otherwise there's no connection between my phone and my computer). Also tried the hard reset. Nothing works.
I hope someone has a solution for me. Cause I'm really getting tired of this.
i don't know, i unlock my sim pin since my first phone, my e-mail accounts are working fine, i don't have any of these problems so far, i bought mine january
This has happened to me a few times where a soft reset worked and once where it didn't (lost all data). Each time it was first thing in the morning and my alarm didn't work. That was on 1.48, since going 1.66 I haven't had either problem occur and it's been almost a month.
J
Which PIN is this? The phone lock or the SIM PIN?
If it's the phone lock, can it be disabled by de-selecting it. This would be a horrible thing to happen if it couldn't be disabled.
i had a big problem with my HD2, I was in the bath and I dropped it of course it got wet but now that blasted crappy stock htc software thingy won't even switch on.....
Next time i'll flash a cooked rom.