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Hi All
Have searched to see if this has been covered before ! but a bit of help for a newbie please
Is it possible to remove & replace the sim card without the unit losing all data etc ??
Only had the XDA11 for a couple of weeks,,all set up ok ?? with tom-tom etc, The other day had to remove the sim card for the day, so disconnected the battery for under 30 sec's, to remove the card, and replaced later that day, also within 30 sec etc, on powering up again,
all data was lost and the unit started to reload as a new unit again, is this correct,
Hope this makes sense
Best Regards TJ
I have a number of devices that I swap sims with regularly and have no problems as you describe.
Changing the SIM shouldn't cause it to hard reset only soft reset.
I have had a device that had the main battery flat but still kept its settings over a weekend on the backup battery.
Have you checked the level of the backup battery in the Power screen to see if there is any charge in it?
Thanks tyfy
Yep checked the batt levels before taking the card out, about 80% and 100 on backup etc,, but as you say, it did a hard start
Regards TJ
I can confirm the hard reset thing when I swapped SIM cards. Annoying at the time, but provided an impulse to update to 'latest' ROM. Haven't removed the SIM since, for fear of the same thing happening. If I could ever get home PC, work PC and home iMac properly synched and backed up, I'd remove it again to see what happens. Occured to me at the time that T-Mobile might have been up to some software tricks, then the paranoia left as suddenly as it arrived
Thanks Guys
I need to remove the sim card, so to fit the inbuilt carphone, O2 do not do 2 cards on the same number as yet !!
So !! is it possible to swap them around without having to do a hard start every time ??
Regards TJ
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=10673&highlight=twin+sim
Hi cruisin-thru
Thanks for the link, not quite what i am looking for,
I need 2 cards ?? with the same number, or a way of moving the card from the XDA to the car and back again without doing a hard start every time ???
Regards TJ
Did a full back up to my SD last night, then checked the battery levels, = all OK, pull the battery and SIM, counted to 42 reinserted the SIM, battery and catch for battery, and everything normal. ALL data intact.
If you have a sim that is a few years old it is possible to clone it, the modern sims however will not work as the protection has yet to be cracked, if you do search on sim clone in google you will get lots of info. If you do manage to clone your sim make sure that only one phone is switched at at any one time or you may find that the security system on your network will zap the sim if it sees 2 identical numbers logged on.
Hi Guys
Thanks for the help,, been away over the weekend,
Took the card out Fri night, (took less the 20 secs) to put into the car system,,,,guess what, another hard start,, now sat here reloading all the stuff again (ie Tomtom ) etc
Had about 80% batt power with 100% backup,, i must be doing something wrong somewhere, can not belive this happens every time the card is removed !!
Regards TJ
Are you turning the PHONE off as well as the PDA? ie: set to flight mode before you turn it off. Maybe that's the problem?
Hi All
I think GaZ,s suggestion might have cracked it !!
Remove the tom tom chip, did a back up to storage card, and put the phone into flight mode, then removed the sim card within about 15 secs,
all OK !!,, have tried a couple of time and so far all ok
Many thanks to you all for the help, appreciated
Regards Tim
Something rather scary happened to me yesterday. I have the original car charger for my K-JAM and have been using it frquently (for TomTom mostly). Yesterday it blew its fuse, and I replaced the fuse and plugged in my wizard, which then promtly reset. Once I got it back up, it claimed my battery was empty, and even after a full night's charge it still claims my battery is at 0%.
I assumed I'd zapped the battery and got myself a new one. However, to my surprise, once I started it up again with a new battery (after having charged it - the orange led was blinking and it looked like it was recharging) it still reports 0% charge on main battery - both from the internal battery meter and my Resco Today plugin (the backup battery seems fine though)
Resets have not solved my problem, and now I'm considering a hard reset as a last ditch effort. The repair time for the K-JAM in Norway now is over one month (!!!) and I need it for a long drive through Europe in two weeks, and cannot wait for a month to get it fixed. For some, a hard reset is not all that dramatic, but I've spent a LOT of time tweaking my wizard into what it is today, and I'd very, very much like to keep everything. So, to my two questions:
1: Is there any possibility that something is funny in software than can be fixed here?
2: If I have to hard reset, can anyone point me to software or a thread that describes how to preserve all setting, registry tweaks, windows startup/start menu, settings etc. through a hard reset? (i.e. what to back up and how to do it in practice? I've used SPB Backup before, but there has been warnings that it will not work as a restore after a hard reset, can anyone confirm this?
I'm a little desperate here guys, so any help would be greatly appreciated!
One more thing: when the Wizard is in the charger, it does recognize the fact that it is being charged (and thus does not turn itself off), but at the very instant I pull the plug, it dies. Another strange thing is that the little battery icon at the top of the screen indicates a full battery, but if I click it and get to Windows' poer settings screen, it claims the battery is empty.
Does the battery meter read some registry values I can manipulate?
olesk said:
Something rather scary happened to me yesterday. I have the original car charger for my K-JAM and have been using it frquently (for TomTom mostly). Yesterday it blew its fuse, and I replaced the fuse and plugged in my wizard, which then promtly reset. Once I got it back up, it claimed my battery was empty, and even after a full night's charge it still claims my battery is at 0%.
I assumed I'd zapped the battery and got myself a new one. However, to my surprise, once I started it up again with a new battery (after having charged it - the orange led was blinking and it looked like it was recharging) it still reports 0% charge on main battery - both from the internal battery meter and my Resco Today plugin (the backup battery seems fine though)
Resets have not solved my problem, and now I'm considering a hard reset as a last ditch effort. The repair time for the K-JAM in Norway now is over one month (!!!) and I need it for a long drive through Europe in two weeks, and cannot wait for a month to get it fixed. For some, a hard reset is not all that dramatic, but I've spent a LOT of time tweaking my wizard into what it is today, and I'd very, very much like to keep everything. So, to my two questions:
1: Is there any possibility that something is funny in software than can be fixed here?
2: If I have to hard reset, can anyone point me to software or a thread that describes how to preserve all setting, registry tweaks, windows startup/start menu, settings etc. through a hard reset? (i.e. what to back up and how to do it in practice? I've used SPB Backup before, but there has been warnings that it will not work as a restore after a hard reset, can anyone confirm this?
I'm a little desperate here guys, so any help would be greatly appreciated!
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1. I do not know what can be done with for software for this, but probably your battery has to be calibrated.
2. Sprite backup can do all that. When you run Sprite backup, the default settings for the "backup" button is enough to do retain all your tweaks, data and applications. unfortunately, they stopped shipping trial versions. So you cannot "try before you buy".
Second that, buy Sprite back up program. It is really a good program that is now supporting the upgrading of ROM's which is something that can make your life SO much easier!
Usually if a fuse blows it's not for nothing. It might have fried the charging circuitry in the Wizard by the way...
kilrah said:
Usually if a fuse blows it's not for nothing. It might have fried the charging circuitry in the Wizard by the way...
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I'm afraid you're probably right on the spot there. I've tried a charging both my batteries, and neither of them seem to get charged, even after a hard reset, so I have now admitted defeat and scheduled a repair, which means no GPS navigation through Europe this summer
I did manage to make a full backup with SPB Backup, but since the device won't stay on long enough for me to restore now, I'll have to wait and see if it works. I'm not doing a upgrade, so it might work flawlessly - only time will tell.
Thanks for the fedback though, it's much appreciated!
Olesk. Were you successful with restore using Spb-Backup? I use Spb-Backup buy had not heard the rumour that it might not restore after a hard re-set. I would be pleased to know how yours worked. Thanks.
synfuel said:
Olesk. Were you successful with restore using Spb-Backup? I use Spb-Backup buy had not heard the rumour that it might not restore after a hard re-set. I would be pleased to know how yours worked. Thanks.
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I haven't tried yet, as it decides to die from loss of battery power in the process. No idea why it suddenly decides to do this, and I'm not convinced it's SPB's fault, so I'll try again once the Wizard is back from the repair shop. I'll post the results hare and send you a private message as well once I try it, but it might take weeks in the worst case though.
hi all this is strange when I take the battery out of my spv m600 and when I put it back in I lose the date and time does the m600 have a backup battery cos nothing shows next to main battery in settings any ideas
Hi! I have the same problem, with my qtek, with WM6. I put back WM5 and all work ok again.
lufc said:
hi all this is strange when I take the battery out of my spv m600 and when I put it back in I lose the date and time does the m600 have a backup battery cos nothing shows next to main battery in settings any ideas
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If you take the battery out for any length of time it will loose time and date yes, this happens with any rom as SPV/Jamin/Qtec does not have a backup battery. Solution: dont take yur battery out
same problem to my dopod 838pro...started after upgrade from wm5 to wm6..everytime it reset to 1:00 1/6/2007...why???
others problem: 1. on lock / pasword...some number and letter onscreen keypad dosnt work..cant key in e.g "a, s,... "... but still work limited selection password
2. i guess will enjoy with new battery ..but it always shutdown despite indicator full charged...it worse cant on back , need to plug on charger.....?USB pin problem....but no problem with old original bat..
the battery is same except regulatory number ori..HERM161 Manuf. by Dynapack Co LTD, new bat. PA 16A by Celpert Energy Co ltd ..both from taiwan....dos it make sense!!!
Can i know is this a problem with my Wizard or with the WM6.1, i was using SK Tools that i found out that my Backup Battery was 0% anybody know how can i charge it??? Thanks.
Reading your post made me wonder about mine. I'll give you back-story as to why, or it may not be too clear (as some people have told me I'm full of it for this complaint before).
On the few (more than half a dozen but less than twenty) times I've had to pull the battery to do a reset, either because it became unresponsive or because it freaked-out. I say freaked-out because on at least four occasions in the last six months when I was in the middle of a data session and received an incoming phone call it would show me the incoming call window but I couldn't press the answer button... no matter how many times I pushed the soft-key or the screen it continued to ring - even after the call was forwarded to voice mail it STILL rang endlessly until I pulled the battery. Just last week it freaked-out with my morning alarm, the alarm went off every minute for and hour and a half complete with vibration until I gave up trying to clear the notification queue and just yanked the battery. The difference between the incoming call panic and this was the device got really hot, like I could feel the back panel get hot in my hand and my BatteryStatus panel showed 104°F. I got worried for the electronic components so I held it in-front of my window A/C unit and then it went up to 107°F at which point I figured that didn't work well and yanked the battery to prevent any internal damage.
What clicked in my mind with your post was every occasions when I reinstalled the battery, my device had forgotten EVERYTHING. Not just the clock , but also my contacts, my calendar, my text messages, my email messages, my email account settings, my activesync partnerships, everything. It was like I had done a hard-reset even though I didn't.
I just installed SKTools and mine says:
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LION
On AC Line: Yes (charging via USB)
Main battery: 79%, 4096mV, 155mA, 27 C
Backup battery: 0%
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I'm hearing this from some people but not others, I'm wondering if this is specific to Cingular 8125 models as maybe a way for them to cheapen the price by forgoing the backup battery? Just in-case anyone is curious about that theory I'm running the stock Cingular ROM 2.25.11.1 WWE and it's never flashed.
l33tphreak said:
Reading your post made me wonder about mine. I'll give you back-story as to why, or it may not be too clear (as some people have told me I'm full of it for this complaint before).
On the few (more than half a dozen but less than twenty) times I've had to pull the battery to do a reset, either because it became unresponsive or because it freaked-out. I say freaked-out because on at least four occasions in the last six months when I was in the middle of a data session and received an incoming phone call it would show me the incoming call window but I couldn't press the answer button... no matter how many times I pushed the soft-key or the screen it continued to ring - even after the call was forwarded to voice mail it STILL rang endlessly until I pulled the battery. Just last week it freaked-out with my morning alarm, the alarm went off every minute for and hour and a half complete with vibration until I gave up trying to clear the notification queue and just yanked the battery. The difference between the incoming call panic and this was the device got really hot, like I could feel the back panel get hot in my hand and my BatteryStatus panel showed 104°F. I got worried for the electronic components so I held it in-front of my window A/C unit and then it went up to 107°F at which point I figured that didn't work well and yanked the battery to prevent any internal damage.
What clicked in my mind with your post was every occasions when I reinstalled the battery, my device had forgotten EVERYTHING. Not just the clock , but also my contacts, my calendar, my text messages, my email messages, my email account settings, my activesync partnerships, everything. It was like I had done a hard-reset even though I didn't.
I just installed SKTools and mine says:
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LION
On AC Line: Yes (charging via USB)
Main battery: 79%, 4096mV, 155mA, 27 C
Backup battery: 0%
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I'm hearing this from some people but not others, I'm wondering if this is specific to Cingular 8125 models as maybe a way for them to cheapen the price by forgoing the backup battery? Just in-case anyone is curious about that theory I'm running the stock Cingular ROM 2.25.11.1 WWE and it's never flashed.
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I guess its in the WM6.1 ROMs because its said that they dont need backup batteries so maybe they dont charge them as well. Seondly it cant be limited to the CIngular cause i own a T-Mobile and Third thing is that my Backup Battery was always full in the Stock T-Mobile WM5 ROM. I dont know hat is this????????
The backup battery is similar to the CMOS RAM battery in your laptop or desktop. If it goes bad when you power off the settings like type of HD are lost. This is a hardware issue that will require a service center or 2M Micro-Miniature Tech.
I had the problem of losing my settings when my 8125 used to be a G4. I have no idea what the backup battery status was then, but I can only assume it was 0% since it wouldn't save my settings. I bricked my G4 and the replacement motherboard I got from an MDA is a G3. The backup battery on this one is showing 100% and I have successfully pulled the battery without losing such things as date and time. I would suspect the new motherboard had a good battery more than it being a G3 vs. G4 issue.
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Ok, maybe this thread should be closed....but...
Don't flame me here please...does the Cingular 8125 have a BackUp battery?
I'm asking because I used to have a Dell Axim x51V that DID NOT have one...all the infos were kept on static memory, so no need to have one.
Even if you take out the main battery, everything would stay there.
And, with the 8125, when you restart the phone, it would take the time and date from your cellphone carrier network....unless you don't have coverage!
Just wondering...
Michel
michel-2000 said:
Ok, maybe this thread should be closed....but...
Don't flame me here please...does the Cingular 8125 have a BackUp battery?
I'm asking because I used to have a Dell Axim x51V that DID NOT have one...all the infos were kept on static memory, so no need to have one.
Even if you take out the main battery, everything would stay there.
And, with the 8125, when you restart the phone, it would take the time and date from your cellphone carrier network....unless you don't have coverage!
Just wondering...
Michel
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Yes, i guess it does have it......i guess soooo but still wait for the any seniors advice
Backup battery its a little round battery (like in watch). It helps to save the settings in memory - time, timing zone if you replace main battery or charge level of main battery is zero.
To replace backup battery is hard because it is used point soldering.
Has bought the device second-hand from a comp firm with a guarantee for 1 month. After 1 month of no problems working the gadget began to turn off by itself at first on 27 % of the battery (original) .
Then 32, etc .
I has thought, that problem is in old battery. Has bought new CS-execsl with 1750mAh, but the device continued to switching off without any system/sequence .
It practically is not switching off when it on the charge! The hard reset is tried. Has already passed 5 months, the firm does not respond. At a full charge on both bateries it is switched off in 5 minutes of work/ full loading of the processor.
How it is possible to solve a problem? The service centre puts the overestimated sum.
Where can I found the newest ROM /shoul this help?
ozzy-yoo said:
Has bought the device second-hand from a comp firm with a guarantee for 1 month. After 1 month of no problems working the gadget began to turn off by itself at first on 27 % of the battery (original) .
Then 32, etc .
I has thought, that problem is in old battery. Has bought new CS-execsl with 1750mAh, but the device continued to switching off without any system/sequence .
It practically is not switching off when it on the charge! The hard reset is tried. Has already passed 5 months, the firm does not respond. At a full charge on both bateries it is switched off in 5 minutes of work/ full loading of the processor.
How it is possible to solve a problem? The service centre puts the overestimated sum.
Where can I found the newest ROM /shoul this help?
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Welcome
Yes, perhaps upgrading the ROM could help
Please READ the Wiki, you´ll find several ROM´s and a way to upgrade
I personally would recommend any of Tomal ROM¨s
Good luck
I just tried to change ROM on 100%battery. Installed a little bit soft (resco explorer, core player, opera). The same problem. Switcging off after the same time of watching video on both batteries.
Can it be the hardware problem?
Yes!
It's a battery problem...
I had the same problem... at 27 -33%
probabily some unofficial charge set (like the car adapter) could damage your battery.
Don't buy another original battery, use ebay. The original it's like 60€, but on ebay is like 40€...
I have an original battery and from CS but the same problem happens.Do you know some other tricks (like paper trick)?
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=UniversalBatteryIssue
Check this out Mine turns off too but at 20%, but soon I'll order a 3200 extended and maybe the problem will disappear .
Mine too, it turns off at 20%, but well I have the original battery since 2005 so I can´t ask for more, I just bought a new one from Dukenukem and aparently it´s original
no result
I tried the "peice of tape on the second pin" but without any result.
Tried to push the battery (if it is the connection problem) but it is conecting there well.
Installed the newest ROM with WM6.1 by Luka16thebig, no result.
When device turns self off it make a short sound like "little fly hits a window".
Want to buy a new Asus P750.