Good evening everyone. My Hermes seems boot up fine, but after a split second it freezes.
Now, this happened the other day after I installed Egress RSS, but I was messing around trying to hard reset it and the issue was resolved. Last night I ran MSN Messenger Live and then it started this freeze up. Is this a known issue and is there a fix, or should I carry on messing around trying to hard reset?
After trying to soft reset it 30+ times, I've noticed a few things.
1). the today screen will initially load up completely before the freeze.
2). I think it's something to do with teh Live Today plugin thats causing the issue at it appears to change and the whole today screen locks up.
3). Pressing any of the buttons cause the screen to light up.
Anyone got any ideas?
I am not sure but my guess is maybe it is tryin to sync your contacts or connect to the server. So far im still hesitating to use it because of this. Im expecting it to be a [email protected]#$ to clean up all of my contacts.
trapper said:
After trying to soft reset it 30+ times, I've noticed a few things.
1). the today screen will initially load up completely before the freeze.
2). I think it's something to do with teh Live Today plugin thats causing the issue at it appears to change and the whole today screen locks up.
3). Pressing any of the buttons cause the screen to light up.
Anyone got any ideas?
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Well, this is where the plot thickens.
The Hermes will boot up if I remove the memory card before resetting. Sometimes it will even boot up with the memory card in, but it won't recognise it. Putting the memory card in once the Hermes boots up will either;
1). not recognise it.
2) Freeze
3). Work normally.
As it appears to be an issue with the memory card, I've tried inserting it multiple times, but the same issue is persisting.
Are there any similar issues that anyone knows of?
trapper said:
As it appears to be an issue with the memory card, I've tried inserting it multiple times, but the same issue is persisting.
Are there any similar issues that anyone knows of?
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Format the memory card on the PC then re-insert it into the HERMES. It may have gotten corrupted. Hope you have a backup of your files.
trapper said:
As it appears to be an issue with the memory card, I've tried inserting it multiple times, but the same issue is persisting.
Are there any similar issues that anyone knows of?
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My friend's wizard did the same thing with a card he had, I would freeze at boot, and if I put it in my wizard it wouldn't recognize it. I tried what stukes said, and on the pc if fine, but it still won't recognize it on his wizard. His wizard has no problem recognizing my card though.
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had the phone about 5 weeks or so now, but i am startin to get fed up with it, a few times now i have come to switch it on and nothing happens, but the led keeps flashing. So i have to do a soft reset to get it working.
i thought i had fixed it by removing some programs last weekend, then this morning it did it again, then twice more within a few hours.
just wondered if anyone has anything similar? if it keeps happening i will try giving it a hard reset before getting rid of it
Stu
Please be aware to not hit the power button too long. This will let the M600 go into screen off mode. It then looks like it does nothing, while in real, it is alive, you just can't see it.
You can toggle this modus by holding the power button again.
I have the m600 and have never had similar problems.
Robin
Check you SD card carefully. If you have corrupted files/structure it can cause crashes. I had this on my Orange M600 (often through the night i.e. would only start in the morning after a soft reset) I kept thinking that it was a software issue but I had some corrupt files on my card.
A simple test is to copy the entire contents of your SD onto your computer. If you have any errors it will normally fail at some point. It's always worth looking at the obvious/simple stuff first.
noony- thanks for the tip- my M600 has been plagued with lock ups, much like the ones you describe (locked in the morning etc).
I'm planning on flashing to a new ROM and will also reformat my SD and see what happens
Hi Folks,
The bottom red/green phone buttons and the ones next to them have suddenly stopped working, together with the top browser and email buttons. The central pad and the side buttons still work fine.
I have tried a soft reset and also pulling out the battery fo a few minutes to no avail.
I think one of the keys may be stuck down as now the backlight also stays on all the time while on battery and it's set to turn off after 10 secs.
I can report the phone as faulty (had it about 60 days) and get a replacement but just wondered 2 things:
1) Anyone else had this (and managed to fix it)?
2) Is there a diagnostics mode I can invoke that will do a manual or automatic button/stuck button test?
Thanks.
I now have this same issue- and after a hard reset am looking to send my device back to HTC... unless anyone else has has this issue and found a solution???
Here's hoping someone has....!
Edit: Looks like this is not so much of an uncommon problem- 3 or 4 other people in this forum have had the same issues. Any solutions anyone?
Update- despite having had no effect with a hard reset, ROM re-install, battery removal etc, my buttons have now suddenly decided to work again (????)
My hypothesis- it's something to do with my 2GB Sandisk card- when I'm using the card, I have occaisonal lockups, programs starting by themselves etc. However, this might be a tenuous link, as the buttons did not come back to life when I removed the card...
I guess I'll just have to keep an eye on the workings of them over the next few days. But if anyone else suffers from this issue, do a hard reset, take your battery out for ~6 hours, and then try again. I can't say it "worked" for me, but that's what I did, and they now work again.
Apologies that I seem to be writing this thread all on my own ;-)
I have had something similar happen. And my keyboard locks up.
Not sure what is causing it, but I am pretty sure it is something I installed that messed with the reg conflicting with something else.
Odd thing on mine is the phone key opens up the cammera... and I can reset it by hitting OK after closing the camera.
But a hard reset solves it so I just have to be methodical to figure out what is causing it.
EDIT: Turned out it was my case causing my problems. To much preasure was being applied to buttons during a soft reset causing all sorts of problems. Sorry I could not help.
hey people, im pretty new on here, but had my wizard for a while now, no problems with it, but the other day, it froze, so i did a soft reset as ya do, poked the button, and waited for it to load the O/S. I left it for 8 hours, and kept resetting it again and again. But it kept freezing on the windows mobile splash screen. By luck ive got it working again, i plugged it into my mains charger, and for some reason it loads up no problem. It will not load if plugged into USB, or by internal battery. When it freezes, the green light flashes, as if its working fine.
Another thing, when its not plugged in, the O/S number and other numbers on the first O2 splash screen take longer to show up as when its plugged in to the wall and does load.
Anyone got any ideas why its doing this?
Just annoying when im not at home, and it happens to crash, cant turn it on again =(
Cheers!
Foxy =)
foxy218 said:
Anyone got any ideas why its doing this?
Just annoying when im not at home, and it happens to crash, cant turn it on again =(
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First, while you have it hooked to the mains charger, download and run ClearTemp, to clear out your hard drive of unwanted and unnecessary files. All that rebooting and freezing could be symptomatic of a full drive. Lastly, move your personal information to an SD card with DotFred's PIM Backup, and do a hard reset to really scrub the memory on the phone, then reinstall your data afterward.
If that fails to produce the desired results, try getting your hands on a new battery and see if that doesn't solve your problems...Seem to be a lot of folks with battery failures these days. Must be end-of life on the original hardware (which, to be fair, is about four years ago...unheard of in the current technology climate).
I have recently started having a problem with my HD2. When I long press the end button to bring up the phone options menu in order to power the phone off, the touch screen becomes unresponsive and the phone locks up. At first I thought it was a problem with one of the Android builds I was running so I reformatted my SD card as well as tried a different Android build. That didn't work so I re flashed the Windows ROM I was using and still no luck. Now I have flashed to a different Windows Rom and refrained from using Android and it still doesn't work. The phone options menu pops up, but it wont register that I have pushed anything. I would say 1 out of 20 times it will register a response and will shut down. This is the only time I have a problem with the screen. I am able to do everything else with the phone, but use the phone options. Does anyone know what could be causing this problem? Thanks in advance for any help you guys can give me. I have searched all over this site and the net and have not found anyone with a similar problem. Oh yeah I have also done both soft and hard resets to no avail.
Did you try removing your MicroSD Card to see if that changes anything? I had that happen to me a few months ago and it worked after I removed the card. Not sure why that has any effect on it at all, but I'm a trial and error type of guy. Ended up formatting my sd card and after that I never had the problem again. It might not work for you, but it's worth a try.
Thanks for the response, but I have tried that and no luck. The card has been reformatted and the phone does weather I am in windows or android.
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i have the ssame problem just started today
Hardware issue related to touch screen ribbon cable located behind end button.
on WM OS you could create a link to launch endkey.exe (found in windows folder) & use that instead of physically pressing endkey. This would overcome your issue to some extent & help diagnose fault as hardware or software ...
Got the same issue, I found this thread helpful:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=993787
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Hi All,
Something weird happened today. After installing Google Earth update, tried to open Google earth, nothing was visible, only the top bar. After sometime the application force closed and phone restarted. After this, the touch screen was not at all responding. I wan not able to unlock the screen at all. Took out the battery and reinserted and no change in behaviour at all.
The only relief was that when i tried to connect to computer, i was getting "Turn on US Storage" screen and it was responding. But only this screen and nothing else. Tried multiple restarts but no luck. Only after changing the sim card, the phone started responding. After this changed back to original sim and the same is working now.
Any idea how to understand cause of this behaviour? Haven't rooted my phone yet.
I know this thread is old but for what it's worth I believe the issue has to do with faulty hardware.
I had the same thing happen to me yesterday when downloading a wallpaper with Zedge. Even when mounting USB storage from CWM I was not able to keep a steady connection, it was like the cable kept becoming plugged in and unplugs every few moments.
From what I was able to find, it's a faulty part and the internal SD card fails. The fix is to have Samsung replace the mainboard
However, I restored a CWM backup and everything has been fine so far, even reading files from the Internal SD that did not work during the time of the issue.
I am going to have my phone replaced anyway (I'm within 30 days with mine so I don't have to send away).