hi,
i'm having an odd problem. i am unable to do many things
1) sync with activesync. i can explore and transfer files to and from the device, but only as a guest, i cannot truly sync.
2) remove programs - the list is empty and i cannot remove anything
3) nothing new will install. when i send a cab over, and i try to install it, it will tell me that the installation was unsuccessful.
i belive this all started when an installation over activesync (tomtom) failed, though i am not sure.
i have rebooted my computer, uninstalled and reinstalled activesync, soft-resetted my 8125, tried serial/rndis. nothing seems to work.
the pda is usable right now, from what i can tell. the programs that are already on there work fine. its syncing that is all messed up.
thanks for any help you can give.
and i have managed to fix it, in a fashion
1) make a full backup (except for the sd card) with sprite backup. (i made this backup while i was having these problems)
2) hard reset, let ext rom run
3) restore from backup
everything seems to work, so i can say that i'm happy with it
norelidd, I had your exact same problem last night. Active sync was uploading a CAB file onto the device and I pressed cancelled. No big deal I thought because it cancelled during the uploading process. When I tried to sync it later, nothing worked except for the "explore" files option. I wasn't able to sync, remove, install or even change my today theme. The device itself still functioned normally, made calls normally and got on Cingular's EDGE fine. Just wouldn't sync or install/remove or change the today theme.
I performed several soft resets, deleted any files files on the device created within the last hour of my previous sync incase anything was corrupted, nothing worked. Only solution, I finally bit the bullet and did a hard reset. :x Reinstalled everything and it works fine after the hard reset. :wink:
my mini s wont install cab files from the file explorer. you see, ive recently been admitted to hospital (dislocated hip from a rugby tackle, 4 weeks on traction ) and thought i'd download some games to play. but ive tryed downloading loads of different cab files, as obviously i dont have access to my pc, but when i click on them, nothing happens. any ideas??
This has happened to me twice
I am having the same problem. I thought it was an activesync problem but the first time it happened I was installing .cab files and there was a problem with the install. I had to fix the problem with a hard reset.
My problem now is that I just loaded a whole bunch of programs and I was looking for a good back up program but I do NOT have one on my 8125 yet. How can I back up my programs (or can I) if I must do a hard reset. Is there any way of fixing this problem without doing a hard reset?
Please help!
Thanks.
Still looking for help...
I am really trying to avoid a hard reset. Can anyone help us with this problem? I am thinking it may have been caused by installing programs designed for PPC 2003 and not WM5. But who really knows with microsoft.
Thanks!
Hi!
I'm having the same problem!
The thing is, I CAN'T make a hard reset because I don't have Sprite Bckup installed on PDA and I simply can't installit now! I don't have backup of my PIM data...
Can you help me???
Thanks,
Deiota
Deiota said:
Hi!
I'm having the same problem!
The thing is, I CAN'T make a hard reset because I don't have Sprite Bckup installed on PDA and I simply can't installit now! I don't have backup of my PIM data...
Can you help me???
Thanks,
Deiota
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Hi again!
Just did the hard reset, but I found out a way to backup my PIM data.
Just copied the PIM.vol file that is on the root of the PDA and then, after the hard reset, restored the file. Done!
Best regards,
Deiota
I'll try it - thanks!
I did the hard reset and everything (except syncing through the exchange server is working). I will copy the file over. I am going to install the backup program first. It seems that my problems came from installing third party programs to the minisd card.
ARrrrrrrrrrrrr I have the same problem, canceled an install from activesync during the file upload...
I still don't see why this would cause an issue because the file had not started the install yet but obviously it has done somthing that I don't know how to fix... does any one know what the device does on a WM5 system when an app tries to get installed? is there a way to reset what ever it has changed?
Many thanks
JFC
This is the exact same problem, as I described here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=57461
It is a problem with policies getting screwed up all by themselves.
I just had to do a hard reset and as I didn't have enough permissions neither a backup app, I've lost ALL my data.
I hope I won't have the same problem in the future.
Same problem for me last week. I obviously had to hard reset...
Same problem for me last week. I obviously had to hard reset...
Get yourself a registry editor and make sure that your Policies (on HKLM\Security\Policies\Policies\ ) are exactly like these:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/download.php?id=13422
This is probably the only thing that can prevent us from a hard reset.
I had the same problem on my HTC Mogul (Titan, Sprint PPC-6800).
1.) Before I started, I made a backup with SPB Backup, after I had my problems, but before importing a clean policies registry from another Mogul.
2.) I imported the file, but that didn't seem to help, so I thought maybe there might be some new policies that weren't there before, so I was going to rename the old policies tree, and then re-import the file. BAD IDEA. As soon as I renamed the tree, Windows Mobile kicked me out and required me to set a device password. It wouldn't run any applications or communicate with Activesync saying I didn't have enough permission. Nor could I re-run Resco Registry Editor.
3.) Someone else here said that he made a Sprite backup after the problems, did a hardware reset then restored, and it solved his problems. That didn't make sense to me, but I did have that newly created SPB Backup image, and my PDA at this point was pretty useless. So I hard reset and restored the image of my device and all the problems are now gone! I don't understand why, but I'm glad it's working.
Conclusion:
If I didn't have backup software already preloaded I would have been screwed, because when my PDA got initially messed up one of the symptoms was that I couldn't install any new applications. I should do backups more often, but the fact that it takes 20+ minutes makes it a unfun process.
This happened to me before and I ended up doing a hard reset, then it happened again but then that was due to a program needing a reset so after doing a soft reset for that it worked.
Now I have the 2.26 rom in and I have spent about a month and just installed a bunch of new apps today, nearing the end the same thing has happened to me. I tried a soft reset but it didn't fix the problem, I can't even go to the add/remove programs and remove the last few programs I had. It shows no programs to remove.
I don't know if installing it via .cab would work but these last few programs I'm trying to install are only in a .exe file, not a .cab file.
Then this is also interesting, I can't delete any 'system' files, I just tried to delete the default pictures from the main memory and I recieved
"Cannot delete picture_name: Access is denied
Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and the file is currently not in use"
However I can delete the file through activesync on my computer.
There are about 16mbs of free storage.
I tried searching the forums but I couldn't find anything. I do believe this is a bug associated with WM5, does anybody have a workaround or fix?
I've only seen that a couple of times but a hrad reset was required. Curious on what software you're installing as this isn't really too common around here. Something's going rogue on you for sure, just what you're going to need to narrow down.
Sorry ...
Yes, I believe this problem comes about from an unsuccessful installation of a program, I had numerous unsuccessful installations so that is the probably the culprit. Oh well, I just did a hard reset, it's gonna be a looooong night.
If I hard reset my device, do I have to redo all the page pool stuff again?
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If I hard reset my device, do I have to redo all the page pool stuff again?
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I don't think so.
genaldar said:
I don't think so.
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If you hard reset your device, you wipe your device clean - back to factory settings (similar to reformatting a memory card). Apps, tweaks, and settings have to be configured again, (including the Page Pool). If you are going to hard reset your device, ensure that you back-up everything on your pc or memory card.
Well if you have a cooked rom and the default is say a 4mb page pool it will stay at that because that is technically the "factory settings". But if your normal tmobile wing rom it will go back to the original page pool.
How do you know what your page pool is?
How can I check my page pool? I followed the instructions to use quick page pool, and it seems like i might have more memory - lol- but how do I check to see what my current page pool is?
thnx!
The stock memory on my Wing upon flashing the RUU was
Storage
39.44
8.09
31.35
Program
43.87
32.20
11.67
Hi,
I am using a HTC Touch P3450
I did a few soft resets to set up an other application, and once i was finished batterystatus no longer apeared - no indicator, menu or today screen mention
So i went and got the new homescreen and when i go to install either on storage card or device i get intallation was unsuccessful. i did a soft reset, removed what batterystatus files i could find and tried again.
No luck so i have done a hard reset and it still does not work
help would be greatly appreciated, either a work around (tried unselecting today plugins) or if anyone has an old version of classic batterystatus lying around or in the worse case a program that does the same (i want it for cpu idle and overclocking under load when needed)
Thanks,
snootybrit said:
Hi,
I am using a HTC Touch P3450
I did a few soft resets to set up an other application, and once i was finished batterystatus no longer apeared - no indicator, menu or today screen mention
So i went and got the new homescreen and when i go to install either on storage card or device i get intallation was unsuccessful. i did a soft reset, removed what batterystatus files i could find and tried again.
No luck so i have done a hard reset and it still does not work
help would be greatly appreciated, either a work around (tried unselecting today plugins) or if anyone has an old version of classic batterystatus lying around or in the worse case a program that does the same (i want it for cpu idle and overclocking under load when needed)
Thanks,
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today i was clearing up my phone with a hard reset with B2btweak and Hd2tweak installed. but after the hard reset i installed back this 2 .cab. and did the tweak setting follow by a soft reset and IT Crash.! b4 my 1st hard reset its workign fine on my device . does anyone knows what actually causes the crash? thanks in advance~
It might help to have more details, what did you tweak?
Why do you have both tweak programs installed?
What ROM version are you using?
what i tweak.-> just those in the tip and tricks thread
rom. 1.66 stock rom
why i using 2 of it.-> because bsbtweak gave extra option like pinch to zoom rotate option wherelse hd2tweak gave more tweak.
.hide said:
today i was clearing up my phone with a hard reset with B2btweak and Hd2tweak installed. but after the hard reset i installed back this 2 .cab. and did the tweak setting follow by a soft reset and IT Crash.! b4 my 1st hard reset its workign fine on my device . does anyone knows what actually causes the crash? thanks in advance~
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You've been very vague in your question, so I can only be equally vague in my answer. What caused the crash? One of the tweaks that you used.
BsB Tweaks is not known to cause problems, but I've read that HD2Tweak has caused problems for some users, even to the point where they need to hard reset.
Do a hard reset and go through the tweaks that you want, 1 by 1, doing a soft reset and making sure that everything's okay after each one. That's the only way to find out what caused the problem.
yup i guess thats the only way to know wat actually causes the problem by trying out 1 by 1.
thx for your reply.
i jus check from other thread. the crash came from 1 of the tweak.
HKLM\System\StorageManager\FATFS/CacheSize: 0 => 4096
to any1 that just/or keen to install HD2tweak don change anything at section 18