have an 02 xda “wizard” and the light of my camera is always on even when the phone is off but the battery is in. It is dull but on and running down the battery. Does anyone how I could get it off, also are their any other os’s that you can install that are better, like linux..
Thanks for any help
Sounds like you have a fault (hopefully a software). You can try getting into the camera application and swith it on and off, see if that works.
No Linux for Wizard yet, you can try WM6 (non official) if you want.
tried the camera thing, no joy, its even on when the phones of given me no more than an 8 hour battery
hardreset?
Whats that, just holding in the tiny reset button on the side
read the xda-wiki (on top of this screen)
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After upgrading to WM6, every works perfectly. But then, it seemed randomly, the display is blank/ all white, but I can the phone is still functioning, because i can tap on the screen and get the tap sound. Soft reset and hard reset doesn't work. I'm doing the hard reset blindingly since the display is showing nothing, guessing the key push (i pressed record-camera 3x then mail button). I'm pretty sure it did the reset because after about 30 secs I get the beep that comes on when the screen is showing Tap to setup your device.
I figured it might be a loose lcd cable, but if go into the bootloader, power+record+reset. The display works fine! Showing Serial V 2.07.
I took apart the BA anyways and made sure the lcd cable is firmly attached. It didn't work.
Sometimes the phone would go back to normal randomly, or if I let the backup battery drain, but not always. When it goes back to normal, the clock is always reset to 2004 12:00 AM.
Can anyone help me? Is it possible to have a loose LCD connector which won't be able to show normal display, but can show the bootloader normally? Or is it caused by something else?
Here are other things about my BA that may or may not be related to the problem:
-Can't use DOC_Repart to resize storage, I'm getting the FL_IOCTL_FORMAT_PHYSICAL_DRIVE failed as described here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=255585
-When upgrading the upgrade program can't detect my current OS version (showing blank under "Your device is about to be update from:"), but otherwise the upgrade works fine.
-I tried Helmi R0, PDA Viet , and xplode's 6.00 roms. They all give me the same problem
Thanks.
I am also experiencing the same issue... currently phone is at white scren, but using My Mobiler i can see my desktop and see that the phone is fully functional, just white screen so cant use...
Mine too. I can see the display working perfectly using SOTI pocket controller pro. So the phone seems to be functioning except for some reason the screen is showing all white screen.
cubangt, are using an extended battery or the standard battery that comes with the phone?
Have you tried flashing with a different rom??
Sorry, I fear my message won't be useful at all for you, but I'll post it just for the record. I hope you can find the solution to your problem anyway!
My BA now can't show anything but a white screen because of what I think is damage to the screen cable (while sliding the display the backlight goes on and off...).
But the cable is not loosely connected, it is sort of strongly bent at one point, and maybe some contacts got kind of cut. Now it does not work anymore, but some time ago switching it off and the on again used to do the trick: the display would be readable again (even though with annoying colours, stripes and so on). I don't think this is your case, but I'd like to warn the newbies like myself that they should care not to lose any piece while changing the LCD on their BA: I think I probably forgot about some sort of protection which could avoid damages to the cable in its movement.
As for the missing version number when upgrading, the same has always happened to me.. I think.
Ok, sorry for my English, I would have had some troubles with exposing these few silly things even in my mother tongue... bye... and good luck.
I tried 3 different WM6 roms. And if I remembered correctly this also problem also occurred for a brief while I downgraded to WM2003SE while trying to resize the storage(which failed).
Yeah I'm not sure if mine is a hardware problem, since I can always go into the bootloader and the display works fine there.
I have new info to add though. I found out I can reliably get rid of the problem by draining the backup battery. Now I have a new question, since draining the battery takes a while, is there a way to reset the phone as if the backup battery is emptied (and return my display to normal)? If I can find a way to simulate this, then I can actually use my phone again, even if I have to do this once a day.
Obviously soft reset doesn't work. And I don't wanna do a hard reset either. Maybe the experts here now what kind of data is reset when all batteries are completely drained.
Thanks for the help
hmmmm
quick thinking.....i was working on my phone tonight and came across this thread.....if not grounded properly it could be that you statically fried a component in the process?
Hello all,
I have recently killed my Jamin. Im not sure whether it is permanent or not. Personally it looks like a rom failure with the video bois, but I am far from experienced with windows mobile#.
I have searched the forum and can not find anything similar.
(Story)
To cut a long story short, I picked up my Jamin while it was connected to my pc. Catching a gimps of WM5 and the battery fell out (while still connected to my vista pc). So it turns off and I put the battery back in and turned it back on.
(What does work)
This is kind of hard to explain, but from what gather, everything seems to be running fine except the screen. Basically it still syncs up (can access files) and the Bluetooth led turns on after a minutes or how ever long it takes
(Problem)
The problem is that the screen is doing something weird (This is the hard part to explain). I do not get anything out of it even the "htc" pic at the start.
It has these blue horizontal lines about a pixel wide running down the screen. They change like the screen is trying to display different things but it is as if it does not know how to use the screen.
Im thinking re-install the rom? But I do not want to make things harder for myself if I am wrong.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Tryed Flashing.
Well If anyone is interested, I tried Re flashing and I still get the same problem. My next PDA will not be an Imate, too many problems.
Hello all,
I've been reading this forum for a while but only now decided to ask for help.
I am one of those unfortunate htc users who got the "camera problem".
I've bought my Oribit2 of ebay and first it was working fine with all the functions etc. Then i started upgrading it, flashed hardspl, new ROMs, radios... at some point camera stopped working. Not sure exactly when, cause i have tried several different ROMs and radios before even noticing that something was wrong. At that point i had c_shekhar's ROM installed.
I started reading more on the problem and tried to flash original ROM/radio or other ROMS and radios but nothing helped. Camera was still not working with error "Unable to capture photo. Unable to get frame data from camera device." or something like that and VERY slow response in camera.exe.
I've seen same problem in many different threads on different forums, mostly it's been an issue with incompatible Radios and was fixed by reflashing but also, in many cases ppl had the same as i do - camera not working and flashing doesn't help.
So, some solutions appeared:
- taking out battery for 15 mins, fixed camera for some ppl.
- installing Nadavi camera fix and/or uninstalling afterwards
- deleting all camera.* files from windows and installing Nadavi camera etc...
Well, i've tried them all. Nothing worked. The trick with taking out battery partially worked once: i've flashed original O2 WM 6.0 and took out battery for about 30-40 mins. After putting it back - voila camera working as it should be, no lag, no error. I'm happy! NOT.
Of course i immediately decided to flash some better ROM cause original is crap. After flashing - camera dead again and this time even taking out batter for more then an hour didn't do anything.
Trying trick with nadavi camera fix proved to be partially working or at least a good step in right direction:
lag went away, i could operate the camera program, switch from back to front camera(which was working fine btw) and even capture videos...
well... kind of. In preview the image is all fuzzy, just coloured line and noise, impossible to see the image, only some parts of it.
But it was clear that somehow, when using back camera, the image was a mix of a rear and front cameras! I mean i can't see clear picture,
but if i move my hand near one of the cameras i see changes in image(it's still mostly coloured noise).
All this is weird isn't it?
After evaluating everything, it makes me think that it's not a hardware problem, but really a configuration problem.
Looks like there is small flash memory in camera device, or some another way to keep camera initialization and it does not depends on radio or ROM.
Now, seeing that some ppl were able to fix the problem while installing original rom, or installing Nadavi camera fix or both, makes me think that under some
specific conditions these internal camera settings can be reinitialized.
While browsing net, looking for answer, i have found this :
Some of us had problems with Htc devices recognizing the on board camera after installing new ROM's.
It has been my technical opinion and observance that this problem can accrue when you manually put the devices into bootloader mode and don't press the camera and power buttons together along with the reset button correctly.
Once this damage is done you will have to reinstall the ROM radio files via uploading a manufacturer ROM to your device that has the radio ROM packaged along with it e.g. "HTC sprint beta ROM".
To avoid this I suggest always letting your PC force your device into bootloader mode. Because even the best of us might not mash the keys just right causing your ppc to forget all of it's configured camera associations.
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HERE
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?threadid=1396410
Well, this guy seems to agree with me that it's camera settings problem and there must be the way to fix this.
Well, again, i have tried installing original ROM and radio again, with no luck(even tried different combinations of nadavi fix , taking out battery etc...)
So, now, i believe, what we need is someone who knows a great deal about programming mobile devices and drivers for camera in particular to try and
produce some kind of a software that can reinitialize these camera settings(this is if this theory is correct).
Since my phone was bought off ebay, i have no guarantee and cannot send it back for repairs.
Does anyone know the right person who can do this? Or maybe some other solution to fix the camera?
I'm in the same situation. I was using udk 4 or possibly 5. One day I noticed the camera didn't work. I still had an icon for in under programs and the default button turned it on. Since then I have tried newer roms and several radio roms. I have no icon for camera under programs and the camera button on the phone just loads the camera album.
Can anybody help us?
Many Thanks
Dan
The same thing happen to me as for you guys.
The only thing helped as I tried new radio roms and still was not working.
So I tried radio Murata - 1.58.21.23. And now camera works perfectly again!!
You can search here and you will find this radio on this forum.
cheers
Andrew
I have tried that radio.
the same story. radio is murata
will try to go this hell route - nadavi camera and stuff
Ive been on this all day now. Nothing I have tried has made it work. I'm on the original rom from o2 now and it's going back to the shop tomorrow.
Can they tell if i've put 3rd party roms on the phone? If so is there anything I can do to "re lock" it?
Cheers
Dan
Maniakaz said:
The same thing happen to me as for you guys.
The only thing helped as I tried new radio roms and still was not working.
So I tried radio Murata - 1.58.21.23. And now camera works perfectly again!!
You can search here and you will find this radio on this forum.
cheers
Andrew
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not in all cases
i have a camera problem too...what is the answer?
Same problem for me, Camera not working any more
I was using M-Amine 2 ROM and camera started malfunctioning, (the first days was alleatory, and I arrived to fix it restarting camera or taking pictures two or three times, until finally the problem becomes definitif...)
I tested other roms (c_shekar, 3VLIT, Nadavi fix, and other radios...even original ROM....come back to c_shekar....with some small changes, but finally retour the same problem "unable to capture frame...".
Today I have reinstaled again Original latest French ROM, at the begining camera doesn´t worked, but suddenly It has come back again. Up to now still working after many resets and tests. I will keep you informed, I plan to come back to c_shekar, after some days of testing with original ROM.
it can be fixed with original rom
find my other post how to get ROM's with needed language.
b.r.
Alexandar
I have an O2 Orbit 2 as well.
I recently noticed that my camera isn't working anymore.
About 1 month ago I installed Core Player 1.2.4 and since then I had a lot of issues with the card. Folders starting disappearing, corrupted SD etc. Sometimes only some recent folders disappear.
However, most recently I discovered that the camera does not work anymore. Pressing the snapshot button doesn't start the camera. While the buttons do light up when the camera button is pressed (suggesting a software issue) the camera does not start. If I go into the Programs folder and start Camera, it starts. But when I press the camera button to take a picture, it goes upto the point that it makes the focus sound, the two framing aids (that look like a split square) turn green but that's it. No photo is taken. Camera however seem to work, everything looks ok through the camera but it just doesn't take photos/movies anymore.
I haven't installed/upgraded anything, I have the original rom.
I have tried to take out the battery for 30+ mins but the same issue happens.
It definitely looks like a software issue, either by a software that corrupted files (I suspect Core Player) and/or flash corruption issue (however I haven't got any software to tinker with the flash and haven't tried boot mode or whatever, just normal on/off).
Small update: I just noticed that altering the camera settings to "Half press" instead the "Full press" makes the camera take pictures.
However, returning again to "Full press" the camera doesn't take pictures again.
So a temporary fix is to set to "Half press" but even so, the camera application does not start when I press the camera button.
Can anyone please help?
hi, I have an old Polaris and 3 days ago upgrading from WM 6 to WM 6.1, causing the both cameras (front and back) to not respond although the screen still shows the numbers and stuff on touch screen that shows cameras are working fine, BUT pointing both cameras anywhere doesn't change the black view that's been displayed since the camera is turned on. weird. but when pressing the camera button, the picture taken is properly shown. I tried both camera (front and back), both produces normal photograph, but why the black screen?!
on top of that after the upgrade, touch screen has turn rigid that it's very hard to type. I have to play with the angle of touching the pen to the screen or else, the screen will just get stuck with whatever it was doing before.
any solution? please advise thanks.
Camera working but no Picture Monitor Screen
This may help you Bulukaki
I have a HTC P3650 allready with the WM6.1 upgrade
I downloaded today the factory update for picture quality, "Hot fix for Touch Cruise photo quality issue" from the HTC download site
After this upgrade , I was no longer able to monitor the picture of the camera on the screen. Just a black screen but with all the camera functions.
The camera was still able to take a picture, the picture showed up only after exposure on the screen. Similar to BULUKAKI`s problem
So my picture quality was not that bad prior to the photo quality upgrade and I removed the update from settings/system/remove programs and did a soft reset and the camera was again functioning as it should. Having said that, you may check wether or not the "Hot fix for Touch Cruise photo quality issue" was allready installed prior to your WM6.1 upgrade.
Maybe simply uninstall "Hot fix for Touch Cruise photo quality issue" will do the trick
Hope this helps
Hi Folks!
New in the world of WM STD I have the following issues I can't find a solution to. Probably anybody can help cause the solution is nearer than I think...
From WM 6 Prof. I am used to turn on my device with the power button and turn it off, or at least the screen, by pressing it again. With my Snap I just can turn the display on with the power button. Turning off doesn't work for me, I have to wait until it turns dark on it's own. Is there a way to turn the display off by pressing a button like on WM Prof. devices?
I searched for lowering the battery warn level. Right now my Snap starts blinking when the battery is below 20%. In my eyes much too high and with WM Prof. I had the opportunity to change that in the settings. I couldn't find anything similar in WM STD. Is there a way to change it?
Are there any news about flashing a SPL 1.24 Snap? Hard SPL or Jump SPL. I'd prefer Jump SPL, but I would appreciate any solution to get a custom ROM.
Thanks a lot in advance for reading and probably answering!
Cheers
S*
Just to be on the right side: Is that just a thing I see as a problem, is there no solution available or probably I wasn't able to explain my problem properly...
Please let me know.
Thanks
S*
1. There is no way to turn off the display manually..good old non-touch technology
2. First i thought 20% iss to early too, but after it starts flashing, my Snap have only 5-6 hours left on normal use. Typical for rechargable batterys i guess.
3. i have no idea
Randel Burton said:
1. There is no way to turn off the display manually..good old non-touch technology
2. First i thought 20% iss to early too, but after it starts flashing, my Snap have only 5-6 hours left on normal use. Typical for rechargable batterys i guess.
3. i have no idea
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Thanks for the answer. Yes, I guess the "turning off the display" way only is possible on pocket pc's, if you come from normal mobile phones it's what you are used to...
True about the 20%. Anyhow I wondered if it is adjustable...
Thanks!
S*
Hi,
all of a sudden, the display of my HTC Touch HD doesn't recognize any taps any more. Also the soft-keys are not working. However, what is astonishing for me: If the display dims after 1 minute or so, tapping on the screen will bring full light to the screen, hence: the display recognizes at least some kind of fingertaps. Hardkeys (power on/off, volume) are still working, also the device at itself is working like always.
Hard-reset didn't solve my problem, I am stuck on calibrating screen which doesn't recognize my fingertaps... :-(
What I also recognized the last few days. When I activated the phone from standby (power-button), at least 5 times I saw the power-down-selection screen, though I never selected it before... Strange (in my eyes).
Has anyone had similar experiences, is this a hardware failure??
I use energy-rom WiMo 6.5 release. If it's important, I can add the release version.
Thank you for your replies
Uli
Uli321 said:
Hi,
all of a sudden, the display of my HTC Touch HD doesn't recognize any taps any more. Also the soft-keys are not working. However, what is astonishing for me: If the display dims after 1 minute or so, tapping on the screen will bring full light to the screen, hence: the display recognizes at least some kind of fingertaps. Hardkeys (power on/off, volume) are still working, also the device at itself is working like always.
Hard-reset didn't solve my problem, I am stuck on calibrating screen which doesn't recognize my fingertaps... :-(
What I also recognized the last few days. When I activated the phone from standby (power-button), at least 5 times I saw the power-down-selection screen, though I never selected it before... Strange (in my eyes).
Has anyone had similar experiences, is this a hardware failure??
I use energy-rom WiMo 6.5 release. If it's important, I can add the release version.
Thank you for your replies
Uli
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I had the same problem one year ago, it's like somebody is pressing and holding a point of the screen, so u cant do anythink.
I tried to hard reset, to leave it with no battery for one night, also i tried to put back the stock ROM, but nothing helped, so i just chaged phone.
This year the new phone broke and i tried again the HD and it was working again, but sometimes the problem was coming back.
So i descovered how to fix it...
U have to bend the phone a little bit... REALLY
U have to bend the phone holding it with 2 hads and pressing with your fingers on the side of the camera in the middle of the phone, I know is not so nice but solved the problem for me.
So remember, bend it pressing on the back of the phone, NOT ON THE SCREEN
Good luck
OMG don't bent phone! You might destroy motherboard! Probably your digitizer is dying, replace it as they're cheap. Motherboards are not.