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Help! Wizard has completely died after installing ScreenLock

Hi, I just installed Screenlock:
http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=14621
1 hour later my Xda Mini S which has worked fine for weeks is completely dead. It won't respond even after removing the battery, pressing the reset button, holding on/off. Even plugging in the charger doesn't make the LED light. This was all after I locked the screen with Screenlock, and tried to unlock it again.
Any ideas at all what on earth is going on or how to get back to a working state?

Re: Help! Wizard has completely died after installing Screen
CJSnet said:
Hi, I just installed Screenlock:
http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=14621
1 hour later my Xda Mini S which has worked fine for weeks is completely dead. It won't respond even after removing the battery, pressing the reset button, holding on/off. Even plugging in the charger doesn't make the LED light. This was all after I locked the screen with Screenlock, and tried to unlock it again.
Any ideas at all what on earth is going on or how to get back to a working state?
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Enter Bootloader, - hold the "camera" and shortly press the reset button, don't release "camera" until you can see color screen, connect USB cable, and start to flash any ROM you like from ftp...

Okay, I have followed your directions exactly, but the device is dead beyond even that. Nothing happens whatsoever
Any other ideas?

Have you tried Hard reset?
What exatly have you tried when flashing?
Did it enter into bootloader?
Was the plugged charger original one?

saman-cz said:
Have you tried Hard reset?
What exatly have you tried when flashing?
Did it enter into bootloader?
Was the plugged charger original one?
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Yes, hard reset as directed in the post above.
I cannot flash, because the device won't even switch on, as explained.
Not even bootloader - nothing. The device just doesn't do anything.
I have tried 3 original chargers including a car charger. Additionally the device was fully charged when it failed.

Has screenlock worked uberhaupt ?

What does uberhaupt mean?
Screenlock worked for an hour as I said, but after an hour it wouldn't unlock the device and we have the situation I now see.

CJSnet said:
What does uberhaupt mean?
Screenlock worked for an hour as I said, but after an hour it wouldn't unlock the device and we have the situation I now see.
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when the device wouldn't unlock was there a graphical view or complete dead view ?

The screen was, and still is, completely blank as though off.

CJSnet said:
The screen was, and still is, completely blank as though off.
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Then i think it has nothing to do with the program screenlock.. you have just bad luck with youre MDA... it is just died...

Bit too much of a coincidence that. An hour after installing Screenlock, a program which switches the screen off and prevents you pressing any keys... my screen switches off permanently and I cannot press any keys... at all! :?

Continuing from the other thread... as I said, I have no problems.
As far as I know, it just runs in the background, intercepts button presses (like any other button manager), and detects whether the device's screen is brought back to full power - and switches it back to zero power again.
If it installed itself as a Startup item, you should still have been able to proceed to the Windows Mobile splash (if any)
If it were a device driver that loads firstmost, then you still should have been able to get to the manufacturer splash.
Even if it were to install itself in the extended ROM, you should still have been able to access the BootLoader.
I simply can't think of anything, other than mechanical failure/etc., that would cause what you're seeing.
That said, I'm sure people are sufficiently put off from downloading ScreenLock now

Update to this problem: http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?p=213698#213698
(Replacement Mini S is also dead! Is battery the cause? Please reply at above thread)

my athena wont turn on

i dont know what happened ?
it was working fine i picked it up and it was off... and now it wont turn on..

What happened?..
boinger66 said:
i dont know what happened ?
it was working fine i picked it up and it was off... and now it wont turn on..
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WTF??!!? Have you made the usual hard reset, battery out, put it into Bootloader mode, reflashed or anything like it?
Doesn't sound good. I'll find you on IM.

Do u charge it ?
Do u see a led ?

xmen06 said:
Do u charge it ?
Do u see a led ?
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i do...
also it was really hot when i picked it up
EDIT: just fixed it... seems the battery got ultra drained somehow ... went from 90% - 0 in 30 min... i dont know why that happened

that's wierd...Mine would not turn on yesterday. It just had a blank screen with the Green light on around the joystick (like it was fully charged). So I soft reset and nothing, still green light and blank screen. So set it to bootloader mode and ran mtty to check it out, Mtty tests were normal and nothing seemed wrong, tried reset, check for bad blocks, and the normal info and task commands, everything looked normal, but it would not boot up...took out the battery and waited 10 minutes, still green light and blank screen. Charged battery still same issues
SO I tried to hard reset...still same thing,, it asked to confirm hard reset, looked like it did hard reset, but still same problem..
SO I finally, put it in bootloader, reloaded the wm6 HTC__001 rom and it worked fine, Restored from backup and I was back to normal...But I was starting to get a little scared that some how my advantage was bricked...
Haven't had any problems since....Wierd

plz helpurgent
can sum1 plz tell me how to hard reset ameo or how to put in bootloader mode..
thanx in advance

hubmobile said:
can sum1 plz tell me how to hard reset ameo or how to put in bootloader mode..
thanx in advance
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There are two main methods:
1. Try using the search function.
2. Read the wiki.
Try either of these and you will suceed. Ask without doing either and you will become unpopular!

boinger66 said:
i dont know what happened ?
it was working fine i picked it up and it was off... and now it wont turn on..
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the device powers itself off if the battery overheats.
take it out and leave it for a bit

same problem here
same here, after doing Olipro's AthenaUnlocker step 1 and went to Bootloader mode to check spl version. my device is stuck to its bootloader mode & when i soft reset the only thing that will turn on is the led light of the joystick. is there a way to bring it back to normal mode from bootloader mode?
thanks in advace!

rvnteck said:
same here, after doing Olipro's AthenaUnlocker step 1 and went to Bootloader mode to check spl version. my device is stuck to its bootloader mode & when i soft reset the only thing that will turn on is the led light of the joystick. is there a way to bring it back to normal mode from bootloader mode?
thanks in advace!
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Have you removed the mini sd?

unfortunately no

Even hard reset cant fix it, i guess im down to flashing it to the x7501 rom. i hope this works

- My Ameo after auto turn off (I set 1 min) it can not wakeup when I press ON/OFF button, all light is OK (flash), OFF sound is heared when a incomming call.
- I must soft reset it for resuming again
What is wrong ???
Help me please.
Thanks..

boinger66 said:
i do...
also it was really hot when i picked it up
EDIT: just fixed it... seems the battery got ultra drained somehow ... went from 90% - 0 in 30 min... i dont know why that happened
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Nice panic there! LOL
;-p

vios5689 said:
- My Ameo after auto turn off (I set 1 min) it can not wakeup when I press ON/OFF button, all light is OK (flash), OFF sound is heared when a incomming call.
- I must soft reset it for resuming again
What is wrong ???
Help me please.
Thanks..
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Typically this is caused by some software running in the back ground. Try to disable anything from running and then re-enable one thing at a time and see if you can isolate the problem. Sometimes it's two programs conflicting with each other so you may have to do some experimentation here. Hope this helps.

eagle 1 said:
that's wierd...Mine would not turn on yesterday. It just had a blank screen with the Green light on around the joystick (like it was fully charged). So I soft reset and nothing, still green light and blank screen. So set it to bootloader mode and ran mtty to check it out, Mtty tests were normal and nothing seemed wrong, tried reset, check for bad blocks, and the normal info and task commands, everything looked normal, but it would not boot up...took out the battery and waited 10 minutes, still green light and blank screen. Charged battery still same issues
SO I tried to hard reset...still same thing,, it asked to confirm hard reset, looked like it did hard reset, but still same problem..
SO I finally, put it in bootloader, reloaded the wm6 HTC__001 rom and it worked fine, Restored from backup and I was back to normal...But I was starting to get a little scared that some how my advantage was bricked...
Haven't had any problems since....Wierd
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That is weird and scary. Did you try to remove the battery then plug the device into the power source with the battery out also?

rvnteck said:
same here, after doing Olipro's AthenaUnlocker step 1 and went to Bootloader mode to check spl version. my device is stuck to its bootloader mode & when i soft reset the only thing that will turn on is the led light of the joystick. is there a way to bring it back to normal mode from bootloader mode?
thanks in advace!
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Yes, something about flashing a specific version to your device but since this never happened to me i don't have details. Feel free to search the threads....i know it's somewhere at the top. Have fun!

boinger66 said:
i do...
also it was really hot when i picked it up
EDIT: just fixed it... seems the battery got ultra drained somehow ... went from 90% - 0 in 30 min... i dont know why that happened
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I had my ameo also drawing 1,5A from the battery (actually powerdrain was higher than charge current) Never found out why.

Troubles with hardreset

Yeserday my herald blocked couple of times and sometimes even the screen got blurry. After this he didn't respond the on/off button or softreset button.
So today I did a hard reset, after the black screen appears, I pressed yes, but the he stops and a green screen appears.
Couple of weeks ago I did a upgrade to WM6(did had any problems at all until now)

Try rerunning whatever RUU you used to upgrade it.

duprade said:
Try rerunning whatever RUU you used to upgrade it.
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And if I can't boot my phone and so cannot make a connection to pc...
Tried hardreset, screen turns into green after I pressed yes button to format
Tried to hold cam.button while soft reset, screen turns into green and red colors...
This sucks

ZipSP195 said:
And if I can't boot my phone and so cannot make a connection to pc...
Tried hardreset, screen turns into green after I pressed yes button to format
Tried to hold cam.button while soft reset, screen turns into green and red colors...
This sucks
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The "green and red" screen is the bootscreen. You can run the RUU from that screen even "without" activesync "seeing" the device.
Have you been overclocking your phone?

As long as your device says "USB" in the bottom left corner when you're connected to your computer in bootloader... you'll be fine. Just run the RUU executable.

No, no overclocking.
Only recenlty(read:1month ago) update from WM5 to WM6(got it van htc e-club) haven't got any probs until sundaynight
No additional software, only tomtom

So I got the latest ruu from smart-phones.be and it stops after 2%
giving the error code 244(like all the other ruu I tried)
I guess I'm in big trouble now?

Is your phone HardSPLed? If so, a normal RUU will fail when you try to flash it.

No, I didn't Hardspl'ed it
I tried many different ways but nothing works. Maybe I haven't read carefully enough the instructions

Place it into bootloader mode (hold down the camera and hit the reset button.) Then try to reflash the RUU. If it doesn't work, then your phone just decided to cook itself. Try the official RUU. If that IS the official RUU, then you might want to contact your phone carrier or the nearest repair center. The phone might have just chosen a bad time to malfunction. The errors you were getting sounded like an overclocking issue frying the device... or just the CPU overheating by itself.

Well, now your talking about heating cpu
i've noticed on last moment when the phone worked normally, he felt hot :s
let's go to the shop
thx

here the trick of reset HERA100
100% working i tested. htc HERA100, T-MOBILE WING.
BR, SAF470

Problem while booting my trinity phone

Hi,
I have got my trinity phone one year ago and never had a problem since last week. When starting my phone, it stops on the first screen (with "orange" logo) and nothing more happens.
I tried to reset it without succeed. The phone is not detected by the "activeSync" to make it flushable.
Help please !
Yves Florent CK

my problem is mor or less the same... only that dont apears any image on screen and the green led is constantly on...

I have loaded a long time ago an old version of ROM Gelly.
This ROM worked perfectly to a friend who suggested to do the same with my trinity.
The PROBLEM is that when i try to open the pda it freezes to the first srceen showing the rom version and after....nothing!
I tried to load again Gelly from the bootloader, it begins to run, it runs about 1% then the trinity makes a flash (this means it loses the connection with the pc) and then shows me again the first screen....
Please i need help!

me to. i try install the rom original and my pda is living again.
try this to

hi,
2 things ...
have you tried a hard reset ? (hold both softkeys & hit reset button)
and when flashing:
when you first run the rom upgrade from PC with phone on Activesync, it is quite common for phone to hang at the bootloader screen ...
worry not -
just re-run the upgrade from PC again immediately, without disconnecting or attempting to switch phone off.
(the word USB should be visable on device under the coloured bars)
if you do get hung up at bootloader screen a hard reset should at least get you back to where you were, and you can try re-flash again.
hope this helps,
regards,
Kevin

My trinity won't work anymore...
Hi all!
My trinity wont't work anymore. When i press the ON/OFF-button, the display is lighten up a bit, then the buttons are lighten up. And nothing more.
When i will go to bootloader mode, it is the same.
And when i will to a hard reset, the trinity ask me to press SEND or END key for restore factory default or cancel. When i choose the SEND key, on my display some ridicoulous letters appear, but nothing more.
When i try KITL mode, everything is the same.
Can someone help please?
Because i can't do something on my trinity
EDIT (maybe this can help my helper ):
After some time, the display and the buttons are not lighten up anymore.
When i try to charging the battery, it only works, when the buttons are not lighten up (when i switch on, charging is ok; when the display is lighten up a bit, charging is ok; when the buttons are lighten up, charging won't work; when the display and the buttons are not lighten up anymore after a time, charging is ok)

hi... i have a similar problem.. i tried soft reset, hard reset, but my phone wont go past the boot screen.. previously i just updatet the windows mobile from 5 to 6 and the phone crashed half way throw.. can some one help me.. by the way the windows mobile was one update from the web...

never mind... problem solved... tks anyhow

weezer_88 said:
never mind... problem solved... tks anyhow
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ok solved...
Can you tell how you did it?
Thanks

weezer_88 said:
hi... i have a similar problem.. i tried soft reset, hard reset, but my phone wont go past the boot screen.. previously i just updatet the windows mobile from 5 to 6 and the phone crashed half way throw.. can some one help me.. by the way the windows mobile was one update from the web...
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But my trinity don't go to the boot screen, nothing on the display but lighten up slightly...
Nevertheless, can you please post, how you solved your problem?
THANK YOU in advance!

I downloaded the original Rom windows mobile 5 from http://www.htc.com/www/SupportDownload.aspx?p_id=3&cat=2&dl_id=111 then entered in KITL mode, connected the usb and reinstalled the original Rom, and all was fine...

Qtek 9090, strange problems with power

Cero92 said:
Hi all, i just got a Qtek 9090 with WM2003 (ITA). I upgraded to WM6.1, but now it has some strange problems: first of all, when it goes in standby, sometimes it doesn't wake up. If i have to reset it, most of times it doesn't boot (it shut down before WM loads) or i get R: None G: None and i have to reset again (otherwise the phone won't work).
The lock at the boot doesn't happen when the phone is connected at the USB port (i think that's because it charges, maybe it's a battery problem?)
Another thing is that i can't turn it off: if i hold pressed the power button, it deactivate the backlught but the device stays on, and if i make another long press, i get the backlight back again... I had this problem also with WM2003, maybe it's normal?
What do you think? Whan can i do?
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Have you make a HardReset?
The correct HardReset, not only reset and press Power button!!!
See in my HowTo Section...
and why not WM6.5.5 see here

yep, hard reset is a good start, but about your other problems:
the device does not really turn off, like other phones. pressing the power button makes it go to hibernate, the display turns off, depending on your settings, it locks the hardware buttons and it shuts off wi-fi, it hardly uses any energy but gsm/gprs stay on.
the device seems to be off, yet the phone is one and you can be called. that is the closest you get to switching it off. when you turn on airplane mode, the battery consumption is even less so there is not really a need to turn it off.
pressing and holding the power button always was for the backlight. many other devices open up a shutdown menu when you do that, that would allow you to turn it off, soft reset, or switch off the backlight, but for the BA, that is not the standard. however, if i read it right, d-two is working on remapping the power button, probably for that cause.
the R: none G: none issue is known and not a problem with your phone, whenever you run out of power or remove the battery for a second, the next boot will be w/o radio (R and most roms don't allow booting without it. that's why you get stuck there and have to perform a soft reset. back in the days of wm2003 i used to remove the battery when the device froze to reset it w/o the stylus, because it didn't matter then. with cooked roms, it is different, just like the booting splash screen or the way to perform a hard reset, many things change on a cooked rom.
the issue with waking up from standby, or the SOD (standby of death) is an issue, that most likely has something to do with a backup, restored after flashing another os, or maybe you didn't perform a hard reset, as stated by d-two. you should do that, now that the device is still new, you have nothing to lose
also, read through the tutorials posted by d-two and myself, whether you missed anything while flashing.

The "real" hard reset is the one i can get by pressing camera + record button and reset? If so, i already did it after flash (i use d-two 6.1 Manila ROM in WWE)
It shows me 3 options, i put on YES "Clean Registry Hive" and "Format Storage" then i press the mail button, the screen become white for a while and the next boot al seems to be ok.
It seems, because after some time i get again the "standby of death" and, if i press the reset button, the most of time it won't boot up again (it turns off before i can get to WM), if it works phone doesn't. All these boot problem can be avoided by connecting the phone to the usb cradle, so maybe it's also a battery problem, i think...
@ d-two: i'll try your new ROM, however before i've tried your 6.1 ROM
I've already read your guide because i've got Windows 7 and i couldn't flash without your tutorial
NEWS: installed d-two new ROM, after flash i made the hard reset selecting the second and the third options, then i get the blank screen and, when viewing the htc screen, it shut down itself like it did before
As always, with the usb connected, it has no problem :\

It can be battery power - battery is old, and it doesn't provide current [A], or voltage drops [V] and phone think, it's empty.
Maybe you can try with new battery, or buy 2 nokia bl-4c batteries and repair orginal battery (somewhere on forum there is a tutorial about that - but use bl4c, not bl5c like in tutorial - bl5c are too thick to fit)

n0rbi666 said:
It can be battery power - battery is old, and it doesn't provide current [A], or voltage drops [V] and phone think, it's empty.
Maybe you can try with new battery, or buy 2 nokia bl-4c batteries and repair orginal battery (somewhere on forum there is a tutorial about that - but use bl4c, not bl5c like in tutorial - bl5c are too thick to fit)
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That's what i was thinking (and that's i hope it isn't)... Now with another recharge cycle it seems to be good also with cooked ROMs, i hope it's solved

Maybe you just have to charge/discharge it for 4-5 times, and it will restore it's capacity. Mine BA was turning off when battery indicator was showing ~60-70%, and now I'm waiting for new battery (i destroyed original )

"charge/discharge it for 4-5 times" does not have an effect on Li-ion kind of batteries. This is probably a software problem. When you turn your phone on (after removing a battery) it always shows "None" for R and G, so just press Reset button and it will be ok. I use Reset to power it on Then you can flash 6.5.5 which doesn't have problems, and do a hard reset. There should be no problem at all..

I also got the problem with the stock ROM :\
The R: None G: None error is the less important problem

Got any luck fixing it? I've had similar problems before, sometimes it turned itself off when the battery was at 60% in WM2003. Did you update to d-two's 6.5.5?

Yes, now i'm running d-two's 6.5.5 ROM.
No, i still had the problem Yesterday i called to the assistance service and they said me to remove the battery and after a while recharge it.
I put off the battery yesterday at 16 and i put it again in the phone this morning at 8, i charged it but i still have the problem
This evening i called again and they said me that i have to send it back, i'll flash the original ROM and send it on monday.
That's a shame, i really like this device, even if it's not mine, my sister uses it and she's not a pro user, what a waste

Didn't understand, what "assistance service"? This is very old phone, I just can't believe it has some kind of warranty
I have another battery, and using it the device turns it off sometimes while it's in the stand-by mode! Don't know why, the voltage on it is fine, I have measured it while working...

marko_serb said:
Didn't understand, what "assistance service"? This is very old phone, I just can't believe it has some kind of warranty
I have another battery, and using it the device turns it off sometimes while it's in the stand-by mode! Don't know why, the voltage on it is fine, I have measured it while working...
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I bought it on an eBay market and it offered 60 days warranty. It's not official HTC/Qtek warranty, but it doesn't make difference, as long as the device will work
If for you it happens only when it's in standby, maybe you just have the standby of death, the problem Chef Tony was talking about at post 3?

Cero92 said:
I bought it on an eBay market and it offered 60 days warranty. It's not official HTC/Qtek warranty, but it doesn't make difference, as long as the device will work
If for you it happens only when it's in standby, maybe you just have the standby of death, the problem Chef Tony was talking about at post 3?
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My Roms have no SOD
This is when vbase32 have all 01000000 base adress !!!
Search about SOD!!

No, this happens only with my old battery. I'll try it out now with this new ROM!

I was trying to understand his problem
Just to know, what kitchen do you use?

Cero92 said:
I was trying to understand his problem
Just to know, what kitchen do you use?
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First i have create my own kitchen but then i have found the OSBuilder and this is the best kitchen ever
With this kitchen you can look the Vbase32 for SOD!!!

Well, i trust you that your ROMs doesn't have SOD problem, in fact this happened to me also with the shipped WM2003 ROM, it's a real hardware issue

Cero92 said:
Well, i trust you that your ROMs doesn't have SOD problem, in fact this happened to me also with the shipped WM2003 ROM, it's a real hardware issue
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I think so, sorry

d-two said:
I think so, sorry
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No problem, i'll send it to the assistance on monday, i hope it won't take too much time :\

Cero92 said:
No problem, i'll send it to the assistance on monday, i hope it won't take too much time :\
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good luck But very cool that you have warranty