I had to do a hard reset on my phone, I do have a default.dbk file but I can't get the phone to load it up. I put Data Backup back on the phone, then do a restore with that file, it looks like it gets some stuff but not everything. Am I doing something wrong? At one point, it restarted itself and went back to the password screen, it wouldn't accept my password even though it had the correct question that it asks if you forget your password. Please help, I need my contacts bad!! Also is there a way to extract my contacts from that DBK file on a computer or something if I can't get this working?
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Suddenly my Media Player has gone bad on me. Probably deleted some part of it in my efforts to slim down the system. When I launch it from the "Programs" folder I get this error-message:
"The file 'player' cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of its components cannot be found. You might nedd to reinstall or restore this file."
The icon is also missing. However when I try to open a WMP-file the app starts up just fine, and after that clicking on the icon in the "Programs" folder also works until next (soft)reset. Icon still missing though. Kinda annoying but no big deal. Can it be fixed somehow, or am I facing my first hard reset?
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OK, so I did the hard reset hoping my problem would go away but since I also restored my device with Sprite the WMP-error was also restored (I sort of suspected that...)
It did however work before the restoring part of all this.
Is there any other way of doing this? (Besides another hard reset and the pain of having to manually install/set registrys etc etc...)
Please advise... :?
If you can remember all the files you deleted, you can perform a hard reset so that the files you deleted in the first place are returned. Copy all those files to your SD Card then use your excisting Sprite Backup to restore back to whatever configuration you programmed and add one by one the files you deleted (now placed on your Sd card) and test Windows Media Player. This proceedure is very tidious as you have to try one file at a time and remembering which folder you copied them from, restoring and deleting them again if that was not the file needed.
So personally, I would just perform a hard reset and do it all over again. But this is just me.
Another suggestion to avoid this happening in the future, if you do opt for the hard reset and starting from scratch, make a backup BEFORE each time you add or delete a file. Just in case you want to go back to your last configuration. This is the procedure I use to do with my Palm OS device each time I want to try an application. I made sure I have a backup of my system with a clean install, meaning I did not change anything on the system, just a plain backup after I plugged-in all my codes and installed all my applications. I then perform another backup after each change I do and observe my system if nothing conflicts. So in anyway, using this procedure, I know I always have a backup of a clean install. Something I miss from Palm.
You´re probably right, makes sense to have a nice, clean backup to go back to. Guess that's what I'll do. Just need to work up the energy for it...
Thanks Christian!
Is there any way to boot a Wizard into a safe mode?
I dont want to hard reset , it boots, I put it my passcode and THEN it hangs, so it boots but something is killing it before it fully loads.
I think its the today screen itself that is hanging in, is there any way to disable/remove today plugins through active sync ? Add/Remove programs wont work, so am thinking I could probably disable the plugins and then reboot.....
If when you boot the phone and it hangs, it is still visible by Activestink, you could do in to your phone and remove the plugin files... then reboot, and if that in fact was causing the problem you might be ok.
Otherwise you'll be hard resetting. Hope you made a backup!
Yeah, it syncs if I dont put the password in. Only thing I would lose would be my SMS messages which haven't been backed up in a while. Bugger will be getting a new license for Opera.
Any idea where the plugins files are?
The thing that broke it was I installed O2 plus. I re-enabled RhinoStats cause I wanted to know how much CPU was taking, and I think it was the combo of these two things which broke it.
If I hold the power key down it does ask if I want to turn off my device, which is "nice"..... it's not dead but it certainly doesnt do much.
It wont add/remove programs, it gets half way through then dies.
ANd what happens if you break a today plugin? Does it fail to load and then have windows clean up after itself? Or does it royally break things?
Wont let me delete the rhinostats dll file and I dont know which O2 files I can delete so I shall not be touching those.
Have removed the sim card, will see if that helps get it into some sort of working state so I can fix the problems it seems to be having. -> Answer, no. Just shows a different screen when it gets round to breaking.
Any more ideas?
Ok, I dont know how I managed to do it, but this time (having now re-inserted my sim and removed the 2Gb SD card) it didn't immediatly die.
I cant explain it, I dont know if this is a coincidence, but I have now de-installed O2 plus and disabled all the today plugins I could find. I shall now be running a new backup.....
Now let's see if it dies.....
On a side note, anyone know of a way of exporting all the SMS messages in a format that is readable by a desktop computer (preferably via notepad/nano)?
if u want to backup ur sms msgs, there is a file called cemail.vol.
copy it to ur storage card, hard reset, then copy iy back again.
Mohammad
mohgdeisat said:
if u want to backup ur sms msgs, there is a file called cemail.vol. copy it to ur storage card, hard reset, then copy iy back again.
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Hi Mohammad, i can't copy/paste it as it is locked by something. How to do it?
Regards...
try renaming the current cemail.vol to anything ..like cemail.volx then copy the old cemail.vol into the same directory where the new cemail.vol resides. soft reset.
da_mayhem said:
try renaming the current cemail.vol to anything ..like cemail.volx then copy the old cemail.vol into the same directory where the new cemail.vol resides. soft reset.
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but how can i backup the "old" one? as i said it is locked so i can't copy it...
btw: even renaming does not work because of the file being locked...
Tried checking it on my phone, and yes it can't, i guess this only works with Smartphones. I'm sorry for that.
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Is there any way to boot a Wizard into a safe mode?
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Read http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/index.php?blog=3&p=1255&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
as i said, i tried to boot using that Monocube Safemode program and it locked up during the boot. when it finally booted up, it went through the set up process like a new install (align the screen, set time zone, install themes, ect...). now, its like the Program Files folder is empty, but anything that was located in other places on the phone, like ring tones in the Windows folder, or shortcuts i had to manually place in the Start menu folder seem to still be there. also, i dont think everything is completely gone, because a memory check shows my Storage and Program memory to be at the same numbers they were before the "reset". its like everything is still there, but hidden somehow.
any ideas on how to find my stuff, or where it might have gone?
sounds like a partial "hard reset" - I had that a few times...
always did a hard reset after that and installed everything again.
ok, for some reason, almost everything but the actual Windows folder was moved into the Windows/StartUp folder. i got almost everything back in place, i am just trying to figure out how to move the .vol files since the new ones that were created are "in use"
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help noone should run this program
i am now stuck in safe mode and cannot get out.
anyone know how to fix this.
i am very upset my phone has no today screen touchfl wont run no keyboards
i could cry
please someone tell me how to fix the mess this program made
I have WM 6.1 instaled
I changed the SIM card, I put the battery again, but now I'm not able to enter windows. I write my password but it say it isn't correct. I can't understand it!!!!
even if I put my old SIM or without sim, now it doesn´t recognise my password.
I wouldn´t like to reinstall everyth just now :-(
what can I do??
please...
thank you
It was said multiple times here, that you should not set up device password because of intermittent errors related to it. Now all ypou can do is HardReset and recover from last backup. Or maybe it's time to make your first backup?
Ohh!!!! no!!!!! mierda!!!!
thanks anyway.
Yes, I haven't got a backup, but I'm not at home so I can't do anything! mierda mieda y mierda!
here u go without a HARD RESET
just go to the hard reset menu by pressing camera+record and reset.
Select yes for clean registry hive and no for others than save.
it will remove password but u may have to re-install some of ur softwares and re configure some settings.
All ur msgs, contact etc. remain intact.
I CAN CONFIRM THIS CAUSE IT HAPPENS WITH ME TOO AND YES TODAY.
This is in fact a Hard Reset (cleaning registry) without formatting internal flash - so files from it are not lost, but most applications will need regular reinstallation.
well it has been said that when you want to remove the battery for some reason, just press the power button to put the device on standby, wait 20 seconds, and then remove the battery without waking the device, this way your registry stuff remains intact and it is a lot harder to screw your pasword.
krishan2207's way is more proper for your case, you will suffer almost nothing this way
I was tinkering around with the NFSFAN's V10 in the configuration setting and then it did a soft reset but now the touch function is not working so I cannot enter my password to begin using the phone....Is there anyway for me to retrieve the contacts and calender and texts on my phone without having to delete everything? Or any program out there that can extract the data even though my phone is currently locked?
I have the V16 which I have yet to install....
Any help will be greatly appreciated...Thanks
Also forgive me if this sounds as a stupid q...but my touch is with bell and is there any way to get the wifi going? Probably not I figure heheh?
Also is there a way I can send and receive files such as pictures with bell like an MMS file...thanks
mukan24 said:
I was tinkering around with the NFSFAN's V10 in the configuration setting and then it did a soft reset but now the touch function is not working so I cannot enter my password to begin using the phone....Is there anyway for me to retrieve the contacts and calender and texts on my phone without having to delete everything? Or any program out there that can extract the data even though my phone is currently locked?
I have the V16 which I have yet to install....
Any help will be greatly appreciated...Thanks
Also forgive me if this sounds as a stupid q...but my touch is with bell and is there any way to get the wifi going? Probably not I figure heheh?
Also is there a way I can send and receive files such as pictures with bell like an MMS file...thanks
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hey why dont you try plugging the phone into a computer and see if activesync works you should be able to get your contacts at least, but i am not sure. good luck
I can't get activesync to work...Only my sd card shows up...Also what program is best to use to transfer the contacts...Outlook express?
Ok I got it to sync after doing a hard reset but activesync says I don't have permission to access the files...Is the pim.vol all I need or do I also need the cemail.vol? As I don't have permission to copy the later....Lastly are the notes also saved in pim.vol or are they separate?
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Ok I got it to sync after doing a hard reset but activesync says I don't have permission to access the files...Is the pim.vol all I need or do I also need the cemail.vol? As I don't have permission to copy the later....Lastly are the notes also saved in pim.vol or are they separate?
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pim.vol should be your contacts not sure about cemail.vol(sounds like email to me idk)
Ok so I flashed to the latest stock rom from HTC...but the tapping on the screen is very bad...Some things are unresponsive and other things I have to press down really hard and It's really slow...Did I screw something up here? It was hard for me to get past the initial setup where I had to align the screen....
Also I am confused on the radio thing...What is the best one to get right now? And do I really need to install it with a 2Gb microSD? I have a 4gb