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What is normal operating temp?

Hey guys, i have Batterystatus Beta2 installed on my 8525, and a few things are weird. .
1) The battery will go from 100% to -1 if i turn off the screen and then back on by way of power button. (doesn't do it EVERYTIME, but a lot!)
2) My temp is ranging around 45C, and on my 8125 it was always around 27C. Was wondering if something is wrong here?
Thanx ahead of time for dealing with my question.

Why not post under the BatteryStatus thread?
This is a very interesting observation. However I believe you would have a larger audience under the BatteryStatus thread.
The overclocking feature on that program is supposed to be used on only Omap processor. I thought the Hermes used the a different one.

broken camera kjam

I believe my camera is broken - black screen. I'm not sure but I think it's happened after I upgraded to wm6.
Does anyone had the same problem and was able to fix it or the hardware is ****ed up and there's nothing to do?
Thanks

no....
honestly I don't believe that an upgrade to wm6 can "break" your camera...
... and then there is a simple test that you can try: come back to the original shipped i-mate rom (ftp://ftp.clubimate.com) and you see what happens.
but.... why don't you give us some more infos?
like: is a G3/G4 locked or unloked, IPL/SPL version...
hi
tommy

well, I did that. I restore the original rom and the camera still didn't work.
My phone is G3 locked and I installed on top wm6 from faria (a nice one!).
Of course it could just be that my camera gave up. Since I was not using it regularly and at some point after the upgrade to wm6 I saw the problem it was one of the link.
Can the hardware of the camera be affected by the overclocking?

hey~
i think i may have a similar problem (but the explination doesn't go in to deep detail)
when i try to snap a picture, about half the time it will snap....half the time it just goes black (the screen) and no matter what....it WILL NOT SAVE the photo.
i've tried changing where it saves the photos (main memory or sd card) as well as changed all the settings one by one (megapixels, fine:super fine, snapping type [full press etc] etc. etc. etc. i also tried changing settings via the advance config tool often mention onthe forums)
i haven't updated the rom (stock at&t rom is installed....i'm savy but not savy enuf to change the rom lol) nor have i updated windows (it always gives me an error...says it cant connect to the server or something, oh well i don't much care for micro$ucks anyways lol)
it's running windows 6.1 professional...i have plenty of memory free and hadn't installed anything new or tweaked any settings the day it stoped working....
any ideas?
~j
ps.
oh yeah, oddly...the video record function still works....

Camera might be out of the connecting socket - open your device and make sure it's connected. Failing that - the replacement cameras can be purchased fairly cheaply.

thanks i'll give that a try and let ya know if it works!
i appreciate the very fast reply it's nice to know im not the only insomniac out there lol
~j

Moved since problem is not ROM related.

ubuntujason said:
thanks i'll give that a try and let ya know if it works!
i appreciate the very fast reply it's nice to know im not the only insomniac out there lol
~j
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Haha, I am 18 hours or so ahead of you.

thank you and sorry i placed my question in the wrong area....where has it been moved to though? :s (while ive been a member her for a while, i am still new to posting...ill admit i usually read...but i hope to change that )
~j

No worries. Let us know when you get it fixed and how.

hey all~
enigma....now i see it's enigmaNZ so new zeeland i assume is where you are....so maybe im a lone insomniac lol
jwzg....thanks again
all....as to the suggestion of opening the phone case....well with my nerve disease i'm going to have to have a friend do that since my hands are often no where near steady...ill let ya all know if that works.
mean time i may also look for maybe some other camera software....like i said, it will snap the photo but it refuses to SAVE the photo....so maybe the software is corrupt who knows....ill try it all
~j

hey all~
so i dove into my system registry tonite....i tweaked some things, changed the localtion of where stuff gets saved, changed some 1's to 0's an vice versa an it now seems to work....hope it remains working!
~j

Must have been a bad camera package.

jwzg~
yeah who knows, i'm just happy it's working again
~j

slightly strange - No GSM Signal

hi guys my first post using my hermes!
i have the hanset and everything works perfectly except the phone (pretty fundemental i know!)
if i hit the phone icon or try access the phone through the menu it doesnt go to the keyboard at all, also its showing an ! next to the reception bar on top of the home screen.
was wondering if i needed to change the radio rom to have it working correctly?
any advice would be much apprechiated. i have moved from the htc prophet which i have to say has been very good to me, and never had any problems of this kind.
thanks

usc911 said:
hi guys my first post using my hermes!
i have the hanset and everything works perfectly except the phone (pretty fundemental i know!)
if i hit the phone icon or try access the phone through the menu it doesnt go to the keyboard at all, also its showing an ! next to the reception bar on top of the home screen.
was wondering if i needed to change the radio rom to have it working correctly?
any advice would be much apprechiated. i have moved from the htc prophet which i have to say has been very good to me, and never had any problems of this kind.
thanks
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Need more info.
Did this just start happening?
Have you flashed a new ROM/Radio?
Any other things you know of that could have caused this?
Mike

hi thanks for the quick reply,
right i have just bought the phone, off ebay, it siad it was sim unlocked, but i read that the sim unlock might not have completely worked, hence why the phone is nt working. i ran the sim/cid unlock that i got from the wiki. this doesnt seem to have fixed the problem. do i need to run another radio rom?
sorry i cant give you that much info, as i say i have just recieved it this morning
thnaks for your help, much apprechiated!

Random crashes, really need help

Hi there,
I have my UNI for about two years now and most of the time I really love the device. It still is faster and has a better screen than most of the other phones out there even today. There is one problem though I really would like to be solved.
I have tried all roms out there and all radio's with varying results however my phone keeps crashing a lot. And when it does soft rebooting it doesnt always help. There are multiple things that can happen and I'll desicribe them below:
- Sometimes it all works just fine
- It can show the bootscreen and then hang on it forever
- It can show a completely white screen forever
- It can show the bootscreen and then suddenly a messy screen filled with random pixels
- It can show the boorscreen and then suddenly a screen with horizontal stripes/beams on it in most of the times two different colors.
- It can show the bootscreen and then the second bootscreen (its mostly green) and then show a fully green screen and stay like this forever.
- Sometimes when it crashes the battery gets really warm
- Often after one of the previous symtoms the phone doesnt do anything anymore when pressing the soft reset butten (expept a small red flash of the left led light)
What sometimes works to get it booted again: get the battery out, put it back in and connect it to the power loader
Also just waiting for a long time seems to help
I always thought it might have something to do with the battery (the original one has the 40% problem) so I bought others. An extended one from dyna, and two others from cameron sino. The crashes and results vary with all batteries. With some it seems to be more often than with others but with none of them it works flawlessly. I have just ordered a new dyna one but somehow I doubt this will solve my problem.
I also have dropped my phone pretty often so there might be something wrong with the main board? I have tried to reproduces a crash by gently (but not too gently) deforming my phone, pressing on it and moving the lid, but that doesnt seem to lead to a crash.
I really would like to know if there is a way to find out why it crashes. Are there diagnostic tools out there with which I can check the hardware? I really would like some help!
Thanks a lot in advance!!
Regards,
Mano3

Hi Mano
Hi Mano,
I guess you are also facing a similar problem like mine. Well you are lucky you are getting an answer since it took me a quite a few hours of searching and nail biting agony to finally realise that, the part of your ROM is corrupted and nothing can be done to get it fixed unless you change the main board.
It suxs but that the truth bro. Hope you can fix it or buy another set.
regards,
techx

Thanks for replying!!
Is there a way to check the integrity of your rom? Then I could check if it is that... I guess I could buy a new main board off ebay or something...
Happy new year!!
Regards,
Mano3

fixed!!
Hey guys,
I solved my problem! So far it is running for two days without any crash! I use the program Pocket Hack Master to set the CPU speed at 312 MHz. Keeping it at this speed keeps my phone stable. When I really need the proc speed I can set it higher to do what I want to do and afterwords I set it back to 312 MHz again. Not the most practical but for most functions the memory is the speed bottleneck anyways.
Hope this helps others!!
Greets,
Mano3

I cheered to early... Problem still there I now bought a new one off ebay, lets hope that works

Soft Reset Causes Device to hang

I've got a bit of an odd issue with an XDA Trion/Hermes -
Basically no matter what ROM I use (WM5/WM6/Cooked) after installing a few apps (doesn't matter which ones - I've tried all kinds of combinations) when I do a soft reset the device will boot back up and hang at the Windows Mobile splash screen. If I hard reset the device functions fine again until I load some stuff on it. I've also seen it do this without anything installed - but it is a lot less frequent.
All in all I can't go more than a few days without having to hard reset and reload my stuff. Sometimes its one day, sometimes its multiple days. Restoring from a backup also causes this to happen - so hard resetting and then restoring is not an option. Also, I've left the device at the splash screen from a full battery to dead just to make sure I wasn't being impatient.
Anyone seen this before? Any ideas before I call HTC and ask them to look at it?

Suggest you do some searches on "bad memory block"
Mike

Will do - thanks for the suggestion!

mikechannon said:
Suggest you do some searches on "bad memory block"
Mike
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Well did I did a bunch of searching as you suggested - spent almost 4 hours yesterday just on the forum looking for answers on this. Using "mtty" and checking in the bootloader I've determined there to be no bad blocks.
I've tried all sorts of different WM6 Roms, Hard SPL, you name it. All of them end up with the same problem.
The only time I don't have a problem is when I use an OEM WM5 ROM. Using an OEM WM6 Rom - I have the problem come back.
RUU_Hermes_CINGULAR_WWE_2.15.502.3_6275_1.40.30.00_108_Ship == NO Lockup on Splash Screen
RUU_Hermes_CINGULAR_WWE_3.62.502.3_6275_1.54.07.00_108_UOOS_SVN05_Ship == Lockup on splash screen after a few MB of apps/data added to the device
Any other ideas?

Mmm... well I think you need someone more expert than I. You might try a PM to the likes of MrVanx to see if anyone has reported this or some of the other developers for the Hermes Pof et al.
Mike

Thanks Mike I appreciate the attempt - I think I might just be happy with the fact that its working again. Its really just backup device to my iPhone but at least now I can rely on it again to hold onto my data for more than a couple days. I'll spend some more time reading all the posts. Now that I know what I have to do to get it working again after trying something experimental its not so bad.
Thanks again

I've been having the same problem with my 8525, it like sometimes more then not, it freezes at the green windows mobile. It is really frustrating, let me know if you have found a solution, but the problem with my 8525 is the lag, in it, I'm thinking of maybe switching to a blackberry 8320 if this problem doesn't get fixed.

netsyd said:
Thanks Mike I appreciate the attempt - I think I might just be happy with the fact that its working again. Its really just backup device to my iPhone but at least now I can rely on it again to hold onto my data for more than a couple days. I'll spend some more time reading all the posts. Now that I know what I have to do to get it working again after trying something experimental its not so bad.
Thanks again
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have you had any answers. I am getting sick of resetting this dam thing. If this keeps up im getting an IPHONE. Stuff Windows!!!!!!!

kripto64 said:
have you had any answers. I am getting sick of resetting this dam thing. If this keeps up im getting an IPHONE. Stuff Windows!!!!!!!
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Are you experiencing the same problem as the poster? I am not experiencing anything like it at all. I have a jasjam, and flashed with a shipped ROM first, and then with CRCinAU's version 11.2, what have you got installed on your phone? Just remember the specs of the hermes, compared to the likes of a raphael or even a polaris (touch cruise).
Don't go jumping the gun getting an iphone, read this bit for a bit of a review. I honestly not having the problems some of the guys are having here knowing my phone's limitations and what I can get out of my hermes.

zocster said:
Are you experiencing the same problem as the poster? I am not experiencing anything like it at all. I have a jasjam, and flashed with a shipped ROM first, and then with CRCinAU's version 11.2, what have you got installed on your phone? Just remember the specs of the hermes, compared to the likes of a raphael or even a polaris (touch cruise).
Don't go jumping the gun getting an iphone, read this bit for a bit of a review. I honestly not having the problems some of the guys are having here knowing my phone's limitations and what I can get out of my hermes.
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I am getting the same problem as the poster. I have a Palm Treo 750 running WM6 from Palm web site ATT version 2.25 download.
After I load a few of my apps on there the phone will all of a sudden start playing up with the buttons not responding. I do what you should be able to do and soft reset by it all stops at the windows logo then end of story. Only way out is hard reset and set everything up again.

kripto64 said:
I am getting the same problem as the poster. I have a Palm Treo 750 running WM6 from Palm web site ATT version 2.25 download.
After I load a few of my apps on there the phone will all of a sudden start playing up with the buttons not responding. I do what you should be able to do and soft reset by it all stops at the windows logo then end of story. Only way out is hard reset and set everything up again.
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Must be some app conflict, I have my wife's treo with me at the moment and it is as good as new, can't imagine what would be conflicting with the treo tho