hi all
my trinity has recently been behaving oddly, then today the screen went off.
i removed the battery to reset it, and then when it resetted it did a factory reset/customisation, and now all my data is lost.
now i know it's my reponsibility to back up my data, but in 18 months of ownership, nearly about 10 flashes/upgrades, countless hours spent messing around, it has NEVER done this after a battery removal. as a result it's a few weeks since I synced and backed up as i've gotten complacemnt.
my questions are:
1. is anything recoverable via a WM6 specific version of something like GetBack for NTFS, or similar data recovery tool, which could be run from PC?
2. how often does this actually happen, and should i be worried...?
3. is it possible i instigated this with the screen off, with some secret button press combination!?!?
thanks
dom
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Hi
This is my first post here. I have done a few searches about this and people seem to have experienced similar things. What I want to ask though is why this particular issue/s happen in the first place. Hope I'm not going over old ground but here goes:-
Have had my XDA II for a couple of months.
Last night, I had an error message saying that the memory was almost full, something about critical levals.
I checked the memory and it said there was only about 3 mb (out of 125.86 total) available main memory split between storage/program. Storage was up to about 110mb used, the balance in program.
This surprided me as I have only installed a couple of programs since new totalling about 4 mb.
The screen then froze.
Soft reset did nothing.
Hard reset did nothing.
Took battery out and back in. Only half rebooted and then froze. tried a few more times. Same again.
Took battery out and left for about 15 mins. this time started up OK. Performed hard reset.
Reinstalled the 2 programs which were lost during the above.
Now working fine again, with about 95mb of free memory!!
What puzzles me is:-
There was very little other data stored/programs running other than the 2 programs already mentioned so how the memory got so full I really don't know.
Why would it not reset until the battery was removed for 15 mins?
I have resolved it now and it seems to be working ok again but are these common problems? How can the memory be so full, but have 95mb free now when the same programs are installed? Is my XDA II faulty or is this normal?
Many thanks in advance
Hi, not sure why my user name did not appear in the above post, but just so you know, it was me!
Hopefully my registered user name will now appear.
Hmmmm.... I''m getting the same problem although when I did the hard reset it showed that I had an empty memory but I knew things were left behind as I didnt have to reinstall the unlock program.
Are you still running ok without crashes?
strange thing for me was that I dropped it on grass, it turned off and I couldnt start it again so I took out the battery and sim card and when I rebooted it hard set all by itself which was annoying!
Anyway, if yours is still running good I may do that to mine.
However there may be a fix for this problem, which is a memory leak issue evident on all PDA’s running windows mobile 2003 second edition. You will need to perform a hard reset (this will wipe the xda of all data and restore it to factory settings) when prompted select corporate option (enter the pin 0506 when prompted).
If I do a hard reset I go back to the old OS that isnt 2003 - it loads automatically with all the O2 **** that goes with it.
Saw some older posts on other forums regarding issues with WM6 changing the password after power loss, but nothing here, so I'm posting to see if anyone's had this issue.
I'm running ITsPapaBlackDiamond, latest version for the Wing, only set it up a couple of days ago. I know that I can get around the password with a hard reset, that'll kill all the data on the device. Luckily, I've got a backup from then (prior to installing all the extra software I like, but that's life I guess).
Has anyone had this problem? Seems like last night my Wing's battery lost it's power, and the device shut down. This morning, when I went to login using my password (and I'm 1000% it was correct, if not the first time I entered it the second and third time for sure), it said my password was incorrect.
Has anyone else had this issue? Is there any way to get around having to hard reset, restore my backup, and lose whatever messages I got the past few days?
got a htc phone and my phone keeps freezeing i need to take the battery out then put it bk in to get my phone it keeps happening alot. took it to a shop and they say they reflashed but it didnt work any body got any ideas thanks
First of all, while the phone is working.. BACKUP all data.
Then try this...
Hardreset (I don't see any other solution).. then RESTORE data.
If the above post doesn't work, then maybe you should have that unit replaced while it's still under warranty (I assume)...
I also experienced the same a while ago. All of a sudden, after 2 weeks of using, it hung. The only thing I did was having it a day connected to the internet and loading 150 emails into the newly created account. I experienced a slower operating system, though, and the hanging of the Jade could be linked to this full inbox.
Btw. no additional software installed or tweaks. At that time, I only had NoData installed and TomTom.
For some reason, when the backlight went off, the wake up hard button on the Jade didn't function either, so I had to take out the battery every time to make a call. Rediculous...
The solution for me was indeed to hard reset. Soft resets or configuration chagnes didn't work. After the hard reset, no problems anymore...
My phone has been working great. Last night though, my phone just wouldn't connect to my wifi. I rebooted the phone a few times, along with the router, but it still would't connect.
I did a factory reset to see if that solved it. It didn't. My phone was plugged in on charge at the time, and when I tried to set it up, it just hung on the wifi part, when it was supposedly connecting. This happened again after a few more factory resets. About 1am this morning it managed to connect so I could set up my phone, though it took forever to connect. When I tried to sign into Gmail that took ages as well.
I lost all my MMS and data settings. I need to input them manually - cheap network provider - and to input them, I needed to get the settings online. Low and behold my internet died. It's working now, but I won't have time to input them - gotta head to work.
So at the moment I have a phone with no apps installed, no antivirus, no data settings, but I need to take it with me to stay in touch with people.
So my questions are these. Performing numerous factory resets in a row - whilst the phone is on charge - won't have damaged the phone at all right? I was just a bit hesitant performing so many resets, but needed to resolve the problem.
Second of all, taking my phone out with no antivirus - but having data turned off - shouldn't be a problem should it?
I'll have to set it all up when I get home, but for now I just need a phone.
antivirus ? :\
Hello,
I have some issues with my phone behaving strangely and forgetting settings after long power-up times without reboot.
I am on rooted Adam kernel 1.6 knox-free with stock 4.2.2 rom XXUDMH5. I only flashed Adam kernel because whatever i tried, I lost Wifi with stock kernel after I tried CF-Auto-Root (got no clue why, but I am not the only one). Phone normally works quite fine, and after greenifying some apps and disabling some bloatware I normally get battery times of four days+ with moderate use (I am not a power-phoner).
However, after some days of power-on time, the phone starts behaving strangely. I got issues with screen auto brightness not working (screen staying on lowest brightness level all the time), touch screen not reacting properly, apps not starting etc. Two times the phone got hot while charging, apparently something running on heavy duty, with the result that after hours of charging battery power increased only little, if at all. Normally those issues went away after re-booting the phone.
Today, after charging over night, I found the phone with screen on, and looking into power history I found that it had been on for six hours. Apart from the hardware damage this might bring (screen burn-in), the other issue is that after the re-boot, I lost almost all settings. I had to enter passwords again for Samsung account etc., and I had to re-configure everything from keyboard settings, vibration feedback, screen turn-off delay, and remote access features.
When I tried to login to Tomtom live services, I had to enter the password again, too, and then the app told me that my account was already associated with another phone (which it was not, of course). Fortunatelly it allowed me to transfer to my "new" phone.
My questions are: Are those settings (screen turn-off delay, keyboard, remote access etc.) kernel or rom related? Does anybody know where those are stored (some xml file perhaps)? Can I make a backup (I have titanium backup) and restore only those settings if need be?
Many thanks in advance!
One addition: When I started Titanium backup, it notified me that the Android ID has changed and if I want to keep the new one or restore the previous one from a backup. Also, the lockscreen personalization (I replaced that "Live Companion" text) was lost.
So, after being on for more than four or five days the phone is forgetting all settings. Am I really the only one?