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ameo freeze every day serveral times

Hi,
i have everytime the problem that when i turn the ameo off,
it freeze when i turn it on, this is randomly so i cannot figure out
when this is happends, after soft reset it works again.
Is there a way to find out where the gab is?
tried to close every open application so far, and turn the most
used on after turn of the device.
I'll hope to find out otherwise i need to to the hard reset
(it took that serveral hours to install al again .
thanks

tvrman said:
Hi,
i have everytime the problem that when i turn the ameo off,
it freeze when i turn it on, this is randomly so i cannot figure out
when this is happends, after soft reset it works again.
Is there a way to find out where the gab is?
tried to close every open application so far, and turn the most
used on after turn of the device.
I'll hope to find out otherwise i need to to the hard reset
(it took that serveral hours to install al again .
thanks
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Hi tvrman.
For starters, install Sprite backup (on one of the CD's you got with the Ameo). This will eradicate the need for a full install after a hard reset in the future!
I suggest you do a full hard reset anyway then install Sprite Backup utility.
Only put back your essential apps one by one with 1/2 a days gap between each installation and test the turn off turn on function.
Be sure to use the supplied X-Button application to ensure you properly clode apps down after you're finished with them....or use Wisbar Advance 2, which will do it for you....except for Active Sync (this will always remain active unless shut down manually in memory menu).
I have not once suffered the problem you have in over a months use of the Ameo....might be a faulty unit or a buggy ROM. What version ROM are you using?
Anyway, if all goes well over the next 3 days, do a full backup and save a copy to your storage card or micro drive and be sure to copy a copy over to your PC...that should future peoof you having to do a full install again in the future. And be sure only to back up, if you have no problems with the device and the problems you mentioned earlier. Otherwise you will allways restore the bugs in the device after a hard reset.
Hope this helps. keep us updated on how you get on.

Mackaby007
thanks for you professional answer, i was not aware that spd backup
was on the cd which was delivered at the ameo.
Well yesterday i found out that one of the programs (profimail)
which i'm using serveral times a day for my mail, that this is the problem
I found out that yesterday i didn't use profimail but the built in mail the
whole day and the ameo did not freeze at all the whole day
tried to turn it off an on the whole day and no problems at all,
yesterday late i start profimail and check serveral mails, i close profimail
and turn the device off, later turn it on and a black screen it would not
turn on
After soft reset everthing works.
So i will check today again without using profimail and see what's happends
again.
i'll let you know....

hi,
I had the same problem.
My solution was to format the mini-sd card.
So what i did:
1. copied all data on de minisd in a cardreader to a directory on pc
2. Formatted (not quick) the minisd
3. Copied all data back to the minisd.

All the tests I have tried suggest it is Wisebar Advance 2 that is causing the freezing.
Anyone else find this? Shame as it is the program I like the most
Robert

tvrman said:
Hi,
i have everytime the problem that when i turn the ameo off,
it freeze when i turn it on, this is randomly so i cannot figure out
when this is happends, after soft reset it works again.
Is there a way to find out where the gab is?
tried to close every open application so far, and turn the most
used on after turn of the device.
I'll hope to find out otherwise i need to to the hard reset
(it took that serveral hours to install al again .
thanks
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Have you got a password to lock your phone try removing that see if it still locks , i was having the same issue

Mrsums said:
All the tests I have tried suggest it is Wisebar Advance 2 that is causing the freezing.
Anyone else find this? Shame as it is the program I like the most
Robert
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No such issue here! WA2 runs like a dream on my Ameo...even better than it did on my Hermes or Prophet! I'm using the 2.8.0.2 version of WA2 without WAD.

WA2 + WAD
Yes, in my case it was also WA2. I made my own skin and all work fine. But in time I got more lock-ups. So I decided to reinstall everything. Then things went wrong. That day I have installed everything 6 times. Every time I had lock-ups when I pushed the power button and activated it again. But after disabeling WA I had no troubles anymore. The last production and beta version have the same problems. At this point I have to advice not to use WA2. I did not examine every feature of WA2. So there can be one feature that caused the problem. I made my own iPhone landscape skin and I was very pleased. Could somebody try this skin to see if it freezes their device?

skin
iPhone skin ftp://xda:[email protected]/Uploads/Software/iPhone.rar
I use a lot of apps. I also use the following plugins on WAD:
SPB Diary
Profiles for Windows Mobile
Windows Life Messenger

QAN said:
Yes, in my case it was also WA2. I made my own skin and all work fine. But in time I got more lock-ups. So I decided to reinstall everything. Then things went wrong. That day I have installed everything 6 times. Every time I had lock-ups when I pushed the power button and activated it again. But after disabeling WA I had no troubles anymore. The last production and beta version have the same problems. At this point I have to advice not to use WA2. I did not examine every feature of WA2. So there can be one feature that caused the problem. I made my own iPhone landscape skin and I was very pleased. Could somebody try this skin to see if it freezes their device?
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I'll give the skin a test run in an hour, but I refuse to use plug-ins again. They have always caused me problems, but WA2 never has. What version were you running?

Tried the i-phone skin and have experienced no issues whatsoever.
Maybe the Problem is WAD and your plug-ins.

WAD keep on giving problems like this...it's a sin for such an interesting application...here it is because I gave up to use it.

Mrsums said:
All the tests I have tried suggest it is Wisebar Advance 2 that is causing the freezing.
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I did some searching and found some suggestions it might be the skin I was using. I changed the skin and no more freezing.
Robert

trayap.exe
Since I removed the trayap.exe from the init part of the registry I did not have any freezing anymore. I will try WA2 again to see if this solves my problem.
By the way, I am using the latest beta's of WA2 and WAD

hi all
i find that if i use the off button to turn off the backlight whilst media player is running it jams the machine, requiring a reboot. i know that i can usethe light button on the keyboard but i sometimes forget that media player is running (ie. paused).

I have the same freezing problem now after a few weeks of usage.
The device was running very nicely but now, without installing anything further or adding anything to the device, it freezes randomly.
It likes to freeze when the backlight goes off, while I play MP3 files or have a phone conversation using bluetooth.
In the past 4 days I have softreset the device no less than 81 times.
I suspect the Microdrive is to blame. Is it sensitive to movement?
I will remove all my software and other files from the microdrive and see if things improve.
In the mean time, has anyone else experienced random and frequent freezing?
Oh, I have the Dopod U1000 branded device with the latest firmware.

ok, I had it with this. 16 more soft resets within 4 hours.
I hard reset the device. So far I see no random freezing, but I didn't install anything extra yet except ozVGA and VJBigPhone. And both of them on the internal memory, so nothing on the microdrive.

Could this be a virus?

Hi folks, I receieved an sms whilst away from my phone (so i didnt see a preview) and now nothign works! Backlight is on all the time and the bottom of the screen has OK and Menu - in that order which is odd as OK is generally on the right. I have tried a soft reset and a battery removal but its still the same. Short of a hard reset is there anything else I can try?? Does that sound familiar to anyone else?
Many Thanks

Seems not after all. I kept resetting and it envtually came back ok.

aprmike said:
Seems not after all. I kept resetting and it envtually came back ok.
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Yes, it's curious how sometimes it takes a few soft resets to overcome an issue. You would think that having the battery removed for a while would have removed anything lurking around in temp files and memory.
Mike

Is the system responsive at all?
Ie can you do anything except hard reset?
Try syncing with your PC, and then you might want to erase a few of the default databases, eg pim.vol, in case they have become corrupted.
V

Mogul stopped working randomly - locks up HELP PLEASE!

for some reason, my mogul stopped working properly. When I turn it on\soft reset, it boots but nothing connects. The network coverage shows as no connection (I am at home where it is usually at 100%), the data connection shows up as not connected and when I plug it to my computer, the usb does nothing (it is not even detected!!!!).
When I open my contacts, it opens up but remains blank (what????), when I open the start menu, it freezes. Most of my buttons stopped working.
I have not changed anything in the past month as far as settings of software.
wtf! anyone, please help!

hate to state the obvious, but have you tried a soft reset? If thats not working did you try a hard reset?
Did you install/change anything recently?

soft reset a bazillion times.... I don't really want to hard reset because I want to keep all my files so I am trying to avoid the hard reset.
so I just updtaed my radio rom hoping that was the problem, but unfortunately it is still doing the same.
*double post*

julienrl said:
*double post*
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If this is current:
HTC P4000 (mogul\titan\ppc6800)
Telus Mobility
SPL olipro 2.40
Radio: 3.42.3
DCD rom 3.23
I would suggest the latest DCD ROM and make sure you run the latest carrier cab when you are done. The only thing that usually locks mine up is being out of memory. What apps are you running all the time?

I did a hard reset
My carrier cab and radio rom were up to date. My ram was not the issue, I run with anywhere from 17-22mb free at all times.
I still have no idea what caused it after 3 months of flawless operation, i just hope it does not happen again.

julienrl said:
I did a hard reset
My carrier cab and radio rom were up to date. My ram was not the issue, I run with anywhere from 17-22mb free at all times.
I still have no idea what caused it after 3 months of flawless operation, i just hope it does not happen again.
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If you did the hard reset I would upgrade to 3.2.6 now. 3.3.x may still be a while off and you can at least get a great stable ROM now.

Mine just started locking up when using SMS . This is after 4 months of flawless operation, now everytime I txt someone it locks up the phone I can't get out of sms or do anything until I pull the battery. Any ideas what might be causing this . Nothing has been changed on my phone in 2 months and this just started a week ago.

A few small issues i've noticed

i'v noticed a few issues..maybe some one can shed more light on this.
1) i get this message on startup that says 'error has occurred with services.exe', has happened ones so far.
2) the "<< >>" keys on the side of my slide button goes missing every so often.
3) on the notification page the close tab some times does not appear as a button, it's just there and works fine when i touch it.
4) the phone seem to go on speaker for no apparent reason and i cant switch it back from the menu tab. soft reset is the only way to sort this out, has happened twice to me now in abt a month.
any and all help will be appreciated.

What rom are you running at the moment?
WB

wacky.banana said:
What rom are you running at the moment?
WB
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sorry abt the delay...i'm using 1.48.405.2

I was on the same ROM as you and had no problems. I would suggest the following:
Backup your data using eg Sprite backup, then hard reset the phone so the ROM loads back in from scratch.
Keep the number of applications you load back up to a minimum and see whether the problems reoccur. If they don't you should be good but if they return then post up here again and we can see how else to help.
Incidentally which network did you buy your phone from or is it sim free?
WB

Phone froze/locked/permanently

Need Help ASAP!, I cant even slide to unlock when it first starts.
It has always been crashing, and i have disabled my emails, and hardly have any programs and still. After all the patches and updates no change!
tried soft reset, took the battery out 1000 times.
this has happened to me for the second time in 3 months.
I did a hard reset last time to fix the problem, but i have to much valuable info, new contacts, notes, sms etc....
Is there anything else i can do to fix this problem, without a hard reset!
I cant take this phone anymore, it is horrible!

unlikely that you can fix it without hard reseting in one form or another.
rather than worrying about fixing it, first look into backing up your stuff, and then start looking at the freezing problem.

TheOne1AndOnly said:
Need Help ASAP!, I cant even slide to unlock when it first starts.
It has always been crashing, and i have disabled my emails, and hardly have any programs and still. After all the patches and updates no change!
tried soft reset, took the battery out 1000 times.
this has happened to me for the second time in 3 months.
I did a hard reset last time to fix the problem, but i have to much valuable info, new contacts, notes, sms etc....
Is there anything else i can do to fix this problem, without a hard reset!
I cant take this phone anymore, it is horrible!
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I think its the rom problem... next time you may choose a rom carefully... How to select a rom is a tough work... You could try to backup your files first...

Do the hardware buttons work?
My phone froze but it was a broken touch screen, fixed under warranty.

TheOne1AndOnly said:
Need Help ASAP!, I cant even slide to unlock when it first starts.
It has always been crashing, and i have disabled my emails, and hardly have any programs and still. After all the patches and updates no change!
tried soft reset, took the battery out 1000 times.
this has happened to me for the second time in 3 months.
I did a hard reset last time to fix the problem, but i have to much valuable info, new contacts, notes, sms etc....
Is there anything else i can do to fix this problem, without a hard reset!
I cant take this phone anymore, it is horrible!
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I am sorry that you are having the problem.
But it is not the phone. That I can be sure.
If you have modified the phone in anyway, some where along the line, something has gone wrong.
I used to have to hard reset many times when i got my first Windows Mobile Phone ( 2nd Generation HTC Tilt ).
I then went to the HTC Pure, and now I have the HD2.
It is a learning curve when you start adding programs and tweaks.
It takes time, trial, and more time.
I can tell you that I had to hard reset the HD2 just once.
I have over 200 tweaks, registry changes, programs, etc. The phone works great.
I now have learned to back up the system and registry just in case.
And pick and choose programs carefully. Buy only the ones you need.
Dont give up on the phone. Good luck.

TheOne1AndOnly said:
Need Help ASAP!, I cant even slide to unlock when it first starts.
It has always been crashing, and i have disabled my emails, and hardly have any programs and still. After all the patches and updates no change!
tried soft reset, took the battery out 1000 times.
this has happened to me for the second time in 3 months.
I did a hard reset last time to fix the problem, but i have to much valuable info, new contacts, notes, sms etc....
Is there anything else i can do to fix this problem, without a hard reset!
I cant take this phone anymore, it is horrible!
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Is the phone stock, or have you made modifications? When on and connected with usb to a pc, does active sync start on the pc? you may have to hard reboot: read: always make backups to the sd card (PIM backup, sktools, sprite backup, etc.) of critical data as soon as it hits your phone. If you are miserable with what you have on your phone, change it. I fell in love (from hate) with my HD2 when MIRI_DINIK V 17.0 WWE gave it a new soul. good luck.