Alright everyone, my G1's touch screen has stopped working. This has happened from time to time, and it works after a usual couple second wait or maybe a shutdown. But this time, it has yet to work after many times of shutting it off, removing the battery, etc. I have tried to hard reset, but always get the same message of "error waiting for notbusy" so i am a bit confused. Please don't tell me I'm going to have to replace.
What ROM are you on? Could be a hardware problem
i was on JF 1.51, but after a call to t-mobile, and about 20 minutes of telling them i've tried hard resetting, i finally got to do the alt+w method, although that did nothing, so they'll be mailing me a replacement.
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Hi
Last month I got a new XDA 2 and since then I have installed a few games and utilities and regularly sync with the main pc.
However over the past few days, the whole device freezes very randomly at regular intervals. Sometimes nothing is running at all, other times its just as its about to ring with an incoming call. Today it is even worse, it freezes every 5 minutes, and it takes several soft resets before I can get past the password screen without another freeze. None of the buttons respond during a freeze, and the backlight goes out as normal after 30 seconds (but will not go back on). Even though the device has frozen, both the indicator lights will continue to flash green and blue.
I decided to do a hard reset as advised in the instruction manual. However now its even worse. The phone loads up with the O2 logo and the rom versions in the bottom right corner, then the screen flashes and the O2 logo appears on its own. Nothing happens at all after this and again, tapping the screen or pressing the buttons dont work.
Please could someone advise me whats wrong with this phone? Ive had it for less than a month and I dont consider my use of it to be outside what anyone else would use it for. As far as im concerned, it seems very unreliable to fail so badly after such little use.
Any help would be welcome before I seek a refund.
Ash
Edit: If I hard reset several times, one in 5 succeeds. However after 2-3 minutes it freezes again while auto installing applications.
I would not be wanting to keep that phone.
It's common knowledge that there are some flaws in the Microsoft Windows Mobile OS that have been there since the early days, but were never deemed serious enough to tackle back then. (Remember the DOS 640kb barrier?). However, some tweaking and tuning can be done to make the XDA II a perfectly workable machine .... indeed very pleasant to work with.
What you're experiencing, however, to me sounds like a defective unit, and if I were you, I'd go back to my supplier to get a new one, period.
My first XDA-2 Did the same, and seemed to get worse, the more i tried to fix it and removes software and keep reseting etc etc.
In the end i i went back to the shop (this was over 28 days) showed them, i did not have any problem exchanging it for a new one.
John
Any help is greatley appreciated. I just bought the xda2 a week ago and it worked fine until yesterday. At first the phone just wouldnt dial. Then it would freeez. After a soft reset, it wouldnt go past the first "o2" screen and would just hang. The blue light started flashing eventhough I never enabled Bluetooth. The system didnt start past that screen and it also wouldn't shut off. Even after a hard reset it still had the same symptoms(it froze at the bootup screen and had flashing blue light). Around 30 minutes later after trying to turn it on and off. I finally started. But then it happened again today. Thanx in advance
If it still displays these symptoms after a hard reset then it look like a hardware fault. Only other thing i can think of is if you have a memory card inserted that is upsetting the system.
It doesnt have a memory card. I was afraid it might be hardware related. Any idea on how to have it repaired from the US
HELP NEEDED!
Yesterday I bought a Hermes (Vodafone 1605).
Everything was fine, I installed Opera and tried the wi-fi.
Then it locked and there was non way for turning it off. So I made a soft reset and I found out it hangs on the vodafone splash screen.
I tried a hard reset and nothing changed.
I can see some codes in the lower part of the screen as it tries to boot up but nothing happens.
I looked up some threads and tried to remove the battery for 20 mins.
It actually went over the vodafone splash screen but only to halt on the windows mobile one.
The thing that puzzles me is that I didn't mess at all with the ROMS!!!
It's exactly as it comes from the box.
Any advice and help is more than welcome....
Thx in advance
A few more details
I've been trying to get my Hermes working.
That's what I found:
Taking away the battery for some mins and hard resetting brings me to the windows mobile screen then it hangs
The same procedure but soft resetting instead of pressing space actually let the phone start but then it hangs on the screen: "Tap the screen to configure ...." etc. etc.
Still trying to figure out what's happening.
Anyone with some ideas please help me. I don't want to play with the ROMS till it's strictly NECESSARY. I can't understand why it's stopped working.
Now it works...
Repeated the procedure, soft resetting instead of pressing space.
It went smoothly and run all the Vodafone customization programs.
Now it's off and charging.
Don't know yet what was the problem. Hope it's not a problem of stability.
I'm starting blaming myself for leaving my old Tungsten.
Does anyone experienced something similar? May depend on some particular operation?
Curious, but Hermes sometimes needs to settle down. Suggest you try the following to avoid hangs/freezes as well:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1078848&postcount=2
Mike
I think it's the well known freeze problem...
My Hermes worked fine for a while. Then I synced it and installed Magic Button. Everything looked perfect. I left it for a while and when I came back it was off and it won't go back on. Soft resetting just causes a freeze on startup.
I guess it's some problem with activesync. I tried the fake server but I'm not sure I didi it properly. I'll try again once I wake my Hermes back up.
Hope to solve this, otherwise it's almost unusable.
It keeps freezing...
I'm getting really worried.
After some hours of normal use I experienced the "won't wake up" problem.
The strange thing is that soft reset doesn't solve the problem. Neither does the hard reset.
When I tried to soft reset it went to the bootloader page.
I need to remove the battery for about 20 mins and try a hard reset.
Sometimes it works with space reboot, sometimes it need the soft reset restart.
Then it freeze after some time.
When it doesn't work it freeze on the vodafone splash screen after showing the version numbers at the bottom of the screen.
I'm quite puzzled.
It's a brand new V1605 with S/N HT645.
Maybe that's more than an issue on it.
Any chance to improve this with a ROM upgrade?
As your device is brand new with the its original ROM, I would take it back to the store you purchased it and ask for a replacement.
They should swap it for you right away.
Not so easy..
I'd like but I bought it from ebay.
It's a brand new Vodafone UK VPA1605, but i don't think I'm eligible for any assitance (even paying) here in Italy, even if Vodafone Italy sells the same PDA.
Now I'm not even able to start it. It keeps freezing on the vodafone splash screen.
I tried several hard and soft reset (even removing the battery for 1/2 hour or so). What I cannot understand is why it's so unpredictable? It's electronics.
It should just work or doesn't work, till you change something (software or hardware).
Hi everybody!
Just got my Leo two days ago and I was bombed. Had a 4350 before and you can imagine what big a difference that is. But now this occured and I really don't know what the heck is going on here. Without any reason the Leo froze after not using it for two hours, just an active sync connec. So I grabbed it and it was frozen. Thus i did a soft reset. When it rebooted, for some reason it seemed like the first time I started the device, asked me for the time and google settings etc. Very confused. But then I came to the Homescreen, which was blank, just like after a hard reset. Ok, I thought. This is nasty but all my stuff was backed up, so what. I tried to switch to the settings panel and found it ultra super slow and the settings panel wouldn't even appear on the screen, just the title on top. I thought, this is wrong, very wrong and decieded for another soft reset. And now it won't boot at all. It stands still in the screen where it shows this pink circle and the RUU and whatnot version.
I am speechless. It just doesn't start, tried it like 4 times now. I didn't update RUU or anything since this thing is T-Mobile branded and it wouldn't let me. I tried it this morning but just got the error in windows that my device won't allow... After that I took it for a 3 hour ride outside and used it for like 10 more hours. And now this!
Has this ever occured to anyone else around here?
Any suggestions? I'm quiet angry right now, think I gonna return it tomorrow. Hopefully they don't say I tried to flash it or whatever since I did not. Cannot explain this to me.
Regards,
Zoimt
hi sounds like bad news have you tried a hard reset
Do a hard reset, press the up and down volume then at the same time press the power button. Keep all three pressed for about three seconds and a hard reset will start. If it happens again you have a faulty device.
I thought a hard reset is only possible in windows. Since I never come so far in booting process, I just tried it once but nothing happend. Not sure if I tried it for 3 seconds I assume I did
zoimt said:
I thought a hard reset is only possible in windows. Since I never come so far in booting process, I just tried it once but nothing happend. Not sure if I tried it for 3 seconds I assume I did
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Take the battery out then put it back in. Once it's in press all three buttons at once until you see the hard reset begin. It will ask you to confirm by pressing the up volume button.
Oh boy! It started again! I thought I tried to hard reset it with the key combo you also adviced me and nothing happened but this time it worked. Thus I assumed it only works at a later point in the boot process. But thanks for showing me the opposite!
Man, this takes a load off my mind, thanks! Just hope this was a one time thingy and doesn't occur every 28 hours again.
Regards,
zoimt
PLEASE HELP ASAP!!!
I have had many different issues with this phone since day one, 2 months ago. All the sudden the other day I put the phone on the charger at that time it had a half battery, about a half hour later it started turning itself off and back on continuously and the back of phone was hot. I had to wait for the right timing after it turned back on, to power it off completely. i have called Sprint and Sharp to have someone help me or walk me through options and I keep getting the run around as to who's responsibility it is to help me Tech wise and or replace my phone through my TEP. I have since looked up a way to hard reset... hold power and volume and a screen of options should come up, with about 5 options. Mine only shows, Reboot System Now..... and Wipe Data / Factory Reset. NEITHER WORK. I will be making sure some how some way I get my phone replaced. However in the meantime I would like to know if someone can please help!!! I am completely with out a phone at this point and can not call for further Technical Support or Help. PS: Soft reset did not work. And also the phone does not stay on much longer then the time to load then it's already powering back off on it's own.
Thank you for your time.
-jrosales76