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When I apply a soft reset to my wizard, (T-Mobile 2.24 Beta ROM found here on the the site), the backlight settings, (battery power), reverts to turning off the backlight at 10 seconds. I can change the settings and they stick until the next soft reset. Any thoughts/hacks/fixes?
(I searched the forums and did not find this solution, so please be gentle if I am asking something I should have found...I try to read as much as possible on this wonderful site. Made a lot of improvements to my MDA through reading and learning but I could not find this one).
I have the exaxt same problem ever since I installed SPB Gprs Monitor. Any chance you also have it?
Nope, so we both have a common culprit. Either the ROM or our apps...
I have:
Registry Wizard, 1.0U
Space Reclaimer
PHM Tray
Smartskey
OmapClock
Eten Dialer
TCPMP
eReader
Sompy Weather
Magic Button
Vade Mecum
Quickreset
Anything in common? Or does anyone else know what causes this bug?
Actually, I misread your post! I don't have this problem. My settings remain after a soft reset. In my case the screen goes blank (or should I say black!) after a soft reset (backlight slider all the way to the left).
We have TCMP and omapclock in common, so I guess you can eliminate those two from your list of potential culprits to your problem
Anyone else with a comment? It's been happening to a colleague of mine as well, again, after we installed the TMobile 2.24 Beta ROM.
We've had this problem with 15 devices we purchased earlier this year - all but 2 are running the TMO USA stock ROM, the others are running the 2.21 custom ROM... but ALL of them will reset the backlight timer to 10 seconds on a soft reset.
Very, very annoying...
Have you checked the content of your \windows\startup folder? You may have some program there that does it. I had another problem with my custom today background picture disappearing afeter each reset and I found out that it was a startup ptogram (custtdstk) that did the trick
I am getting a new one soon...so we will see if that fixes things, (although my colleague will not be getting one). Did anything fix the 15 devices?
Hi , I'm having the same problem as pat12 after sleep or timeout the backlight slider is all the way to the left, has anyone found a fix for this ?
thx paparoach
UPDATE: not sure if this is the fix for everyone but I upgraded to Mr. Clean's 224a rom and now it works, I'm now reloading my apps.
I've tried wiping everything out of the startup folder, doesn't seem to help at all.
Hoping TMO fixes this with their AKU2 ROM for the MDA.
Is anyone here NOT using SPB backup and still getting the problem?
Are you sure none of you are using Goodlink? It has had a known bug that everytime the unit was reset, and the Goodlink launcher was run, it would reset the backlight to 10 seconds. It was finally fixed with client version 4.9.
Are you sure none of you are using Goodlink? It has had a known bug that everytime the unit was reset, and the Goodlink launcher was run, it would reset the backlight to 10 seconds. It was finally fixed with client version 4.9.
I'm definately not using goodlink
That was my issue, Goodlink. I had orphaned this post but now that you mention it, since the upgrade, the issue has stopped. Thanks for the confirmation.
Same thing here - as soon as we upgraded to the 4.9 client, the backlight timeout would no longer reset.
GldRush98 has supplied the fix for this and so I've posted it here on his behalf as he replied on a seperate thread which was running for the same problem.
"The device lock feature causes this bug.
If you don't want it to do that any more you have to do 2 things.
1) Turn off device lock
2) Change the registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Backlight\Locklevel\
Change the "LockLevel" value to "0".
Then your phone will remember your backlight settings again."
Once again many thanks to GldRush98
Oh wow, so in order to get rid of this bug, we have to switch off the single most important feature on the device?
There's got to be a better way...
No, instead of coming up with a sarcastic comment try it..it works! and no features are switched off :roll:
Sorry
But you do mean the Settings--Personal--Lock don't you? The one that you set a password for? If you have to disable this, first of all I won;t get any email from my Exch box any more, and 2nd someone's bound to nick it and see all the dirty txts I've got on it... deffo a case for Max Clifford!
F.
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.
I've had a strange problem with my BA (SX66) with both the WM5 and WM6 ROMs.
After about a weeks usage and when browsing the Web using WIFI, the WIFI icon at the top of the screen flashes and then my screen goes black. If I try to reboot, it sticks on the Green Windows Mobile screen.
I have to clear the hive, and reboot losing all my data.
Has anyone else had this problem? I don't know if this is a hardware or software problem.
well here i have the same problem but mine is battery related (i think)
Xplode, thanks for taking the time to answer. We greatly appreciate the work you do on the BA.
My first thought was that it was battery related. However, I think it happened to me once on a nearly full charge. I did the No, Yes, Yes hard reset and will test it once again.
I wish HTC would make a Blue Angle II with 3G.
I cold booted my BA and didn't add the HTC Home cab. It appears that the HTC Home cab was causing the problem. I ran the phone for several weeks without HTC Home and I haven't had a problem with it locking up.
Now I'm trying Helmi's ROM with Explodes HTC Home.
rambo6 said:
I've had a strange problem with my BA (SX66) with both the WM5 and WM6 ROMs.
After about a weeks usage and when browsing the Web using WIFI, the WIFI icon at the top of the screen flashes and then my screen goes black. If I try to reboot, it sticks on the Green Windows Mobile screen.
I have to clear the hive, and reboot losing all my data.
Has anyone else had this problem? I don't know if this is a hardware or software problem.
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I had this problem b4 when it stuck in the green windows mobile screen. I thought it was backup software issue, but then realise that a lot of people had this issue with different circumsatances...
the only solution worked for me was to clear the hive and restore backup data. Some people suggested in the forum somewhere (I forgot which one) that you have to go to bootloader screen, and then reset... or keep reseting until it works (i think some dude did it 18 times and finally worked )
It happened to me about 5 times on helmi's rom.
since i moved on to minhanh's rom, never had this issue anymore, but i still keep doing a lot of backups, just in case it happens again.
Now, I am waiting for Xplode's new up and coming rom and hopefully this issue will never occur again
I have encountered an unusual issue (bug?) on the HD and wondered if anyone else had seen the problem (and found a solution!)
First the issue:
When I rotate the device to landscape, applications initially rotate properly. However, after a few seconds the phone dialer screen appears (in landscape mode). It blinks once or twice (like the screen is redrawing) and stays there for perhaps five seconds before switiching back to the original app. However, even though the device is still held i landscape, the application is now in portrait mode too and the only way to get it back to landscape is to rotate the device back to portrait then to landscape again...at which point the whole cycle repeats.
Things I have tried to clear the problem:
So far, all I have tried is a soft reset, which I thought had cleared the problem at first. Sadly, however, it's back.
Repeatability and conditions:
I've only done one soft reset so far as I wanted to investigate a bit further first
It initially happened in Opera with GSen off (it is installed though)
It happens whether or not GSen is active
It happens in all applications, not just Opera (obviously GSen is active when it happens in other applications)
I don't have a HD (yet) but i've read somewhere that GSEN is not working correctly on the HD. There is suppused to be a tool called "Gyrator2" which does the same but is more stable on the HD.
regards jan
hausen said:
I don't have a HD (yet) but i've read somewhere that GSEN is not working correctly on the HD. There is suppused to be a tool called "Gyrator2" which does the same but is more stable on the HD.
regards jan
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May be an option, but I haven't had any problems with GSen and I seem to get the issue whether or not GSen is active. I have even had it in an instance where GSen had not been activated since the previous reboot.
Thanks for the thought though, I'll investigate...
please don't use GSen since it's heavily bugged atm for the HD.. Gyrator2 is an option even though consumes a lot of cpu power (device become slow whenever Gyrator2 rotates the screen)
iain.fraser said:
I have encountered an unusual issue (bug?) on the HD and wondered if anyone else had seen the problem (and found a solution!)
First the issue:
When I rotate the device to landscape, applications initially rotate properly. However, after a few seconds the phone dialer screen appears (in landscape mode). It blinks once or twice (like the screen is redrawing) and stays there for perhaps five seconds before switiching back to the original app. However, even though the device is still held i landscape, the application is now in portrait mode too and the only way to get it back to landscape is to rotate the device back to portrait then to landscape again...at which point the whole cycle repeats.
Things I have tried to clear the problem:
So far, all I have tried is a soft reset, which I thought had cleared the problem at first. Sadly, however, it's back.
Repeatability and conditions:
I've only done one soft reset so far as I wanted to investigate a bit further first
It initially happened in Opera with GSen off (it is installed though)
It happens whether or not GSen is active
It happens in all applications, not just Opera (obviously GSen is active when it happens in other applications)
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Will the problem go away if you uninstall GSEN? I mean, not just making it inactive, but to completely remove it.
eaglesteve said:
Will the problem go away if you uninstall GSEN? I mean, not just making it inactive, but to completely remove it.
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Annoyingly enough (in one way) I've not had the issue since I soft reset a few hours ago. I'm keeping a close eye to see if i can trap what I have been doing just before the issue recurs.
I have suspicions about PCM Contacts but have no good reason to, other than the fact the problem started at roughtly the same time as I installed the latest version.
Next step is to try removing GSen, as you suggest, but I want the issue to recur first to see if I can make some sense of what's happening...
The problem isn't with Gsen.
This happened to me while browsing, it just kept flicking back to portrait and then coming out of Opera.
As a result I thought I'd install Gsen and everything worked perfectly for about an hour. I left the phone (locked) for a while to attend to a few other things and then it started again.
Now I've not had the phone long 10 days or so but I have installed a lot of cabs and applications. At first I thought it might be a bug on the HD but unfortunately it could be anything.
What I will say is that I didn't have this problem before I added new tab icons (manilla), installed Schaps AC or changed the calc skin. Gsen was next on my list.
A soft reset seemed to work for me.
Hope this helps.
Mav.
Switching the phone on and off seems to clear the problem for a while. Anyone solved this?
My solution
Just wanted to say that i had this exact problem.
Fugured it had to be a problem with som custom stuff i had installed, and so it was.
Started uninstalling backwards from the last installed thing, and found that the problem was caoused by a custom status icon cab I installed.
Named Colored Top Bar WWE ST.cab
If you have something similar, this could be the problem.
(BTW, I'm not bashing the author of this file at all. Everyone should know that installling custom stuff is your own responsibility)
Mavrick said:
The problem isn't with Gsen.
This happened to me while browsing, it just kept flicking back to portrait and then coming out of Opera.
As a result I thought I'd install Gsen and everything worked perfectly for about an hour. I left the phone (locked) for a while to attend to a few other things and then it started again.
Now I've not had the phone long 10 days or so but I have installed a lot of cabs and applications. At first I thought it might be a bug on the HD but unfortunately it could be anything.
What I will say is that I didn't have this problem before I added new tab icons (manilla), installed Schaps AC or changed the calc skin. Gsen was next on my list.
A soft reset seemed to work for me.
Hope this helps.
Mav.
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i cannot conclusively say if it's a problem with GSEN or not. but i had the exact same problem with GSEN installed, but not activated. i couldn't solve the problem so i did a hard reset (i didn't bother uninstalling gsen and try it again). i don't have problems anymore, but i do have all my old applications installed, except for GSEN. i currently do not have gyrator or any other screen rotating app installed. i don't have a need for them at the moment. so i don't conclude anything, you can deduce from here.
Bascha said:
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Fugured it had to be a problem with som custom stuff i had installed, and so it was.
Started uninstalling backwards from the last installed thing, and found that the problem was caoused by a custom status icon cab I installed.
Named Colored Top Bar WWE ST.cab
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I have the same Top Bar and don't have the issue you guys have been describing.
my problem is kinda similar but a little different, my opera works fine w/ landscape and portrait, but when I try to access My Faviorite in landscape mode, it would only display in portrait even though I was holding it landscape and the second half of the screen was still the page content. it's weird and I still didn't got time to do a hard reset first, any one experience this?
I have this issue (damnit), and I am using those color-top-bar-icons. However, I have never been using GSen, I am using gyrator 2. Can anybody confirm that it is top-bar-icons that's causing the problem?
I have the issue and I don't have the top bar colored icons installed.
I do have Gyrator 2 but the problem still occurs when Gyrator 2 is not running.
I don't know why it occurs and it goes away by itself...seems sporadic.
I got Gyrator2 on mine too, but I don't see people in Gyrator thread complaining about this happening...um...do I really need a hard reset for this?
(by the way, I disable all rotation and only enable the programs I used, of course Opera is disabled)
update from mine, I just did a hard reset the the landscape favorite in Opera still got messed up, so I restored my device and gave up. gotta wait for new official ROM maybe...
Hi everybody
Many times, after powering on my HTC, I get this message : " There was a problem with device.exe".
Since then, the device is blocked
At this point, the only way to unblock it is with a soft reset.
Any idea to solve this problem ?
Thanks
Hopefully this is a software related bug. What applications have you installed, maybe it is some kind of incompatibility. Did you already did a hard-reset?
Otherwise you should try to flash a cooked rom, or at least the latest official rom.
i get this problem sometimes as well but only after ive used coreplayer 1.2.5
It could be, I have Core Player 1.2.5 installed too.
I have Coreplayer 1.whatever too.
also, I've been noticing problems with cprog.exe and services.exe along with device.exe.
i had the self same problem.. but i dunno where it came from. it happened a few hours after i bought it, i barely had any apps on there...
i just disabled the error message ^^ phone works fine though...
SingaporeAirlines said:
I have Coreplayer 1.whatever too.
also, I've been noticing problems with cprog.exe and services.exe along with device.exe.
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exactly same here
makavelianz said:
exactly same here
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i ALSO HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM
I have this problem after enabling Gyrator, try to uninstall the Gyrator if you have it ! i removed the gyrator and the problem dissappeared immediately !
ahmadddd said:
I have this problem after enabling Gyrator, try to uninstall the Gyrator if you have it ! i removed the gyrator and the problem dissappeared immediately !
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I have gyrator installed,that's true... but I always close it(it is shutdowned) every time,so I think it cannot influence other active programs...so these errors should have other causes
help for me
i had the problem too. When i made a hardreset after the configuration of the device, the phone will configure the data connection. At this point i cancelled and configured the data connection myself.
At this point the problem with device.exe was gone.
Data connection / device.exe issue
Hi, a while abck i had some problems with services.exe crashing frequently. Even after a hard reset the problem persisted and there was nothing i could do to resolve it. However over time the error stopped occuring.
Now I am having a different issue. A few days ago i started to get a problem with my data connection, it would show as being active and connected but it would not send or receive any data at all. Tried this using Opera and google maps wouldnt download anything. The rpoblem would be disappear after a soft reset but then after the phone went to sleep and awoke it would re-appear.
Now i have started to get frequent device.exe crashes and after this happens my data connection stops working alltogether until i soft reset. But then the program will crash a variable amount of time later. I have not installed anything recently since this started happening. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to the crashes like I have read about on other threads, it has happened while watching the youtube app, browsing the web or simply waking up the phone and having the error report waiting for me.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions from what I have described? I am a bit unwilling to Hard Reset as this did nothing for my previous errors and having read other articles on device.exe errors this did not help others.
Thanks for any help!
device.exe
Same thing for me. Sometimes the data icon appear grayed. When activesync try to connect, device.exe crashed.
The only solution I found is to install addintimer and program task \windows\replog.exe /remote/all/h
Not very elegant but it works. Bug appeared after I updated ROM with official HTC Rom
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I've merged 2 threads as both on same topic
After doing more reading i found that people on other winmo devices were getting this error on wakeup due to a problem with GPS.
After racking my brains thinking what could cause it i remembered i had lattitude on google maps. Since i've disabled this *touch wood* i've had no more crashes.
spoke to soon. device lasted 2 days instead of a few hours though.. progress at least :/
Same prob here....
Cant turn on wifi, bluetooth and cant connect via usb. Soft and hardreseted also flashed with its preinstalled orange firmware(ofcourse done with sd flashing). Same problems all time.
Is it hardware or software related???
BR
i have same problem but it appeared after hard reset and with out any installs
so i performed another hard rest till now its fine
Everytime error device.exe..
Every connection to pc it shows device.exe error.
I think its hardware
Do anybody help me? After changing old Manila theme I restore again the old one but the problem is 1. The volume icon disapeared when tap the left side volume heardware button . 2. the core plaryer 1.3.2 ver running without sound. How could I can solve this p[roblem?