I have a problem and I hope someone can help me.....
First of all I have been having problems when soft-resetting my MDA Vario. When soft-resetting my device, it freezes when starting up. I have the following programs installed:
Wisbar Advance 2
SBSH PocketBreeze
SBSH PocketWeather
Windows Live Messenger Beta
I haven't found out what is causing the problem, but everytime it freezes I have to hard-reset my device which is totally getting frustrating!!! Usually it takes me about an hour to reinstall everything again, sync my contacts, tweaks in my registry and so on.
Has anyone else been having this problem or knows what is causing it to do this???? I'm just reinstalled everything again and everything is running smooth again, but I'm afraid to soft-reset my device again because I'm afraid it will freeze again on startup. Furthermore, everytime I sync my device I have a pain in the royal to get my contacts back the way they are....
I'm open to any suggestions! Thanks in advance!!
Freezing
Try not re-installing one of them after your next hard-reset.
It it no longer freezes - you have the culprit.
Charlie Grillo
I have a feeling that it's WLM that is causing the problems. I know I shouldn't have installed it, but once you use it your hooked! Going back to the old Pocket MSN is like trading in a Ferrari for a old Toyota Corolla... although the old Corolla is like old fateful and won't let you down, driving a Ferrari is like a dream!
Anyway.... I will try rebooting when I get home and see if I find out the problem. Have you had this problem too ? Or is it just me ? I've done some searching and it seems that others have the problem but haven't been able to pin point it.
I just hope I can uninstall the WLM beta off my device without hard-resetting it.....
One thing I noticed on my device is that when you boot it up and leave it alone it will crash, but if you touch the screen or press a button every 30 seconds or so it boots up fine.
Think it is something to do with the standby setting after x seconds, if thats disabled it boots up ok.
Thanks for your reply!
I reinstalled everything on my phone again... getting to be a real pain reinstalling everything. Anyway, my vario works fine now with WLM, that did seem to be the problem.
But, how did you manage to disable the standby setting ??? And how did you find it out??? Have you tested this enough to know that this is the cause?
Maybe there is a registry tweak that will help, can anyone say which adjustment is necessary in your registry???
I just got this phone a week ago, and its been working perfectly fine other than the Wi-Fi. Every time I try to connect the phone just jams, I have to take the battery out to restart it. It takes me up to the available wireless connections, asks me for the password, and once I've entered in the password its stuck.
Anyone else come across a problem like this? Or does anyone know if I'm doing anything wrong?
Thanks in advance!
Shipra said:
I just got this phone a week ago, and its been working perfectly fine other than the Wi-Fi. Every time I try to connect the phone just jams, I have to take the battery out to restart it. It takes me up to the available wireless connections, asks me for the password, and once I've entered in the password its stuck.
Anyone else come across a problem like this? Or does anyone know if I'm doing anything wrong?
Thanks in advance!
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With this type of problem, ie one that is not meant to happen - it should not freeze, then I would normally suggest a soft reset (as you have tried). I would now carry out a hard reset. (Get yourself a good full backup programme like SPB so when you hard reset you can get backup up with all your applications and settings in around 10 minutes).
Mike
Hey
I have a problem, my phone keeps rebooting, i have rootet it with the Hero Rom, and yesterday everything worked perfectly, but when i wanted to use the camera i little while ago, the phone restarted. So i thought i would try andd do a phone reset, but when i did, the phone keeps restarting, it shows the HERO logo, and then kind of reboot, the screen goes black and its showing the HERO logo again. It keeps doing that until i take out the battery.
Can any1 help me with this problem? any suggestions will be appreciated, im kind of desperate
Per
omg i having the same problem...did you fix your phone yet?
I'm having this problem too Anyone have a solution? My HTC Magic just keeps showing the "htc" logo and refreshes every ~5 seconds. Tried taking battery and microSD out, no luck. The last app I used was Alarmania.
i wonder if i could download a different rom to a different sdcard an then load it up to my MT3G
Issue Solved!
I just called Rogers and spoke to a very helpful Rogers tech support rep. This is the solution he offered and it worked for me:
1. When the phone is off, press and hold the Home and Power button until the phone comes on.
2. You should see a little icon with an exclamation mark. Now press and hold the Home and Power button again.
3. You should see some instructions and some options. Use the trackball to select Factory reset. This will erase all your phone's data, but if you're in the cloud (ie your contacts are with Google), you should be fine, you'll just have to reconfigure everything (ie mail accounts, keyboard calibration, home screens, app downloads and preferences).
I hope that helps. I just spent a very unhappy 12 hours without my phone.
FYI: I have a non-rooted Rogers HTC Magic with no mods whatsoever. The problem started one random night when I wasn't using my phone, it just got stuck at the HTC logo like it was about to restart, and it just kept refreshing the logo.
dang my phone is rooted
Another 24 hours later and I have the same problem. My phone went into a perpetual restart last night, it just got stuck at the boot screen, so I had to do a factory reset again. Any advice on what I should do? The nightly factory reset is not a solution.
Spoke to someone on another forum with the same problem. This problem seems to happen when you use alarm clock apps. The problem happened to me whenever I was setting an alarm in Alarmania or Alarming. I'll try the phone without an alarm clock app and keep you guys updated.
I've been doing a lot of research on this the past week. I did not have this problem on my sapphire until after I rooted my phone. I've tried 3 different android custom roms. They all seem to work well at the beginning and then the random reboot occurs maybe a day or two into regular use.
Whats seems to be interesting is I've heard a lot of people in the US say it was after the 1.6 update. So I'm going to try using 1.5 again to see what happens.
I haven't even tried the HERO Rom. I had no interest in it I just wanted my phone to run faster. This could be an underlying problem in the android OS. It could also be the crappy HTC quality starting to come out .
this is the first thread that I've seen someone who didnt have a rooted phone with this issue. Could mean it IS a hardware thing.
Anyways I'll keep you guys posted. Its a crappy problem for sure.
try using another sd card,format a new sd to fat 32 ,copy paste the custom rom you want,boot into recovery mode,wipe data,wipe cache and flash the rom,that works for me.
kerdum said:
I've been doing a lot of research on this the past week. I did not have this problem on my sapphire until after I rooted my phone. I've tried 3 different android custom roms. They all seem to work well at the beginning and then the random reboot occurs maybe a day or two into regular use.
Whats seems to be interesting is I've heard a lot of people in the US say it was after the 1.6 update. So I'm going to try using 1.5 again to see what happens.
I haven't even tried the HERO Rom. I had no interest in it I just wanted my phone to run faster. This could be an underlying problem in the android OS. It could also be the crappy HTC quality starting to come out .
this is the first thread that I've seen someone who didnt have a rooted phone with this issue. Could mean it IS a hardware thing.
Anyways I'll keep you guys posted. Its a crappy problem for sure.
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I can confirm this. I have a mytouch 3g, and with 1.5, the camera was working fine. As soon as I got the OTA 1.6 update, the camera would cause random rebooting.
I called T-Mobile USA and had a replacement phone sent to me. I got the phone, didn't install any apps, and waited until I got the OTA 1.6 update again, tested the camera several times, and got no reboots. I flashed dwang's 1.6 ROM and I am still reboot-free.
this prob anyone got fixed??
hi there,
it seems as if i had the same problem. i got an htc magic with android 1.5 (swiss edition), i guess, and after i installed alarmania and had it alarming, it rebooted. instead of showing me the home screen, it just shows a htc brand and makes a sound, and repeats this after maybe 30 seconds.
i tried taking out the battery for some minutes, didnt work. i tried to go to safe mode (pressing menu and power), but it fell into the same circle, as well as when i tried to do a factory reset. i also tried to take out the battery for 20 hours, but same reaction.
does anyone have an idea what to do? ill try to call htc tomorrow.
thx for your help,
aeronaut
ps: please excuse my bad english, but im swiss. this is the only forum where i found similar problems to mine.
aeronaut said:
hi there,
it seems as if i had the same problem. i got an htc magic with android 1.5 (swiss edition), i guess, and after i installed alarmania and had it alarming, it rebooted. instead of showing me the home screen, it just shows a htc brand and makes a sound, and repeats this after maybe 30 seconds.
i tried taking out the battery for some minutes, didnt work. i tried to go to safe mode (pressing menu and power), but it fell into the same circle, as well as when i tried to do a factory reset. i also tried to take out the battery for 20 hours, but same reaction.
does anyone have an idea what to do? ill try to call htc tomorrow.
thx for your help,
aeronaut
ps: please excuse my bad english, but im swiss. this is the only forum where i found similar problems to mine.
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This won't help you at this point but there seems to be a trend happening. Could it be Alarmania!? My suggestion would be to not use that app as it seems to cause problems. As per the camera causing the same issue, I'm not sure if there is an update for your phones but I just recieved an update for mine (Rogers HTC Magic) and I also got stuck in a boot loop after installing the first update. I had to use a Mini SDcard adapter that I purchased at my nearest electronics dealer for ei. BestBuy. It came with a class 4 4gb SDcard and it fits on my keychain. Basically you can use this to put a new IMG on your SDcard and then reboot your phone into fastboot. The IMG will automatically install (just follow the instructions). One issue may be finding the new correct IMG that you need but I`m sure you won`t have too much of a problem finding it on an established forum such as XDA. Good luck
thx for your help, but im not able to "restart" my phone normally - as i said, not even the factory reset mode is working. any other idea without flashing the ROM?
flashing only
thank goodness I've made recovery image just before installing Alarmania - Alarms is the same
Alarmed Litle is one that worked but it crash every system start
I was having the same problem, but this, which I found on the "Canadian HTC Magic Gets Sense UI and 911 Fix" threat at androidguys.com
"If you're getting the never-ending boot screen, your phone is -not- bricked. you just haven't finished the second part. you NEED a micro-sd adapter. Turn the phone off (take out the battery), and have a micro-sd card adapter. while the phone is off, take out the sd card and plug it on your comp and delete SAPPIMG.zip from the memory card. Once that's deleted, you need to extract "HTC_Magic_Update_File2.zip" and move "SAPPIMG.zip to the memory card (it's got the same name as the first "SAPPIMG.zip" file, but the second one is supposed to be around 85mb, so don't confuse the two) after that, just repeat steps 3-8 from the first part and that should finish the update on the phone. (this part takes a while, so be patient)"
Cheers
Yes but it is only when "flashing phone was aborted".
It is not for "after instaling Alarmania" on a phone without
Sense UI.
Data WIPE not worked for me, only reflashing phone with my saved flash image (thank gooddess that I've backuped my phone beforehand) done the trick.
well, its funny, i understood the reset page on the htc homepage wrong - i called their hotline, and i was able to reset it. but some days after, i have the same prob. i dunno if it is caused by any other app i have installed during these days (i do not remember as well), but ill try to get a newer rom onto my magic
Hey guys & gals, I have a problem. Not really sure when it started, but I found out a few days ago, when I tried to tap the "search" button in android market with no response. I the tried the (hard) search button, and found that no search whatsoever, neither widget (can't even bring up keyboard when tapped), hard- or touch buttons in any program worked.
I then tried to go to "search" in settings, and got "process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly". I force close, but it keeps popping up every 1-2 seconds until I reboot.
Any suggestions or anyone experienced something like this?
I'm running smoki 0.7.8 (because I've been on vacation since before 0.8, probably not going to update until I get back in a few weeks), phone specs in my signature.
Tried:
Reboot (obviously)
Remove battery ~5 min, then reboot
Switch back to Danish SIM or boot without SIM (using a US SIM while on vacation, not that I can see how that should make any difference)
can supply logcat if needed (in a day or two, when I get to a computer)
Sent from my HTC Magic using XDA App
I activated pincode security on my phone for the first time yesterday.
Restarted it this morning and when Android finally loads up I have to enter my pin then briefly see the homescreen before I get the message android.process.core has to be force-closed. But pressing force-close just cycles again and again.
In the background the phone responds when I plug headphones in/charger etc and even when I long-press to get the power-off screen but but I can't actually access any of it because just as soon as I press force-close it pops up again.
I have restarted the phone 3 times and no change.
Is this some quirk with pincode security and SD Roms of Android?
Anyway of retrieving without wiping and starting again?
Currently in WinMo...
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I activated pincode security on my phone for the first time yesterday.
Restarted it this morning and when Android finally loads up I have to enter my pin then briefly see the homescreen before I get the message android.process.core has to be force-closed. But pressing force-close just cycles again and again.
In the background the phone responds when I plug headphones in/charger etc and even when I long-press to get the power-off screen but but I can't actually access any of it because just as soon as I press force-close it pops up again.
I have restarted the phone 3 times and no change.
Is this some quirk with pincode security and SD Roms of Android?
Anyway of retrieving without wiping and starting again?
Currently in WinMo...
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I had the same problem but I didn't have a PIN setup, it just happened when I tried the Gingerbread Sense ROMs I formatted my SD card and that didn't help, neither did a factory reset of the WinMo ROM or a fresh Android install. I would recommend either flashing a custom WinMo ROM (I did this and it solved it) or going all the way and flashing a NAND ROM (definitely your best option if you hate WinMo, I finally did this after a few days of deliberating and have never regretted it since).
Thanks.
To be honest I actually really like WinMo and when I am on call I boot back into it because the telephone function in all roms I have tried is not 100% reliable.
What I really need Android for is multiple calendars, Whatsapp and Angry Birds!
You can still try flashing a custom WinMo ROM
Sent from my Cyanogen HD2
I could but I have it set up just as I like it with Cookie and a glass theme etc etc.
Hmm, which Android build did you try? CM7 ROMs ran fine for me as did Froyo w/sense, but GB Sense failed. Try AmeriCanAndroid, worked almost perfectly for me and gives plenty of free RAM for gaming, seeing as that's one of the main reasons you want Android
Sent from my Cyanogen HD2
I am running MccM HD v6 which I find is about the best I have used.
I prefer sense roms so tend to stick to those.
My data.img was corrupted hence the problems.
Reformatted hdd; had a bakup from Sept so restored to that then updated. Son will be mightly annoyed his unlock of angry birds is gone but hey it gives him more chance to play more!
Try "fix_permissions" in terminal or rom manager. for me it helps for a force closes. Try press home button if you can access app drawer
In terminal app:
type "su"
type "fix_permissions"
When that particular one came up I could do nothing. It just cycles. Couldn't even turn off without battery pull.
jerme said:
Try "fix_permissions" in terminal or rom manager. for me it helps for a force closes. Try press home button if you can access app drawer
In terminal app:
type "su"
type "fix_permissions"
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Nah, I've had his problem before, it makes the phone literally unusable :/ Impossible to do anything once it starts.