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highly unstable hd2, help...

hi all, i resently got the hd2, updated it with the new rom, and thereby hoped to be free of errors... however i seem to experiense a whole lot of error, more than i had expected... sometimes it wont come back from sleep, it only turns on the backlight of the hardware buttons. then i have to kill it by removing the battery. also sometimes it wont establish connection to the net, then i have to turn off the radio and turn it on again. the phone is 7 days old, and i have had the battery out 20 times allready... is this unusual? should i contact htc? and what are your experiences with their support?

Samoht2003 said:
hi all, i resently got the hd2, updated it with the new rom, and thereby hoped to be free of errors... however i seem to experiense a whole lot of error, more than i had expected... sometimes it wont come back from sleep, it only turns on the backlight of the hardware buttons. then i have to kill it by removing the battery. also sometimes it wont establish connection to the net, then i have to turn off the radio and turn it on again. the phone is 7 days old, and i have had the battery out 20 times allready... is this unusual? should i contact htc? and what are your experiences with their support?
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I would recommend a hard reset and not installing any software or doing any "tweaks" and test that for a bit.
You should find that fully functioning and stable (on 1.66 ROM) from there add the software that you need and see how that goes and don't bother doing the treaks, registry hacks unless
a) you know what your actually doing and what it changes and​b) you actually need the change.​

ok, I'll try that is the new ROM from htc that unstable?

as above.... test it with just the 1.66 rom, nothing added, and if it's still unstable get it replaced under warranty.

1.66 ROM is also unstable...
..or if I may refraise: Using ROM 1.66 is no guarantee for stability. My HD2 crashes or locks often when I use the phone functionality. No program or app have made the phone crash. I have tried to monitor what apps are running but I´ve not been able to conclude anything. Hard reset has been done followed by a backup restore.
Now I am uninstalling programs each at a time to see if this improves.

dont restore your backup, there could well be something in your backup causing a problem.
(depending on what you have backed up)
hard reset, or ideally task 29 and reflash then just use it as it is.....
use ms myphone to backup your contacts and sms if you need to.

I am a flash whore! (There, I admit it)

I don't know how to stop. I'm so addicted to it that it's hurting me. Lost my wife, job, even all my other phones. '
Everytime I flash a new ROM, I have to reinstall and re-setup everything.
Argh! I need to stop. Someone help me.

One senior answered to my same question (I´m a noob):
use SASHIMI
no other answered .................
Looked up SPB-Backup Manual: says: autorecognition of ROM-Upgrade - Mode
Have also installed SK-Tools (for reg. hacks):
also has a backup util, but have to dig into it this weekend to find out wether there is ROM-upgrade-mode

LOL.
The reinstall and resetup everything is what saves me. Pisses me off so much that I flash my new phones 5-6 times until I find a custom ROM I like, then it's over, I want a phone that works, has everything I need on it, and that's all. So I don't reflash anymore until maybe 6 months later to try something new, if there is. I used to do "preventive" reinstalls at pretty much that interval, but will now stop that (read below why). And I make full SPB backups regularly, keeping the last one on the storage card, so that if something screws up I can hard reset and restore backup in 5 minutes and be all ready with everything again. It's already happened to me to have a bad crash during a day out at work, or worse being a weekend or more away from home and the phone needing a hard reset, leaving me stuck with an empty phone for several days... annoying as hell.
If you reflash every other day I'd say you can use SASHIMI or so, but if you intend to make an install that last I wouldn't advise it.
Once I was happy with my setup I decided to do a clean install, my HD2 was working well but as I had installed/removed so much stuff and tweaks I wanted a clean start, so I did an SPB backup just in case, prepared a SASHIMI folder with everything I had on my phone at that moment, including the couple of reg tweaks I had done, etc... so that it should have been all sweet and quick.
Hard reset, SASHIMI autoinstall... and result, the phone was nearly unuseable, dead slow, unexplained freezes, etc... all with only programs and tweaks I already had before, all what was supposed to have changed is the crap from one-time used programs gone, but no.
I got pissed off at that point, hard reset again, restored my backup, and it's still working fine 3 weeks and a lot more installs/uninstalls later.
Like I already said, Winmo has humors, there are times where you can do nearly exactly the same twice, and once it will screw up, the other it will work just fine, totally unexplained. There are times where you get lucky, an install gets nice and stable, stays such in the long run (6+ months) even if you don't particularly take care, then you do a "preventive" reinstall of the same stuff and nothing works. That's what happened with my Kaiser just before I changed for the HD2. Just like sometimes you can run 2 weeks without a soft reset, then suddenly it crashes 3 times the same day, while doing exactly the same stuff as usual.
The dark side of winmo.
I wouldn't use the "ROM upgrade" mode in backup software for custom ROMs, that's mostly meant for official upgrades, with same provider customisations, etc. With custom ROMs it can be a mess, some will already have some programs/tweaks installed by default while others not, etc...

i flash a lot... task29 and Sashimi get me set up in 30minutes... ymmv

Absolutely frustrated today

All - Am at the verge of giving up on android today. Went out on a little trip today and was depending completely on google maps for navigation. Had the following issues:
1) GPS locking took too long despite having the phone exposed to clear skies
2) Data connection getting disrupted abruptly - I need to reboot the phone / or switch in and out of the airplane mode to get the connection going again
3) Experiencing data corruption / missing files on the data card! I lost almost all of the 30+ pics I took today. There are some random files showing up in LOST.DIR - I'm going to try recovering data from it if possible?
Any thoughts, hints and leads would be very useful - going back to winmo 6.5 is like jumping from the frying pan into the fire .
I'm running the darkstone froyo build on the 3.14 stock ROM - did not install HSPL.
I'll be pulling an all nighter to search thru the forums today - in the interim, any help would be much appreciated.
thanks.

this may be obvious but: try other builds, radios, etc.

1. Several fixes available. Run QuickGPS in WinMo about once every week before you boot into Android, lock time should improve drastically. Search for gps.conf and libgps on this forum, they can be tweaked too if QuickGPS doesn't to the trick.
2. Check if you can convert your build, which is probably PPP, to RMNET. RMNET is slower, but more stable, it shouldn't have any data drops. There are fixes for PPP too, but none of them are 100% reliable already. Change to an RMNET build if yours cannot be converted (easily).
3. No idea, never heard of this before. Might be a corruption on your sd card too, try reformatting it.

[Q] OK, My HD2..what a freakin mess!

Ok, folks. I'm posting this to see if you may have some ideas. I have all the sudden begun to have problems with my HD2 starting approx. 1 month ago.
1. I couldn't get win 7 to recognize phone; worked fine previously. I use the Energy Rom from about 4mos ago. Never had problems, worked flawless.
Searched all over to find soulution, never could get the sync to work. Removed Micro sd and copied files that way.
2. The latest. I'm a pilot for a major airline. When I was in STL(St Louis) my phone was working perfectly. I thought I had put the phone in flight mode. We flew to LAS (Las Vegas) didn't notice my phone was in roam mode the entire time. this was yesterday (Fri)
I then went to turn off flight mode to check msg etc. I noticed that my antenna icon was red. ie no signal.
I have tried everything I could while on the road, including a hard reset. I regret doing tthat, it jsut increased my mess.
I used PIMBackup to make sure evrything was updated. Then I did a hard reset to factory(energy). No good. Still dead radio/signal.
I restored my backup, now most of my programs won't function, lost the registrations etc.
I was under the impression, PIM Backup would return things as they were, when backed up. I apparently was mistaken.
I'm writing this in hopes of some suggestions ideas. I'll go to T-mobile tommorrow to see if Sim card may be the culprt.
I'm short for time, as I have to go flying again shortly, so trying to cut down on research time.
So questions:
Being in phone mode on that flight, could I have done something to the radio. Would flashing the radio again help. will I be ablt to flash, since I can't sync to windows 7.
Why didn't PIM Backup return everything as it was. Are there some switches I was unaware of, or something I needed to do/select to have it work properly?
Now, since I can seem to get the phone to sync, will I be able to reflash the T-mobile Rom to get a new phone.
If you have some links, I'll read those as well. Any help appreciated. I would search all this myself; as mentioned though. Time is limited for me.
Thank You for any assistance.
Best,
David

PIMBackup only really backs up contacts, Mail/SMS acounts.
SPB Backup is the type of program you would use to restore more options & programs/reg data ect.
Sounds like files/ROMs could be a bit corrupted. might be wise to save what you can from SD card & device & reflash devise ROM & radio & see if you can get things working normally under energy ROM.
Loss of signal/connection in LAS could be settings related to radio bands or again coruption.
Some people have a few issues with phone bands/connection with Android/WP7.
I think a fresh ROM install & reading up on backup options & software will be the only way forward.

Thanks Mr. B That explains the results fron the PIM stuff.
Not sure How I can reflash energy, when Jic an't connect to WMDR (?) ie the active sync replcement in Win7. I'll do somne research, on how toget things set up.
Thanks for the insight.
Best,
David

Not sure How I can reflash energy, when Jic an't connect
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Manually put phone in bootloader, connect USB, watch for serial to become USB, flash.
The phone doesn't need to connect to wmdc, that's badly written instructions.
Also, make sure you go along to MS and get the latest wmdc. The one that ships isn't the latest.

extended mobile data usage causes freezing - 90% reproduceable

If I download from mobile network for an extended period of time, my phone will eventually freeze. The buttons will have no effect and I need to remove the battery.
Here is a way to reproduce it:
There is a game on the market called 'Contract Killer'. Download and run it.
It will then ask you to download ~250Mb of data, and where to save it.
If you choose 'SD Card' and download over mobile network, the phone will eventually freeze (after downloading about 95 Mb, sometimes less sometimes more).
At first I thought it was the SD Card but I changed that and it made no difference since it doesn't seem to happen when I save to the internal memory. I then switched on WiFi and used that instead and had no problems.
Also, sometimes this happens when I download a large app from the market. I tend not to use WiFi since I have an unlimited data plan.
Can someone with a large data plan please test this and see if they get a similar problem?
As a wild guess, I think that maybe using mobile data and writing to SD card together causes overheating. I tried underclocking my CPU to ~500Mhz and it made no difference.
I am using HyperdroidGBX-v12.
I have radio version: leo 2.15.50.14.
If there is a developer and you have any questions or need any debug information, please let me know.

FYI, if it helps any, for a test I just downloaded a 414mb file, saved to SD card, and had no issues, twice in succession.
I'm using tyween's TyphooN CM7 nightly (3.3.3), Magldr 1.13, & CWM. Radio 2.12.50.02_2

I tried switching my radio to 2.12.50, and I tried 3 different SD cards. It didn't help. I switched back to 2.15.50.
I don't know if it makes any difference but my signal is low (2 asu).
I also tried clearing all my data/dalvik cache/cache (after backing up of course). Then I installed HyperDroid-CM7-v2.1.0. It made no difference.
Anyone have any clues what could be wrong? Is it a hardware problem? I know I originally said it could be overheating but even happens when the phone is barely warm.
Also, if there is a way to turn off HSDPA that could be something I could try (although my network only supports 3G so I can't turn off 3G completely).

I am also having the same problem you described exactly,,,,verified with the Contract killer game.
And at first I also thought it was a hardware issue but freezes are not dependent on the phones heat status...and my HD2 is somewhat overheating from any network-SD card usage.
By the way,,,,I have changed through 7 different Android roms and problem still persists...

Mine also does the same thing and I hate to be the bearer of bad news but it is a hardware issue. My phone can not and will not endure any prolonged use of the internet, and or any apps what so ever. It used to only happen when i was using the mobile network now it does not discriminate, from my understanding its due to excessive overheating and from the BSA joint coming undone from the main cpu. There is a thread about it somewhere not sure where.