I got myself a Lumia 950 XL to play with W10M - even though the support has ended couple days ago. I got it with a docking station to connect it to a screen, keyboard and mouse and use it's Continuum functionality, which would be a great help in my cluttered workspace I have at home. Lastly - this phone is to serve me as a backup in case I broke my main one.
Now, what's the problem: the phone is working fine on it's own, the problem begins when I try installing the updates - MS said that they do not plan to remove the updates from their servers and they really are still there for me to download them. I do download them, they install themselves, but when the phone restarts and those gears appear, after about a minute or so - a sad face ( ) appears and the phone falls into loop - it restarts itself, gears appear again and then a sad face. Restart and repeat.
I managed to restore the phone by using Windows Device Recovery Tool (even though the phone was recognised as Lumia BootMGR) and tried again. Once again, the same situation. So, WDRT again and phone is working again.
There are three major updates to install on the phone - the 1607, the 1703 and 1709 ones. I got it to install the 1703 once, but the sad face appear during the installation of the 1709 one. I also tried installing the updates by using OverTheCable updater, but all it does is downloading the updates to PC and then transferring them to the phone - ofc, same result - brick, WDRT, working phone.
Does anyone have any idea what can one do in this situation? I cannot cancel downloading those updates since the phone is connected to the WiFi and I want to have the latest ones installed on the device and be done with them.
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Hi,
This is my first post here and obviously it's a problem related issue.
I have my HTC TOUCH HD, for about 1 week now.
Everything worked great, until yesterday, when i tried to install the following:
- installed the HTC Hotfix for responsivness, seemed to work fine.
- than i wanted my phoen call to be announced with voice, so i tried to findVoiceCommand (cracked, shame on me)
- downloaded something from this forum, that was posted on rapid share.
Oh Joy and than the problems started:
- It gave an error when installing
- than o n reboot, it toook waaay to long to boot up.
- than i tried to go into the settings to remove it.
Now, EVERYTIME i try to enter the settings, it just freezes, i can not access anyting any more, not even the upper power button, only taking out the battery will work.
Rebooting, i used total commander (thank God i had it installed before) to delete the startup link for voice commander and the entiere voice commander folder.
Now, unfortunate this did not do the trick.
Accessing the settings button will still freeze my HD (
I am very very very frustrated, do not know how to restore it to previous state. Pretty please someone can guide me what to do ?
Thank you in Advance.
ps: everything else seems to work fine, though
Do you think hard reset is the best way??
Yes, unfortunate, this was my only solution.
After digging for more than 4 hours, sleeping 4 hours, digging more hours, i gave up and did a hard reset.
(i even had to digg that up too )
Now everything is back to normal, BUT my weather application is not updating through GPRS / 3G any more, only through wireless.
There is no option for me to set it through what connection it should connect
(Only in coinnection manager, and there its set fine, i already tried everything, and internet seems to work, just fine)
sneila said:
After digging for more than 4 hours, sleeping 4 hours, digging more hours, i gave up and did a hard reset.
(i even had to digg that up too )
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WIKI nr 32 of this page
Same thing happend to me. I have now managed to get back into my settings. I think there are two ways.
1. Use active sync to remove the program
2. I installed the 1.5 trail version (which doesn't run) but let me back into settings so I could uninstall MSVC and then uninstall the trail.
start up still seems a bit slow and the first time you press settings it is a little slow going in but after the first time it is fine.
The better option might be a hard reset but it isn't one for me at the moment as I have far to much stuff to re-install and setup. I really want MS voice commander but I am to scared to try and install any versions
sound like the program had a virus maybe
go to startup in windows explorer and remove the shortcut related to it. this will solve the problem.
Damn stop listening to people that quickly tell you to hard reset.
I had a similar problem in which i couldn't access Settings to remove the program that was causing it.
I connected the phone to ActiveSync and you can easily the program from there. Problem solved.
Another way to uninstall would be to launch the CAB file again (the one with the "bad" program). You will asked if you should remove the old version first, say yes, then cancel installation when it asks where to save the new version. Together with a soft-reset thereafter, in most cases it should work out ...
With my x7501 I can connect in bootloader. Just flashed factory ROM, the Michy's 6.1 clean. In both ROMs I get the "failed to connect" sound from my PC in the fisrt boot screen, just when the red text disappears (and of course, then, nothing happens reagrding the connection). I can connect my wizard and sync.
Lately:
I installed Shantz Today Changer, uninstalled a dumb Minsweeper game (my four-year-old loves the OEM version). I've been having some PC issues, like dropping wifi every few minutes, Google Chrome crashed the OS so I uninstalled, and Quicklaunch icons show up funny occaisionally. My BT also isn't working, (Broadcom stack) software can't find the local device.
So whatever happened to "cable is stable"? Anyone up for a puzzle and kind enough to give me a clue?
Next steps: restore from Sprite Backup and keep popping out my card to exchange files (sneaker mail, anyone?). I'll probably live without Desktop Outlook until I get this solved, since I started using Flexmail and Pocket Informant, I can pretty much do what I need to do on the handheld and have to take it with me, but what a hassle (yes, I'm spoiled). I will try another PC, too.
Working for now
I waited overnight, let it reboot twice as per my nightly routine, this morning unchecked "Enable advanced network functionality" under USB-to-PC in the system tab of Settings. I have a funny feeling that anything I did didn't make a difference, since it all happened so early in the ROM loading process.
I hope the thread helps someone who runs into the same problem.
I am so tired of all the WTF moments in WM. I guess, no matter what, if you want it all, you have to fight for it and deal with the setbacks.
Hi
I just installed windows mobile data center today, had some issues getting it to connect, but got it working. It said it had synced everything, but couldnt see any contacts/calender stuff imported into outlook on my laptop.
after that i installed skype keyboard (got from download on this site). After the reboot, the initial 4 digit pin no longer works on my phone.
how do i fix this?
**fixed** pin no longer works
Hi
I tried several solutions from other threads around this issue. leaving the battery out for 30 mins, and soft rebooting didnt help.
So i hard booted the HTC (only rebuilt it with a new ROM last week).
Anyway, before reinstalling everything, i decided to check the two things i did today. I connected it to windows mobile device center and synced it. rebooted and tested the pin, and no problem.
I reinstalled the SWYPE download, and rebooted. Voila! I can no longer enter the PIN.
So for me, it was this particular version of SWYPE.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5679265&postcount=77
[Fixed-Swype-HTCBlackBird-3.9.10.10.5032.CAB ]
Some background...
I am using a stock unlocked Samsung Galaxy S purchased in the UK in June this year. The phone died about a month ago (just stopped completely dead in the middle of charging) and was returned to Samsung for repair. They returned it with the newer Update 1 (2.1/Eclair) firmware which was noticeably faster and smoother than my previous firmware.
Installing Froyo has been an absolute nightmare. It took several attempts with two different Windows XP machines just to get the Kies (total crapfest) software working. The first PC was nearly killed by all of the rubbish that Kies installs on the PC. Connecting the phone to the PC just caused total lockups and eventually caused some kind of CMOS data corruption which resulted in a non functioning PC (this required several hours to put right).
Finally got Kies running on my second XP laptop after a lot of phone connection issues surrounding the lack of correct Samsung Phone drivers (which I had to hunt down on the web).
Froyo itself seemed to work great initially. However, I was annoyed to see that the Phone Pad style keyboard's predictive T9 feature is almost completely disabled within the browser. I had to replace the keyboard with Touchpal. The flash in web pages works brilliantly for video and I wouldnt like to return to a phone without this feature. In terms of general speed and improvements in performance I cant say I can notice any difference - my previous Update 1 was just as quick & responsive as far as I can tell. Some of the small detail changes are nice, like folders support for bookmarks in the browser and page previews for each browser window. The new copy/paste controls are really neat, very iphone like though a little more clunky.
However the phone has now started rebooting itself randomly - does not appear to be any kind of pattern to the behaviour. I have tried everything to fix this but so far nothing has worked and the phone continues to reboot randomly. Problem is intermittent, so sometimes it will go 30 minutes before rebooting whilst other times it will reboot several times within minutes of switching on. Have removed SD card, formatted internal SD, factory reset (3 or 4 times) and have been running the phone in untouched stock configuration i.e. no apps, no google accounts, standard lock screens/wallpaper, no wifi settings etc. but none of this has resolved the issue. Phone is also switching itself on (after being switched off and left in drawer) and going into a repeating cycle of rebooting - its like the phone has been possessed!
I've given up now and will be returning the device for its second repair.
Tried a factory reset? Always worth a go. Is the device getting abnormally hot?
Yes, I have factory reset the device several times. The device is running in its original configuration like it would when switched on for the very first time after purchase. I have also subjectively checked device temperatures at time of reboots - most of the time the device is stone cold as it is normally not doing anything except sitting in standby.
Sound more a hardware problem from what you mentioned. If this is a sw bug, then sammy will be in huge trouble!
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My Omnia 7 is stuck in loop boot :|
I have tried everything from hard resetting phone, to flashing custom/earlier roms, but whatever I do, I always get stuck at "Samsung Omnia 7" splash screen.
Does anyone know what else could I try?
PS: I do not have official Samsung support in my country.
Same happened to me when i flashed mi7rom v2 .
Stuck :/ Would appreciate any help
Edit: Fixed after I took out the battery a few times xD
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Same happened to me when i flashed mi7rom v2 .
Stuck :/ Would appreciate any help
Edit: Fixed after I took out the battery a few times xD
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Trust me... I tried more than few times
I have exactly the same problem, but the phone recovers after a while and Windows Phone loads properly, just to crash and boot loop again after using it for browsing or gaming for 10 to 15 minutes.
It is very annoying and I don't believe it is a software related problem to be honest.
Since I've 8 months of warranty left on the phone, it's been sent to the official Samsung Repair Center for the Benelux region: Dynafix.
That name alone made me shiver... And rightly so.
The first time it was sent to them, they flashed it with 7.0.7392.0 and returned it to me. Yes... It didn't get stuck in the boot loop.
I setup the phone again and hook it to Microsoft Zune for restoring pictures, music etc.
Of course Zune pushes the updates to the device as well: they crash one after the other on "Step X of Y: Restarting your phone..."
The phone enters a boot loop for several minutes and then recovers, installs the update (download mode of the phone) and loads WP after again... a few minutes of crash boot looping.
In the end, I manage to get the latest version on it, but it went from looping to freezing for 1h17m before I removed the battery and unplugged the USB cable as the phone and battery become warm, if not hot.
In the end, the phone remains only usable for about 15 minutes and then crashes. Playing Infinte Flight makes the bottom back side of the board where the battery is located burning hot. My brother, who has the same phone and plays the same game doesn't have this issue of warm device at all. It gets a little warmer, but far below what mine produces as heat.
So I sent it a second time to Dynafix, asking for a proper examination of the phone, especially the hardware. They simply flash it again and returned it. Of course the same story repeats.
I went back for a 3rd time. They don't accept it anymore. They flashed, and I quote: "the latest stable release for your device" and I should NOT update it with UNOFFICIAL Zune updates. It's my fault that the phone fails.
I strongly disagreed and stated that some of the apps I bought in the Market need these updates. They bluntly say and I quote "should not have installed unsupported 3rd party software" from the Market. Even Microsoft Photosynth, Microsoft SkyDrive are thus unsupported application...
I am outraged by the so called "service" and "repair" that I'm really considering sending a letter to Samsung's HQ packed in a box together with my phone requiring a proper repair or a replacement!