Database Info

Voda v1240 Blank Screen / Timeout Freeze? Help!

Just got it. Looks great and all functions seem to work except if left for a bit, the device seems to freeze with a blank screen, but the green network signal LED still flashes every few seconds as normal.
The display is off, and all buttons don't work when it's like this and a battery out job is needed to reboot and get it back to working.
Everything will be fine until it times out or whatever and goes into this hibernation/semi dead mode.
This seems odd as I thought most phones these days allowed emergency calls in most standby modes. No keys work so no 999's for me when this is being like this.
Have I missed something obvious or is it a proper fault?
Please help as I need to send it back asap if it's a faulty phone.
Thanks,
Joe

Just to add, it has just frozen again but this time on the today screen. No keys active, and when I call the phone number it rings on the phone I call from, but nothing happens on the v1240.
Update: I also bought another as a gift, it doesn't do this and the faulty phone has been returned as I am away from the UK with work for some time soon.
Topic can be closed now - it's a hardware fault.

Help..Jasjar going into auto powersave and no response on button press.

Greetings,
I just upgraded to the 2.02.00 ROM last night but still have the occassional lockups. I need to do a soft reboot to get the phone to respond. I believe when it locks up, the radio is still running since I see the blinking Green LED for the GSM. I have to switch off the POWER MANAGEMENT option of "Turn off in x min in not used" for battery power to be able to use the device for calls. The only level of battery saving I am stuck with now is the Backlight auto-off and the beam settings.
Is this something others are having as well or are any applications the culprit?
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Regards
BHAMEED
------------------------------------------------------------------------
I-Mate JASJAR
--------------
Windiws Mobile 6 (CROSSBOW)Jwright
OS 5.2.318 (Build 15341.0.0.0) AKU 0.0
CE ROM Version : (2.02.00 WWE)
RADIO Version : 1.13.00
ExtROM Version : (2.03.05 WWE) UNLOCKED
Bootloader Version : ver 2.01

Try the power button

All buttons..including the power button...no response.

try holding down the power button
or setting the backlight to atleast one notch.

Urm... uh... ah.... eeee... aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh.

I can confirm this behavior on my MDA Pro (G3).
All ROM versions the same like Bhameed's on my MDA, ...except bootloader of course.
Anyone else noticed this on 2.02.00?

Hold on, can you guys be more specific with this? Are you absolutely sure it doesn't come back on when you PRESS AND HOLD the power button??? Really sorry if I sound like I'm being pedantic, but just from what you've written it sounds like you don't know how to turn on the phone???

hahahaHAHAHA!!! awesome reply spyder
ok, yeah i was thinking this is an issue of not being able to turn on your phone.
yeah what's going on that was different from before?

There have been only few moments where you think "Surely not"... I hate those moments, I'm just hoping this isn't one of them! If it is a genuine problem it's pretty serious and needs to be addressed, but if not.... well, I don't think I should say much more
Please please please say this is all a big joke. I'm tired, please excuse me.

I confirm this behaviour!
And more!
My Qtek freezes... freezes... and then PUFFF. Dead.
I wait some minutes (30 minutes) and I can turn it on again.
I'll send it to qtek.

Mine has a thing sometimes where there will be a pause between pressing the power button and it coming to life... sometimes if I get impatient and press the power button again it will turn it back off before it's come on.
I don't really get it though. Does it freeze while it's still on, or while it's turned off? If it freezes when on, there's plenty of info about how to prevent freezes (mostly 3rd party apps + reg tweaks).
If it really does freeze when off, then please let us know anything more on the issue that you can.

SpyderTracks said:
Mine has a thing sometimes where there will be a pause between pressing the power button and it coming to life... sometimes if I get impatient and press the power button again it will turn it back off before it's come on.
I don't really get it though. Does it freeze while it's still on, or while it's turned off? If it freezes when on, there's plenty of info about how to prevent freezes (mostly 3rd party apps + reg tweaks).
If it really does freeze when off, then please let us know anything more on the issue that you can.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Mine freezes everywhere. Bootscreen, Pin code menu (when u type your pin). It depends.
then pda doesn't turn on.
Many problems.
Just go to the assistance. :\

1.Sometimes it freezes while its on. For Instance I had program opened and then whenI tried pressing X to close nothing happened. I had to use the red hardware button to close. Wonder why.
2.I too agree while the phone boots and is searching for network, it takes very long, Meanwhile when the pin enter screen come up, unless the network is fully searched one cannot enter the sim pin code, it has few freezes. or at time the phone signal icon disappears on top bar and again you need to reset the phone.

aniel1 said:
1.Sometimes it freezes while its on. For Instance I had program opened and then whenI tried pressing X to close nothing happened. I had to use the red hardware button to close. Wonder why.
2.I too agree while the phone boots and is searching for network, it takes very long, Meanwhile when the pin enter screen come up, unless the network is fully searched one cannot enter the sim pin code, it has few freezes. or at time the phone signal icon disappears on top bar and again you need to reset the phone.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Again, I don't have this problem for some reason... I get very few freezes at all.
I think we're getting away from the original point of the post though... and normal freezing is well documented in most OS threads with means to prevent it.

Same here...Confirmed. Tried all button combinations to get the display back (short presses and long ones), but then end up having to do a soft-reboot to finally get the phone to work properly....

Bhameed said:
Same here...Confirmed. Tried all button combinations to get the display back (short presses and long ones), but then end up having to do a soft-reboot to finally get the phone to work properly....
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
And then you don't have other problems? Like freezes?
EDIT: I flash the original rom but the problem still here

I wonder if this could be a memory leak like someone suggested.... I'm sorry guys, I haven't experienced this problem, and I haven't seen any posts about it until this thread, is there any chance you guys with this issue can keep an eye over your memory status over say a couple of days to see if there's a leek and keep us posted? Once we find out what the problem is it should make a solution easier.

I experienced this problem as well using a cooked WM5 ROM on my HERM200 the only fix I found was migrating to another ROM. I'm currently using CUSTEL_Cing_v1.3, the battery life sucks but I love WM6, it is so much faster, I'm still tweaking and trying to resolve some other issues but other than that I am quite happy with it.
If you are experiencing the lockup I would suggest moving to another ROM as an option, that worked for me. Although a clean install usually fixes a lot of problems.

My Polaris Keeps Vibrating

Hello all...
just got my polaris last month. everything was ok, the phone was NEVER been dropped or what so ever. i treated it like my baby. but sometimes something weird happened. my polaris keeps vibrating when there is incoming message. and it keeps vibrating until i have to soft reset it. anything else wont do. the X button, task manager etc. everything in my polaris is original. anyone had this problem before? please help!
thank you

It has happened to me a couple of times.
I've no idea why, I have also treated my phone gently as is my custom with all my technology. There do not seem to have been any side effects though and it has only happend twice since i got the phone three months ago.
I don't think it's much to worry about.
*fingers crossed*

Just flash new rom, it helps

paulcoul said:
Just flash new rom, it helps
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No, that won't help. Got the problem 3 times now, i think, in more then 6 months. Got the problem with the original, bepe and with the latest udK Diamond ROM. Just soft-reset and wait till the next time it happens

If your phone gets stuck vibrating, you can turn off the vibration by triggering an event that causes a vibration (instead of having to reboot the device). I used to have to send myself a text message (I have my phone set to vibrate for incoming texts) and that would do the trick. Now with the latest S2U2 builds with the volume control enhancement, I just use that to turn vibrate on and off (it will vibrate when you turn it to vibrate) and that does the trick as well.

hmm...i guess there is no absolute solution to this problem.

My HTC Cruise got splattered with beer last night and now its constantly vibrating, i mean...even if i turn off the device it still does it. Tried soft and hard reset, dry, clean, dry again and nothing happened, still the same. It only stops when i remove the battery of course.
The weird thing is that it vibrates in a less strong way than normal vibration. is this a known issue? How do i solve it? doest it have anything to do with the water detector on this type of phones?
Please, someone help me its really anoying to have a phone vibrating like that in my pocket lol. Thank you in advance.

Weird Fuze Power Button Issue

I have been experiencing a periodic problem where the screen on my Fuze will be on, and it will not dim or go to sleep. Even if I press the power button it does not shut off. So the screen stays on completely and will, of course, eventually wear the battery down. While this is happening, it is not frozen - I can still use TF3D. The only way to get the screen to go off is to do a soft reboot, after which it will perform normally (including the power booting working like it should). This happens about once a day.
This generally seems to happen when the phone is charging. When I unplug it, the bar at the top still shows the phone as connected to the power. I also notice that the battery seems a little warmer than usual at the times when charging causes this to happen.
In searching the forum I found one other user who had this issue, but did not see any fixes. Coincidentally or not, that other user was using Blackberry Connect, which I am also.
Anybody else have this problem? If so, any proposed solution?
While I am at it, I have a Blackberry Connect issue as well. The phone will periodically (usually, but not always, in the middle of the night) just stop receiving Blackberry Connect e-mails, even though everything in the Blackberry software looks normal. Again, I need to soft reboot to fix it. If anybody has experienced this or has a solution, it would be helpful also.
Thanks in advance.

my button seams to have quit working all together, soft reset doesnt help, tryed the hard reset mabe im,doing it wrong. it never ressets data basicly has the same efect as a soft reset.
not sure if its a hardware or software issue at this point. it randomly pops up the are you sure you want to quit txt.

Battory compleatly drained overnight, put it on chager and power button works again. No settings where lost that i see, kind of rules out a hardware issue.

Unique problem - Dialer screen pops up whenever I switch on phone

Hi everyone,
Im facing a very unique and highly irritating problem on my phone. I own a HTC P3350 (Love) handset with a built-in WM6.0. It was working fine till yesterday. Suddenly since this morning whenever i switch on my cell or get a msg or miss call, the dialer screen comes on. (Its as if the green dialer button is stuck, i checked if thats d problem, but that isnt the case).
I even restored my registry and stuff from an old backup i had made. Even that didnt help.
Is it a hardware or software problem? What should I do about it?
All suggestions are welcome. Please help me.

Welcome to forums
Perhaps a hard reset could help
Good luck,

@orb3000: i tried hard resetting too, twice actually. But the problem wasnt solved. Any more ideas??

another thought crossed my mind. What if i assigned some other action to the dialer button and see if it still persists?? i can then rule out if its the hard button problem.. Think it'll work??

The best way to know is testing it!
And what happen if you remove your SIM card? problem persists?

Ya it persists even if sim card is out. Im so frustrated that i'll start plucking my hairs in some time. If a msg is open when i switch it on, it starts dialing d no automatically. Its so damn problematic.
Will the company repair or do something about it? Its 8 months old..
Could it be a virus??

Sorry I dont know what else to recommend, but hopefully another more experienced member can give you better advice.
Be patient!!

oh.. thanks all the same..

can u do me a favour and try to boot the phone up wth the headphones plugged in???

no that didnt work either,,

i just hard reset my phone and i have removed the storage card from the slot. i have not restored from my backup nor have i synced yet. my phone is as good as new with no contacts or appointments. And now the problem has disappeared!! But that doesnt help coz at some point of time i'll have to restore my device which might bring back the problem.

are you using the ones that came with phone and do they double up as handsfree
my line of thought as i had a kaiser with a headphone fault were the wires that made the button to call work were faulty
this meant that everytime the headphones wires were twisted a certain way the dialer kept popping up and dialling numbers
so thgere fore if ur handsfree was connected and then the phone came up without dialer this would mean that there is a hardware fault
my only suggestions now is to flash to a different rom
if the problem persisits then its a hardware fault and youll need to contact vendor or seller

i just hard reset my phone and i have removed the storage card from the slot. i have not restored from my backup nor have i synced yet. my phone is as good as new with no contacts or appointments. And now the problem has disappeared!! But that doesnt help coz at some point of time i'll have to restore my device which might bring back the problem.

Hi everyone. Thanks for all your suggestions. But none of them seemed to work. I'll just write my problem in detail once again:
My phone - HTC P3350 (Love) with WM 6.0
ROM version: 3.17.720.3 WWE
ROM date: 21/01/08
Radio version: 02.94.90
Protocol version: 4.1.13.44
ExtROM version: 3.17.720.103
My exact problem -
1. Whenever i bring back my phone from stand-by mode by pressing power button, the green call receive button somehow gets pressed from the 'inside' and depending on what window is open the action takes place. For eg: if im on my today screen, the dialer screen opens up; if im on the dialer screen, the last dialed no starts getting dialed; AND THE WORST PART - if someone calls me when my phone is on stand-by mode, the call automatically gets received (coz the green cal receive button virtually gets pressed)!!
2. The super-added problem is that if i press the power button to put the phone into standby when im talking to someone, the speaker phone gets activated and then exactly 3 seconds later the call hangs up.
The problems are so weird and 'funny' that im getting to think its a virus doing all this.
What i tried doing -
1. i hard reset my phone and restored using sprite backup. The problem persisted.
2. So next i hard reset again and restored using PIM backup and restored only the contacts. The problem disappeared for a day but reappeared.
3. So i hard reset again and this time i didnt restore and i also removed my storage card. And now the problem has become unpredictable! It appears sometimes and sometimes the phone is completely normal.
Im trying hard to find a pattern as to when it appears for eg: whenever the battery is low; only during the evening, etc. I dont know but i've not found out any fixed pattern (which i expected if it was to be a virus)
My current status -
I disabled the 'Turn off device if not used for' option in Advanced Power settings. And i never put my phone on standby. I just use the device lock option. But the problem is that battery running out twice faster.
This has just temporarily treated the problem but the basic problem still remains....