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xdaII: BIG problems with SIM, texting and using phone HELP!!

I have been having problems with my XDA II for some time, although it used to be relatively trouble-free and give or take a few idiosynchracies has worked properly since unlocking. I don't know if these problems are related or not so I will put them all in one message:
These are the problems:
1) Putting my Spanish SIM card in activates a hard reset 9 times out of 10 (it was fine putting the same card into my son's XDA). Once it did it putting my English SIM back in, but this is usually Ok.
2) Inbox stopped opening -when I click on 'unread messages' it just flickers. It won't open from 'Programs' or from 'New Message' either, nor by opting to send a message from a particular contact.
3) After a hard reset (involuntary) Inbox would open again until I restored my settings, whereupon it wouldn't, so it looks as though it is a dodgy setting.
4) After restoring contacts & appointments only (not settings) Inbox will open but it won't send texts. It sends the text to an ActiveSync folder instead (can't remember which one).
5) Since the above, there is now a new Folder appeared in SMS, entitled 'IPM.Root'. Weird.
6) Whenever I do a soft reset the volume box comes up and it makes a wild beep! beep! beep! beep! beep! beep! until I turn it off and on again.
7) The volume goes off by itself without me touching it: I virtually never hear my phone as volume has gone off again
8)Then there are the synchronisation problems. It often tells me it doesn't recognise my device and I have to set up a new partnership. This is laborious as I have two computers and then have to do it on the other as well...
Somehow I feel that I need a reset that's harder than hard - or do I need a new device?
Will someone help and advise me please!

Turn off warning pop ups

Hi All,
Firstly, I love this site have gotten alot of great upgrades from all of you so thank you. Now to the question, I have the HTC Touch Cruise and have been temporarily kicked off the cell network for reasons of a large phone bill. However, trying to turn on my phone has become a massive hassle now. I have two options of turning on my phone now that I have been suspended pending payment:
#1 - I can turn on my phone and enter in my sim card password:
In which case I will constalty get a warning that creates a window each time that says
"WARNING - There is a problem connecting the GPRS service in your registerd home network."
I can not stop this warning it seems, i can click the x but another window with the same warning will open because my sim car is still trying to connect to the network. I will also get a remnet.exe warning as well, but becuase of the previous warning box, (that will not go away no matter how many times you close it) i can not read what the remnet.exe warning says.
It is most importantly to point out, that this constant error, and constantly trying to connect to the network does not allow me to press anything else, it is as if these errors override everything, it is so bad that I can not even turn my phone off, as the error message will pop up in front of the power off option menu.
#2 - or I can turn on my phone and bypass the sim card option.
In this case I also get a frustrating warning that will not disappear, in this case though the warning comes from the top bar on the main screen, and it goes like this:
"CANNOT CONNECT - Dialed - The answering modem has disconnected. To check your connection settings and change them if needed, tap settings."
This warning, just as in option 1, seems to override all other options i have in the phone. I cannot even get to the comm manager to at least put it in flight mode, which essentially turns off all connections. However when bypassing my sim car, the phone still tries to connect to the cell network.
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So these are my two options that I know of. Unfortunately in both options its a losing battle. I was hoping to hear if anyone knows or have experienced this problem and has found a work around to disable these warnings and error messages, so that when you know you dont have the network you can still play with your phone, even use the tom tom gps which does not use the cell network. This I also can not do because of these warnings that pops up.
I would give you more details of the phone, but I cant access it so I am not for sure which specific one is. I have only modified htc today screen, so its still main OS is windows mobile 6 and the last that I had checked windows could not find any updates.

Encrypted storage card on a phone with a broken screen

Right.
I have two phones, a HTC Hermes and a HTC Touch Pro.
The HTC Touch Pro works fine, and was brought to replace the Hermes. The Hermes had a broken screen, which I replaced, and now has a white screen.
Now the problem is, there was a storage card in the Hermes, which was encrypted. This is still encrypted, and as such I need to copy the files off it when it is in the Hermes. But what I am 95% sure is the password for the Hermes is not unlocking it at the point where I am pretty certain it is asking for the password on the device (the box saying the device is locked has popped up).
I can not currently move any files off the device or storage card when it is in the Hermes. Solutions I have thought of:
1) Copy the hashed password from the Touch profile, if I set that password to what it was on the Hermes. (Won't work if there is a seed, and don't know how to use the config files for WMDC.)
2) Somehow get around the password protection to copy the files off the device or remove the password. (Haven't been able to so far)
3) Send the password from the computer instead of entering on the computer, as I think it must be an input error I can't see due to the broken screen. (Don't know how).
So, any advice people?
Robert

Assuming you have working Active Sync try this My Mobiler. It will let you see your Hermes screen on your PC, and all inputs can be made with your desktop keyboard.

Is there an app/option/regfix to make passwords visible while typing?

First off, no I'm not trying to find out other peoples passwords.
We have, at work, a shedload of Smartphones of different types. Nokia E71's/E72's, Treo Pro's, HTC Touch Pro's, Touch Pro 2's and HD2's. I'm the lucky guy who gets to support them and help users set them up to connect to the exchange server.
Here's the thing. The Nokias are great in that when typing in their password for Mail for Exchange, i rarely have to get them to try more than once, because the password is briefly visible letter by letter as they type it in before it ****. As you know thats not the case for winmo Outlook. They only see **********.
So I'm handing most users a device they have never seen, with an unfamiliar keyboard, and the first thing they type is a complicated password that they can't see. Makes my life he11. And for an added bonus, Active Directory policy requires a password change every 60 days, which means they have to change the password on the phone too.
In addition, as you know, if Outlook gets messed up during setup/editing, its often a hard reset to fix. Great fun, especially on a Treo.
So, i am wondering if there an app/option/regfix to make the password visible while typing it in. Even briefly, like the Nokia's.
Any advice, suggestions would be great. Thanks.

So that'll be a no then?

Doesn't make passwords visible but if you can connect to the PPC via ActiveSync/WMDC then you could use MyMobiler which would enable you to use your PC keyboard to type the passwords.

[Resolved] [Q] Retrieve contacts with a Bad Digitizer and Screen Lock Code on Touch Pro 2 SOLVED

I have an HTC Touch Pro 2 that now has a bad digitizer, and I am unable to use any touch-required functions. I only wish to retrieve the contacts from the phone in a way that I can get them on a new phone, even if it just means re-entering them into a new device. I just do not have any back up of the contacts, and need to be able to access the list on the phone.
I cannot "slide to unlock", so I am unable to navigate the phone or install anything on the phone. When I connect to my PC with an SD card it will connect in Mass Storage mode, and I can access the SD card only (not the phone system files). If I remove the SD card, and attempt to connect with ActiveSync/Windows Mobile Device Center I am prompted to enter my screen lock code on the phone - which I cannot do because the digitizer is broken. I do know the lock code, if there is any way to enter it without using the touch screen.
I have been searching around quite a bit, and I found a program called MyMobiler that looks like it would work, if I could get past the lock code. I have also downloaded the Windows Mobile Developer Power Toys, which also is unable to connect to the phone until I can enter the screen lock code.
Just to clarify, I have thoroughly read over this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=852189#9434585
Is there ANY way that I can get access to the phone long enough to even just physically read and re-enter my contacts? Being able to import them would be nice, but I just don't have any backup whatsoever. Thanks for your help.
****UPDATE****
Solution: By pressing 911 on the keyboard, the phone assumed I was trying to make an emergency phone call and brought up the pin pad. I backspaced the 911, and typed in my unlock code. Now I am into the phone, and I can use the keyboard to navigate, and I can transfer the contacts to the computer. So glad I figured this out, and I didn't need to pay anyone to fix it for me. Good luck to anyone with the same problem.