I constantly have to go through 3-4 screens before the 750 gets back to my today screen from startup. For instance, I look at my phone and it has the calendar screen on it, close it and the contact edit screen is up, and so on until finally after clicking through 3-4 unwanted screens I can finally use the phone.
Memory does not recognize. Have 1 gig that won't ever recognize and 2 gig that is hit or miss depending on my treos mood. Who'da thought that windows could program personalities into their rom's?
Anybody else have issues like these? Normally I soft reset and that doesn't last. Thought I had something contacting the screen under the phone plastics but not that either.
I did figure out a good way to clean the internals... Blow through the memory card slot. Cleans out the keyboard and everything.
THanks.
You can go to today screen just by pressing the red end button or the green button. Or alternatively press Start>Today. Don't need to close those programs.
Can't help you with unrecognizable memory card. I don't have that problem.
Just curious, what's your ROM version (Start>Setting>System>About>Phone)? Do you use WM5 or WM6?
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Ok, so far I've dumped the ROM and uploaded the kaiser-HardSPL and all was going lovely. However, after most of a day of pretty much inactivity I find the device suddenly goes very slowly. By which, I mean it can take several seconds to draw the screen.
Thinking this might be a rogue application using up all the processor cycles, I poked it up the bottom with the stick. (While doing this the first time, I held in power and camera just to see the boot loader text, but then I did it again with no buttons held.) It's a Vodafone device but it sat on the Vodafone splash screen for about 2-3 minutes then spent longer than that on the Windows Mobile screen before eventually dropping me into normality.
Except it's incredibly slow normality - I clicked on "start" and after a minute, it's not done anything yet.
Next step is a hard reset unless anyone has any better suggestion?
Help!
I assume you've pulled the battery?
Never assume anything... The full answer is, "No, but I have now"... I'm not sure that's going to do anything more than a soft (poke up the bottom) reset though. I'm now just waiting for the splash screen to subside while I'm typing this.
Having left it half an hour, while it went into standby and after noticing that the clock had stopped updating, I'm of the opinion that the already slow device has got slower...
Ok between 1 and 2 minutes to move from the splash screen to the "Windows Mobile" screen.
Now there's a turn up... After a further minute or so, I get a message, which has now cleared and gone back to the "Windows Mobile" screen before I had chance to copy it here. Basically it said that it had failed to boot either because I'd turned it off improperly or I'd installed something that it was opposed to. I should press send (I guess the green button) to reset to manufacturer's defaults.
Since that's my next stage anyway, I'll re-poke it with the pointy stick and press 'send' when it pops the message up. I'll put my trusty old Nokia N73 into flight mode and take a picture of the message so I can transcribe it here for everyone's amusement.
More news as it breaks.
I've now hit the 'send' button so it's doing a hard-reset. Meanwhile, here's the text it showed me:
Code:
The device is unable to boot be-
cause either you have turned off
the device incorrectly or tried to
install an application from untrusted
source. Press SEND to reset your
device or press any other button
to cancel. This operation will delete
all your personal data and restore
the device to its factory default
settings.
Nice. Ok, I'm at the 'tap the screen to set up your device' screen now.
Wonder what triggered all that nonsense then...
If you're like the rest of us and tooling around the all the fun programs in this forum, there's no telling.
I tell folks on computers, "Every piece of software you put on a machine is a liability to the operation of that machine." We can say that applies to this nifty little devices too.
I've had my phone experience the same symptoms you have posted here. Luckly for me a battery pull fixed mine. Sounds like the luck didn't spread much. Sorry.
Keep at it though. And don't fret the crashes. They do happen from time to time when you play hard.
So, a hard reset and a restore of a backup (Yes, I made a backup a few days ago even though I've been in the trade 20 years!) later, I'm back to normality. All I've done that's weird is install pof's loader and I can't see that's anything to do with it. What I was doing at the time of the slowdown was trying to connect to the wifi network at work. I thought the networking had just got itself tied in knots somehow but as the machine was even mega slow to boot, I can't really see that. At least I can still get back to square one at the moment.
I just need to create a .nbh out of the rom parts I dumped yesterday so that I can recover from anything more major...
Meanwhile, if you do a 'boot loader reset', would you expect it to say 'serial' if the USB isn't plugged in?
I'm starting to wonder if there is a major bug in the WiFi of the Tilt. There are some other threads on AT&T's site about this, and my work with WiFi on this unit has been dicey. Hmmmmm...
(First off, sorry that this is all jumbled. This is a post mixed with another post I made on another forum, and I've been trying to figure this stuff out for hours now and I"m just burnt out.)
Might need to reinstall Windows Mobile?
I was told maybe the previous owner tried to flash them to a different ROM and had a problem. I'm not good with Pocket PC's, so I have no idea.
When I do a hard reset, it does the whole reset thing, makes me click the middle/top/bottom to align the screen, teaches me how to cut and paste, makes me choose my time zone, then loads up windows. I can see the start menu and all of that for a couple seconds, then it goes to install certain things. I think when it goes to install macromedia flash, it gives an error about it might have errors because it was made for a previous version. Then, after that, regardless of whether or not I cancel the flash install, it reboots and then ends up back at the dumb screen with the wireless-type icon, with no start menu where I have to hold a round button and press the middle button to get the start menu.
I got two X30's and a charge dock for $5. But, I didn't get any disks.
When I start it up I get the following error:
Tour Error
(System) Could not load remote XML file: [183]
The main thing it's stuck at is a screen that either says "charging..." (orange) or "ready." (green), with something that looks like a wireless logo. The bottom left has
Version 1.5.6
Dell Axim X30
Untagged
The bottom right has battery info.
I manage to get things to show up, even got one of them to use the net, so they're not bricked or anything.
However, there's no Start menu constantly on the screen, I have to hit any one of the four round buttons then the button in the middle to bring up the start menu. I guess the start menu is supposed to be at the top of the screen, but like when windows on a regular pc starts to crash, all that's there is whatever was last on the screen. Right now after opening it, I just see Today and part of ActiveSync. The windows all seem to be doing the same thing, as where when I try to get rid of something it just won't go away, and things keep stacking.
I've tried a hard reset, I just get errors. It's kind of odd how both can have the exact same problem, but that's what it seems like to me.
I've tried googling for hours, haven't found anything. I'm not even sure if I can buy windows mobile seperately because I haven't found that either.
Anyone got any ideas? If the windows installs are just completely corrupt, I wouldn't have a problem using linux or something else.
I've never had a Pocket PC before so I'm not really sure what other types of info you'd need, but if anything else is needed just let me know.
Not sure if this is relevant but i have used it on my Alpine to remove the network specific customisation so it might just be worth a shot.
Once you have done the hard reset thing and when it says "Customisation in 3 secs" or something similar, do a soft reset. That should stop all the stuff in the ExtROM from running and leave you with a totally vanilla WM install.
The fact both are exibiting the same probs implies, well to me anyway, that the previous owner tried the same ROM on two PPCs.
Since my Diamond has given me the big middle finger, i went back to my backup TC which i was going to sell... good thing i didn't.
So i never liked the TouchFlo thing. I like SPB Shell much better. one problem with TF, it installs automatically when you hard reset (or fresh start) the phone. what to do... what to do...
This time around, when the phone booted up for the first time I did a soft reset (push the button on the bottom of the phone) when TF was getting installed 1/7th of the way; basically resetting the phone 1 second into install.
it is amazing how much memory is saved and putting on all the other software I normally use, there's plenty of room left! storage space has increased dramatically.
figure for those who do not like TF and could rebuild their phone from scratch w.o losing data (PIM), this *might* be a solution for you to get as much space out of the phone as possible.
Hello all,
I'm hoping this can be fixed, for my fiancée's sake, as she has alot of pictures and videos of our little boys when they were born and can't be replace on her Treo 750v, unlocked via code from Voda, it's still running WM5.
It started when she was sending a text, press sent, and randomly, parts of the list of messages starting turning into blanks, around that time it popped up saying low on memory, she deleted a installer cab for facebook, and the little busy circle appeared but did nothing and crashed the phone, so she took the battery out, put it back in and now all it does is boot with the Palm logo, goes onto the Windows Mobile splash screen then blank, pressing red brings the keyboard light on and makes the key sound, but doesn't do anything, all with the blank screen. The orange light flashs for loss of signal constantly, but the red charge light doesn't come on at all, and ActiveSync doesn't pick up anything. I can boot into the bootloader screen, which behaves as it should, getting picked up by windows. I have tried itsutilsbin, but does nothing as ActiveSync isn't initiated to try and pull the files off the device. And Google has only so much information.
So I'm pleading (nicely ) is there anyway to get files off a semi-bricked Treo? I am competent playing and messing around with flashing and upgrading, and willing to try anything to get all the files off it.
Hope someone can help!
how many photos can you fit on a palm without a memory card cant to much can it. Well have you tried ringing palm and ask them if they have data recovery. there is one very very very long shot like 1% chance that it will work and do not do this if you can not find a data recovery program for the palm is hard reset it if you can then run the data recovery software. I do repeat 1%!!!!!!!!!!!!! I say ring palm see what they say.
Hi there,
I'm having an issue with the my XT720 and hopefully someone can help, or has at least seen something similar. When the phone goes unused for a minute and the screen times out, I can not get it to come back on as expected. If I press the power button, the lights under the four buttons power on, but the screen stays off, and both the screen and buttons don't respond to being touched (ie no noise, no feedback, nothing). If I hold the power button down, it will not stop or start, and I have to do a battery pull (the phone has not been rooted). If I press the power button to lock the phone manually, it can come back to life, but not after a timeout.
This started happening when I replaced the sd card that was included with a new one. I've had occasional issues where it will decide that I don't have an sd card inserted (also fixed by a few battery pulls), so I figured time to get a new / faster sd card. The new one has worked fine in my PC to store data, but once I put it in the phone, this happens.
If I switch back to the old sd card, the screen problem goes away. I've tried formatting the sd card from the phone (as well as from my pc), and it doesn't help.
Any ideas or input is appreciated.
Thanks,
Brandon
I had a similar unpredictable problem. I'm not sure what the core of the problem is but sometimes I suspected the SD-card as you did.
Sometimes the phone didn't show up the display even after a battery pull out. The thing that always helped in MY case was to pull out the battery for 1 hour and the problem disappeared for 1-2 months...
Hope this will help.
did you in anyway modify your phone? that includes rooting etc
i had this problem before but it stopped after i cleared my davik cache and it re populated the directory after i rebooted it. worse case scenario, you might want to try reflashing it.
I've not modified it at all. No rooting, no flashing, nothing. And I'm not keen to reflash it as it's from Wind in Canada, and there is no Wind rom posted. I know others are compatible, but I suspect it would make it harder to get warranty service if it has a BrightPoint rom on it (though I guess I should check the build number and see if it's the same).
I (occasionally) have the same problem. I, on the other hand, have had this issue since I bought the phone back in August of 2010. My phone is rooted, sometimes overclocked, and running standard android 2.1update1. What happens to my phone is that it is in lock mode and I press the lock button and all that happens is the 4 buttons below the screen illuminate but the screen itself does not. To solve it, I do a battery pull and it is back to normal. I don't know specifically what causes it because apparently this problem is also happening in unrooted XT720's. BTW I have never changed my SD card from the 8GB one that came with the phone.
I hate to hear about this issue but I'm glad I'm not the only one having it. I just got my XT711 a few days ago and the screen has done the same thing a few times to me also. I know 1-2 times I just picked up my phone and it did it, another time was when my camera froze, and once even when I paused Angry Birds game until the screen shut off, that time when I pushed the lock/ power button the 4 bottom lights came on and I could here the sounds from my game but my screen was blank. Hasn't done it in a couple of days, so hopefully it just had the flu! If anyone finds out what it is, let me know also because I've seen people with all models of XT phones having it.
Try another SD Card
Thank you, yes I have a new class 10 sd card ordered, so hopefully that cures the problem