Hi
I've had my orbit 2 for a while now using the o2 software and I thought today I would try and install HTC home to see what all the fuss is about!
I downloaded the cab and installed it but now my orbit 2 crashes on start up!
When I turn it on I get the blue o2 welcome screen, the green windowms mobil 6.1 screen then it loads. The o2 smart bar is still there and the two screen buttons say calander and contacts (as its always been).
Those buttons then change to phone and menu I believe and the phone crashes!
How do do a factory reset the phone without being able to turn it on?
Update: It appears I can access the phone when its plugged into my pc, but as the phone crashes sometimes!
Help!!!!
press the two hardware phone keys together and then, while holding
them pressed, softreset with the pen. A message should appear on
the screen, that you will lose all personal data. Press green button
to confirm and phone will HARDRESET...
Good luck,
Olioaglio
Are you using the right cab file?
Hi,
I have an Orbit 2 and have no problems with my 6 tab HTC home file.
You do need to take care which version you are using though.
The cab file I have and which I know does work is:
HTC.Kaiser.Home.Eng.0409.6Tab.sch
Instead of hard resetting your orbit 2, just remove the cab file you're using and install the cab file I list above and which you should find by doing a search of this site. Then do a soft reset and it should be fine.
Related
Because i am using Direct Push to get my emails on our secure exchange server Windows forces me to enter a password when turning on my Orbit 2. Trouble is the brightness of the backlight is reduced almost immediately i turn my phone on and it makes it very difficult (in fact almost impossible) to see the screen to enter my password especially in daylight. Can anyone help?
Hi Bortis, I'm new to the forum so spent ages trying to find a solution to a similar problem.
I dont set the pasword lock all of the time but had the same problem with the keylock. i.e. when locked the backlight went off.
I needed to use a registry editor (PHM Regedit in my case)
I then edited registry keys as shown on the top of page 2 on
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=384865
I know the usual answer is 'do a search' but having spent ~ 6 hours doing that I HTH.
cheers
tom
I had the same problem with my Orbit II. I followed some simple advice from NoFatePPC and have had no problems since even after doing a reset
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go here in your registry:
\HKCU\ControlPanel\Backlight\LockLevel
you should see a bunch of keys and a folder called "LockLevel" - inside that folder is the LockLevel key with a value of 1 or 0 - you don't need to go inside that folder. just rename it from "LockLevel" to "LockLevelx" (add an x to the end of the folder's name)...
that's it.
Original thread link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=351709
Thanks guys. That works. I'm happy.
Cannot unlock password on Orbit 2
Hello,
I have an HTC Orbit 2 (POLA 200). It's locked in O2, but that not the problem. The problem I'm having is that it suddenly started to show me the password unlock screen. I've tried to hard reset it and access the boot loader, but it is NOT working When I try to hard reset it (camera button + reset button, then release the reset button and keep the camera button pushed) it just restarts normally. It shows that "O2 Welcome" splash screen, then the screen with Windows Mobile 6.1 and then it gives the password screen. On the top, it appears that I have signal through HDSPA and the muted sound icon. Also, it says that I can make only emergency calls. I don't know what to do, because I haven't set any password. I've tried a few standard ones like: 1234, 0000 - but nothing. However, if I put in "999" without the quotes, the screen light gets stronger and it says that I must press DIAL to talk, but that's the emergency thing . I have to let you know that I cannot sync the phone through active sync or anything like that.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Hi,
I'm experiencing a strange problem with my Tornado (i-mate SP5, WM6 Platinum Edition). Today it stopped working suddenly, I had to remove the battery. When rebooting, the i-mate sceen appears, then the HTC logo, then Nitrogenius' splashscreen, then a beep sounds, and afterwards the screen is black and nothing happens, no keys are responding. I can "switch off" the phone by long pressing of the power key. Reset with pressing the 2 soft keys and the starting key does not work, the phone starts until the splashscreen and afterwards the screen goes black. Strangely I can connect the phone with activesync, synchronize contacts and calendar and even explore the device with activesync's filemanager; and the battery is charging, too.
Any suggestions except reflashing?
Regards
The same happen to me,backlight doesn't function. Start -- 9 start again 3 ok... flash light is enable ,now i should change home screen settings and power settings... set backlight to 10 minutes or more...
Then it should function
ma3ks said:
The same happen to me,backlight doesn't function. Start -- 9 start again 3 ok... flash light is enable ,now i should change home screen settings and power settings... set backlight to 10 minutes or more...
Then it should function
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Thanks for the hint, I tried, but unfortunately I seem to miss something. Could you elaborate a bit how you managed to switch on backlight.
Thanks a lot!
EDIT: It worked! You made my day!
After pressing the keys you mentioned (and some others, too) and after rebooting again the backlight is on again. Thanks a lot!
I met the same problem in many cases and I found the culprit, it is tornadolowlight or tornadopowercontrol. while these appli are activating if I soft reset or by force restart (removing battery) then next startup will get a blank screen. But actually in this case the device is on and working only thing is its backlight is off. So, by using a torch light or simply using MyMobiler from a pc you can see the screen, and start that culprit appli then done
OR another thing I have done is I put shortkey for MultiFlashLight and whenever such situation happened I just press the shortkey and activated it and done
Hi all,
I'm in desperate need of help. I put some Htc Home 2.1 software on my o2 Xda orbit 2 by mistake thinking it was some other piece of software.
Now my phone just locks up and hangs at the Windows mobile 6.1 green booting screen.
The htc software was just some theme type software for the home page, and i have not made any firmware changes since upgrading to 6.1 ages ago.
I've tried holding in the power button whilst pressing the soft reset button, but it doesn't seem to help.
Has anyone got any idea's as i'm desperate.
Rich.
if you cant get it to work then you may need to hard reset it...
To do this hold down the ok and windows button and reset the device at the bottom of it. All the time holding down the buttons then it will ask you i think press the power button to hard reset
NOTE: This will delete everything off your device and remove the sd card before just in case.
I downloaded a new iphone clone home screen on my Touch Diamond and after I selected it to be my home screen, nothing will load. I can see the start menu, calendar and contacts soft keys, but I can't press them. My phone just sits on the loading screen (the 4 color dots). Is there anyway around this?
I'm ok with doing a hard reset too, but I can't get that to work either...
What kind of phone do you have? A soft reset should work
I've got a Touch Diamond cdma. A soft reset just brings me back to the problematic home screen
Guys,
I am really in a fix. It seems my HTC Diamond 2 is stuck at the first screen (all black with HTC written in grey). I cant access my phone book and the operations are extremely slow. I have tried doing the soft restart by pressing button next to the stylus. Please help. Also as yo may have guessed I am extremely basic in my knowledge of technical stuff so please try to keep it as basic as possible. Any Kind of Help will be appreciated.
I guess you could start off with taking out your battery... But I guess you already did that?
Same Issue
Hi, I'm having the same problem described above, but worse. I have an HTC Diamond 2. It stays at the logo screen (black screen with HTC letters in white). It doesn't pass anywhere from there. I've tried using the reset button on the back near stylus, tried the hard reset (Vol Up/Down + Power key) but it doesn't respond. There's an option that "works": If I press the 'call' key + power button, it shows an update menu with the following: 1. Update Logo 2. Update OS 3. Update Eboot 4. Format User Space 5. Return; none work except for the format user space option, but it does nothing.
I've tried also from the PC but it doesn't recognize the device via USB. I downloaded Active Sync, and an update wizard from HTC.com but still no success in recognizing the device.
Please help me, I need this phone to keep working, I don't know what triggered the problem..