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Gernal Questions about the XDA*

Hi,
My first post
I am thinking about jumping from a P800 to the XDA2 or the New XDA3. I dont know much about how you memory works in these phones.
If the battery goes flat, what information do you lose? Only the internal memory? I have no idea?
The magic question, should I wait for the XDA3 or just get the XD2? I do want wifi, but I dont want a SD wifi that hangs out at the TOP, is there a SD wifi that fits in nicely. I cant seem to find one.
If I do buy the XDA is there anything I need to knwo first that would drive me away?
Also, si there any difference in buying a MDA2,XDA2,I-mate???
Thanks for you time.

Hi Zakeen,
I owned an XDA, but the principles remains;
If the battery goes flat, what information do you lose? Only the internal memory? I have no idea?
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You loose unsaved data, i.e. elements you were editing at that specific time. Any saved data (contacts, calendar, ...) will remain. I think after loosing 100 % of its data, you may loose saved data and settings. For me that is not too much problems as it is all sync on my PC. When I leave for very long period. A soft reset will restart your XDA nicely. A hard reset will put it back as your ROM was originally when you loaded it.
do want wifi, but I don’t want a SD wifi that hangs out at the TOP, is there a SD wifi that fits in nicely. I can’t seem to find one.
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I do not have any but there have been recently many posting about a Sandisk Wifi and 256 Mb card. Try the search tool of the forum.
Also, si there any difference in buying a MDA2,XDA2,I-mate???
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These are all the same hardware. Only the ROM will change. But as you may load the software in the extended ROM , the differences are meaning less.
Hope that helps.

Thanks for the quick answers. So you save about the battery when it totaly dies you lose your settings?
So you saying its just like a PC, you pull the plug and you lose anything that you are working on, but if you were to save this, then you have no problems, right?
Ive never realy had a PDA.
thanks

Hi
I have just changed from a the loved p800 to the XDA 2 and I have to say there is no major difference at the start but you can do so much more. the battery is not a big problem. you get 72hrs so thats good but you get a backup battery so this will store you settings and work untill it runs out.
over all the XDA 2 is much better I find to the P800 with more functionality.
the 802.11b card has to stick out of the SD slot as currently this is the areal and if it is to be in the phone then it gets low signal.
if you save all your stuff to a SD and make sure you back-up with the pc you will have no problems.

Zaken,
So you save about the battery when it totaly dies you lose your settings?
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Yes, but only the settings you may have entered manually, such as GPRS settings if not provided in the ROM, and generally any modification in the feel and look.
Now, as R1KDE is saying, it'll be 9 months that I have my XDA and it has never happened to me. Should it happen, to would take me about 7-10 minutes to re-enter modified settings (GPRS, owner info, Check POI settings...
If your relatively new to PDA, the key thing to remember is that your PDA will synchronise with you laptop to save a copy your data (not settings) for what ever is most updated such as contacts, telephone number, address, Excel spreadsheet, World documents, calendar, tasks, favourites ,.....
I have never lost a single data with my PDA

zakeen said:
My first post
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Welcome aboard!
If the battery goes flat, what information do you lose? Only the internal memory? I have no idea?
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Actually, tanguy is wrong on this one. All your data and applications are stored in RAM. Now, when the battery level falls below a certain threshold, the OS will disable the Radio (Phone) part and also disallow turning on the PDA. In this state, the remaining battery power will hold data in RAM for another day or so. After that, i.e. when the battery is really empty, you will lose all data and applications - unless you enabled the special "save to Flash memory" feature for contacts, tasks, notes and appointments.
However, the normal way of working is that you synchronize your device with your PC every day (by just putting it into the charger cradle), so most of your data is automatically backed up to your PC. And there is also a backup facility built into ActiveSync (the sync program that comes with the device) that allows you to make complete back-ups, and of course restore these back-ups.
So, I would say your data should be pretty safe.
Oh, and of course there is a small "emergency" capacitor that will hold the RAM data while you change your battery or SIM (to access the SIM, you have to remove the battery), so this is not a problem either.
The magic question, should I wait for the XDA3 or just get the XD2? I do want wifi, but I dont want a SD wifi that hangs out at the TOP, is there a SD wifi that fits in nicely.
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I don't think such a device exists, or can exist - simply because the manufacturer cannot predict how much RF shielding the housing or components around the SD slot will generate; so, if the Wifi SD card fitted "nicely", as you said, it would have to have an internal antenna, and reception would likely be rather poor.
If I do buy the XDA is there anything I need to knwo first that would drive me away?
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Not really, I am quite happy with mine. You should be aware though that it still is a PDA with phone functionality, and not a smartphone. This means that some phone functionality may not be as smooth and seamless as you may be used to from a phone. However, imho, having a phone, camera, MP3 player, navigation system, stopwatch, ebook reader, torch light (well, at least bright enough to find the key hole of your front door ), calculator, alarm, contact manager, calendar always available easily makes up for this.
Also, si there any difference in buying a MDA2,XDA2,I-mate???
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The hardware and operating system is identical. The set of applications vary, but nothing really important. Pick the cheapest one![/quote]
Cheers
Daniel

Hoops !
Actually, tanguy is wrong on this one. All your data and applications are stored in RAM
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Hoops! There is a lack of clarification as I'm right and your right too! :roll:
You will loose all data, applications and application settings loaded in your RAM. For my case I have found all the applications I needed in LumpySpephan kitchen and have them loaded in my XDA ROM (expect for TomTom Navogator as it's too big).
Thanks tadzio for correcting this to avoid confusion and wrong understanding of PDA's

hhmm.. this ROM and RAM thing is confusing me a little, I understand the difference, READ ONLY MEMORY and RANDON ACCESS MEMORY, is that correct.
But I know nothing about writing to the ROMS. Do you need a special device to do this ro can the XDA itself do it!
I think I need to do some reseach
Thanks for you help you guys have been most helpful.

zakeen said:
hhmm.. this ROM and RAM thing is confusing me a little, I understand the difference, READ ONLY MEMORY and RANDON ACCESS MEMORY, is that correct.
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Well, admittedly the naming is confusing. Wherever you see a reference to ROM, mentally replace it with "Flash Memory".
Flash can be written to, but it's much, much slower than RAM, and can only take a limited number of write cycles (not enough to be used as RAM, but far more than enough for holding your data, so don't worry!), so it's not used as main memory, but only to store data that doesn't change too often.
The main difference, from a user's point of view, is that data stored in Flash will survive a totally flat (or removed) battery.
To store contacts, appointments, tasks and connection settings in Flash (so that they survive a flat battery), you don't need any special programs. On your MDA/XDA II, just go to Settings -> System -> Persistent Storage (I hope that's the correct English translation of the German "Dauerhaft speichern"), and check any of the boxes on that screen. Note that this is specific to the Himalaya PDA; others, like iPaqs etc, use different mechanisms.
Cheers
Daniel

On the English ROMs they call it "Permanent Save".

Bricked Cingular 8125, help!!

Hello All,
I have the TNT 1933 image loaded on my Cingular 8125 and have been running it fine for almost a month with little to no issues. The issues I had were minor kinks here and there but did not hinder the phone usage at all and has been working fine till up to this point. I was reading my e-mails via the exchange setup to my company exchange server and then closed out of it via the task manager and decided to soft reset it. I always soft reset during the morning just because I noticed there are memory leaks and soft-resetting normally resets the memory back to normal. After soft-resetting, it would hang at the Windows Mobile 6 Professional boot loader screen and will not continue. I even left it sitting there thinking it would load but I even let it sit while it drained the whole battery. I then plugged it into the charger and proceeded to soft reset it again and still does the same thing. Yes, I originally flashed it to the Tmobile rom before flashing the Tnt1933 image and yes its both unlocked (forgot the terminology). I tried taking the battery out for awhile thinking it would clear the memory or whatever and that didn't do anything. What I can do though is enter it into the bootloader mode with the 3 color screen but I do not want to reflash since I have important files that were not copied to my SD card. If there is a way for my PC to recognize my phone so I can at least copy the files I need, then I can reflash the OS again via the bootloader screen since I can get to that mode at least.
EDIT- Could this have been caused by the battery mem program overclocked at 247Mhz (the recommended for the 8125)? Since I never installed anything else except the main programs that were included in the image of the TNT 1933, the only thing I could think of was the extended overclock and overtime, corrupted the files from overclocking...just my 2 cents

lenell86 said:
Hello All,
I have the TNT 1933 image loaded on my Cingular 8125 and have been running it fine for almost a month with little to no issues. The issues I had were minor kinks here and there but did not hinder the phone usage at all and has been working fine till up to this point. I was reading my e-mails via the exchange setup to my company exchange server and then closed out of it via the task manager and decided to soft reset it. I always soft reset during the morning just because I noticed there are memory leaks and soft-resetting normally resets the memory back to normal. After soft-resetting, it would hang at the Windows Mobile 6 Professional boot loader screen and will not continue. I even left it sitting there thinking it would load but I even let it sit while it drained the whole battery. I then plugged it into the charger and proceeded to soft reset it again and still does the same thing. Yes, I originally flashed it to the Tmobile rom before flashing the Tnt1933 image and yes its both unlocked (forgot the terminology). I tried taking the battery out for awhile thinking it would clear the memory or whatever and that didn't do anything. What I can do though is enter it into the bootloader mode with the 3 color screen but I do not want to reflash since I have important files that were not copied to my SD card. If there is a way for my PC to recognize my phone so I can at least copy the files I need, then I can reflash the OS again via the bootloader screen since I can get to that mode at least.
EDIT- Could this have been caused by the battery mem program overclocked at 247Mhz (the recommended for the 8125)? Since I never installed anything else except the main programs that were included in the image of the TNT 1933, the only thing I could think of was the extended overclock and overtime, corrupted the files from overclocking...just my 2 cents
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I highly doubt that batterystatus was what caused this because I have used batterystatus with every ROM I have ever used and have never had this problem.
As much as I hate to say this... As for your important files, you might as well kiss them goodbye because they're already gone. If your device will do nothing buy enter bootloader then the boot sequence on your phone is corrupt and you have no other choice, if you want your phone to work again, but to flash that T-Mobile ROM(or you can flash the 8125 official ROM found HERE.)
I know this isn't what you wanted to hear but you cannot connect to your device from activesync if you can only reach bootloader and nothing else and if the files are not on your storage card, they're gone.

Well, even if you were running Battery status, did you actually do an overclock or did u just leave it on default settings upon installing? OMG I'm gonna cry Those files are like my life I just want to understand how this happened when I installed nothing at all and it had been working fine for almost 4 weeks with no issues. Just went to hell after soft-resetting.

Virus on Tmobile Wing

Now this really sux.
I browsed to some site using my HTC Wing and less than 24 hours later, I started losing functionality in my phone. It started with the Start menu losing entries, then my bluetooth ceased, following that I lost internet connectivity completely and I even started having issues trying to place my calls. SMS msgs started coming in with different dates/times.
I'm stuck, In need to sync my phone up yet the sync software has no effect on the phone whatsoever.
I read a little about any possible causes and someone suggested to check my sd card. It's working fine and my files are still intact. Taking it out does not change anything on the phone. Soft and hard boots were performed ofcourse.
Anyone's input would be greatly appreciated.

tmobile sux in general. i had the wing for a few weeks and way too many problems.
i switch to cdma less stress on the brain.. better voice quality, etc..
tmobile just has a sloppy network and all my friends seem to have problems with them,. have you considered finding another provider? i don't have a solution for you, only a suggestion. ditch tmobile.

cept cdma is old school technology, gsm is the future now...and yesterday.
GSM. never anything else.

onei0077 said:
cept cdma is old school technology, gsm is the future now...and yesterday.
GSM. never anything else.
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cdma might be older but far from old school. guess thats why i can download at 1.5mbit/s and upload at 400-600kbps.. faster than my home computer.. it's old for sure, yet it's a lot faster than gsm, go figure!
i didn't intend to start a debate. gsm is newer technology but that doesn't mean it's better.. and by no means im saying cdma is better... but look at what cdma does that gsm doesn't, then you decide which is better.

My only two suggestions are: Hard reset, Reflash the ROM.

l3v5y said:
My only two suggestions are: Hard reset, Reflash the ROM.
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and repeat every other day

I love Windows!

No virus on Wing But corrupted directories!!
I still haven't given up. Ran anti virus and anti spyware progs with no luck.
I don't have internet connectivity since I did loose my start menu. I was able to have the wifi working and sent myself an sms text message with an http link so that I could get internet explorer running. I was able to download the progs and check the phone for problems.. None unfortunately.
I did get total commander installed to get a better look at the directory structure and what might be missing. It turns out that the majority of the directories in \\windows\ have their names corrupted (showing boxes or maybe different fonts)..
Activesyn does not work so i can't transfer my files.
Can someone please tell me if there's a way to rename the directories and with what?? the rename command in total commander does not work and when trying to access the directory to see its contents I get "Error 3 changing to dir!"
PLEASE help.. i don't believe in hard resets.. there has to be another way around it.
btw, they directories that are corrupted are located in the main memory, not the SD card.

Could you back up PIM.vol and the other *.vol files in the root of your device, and also backup the "my Documents" folder and then hard reset?
I have had a similar problem with files in my Extended ROM on my prophet, but a hard reset was the only way to fix that.

onei0077 said:
cept cdma is old school technology, gsm is the future now...and yesterday.
GSM. never anything else.
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I agree GSM is awesome. Also to the kat who has the wing. Hard reset your phone throw it in bootloader and flash it to its original rom

WM6 (Boom) on G4 Crashing

Hi All,
I installed WM6 (with Boom logo) sorry was a long time ago, and cant remember the Official ROM title.
Been working great for ages, but over the past few days its been crashing (freezing, followed a few seconds later by screen fading out with various coloured vertical lines) and the only way to reboot is remove battery and start again.
There does not seem to be any pattern to when it crashes - sometimes minutes, but ran all weekend without a hiccup.
I have tried Axios CloseApps 1.40 to get rid of everything running that i dont need and this hasnt helped (crashed immediately the confirm screen came up once). Also run Reg Cleaner to see if that helps, cured a couple of issues but still crashing. Did have overclock at 240, but turned this back to 192 and still falls over.
No new programs installed recently... hadn't been sync'd in 80 days. Tried syncing aswell....nada
Anyone with any ideas??
Many thanks for any pointers
Nod

Just remembered - TNT Rom
Sorry - brain fade tonight!
Nod

Sounds suspiciously like a memory issue. It's possible you've somehow gotten your Extended ROM corrupted, but that's not very likely. The more likely issue is you're simply out of memory from loading too much on your phone, or (and still more likely) you don't clean out your phone periodically as you should.
D/L this and run it on your machine: ClearTemp. This will clear out temporary files, and remove dead links, etc. from your phone that are taking up space and helping nobody.
Hopefully you have DotFred's Task manager. Run it, go to notification manager, and delete all duplicate notifications. (See his feature list for explanation.)
Another suggestion: Use Advanced Configuration Tool to change the default locations of pictures, video, and documents to your SD card. If you're not using an SD card...get one.
If you already do these things, I apologize for preaching to the converted, but these seem like the most likely fixes.
Another slightly more painful solution would be to back up your PIM data and your personal files, and do a Hard Reset. This would strip away all your customizations, and remove all programs you've added, but it would also put your registry back in pristine condition, and scrub your memory of any buggy material.

Hi Myrddin,
Thanks for the advise...
I have used Clear Temp and looked at the TaskMgr, but did not know exactly what I could clear out or not... clearing duplicates and Scripts reduced the notifications down to 83 from 367!
Runs quicker if nothing else
I haven't a great deal of files on it, running a 2GB card which has TomTom on (program runs from card) with Euro and UK maps, and plenty of room for pictures etc which I save on the card anyway. Oxios states that i have 15ish MB free, so didn't think capacity was an issue. Have moved what little I had left over to the card.
Will try a Hard Reset as last resort, but noticed two things today - had a small piece of plastic under the SIM card (which is now removed) - may have been disturbing contacts with SIM.
This got me thinking... it seems more often that not when I put the Wizard into my Car Cradle (handsfree speaker/charger) it crashes. Could this be a battery/power connector issue? (no problems when I connect to PC via USB).
Many thanks
Noddy
PS Dont worry about preaching to the converted - even the converted need help occasionally!!

NoddyF1 said:
... it seems more often that not when I put the Wizard into my Car Cradle (handsfree speaker/charger) it crashes. Could this be a battery/power connector issue? (no problems when I connect to PC via USB).
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That sounds bad. Yes, I think it is possible you have a connector issue. I doubt you have a battery/power issue, otherwise. Do you have problems syncing the phone to a computer? If so, that would be the clincher for a connector problem. Otherwise, it may just be a less than stellar cradle connector.
Your SIM card debris issue doesn't sound related to this, but may have been related to your other problems (though I think this is unlikely).

Think it might be slowly dying :-(
Hi Myrddin
I think I have come to the same conclusion unfortunately.
Performed Hard Reset in the end which I thought may have fixed the problems, as no crashes for a few days, but then it happend again. DOH.
There are no problems when I connect via USB, and the Cradle is an official TomTom version and seems in pretty good shape. My wife's Wizard does not have this problem so I'm assuming it's my Phone and not the cradle unfortunately.
I think I am left with three courses of action
- flash an upgraded OS (6.5) to see if that improves stability (however the TNT build's I understand are pretty rock solid anyway)
- or take it apart and see if "anything wobbles" probably screen connector seems most appropriate as when placing in the car unit the only real way of pushing it in is by the front half of the top otherwise the SD card pops out or I hit the power button (my fingers aren't the smallest!)
- or purchase a new phone (I know I will probably get flamed for this, but the Glofiish X800 looks OK for circa £200)
Ho Hum. Thanks for all your help
Nod.

MighteyMike ROM Lag

Hey guys, I had a TP2 Sprint, now upgraded to MiteyMikes ROM (+WM6.5 I might add) but my fone doesn't mention "loading touch Flo 3D" upon loading up and also there is also Lag in software, turning the screen but a BIG lag when using the windows explorer.
Can anyone explain why that occurs and more importantly how to change prevent it...
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I think it cud be a shortage of memory. i have ordered a 16Gb mem card from china but its taking ages coming. so to test the fone, I have had to load apps on the phone memory.. could that be a/contributing reason to the lag and should i save the apps to memcard memory when i get it. Can I install them on mem card...
thanks for your help.. well in anticipation of it, anyway...
c0nv1ct

I had MightMike's newest build on my phone and it ran just fine. No lag or anything. It is one of the best roms i have used on my tp2. I always install all my apps to the internal memory of the device, unless the software says to install it to an external card. I have a 4Gb micro sd card and have no problems also. I just have all my music on there. I also have all my .cab files incase i need t hard reset.
If i were you i would either hard reset the device and see if that fixes your problem. If it does not fix it, reflash the same rom or a different rom.

Which MightyROM? Is it his 2.1 or 2.5?

Damn, Lag, really..?? I'm runnin his 2.1.10 release of his 2.1 ROM and this thing is blazin fast...! I have an 8gb minisd but I'm runnin just about everything off the phone and even with the apps I have loaded it still is fast as ****...?? Maybe try to reflash and do a hard reset after u flash, than give it a go, hope that works cuz ur missin out if ur laggin...

Easy one.
The below explaination assumes you have already HardSLP'd your TP2 and have some clue as to how to get around the WinMo OS.
Now, l337 code convict, If you don't mind reflashing your phone (again):
For future reference (becuase you'll flash again, I guarantee it): WHEN reflashing any rom you should "Clear Storage" before running the new rom's .exe on your 'puter --> this soft-resets the phone and your info will be gone, so use a program like PPCPimBackup, it's easy, fast, and cuts out the BS of having to use Outlook to sync pim information.
After the initial "Clear Storage" above, the phone will boot back into your rom, wait for everything to load (a good indication that the boot has arrived upon smooth or smoother operating efficiency, wait for the "three white horizontal lines with a down arrow" also known as the task manager to load. *its the thing in the upper top right hand portion of the black bar located at the top of your screen.* (this is imperative in any flash, even the stock rom)
After the boot has stabilized, sync your phone to your 'puter. (Per a previous post, if you're having probs syncing, go into your USB to PC settings and disable the "Enable faster data syncronization" option and say okay.)
Start your MightyMike installation and go thru the steps. Your phone will inevitably reboot. You'll probably have some waiting to do the first time it boots, with yet another restart.
Now, when the system boots your new rom installation, "Clear Storage" yet again (to clean up any installation files)
You'll reboot yet another time.
After this reboot, restore your pim info, load your extras, and for God's sakes, install At0mAng Enhanced D3D Driver. Reboot. Tweak away.
OH, and heed the words of Mr. MightyMike:
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Please remember to provision your phone before configuring it!
Start > System > Carrier Provisioning
Not doing so before setting up your email, personalized settings will result in unforseen problems.
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Lessons to take away from all of this:
Bottom line, wait for your phone to boot. You don't automatically start World of Warcraft and log into your Dalaran logged player while your computer is loading its AV software and startup entries, so give your little 520-some mhz PPC a chance to shine.
And a large HCSD card isn't going to make your PPC any faster. Your phone doesn't cache it like you have the availablity to do in Window$. Just install visual styles and "always running programs" into internal memory and games and other bullsh*t into your SD card.

Also, it's a good idea to do the following.
Reflash your stock ROM, then run a clear storage as indicated above.
Then flash the MightyROM, wait til it's fully loaded and run clear storage again.
After that it should be just fine.