My Touch Pro of 12 months has decided that to continuously run the vibrator. I have tried a soft reset without success.
Can anyone advise me how I might stop this without a hard reset.
Sorry - but unless you have a reason why its constantly vibrating (ie you messed about with some settings, or it started after you installed / uninstalled something) then you dont have many options:
1) Do something to make the phone vibrate, then stop it and see what happens (although i guess you have already done this).
2) Remove the vibrate motor (a little extreme!)
3) Do a hard reset - obvisously you will have backed up all your data, so whilst a hard reset will be an annoyance, it wont be the end of the world.
Finally - and this might be bad news!
When you soft boot the phone it (should) vibrate then stop.
What does yours do? Does it vibrate as soon as the phone is powered / restarted? or does it wait until its booted into windows before it goes crazy? (1st sounds like hardware / water damage, 2nd more likely software - hard reset should fix).
If you can still run it ok other than the vibrating, try installing SPB Backup (not free, but the trial should work for this). Run the full backup, saving on your computer, and do a hard reset, then reinstall spb and restore from the backup. If it continues to vibrate, it is probably a setting, somewhere, that is bugged/messed up. You can also check the various notifications to see what all has vibrate set, it is possible that something as simple as continuously detecting wifi and being set to vibrate to tell you that. Of course, check that before doing the backup/hard reset/restore, if you haven't checked it already that is...
I know a girl who'd prolly buy it...haha
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When I turn on my device (TP) it ALWAYS asks me to align the screen and to config the calender and time, and also it asks me if I want to put a lock on it. (However the startup video does NOT show)
This is really annoying! Because I hade soft resetting or turning of the device, because I know I need to do that align and configs again!
I've hard reseted my device once, and before I hard resetted my phone, it wasn't like this! Is there a way to turn this of?
Just out of intrest, do you loose any data when you startup. Examples are other Windows settings, contacts, messages, history etc?
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Just to be clear, are you properly aligning the screen? I had to talk a geeky mate of mine through the process. He was briefly tapping the screen and the cursor wasn't moving around the screen as it should. I had to explain that you have to keep the stylus pressed gently on the screen over the little cross until it moves to the next position. Repeat at each position.
Sorry if I'm teaching you to suck eggs.
Uhmm, No I don't loose any data (settings or anything)
Also, yes I align the screen correctly I guess. I do it just as you tell me
But it's like, when you first got the phone, You first installed the WM (I don't) Then you align the screen (This I have to do) Then it asks you to tell it what time it is (This I also got to do every time i turn off and on my device) Then it asks if you want to have a code lock, you can skip or press next to make a lock (This I also have to do, And YES, I have tried to make a password and then just delete it afterwards) Then it tells you to type in PIN code (I also got to do this, but this is nothing I want removed hehe) Then lastly it auto configurated what network you use (For you guys ATT and sprint maybe, I got NetCom - Also this I do NOT have to do)
Please help me! hehe
Really annoying that I need to config this setting each time I restart my Cellphone
Has i always been this way? Have you not had the phone long?
It sounds like you didn't hard reset your phone after you either turned it on for the first time, or flashed a custom ROM.
I bet a hard reset will work, if not then it sounds like a hardware problem. Like back in the old days before WM5 if your battery died, thats it it would wipe. This is because the memory in the phone is volitile. Your phone might not be keeping the settings or supplying enough power.
Try a hard reset first, this usually solves most problems like this
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Has i always been this way? Have you not had the phone long?
It sounds like you didn't hard reset your phone after you either turned it on for the first time, or flashed a custom ROM.
I bet a hard reset will work, if not then it sounds like a hardware problem. Like back in the old days before WM5 if your battery died, thats it it would wipe. This is because the memory in the phone is volitile. Your phone might not be keeping the settings or supplying enough power.
Try a hard reset first, this usually solves most problems like this
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As said, I got this phone for christmas, I turned it on, and had to set it up, I did, and when I restarted the phone I did NOT have to set it ut again!
After 1 month I hard reseted it (Because of a bad program which ruined my dailpad) and now I have to set up the phone EACH TIME I turn it on!! (I do not have to install WM or config the Network)
OK, so I've Hard Reset my device again, works perfectly now!
I'm not sure how many people, if any, have experience with this phone, but I'm taking a shot in the dark because I am completely out of options here. The phone is similar to the Cect M88, and the other Cect iPhone-clones available, although I'm not sure how similar the button layout is.
I installed PCM Keyboard last night, and all was working fine until this afternoon, when all of a sudden, my phone wouldn't wake up. I ended up having to pull the battery in order to get it to restart, but then it wouldn't boot past the Windows Mobile screen (the first one - didn't even make it to the second screen).
After several attempts to hard reset (top volume button + camera button + power button), I was able to get it reset, but even though active sync was running, folders weren't showing up properly on the phone itself. I did a soft reset, and folders then showed up, but this time active sync wouldn't load on the phone. Several more soft resets did nothing, but I kept trying, and finally... the phone froze up again to the point where it hung on the Windows Mobile screen again. Now, despite all attempts, I can't even get it to hard reset. When I push all buttons from an off state, the screen will turn blue (which seems to indicate some kind of resetting is going on since it normally goes straight to the WM screen) and then a few seconds later, the Windows Mobile screen will come up and hang. I've tried every combination of buttons possible, and I've tried hard resetting probably a good 20-30 times since this happened. I've removed the SIM card, removed the SD card... I've basically tried hard resetting seemingly every way possible, and yet it still will not reset and load up WM 6.0 pro like it should.
Any ideas on how I can get this thing to at least move past the WM screen? If I'm totally unable to hard reset, what would be the next best course of action? Since this is an off-brand phone with no support or any kind of warranty, are there repair places out there that can restore the OS? Is that something I can do myself? (Phone didn't come with any software or anything.) I'm at a loss here... I really don't want to end up with a $200 blue flashlight/paperweight. I know I took my chances when I bought it, but well... this stinks.
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hey man i know its old and hopefully you still have your phone.. ok what you need to do is let the phone die completely so you may have to keep the blue screen on and keep turning it on till your phone does this like you i have hard reseted serveral time to no avail but when the phone died i took out the battery plugged it in to the wall charger placed the battery in the phone let the red led light by the camera light up then i turned it on and before the screen could show the splash i did the hard reset phone is aye ok !! hope this helps man.. your post helped me..
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Hello Guys,
I started to have problems with my wing and end up in three-color bootloader screen. I can tell you that I am not playing around with my phone. I do not even install any software not to risk its basic phone functionality since I am using this phone as a business phone. So, no crazy rom flash or etc has been done prior to this problem.
My phone started to have problems with answering calls last week. When it was ringing, it was keep ringing and I was not able to take the call even though I was pressing every possible buttons on the phone. It was locking.
I noticed that phone was locking the buttons too. So, I selected "do not lock buttons when the device is off". But, this does not have any effect. Phone was keep locking my buttons.
Last night, I noticed that my phone was unresponsive once again as usual, I soft reset the device, and it booted to the three color screen (I think you guys call this bootloader screen?) where it says "IPL 4.26.0002" and "SPL 4.26.0000". Tried to soft reset probably another 10 more times. same thing...
I took out the battery, went to sleep. Put back the battery in the morning, it booted to the OS and phone is running. But none of the hard buttons were working. It also hangs up the incoming call after first ring. I soft reset the device once again and it went back to the three-color screen.
I went to the Tmobile website, and found that there is an upgrade ROM. I downloaded and ran that program. It said that it installed it to the device successfully, and then the device rebooted itself. Guess what, back to the three-color screen.
I have been reading your forum since morning, and read a lot about brick phones etc. I tried couple of the techniques for recovering brick phones, but nothing helped. Hopefully, someone here can tell me what is going on, even though if the answer is to throw the device to the trash.
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I have other observations.
- When "do not lock buttons" is checked, phone starts acting even more weirder. it generates keystrokes by itself. Camera starts taking photos.
- If the battery of the phone is out at least an hour (I don't know why), phones boots fine. If you soft reset at the moment, it will always goes back to the three color bootloader.
Can this be a virus?
I have a sprint touch pro, running mighty rom 4 i think. It's been working great but as of today I can't turn the device off or sleep it. i press the button on the top and the back lights for the hard buttons on the bottom turn off but the display doesnt turn off. When I hold the button to try to turn it off the prompt asking me if i want to turn it off pops up i hit yes and it doesnt do anything it just goes back to the home screen. I leave the touch pro waiting for it to auto sleep and that doesnt happen either. i have reset it many times and it doesnt resolve the issue. On maybe a similar note I've been getting messages certain programs cant be launched because there is not enough memory even though nothing is running. Also when i try to turn off the wifi it just freezes. Some one help I dont want to reflash the rom to get it to work but will if its neccesary.
Have you tried a hard reset? If it doesn't work, re-flashing might be your best option.
Well it got fixed yesterday but it still wouldnt sync up. Then tonight it stopped working tonight, on boot up it says as_starter couldnt start something about certificates. I really dont want to hard reset because i want to try to sync it up before because i have a lot of calender events and new contacts i have to transfer over.
If that's your biggest concern, use some sort of back-up program to keep all the info you need. There are a lot of good ones out here. Then, if you do re-flash, you can restore all your contacts and calender events.
Hi All,
Can anyone please advice what is the difference between (preferably technical diff from device's perspective), the Soft Reset and Reboot of your device.
- By Soft Reset, I mean the one which we ideally do by removing the backcover of Jade and putting the stylus in Reset Button/Hole.
- By Reboot, I mean Power OFF your device with the Power button on the top of the device and then Restart/Reboot (Power ON) your device all over again.
I'm wondering are both of them same and does the same functionality at the background OR they are some way different from each other technically?
It might be a dump Q for many experts, but I'm just too curious.
Gurus, please throw some light on their difference.
Thanks in advance!!
Soft Reset app!
soft reset and reboot is the same.
resetting using the stylus is different, it is abrupt... some settings are not restored or saved and it might damage or corrupt your files.
I would tend to disagree. Soft-reset and/or reboot do not imply whether the stylus method is used or not. Furthermore, most apps that do a soft-reset programmatically (aside from the OEM apps) do not actually secure data etc but perform the same function as a stylus-reset would. The terms can and (more importantly) are used interchangably.
Both soft-reset and reboot only imply that you need to start your device (again), IMHO it does not imply that the actual shutdown is performed in one way or the other.
As for the difference between a "shutdown/start"-cycle ("delayed") vs a stylus or software reset ("immediate"), aside from the fact that during a shutdown normally the device makes sure everything is saved, is also different from an electrical perspective.
With a shutdown procedure where all power is cut, and then turned on again, more hardware is re-inited again, which may beat it into submission. If you have had a lot of computers and tinkered a lot with them, you might have noticed hardware issues that show (or clear up) up every time you actually turn your pc off and on, but do not when you just reset. Same difference.
So, that means I can use them (Soft reset and Reboot) interchangeably.....
- Like after installing any third party application when it says to reset, I can just Power OFF and Power ON (reboot) the device rather then doing a soft reset. And the application will be installed perfectly as it suppose to be...
- Like I need to do a soft reset using my stylus (after removing the back cover), ONLY if my device hangs or freeze for some reason. Till then I can happily manage any reset requirement by just Power OFF/ON (reboot) my device.....
Are these inferences correct?
Please share your thoughts......
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So, that means I can use them (Soft reset and Reboot) interchangeably.....
- Like after installing any third party application when it says to reset, I can just Power OFF and Power ON (reboot) the device rather then doing a soft reset. And the application will be installed perfectly as it suppose to be...
- Like I need to do a soft reset using my stylus (after removing the back cover), ONLY if my device hangs or freeze for some reason. Till then I can happily manage any reset requirement by just Power OFF/ON (reboot) my device.....
Are these inferences correct?
Please share your thoughts......
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Pretty much. For the least chance of anything going wrong, use the power off/on cycle when you can. While chances are small that if you closed alll your apps and press the reset button anything damaging will occur, if you want to always be on the safe side use the power off/on cycle.
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Pretty much. For the least chance of anything going wrong, use the power off/on cycle when you can. While chances are small that if you closed alll your apps and press the reset button anything damaging will occur, if you want to always be on the safe side use the power off/on cycle.
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Oh Cool!!
Thanks for the detailed explaination, its really helpful.
Otherwise you can also apply an application to the power button and choose whether you want to shutdown or reset etc.
if I'm not mistaken: if your reset application calls ExitWindowsEx then you won't loose any settings, while you probably will when using applications that call the (undocumented) KernelIOControl / IOCTL_HAL_REBOOT.
if I'm not mistaken again then this IOCTL_HAL_REBOOT is a relict from PPC 2002 days when ExitWindowsEx function didn't exist.