So i have got my HTC Touch Pro for half a year now, as time goes past i find the boot up speed is increasing or sometimes doesn't boot at all stuck at the Windows Mobile 6.1 Boot screen, now it takes about 1 minute to do a boot or sometimes i need to do a few soft resets. Anyone know why this is happening? Thanks in advance.
You may just be due for a hard reset. You could also try a registry optimization. It might just be worth doing a full backup-hard reset-restore cycle.
I'll second the hard-reset. Use some sort of backup utility for contacts, text messages, etc. I personally use Microsoft My Phone.
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Hey everyone,
I seem to be having a weird problem.
My Wizard is freezing on the 3rd splash screen. It's been working fine for the last like....2 months. I didn't install anything yesterday (when it was working fine)
Any Idea's on how I can backup my data? or do I have to do a full reflash =\
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There isn't any way of backing up data if the phone cannot enter the normal mode of operation. If you have programs such as.. hmm.. forgot the names, that allows you to boot into safe mode, you have a slim chance of getting it into normal operation mode. To check if you have such software, just soft reset the phone when you are at the frozen screen AND around which the phone should have been started.
If not, the only way is to hardreset your phone. And overclocking to 260 is no good in a long run.
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There isn't any way of backing up data if the phone cannot enter the normal mode of operation. If you have programs such as.. hmm.. forgot the names, that allows you to boot into safe mode, you have a slim chance of getting it into normal operation mode. To check if you have such software, just soft reset the phone when you are at the frozen screen AND around which the phone should have been started.
If not, the only way is to hardreset your phone. And overclocking to 260 is no good in a long run.
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Exactly where around is when the phone should be started? At the point in time where the phone should be booting back to the today screen?
Yeah, at the 3rd splash screen...it should load the today screen, but it doesn't.
It just kinda sits there, eventually the screen would stop responding.
I read the "SD backup thread" i did it, unknowing I'd lose all my contacts! Lucky I made a PIMbackup about a month ago...
Still, I wish tehre was a way I could still get back my data.
Same thing happened to me, but then I solved it.
The battery & WM6 weren't being cooperative. Somehow, NBD's WM6 didn't get the proper battery status. My 8125 kept freezing up on the third screen or keep re-booting after the third screen started, particularly after trying a wi-fi spot.
I took the battery out, which of course stopped the freeze and/or recycling. Then I reinserted the batt, plugged in the unit & then turned it back on... no prob!
Weird huh?
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...
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.
I've seen a few similar issues on the web with various devices... I believe mine to be a bit different though.
Before today my Blackjack 2 (Windows Mobile 6.1) worked perfectly fine, it fell today and the battery went flying out of the phone. I put it back together and it was working fine. a few hours later i realized the phone shut off on its own. Well, it does that sometimes for me since it is over 2 years old and is quite beat up, so I took it as normal behavior, i started it up, and…. it hangs on the windows mobile green splash screen.
Whenever I shut it down, the loading circle that normally pops up, shows on the screen as its shutting down. I've actually gotten it to show the status bar (signal strength, battery, etcetera, however the rest of the screen remained at the splash screen.
Bootup process: it shows the Samsung splash screen, then the AT&T animation, and then the windows mobile splash screen where it finally hangs. When I plug it into my computer using the data cable, it dings on connection, and my computer starts to connect, but then errors out.
I'd like to try to avoid a hard reset or re installation if possible… just added a bunch of contacts that I haven't backed up, and I don't know their numbers off hand, so I'd have to wait for them to call/text me or until i see them again.
Also, if I have to perform a hard reset, I'm unsure if the phone will actually work after-wards since this did appear to begin after it hit the ground.
Since installing WM 6.1 I have not installed any software/programs/apps on the device, just some new contacts. It's not the sim card, my friend has the same phone so I tried it out on his and it worked fine.
Anyone able to advise on this?
Sorry for the double post, decided to format anyways. I have a trip tomorrow and absolutely needed a functional phone. It is now functioning perfectly fine, boot time is a bit longer than usual but it does boot.
Any idea what could have caused this and how to avoid the issue in the future?
I recently downloaded a few games in cab form to install on my TP2. I was very uncertain about whether or not to trust the downloads (even though WinMo viruses are practically unheard of) so I decided to backup my phone before installing them.
I've used Sprite Backup successfully for a total of 3 times now, so I know what to expect during the process. I started the backup and noticed that it took an unusual amount of time to prepare for the backup (usually it's under 30secs, this took almost 2min >,<) before it finally reset my device. Upon reboot, guess what happend. Nothing. My phone loads, but the home screen and sense ui does not appear and my wallpaper is stuck to my lock screen wallpaper. The bottom touch buttons have been changed and are now buttons for my calandar and contacts, which don't even work. When I try going into the start menu, it comes up, but the only button is the Home button. The only things that seems to work on my phone in it's current state is the taskbar, which doesn't say much, and the task manager (most likely because it's integrated into the taskbar >,<).
Has anyone else had this problem? If so, what was your solution?
I've only had this phone a couple of weeks, so I'm kinda bummed it's already having problems. Your help is GREATLY appreciated.