I've had a LOT of trouble with my XPERIA today. 20 hours worth in fact. Now, at the start of a whole new day it needs formatting because PimBAckup of all things broke Outlook which has in turn broken everything. Anyway there's "no image file". I can put one back, but what may have gone wrong here? I've restored from the image twice today already. Earlier the phone randomly rebooted and formatted itself and now it's lost the image that it used to do it. Something bad going on?
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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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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.
So earlier today I decided I wanted to take my phone off root because it had become really buggy so I followed these instructions from another thread:
"download this http://koushikdutta.blurryfox.com/G1/DREAIMG-RC29.zip unzip it and load it to the root of your sd card and reboot the phone holding down the camera and power key then follow the instructions in screen then reboot and wait for the update. how many more times must i type this? can you people not see the search button."
SOURCE: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=478856&highlight=original+firmware
After doing this, my phone was working fine. Everything worked. For some reason like 2 hours later, my threaded txt messages started showing up in the wrong order. I called T-Mo and they had no solution so they're going to sen me a new one. I wanna make sure there is no evidence on the phone that it was ever rooted. How do I make sure? Thank you so much!
just make sure you updated to original firmware after you changed your fastboot images... that is... if you changed the fastboot images... then you are good to go.
I never messed with fast boot and all that, after I rooted it, I updated JF1.41 with auto rotate and multi touch. thats it. when I went to original firmware, literally I did exatly what he said with the DREAIMG.nbh file, and rebooted. ( Copied the DREAIMG.nbh file to root of SD, restarted with camera+power, ran the update, rebooted) Was there a step I missed?
The problem now is, I dont wanna change much at this point bc if it fixes the threaded txt issue, then theyll prob charge me for the new phone if the txt problem is fixed.
find the SPL thread(sticky) and make sure that your bootloader screen looks like the stock one and you should be fine as well, RC29 already wipes everything else
my threaded txt messages were going in a crazy order last night. but i assumed it was cuz of daylight savings time lol. my g1 to g1 messages would show up in correct order. but everyone else' messages were in screwy order.
yeah its because of DST. T-mobile changed the clocks to early lol. Either that or the g1 screwed something up.
we will see what happens
I posted this in another thread so ill be brief ...
due to a hardware error I returned a white g1 which I had rooted and tricked out with JF's RC33 a theme and the dev BL... I was feeling lazy so I just wiped it and made sure it was back to the stock theme and sent it off with a flat battery, I dont think they will scrutinize them much, we will see, most of the time you play stoopid say you took it to a store and they did some stuff, whatever, PROVE IT, pry my replacement from my cold dead hand.
ill post if I get some response to my tricked out g1 returned due to a bad bt radio
bhang
The other day my TP hung after I ignored a call while using it tethered. I soft reset it, but now it only boots to the TouchPro screen with red lettering on the bottom. Even though I have Sprite, it has been awhile since I ran a backup, however most of my important data is on a SD card. I was able to get into the firmware update screen and there use TeraTerm to run info commands. However I was very disappointed to find out that all of the MFG commands, such as 'd2s', 's2d', 'r2sd' have been removed. Obviously using Sprite ever day would help (I still use Archie for SMS messages), however it seems odd to me that no one has a ROM reader for this phone. When it is flashed does it not do a read back verify? I figured a post here wouldn't hurt, as I have looked extensively everywhere else. Has anyone put the boot loader back to .25 which had the ROM to SD command? I understand HTC reasoning behind removing these commands, still it would be nice if there was a way of pulling an image that way. Maybe Sprite could add it in to their backup software? My next step will be to re-flash and in doing so wipeout any chance of recovering more of my data. With a Windows based OS, there really needs to be more recovery options than what we currently have.
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Greetings people!
Yesterday I got this message while booting up my TP (latest official ROM):
"The device is unable to boot because either you have turned off the device incorrectly or tried to install an application from untrusted source. Press END 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"
However apart from that message, phone works flawlessly without any noticable change in speed or stability! The only apparent problem is that it takes a while longer (about 10 seconds) to boot up because of that message. I tried a couple of backups, problem was solved at first, but returned later...
I do take daily backups, but since I hardly monitor my phone when I reset it, this problem could have been caused by an app or reg entry a while ago... and searching for the appropriate backup will be a pain in the ass.
Since there's no change in speed or stability, do you think it would be wise to keep using the phone as is, or is it possible this would cause further problems down the road?
Any other way to troubleshoot it (at least to find the program that's causing this) other than a hard reset?
Edit: couldn't wait so I reverted to a week-old backup, installed back most of my applications, and it seems to be fixed (for now)
Update! I just tried a new SD to try XDAndroid, and guess what, the error disappeared!
So there must be a program I had installed in the storage card, possibly trying to start a service or something on every reset... and failing.
Is there a way to troubleshoot this? Maybe through SKTools or anything similar? I have a ton of apps installed into storage card and it will be a pain in the back cover to try by trial-and-error.
Thank you in advance
edit: inserted my old storage card again, error did not appear, problem solved! At least for now
Still if anyone knows how to troubleshoot this, please let me know
Update: Seems this error occurs every time I use SPB backup.
Yesterday, after a scheduled backup, the error came back. To troubleshoot this, I removed the SD card, did a soft reset, the error was gone! I took another manual backup, and again, the error came back.
So there must be something happening with SPB Backup and my SD card. Probably messing with files on the SD, or the driver or whatever (no idea there, I'm a total noob when it comes to software).
Moved the issue to the SPB forum
I have this message to, but I have never used SPB Backup
Well, in my case, it was obviously something tampering with the SD card (even if not SPB backup, something else)
Have you tried rebooting your phone with the SD card taken off? I just wait till it boots normally, and then insert it back. Works for me every time.
If that still happens, that probably means whatever is causing the problem is in your main memory.
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Well, in my case, it was obviously something tampering with the SD card (even if not SPB backup, something else)
Have you tried rebooting your phone with the SD card taken off? I just wait till it boots normally, and then insert it back. Works for me every time.
If that still happens, that probably means whatever is causing the problem is in your main memory.
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Well I tried that just to see what would happen and I did not get the error message. So it is something on the SD card, but booting without it is not an option for me as I have several boot-start apps that are housed on it.
Perhaps one of those apps is broken?
As far as my case goes, I kept on using it for three months after the error appeared, without noticing any lag or issues at all. The only downside was that it took me three minutes to boot up, something I got used to.
If that's no big deal for you, I'd suggest you just leave it as it is for now, and check for lagging or specific applications failing (maybe one of them will be the app that's causing the problem?). If nothing happens down the road I think it could be safe to leave it as it is.
Now, if you can't stand this, I guess the only practical solution would be a hard reset. You can always play around with removing/reinstalling those apps you mention (or even better, installing them in the phone's memory) to check if and which one is broken, but I can understand that this not only will be a huge burden, but you may come to the conclusion that no specific app is causing this and something went south in the OS.
Personally the only apps which include a boot-up service I have installed into my SD are Football Monitor and PocketWeather. I tried removing both of them them back when I first had that issue, it didn't work...
Sorry I couldn't help more :/
Gang, the subject line pretty much says it all.
I restored a backed-up image from CWM several weeks ago and it had been working fine, but last night I started getting all these pop-ups like "Logging service has crashed," "Facebook has crashed," etc. Didn't matter how many times I tapped "cancel," it just kept coming back - essentially rendering the phone useless.
This morning I went back into CWM, fixed permissions, cleared all the caches, etc. Same problem.
So I restored the same backup from a few weeks ago, but now the phone sits at the initial Samsung screen and never gets past that.
I'm travelling for work right now and mainly use wifi calling and the alarm clock... my internet access is pretty slow and I don't have HOC one my laptop - unsure as to whether I could successfully DL anything bigger than about 2MB. lol
Any suggestions?
Okay, I appreciate that 65 people have read this and that it's also possibly a challenging one.
Related: where does CWM store its backups? On the SD card, or somewhere else? Can I wipe /system or will I lose the backup I'm trying to restore? Or is that in /data or somewhere else?
Thanks again!
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Gang, the subject line pretty much says it all.
I restored a backed-up image from CWM several weeks ago and it had been working fine, but last night I started getting all these pop-ups like "Logging service has crashed," "Facebook has crashed," etc. Didn't matter how many times I tapped "cancel," it just kept coming back - essentially rendering the phone useless.
This morning I went back into CWM, fixed permissions, cleared all the caches, etc. Same problem.
So I restored the same backup from a few weeks ago, but now the phone sits at the initial Samsung screen and never gets past that.
I'm travelling for work right now and mainly use wifi calling and the alarm clock... my internet access is pretty slow and I don't have HOC one my laptop - unsure as to whether I could successfully DL anything bigger than about 2MB. lol
Any suggestions?
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Hm. Might be soft-bricked because I can't even get into recovery.
Now to test the internets here and see if I can DL HOC... fingers crossed would be an understatement.
Hm. Can't even get into recovery. Now to test these internets and see if I can DL HOC!
I think heimdall is your only way out of this one. Good luck man