Phone (G3) crashing and rebooting except on usb - General Questions and Answers

Hi,
so for some time now the phone has been crashing randomly (although mostly when sending/receiving messages, calling, using a browser or listening to music) and then rebooting every few days. After the reboot it was alright for a bit
after a while it crashed multiple times in a few minutes, and then today it just kept crashing and rebooting, going as far as not even making it past the booting screen. just crashed and tried rebooting again.
did a factory reset, don't think it helped, but it seems that as long as it's on the usb cable with the pc it boots just fine, and does not crash.
Any ideas?
Edit: nvm just crashed on cable... but it seems a lot more stable and boots every time at least
also no sd card is installed
Update: crashes pretty much every time I want to install or update an app, and then gets into an infinite boot process of crashing and rebooting
While a usb cable (just in the phone, not connected to anything else) doesn't effect it, a powerbank seems more then enough for it to boot consistently so I think the battery might be giving up.
Thoughts?

For anyone in the same boat as me (and because I don't like stumbling over unfinished threads when looking into a problem myself):
Since I got no response I went ahead and got a new battery for 12€, had that now for a week and tried everything to get the damn thing to crash. It looks like the issue has been resolved as no crashes occured whatsoever, so if anyone of you guys has a crashing problem that seems to get worse over time and better when plugged in, you might have a faulty battery on your hands.
Which incidentally is one of, if not the cheapest problems you can have (as long as you have a phone with a removable battery ofc)
Also, is it possible to mark a thread as resolved?

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Has anyone experienced their TP crashing during normal operation, and found the only way to recover is through a hard reset?
That's what happened to me last night. I'm running a stock HTC ROM that I upgraded when it came out (two weeks ago?) and the device was working without any problems up until then.
Last night though I was using Opera to browse a website and it suddenly became unstable. I closed Opera and found it wouldn't re-start so I performed a soft-reset. From this point on the device wouldn't go past the boot screen (displaying 'HTC Touch Pro' with the red version numbers - not even getting to the animation). I attempted to soft reset a few times (and even removed the battery for a while) but it still would not boot.
So I performed a hard-reset and restored a backup, whereupon it now seems ok again.
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- the device was fully charged (had been on charge via USB all day)
- TF3D not installed - standard WM6.1 with SPB Phone Suite installed
- Browsing over wifi (bluetooth and HSDPA connection were also active)
- Running Opera 15613
- Just before the crash, a bug appeared whereby typing a single character into a website textbox (using the slide-out keyboard) would cause that character to be repeated a large number of times on screen - this has never happened before
I've always run the device with the stock HTC ROM and never had any issues like this.
Anyone had anything similar happen?
Yep, just had to hard reset then restore sprite...I was trying to play a song through tf3d and it froze. Soft reset only lead me up to the first screen that states radio version...yaddah yaddah yaddah...hard reset 'solved it'.
Does your phone got hot?
I had a problem while browsing over wifi. To boost the speed i changed power manegment to best performance in wifi settings and phone got hot in few minutes, opera crashed and soft reset didn't help either. But for me removing betery solved the case and also cooling the device a little.
hope this helps
BHole
BHole said:
Does your phone got hot?
I had a problem while browsing over wifi. To boost the speed i changed power manegment to best performance in wifi settings and phone got hot in few minutes, opera crashed and soft reset didn't help either. But for me removing betery solved the case and also cooling the device a little.
BHole
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It gets warm sometimes, however in this case I'd only been using the device for a few minutes, so I think it was still cold.
I tried removing the battery but that didn't help.
Seems to be behaving itself since then though.
I got the same problem nearly every day. After a few hours (up to 12) it gets frozen. Only hardreset was possible. I got this problem since a view months. I'm trying now to leave one after another program not installed after every necessary hardreset. Currently i'm suspecting either WM6.5 itself, vAlert or some other mortscript apps. For now i don't installed vAlert and there is no crash since over 24 h.
The following programs are innocent:
- tf3d
- pointui
- SmsReportsEraser
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Not related to the topic, but I really like how that new rom functions. I added the telus radio as well and now the battery at least makes it through the work day. Before I had to charge it mid day! Only thing I miss is that stupid business card program from the stock rom. If anyone can point me to a cab I'd really appreciate it. I get so many cards its a pain to enter them all manually.
Thanks,
PhilyT
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i think theres a thread about this somewhere. The cause isnt known but they are trying to pinpoint the problem. Bad rom chip, software problem etc
I've also have been affected by this and its a pain... having to setup the device again.
Mainly this problem has to do with tf3d2 in my case as i try to save a contact each time it will free. So i have to manually enter a phone number and store it.
I guess its better than a hard-reset

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