XDAIIs' madness - MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General

Hi, everyone
I had installed quite a few softwares on the device and after doing a soft-reset it locked up at the O2 XDA screen. Apparently I installed them all over again as I had to do a hard reset and it happened again. I took out the memory card, soft reset but it didn't help either. Does installing too many programs cause the device to freeze or I have the bad unit? Should I return it to 02?
Many thanks.

it might be possible that the apps you've installed are not designed for the wm2003se xda2s. but then again i've installed the rom upgrade on my xda2 and still the favorite apps i had dating back to 2001 worked. of course switching to landsape mode make the display look funky for some apps; but generally it's okay. no hick ups and such. mate of mine had the same issues with his xda2s when he installed some apps; froze up and he had to do a hard reset. in the end he didn't install the apps which caused the freeze ups. too bad since some of those were apps he paid for.

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How many times do you have to soft reset per day in average?

I found myself having to soft reset to get the phone back to working order like 3 or 4 times a day... Does this seem normal to all of you?
I had to soft reset mostly due to insuifficent memories when starting BT, 3rd party keyboard etc. And this is with all apps closed. I guess there must be a easier way to kill all running background apps to release memory instead of soft reset. Anyone know a good program that can do that?
The strange part is I have more than 35mb of program memory most of the time when I get the insufficent memory message...
ROM version: 1.22.00 WWE
Radio version: 1.06.02
Protocol version: 1337.38
ExtROM version: 1.12.925 WWE Cooked
I think my average is 2-3 soft resets a day. Mainly when the system becomes unresponsive and/or BT/WIFI stops working. But I had the same issue with my old HP 5455, too. So I guess it is rather a Microsoft PocketPC OS problem...
I very rarely have to soft reset my device, maybe once or twice a month at most and have never seen the insufficient memory warning despite fairly intensive usage.
I use the Omega One Battery Pack Pro software which includes a clever little tool that allows you to close down programs from the top program bar, or even reconfigure the device so that programs close down completely when you tap the X, thus freeing up the program memory.
About once a week or so, and usually not because of a hang but 'just in case'.
I also use BatteryPack Plus. Very useful, straightforward to use and good looking. Adds functionality that should have been part of the OS in the first place.
mate, i do a soft reset around once every 2 weeks. i read in this forum that doing soft resets is actually good for the unit. clears up memory or sort of cleans up the programs. something like doing a reboot for your laptop...or something like going to the loo after drinking a couple o'pints for terminating running programs; you may want to install third-party apps which allow you to shutdown progs from either the task bar or the today screen. example; i still use systeminfo; it displays my battery (in %), the memory usage and the running apps. the third one allows you to switch progs, shut down an app or shut em all down. others use apps which allow you to shut down progs from the task bar; reminds of the little thunderbolt icon on the task bar....what was that app again...
cheers
Mine gets soft reset every Friday after I backup with sprite. Other than that, only if I install a program or change a setting that says "You must soft reset in order for this change to take effect".
I had to hard-reset a few days after I got it (too much messing around, too little knowledge!) but since then, I can't remember having to reset hard or soft due to an error. And that would be about two months now.
Try looking in this post for an program closing app - http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=16199.
I recommend PocketNav (which I post at the above link). It's small and ever so easy to use!
Hope this helps!
Dom
I do have Battery Pro, but since there're just too much stuffs on my Today's desktop already, I only have the batt info running. My IIs came with a program that let you close down the running apps already and I've been doing that. But still, I'm just wondering how BA is handling memories. Like I said in my original post, I always maintain no less that 35Mb of program and storage memory each, I just don't understand how is it am I running out of memories... Or is it another type of memory that I need to free up??
It might be the Driver memory, have read in some other forums that there's a portion of memory reserved for drivers and that you can get a warning about THAT memory even though there is NO way to monitor it!! Resetting helps in these scenarios so it might be that.
If you're having issues specifically around bluetooth what build of bluetooth are you running? Anything less than build 3500 is reportedly unstable and gives this error a lot, I saw this error several times in the first few days, was resetting every couple of hours, but having applied the build 3500 patch I've HAD to reset twice in 3 weeks... once because the whole thing seemed to lock up, no buttons/screen would work (not even off!) reboot fixed, and once because I was having issues with an SD card, and resetting seemed to make it see it ok.
If you need the BT patch I have a copy, send me a PM
Thanks Sazoo, but I have 3500 already I don't know why, maybe it's because of some of the 3rd party software I've installed is draining memories... I still get the driver memory error a lot even with 3500 stack.
What exactly is driver memory anyway? Any program to free up driver memory?
Bout twice per day as Bluetooth requires this every so often Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Hmm.... My problem seems to be the M$ Voice Commander... As suggested in another forum, I removed it and everything runs twice as fast... But I really missed the voice functions now
Gazza, I know what you mean. If my Bluetooth loses connection, I then have to soft reset the PDA for it to find the connection again. Pain in the bum!
No sound during calls
I have to reset every day. For some strange reason my speaker doesn't work anymore during phonecalls after during some other applications. Until now I can only solve it by a reset.
If anybody has a clue on how to fix this problem in any other way. Please let me know.
Until Friday I had never had to reset it, as far as I can remember. Then I tried a BT car mounted handsfree from MTU. (Before that I had never even turned on BT, I wouldn't use it for anything else than a handsfree after my experience with other PPCs). Since that my microphone has stopped working twice, the unit complains just about avery second time I turn it on that the storage card isn't formatted (which it is), all in all it drives me crazy! I need to do a hard reset tomorrow to clear up all this. Unfortunately I have been sloppy with backups since the last hard reset. That was for the latest firmware upgrade, and I found out that I had to do a new install since a restore reverted the WLAN driver updates (so that was as much of a software update as a firmware update).
I have to soft-reset 2 or 3 times a day.
I don't use Blue-tooth.
T
Once a week max, but used to have that prob wit BT stack being out of mem. fix was to upgrade to new rom from 02 and remove MS Voice Command.
02 ROM:
Rom Version 1.31.00 WWE
ROM date 12/13/04
Radio version 1.06.00
Protocol version 1337.38
ExtROM version 1.31.139 WWE
MS Voice command:
this app eats memory and each component (i.e. voice dail, media play, app launch) takes up more. It's madnes but after looking at process usage it's clear as day.
Depending on how much I use it, but about every 7 minutes of PDA use it freezes, or roughly every 5th app I open will lock up.
If I haven't recieved a phonecall/message for an hour and a half it's usually an indicator that the radio part is not working and requires a soft reset.
Average 6 - 7 times a day as standard. With 'connections' removed from startup perhaps 5 - 6.
I find I'm resetting twice a day on average. Lately it's been because the phone just stops responding or the screen refuses to come out of its sleep after being switched "off" via the button... and then finding out that I missed several phone calls because the phone has been sitting in a crashed state! Very frustrating.
I used to own an iPaq 3630 and NEVER had to reset except when installing software that required a reset... and that was running PPC2000 and 2002.
when i got my BA, i had to soft reset 6 times a day from day 1. i downgraded to the o2 rom before the newest one i had, then i never had to soft reset after that, now i upgraded to imate 1.40rom and i havenmt needed to soft reset sincve then either.

8525 needing a reset after going into standby to wake up again?

Hello,
First and foremost I should note that I tried searching the forums but I was not entirely sure what to search for. I tried a few different queries and they yielded negligible results for my issue. Now, onto my issue:
8525 with wm6 black 3.01
I have my 8525/hermes/tytn/etc/ set to turn the device off after 3 minutes of inactivity in order to preserve battery life. Sometimes, this poses no issues and I can just hit the power button to turn it back on when I need to. Other times however, and perhaps more frequent, I press the power button and nothing happens. Try as I might and regardless of how many times I press the damned button, it will not turn on. I have to use my stylus to do a soft reset in order to have my phone back in operation. Needless to say, this has gotten very annoying. I have since turned that feature off but now my battery drains far too quickly.
Is this a known issue or has anyone experienced similar issues? If so, is there a fix for this? If not, would ATT accept my phone for a warranty exchange with this greymarket software on it? If not, can I just flash it with an official ATT image and then send it in? Thanks.
It's called Sleep of Death... SOD... I had it and I flashed the official AT&T rom and havent had it since.
thanks.. looking into it!
How many apps do you have running. Where are they installed also. I currently run Black Majik, and NEVER have the SoD, or soft reset, so I think it's the stuff you put in your device that may be causing this. Flashing a new ROM wont always solve this, since you and I have the same phone, I think it's what you put in that may cause this.
ronfin44 said:
How many apps do you have running. Where are they installed also. I currently run Black Majik, and NEVER have the SoD, or soft reset, so I think it's the stuff you put in your device that may be causing this. Flashing a new ROM wont always solve this, since you and I have the same phone, I think it's what you put in that may cause this.
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running? usually just whatever program I have opened since I have it set up to completely escape the program when I X out. As far as where things are installed, everything is installed on my device sans iGo.. However, this issue arised prior to iGo being put on my SD card.
Try this. After a hard reset, load one app to your device, let it sit, test it, and then do another. take your time. See if something you load is causing this. I did a HR on mine cause I had tons of crap on there, loaded stuff slowly and noticed the ButtonFlo CAB is what screwed my ROM from working good, so got rid of it. Since then, its awesome.
Leave the Black and go with JJ's Majik. Is the only ROM to date that hasn't SOD'ed me ... and I run the same apps, the same way, on all the ROM's.
http://wmblack.info/
is this so? i'm going to try at&t's wm6 for a bit, see howt aht works..
Don't belive so
I read a lot of threads regarding the problem, i tried AT&T and same problem, others had it with black, now i am having it with latest LVSW, may be a software problem, i had it using SPB WEATHER and SPB TIME, i hard reset install all but them, worked fine for two days, installed TWEAK2K2, problem came back, now trying without TWEAK2K2, but i doubt problem can be solved
My Opinion
been running through threads all over, just found out that there is no solution, because when a program pushes the unit to wake up from standby it freezes, this program can be weather, alarm, mail, active sync, and even a CALL can cause this, so it's a permanent bug in wm6 and PPC :-(

BUG wiith B&B 4.0

im sorry Admins if wasn't supposed to create a new thread for this subject, but its ma first thread.
Everytime you do a soft reset after loading a few applications on, e.g. real player, pim back up, tomtom, tcpmp, etc, the device does not load up. you have to do a hard reset, no mata how long you leave it. This is not just apparent on my device but a couple of others i have tested with. Couple of times when you soft reset, you may get away wid it, but eventually it will crash.
It worked fine when i first installed it and didnt have the need to soft reset it in the first few days, but eventually when i did, thats when i had the trouble. Since then i must have done 10 hard resets, reloaded the ROM on again still the same. like i said not just this device, but a ma brothers and ma frends device.
Ive had to revert back to the o2 ROM, because the last thing i want whilst im out and about, is to have to do a soft reset and it does not load and then have to end up doing hard reset. Not Ideal.
Hope Tom Can fix this issue for the next release.
if anyone else having same issue and has fixed it, let us know.
cheers
I had this problem 3 times, this time i removed everything in traylaunch (and removed the check to enable traylaunch) and it seems to have stopped it - over 9 days since now.
Also, haven't got batterystatus to overclock after reboot, just in case.
i have tried it without tray launch and the problem was still evident.. in anycase, i like the tray launch feature, so it wud be good to keep that there. with the 3 devices i tested it on, it semms to happen after installing a couple of applications. i realy like the features of the ROM, its just a shame it gets stuck after a soft reset.
TOM if ur out there, the n please respond with any advice, or whether ur gna have a fix
after reading feedback from other users, it does seem as the problem is with quite a few ppl, if not everyone. it seems to be the fact that this ROM does not like other applications being installed. without any applications it works fine, but as soon as you install something it goes dead.
i have no reverted back to o2 ROM. which is working great, but is just boring... lol
i must apologise 'Furbious' as you were right. it was tray launcher causing the problem... i have since re-installed b&b 4.0 took tick out of tray launcher and it works a treat...
just waiting for 4.1

Problem with TF3D

Hi all,
First I have to say that I'm over the moon with my new TP2!!
I absolutely love it
Today I started customizing it, and I've got one problem.
No matter what task bar I'm installing, after soft reset TF3D won't start.
It just shows HTC, and nothing happens.
At this moment I have the stock Dutch rom that ships with the TP2.
I installed sdkcerts.
Anyone experiencing the same thing??
H.
sorry wrong thread
TF3D
Hi there,
I've had the same issue with my UK spec, a reboot often cures it but it is a bit lame when the software wont even start up.
So far this has only happened to me about 3 times but I have been playing with it immensly and have rebooted it about 20 times already whilst cocking up some Shat Nav software.
Still loving it in general though ;-)
I'm having the same problem, rebooting doesn't solve anything.
A hard reset does, but than I have to reinstall everyting.
Manually starting manila.exe is an option, unfortunately than the time isn't updated.
Anybody has a sollution for this?
My solution was:
1. Go to: Start > Settings > first tab and click on Today > Go to Items Tab.
2. Uncheck TouchFLO 3d and click OK.
3. Do step 1 and 2 agian but then Check TouchFLO 3D.
4. Soft reset.
Done
tried that but it didn't work for me.
Just removed TomTom 7 & SPB Backup and now it seems to start up fine....
That's a bit of a shame, because TomTom and backup are very helpfull apps...
ive had similar issues but only when trying to customise manila theme. kept saying launching touchflo but nothing happens and then reverts to saying tap here to launch manila. if any of the programs you are adding or any of the customisations you are making involve messing with manila then you will have issues! once hard spl is out then all these things wont be an issue any more.
same problem here, don't try to change startmenu things (standaard startmenu/small startmenu, extra rows etc).
If I enable the extra program tab the buttons won't work most of the time.
The stability of the TP2 is not so good yet, hope that there will be a fix or update for it or a very good custom rom from a good chef.
me 2
I have experienced it twice. I got TF running again by unchecking TF3d in the items screen of the today settings, shutting the TP2 down by pressing the on/of switch some seconds, then restarting ,rechecking TF3D and shutting down once more. This has the same effect as a soft reset, only the system is disconnected longer. So perhaps taking the battery out works as well.
I think this problem is there because TF3D is so much integrated in WM 6.1. So the chance of apps interfering with it is pretty big. I hope with WM 6.5, they remove the big menus's (since they are there already in WM 6.5) and other stuff. Just to get more memmory back, and to make TF3D more compatible with other apps. (still waiting for my TP2)
Error no longer happens
Hi Guys,
I found out that mine was being affected by an old copy of IGO 8 that I was trying to install, since I've upgraded to the new version the TF3D issue has completely vanished.
I noticed that when the TF3D failed it was after a period of low memory or high CPU useage, perhaps using some software that isnt compatible with the TP2 is causing TF3D to screw up.
it's just a theory at the mo... can anyone else share their experiences?
Guys,
this is the third thread about this subject. I have the same problem. HTC is not aware about this problem and encourages those who HAVE these issues to call them. Calling is free...
please do so in order to get rid if this massive bug!
I have been doing some investigation of my own on this one.
I have SPB Backup installed which reboots my phone every night and found that TF3D would not start. Even after a few reboots it would not start. Removed it tried again still an issue.
Hard reset and still was getting some issues.
After alot of rebooting etc I found that if you have a pin enabled on your SIM card TF3D has issues on startup.
No PIN and all is fine.
With that in mind I have just left the phone lock on for now until a fix is found for the bug by HTC
hi, please contact HTC with your findings. if they dont know, they cant fix. calling is free.
thought i disabled my PIN and the problem still persists. although i had a "loading..." once. but it didnt load...
I have contacted HTC about this. I am awaiting a reply from them about the issue.
I had the same problem when installing the .cab to remove the bottom curtain. Soft resets, unchecking and checking TouchFlo3D didn't work. I then reinstalled the .cab and the TouchFlo3D also came back.
Perhaps that will work for you too? Try reinstalling the last program after the problems has occured?
I have the same problem, and i did notice that after uninstalling an application it usually works again. The strange this is that it looks like it is not a specific application that I need to uninstall. It could be a cab for a different clock or tab icons or an g-sensor app, or probably any other app.
Strange .....
Hmz, I soft resetted my TP2 and found out that the TF3D again didn't start. Had to re-install the "Bottom Curtain Remover.cab", soft reset and then it started again.
Looks like ahlung has a point in saying that it doesn't look like it's a specific application that needs to be uninstalled / reinstalled.
It can also be affected by file read errors, including files on the SD Card, if you have corrupt files on the SD Card, this can cause TF to not launch and even lock the device.
Cheers,
Beasty
Same problem here!
I also contacted HTC and told them the issue. They suggested me to do a hard reset! If I couldn't think to do it by myself!

Tmo TP 2 is slowing d..o..w..n...

Over the last week or so my tp2 has been slowing down. Operations that had been snappy when I first bought it are becoming lethargic. I had installed 3 new programs in that time, and have since uninstalled all of them(trying to resolve this). But the problem is still there.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Have you shut it down or done a soft restart in that time?
Hi Yodajm,
Yeah, I have. Several....
Unfortunately I can't offer much more advice on the TP2 since AT&T hasn't got off their butts to release it yet.
Thanks anyway.
How is the weather in LA? Would love to be on the west coast!
Later
Have you cleared the cache and ram in that time?
Way too hot right now haha. Plus smokey cause of the fires.
I hate the summer heat, but otherwise the the weather is great!
Slowing down? My is fast like lightning, maybe cuz im using non stock rom
Even though you uninstalled the programs, whatever changes they made may still be in effect. You might have to consider a hard reset, and then test by adding each program one at a time and checking if you notice any slowdown. If you don't, then you know that program is not the culprit. If you do, then you've found your cause. Good luck!
Hey Yodajm.. yeah those fires sound fierce! Hope you and your family are well clear of them!
Thanks for the replies.
I thought I should reference this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=555504
I then posted this there:
Come to think of it.... I may be having the same problem.
About a week ago I installed 3 new pieces of software. After a few days I noticed that my phone has been feeling laggy. So 1 by1 I unistalled the software... still the problem persists.
Reading your post made me think... hmm about a week ago I also installed a 4 gb memory card! The card works fine, I can access it, and store stuff on it.
Also, come to think of it. I was making panoramic photos last night and my phone kept freezing after the 2nd photos. And would crash- resetting itself. I had the phone set to save images to the card. Setting it to save them to the phone it stopped crashing... maybe my memory card is too slow. Perhaps, there is a setting in the phone which affects the through put from the phone to the card that can be tweaked. I seam to remember see settings for power saving features for the micro sd card.. Could this be the culprit?
So what does everyone think? I am taking out the card and soft resetting the phone to see what happens.
As for changes made to the system, one of the programs was the Advanced Configuration Tool. So yes, some changes were made. But I thought I returned everything to what I had. I only made a couple of tweaks with it...

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