Hello,
I have recently purchased a SPV M5000 in used condition and I was able to update the ROM to WM6 however, the phone aspect of this device seems to be working poorly just like it did with WM5 (I thought the update would fix it). It often disconnects and or does not recognize the SIM card’s presence. Although when it connects it works fine but the connection only last a short while, after which point it disconnects and does not recognize the SIM card or searches for service a long time…
I have read through this forum as much as I could but my lack of knowledge in this area prevents me from making much sense of this. Could you ladies and gentlemen lend me a hand in fixing this issue?
Thank you!
i have a m5000 and have NEVER had any of the above problems
My Radio version is 1.13.00, perhaps updating it to a higher version can solve the problem? Can someone help me in this department? which version would it be best for me to try, where can I get it and how to install it? If anyone has the time to help me and break it down for me I would apreciate it.
Thank you.
nihutams said:
Hello,
I have recently purchased a SPV M5000 in used condition and I was able to update the ROM to WM6 however, the phone aspect of this device seems to be working poorly just like it did with WM5 (I thought the update would fix it). It often disconnects and or does not recognize the SIM card’s presence. Although when it connects it works fine but the connection only last a short while, after which point it disconnects and does not recognize the SIM card or searches for service a long time…
I have read through this forum as much as I could but my lack of knowledge in this area prevents me from making much sense of this. Could you ladies and gentlemen lend me a hand in fixing this issue?
Thank you!
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can i ask u the obvious? have u put the sim in correctly and locked it in? also try locking the battery, sounds like you might have a wonky sim holder?
everything is locked and securely fastened.. I doubt it's the sim card holder.
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Hello Universalowners!
I got a really big Problem. My Universal falled down 4 month ago. Because of that the USB-Connector broke out. Till yesterday that was no problem. My Universal worked pretty good. Under Windows, I was able to connect to my device by Bluetooth.
No here comes my problem.
Yesterday I booted up my device and I dont know why, it came up in bootloader mode.
I tried every key combination, but it does not reboot back to windows. Even Both softkey+reset does not work.
My friend owns an universal too, and we tried to back up his rom to sd card with mtty. The d2s command is locked on his device. There is no chance to backup his rom to sd card.
That would be my only chance to get my universal back to life.
The change of the usb connector would cost me a lot Euros.
I really don´t need the usb connection if I have a running system.
I charge my batteries by an external device and everything else I can do by bluetooth or infrared.
So please tell me, what I can do, to get my problem solved. I heared something about the tool itsutils.exe with rapi enabler on my friends device. But I really do not know, how I have to handle this.
Could someone send me the image, which I can write to sdcard with my laptop?? Please help me. I need my universal like the air to live!
Hope I will get a soon answer from you!! Thank you in advance!!!!!!
Don't o2 Germany do an insurance plan like o2 UK?
If I were you I'd buy the connector for the Euro or so it will cost, and solder it in myself. But of course, if it goes wrong you'll have fried your XDA with no backup. Can't you just call o2, take out insurance, then about a month later, "Lose" it?
Hi all,
this is my first post on this site. I was planning on getting an XDA orbit through o2 this week as an upgrade to my current contract. This would be my first PDA phone and i was looking forward to it and all the possiblities it includes. However after reading the posts on here i'm having second thoughts. This is mainly down to the MicroSD memory corruption issue. First of all is the likely to happen to my orbit if i get one, will there be a fix for it and is it a big enough problem for me not to bother and look at an alternative instead.Also does anybody use there PDA though a mac instead of a PC and does it cause many compatibility issues?
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance
James
JimboXiii said:
However after reading the posts on here i'm having second thoughts. This is mainly down to the MicroSD memory corruption issue. First of all is the likely to happen to my orbit if i get one, will there be a fix for it and is it a big enough problem for me not to bother and look at an alternative instead.
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Much as I admire the technology and form factor of the Orbit, I certainly could not advise you to get one until the MicroSD issue has been resolved.
Can you really afford to have a device which functions as your telephone/calendar/to do list/phone book/navigation device, but which you never know whether it will be OK or corrupted when you need to use it? Read through the (> 46 page long) thread here and take a guess on how likely you are to experience this problem.
HTC were supposed to be developing a fix, but it has been a long time now and nothing has been forthcoming. There has also been speculation that WM6 will be provided free of charge to owners, but this is a HTC decision not an O2 one. If you buy an O2 branded Orbit, you will need to wait until O2 decide whether they will make WM6 available. If they do, it may or may not be a chargeable upgrade, and there will certainly be a further delay while they apply the O2 customisations to the build.
Hi
I have had my Orbit for around 4 months now. I read the tread mentioned above and did worry about card corruption. So far it has only happened to me once (touch wood) but I had synced my whole SD card to my pc, so all i needed to do was reformat it using either my phone or a card reader an copy all the data back again, worked a treat.
have a look for 'Mob Sync' i got a free version from http://www.xda-orbit.com/
Apart from the card issue I have been really happy with mine.
I strongly recommend you to wait with final decision until Windows Mobile 6 for this device. I bought HTC Artemis (unbranded) and I regularly read HTC's answers that they are working on SD card problem issue. If this bug will exist in HTC P3300 with WM6 I will return device. It's not possible to use this as "Personal Digital Assistant" when your data are gone from time to time.
@richiev4
I'm happy with all that great features of Artemis too and I wish you luck with your device, but remember that data corruption problem occurs randomly. My device worked flawlessly 2 weeks, other time 3 hours so you never know.
So stay tuned and save your money if you can...
Cheers
I was in that delimma 2 weeks ago, saw extensive support for P3300 with the HTC itself committing to releasing the WM6 ROM's as well for it, so I ended up getting the P3300
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I was in that delimma 2 weeks ago, saw extensive support for P3300 with the HTC itself committing to releasing the WM6 ROM's as well for it, so I ended up getting the P3300
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Well that's a level of commitment that I certainly haven't seen from HTC! They have known about the Data Card Corruption issue for quite a long time now, and they still haven't actually done anything about it.
Also, the original question was about getting an O2 Orbit, not a HTC P3300. Even if HTC do release a WM6 ROM, there is no guarantee that it will actually fix the data corruption problem or that O2 will decide to release it. And even if O2 do decide to release it, there is no guarantee that it will be free of charge to their customers. Plus there would be (another) delay while they add the O2 customizations.
The lifetime of a Smartphone or PDA is probably below 1 year now. Why spend money on a device that you cannot rely on, in the hope that there might be a fix some time in the future? If I knew then what I know now, I would not have bought my Orbit.
Sadly, in Canada these phones are not available to buy thru a contract, you have to buy them unlocked and at full price.
Hello Friends,
I purchased ASUS P835 in Jan'2010 in India itself. Since then I have been facing many issues and the PDA seems to loose its control once we use 3G SIM card.
It does not hold up the network in good network areas also, and almost all the time, whenever it used to make a data-connection, it got restarted.
Upon complaining, I got the cell-phone replacement.
But with new handset also I face the same issues. Although few problems are not there in the new one, but still the loose network retention and restart on data-connection still prevails.
I understand that this model as a whole is itself faulty.
Can you guys please provide me with some help on this ?
Kindly share, if there is any upgrade or patch available for this.
Also, let me know with your opinions, and recommendations for this cell-phone.
Any help will be much appreciable.
Thanks and regards,
Rohan
NOTE: Mod's please move this thread to the right category, in case I have posted the thread in wrong section.
Hi all, i know this is a well talked about subject as i have done numerous google/ask searches, i find an awful lot but don't really seem to get any answers, over the last week i must have read hundreds of pages so please anyone who is going to tell me to google this problem, please don't as i have until i could scream lol......anyway, this is the problem i am having......
Hubby bought the HTC desire on ORANGE but then decided he wanted an iphone4 so he gave his desire to me, i am a vodafone user, as we have teenage children and the freedom/family packs are such good value, i wanted to stay on vodafone so i got the phone unlocked with an unlock code at my local mobile fone shop...hubby had never used it as a phone, just as a gadget to mess about on so we weren't aware there was any problems.... the problems i am having are these...i can't get the phone to hold a call, if i use wmcda only mode, its slightly better and i can usually get a call out but it will drop out if i stay on the line to long, if i use gsm only then i can't get a call out at all, the phone stays silent for a few seconds and then just drops out......on both settings the signal is fluctuating like mad and often gives me a x where my signal should be, i love the phone as a gadget but at the moment im not getting much luck with it as a phone.....a few things i thought may be to blame are
could it be the way the fone shop unlocked it??
i have used the same sim card (voda) for around 4+ years, could i need a better sim???
could it be because all the settings on the phone belong to orange and arn't set up to use on voda??
i have read on a few sites where people have returned these phones only to be given another one that has the same issues where others have recieved another hand set and the problem is solved but some people say they have no call dropping/signal issues at all and love the phone....im confused, i have been looking around the site and seen peopl are using custom roms and/or debranding the phone, could that help with my issues??
if anyone can help me i would really appreciate it ...
thanks in advance
emma......ps sorry for such a long post
Try with another SIM card. If it works, then your current SIM is broken, if it doesn't work, it's most likely the phone causing problems.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
How did you get the phone unlocked, if it was with code, which is the most common method you shouldn't have any problems?
yes it was with a code, apparantly they get those codes from HTC themselves, i did try an orange sim card in it, it wasn't much better, my sim card can't be broken as i have it in my old iphone 2g, which i have had to go back to at the moment, HTC will get my phone very soon to have a look at as ups have just picked it up, i'll post back when i have my new/repaired device....thanks
Hi Guys,
Just wanted to share a video of my HTC One X with its SIM Card Disconnection fault.
(XDA Won't let me submit a link as I haven't created 8 posts yet...)
www .youtube.com/watch?v=b9iBTRH7UXQ&feature=youtu.be
It looks like a mechanical or contact problem. Have you tried another SIM card? Did you cut it to microSIM yourself?
Yes - I've tried multiple SIM cards and other SIM card holders from my friends One X.
Then I would say it is a mechanical issue with the contacts inside SIM slot. You should try to get it replaced.
Yes that's what I think too.
I'm trying my best. The company I bought it from online were 'unable to replicate the fault' and sent it back..
This is why I created this to prove the fault to them. If they still won't replace I'll contact HTC.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1581349
cookay said:
Hi Guys,
Just wanted to share a video of my HTC One X with its SIM Card Disconnection fault.
(XDA Won't let me submit a link as I haven't created 8 posts yet...)
www .youtube.com/watch?v=b9iBTRH7UXQ&feature=youtu.be
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I have the same problem with a brand new HTC one XL.
The SIM card is not detected by the phone after couple of hours of use and I have to take the SIM out from the phone and plug it back in.
same problem here with cuted SIM card but my brother one x is working fine with cuted sim also.
i have the same problem. time since i bought one x it has lost connection with sim three times. last time it was yesterday morning when i reached my hand to get one x and wanted to see what time it is, i saw "enter pin code".
i havent tried any sim card, cutted or not, since it only supports microsim, and i have only standard size sim cards.
could it be phone fault or perhaps sim fault?
according to baadnwz (from the insertcoin roms) it's a software issue, he made some fixes to the framework and it greatly improves the issue for me but not for 100% .
Had exactly the same problem, sent it back and got a replacement that doesn't have this problem. (before that I tried a lot of things, such as adding some tape to the simcard, but none worked).
BTW, this is not a software issue, it's a hardware glitch that occurs when flexing the phone slightly, like it will do in most pockets.
I had it happen even when it was just lying on a table and baadnwz did fix something, so it must be software....
Wait. So who are the people using carrier-provided microSIMs and who are the ones using cut SIM cards?
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
Hi
godutch said:
I had it happen even when it was just lying on a table and baadnwz did fix something, so it must be software....
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My car didn't start last week as I had a flat battery, my neighbours car didn't start yesterday morning so I told him it's your car battery as I had exactly the same problem. Turns out it wasn't he'd run out of petrol
Point is it is very likely that different faults (software and hardware) are causing similar symptoms.
Regards
Phil
godutch said:
I had it happen even when it was just lying on a table and baadnwz did fix something, so it must be software....
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I have the Intermittent loss of sim that comes back after a few seconds and I'm using a cut sim.
in the thread on tweakers.net (a dutch site) many people are. complaining about this issue whereas on xda it's just a few people. a while ago in holland many HTC phones on the vodaphone network kept rebooting spontaniously, others had their clock run weird if connected to network time and others had no problems whatsoever. anyway it turned out to be a race network/sim/firmware issue, my guess is this issue is something similar.
godutch said:
in the thread on tweakers.net (a dutch site) many people are. complaining about this issue whereas on xda it's just a few people. a while ago in holland many HTC phones on the vodaphone network kept rebooting spontaniously, others had their clock run weird if connected to network time and others had no problems whatsoever. anyway it turned out to be a race network/sim/firmware issue, my guess is this issue is something similar.
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I have purchased a brand new HTC One X online, and is the same issue. It refuses to detect any sim I insert and although wish it was a software issue seems more like a hardware fault.
what were baadnwz tips for fixing this problem? searched the forums and couldn't find a thing.
I had this issue with my sim card seeming to lose contact. I'd randomly see 'no coverage' then it would come back.
I had a look through some of the forums, and tried the sticky tape fix, and that seems to have solved it. Fingers crossed
Mine was a cut SIM, and since the tape is on and making it a bit thicker it's ok
I still get what I see now is the usual problem with mobile data not working sometimes, but the sim contact seems fine
JayWales said:
I had this issue with my sim card seeming to lose contact. I'd randomly see 'no coverage' then it would come back.
I had a look through some of the forums, and tried the sticky tape fix, and that seems to have solved it. Fingers crossed
Mine was a cut SIM, and since the tape is on and making it a bit thicker it's ok
I still get what I see now is the usual problem with mobile data not working sometimes, but the sim contact seems fine
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My sim is also cut. might try tape but i heard it would be difficult to remove the sim in the future.