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So, it seems to be a good rom
But I get constant hangups...my device freezes (today apps running are spb pocketplus and weather, windows live search and handyswitcher)
Any known problems?
My memory card keeps dissappearing also, I know that has been a reoccurant hermes problem but the xda fix did not help.
ALSO...
IS THERE ANY WAY TO REMAP THE Messages softkey buttons?
The WM5 had "new" on the left rather than delete....I want the "new" to be mapped there...
any way to do that? THANKS!
SPB PocketPlus and/or Weather would be my guess... most likely Plus and Diary if you are using that one. As much as I love my SPB PocketPlus and Diary, they have caused every single ROM to date to freeze at one point or another. They cause the device to slow down noticeably too. But I can't live without either of them now, so I deal.
Since PocketPlus has quite a few hooks into the OS, I would guess that it doesn't play too nicely with WM6 yet.
a few problems
With my 8525 I'm having a problem with the amber notification light not blinking when you have a missed call or new voice/text message. For some reason I can’t get it to turn on.
Also don't know how to activate system sounds in this rom besides just screen taps. i.e. the sound the phone makes when you press the start button or when selecting a program. I see the sound files in the windows directory but they are never played.
Lastly I'm having issues with mms, my cingular 8525 wont let me configure my mms server settings for cingular. It lets me type in the info but it doesn't do anything when I press ok.
If anyone has any fixes for these problems, I would be most greatfull.
NEW ROM with some bug fix http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1165180&postcount=2
Fix for sounds in WM6
Just use this cab
phathead785 said:
But I get constant hangups...my device freezes (today apps running are spb pocketplus and weather, windows live search and handyswitcher)
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My phone also keeps freezing, its only ever done it while in standby not while i'm actually using it. I go to turn the screen on and it just wont turn on and i have to softreset, if i phone the phone it just rings out (down the phone) but the device doesnt turn on or ring or anything.
The only today plugin i have is pocketbreeze, i've installed a couple of apps but sometimes it'll freeze without me opening any of them so i doubt one of those. I also get my mail via directpush.
sickchilly said:
SPB PocketPlus and/or Weather would be my guess... most likely Plus and Diary if you are using that one. As much as I love my SPB PocketPlus and Diary, they have caused every single ROM to date to freeze at one point or another. They cause the device to slow down noticeably too. But I can't live without either of them now, so I deal.
Since PocketPlus has quite a few hooks into the OS, I would guess that it doesn't play too nicely with WM6 yet.
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Me too having the same freezing problem, where the screen is off and never on again, no matter what button I push (except for the 1 mighty reset).
And I am having spb diary running all the time, too useful.
Funny thing is, I never try uninstall the thing to see if it mades the phone more stable. Will try sometime when the next freeze comes.
Freezes and not waking up ...
... several times per day. It looks of this only happens when the phone is on, not when the phone is in flight mode. I installed several programs, but already uninstalled SPB Pocket Plus and SPB Time (but still have SPB Diary, SPB Imageer and SPB Weather installed with their services in the start-up after every reset). I need to soft reset to wake up the phone again
Who is facing the same issues and are there any solutions? Thanx in advance
Maybe a next update will fix the freesing/wake up problems.
For the rest i must say that wm6 is absolutely signifcant faster than the old i-Mate wm5 rom.
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No Freezes or instability with Radio 1.34.00.10
Only 2 Freezes directly after ROM-Upgrade, but since then never again, and my device is running 24/7
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No Freezes or instability with Radio 1.34.00.10
Only 2 Freezes directly after ROM-Upgrade, but since then never again, and my device is running 24/7
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Is it possible to only upgrade my radio and if yes how???
yes it is possible and very simple...Download the file, connect your hermes via activesync and run the file !
ftp://xda:[email protected]/Hermes/Cooked_ROMs/HERM_RADIO_1.38.00.11_Only_SSPL.rar
When ever the phone is in standby for a few minutes or so, it refuses to power back on when I press the power button. The only way to bring the phone back is a soft reset. While it is frozen in standby mode it does not receive phones calls, emails or texts. Im running lvsw 03-26. I noticed it didn’t happen with lvsw 3-20…but it was happening with both versions of xda live. I did a few hard resets to see if that will get rid of it…but nothing. I tried searching high and low on the site and even read wiki for answers but no one seems to know what is going on. I saw a few people post up the same issue but still no help….so I decided to open a new thread. Can anyone help?
It happens. Do you have a Storage Card in? If so, take it out for a while and see what happens. What 3rd party apps are you using too. I know Wisbar Advance causes this issue. Can you list what you're running and maybe I can see if you're having the same problem I was.
I've had the same problem with most WM6 roms. Having upgraded to BlackEd2.0 the problem seems to have gone though...
are you running a today plugin off storage card perhaps?
none of the roms i've tried had power on problems
Sometimes you can have that problem with having a cluttered SD Card or having a program that is accessing online in the background.
I have a 512 storage card. I’m not running much 3rd party apps…I have Mundu IM, Microsoft live search, Google maps, WM black commander, macromedia flash player active x…and that’s it. I Had mundu, live search and Google maps installed to my storage card. After reading rabanJR’s post, I uninstalled them from the card and installed them to the phone. I then went back to the card and deleted all program folders and files….I also did a general clean up of the card. Lets see what happens now.
Also to swampy…im not running much of anything on my today screen….just the messages, calendar and the com manager plug in that came with the rom. That’s all. Lets hope for the best.
Bad news, it froze up twice again today. I’m all out of ideas….any more suggestions?
funny thing, that just happened to me today. greed led was flashing, but i couldn't get out of standby mode without soft resetting. maybe some kinda software issue? Its the first time it's happened to me since going to wm6. i did notice it before however.
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Bad news, it froze up twice again today. I’m all out of ideas….any more suggestions?
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maybe try a hard reset?
What Radio Rom?
Have you flashed a new radio lately? If not, what radio ROM version do you have? I had an issue with my TyTN that was definitely a radio issue. Flashed to 1.38.0.11 and haven't had a single issue with freezing since.
Just an idea, of course.
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Bad news, it froze up twice again today. I’m all out of ideas….any more suggestions?
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yes sir...i tried many hard resets. A radio upgrade is one of the things i tried...i saw a few people trying it. i went to 1.34 though. im going to flash to 1.38 riiight now! im desperate right now. i'll let you know how it goes.
I had the same problem until I upgraded to black 2.0. I had the radio 1.38.0.11 from the time I upgraded to wm6 and my 8525 was freezing until upgrading to black 2.0 solved my problem.
well i have good news. i upgraded to LVSW(2007/04/08) last night...and so far so good. didnt freeze once today. hope the issue is gone for good. thanks all for the help.
same exact issue here running LVSW 03-26 (goes unresponsive while in standby, green blinking LED, soft reset to recover). 2gb card installed...i'll try removing it to see if freezes go away.
rzanology: if LVSW 04/08 fixes the issue, please post back and let us know!
installed (all to device, not card)
salling clicker
resco explorer/registry/ftp/today
kyphur hold comm button toggle
wmxl apps 8525 keyboard fix
shogun cing
will do...one more note...i updated to 1.38.11 i think it was. what funny is right after i updated the radio the phone froze on the first standby. while i was coming back to post i saw the new rom update for lvsw.
This has a been a long reported problem on WM6 ROMs. 'wont wake from sleep' is the common phrase. Radio and bacground app using net I think was the problem, but no real solution if I remember correctly. On LVSW 3 26 I have gone weeks without this though. In the beginning LVSW 3 26 still did the freeze but after a week it stopped and works pretty good now. Sounds like MS is behind it since it makes no sense at all. LOL.
rzanology said:
When ever the phone is in standby for a few minutes or so, it refuses to power back on when I press the power button. The only way to bring the phone back is a soft reset. While it is frozen in standby mode it does not receive phones calls, emails or texts. Im running lvsw 03-26. I noticed it didn’t happen with lvsw 3-20…but it was happening with both versions of xda live. I did a few hard resets to see if that will get rid of it…but nothing. I tried searching high and low on the site and even read wiki for answers but no one seems to know what is going on. I saw a few people post up the same issue but still no help….so I decided to open a new thread. Can anyone help?
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Wow, I thought I was crazy becasue nobody mentioned this issue before. I had this problem from day 1.
However, i recently noticed that the 1.38 Radio was eating up my battery life and downgraded to 1.34. This combined with installing Black2.0 seems to have taken care of this problem. I just came back from a weekend away from my phone (which i know is a crime since it is so much fun to use) and it woke up right away.
What Radio do you have?
How long are your phones in standby when it happens?
well....bad news again. even after the new rom update it is still freezing. do you guys think this is hardware? I never froze on wm5...i can't see it being a hardware issue. im almost tempted to call cingular and have them send another one, but i dont know how to go back to wm5. for me, the phone will be in standby for 30 minutes or so....then wont turn back on. any more suggestions?
try disabling everything completely.
1 events and notifications
2 beam auto receive
3 bluetooth
4 wifi
5 put device into flight mode
6 all startup items (including those in rom) move to a temp for now
7 disable activesync
8 disable push email
9 disable all today items
1. disable error reporting customer experience
11 remove anything that reads the sd card
12 remove sd card entirely
13 remove sim card
literally disable everything that runs automatically or otherwise.
power down ur phone by pressing power button for 3 secs. shutdown. leave it for 20secs.
power it back up. then test it now.
if u have a problem now then it could be scary bear notifications fix only. u could have a notification queu problem that is causing ur device to contradicory items simultaneously.
this could be caused activesync so no matter which rom u use it comes back via activesync of calendar or tasks.
if at this stage its fixed then bring things back systematically with the most important first like the sim card. turn off flight mode
c how u go. sometimes pda just gets confused and doesnt wake up from a sleep to well (bit like me in the morning... sometimes bed and sleep is just way to good compared to work/life)...
good luck.
ive had WM6 for about a week or so and i have noticed a few bugs but this volume strip one really bugs me. i recently put the jogbar app on my dash and it worked fine with WM6 beta but just recently my volume strip stopped working altogether. ive reset everything and i even deleted the jogbar program to no avail. any suggestions? maybe there is something in the registry that got messed up
adewey234 said:
ive had WM6 for about a week or so and i have noticed a few bugs but this volume strip one really bugs me. i recently put the jogbar app on my dash and it worked fine with WM6 beta but just recently my volume strip stopped working altogether. ive reset everything and i even deleted the jogbar program to no avail. any suggestions? maybe there is something in the registry that got messed up
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That happened to me once when using the application. I just edit the registry now. I recommend you go to the Volume strip in the Settings and set it to default. If that does not work, ClearStorage (which will wip your device entirely) You will loose data so backup your information and apps before you do so.
JAmerican
I did all of that too, and it still didnt do anything, i even manually edited the registry and it still didn't do anything.
Is this a bad thing?
That thing was as useless anyways. I turned mine off the 2nd day of owning this gem. IMHO, I believe the touch strip is a gimmick. Stick with the scroll wheel. Don't fix what isn't broken.
Well unlike most people that have a dash, i actually liked the thing because i knew how to use it, and now that its not working, i can barely hear people on the phone because the volume isn't loud enough.
I don't understand how the touch strip would take any kind of skill in using it. You touch it and it is supposed to behave a certain way. Obviously, that was not the case for most users, such as myself.
It's either a love or hate relationship with the touch strip. Mine stopped working and it was different trying to navigate. But i got it back and i'm good.
lol...
Thats what I thought too, you actually have to rub your thumb from top to bottom or bottom to top as if it were an actual scroll wheel. I felt stupid after complaining about it, but thats all it is.
Well lucky for u guys, ur volume strip still works. Mine just stopped working randomly, and even after getting wm6 it still doesnt work...
Hey, you're lucky. I had to disable mine. That volume strip is probably the worst implemented "feature" I've seen on a smartphone yet. Thanks HTC!
It's fine for in-call volume -- and tapping it during an incoming call was the only way to mute the ringer without forwarding to voicemail -- that doesn't work anymore. Does anyone know if there's a way in the WM6-Dash to mute an incoming call?
it happen to me several times as i finish a phone call and go back to the Today screen but on the left top corner still display the title "phone".and i cant press it to open the start menu when im at the Today screen not even the start key works.try hold down the power button to shut down but no luck.but everything still works at the Today screen (weather,music plug-in etc)
had to soft reset it.anyone have this problem as well?or is it a radio problem?
iluvgillgill said:
it happen to me several times as i finish a phone call and go back to the Today screen but on the left top corner still display the title "phone".and i cant press it to open the start menu when im at the Today screen not even the start key works.try hold down the power button to shut down but no luck.but everything still works at the Today screen (weather,music plug-in etc)
had to soft reset it.anyone have this problem as well?or is it a radio problem?
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I use this rom with 1.51 radio till the rom is issued. I never had to soft reset because the rom crashed. The only really annoying issue i had is the bluetooth's one (Time to time, it is impossible to reactivate bluetooth without SR. This is why i do not desactivate it anymore ). We can always argue on choices, taste and colors but this rom is quite stable and fast enough for what i do.
EDIT: BTW check also which applications you have loaded. Did you reinstall a backup done with SPB after coming from another rom? I experienced many problems with that. Even if not pretty, i always reinstall now all my applications after installing a new rom (and i use pimbackup for calendar, contacts,... infos)
I have same problem too, thx
Post in Schaps 3.60 thread...
Not so as you think
I don't agree with that the ROM issue after call. Your deveice may be has some problem. What about bluetooth yes, there is some interesting moment that you select open bluetooth, it doesn't open, as soon as you mark to open you should restart your deveice, then it starts with opened bluetooth. BUt when you are going to turn the bluetooth off there is no problem.
I'm sure, Schap as a great moderator will solve this problems in next generation of his ROMs. The variation 3.60a (has posted), may be 3.60b, then 3.60c may be. Or he will post something interesting like Iphone platform.(I want him to do it)
iluvgillgill said:
it happen to me several times as i finish a phone call and go back to the Today screen but on the left top corner still display the title "phone".and i cant press it to open the start menu when im at the Today screen not even the start key works.try hold down the power button to shut down but no luck.but everything still works at the Today screen (weather,music plug-in etc)
had to soft reset it.anyone have this problem as well?or is it a radio problem?
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I have the same problem too, what I have discover is that during the call and the screen is off (either it off automatically after a time or you press the power button) then anytime you power on the screen again in between the call or after the call in a short time the problem tiggered.
the only way you can 'fix' it is to wait until call end then off and on your screen once then the 'start menu' back or wait for an amount of time until the phone lock tigger (that one with number pad)
I said 'fix' (with quote) because this definitely a temporary solution to deal with this problem
hope schaps can get more idea in how to trigger the problem and can fix this soon
other than this issue, the rom is really very great
cheers.
To the OP,
If you are using a Hermes I suggest you reflash from scratch ie Schaps ver 3.6 rom, then use radio rom version 1.47.10..
Install ALL your applications from scratch, manually. DO NOT restore from a previous backup using, say SPB Backup; that will screw your installation. Make sure all your apps are the latest versions, capable of running under WM6.
Preferably install one app at a time, as you would anyway, then test the phone and make sure it is working before installing another app, and so on.
Don't install a theme changer or other similar software until you are absolutely sure your installation works. Leave the performance parameter settings as they are, ie at default.
If all else fails use the ROM combination in my signature below. Rock solid installation, no problems or crashes.
Let us know how you get on.
Cheers
WB
have same problem also has anybody found that if you use internet shearing and recive a call you cant hear anyone and phone searches for network
thankz,
jdc21
no crashing for me..
the rom is really stable.
apart from the bluetooth issue its really good..
really stable and fast enough..
works really great for me..
Thanks Schaps for such a great rom.
waiting for 3.60b
Take care that Phone Dialer Skin could cause this kind of problem
wacky.banana Is maybe right
I have Schap's 3.60a along with my trusty Radio 1.47.10
No BT Issue till now
I use BT also with DrYAR-Bluetooth 1.6 (Whoopy!) No Issues at all either starting or Stopping BT
I'm using It for two days now It's OK
Did I mention that this rom Is even FASTER than the previous 3.5x?
i hav the same problem
When did this problem start?
I didnt have the bluetooth turn on just using it normally.and all application i install is fresh onto the phone memory.never install any program on the SD card.about the dialer skin i use Schen Kaiser 3G dialer.
Anyone got fix yet?
Same issue, not just Schap 3.60a
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When did this problem start?
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I've had this same issue for weeks now, ever since the newer ROMs have come out for the official releases (i'll have to track back the build numbers). I had it with Sleuth's last release, the vp3G 3.0 release, and now Schap's 3.60. I've done what other posters have said and hard reset, not loaded any apps, and still have the issue.
I believe I have tracked it down to do with X-button, as that's one of the few apps that is installed without customizations in both Sleuth and vp3G (and I run it in Schap 3.60a). My next step is to run vp3G 3.60 lite, without X-button, and see if that really solves my problem.
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I've had this same issue for weeks now, ever since the newer ROMs have come out for the official releases (i'll have to track back the build numbers). I had it with Sleuth's last release, the vp3G 3.0 release, and now Schap's 3.60. I've done what other posters have said and hard reset, not loaded any apps, and still have the issue.
I believe I have tracked it down to do with X-button, as that's one of the few apps that is installed without customizations in both Sleuth and vp3G (and I run it in Schap 3.60a). My next step is to run vp3G 3.60 lite, without X-button, and see if that really solves my problem.
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As a follow-up, I went to VP3G 3.60.1 install, ran the base install with nothing else installed and still had the problem. Still, the workaround suggested by others (putting the phone in standby and coming out) fixes the issue for me.
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The application was the SPB Fullscreen Keyboard v4.11 that was the culprit, verified over 3 hard resets that this is the offending program.
I hope this saves anyone else from going through the grief I have suffered. I completely forgot to include it on my list below so I am glad I had the patience to test one more time. (I ussualy forget to install it, then go to txt message or something and install it).
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I am pretty much at wits end here and am preparing to return this huge lump of crap to the store. It seems that if I install "pretty much anything" and NOT use the touch-flo garbage... the phone will work great.... until i need or want to soft-reset it....
then the logo comes up, the ROM/RADIO numbers, and then the screen turns black, to never come on again.
Having worked for Sprint for 5 years, and moreover having built my own custom roms at PPCGeeks for 2 years I feel that I have a pretty good grip on the ins & outs of windows mobile.
I have NO clue what is going on with this phone.
I have three of them in my possession. It happens on all three.
I install each application, ONE-AT-A-TIME, soft reset after every single install, its fine. I wait a day or so, soft reset... SURPRISE you gotta redo your phone.
I have narrowed it down to a few programs that *may* be the cause of my irritation...
-Phonealarm (overrides the notifications...???)
-Ptravelalarm (and three other alarm programs) notification flaw???
-Memmaid (deals with notifications...???)
I dont expect anyone to know the answer, maybe someone else is having this issue (i hate Touch-Flo) and is trying to install programs to make the handset usable from the today-screen.
I am going to list my installed programs, and maybe, just maybe, someone smarter than myself can pinpoint the culprit.
-batti 2.4
-calendar plus
-sbp fullscreen keyboard 4.11
-google maps 3.21 (never GPS locks btw)
-iContact 95
-phonealarm 2.30
-pTravelalarm 2.81
-Resco File Explorer 7.05
-rlToday v22b
Thats it, thats all i use on my phone, im a creature of simplicity. On the todayscreen i have phonealarm, rltoday, ptravelalarm, calander+
I went to the forums for both phonealarm & memmaid, and there doesnt seem to be any threads with my issue. ptravelalarm has no support, but I have tried g-alarm, gsalarm & poweralarm, and they all seem to fail as well.
Again I cant narrow it down to a single application because after an install and reset it works fine. Its like "after the program simmers" that it wants to "Black-Screen" the phone.
I am 100% sure that a custom ROM will alleviate all of my issues as I am using all of those programs on a 6800 and a 6900, with WM 6.1 & WM 6.5 respectively.
They even work on the stock roms for both handsets....
Any ideas? How far out is the HARD-SPL? I have about 3 weeks left before I have to return these things.
Thank you for reading, and any help that may be forthcoming.
I'm having the exact same issue, it's very frustrating to pay $400+ for a phone only to have it blackscreen of death you every time you try to boot it up. Touchflo seems nice but it just adds extra button presses to what should be straightforward tasks. I hope things turn around but right now I'm not impressed.