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I have a peculiar problem with my Artemis (Xda Orbit). I have 2 situations, some times one, sometimes the other.
Situation 1: Plugging in the headset deosn't turn off the sound of the loudspeaker. I can hear through the headset but also through the loudspeaker. In this situation the sound plays about 5% faster that normal.
Situation 2: After having had the headset plugged in, the sound output is not restored to the loudspeaker when I plug it out, when playing with Media Player. It stays mute. I installed TCPMP (another player) and it is the same problem there. But when calling to the phone, the call signal plays well enough through the loudspeakers. I have a MP3 as ring sound (the same MP3 will not play through the loudspeakers when I unplug the headset). However, when picking up the phone, I can not hear the caller nor can they hear me, without the headset. Only a reset restores the sound to the loudspeakers and then I can also call normally. The Radio sometimes recognizes the headset, sometimes not. Once the sound was briefly back to the loudspeakers, as I was shutting down Media Player. I even tried a hard reset to fix these problems, to no avail.
This evening I have Situation 1 but this afternoon it was Situation 2.
There was a problem before, where the speaker would stay on during a normal call, like in hands-free mode. Perhaps the problem was there already. This problem went away by itself but did it really? I didn't use the headset for a while so...
I did two things recently that may have caused this. I did it at the same time, so I don't know which of the two that may have caused the problem, if any of them.
1 I used SDHC-Artemis.cab from Bepe, to be able to use a 8GB card. Worked fine.
2 I tried two adaters I had bought on ebay, which give sound out on a female mini-jack.
Can any of you super-gurus guess what the problem is?
i dont have a ready answer - but you might need to tell us more about your rom - do you have shipped or cooked? details pls.
All shipped. But like I mentioned, I did have the patch from Bepe installed. But I actually now think that the problem was there all along, right from the time I got it used a few months ago.
ARTEMIS (Xda Orbit): Windows Mobile 6.0
ROM: 3.4.207.2 GER
ROM Date: 4/18/07
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your situation 1 has happened to me before, why i dont really know but i felt a complete plonker sitting on the train with my ear phones on and my phone making one hell of a racket!
to fix it i did a soft rest an bam stopped, might hav something to do with plugging in headphones whilst audio coming out, thats about the only thing i may have done and since then ive not had any further problems.
i have since flashed to 6.1 as well that may have been it, i do sometimes get this odd audio error with the FM player, sometimes its very quiet and refuses to be more than a whisper, but if i turn the volume up and down using the hardware buttons it fixes its self.
Windows Bugs im guessing!
It does seem like a Windows bug. Although, once, by fiddling with the plug, the problem went away.
Resetting doesn't do it for me. I would love to flash to 6.1 but my current ROM has Tomtom Navigator built in, with support for the internal GPS and as far as I can read here and there, you can't install Tomtom over a new ROM and expect internal GPS recognition.
Somewhere in a thread I once read about someone who had a link to O2, the provider of the Xda here in Germany, with the 6.1 Update. I haven't been able to find it again, only the 6.0 update. Perhaps I remember wrong...
no worries there mate, ive installed Tomtom on several ROMs and all have worked with the internal GPS, on tt7 you set it as an internal GPS on COM 4 in my case with something like a 56000 rate, on tt6 i think it was called other NMEA or generic NMEA on com 4 56000
just be sure to copy all your favorites, i upgraded to tt7 and silly me lost them all!
Right on dazza! It works just like you said with Tomtom. Thanks mate.
I tried it on another Artemis. I probably have to send in the first one for repair, to see if there might be a hardware problem, before flashing anything, including the guarantie!
No problem mate, it could be hardware, but im sure it happend to me only because i plugged in the headhones whilst it was playing FM radio, perhaps i shorted a couple of pins or coursed it to glitch somehow, to be honest, it might have been just the wrong day of the year! however, im pretty sure that if you flashed the lastest official ROM from the website of your mobile phone provider it will overwrite the modded USPL and put the device back to an original state.....so if you fancy giving the new 6.1 ROM ago you can recover to standard ROM for an RMA if it makes no difference.
Aha, flashing back to normal... "pretty sure" sounds a bit like "not completely sure". I wonder about that and if those tech people who would repair the thing might find traces of the other ROM somehow. Besides, I don't know where to find the original ROM.
Come to think of it, I don't understand how you could have played radio without the headset plugged in. On mine it needs the headset to do anything, saying it needs it as antenna and if you unplug it, it will complain.
yeah it wont work without the hardphones in, but the program launched as i plugged it in.
the only reason i say pretty sure is because im a bit confused by the manual
When the USPL cracks came about there was a thread that said it would revert back to normal after an official flash but i cant find that any more, also the manual for USPL states that it will not survive a reflash, but im confused because on mine ive flashed several ROMS without redoing the USPL so it clearly does remain after a flash.
Did you take out insurance on it? you could always say your dropped it in the bath, they will send you a new one and take the old one at the same time. No need to worry about it then!
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No insurance.
Are you saying that the original ROM will permanently reside somewhere, no matter what you flash?
I found the official Xda Orbit ROM now:
http://rs177.rapidshare.com/files/56...88.90_Ship.rar
No, well yes, kinda..
Im not sure of all the tech lingo but there are several parts to an artemis, the ROM its self where the version of windows is installed, the Radio ROM for the wireless part and the SPL which is something like a boot ROM, used mostly by mobile operators to lock the phone to their software
to update a phone thats Locked, not sim locked thats something different, they developed a patch if you like, that kind of by passes it, so you install this USPL which stands for something im sure, which basicly then lets you flash what ever ROM you want,
if your phones locked you have to do this otherwise you could end up with a brick, ive only ever changed the USPL once and ive put several ROMS on it perhaps my phone is unlocked already so it makes no difference
Anyhow, to warrenty it, if you changed the USPL, you would have to re flash the original USPL and ROM back, BUT and this is why im unsure if flashing a new ROM would work, according to the manual for this USPL it says that you have to run the USLP patch everytime you want to change the ROM, which means that its not perminantly changed at all which means if you put a original ROM back on it, it should be back to stock default...
its a bit vague im afraid, most of the threads seem to have vanished, the poor artemis forum used to be a busy place.
I had the Standby of Death SOD this is when the phone fails to come out of standby with a power button press. This issue only affects some people on some networks. I'm not sure if its a network problem or a software problem but as only a minority of people have it, I suspect its mainly a network problem there is a software solution.
The solution is to change the phone settings band option from auto 3G/2G to either 3G Only (WCDMA + UTMS 2100 in Europe) or 2G Only (GSM + AUTO) depending on your requirements.
Also read this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=540943&highlight=standby&page=2 where the resolution was to get a new SIM.
Obviously this only solves the problem when the crash is because of the sim and/or settings which impact the sim. To rule out a software cause its best to start with a hard reset.
had this problem once: I switched on the camera, and then left the device on the table for a long time - so it went to standby.
I could not wake it up by the power button after 20 minutes, but as an incoming call came, it was ringing with a black display, and I could answer the call with my BT headset. screen was still pure black
finally I pushed the reset button and since then everything is fine - I still feel this was connected to the camera.
terta said:
had this problem once: I switched on the camera, and then left the device on the table for a long time - so it went to standby.
I could not wake it up by the power button after 20 minutes, but as an incoming call came, it was ringing with a black display, and I could answer the call with my BT headset. screen was still pure black
finally I pushed the reset button and since then everything is fine - I still feel this was connected to the camera.
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Yeah if it only happened the once then that was probably the case, if you have the problem on a regular basis and you know its nothing to do with the camera (becuase you never loaded it) then you have the problem I am describing.
I have exactly the same problem has Terta.
I'm 100% sur that it's the camera that make this bug I have tried all my weekend to reproduce the bug a lot of time and it was always the camera...
Hope someone can fix this bug cause now I can't take any photo without soft-reseting my phone. Very, very, very annoying...
I messed around with the sound app SRS WOW HD for a while to get it work on TP2, with this installed, mine did exactly the same thing.
Sometimes it happened straight away (first sleep), other times it happened a day or so later.
Uninstalled, it did not happen again.
(Not the SIM or Camera for me)
Go figure!
Cheers
Jabberoo
Yes I guess there are many reasons for the Standby of Death, if you have ruled out all software causes such as the camera or installed apps then have a think about the SIM and/or the settings that impact the SIM.
Its the last thing most people will think about. It worked for me and got rid of a random SOD problem 2-3 times a week which coinceded with being in weak 3G areas (where the phone might switch bands automatically) although that never occured to me at the time.
You see I haven't installed other applications nor do I load up the camera and leave it running so I couldn't figure out what was causing it, it just happened randomly not connected with anything particular that I was doing.
i hope there is some kind of magical solution for this because i just got my Sprint TP2 today and I have this issue everytime my phone goes into standby. Pushing the power button wont bring it out but every once in a while opening the keyboard does. I have to continually reset my new phone just to use it
PS; beyond this annoyance, I love it!
coppertop24 said:
i hope there is some kind of magical solution for this because i just got my Sprint TP2 today and I have this issue everytime my phone goes into standby. Pushing the power button wont bring it out but every once in a while opening the keyboard does. I have to continually reset my new phone just to use it
PS; beyond this annoyance, I love it!
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Try taking out the SIM card and see if it still happens everytime the phone goes into standby...
For the past few days I have been restarting my phone thru the soft reset. I think this is a windows issue...it has happened to me even without having the camera app running, and yes I checked the task manager. Hopefully this will be fixed when windows mobile 6.5 comes out, since Im getting frustrated with this phone...I have the phone for about a month now....grrr Stand by of Death!!!
coykiam said:
For the past few days I have been restarting my phone thru the soft reset. I think this is a windows issue...it has happened to me even without having the camera app running, and yes I checked the task manager. Hopefully this will be fixed when windows mobile 6.5 comes out, since Im getting frustrated with this phone...I have the phone for about a month now....grrr Stand by of Death!!!
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so its not just mine then? this is ridiculous
Right, i had got seriously fed up with the standby of death happending, so i decided to contact HTC Europe directly.
They went over the usual 'factory reset' and 'update' solutions before coming to the conclusion that either there is a loose connection/faulty screen or there is some confiliction between drivers of the pre-installed software.
Because all HTC phones have 2 years warrenty as standard they have asked me to send if off so they can invistigate the problem and send me a replacement.
So if anybody is in the same boat as me a suggest you contact HTC and arrange a fix/replace.
Hope this helps.
nlel said:
Yeah if it only happened the once then that was probably the case, if you have the problem on a regular basis and you know its nothing to do with the camera (becuase you never loaded it) then you have the problem I am describing.
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Add me to the list, seems to happen when I am charging my phone and it hits 100%
This phone reminds me of all my previous Sony Ericsson phones....very unstable OS' ... Makes me regret of getting this one and should've gotten an iPhone...but then again I'm pretty sure iPhone's have issues that apple fanboys aren't admitting. The reason that made me not get an iphone is because of ATT's ridiculous plan pricing...Its crazy!!!
if you are on sprints network, take out the sim card. This has fixed the issue for me. Used to get SOD a few times a day but opening the keyboard and then pressing the power button used to get me out of it. This was really annoying, and i read that it may be issues with the sim card. Took that out a week ago and havent had a SOD yet
jabberoo said:
I messed around with the sound app SRS WOW HD for a while to get it work on TP2, with this installed, mine did exactly the same thing.
Sometimes it happened straight away (first sleep), other times it happened a day or so later.
Uninstalled, it did not happen again.
(Not the SIM or Camera for me)
Go figure!
Cheers
Jabberoo
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Jabberoo I can verify that this was caused by the SRS WOW HD program on my touch pro 2 as well. AS SOON as I uninstalled this application, restarted, everything was fine again.
I don't know if this will help anybody but if your phone suffers from SOD and you have TMO put it in airplane mode and see if it still does it.
I did that and it never went into SOD so that lead me to believe that the radio was the culprit. before that I tried everything listed. I don't have the 3G Plan so the 3.45.25.14 (T-Mobile) radio is the only one that worked for me.
I have the same problem.. just have installed spb mobile shell with mskip ultimate. I try to unistall all
I have a question: if I choose the 3G only option (WCDMA + UTMS 2100 in Europe) and the signal strength is low there will not be an automatic switch between 3G and 2G am I right? ...and i'm offline then
jabberoo said:
I messed around with the sound app SRS WOW HD for a while to get it work on TP2, with this installed, mine did exactly the same thing.
Sometimes it happened straight away (first sleep), other times it happened a day or so later.
Uninstalled, it did not happen again.
(Not the SIM or Camera for me)
Go figure!
Cheers
Jabberoo
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sanjsrik said:
Jabberoo I can verify that this was caused by the SRS WOW HD program on my touch pro 2 as well. AS SOON as I uninstalled this application, restarted, everything was fine again.
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Confirming this....
I had this issue for a while now...I tried hard resets, ROM flashes etc. It all works fine and was stable until I flash Sps Wow HD (I just realized this). Yesterday I flashed the latest HTC released sense ROM and right now after installing all the softwares I had the SOD again. Fortunately I saw the 2 posts and thought I will give it a try...and guess what?
I uninstalled the Srs Wow HD and phone is back to normal...no issues till now...will report later if I see any.
I am going to tmobile to get the SIM changed anyways hoping that it will fix another issue I am having. Every day I have to turn the airplane mode ON and OFF at least twice to get my data connection back. Mostly after a call and sometimes in random the phone is unable to reconnect to the data, it gives me an error that the epc.tmobile didnt respond or something like that. If any of you know how to fix this issue...plz help
I have been Experiencing this so called "SOD". HTC touch pro 2 sprint. On the 6.5.5 Build 23569 i had MAJOR sod issues. Energyrom , mighty , titanium , you name it. Ive Task 29 and reflashed them all multiple times. Still SOD was there... But i may have found a temp cure for me atleast. This is what i did....
First , i used task29 , next i reflashed the stock 6.1 rom, check for SOD... still had it... i task 29 again. Installed titanium edition , without sense. SOD was cured, phone worked fine, tryed to install sense 2.1, failed, SOD was back. Soo...
Then i task29 again, then repeated task29 a second time at the boot screen.... then i flashed Energyrom GTX themed 21907 build june 27th......Once it was flashed unplugged my USB plug and plugged it into the usb wall plug i have . Installed LUMOS, light sensor still was inactive and no response, could not brighten and still nothing... Installed G-light right after lumos without uninstalling lumos.... Still plugged into the AC wall USB plug....let it sit. Still nothing, couldnt adjust or brighten..... So i task 29 AGAIN... then flashed 21907 build GTX themed again... once flashed, unplugged it & back into wall charger... Installed lumos.... SUDDENLY!!! the sensor worked, and was accepting light AGAIN! ...
So i ran the LUMOS wizard, followed instructions and my phone was SOD FREE!! Let it sit over night, was fine....I wanted to see now if i could overwrite / flash over GTX themed with DiNiK glass cause i liked it better... so i DID NOT USE task29 this time, just reflashed over GTX themed one With DiNiK glass... same build 21907 and followed all my same steps, with wall plug, installed lumos, did the wizard,.... WALAaa.... works still like a charm. Have been using and testing it for 5 days, SOD is gone as far as i know.... ALSO in options, under setting / system / power / batt... i turned off the option to charge it when plugged into PC....Not sure if it helps or not. But Something i did is doing the trick. Seems between the backlight, and something to do with my 2.0 usb cord thats messing it up.
Seems to be cured... Still not sure exactly what fixed my phone. But between all that, IMO i believe installing lumos and glight triggered something also i think not letting it charge thru the PC, and only using a wall plug for charging has something to do with it....Either way . now its back to normal working just great... ONLY running LUMOS cab, and all the games i want. Energyrom Build 21907 DiNiK Glass Themed june 27th.... HOPE this helps!!! Have a wonderful DAY!
It isn't a perfect phone. I've had it crash 3 times after having it for 10 days. It's the same type of crash too, the screen just becomes nonfunctional and I have to pull the battery out to restart the device. The phone does not freeze, the time and incoming calls all work, but I just cannot accept any calls or dial or do anything with the touch screen because it refuses to listen Not sure why it happens but I'm curious to see if people have had this kind of problem and or know of a resolution.
Thanks!!!
What ROM do you have, any software you've installed on it?
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What ROM do you have, any software you've installed on it?
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Stock T-Mobile rom. I have installed several games and the FM Radio cab, that is all
i think it is not a hardware problem it must be because of something u loaded.try a hard reset. i have t mobile tp2 no problem. i have loaded volpad application, lots of bugs happened. after removing everything was ok. remove one by one and after each make a soft reset. u will solve it. good luck...
I had the exact same problem. My device would think off and on that I had my headphones plugged into it because the headphone icon would appear. Therefore I couldn't hear anything. I finally took my phone to Sprint and they replace it with a new one. They must all have a defect or something. I tried the soft reset, hard reset, and wiping the device. Nothing worked. Not even tech support could figure it out (which isn't surprising, but whatever).
my tmobile tp2
id give it a hard reset and see whats up, some games can lock up ya phone, like the game majong... thats mess my wifes phone up and freeze it if ya dont exit properly.....
Im now on custom shipped 6.5 and my signal keeps switching edge to 3g annd back, so Now im on figuring this out, fun sometimes huh????lol
Thank you all very much for replying to my thread.
I have decided to load a custom 6.5 rom to my device and everything so far is working wonderfully.
I am using http://thewingster.com/athineoschometf3d.aspx with the latest T-Mobile Touch Pro 2 Radio ROM
About 2 weeks ago, my camera simply stopped working. Any app that uses the camera simply opens to a black screen and then becomes unresponsive.
I've tried a full factory reset to no avail. Before sending the camera for repair, is there anything else I can try. I did check the forum and elsewhere to see if this was a known issue with the DHD or an individual firmware vesion, but nothing obvious.
I'm running 1.72.405.3
Thanks for any pointers
Daz
Hi Daz,
It does sound like your camera's sensor has failed. I had a similar issue with my HTC Hero when I got that many moons ago. This would be covered by the manufacturers warranty so you'd be entitled to a replacement or repair.
Did the camera only fail once the update had been applied? As i think and i'm not 100% but i think that the cam is one of the things which the update is for, maybe you could try a custom rom to see if the update has caused it, I can't see why but it could be.
My Hero's camera would not work with anything over 1.5, any custom rom or even the stock 2.1 update would cause my phone to reboot after every second usage of the phones camera, it was very annoying and because it was a persistent problem which was no fault of my own, i didn't pay for the replacement, so maybe look into it, it may save you a few bob getting it fixed, unless your getting it for free.
Just a thought.
To be honest it could well have been after an update, I just can't tie the two events together in my head.
The phone will be fixed for free as it's still under warrantee, I was just wondering if there was anything I could do to avoid having to send it away for what could be weeks. I do suspect it's a hardware issue so prob best just to let HTC deal with it and send me back a working phone.
Thanks all.
Daz
I also have this problem, any updates on the issue? I really don't want to be without my phone for weeks! The camera only stopped working after I flashed from Leedroid 1.2 to cyanogenmod 6.1.3 then flashed back to Leedroid
Hi,
I'm afraid I don't know just yet. I sent the phone away for repair and it's still being worked on. I'll let you know what they said when I get it back.
Daz
I was running the stock 1.26 version and it was perfect. No flickering, very smooth, but the phone kept bugging me for the update, so I updated it. Update went smooth, but now I have that terrible screen flicker, it's by far not as smooth... so if you have no problems with 1.26, don't update. I'll revert to 1.26 and hope that it goes back to being as flawless as it was before.
Edit: Just noticed that wireless connections are much worse as well with this update. At the moment I can only use WiFi and even that doesn't work properly for some reason (i.e. can surf but can't get to beta.swype.com - but I can get there on my desktop using the same WLAN). All borked...
You are one of the only people who has said this about the 1.28 update. Also you can't revert unless you get a new phone with 1.26 as your HBOOT was updated when you installed this update.
Yes, I just noticed that . So until 3 come up with a better update, I'm stuck with this junk Should have stuck to my usual motto: Don't fix it if it ain't broke.
Updated mine on the day I got the phone not noticed any screen flicker at all and I have been looking for it. Dont use Wifi as the 3's 3G is plenty fast enough and I have all you can eat data so can't comment on that. Data connection is FAR more stable than on the ONE S which I swapped it for.
I don't know but this update has royally screwed my phone. Each time the alarm is supposed to go off, the phone reboots (no matter which alarm app I use). I also get reboots for random other apps.
For me it's just a real PITA and at the moment, I would consider the phone unreliable at best. I'll try flashing the 1.28 from Three again but I'm not holding my breath
Just wish I could go back to 1.26.
Edit: I just flashed Energy ROM and the phone still reboots when using Alarm Clock Extreme. It's just sooooooooo annoying!
Isn't there any way to go back to 1.26?
Edit2: After the phone just rebooted, it rebooted again when I was just looking at the notification screen.
Is it a problem with Three UK if the phone has been unlocked? I feel very much inclined to return the phone and get a replacement... phone is unsuable at the moment as a smartphone...
Edit 3: I can't even re-flash it... updater says "can't update this". Oh gosh, Three, please make it fast to the next update.