Hello, For some reason this keeps happening every time, whether i reboot by soft reset or turn the phone off and then on. The time zone setting for "home" keeps reverting back to 'Indiana Time' even though I keep setting it to 'east coast' time. This cost me a doctors appointment this morning because I was relying on the phone as an alarm and havent had this problem. I absolutely dont get it, I keep changing it to east coast and saving the settings, and then the next time the phone has to be restarted or whatever.. it goes right back to Indiana Time... Any ideas?
And now in addition to this, something interesting... my dad told me to check my phone for viruses because he cant open any of my text messages on his phone (not a smartphone, its nothing special), and its only my messages... he keeps telling me every time i send him a text it turns his phone off... hopefully unrelated????? Note: Ive been communicating via text with other people and havent had a problem.
What ROM?
I've never heard of this. I'm (normally) EnergyROM when using WinMo.
ive never heard of this either, texts work fine now. still the same time issue. Im using the at&t stock rom, the 'new' version... this was bought from someone who had a cooked rom before i flashed it back to stock.
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ive never heard of this either, texts work fine now. still the same time issue. Im using the at&t stock rom, the 'new' version... this was bought from someone who had a cooked rom before i flashed it back to stock.
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Make sure you flash everything back to stock. Relock, all of it.
I can't say that would cause this issue, but if you want it truly returned to stock, you have to take all of those steps. For whatever reason they say flash stock, relock, then flash stock again (probably to make sure you can still flash signed images? It's not a bad idea). Good luck.
I was on the phone (another one, so we could troubleshoot) with at&t for an hour... they tried re-registering my phone, had me look in the regional settings, turn alarms off.. then we ran out of time because the person whos phone i was using had to go.
i was told it was an unlocked phone but it seems no different then my last tilt 2 which i broke. is there a way to know if its unlocked?
And.... whats the procedure for relocking? thanks very much.
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i was told it was an unlocked phone but it seems no different then my last tilt 2 which i broke. is there a way to know if its unlocked?
And.... whats the procedure for relocking? thanks very much.
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Please search (or even read, yeesh) before posting.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=550131 <--- that's a sticky at the very top of the WinMo development section.
You can tell if it's locked or unlocked by looked at the bootloader (tri-color) screen. I can't remember what it'll say when it's locked, but if you see "OliNex" near the top, it's unlocked.
If you got the phone with an aftermarket ROM, and only flashed back to stock - I can almost guarantee it's unlocked.
Thank you, i definitely appreciate it. I tried searching, couldnt find how to relock. thanks again.
OK i fixed it without flashing. I had to go (using HTC SENSE) to that settings tab for htc sense at the bottom of the home screen, then i went to data services, then i went to internet time synch... "Get time from the internet" wasnt checked so i checked that box, "get time from the internet while roaming" wasnt checked so i checked it and it worked. for some reason that was overriding me going into the start menu, settings, clocks and alarms, etc. Damn HTC sense, im wondering how much freakin sense it has! ridiculous...
Yes my phones unlocked...
Why on that thread does it say to only relock if your sending it in for warranty??? Does that really bring it back to the exact locked and stock state the phone was in when it left the factory???? Is that a warning that there may be a problem or two after you relock it??? Id like to relock it since it freezes sometimes at boot up... but like they say, dont fix it unless its broken... I dont want to regret relocking it and have other software or hardware hiccups and issues because relocking doesnt truly bring it back to how it left the factory, im good with more issues lol... thanks again so much.
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OK i fixed it without flashing. I had to go (using HTC SENSE) to that settings tab for htc sense at the bottom of the home screen, then i went to data services, then i went to internet time synch... "Get time from the internet" wasnt checked so i checked that box, "get time from the internet while roaming" wasnt checked so i checked it and it worked. for some reason that was overriding me going into the start menu, settings, clocks and alarms, etc. Damn HTC sense, im wondering how much freakin sense it has! ridiculous...
Yes my phones unlocked...
Why on that thread does it say to only relock if your sending it in for warranty??? Does that really bring it back to the exact locked and stock state the phone was in when it left the factory???? Is that a warning that there may be a problem or two after you relock it??? Id like to relock it since it freezes sometimes at boot up... but like they say, dont fix it unless its broken... I dont want to regret relocking it and have other software or hardware hiccups and issues because relocking doesnt truly bring it back to how it left the factory, im good with more issues lol... thanks again so much.
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Relocking doesn't do much, other than disallow the flashing of unsigned images.
I don't know what you mean by freezing at boot, I doubt relocking will help.
Relocking for warranty work is absolutely necessary however - if you send it in, and the device is unlocked, they will *usually* notice and void your warranty site-on-scene. Kinda like jailbreaking for iPhone's, it voids the warranty. So long as you undo any hacks you've put on, the provider is none the wiser. Hence, the only real reason to relock would be if you were sending it in.
But to answer your question, you have to relock and flash stock ROM. Once those two things are done, you are back to factory.
Glad you fixed it tho. I wouldn't have thought to check there - I was grabbing at straws with the relock/reflash thing, just figured it's something to check if you just got the phone. I would leave it unlocked personally, unless you are going to take it in for repair/replacement.
Thank you so much for all your time, info, efforts, and input.. I wont relock it then... I greatly appreciate everything.
I just figured out the sole ONE AND ONLY THING that was causing this problem. I have advanced config, so I have it set so when you go into settings, personal, then phone... Under the GSM/UMTS services tab that I have, you can see settings for "Time Synchronization" along with caller ID, call waiting, etc. Under Time Synchronization if I have "Automatic change time zone and clock" checked (Like it has been) it reverts my time zone incorrectly to indiana, instead of east coast time. I unchecked that box, and this doesnt happen anymore. My clock stays at the right time zone, east coast, no more problems. Why the heck would my phone think im in indiana if i use that setting, i dont get that? That setting is obviously useless if i lets say, traveled to california.. Interesting?...
I've always let the carrier set my time (never messed with any form of time sync, auto time adjustments, time zone changes, etc etc), but I'm on a CDMA carrier that distributes NITZ properly. Never had to worry about the clock being off.
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Hello everyone. I'll make this quick and easy question. I have successfully updated to 3.35 radio, and tried several different custom roms in the past 2 weeks... At some point, i lost my internet connection, went back to stock rom successfully, and tried entire process over with and without the new radio (depending on which rom i tried according to instructions) and still no internet. I have spent literally over 4 hours on the phone with bell (Canada) to no avail. Only other option is to beat it with a hammer. I have noticed a couple people have had the same problem.. i have read these and PPC forums for hours and hours and hours, to try and fix this and get my Data connection back. tried almost every Rom i could find... to no avail. I'm just wondering if anybody had a sound fix for getting the Data connection back working again before i go to the store i got it from and freaking out and trying to get a new phone, or sending it off for a warranty claim which they say could take 6-8 weeks. Thanks for your time.
Chow.
This happened alot when
we were changing radiios
and roms on the Titans.
Most of the time the techs had to reset the
data security on their end. If they cant figure it
out , flash back to stock
radio and rom and go to
the store and swap it
out. Tell them you did
a hard reset and lost your data connection.
Good luck.
if you have another pda phone, get your carrier to activate it on your account, set it up ... get data working ... then get your carrier to switch it back to the one that had lost it's data connection, set it up ... try the data connection ... works every time on vzw ... I do the esn changes online ... give it a try ... couldn't hurt
Fuzzy
just spent another hour on the phone with tech Support, he tried resetting the Data Security, completely removing my device from our account and putting it back on, and he also had one of his own Touch's with him, he added it to my account, and it worked fine.. still nothing on mine. Grrrrrrrr!! this is megga frustrating... its been a week 1/2 and now 5+ hour on the phone and an hour at the repair shop yesterday. he re-esclated the problem and now i have to wait again for somebody to call me. I really don't want to have it sent to HTC becuse it will take 6-8 weeks, and i truely think its something in my phone itself as a result of "playing" with it, and i'm just hoping that somebody can come up with something that I havent already tried to get it working again. Thanks for you time once again, and keeping my fingers crossed.
Go to the epst settings.
Find username and password in there ( i guess data parameters??). It will be wrong. [email protected]
change it to the right ones.
that is EXACTLY where i went a week or so ago. i found this information in another post, and the UN is there, but no password, and Bell insists there is no need for username and password... but i disagree... i also think this is the problem.. i really do... any ideas how the heck i can get what my password should be?
in teh Data parameters, the only thing that is in there is Packet Dial String ----#777 In the security section is the UN and Pass. field. Is this where you were talking about maybe?? or is there something missing in the Data Parameters section?? UN showing is [email protected]
GRRRRRR!! This really sucks.!! BIGTIME!. Ive been fooling with this thing since 6Am... lol One thing that i did forget to mention, is... when i say no data, or internet.. this is what happens..
When i try any app. that wants internet, it will bring up the connection screen, "Connecting to Data, network... #777" type thing..... sometimes it will just sit there forever and ever... if i hit cancel... then in order for me to even make a phone call, i have to soft reset.... sometimes... (about 50% of teh time) it will come up with an error screen after about 5 seconds of trying to connect, and it says "Unable to connect for an unknown reason, if you need to view or change settings, tap settings, if teh problem continues reset your device according to manufactures instructions, and try again."
I just downloaded and tried the new Sprint Leaked rom, with the 3.37 radio, and still same thing. i still think it has something to do with the Username and PW in the ##778 settings... because i do remember seing a bunch of (hex) information in the PW field in the past when i was snooping around and now its gone.... I even tried converting the two numbers that bell gave me to Hex and putting them in there... and nothing... the one that i seen in there before was a big ass long one... Anyhow... i'm almost giving up i'm soon going to get extremely angry and beat it or throw it off the 20 floow balcony just for kicks... <g> Thanks for reading.Any help is appreciated.
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GRRRRRR!! This really sucks.!! BIGTIME!. Ive been fooling with this thing since 6Am... lol One thing that i did forget to mention, is... when i say no data, or internet.. this is what happens..
When i try any app. that wants internet, it will bring up the connection screen, "Connecting to Data, network... #777" type thing..... sometimes it will just sit there forever and ever... if i hit cancel... then in order for me to even make a phone call, i have to soft reset.... sometimes... (about 50% of teh time) it will come up with an error screen after about 5 seconds of trying to connect, and it says "Unable to connect for an unknown reason, if you need to view or change settings, tap settings, if teh problem continues reset your device according to manufactures instructions, and try again."
I just downloaded and tried the new Sprint Leaked rom, with the 3.37 radio, and still same thing. i still think it has something to do with the Username and PW in the ##778 settings... because i do remember seing a bunch of (hex) information in the PW field in the past when i was snooping around and now its gone.... I even tried converting the two numbers that bell gave me to Hex and putting them in there... and nothing... the one that i seen in there before was a big ass long one... Anyhow... i'm almost giving up i'm soon going to get extremely angry and beat it or throw it off the 20 floow balcony just for kicks... <g> Thanks for reading.Any help is appreciated.
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i am not with bell, so dont know what do they use. Maybe somebody else can confirm if they are supposed to be empty or not.
may be try empty username and password.
Then try the username you have right now and esn as your password.
i know on telus both will work.
YES YES YES YES!!!! ohhhh yeah babby!!..
i FINALLY got it working!! Yeeee hawww... if only you knew how happy this makes me... deer gawd...
I'll post what i did in the AM.. i can hardly keep my eyes open...
Thanks for all your input!
wanna share? i haven't had internet for the last three weeks and i am going nuts, tried with bell tech support for roughly 3 hours on the phone two seperate times and nothing. Please share
before i tie the phone to the back of my bike and ride around town to set an example heheh
Nas
Hay.... I wan't able to access the website here for a couple days... EVERYTHING you will need to get your internet back (Hopefully) is over on PPCgeeks... i recomend reading the whole thread, although the final answer to your question is near the end of the thread. Check it out...
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=26691
Hey guys,
I assume this is from a random drop, but basically my phone's touch screen is "off" I re-calibrated, and flashed a new ROM. Neither worked. It's not broke, but like if I try to click on the bottom icons I have to click way below them, and on the top icons I have to click way above them. It's weird.
Regardless, what do I do next?
Reflash old ROM, go to ATT? Call HTC? What do I do to try to get it fixed for free, then what options do I have to get it fixed for as cheap as possible? I don't want to get a new phone until WM7 comes out, so currently I'm stuck with this one!
Reflash to stock ROM (and radio), relock SPL, and then let your cellular provider deal with the return. I just went through the same thing with T-Mobile and it couldn't have been easier.
How do I relock SPL?
read through this hard spl thread to return to stock, then go to this at&t device support page scroll down and select your state then find the nearest one. take your device there, and if there's no apparent physical damage on your device, they'll exchange it with a refurbished one on the spot.
I bought a HTC Desire branded to Orange UK trough eBay when i was working there last month. The First thing i did was to debrand it using the 1.15.405.2 that i found on MoDaCa, and i bought a unlock key on eBay. This solution worked pretty well until the OTA update showed up, the i got the known WiFi issue. That was no biggie either, just installed the RUU of the 1.21.405.2 and the new Radio, and everything seemed to be perfect again
BUT THEN, two days ago, my phone suddenly lost it's connection to the my mobile operator . I tried to swap my sim card with another sim card, and the result was that my HTC Desire wouldn't get connection while my sim card worked well in the other phone. I also browsed trough my menus to try to find something that might be wrong, but no luck. If i tried to connect to my mobile operator manually, i got a message saying something like "SIM-card doesn't allow connection to this network".
Yesterday morning, i called HTC to try to find out if this might be a hw or sw malfunction, and he advertised me to do a factory settings restore and felt pretty confident that it only was the sw letting me down. I did as he suggested and boom, it worked...for about 5-6 hours, then it came back. As if that wasn't annoying enough, a factory settings restore didn't do the trick this time, and neither did a reflash with the goldcard. I even formated my mSD to be sure there wasn't any kind of virus on it.
So please, if anyone in here got a tip regarding sw, let me know. I'm helpless without my dear phone...
Hmmm this is my biggest concern... I'm just about to buy an ebay Orange Desire and flash it with a stock ROM and unlock it.... kinda worrying as I'm no Linux man really...
im not sure if its the same thing but i have lost conection to t mobile on my desire twice now. first time was fixed by re entering the apn. this time no change. the differance is mine is un branded. i also cant do mms any more.
Unbranded and debranded, same ****, isn't it? Niter means branded...
Seems like i'm not the only one with this problem: http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/topic/5...nt-re-connect/page__view__findpost__p__405655
Lots of Vodafone users in that forum has similar issues, but most of them seems to have a workaround by turn off the back on, or go by airplane mode to get signal back, tat doesn't work for me. I tried to flash my phone once more, but still no luck.
I'm considering a root operation and install android 2.2 aka froyo, but i'm not even sure if that is possible since i got the bootloader version 0.80...
ive just got mine working again by resting the apns to default.
mms still not working though. i hope its not a voda problem i just paid off t mobile a years contract to join voda due to terrible reception and crap tech support.
what is that, and how do you do it? I would guess that a reset to factory default and/or a complete reflash would take care of such, whatever it is...
Yep I was about to ask the same thing! what is it and how do you turn it on/off?
go to settings - wirless & networks - mobile networks - access point names - then press the menu key and hit reset to default.
hope this helps you
That did the same thing as a "reset to factory defaults", but still doesn't work
I've an unbranded unlocked desire on 3 UK with original firmware and mine does drop out occasionally but always comes back perhaps its a desire quirk !
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Suppose so, but unlike you and many others, mine doesn't come back I was hoping for a fix for this issue, but i'm afraid were talking about hw malfunction, let's hope i'm wrong...
Little update, just followed this guide, but that didn't change anything. As far as i know, i now got some kind of rooted version of HBOOT 0.75 and fw.ver. 1.15.405.4, dunno about radio version. But it also says that i'm not able to install a custom rom with this rooted version, but i might be able to completely root it now and then install a custom rom?
Yet another update, i did install the 2.2 Froyo following this guide, and unlike the HTC roms, this one indicates that i do have full/optimal connection to my mobile operator, but it still won't let me call, just replies with 'Mobile network not available'.
I kinda courages me to scream out loud ****!!! Yes, i mean it...
Feedback would be nice
Just a thought, may i be that the guy i bought the phone from could have reported it as stolen with the intention of getting an insurance fee? And as a result of that, my phone have been closed by the operator? Don't even know if they mind doing such across the border. So the question would be: Is there any way to find out if my phone has been remotely closed?
Call your carrier.... they will be able to tell you if the phone is connecting to the nextwork correctly... ask them if not... why not?
I second that suggestion, try calling your carrier. Also I have found that switching the internet on directly through settings rather than using the widgets solved my connection problem.
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Yep, i got contact with the seller from eBay, and he is very helpful, so he will do what he can while i will call my carrier first thing in the morning. Seems like there might be a glitch here, but i'll keep you updated on my progress.
argh, it seems like i wont get anywhere with my phone. I'm considering trying to change the IMEI, i know it's illegal, but i paid £360 for this device, and atm it's useless to me. If i only knew how tho change the imei, not exactly easy information to obtain, not even with google...
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argh, it seems like i wont get anywhere with my phone. I'm considering trying to change the IMEI, i know it's illegal, but i paid £360 for this device, and atm it's useless to me. If i only knew how tho change the imei, not exactly easy information to obtain, not even with google...
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So have you found out why your having problems?
ah, sorry, thought i already told u guys, lol. Well, for some reason the phone is IMEI locked. The seller says that he did call to lock a sim card when he lost his iphone, and it might be related since it's the sim that was suppose to be in my phone. however, i think he either claimed the phone stolen to commit insurance fraud, or it's simply stolen. Another thing i came across was that the operator might blacklist the phone if it's unlocked without their blessing, don't really know if they can do that.
Either way, the only way for me to make this phone work is to convince the police that it's not stolen (i need a recite for that which he won't provide me), or to change the imei code with my "awesome" hacking skills...
OK, Firstly, does anyone else have the Defy on the Three network and is it working alright for you??
I'm just trying to figure out whether this is a phone problem or a network issue. Basically I'll unlock the phone, go onto google, search for something and that's when the wait starts, it's really weird, I'll have full 3G signal, and neither of the little traffic arrows will do anything, which makes me think it's not a network issue. Absolutely all network traffic locks up, including gmail, market etc
But then if I make a phone call and hang up it will start working again fine. All I can think is that it's just a little software glitch in my phone. Does anyone know if Motorola will send me a ROM update/repair tool for the phone because I'm guessing it's something to do with that, or even try rolling back to Eclair 2.1 to try that. And yes, before you ask, I've tried many times doing a full wipe/factory reset and it makes no difference.
I've quadruple checked all my APN settings for Three which don't even have usernames or passwords and even checked the settings were correct in the secret service menu. Also when I had the problems I ran a ping test (in the secret menu *#*#4636#*#*) and they all returned "failed could not find ip"
It's just so weird how random it is, I can't work it out. Maybe the defy really isn't compatible with three.
If anyone's got any ideas please please please leave info below.
One other thing I forgot to mention is that the defy was previously locked to Tmobile(uk) and was unlocked using a simple unlock code, no hacking or modding involved
Hi mate,
I've been using my defy on 3 UK with no problems since Jan. I've been on eclair the whole time. Currently the 2.51 stock.
Olly
Hi All,
any of you had any problems getting HTC to repair issues with unlocked bootloaders? My phone is literally under two weeks old, unlocked bootloader (because I can't resist :-( )
Basically the wifi is consistently 'restarting' itself for some reason - I'll be browsing and randomly it'll tell me the wifi is off, then turn itself back on again. I can verify this with the program 'wifi analyzer', it'll work just fine and then intermittently just drop out. Also the wifi icon disappears from the status bar, and will reappear.
I have flashed back to stock kernel and rom with exactly the same issue - I thought it was my home wifi at first (otherwise I wouldn't have unlocked!), but have verified it in my workplace too.
HTC are asking me to send it back, but I'm wondering how likely it is they say I broke it with a custom ROM =-/
There are loads of threads for this.
It's luck of the draw, really.
I thought that might be the case :-( Ugh, slightly frustrating, but I suppose that's what I get for unlocking. I wonder if Vodafone would be any more forgiving...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631466