Hello all,
I am a total novice at this stuff but request a little help. If you have 2 minutes spare please humour me and help out :wink:
I decided to upgrade my ROm etc for the first time and went to the o2 XDA site to do it.
It seemed to go fine. Then I restored my full backup from the xbackup thing, from my SD card. Is this correct? Or have I just undone my ROM upgrade? All my programs are back on but it looks the same.
If I cant restore after an upgrade, how do i get all my photos and other things back on? I can reinstall programs no prob, and contacts and calender will sync from my PC, but what about everything else?
Sorry if this question has already been asked but I tried the search facility and got nowhere.
Thanks in advance
HPJ
PS you never know, one day I might add something to this forum rather than just asking dumbass questions...
Well I got bored waiting so I bit the bullet and did the upgrade with no restore afterwards.
Seems all fine. Gotta reinstall everything I think so i'm slowly working my way through that. I'll keep posting....if anyones reading?! :!: :?:
HPJ
Glad you solved your problem. The reason that you never got an answer is that the topic of should I restore a backup after a new rom flash has been covered so many times before.
I will add a line in wiki BlueAngel For Beginners
Yeah I thought that, but the search facility seems to give so many inaccurate results that it just takes too long to go through all of them.
I'm just not technically minded, as I'm sure many others on here aren't, so more often than not we are stumped by the simplest of things.
Oh well...still far better off with the xda2s than anything else!
I understand your point on the search, it takes time to work it out and some things you just can't search for as they seem to be blocked.
The problem that we have is trying to work out the post that are based on the fact the the user has tried to find a solution and the ones that just have not.
Take the upgrade issue, we have wiki and it points you to a thread that reads Wiki, help me and yes I have read getting started. So Why do we have new threads that read upgrade failed?
On good days some of us point new users in the right direction and on bad days some of us don't. Would be nice if it was not allways the same ones.
That's the problem I had also. I'll search for stuff, but when I get results, a lot of them conflict. Not only that, but in the wiki there are things that branch off onto multiple levels. If someone ran a graphical link checker, I'm sure one would find a spider web.
I've found that I got more precise answers by posting and getting a response than going to the wiki. Although, I actually learned more by reading through the wiki....after I did what I needed to do first.
I use Linux and in the config file for Postfix, there are a million things that you can change. Looking through it I thought I had to change everything. Turns out, after I asked, I only had to make 2 changes to get it working.
I'm sure the mods and the expert posters do the best they can, but I'm thinking some spring cleaning needs to happen....from a newbie's point of view.
Tom
Tom
On the wiki side its an open site, so if you have a login you can change what it says, correct it or even add to it. Thats the whole Idea of it.
I know that its not perfect well I should anyway. However its better than nothing, it can be fixed by us all and not just a chossen few. Please remember that these people don't have the newbie frame of mind so they write what makes sence for them, leaving out information that should be understood by the reader if he is in that section. (Like the kitchen)-
So if you feel that it needs cleaning up then please do it, you have the rights, you have gained the knowlege so its all up to you or others.
Well here's a little update as to my experience upgrading the ROM and all the other bits.
It sucks! My xda2s was damn perfect before I upgraded. Since upgrading I have had to soft reset about 5 times a day, just because it decides to freeze on me.
Then, when you take it out of its cradle, it freezes...EVERY TIME!!! So whenever it comes out its cradle i have to soft reset!!!
Shurely shome mishtake??!??!!
And surely it's been fixed with something by someone on here that has 'the knowledge' (for I definitely do not, in case you hadn't noticed!).
And the benefits?? Er.......well the phone screen looks a little different...ummm.....that's it. I think. Oh yes, did I mention it freezes whenever it bloody well feels like it??!?!
Here's what the figures are now....for those of you that know what they mean...
ROM version: 1.31.00 WWE
ROM date: 12/13/04
Radio version: 1.06.00
Protocol version: 1337.38
ExtROM version: 1.31.139 WWE
Annoyance setting: Maximum
Timescale to be thrown through the nearest window: Imminent
HPJ
Have you got the O2 'today' screen still running (with O2 button top of screen)? If so that's the biggest offender of lockups in my opinion!
I followed instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=18350&highlight=
and since then its only locked once in about about a month...before that soft resent 3 to 4 times per day!
sounds good I'll give it a go now.....will post my results soon!!
My word I think it's worked!
See I knew it would be something simple....just took someone 2 minutes to point me in the right direction :roll:
Cheers vince
I'll crawl back into my newbie hole now until the next problem.....!!!
HPJ
i was in the same situation...only having had my XDA IIs for a month or so...was extremely hacked off that it was so unreliable! BTW did you have the connections.exe or connections.lnk? There seems to be some variation between machines...though moving out either one seems to stop the dreaded O2 software loading up!
by the way, are you using wifi connections? My XDA IIs (and others from searching on the net) seem to have a lot of problems connecting (it says 'connected' in wifi but when you try and go to a website it says "page is not available")....however I found something that said try re-entering WEP keys for known connections....and from my experience this seems to work for me. My Dell Axim organiser never had this problem...so possibly another 'feature' of the XDA IIs !!!
vincexda said:
(it says 'connected' in wifi but when you try and go to a website it says "page is not available")....quote]
For me it happends when your ip and subnet mask (in connection card settings) dont match with the wifi net you are connecting to... the pda found and connect but can not go online because is not a part of the right network (i.e. 192.168.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 usually..or subnet 255.255.255.0 and 255.0.0.0) byez!
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Thanks to one of the BEST members on this forum, XENO1, I can fully sync both my MDAs. He worked with me for over a month and helped me to FLASH both my MDAs and then to resolve my ActiveSync problem. It wasn't a quick fix as we tried many things just to get AS to recognize my MDAs. Then when AS recognized my MDAs, AS recognized them as a Guest. Thus, I could not Sync my MDAs, but I could do all the other tasks.
To resolve the Guest issue and set up a Partnership: He finally told me to: 'Check and see of the registration key on my PC at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows CE Services and see whether a key named GuestOnly has a value of 1. If it does then change the value to 0 to allow you to setup a partnership.'
XENO1 also suggested to post this link to this website - http://www.pocketpcfaq.com/faqs/t-shootactivesync.htm where he believed that info actually came from although he actually found it in a post on some other forum that he can't seem to find again. They posted the link to it in there post though, that's how he found it. It seems to be a pretty in depth AS troubleshooter though. He wishes he would have found that site sooner, it would have been very useful. He was a lifesaver and really worked with me.
That worked like a charm. You don't know how happy and appreciative I am that he found a solution to my 13 month problem. I tried everything else that was posted on this forum and other forums.
So if anyone else is having a GUEST problem with AS, just try this.
Thank you XENO1 and a big thank you to all the others on this forum who do take the time to try and help each other.
TonynMI
THIS SHOULD BE STICKIED!!!!
I thought it was never gonna happen.
I actually thought the HardSPL did it.
He does give a considerable amount of money to charities but this is ridiculous.
Hi,
I have a TyTN ll on Orange(UK) and thanks to these forums all the orange rubbish has now gone!!
I have one issue in that the Device Name keeps changing to WINDOWSMOBILE## even though i keep setting it to a custom name.
Has anyone else had this problem or know how to resolve it?
Thanks in advance
Same Issue on one of my Tilts
Did you ever get an answer?
Thanks!
Same Issue on one of my Tilts
Did you ever get an answer?
Thanks!
ActiveSync on PC used to do that to my Kaiser, but since I removed all devices in PC ActiveSync and set the name in Kaiser, it works OK now after connecting.
No i never got an answer. I left the device name to what ever it comes up with. I put the issue down to Syncing with 2 PC's
Have the same problem. To solve it, ensure you don't use underscore "_" on the device name. It works perfectly with mine.
Hello,
I've installed several roms Duty's, Shap's and HTC original.
I'm setting up a proxy on connection settings.
Every time i turn on Wifi it erases my proxy settings!!
Is there someone with the same problem?
Thanks.
Known problem unfortunately and I have not been able to find a fix up until now - although I think today I might have cracked it.
I will report back when I've thoroughly tested.
Same problem here. The SOCKS server stays however, or at least it comes up by itself!
Opera used to support a separate proxy but now it doesn't. So a fix is needed for mostly anything to work.
chrisnash said:
Known problem unfortunately and I have not been able to find a fix up until now - although I think today I might have cracked it.
I will report back when I've thoroughly tested.
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Thanks,
We will be waiting for the solution.
removeHiddenProxy4CWS_0522.cab
There are two cabs on dutty's Kaiser cab collection that i don't no if they related with
this problem! They are name removeHiddenProxy4CWS_0522.cab and restoreHiddenProxy4CWS_0522.cab.
Can someone tell us what are they for?
http://www.cinetsystems.com/xda/Kaiser Cab Collections/
Thanks...
I've installed the latest roms provided by Alex and the official HTC roms. All of them have the same problem!!! This is really a crap. For me it's a bigger problem then driver's.
you may try ProxyOn.cab in this site (search it)
or go this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=690963
to make it short please take alook at the jpg attachments.
I want to use the Phone as a gateway to the internet, likte original ROM provided.
Sometimes after connecting the PDA with the PC the intshrui starts automatically but now I cannot reproduce this anymore.
Screenshots are the error, the phone details and the rom details
I googled around four days and tried on my own, but no success.
It would be very important that the ics is startable, because im lot on tour with my laptop at people to help,
but cannot establish an Internetconnection to load drivers or to seartch google for the problems people have.
somewhere i read it could be a simple "link" to the intshrui.exe is false in the start menu of Windows Mobile 6.5, but I could noct figure aout how to find and/or change the link to it.
sorry for my bad english I'm from Austria.
Yours,
Robert from Linz
here is the solution for your problem....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4379714
Thanks
Hi,
thanks for the Link!
I changed my PDA because of the sudden death of my Diamond,
so this problem is "solved" i a way
But it's good to know what to do if this happens again.
Thanks!