I was changing the COM port in the External GPS settings... the 'hourglass' icon thing came up... and stayed there for ages, so i shut down the phone... and now i cant get it back on!!!!
Tried resetting...holding down the power button for a while... pressing it quickly... but NOTHING :'(
The orange LED is still on... so it's still charging..... but........ what do i do?
Im freaking out now!!!
oh thank GOD......
I reset it again... and it's come back on......
GRRRRRRRRRRR
Try removing the battery and charge cable. Leave them out for 30 seconds to a minute, then connect the battery and try again.
Had to reset it, but maybe i wasnt sticking the stylus in far enough when i was trying before... but yeah... it's OK now....
(Still getting really randomly unstable 3G/HSDPA/GPRS connections though :S)
The lesson here is not to mess with the "External GPS Settings" unless you have a full backup as there is a known issue that it can crash the system requiring a hard reset.
Mike
What are the symptoms of the GPS being knackered and needing a reset?
TomTom can still 'see' my GPS device, it just can't get a signal :S
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Gosh.. this phone is giving me so much headache recently.. first my PC can't detect my phone.. still haven't fixed it yet..
Now.. when I did a sprite backup restore.. The phone freezes!! what wrong with this phone? It's stuck on the main screen now.. all I can do it press the power button!!
Hey buddy all I can suggest (because this HAS happened to me once before).. Restart or shut down and turn the comp back on, make sure your phone isn't connected. Then soft reset your phone and let it completely boot up. Then try plugging it in and it should sync. If this doesn't help, then hard reset. I know it sucks especially if you have never backed up your phone but it usually is the only fix for certain problems. to hard reset, hold down the 2 soft keys and then insert your stylus into the soft reset hole. Leave it pressed until you see a grey screen and then follow the instructions.
ericc191 said:
Hey buddy all I can suggest (because this HAS happened to me once before).. Restart or shut down and turn the comp back on, make sure your phone isn't connected. Then soft reset your phone and let it completely boot up. Then try plugging it in and it should sync. If this doesn't help, then hard reset. I know it sucks especially if you have never backed up your phone but it usually is the only fix for certain problems.
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That's not my main concern now.. the problem now is it freezes after a seconds.. I can't do anything..
get a calculator.. it's fail safe.
DVS_WiNdz said:
That's not my main concern now.. the problem now is it freezes after a seconds.. I can't do anything..
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I'm not sure what you mean by "it freezes". Is it your phone all by itself or is it your phone connected to your pc or is it your pc connected to your phone?
Anyway, when there is a connection and your phone is synchronizing, it sometimes freezes for a while, it comes back after synchronizing. Its annoying and mostly a vista thing
Mesias said:
I'm not sure what you mean by "it freezes". Is it your phone all by itself or is it your phone connected to your pc or is it your pc connected to your phone?
Anyway, when there is a connection and your phone is synchronizing, it sometimes freezes for a while, it comes back after synchronizing. Its annoying and mostly a vista thing
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The phone just froze when it boots up.. Nothing happens when I touch the screen or press the buttons. I waited for 15 minutes to see if it was only a phases.. which it was not..
But it is fixed now after hard reset and restoring again.
Guys, i have a Diamond, but, yesterday the diamond turn off, and don´t turn on, i tried to do a soft and hard reset and nothing, i tried to enter in bootmode and nothing, when i put the battery the screen turn on, and the diamond vibre, but nothing else, what i can do??
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Guys, i have a Diamond, but, yesterday the diamond turn off, and don´t turn on, i tried to do a soft and hard reset and nothing, i tried to enter in bootmode and nothing, when i put the battery the screen turn on, and the diamond vibre, but nothing else, what i can do??
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what did you do *before* your diamond stopped turning on?? unless you had a completely unpredicted system meltdown of your diamond for injecting it with super high voltage. it is rare for it to not power off unless you did something ... so please elaborate so we can assist better.
Ok, yesterday i use the phone like anothe normal day, in the night i turn off the phone, and in the morning, when i tried to turn on, i have this problem, for example, when a tried to do a soft, hard reset, the screen is in black, when a conect the phone to the usb the screen is black, is, i left the phone alone, in 3 minutes the black screen again, i don´t know why.
any LED activity when plugged into USB?
I think it is a major manufacture problem
I had the same problem, taking out the battery waiting a while and inserting it back, will solve the problem for some time but it will happen again.
Finally I sent it to the HTC support center.
I don't understand why HTC didn't recall.
If you'll search this forum you'll see the same problem in different stages, some times it's a blank screen but the phone will ring and some are just freeze.
Hi, I've had my Diamond for about a month soon and it started earlier this week by not wanting to come on at all. Been taking out the battery for a few days but eventually got fed up and did a hardware reset tonight. Not long after that it just suddenly turned itself off and I couldn't get it back on again. I thought I'd pack it back into the box it came in and send it back tomorrow and took out the sim card. After that it came to life again.
Happened to get a call after that and that call was suddenly disconnected without any reason.
So I am not very happy with this phone at the moment. Would appreciate any advice or if you know for sure it can't be sorted maybe I should send it back and ask for another one?
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any LED activity when plugged into USB?
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Nothing, but one time the pc detect the phone, but later nothing.
No Led activity either on mine when it went dead.
When the Phone goes dead, try cooling the phone down as much as possible, and try starting it up again.....
There is a problem with the HTC Diamond in that it can cook itself (excessive heat), due to the auto over temp function crashing and not switching off the phone..... (That's what I have been told at least...)
I know over around 5 Diamonds so far that have had this issue, where the symptoms slowly get worse...
Have a look at this thread....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2905775#post2905775
PLEASE P.M. me if you have any of the symptoms described in the thread...
I have been TRYING to get my Diamond fixed under warranty now for 2 months with little success... And I kinda need to know how wide spread this problem is to proceed any further.
could not turn on after blank screen ...
Hello,
I've had the same issue as rmorera, and after I hard reseted the phone all went o.k.. BUT after I reinstalled part of the small apps I use, the phone started to go off again. So, the problem seems to be in the software ...
I believe the cause might be the SRS WOW which I use. I installed the .cab, then the .reg file provided (ufortunatelly I don't remember from which thread I got the files ...). And shortly after, the phone stopped working. I uninstalled the software, and now it works! Could it be that the SRS WoW did this?
I tried to reinstall the SRS WoW and I found that if enabled for "Internal (Stereo)" instead of "Headphones" it gets my phone shut when the WM blanks the screen. If I select the "Headphones" options the issue seems to disappear.
Still, the SRS WoW damages the volume buttons action, but I think this issue is on another thread ...
Hey.
My Diamond seems to be dead. Yesterday and this morning it seemed to be working just fine. Then it begin taking a lot of time to get the screen on and now the phone won't turn on at all.
When I plug in the charger, now, there is no light going around the d-pad, as usual.. The computer didn't even detect any new hardware when I connected it..
When I press the soft reset button nothing happens. I tried booting it to the tricolour screen, but as it doesn't even want to turn on it was to no avail..
Is there any way to repair it without having to send it to an HTC repair centre? 'Cause I'm afraid that is not option..
Or am I ****ed?
Have you tried pulling out the battery and leaving it for about 30 seconds then put it back in?
Yes. It still doesn't turn on.. ):
Really need help guys. My SGS is doing REALLY funny things...
I just got my SGS a few days ago and so far all I've been doing is installing aps on it (no messing with rooting/flashing).
Today, I was trying to get Keis to work. I reinstalled Keis and unplugged and repluggeed my phone a few times and managed to get it to recognise.
Here's the problem, now it ALWAYS says USB connected on the top left hand corner. Everything seems ok except after a few minutes of the screen turning off, I can't turn it back on again. Absolutely no activity. If I try to turn it back on immediately after it goes off, it can come back on again.
Things get weirder. If I remove my battery or turn it off, I can't turn it back on again (it flashes a loading symbol in the middle of the screen for half a second then nothing happens). To turn it back on, I have to plug it in and wait for the charging screen to come on. THEN it comes on.
I've tried doing a factory reset but nothing changed... Is there a hardware fault? Perhaps flashing will solve the problem?
ps. When it's off, I can enter download mode but not recovery more unless I plug it in...
Sounds like a hardware problem on phone, But I beleive its more of a Grounding problem with your usb. Can you try it with another port or computer? Also does your pc/laptop have a grounding pin for its power supply? I noticed I get odd power spikes when I travel to asia as their power is not always good. You can always buy a surge protector for your computer and one for your samsung charger. Other then that see if you can get new KIEs (I Don't EVER use it as its crap and never reconizes my phone)
Also if you want to kick up a storm, get the thing replaced as it sounds like a phone hardware problem as it should not crash when you take battery out. Could be battery but better to change the whole thing.
Try activating USB DEBUG in settings. Check the option and restart.
It should solve the problem. You can UNCHECK again the option and the phone should work also without USB debug activated
It will happen again, it seem to me a problem with some USB port, or some cables, activating a *waiting for USB* option BEFORE the ROM loading
Thanks
Thanks for the advice guys. Last night it suddenly started behaving itself after the 10th or so hard reset *phew*
Very strange problem and I think I will stay well clear of Kies from now on... Samsung make a good phone but lousy software...
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Thanks for the advice guys. Last night it suddenly started behaving itself after the 10th or so hard reset *phew*
Very strange problem and I think I will stay well clear of Kies from now on... Samsung make a good phone but lousy software...
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I have a desire but the samsung daily briefing app, the media player, .... and my desire has some HW problems too
Hi there all,
I'm writting this help in Frustration, i'm trying to solve my lil bro problem. He has Sony Experia X1 running Windows mobile 6.1.
The problem is when it get's to the windows mobile 6.1 logo screen after boot up it freeze's! and i don't know where to go from here.
I've tried to sync it to the PC and nothing!
I've tried removing battery, holding down volume down button + power button, reinserting battering will on charge via wall and PC for 15min's, and removing batter and reinserting and booting again, and NOTHING!!!
i can't make any sence from it please help? What is the next step? Throw at the Wall?
Thankz to anyone that has the time
any details on what action lead to the problem? those normally don't come out of thin air...and maybe that helps finding a solution
what might otherwise help (but will erase customizations and personal data stored on the device) is a hard reset
Best, DK
Ok just found out he was trying to delete something a program, and he can't remember what program! About to try a hard reset now!!!
Also just found out, you/I can't even power it down/off!!! WTF?
Hard reset! Not working just the same thing, tried holding all button in with battery out then reinserted, and the screen went all funny like snow reception on tv?
And one time it come up with 4 colours on the screen, green, blue, red and white!
also when trying to connect to computer usb port it try's to load up but said the phone is locked???
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Hard reset! Not working just the same thing, tried holding all button in with battery out then reinserted, and the screen went all funny like snow reception on tv?
And one time it come up with 4 colours on the screen, green, blue, red and white!
also when trying to connect to computer usb port it try's to load up but said the phone is locked???
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strange, not sure about the snow like screen
the four color screen is the bootloader, you can that when the phone is off and you restart it while holding volume button down for some seconds
there is a quite helpful thread about hard resetting X1, listing different means to do so
have a look, maybe you find something you didn't try yet and it helps
Best, DK
thankz will try post again soon with result's
OK wierdiest thing ever!!!
after coming back to the phone a day later, the battery went flat, OK! charged mobile while it was in bootloader mode screen for 15 min's
Went to try hard reset and magic!!! It finally come up with this screen allowing me to reset by pressing R on the keypad, so i did then, it told me to press space.... waited, waited and waited. It got the better of me, took battery out, and reinserted...
It got further then before, but once again on further it hung there, so i took the battery out and reinserted and did this about 3 more times.
And now magic it works!!! I don't know whats going on i tried all these steps i've mentioned above and nothing had came of it, but now it works!!!
I'm backing the battery is the main issue, it got a lil hot but not to hot to handle, well im no expert i'll leave it with you's
Thankz again for all your help you could offer it did help
that is really weird but I'm very glad you got it going
enjoy