Had a Vario III for 2 weeks now - fantastic device (upgraded from Universal, completely free!). Seem to have a problem with some applications starting really really slowly.
First noticed with TomTom 6, installed to main, maps on 2gb SD (SanDisk Ultra II), shows the splash screen for 5 minutes - then TomTom starts and it's fine. Thought it may be it was something to do with GPS turning on, but Google Maps and GPS Photo works fine.
Now noticed that the same thing happens with Word and HTC Voice Recorder - they both take about 5mins to start up - I just see the title screen.
Anyone got the same kind of problem or know what causes it?
Thanks
*** Also happens with Excel, Powerpoint, Notes, pPod seems slow too. All other apps work fine
I haven't this issue at all. You may want to back up your device using Sprite or SPB Backup and then hard reset.
After the hard reset, you can restore all of your files to see if that makes it any better.
Also, kudos to you for having the patience to wait 5 minutes for an app to start... I have the patience to wait...around 10 seconds.
Sometimes, they do start straight away, usually after a soft reset, but then when they are run again they take ages.
Though I might have to do a HR - just got it all setup how I like it! Maybe it's some other app caused the problem - I did install quite a bit on it.
I'll reset and see how it goes.
Thanks for reply.
Hard reset, reinstalled, all works fine now. TomTom startup <10 secs.
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Someone help if possible! My GPS on my Tilt was working perfectly with Google Maps and LiveSearch... but today i turned it on and it's locking onto a position about 500+ miles away. I have VisualGPS installed and it now is only locking onto a max of 3 satellites (but sees many more satellites) when it used to lock onto about 6+! It also thinks i'm at 57,000 feet and somewhere over the gulf of mexico when i'm currently in south carolina on a trip! I tried soft resetting about 5x and ran QuickGPS a few times as well... nothing has fixed it. Any suggestions?
did you install anything new or do anything major like settings or drop the phone?
Nope...it was working fine one day, and not working the next... phone wasn't dropped and no new software was installed and no settings were changed. Not sure if the chip is malfunctioning or not...but it does lock onto a location... the wrong location.... but it is consistently putting me in somewhere in alabama at the moment
Hi UTZorro
I can't really help you with your problem but I did notice on mine the other day that the satalites would drop in and out quickly and never lock onto more that 3. It was a very clear day with clear view of the sky. The co-ords were out by quite a long way because of it. The DOP was never very good. I restarted and it seemed to solve the problem but it wasn't a good sign. I know I hadn't dropped mine and the quickGPS data was current.
I also noticed that the voice in tomtom was all over the place.. I had to reinstall tomtom to fix the problem and put the voice on the main memory. At the time I thought it might be my 4GB SDcard but now I'm not so sure.
Dylan
Hi
Have you tried leaving it on for several minutes? GPS on these sorts of devices make several assumptions as they try to lock on quickly so you don't have to wait, sometimes that initial lock is wrong due to these assumptions. Either turn it on and leave for it around 10-15 minutes in clear view of the sky or try running QuickGPS, that may help.
I've had this happen now and again, just leaving it for several minutes to get a "proper" fix and all is well.
Regards
Phil
I saw the same problem, i was driving and according to my gps i was going 485 km/hr and i was "flying": above the sea. kept the copiliot log as thought it was funny
I rebooted my kaiser and it went back to normal
This randomly happens to me also on a Stock HTC rom. Not too often though so not a major problem.
Reboot fixes it ...
I had the same problem last week. I Soft reset the device and removed the battery before it booted back up. After about a minute I put it back in and it was OK again.
happens to me as well, soft reset solves the problem... also if you have your GPS app on your SD card removal fixes this as well, very peculiar problem
PhilipL said:
Have you tried leaving it on for several minutes? GPS on these sorts of devices make several assumptions as they try to lock on quickly so you don't have to wait, sometimes that initial lock is wrong due to these assumptions. Either turn it on and leave for it around 10-15 minutes in clear view of the sky or try running QuickGPS, that may help.
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I second this: I had strange behavior after a lockup and it took several tries with 10minute or so open-sky accesses to clear up:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1650269&postcount=31
Go sit on a park bench for 15 minutes or so with the GPS on and open in an app which shows the satellites in view - like TomTom/Mapopolis/whatever and see if you don't eventually get back up to the 7+ birds you normally get.
Good luck!
Richard
recently this error has been happening more frequently to me with TomTom, restarting doesnt seem to fix it all the time anymore... does anyone know what causes this? It constantly showes me somewhere in Ontario, Canada about 500 miles from where I actually am.
Is there a way to disable and re-enable the GPS chip via software similar to what a hard-reset does but without the 30 seconds+ downtime associated with the hard-reset?
This is being caused by Quick GPS. If you have not connected to the internet via Activesync for a while then when you first start your internal GPS or lose sat coverage it diverts to the last stored Quick GPS data for the most prominant 3 sats (they show up as full signal when you look a gps data in you mapping SW) that should be in your area.
Either sync at least every 5 days (on a PC with T'internet connection) or disable quick GPS and be patient for a lock.
Hope this helps.
Hi
I had the same problem, but it seems I found a solution.
I'm not 100% shure, but for what I remember I had this problem very often. like every time I was starting navigation it was wrong, so I had to soft reset - Everthing was fine - till next time when it was wrong again - and soft reset and again, again and agian.
It was so annoying - then on a Polish forum a guy wrote somethign about downloading quickGPS data (what he read here) and quickGPS was the solution, but for me it was to disalbe every sync function - because I set to sync evertime it was possible I believie that was it.
Now I'm using kaiser for about a week and testing it 2-3 times a day. and it never failed. I'm not 100% shure it was it - but it looks fine now.
So after a few days after I originally posted with this problem, it noticed it had spontaneously fixed itself after my flight back to town and I pinpointed what fixed it. (keep in mind i have stock Tilt Rom, QuickGPS was updated at the time (about 25x to be exact) and I had even hard resetted and it didn't fix it)... but here's what did fix it interestingly enough:
So, for some reason, if you have flight mode enabled on the phone, then you turn on the GPS (which I admit I did while bored midflight wondering how high up we were) it MAY get messed up like what happened to me. The only way to fix it is by putting the phone back in flight mode turning the GPS back on and then turning it off again and re-exiting flight mode. I have no idea why flight mode and the gps would be related in this siutation (it makes no sense to me)... I didn't believe it myself until I repeated this experiment twice!!! So, i'm posting this for reference to anyone who may have the same problem in the future if their phone was in flight mode and their GPS got activated and then subsequently messed up! Any thoughts?
I have an HTC TytnII (i.e., not carrier-branded) and in the last couple of days it's started behaving very oddly. Whenever I start an app (IE, CommMgr, etc - anything with a new window) it takes ages (~30 seconds plus) to start. I also see redraw problems in my email client (Pocket Outlook) and the machine is generally a big slow and labouring.
Any ideas before I hard-reset?
same problem here
I have the same problem
the worst thing is the phone feature when i want to make calls takes time to recognise the input and very slow..
tired all things, tweaks, hard reset, HTC plug in on today screen off..
i think a new rom from HTC is needed..
Yeah, I wouldn't mind but making a call is nearly impossible.
Don't think a new ROM is required, it's some state it's got itself into. Mine's been fine for the previous 3 months!
MY tytnII is slow too. Help
My tytnII sometimes just become superslow when I have more than one calls on. It takes a lot of time to open any app or go dial pad. Even while dialing, it takes 3 seconds for each button to show that it has been pressed.
Any help shall be highly appreciated.
Thanks.
Webreaper said:
I have an HTC TytnII (i.e., not carrier-branded) and in the last couple of days it's started behaving very oddly. Whenever I start an app (IE, CommMgr, etc - anything with a new window) it takes ages (~30 seconds plus) to start. I also see redraw problems in my email client (Pocket Outlook) and the machine is generally a big slow and labouring.
Any ideas before I hard-reset?
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Did you try running maintenance applications like Pocket Mechanic or SKTools?? These applications clear temp files, cache folders, clear invalid registry entries etc...basically remove junk from the PDA. Make it cleaner and faster.
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I get my Titlt in February, works fine, but 2 weeks ago i was searching the web, and got into a page that runs a script and blocked my phone, had to do a soft reset, and after that, backlight doesn't works, needs to put it brighter manually, power button doesn't works either, had to remove the storage card, because i have there Tom Tom installed and every time i made a soft reset, phone freeze loading Tom Tom, problems to answer calls, bluetooth stop answering or making calls, then phone ran out of battery, and i had it off for 3 or 4 days, then i charge it, and it works fine, but today in the morning i was searching the web again, and went to the same web page, and get the same problem, i don't know what to do, i deleted the cache from internet explorer, and the history, remove the storage card, have 50 mb free in main memory, and want to avoid a hard reset, any idea what's going on, and how to solve it?
Thanks
elduran said:
Hi
I get my Titlt in February, works fine, but 2 weeks ago i was searching the web, and got into a page that runs a script and blocked my phone, had to do a soft reset, and after that, backlight doesn't works, needs to put it brighter manually, power button doesn't works either, had to remove the storage card, because i have there Tom Tom installed and every time i made a soft reset, phone freeze loading Tom Tom, problems to answer calls, bluetooth stop answering or making calls, then phone ran out of battery, and i had it off for 3 or 4 days, then i charge it, and it works fine, but today in the morning i was searching the web again, and went to the same web page, and get the same problem, i don't know what to do, i deleted the cache from internet explorer, and the history, remove the storage card, have 50 mb free in main memory, and want to avoid a hard reset, any idea what's going on, and how to solve it?
Thanks
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for starters i would STOP going to that page since it seems like they have a bad script on their site. secondly it looks like you are going to need to do a hard reset if you want to completely eliminate the problem. Its hard to tell whats going on or how to solve it without knowing what function(s) the script was trying to perform.
elduran said:
Hi
I get my Titlt in February, works fine, but 2 weeks ago i was searching the web, and got into a page that runs a script and blocked my phone, had to do a soft reset, and after that, backlight doesn't works, needs to put it brighter manually, power button doesn't works either, had to remove the storage card, because i have there Tom Tom installed and every time i made a soft reset, phone freeze loading Tom Tom, problems to answer calls, bluetooth stop answering or making calls, then phone ran out of battery, and i had it off for 3 or 4 days, then i charge it, and it works fine, but today in the morning i was searching the web again, and went to the same web page, and get the same problem, i don't know what to do, i deleted the cache from internet explorer, and the history, remove the storage card, have 50 mb free in main memory, and want to avoid a hard reset, any idea what's going on, and how to solve it?
Thanks
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Avoid the page.
Hard reset.
Avoid the page again.
elduran said:
Tilt working bad after open internet page
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lol not as bad as your grammer
Out of curiosity, what website is this?
I've had my Touch Diamond for nearly a year now and I've never really had that many issues until now.....
In the past month I have had to reset (ie return phone back to how it was when originally delivered) my phone 4 times !! And in every instance it's been because Touch Flo refuses to load.....
At first I thought it was because I was installing loads of [email protected] little applications etc, but I think it might be down to Microsoft my phone beta...... Although the program has helped me retrieve pretty much everything I needed to retrieve after each reset, it doesn't take long before it fails to sync and everything seems to go bad again.
Last night I tried un-installing the myphone beta app, and due to how slow everything runs when touch flo refuses to load I had to leave it over night...... By the time i got up in the morning it was un-installed and Touch Flo was running....
I re-booted my phone mid-morning today, and although Touch flo took around 5mins to load it did at least load, albeit with the following message...
cannot load \windows\myphoneruntime.exe which suggests it didn't fully install properly..... Anyway I decided to install a registry editor and see if i could find any rogue entries but I couldn't use the reg editor like i would on Windows XP for instance and so drew a blank.
To try and un-install my phone beta properly, I re-installed it and synced which went without a hitch. Then I rebooted my phone and again Touch Flo does not run.... So I'm almost certain something in this My Phone beta is a problem which is probably why its still in beta....
Just wondered if anyone else had similar problems / Issue's? And also if anyone can give me advice regarding the reg editor......
Thanks in advance....
I had a problem with touch flow not loading, it didn't start up wich caused my phone to refuse to do anything else, after a couple of minutes my screen went black(backlight shut off and phone went into standby) and i could only use soft reset to turn it on again.
I never got around solving it untill i just turned off touch flow in the today screen, installed spb shell 3.0 and now i never have any problems.
So other then tunring off touch flow i don't know what you could do.
I've had to reset my device..... I've failed in all attempts to try and correct it... So after resetting and NOT using Microsoft My Phone Beta to restore all my contacts, photo's, text's etc we'll see how long it lasts this time.
My stock T-Mobile Vario 3 has been performing fine for two years, until yesterday when for some reason Bluetooth would not enable when I clicked on the icon (otherwise the phone seemed fine) so I did a basic Windows shutdown/reboot as I have plenty of times in the past.
The boot initially got stuck on the first white T-Mobile boot screen with the ROM/etc revision numbers on, and would not go any further. I removed and re-inserted the battery and tried again several times, and after a couple of tries it managed to get as far as the first green Windows load screen before sticking again.
I think it must have hard-reset itself at some point during these attempts though, as now it will sometimes go as far as the default "tap screen to calibrate display" message, which I can tap and then see the central cross-hair. If I tap on this quickly enough it sometimes moves the cross-hair up to the top-left, but then it locks and won't do anything else unless I disconnect the battery again. That's the best I've been able to get it to do so far.
Help! Any ideas?
Andre
I came to the conclusion that I wasn't going to get my old system back so I forced a hard reset myself (two soft-buttons & reset hole) and it has now reloaded to factory default, but as least it's working which I rather doubted it would be.
Photos, music etc were all on the memory card, and contacts/calendar info were daily synced to my PC, so there only some old SMSs lost which isn't too bad.
Oh well, I guess I can now look around for a more modern ROM for it (now that there's nothing on there to backup/reinstall). Anyone got any particular favourites? (as there do seem to be a lot around!)
Andre
andrewilley said:
I came to the conclusion that I wasn't going to get my old system back so I forced a hard reset myself (two soft-buttons & reset hole) and it has now reloaded to factory default, but as least it's working which I rather doubted it would be.
Photos, music etc were all on the memory card, and contacts/calendar info were daily synced to my PC, so there only some old SMSs lost which isn't too bad.
Oh well, I guess I can now look around for a more modern ROM for it (now that there's nothing on there to backup/reinstall). Anyone got any particular favourites? (as there do seem to be a lot around!)
Andre
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Since there are a lot roms out there, the only one who knows what is looking for is you..yes...you...Andre because, what's favorite for me probably will not be "favorite" for you, that's why there are so many options out there. Try a couple of them (6.1 or 6.5) it does not take a long time to flash them (< 10 minutes). After that, you will come up with your favorite as many users in these forums. You will definitely will enjoy the flashing and testing the different roms!. That's what I feel LoL