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Ghost device? Not registering..

Hi there,
Firstly, be gentle - I'm new to all this.
My Kaiser has recently started to mess with me. It will not connect with my PC for activesync. I've tried plugging it into PC's at work too all with the same problem: the host PC's do not notice the device being plugged into the USB however the phone will start to charge from the PC's USB.
I've tried disabling the "advanced network functionability" toggle, and even different USB cables.
I really don't want to hard reset the device until I get Sprite working (after an upgrade which I cannot do due to not being able to connect).
Whoever can help will make my Christmas card list this year
Frank.

You can have SPB backup your phone to an executable .exe file on you SD card if you have room and then hard reset.
Only problem with this is when you do a restore, you will probably restore the fault again.
Best option is just to backup your data (no apps or settings) with SPB, do a hard reset and put any cabs back on one by one to check if its one of those causing the prob.

Thank's for the suggestion Farsquidge. It looks like this will have to be the solution unless others have been through this.
It's annoying that WM6 is such a pain. So many small bugs on this device it makes me question where I'd rather settle with a mobile: Versatility + unreliability OR Normal phone + reliability.

effsee said:
Thank's for the suggestion Farsquidge. It looks like this will have to be the solution unless others have been through this.
It's annoying that WM6 is such a pain. So many small bugs on this device it makes me question where I'd rather settle with a mobile: Versatility + unreliability OR Normal phone + reliability.
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I hope someone can help you further on this.
It can be a pain to get them set up just how you want them but once working they are great!
With all the complex functions it has, there is no wonder people have problems (how many times do people reset their PC's or have a game or app crash it?)
That's what this forum is about, no-one knows everything and sharing info is the best way to do it. I find tons of uesful info and tips on here that just keep on enhancing the unit but, inevitably, I may add an app, or a tweak just not right for my phone and have to resort to the old hard reset and put it all back on again.
It's fun but gives you a wakeup kick at times!

Forgot to suggest, if you do not already have SP Backup, (because you cant sync) put your SD card in a compatible card reader on your PC then run it on your phone.

My suggestion would be this - download the trial for SPB Pocket Plus and install it (they have a CAB available). In the settings, go enable the "Safe Mode" boot option and soft reset. When the Safe Mode dialog appears, boot in safe mode and see if your computer recognizes the phone now.
If it does, something you've installed is messing with your phone. Start rolling back installations and resetting taking off the app at the top of the list under Remove Programs. After each app, boot in normal mode and see if you can connect. If not, rinse and repeat.
If you ever get a "normal" connection, you'll know which app or combination of apps caused your problem.

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My suggestion would be this - download the trial for SPB Pocket Plus and install it (they have a CAB available). In the settings, go enable the "Safe Mode" boot option and soft reset. When the Safe Mode dialog appears, boot in safe mode and see if your computer recognizes the phone now.
If it does, something you've installed is messing with your phone. Start rolling back installations and resetting taking off the app at the top of the list under Remove Programs. After each app, boot in normal mode and see if you can connect. If not, rinse and repeat.
If you ever get a "normal" connection, you'll know which app or combination of apps caused your problem.
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Nice one!! I only have the SPB 'Lite' that came on the HTC CD that does not have that option. Will look at their site for an upgrade myself.
Cheers..

help plz my tilt is eating memory

Last night I got a popup saying that my storage memory was low. it was at .05mb. I thought this was a bit low, but I went and deleted some stuff and got it up to 5.5mb. I then actually watched the memory count down to .01. I dont know if this is a virus or what. I tried to use sprite but it didnt work, also there is an icon was added to my HTC launch page, looks like a piece of paper witha windows symbol.
i have HTC Home, touch cube, kaiser tweak, voice command, garmin xt, just the basics. Please help

try clearing the browser's cache. the same thing happened on my old ppc even though I know I didn't have much installed, but clearing the cache fixed it.

I dont think it was the cache that was the problem but i could be wrong, i kept deleting stuff and nothingi did worked. Also when i hooked it up to sync it just kept cycling through the sync.
Needless to say i just did the hard/doft reset back the the beginining. Now I have to decide whether or not to reinstall all the programs or flash the rom

Are you using a cooked or stock ROM? A lot of cooked ROMs will contain fixed-size page pools, and while they are great for performance, they tend to have memory leaks.

i am using a the stock rom

None of the programs you listed are known for causing memory leaks, so I would reload all of them as usual, and see if the problem returns.
It may have just been some registry corruption causing it.

Well Windows is know to cause Memory issues.
Best thing I can recommend is a Hard Reset and Restore all your programs.

thelaserman said:
Last night I got a popup saying that my storage memory was low. it was at .05mb. I thought this was a bit low, but I went and deleted some stuff and got it up to 5.5mb. I then actually watched the memory count down to .01. I dont know if this is a virus or what. I tried to use sprite but it didnt work, also there is an icon was added to my HTC launch page, looks like a piece of paper witha windows symbol.
i have HTC Home, touch cube, kaiser tweak, voice command, garmin xt, just the basics. Please help
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I see you're using Garmin XT, now i don't use that program, but does it download maps? I know that most mapping programs can chew through memory like you wouldn't believe. I use all the other programs and have never run out of memory before...of course truth be told, i've never left a rom on for very long either...

Please Help, Apps Crashing

Hi:
I have installed the JH7 update found here on xda. My phone is rooted with sideloading enabled. I will be honest, I have a ton of apps on my phone.
I have had SO many problems since the update. I had to re-install the update 3 times, because after HOURS of trying to enable sideloading it still wouldn't work. After the third install I was finally able to enable sideloading.
Now, my problem is, some apps are crashing as soon as I open them. The 2 biggest culprits are e-mail, and Shop Saavy. I click to open them, they open for between 1-5 seconds, then close.
Any thoughts? I am desperately trying to find an answer, I would hate to have to hard reset, since I have already spent in excess of 10 hours trying to get my phone to where it is now.
I did have task manager installed, but the problem persists even after uninstall. Also, I used task manager prior to the update with no problems.
Thanks so much!
PS: If I do have to hard reset, can I simply use Sprite backup to restore everything, or will there still be some things that need configuring (ie. home screen etc)?

Quick idea: Download ROM Manager from the Market and run "Fix Permissions." Sometimes that will clear up any force close issues.

a.n said:
Quick idea: Download ROM Manager from the Market and run "Fix Permissions." Sometimes that will clear up any force close issues.
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Hi:
I tried your suggestion, but sadly, it didn't work
Thanks so much for your suggestion though!!
PS: The apps just close, I do not get an error message. I have found some posts with people with e-mail crashing issues, but it seems that they do get a force close message, and that it is Exchange related. I do not use exchange.

Now that you mention it, I have had the stock email client force close upon load a few times since the update, and it had never done that beforehand. Maybe try reflashing just the kernel?

swedishcancerboi said:
Now that you mention it, I have had the stock email client force close upon load a few times since the update, and it had never done that beforehand. Maybe try reflashing just the kernel?
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Hi:
Sorry to be a dunce, but how do you reflash just the kernel, and will it delete everything (apps, data etc)?
Thanks so much!

My 2 cents:
I don't know why it took hours to enable sideloading, i spent only a few minutes - but that gives me the impression that something might seriously be broken.
I would back up everything you want to save and do a master reset - it will clear all data, but you hould be JH7 fresh. If you want to go further, you can reflash factory JF6 then update to JH7. Either way, make sure you check basic apps first before installing a bunch of stuff.
I don't subscribe to the blind grasping at straws method of fixing things. After to many hours it is just faster to rebuild. If you knew what was wrong, then fix it, but if you don't then rebuild.

I agree. If you are needing this to function properly now, then just reset back to factory and start over. But if you are like me and just have to know what is broken.....that could take a while. I always try to make sure I don't have anything on my phone I couldn't live without just for instances like this.
Flashing just the kernel can be done with Odin (search the forum). There is a "stock captivate kernel" floating around (I'd post it, but I'm sure we don't need files posted multiple times). Instructions are included in that post. Basically you need a computer, USB cable, drivers, and bollocks. However, as mentioned, this is a shot in the dark. Random force closes could be caused by a variety of issues ranging from corrupt software, file system inconsistencies, to hardware failure, phase of the moon, appetite level, etc....
The safest bet is to backup everything, flash stock (if needed) and take it back to AT&T for a replacement.
Good Luck!

Hi:
Thank you so much for the replies, and help.
I decided to go ahead and reflash JH7. This has fixed the entire problem. So, apparently it was software related.
I am now going to install all my apps one at a time, in order to find the culprit. Hopefully it is one I can live without lol.
Anyway, thanks again!

Did you ever figure out what app was causing this? I am starting to get annoyed with my force closes and was going to re-flash and re-add all apps.

Hi:
Well, I MAY have figured it out. I had a million programs installed, and it just seemed like too much work to try to figure it out.
So I just re-installed JH7, and started from scratch, so I'll never really know what the problem was.
However recently I started having the same problem again. Since I started from scratch I have been gradually installing programs, just in case one cased a problem.
Well, it seems my problem was Startup Manager. I did NOT disable any system programs etc..., but it was still causing apps to crash, as soon as I froze it with Titanium Backup Manager, the problem stopped.
So, if you happen to be using Startup Manager, I would try uninstalling/ disabling it. Or, if you use a task manager, try not using it, maybe it is stopping whatever Startup Manager was disabling on mine.
Anyway, I hope this was of some help.

Oops, sorry, the program causing my troubles is actually called Startup Auditor.
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[Q] Files missing

As of right now I'm missing pretty much every file on my Internal Storage. No TiBu, no SMS Backups, no pics. However under storage in the settings menu it still shows 9 Gigs Free, which leads me to believe that its there, just not visible... There are some folders, but they are empty or don't contain the files it used to.
I noticed it at 2 AM when SMS backup & Restore notified me that it wouldn't backup because it couldn't find the SMS.xml file. I used Astro and ES File Manager to find it manually and I couldn't, at which point I noticed everything was missing.
Prior to that my phone was plugged into my PC, simply to charge. I was on the phone walking a friend through a Windows update and installing some software, and I plugged into my USB 2.0 port to charge the phone (3 hour phone call), which I've used multiple times. While it was plugged in I didn't really us the PC much other than google searches and reading news\posts\forums. I did however install Avast Antivirus cause I was walking her through it and I've never used it before. I'm hoping that had nothing to do with it. I googled Avast wiped my phone, and various similar phrases and didn't find any similar forum posts.
At this point, I could write a whole book about what might have caused it. I really have no clue. I'm looking for either anyone with a similar experience, or more importantly, anyone with a resolution.
Edit: I have a GSM Dev, Unlocked Rooted. Tmobile 4.4.2 using Faux Kernel.

That sucks dude! I haven't heard of this randomly happening on any phone I've had. Aside from recovery wipe accidents.
Drag!
Sent from my N5 cell phone telephone....

Haven't even been in recovery for a while. Even the backups made in recovery aren't there or aren't visible to the recovery either. I'm not even upset, I've lost things before due to my flashaholic tendencies, but I don't even flash stuff on this phone. That was one of the main reasons I kept this instead of my Nexus5, figured I'd be more productive not having to flash all the time. Might as well get a different phone...
More importantly I want to know the cause so that I and others can avoid it happening again. Almost makes me wish I kept my Nexus5, which now that I think of it, I have a fairly recent backup of on my PC. Who hoo!
Anyone with any thoughts or input, greatly appreciated.
MotoX Developer Edition went from German 4.4.2 to Great Britain 4.4.2 to T-Mobile 4.4.2 no problem. Fastboot FTW!

How to Uninstall Avast Antivirus Completely

Can anyone help me in uninstalling avast antivirus completely? I tried to uninstall it through device manager but it is not uninstalled completely. Need permanent solution of it. Thank You in advance.

Reload the OS. Or try to reset to a restore point before it was installed.
Always make a cloned copy of the OS disk before you install antivirus and other nuisance apps.
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bilmans said:
Can anyone help me in uninstalling avast antivirus completely? I tried to uninstall it through device manager but it is not uninstalled completely. Need permanent solution of it. Thank You in advance.
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And welcome to XDA

bilmans said:
Can anyone help me in uninstalling avast antivirus completely? I tried to uninstall it through device manager but it is not uninstalled completely. Need permanent solution of it. Thank You in advance.
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It is quite difficult to uninstall Avast antivirus completely. The same happened to me. It comes back after uninstalling. To completely uninstall it requires some tricky steps.

andry559 said:
It is quite difficult to uninstall Avast antivirus completely. The same happened to me. It comes back after uninstalling. To completely uninstall it requires some tricky steps.
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It's meant to be hard to uninstall, antivirus... get it?
Reload the OS and be happy.

Can anyone from you guys help me in this problem?

bilmans said:
Can anyone from you guys help me in this problem?
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I don't think you comprehend the magnitude of the problem. There are dozens, probably hundreds of Registry entries that need to be found, deleted or edited to fully remove it. You'll likely damage the Registry in the process.
A reg cleaner app may get a lot of them but it may also damage the Registry.
Could ask the Antivirus company for guidance but I doubt they will help.
Been here, done this. Lol it was probably regedit caused crash&burn #19
I don't discourage exploring and doing regedits but even a small mistake here can have big consequences next boot up.

It is quite difficult to uninstall Avast antivirus completely. The same happened to me. It comes back after uninstalling. To completely uninstall it requires some tricky steps.

Just open taskmgr and find the file location of avast.exe. Now either you can make a force turn off .bat that will disable file running in that folder or with reg keys. You can uninstall it with iobit uninstaller and geek uninstaller too. If some drivers are left over make sure to delete them with Device Remover.

LAST_krypton said:
Just open taskmgr and find the file location of avast.exe. Now either you can make a force turn off .bat that will disable file running in that folder or with reg keys. You can uninstall it with iobit uninstaller and geek uninstaller too. If some drivers are left over make sure to delete them with Device Remover.
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More than likely it will gum up the registry up until reloaded. The OS will never be as good as a clean load. There's simply too much to remove... if you can find it all, which you won't.
A Reg cleaner can easily damage the Registry enough to slow performance... or worse.
PC is not near as forgiving as Android uninstalls especially with a monster like this.
It might as well be malware... a reload is the best solution for an optimum outcome.

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More than likely it will gum up the registry up until reloaded. The OS will never be as good as a clean load. There's simply too much to remove... if you can find it all, which you won't.
A Reg cleaner can easily damage the Registry enough to slow performance... or worse.
PC is not near as forgiving as Android uninstalls especially with a monster like this.
It might as well be malware... a reload is the best solution for an optimum outcome.
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I know that it isn't as android. You can disable running files in a folder using a .bat file (use to use thoes for nvidia gpu drivers) disabeling a file to run through registry will work too because you woun't be able to uninstall it while it's running. It may also depend on stuff like explorer.exe and winlogon.exe and it's own services.
AND NEVER USE A REGISTRY CLEARNER

If you are going for a fresh install then don't conect to the internet untill you disable driver searching and windows updates.

LAST_krypton said:
If you are going for a fresh install then don't conect to the internet untill you disable driver searching and windows updates.
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For reloads I always use a cloned copy of the OS that was configured but has few 3rd party loaded. Never any antivirus.
Haven't had to manually load a OS in over a decade.

blackhawk said:
For reloads I always use a cloned copy of the OS that was configured but has few 3rd party loaded. Never any antivirus.
Haven't had to manually load a OS in over a decade.
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I make a custom install for my self. When I set everything up I delete the recovery partition and clone the OS.

LAST_krypton said:
I make a custom install for my self. When I set everything up I delete the recovery partition and clone the OS.
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My last laptop I upgraded the hdd then simply cloned the old hdd to the new one. The old hdd serves as the backup copy of the OS.
There's been 2 hhd upgrades actually so the first one is as it was when new still missing some needed Dell drivers/system apks.
Yeah, always label and date your backup hdds

blackhawk said:
My last laptop I upgraded the hdd then simply cloned the old hdd to the new one. The old hdd serves as the backup copy of the OS.
There's been 2 hhd upgrades actually so the first one is as it was when new still missing some needed Dell drivers/system apks.
Yeah, always label and date your backup hdds
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I wouldn't make backups often. Before I even started doing android, I was doing windows tweaking, programing, motherboard bios moding, overclocking... I think I had and still have the lowest of the lowest DPC latency on a AMD ZEN 2 CPU!!!. People were telling me thats fake, but in reality it wasn't and it was just me spending countles hours on testing and makeing modifications to my PC. Sadly iv done to much to my motherboard and it barely works now. Flashed new BIOS on both MAIN and SECONDERY bios_chips and still, barely boots, booting in to MAIN bios_chip doesn't work even with fresh bios, secondery bios resets MAIN bios_chip on every boot. No wonder that stuff happend, liquid metal got everywhere on the board, something probably burned because how high OCs I was running.
RAM: corrsair vengance lpx 3200mhz cl 16
my modifications to ram: 1T, 3800mhz, cl13 or cl14 (i don't remember), 1.5V on DRAM. It was running perfect. (don't remember SOC voltages)
CPU: ryzen 5 3600
Laped and I don't remember what speeds I was running. probably could find some screenshots
GPU: rx 580 8gb gddr5
my modifications: core clock 1600mhz, mem clock 2400mhz, my custom v bios, higher voltages and power limits, and I even pushed the speeds of the fans. Liquid metal insted of thermal paster for better cooling.
Motherboard: gigabyte x470 aourus ultra
has a lot of issues.
Now doing android to get a break from all of this, it's just too much some times.

LAST_krypton said:
I wouldn't make backups often. Before I even started doing android, I was doing windows tweaking, programing, motherboard bios moding, overclocking... I think I had and still have the lowest of the lowest DPC latency on a AMD ZEN 2 CPU!!!. People were telling me thats fake, but in reality it wasn't and it was just me spending countles hours on testing and makeing modifications to my PC. Sadly iv done to much to my motherboard and it barely works now. Flashed new BIOS on both MAIN and SECONDERY bios_chips and still, barely boots, booting in to MAIN bios_chip doesn't work even with fresh bios, secondery bios resets MAIN bios_chip on every boot. No wonder that stuff happend, liquid metal got everywhere on the board, something probably burned because how high OCs I was running.
RAM: corrsair vengance lpx 3200mhz cl 16
my modifications to ram: 1T, 3800mhz, cl13 or cl14 (i don't remember), 1.5V on DRAM. It was running perfect. (don't remember SOC voltages)
CPU: ryzen 5 3600
Laped and I don't remember what speeds I was running. probably could find some screenshots
GPU: rx 580 8gb gddr5
my modifications: core clock 1600mhz, mem clock 2400mhz, my custom v bios, higher voltages and power limits, and I even pushed the speeds of the fans. Liquid metal insted of thermal paster for better cooling.
Motherboard: gigabyte x470 aourus ultra
has a lot of issues.
Now doing android to get a break from all of this, it's just too much some times.
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PCs are gravity well for time once you start playing with them.
The less you touch the mobo the better, just keep it clean. Meh, live and learn.
Pretty much why I ran a stock N10+, very little maintenance. More use and less abuse.
My current load is 1.5 years old, still running fast and stable. The maintenance I do is minimal.
My oldest, most stable OS load ever... what's not to like?
It's not like I baby it; I just try to avoid making stupid mistakes. Track down issues when they occur as will happen on any platform.

blackhawk said:
PCs are gravity well for time once you start playing with them.
The less you touch the mobo the better, just keep it clean. Meh, live and learn.
Pretty much why I ran a stock N10+, very little maintenance. More use and less abuse.
My current load is 1.5 years old, still running fast and stable. The maintenance I do is minimal.
My oldest, most stable OS load ever... what's not to like?
It's not like I baby it; I just try to avoid making stupid mistakes. Track down issues when they occur as will happen on any platform.
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Everyone says that. But this opens up a whole new world what I was doing, it is really interesting and you learn a lot from that. I got much better scores with my PC and I can't be more greatful for what I have done. It does take time, is very interesting and you can profit fom it like I did, only If you don't spread liquid metal over the whole borad as i did (happend on acident)

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Everyone says that. But this opens up a whole new world what I was doing, it is really interesting and you learn a lot from that. I got much better scores with my PC and I can't be more greatful for what I have done. It does take time, is very interesting and you can profit fom it like I did, only If you don't spread liquid metal over the whole borad as i did (happend on acident)
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I enjoyed building custom riggs. The thing about heatsink compounds is a little bit goes a long way. The silver stuff can make a huge mess... easily. Anhydrous isopropyl alcohol can be used to clean it up.

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I enjoyed building custom riggs. The thing about heatsink compounds is a little bit goes a long way. The silver stuff can make a huge mess... easily. Anhydrous isopropyl alcohol can be used to clean it up.
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Yea I did clean it. But how it happend can't be dumber, so I was putting some on the CPU and when I fired up the rig liquid metal just started splasheing all over the board. Probably because the heatsink wasn't screwed down copleatly or was putting to much pressure. There was even some in the socket, cleaned it with alcohol and worked just fine.