Any ideas/ suggestions would be appreciated, thanks.
I installed Bandswitch (2.4.3 I think) on my Kaiser (unbranded, original ROM) a little while back. Today I tried to uninstall it, which gave an error message saying could not delete a strangely named file. All seemed ok though, until I restarted my Kaiser - it now won't load past the "smart mobility" screen with the red numbers in the bottom left. I've tried the obvious things like taking the battery out etc, and it hasn't made any difference. There's nothing else I can do - can't used sprite backup because I can't connect it to my PC. Any ideas, please?
Matt
did you try a hard reset?
A very good point! Forgot that due to my panicking at a bricked device! Is back to how it was now - just need to work out how to get rid of that program, but that can wait.
Thanks
omk298 said:
A very good point! Forgot that due to my panicking at a bricked device! Is back to how it was now - just need to work out how to get rid of that program, but that can wait.
Thanks
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If you perform a hard reset, it should be back to the state it was in when it was shipped to you. If the program is still there, was it on the phone when you received it? If not, are you sure you did a hard reset?
I did a hard reset, then restored via sprite backup, so the program is back, but the phone is working again
I was trying to install the Aurora theme on my phone. I was installing the list of programs it required, batterystatus being one of them. Once I installed batterystatus it told me to soft reset, so I did. Since then, the phone either constantly resets or freezes. I went to the batterystatus site and it said that I needed to let it reset 8 times. But I don't know what to do after it has reset 8 times. If I do anything but let it reset it freezes. I am not familiar with this software and am just hoping I didn't brick my phone.
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I was trying to install the Aurora theme on my phone. I was installing the list of programs it required, batterystatus being one of them. Once I installed batterystatus it told me to soft reset, so I did. Since then, the phone either constantly resets or freezes. I went to the batterystatus site and it said that I needed to let it reset 8 times. But I don't know what to do after it has reset 8 times. If I do anything but let it reset it freezes. I am not familiar with this software and am just hoping I didn't brick my phone.
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do a hard reset; you should be fine. a installed program very rarely will brick your phone (flashing is different)
How do I hard reset without being able to get to any software?
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How do I hard reset without being able to get to any software?
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you don't need any software to hard reset. You hard reset by holding the two soft keys and inserting the stylus into the soft reset hole on the bottom of your phone. Keep the soft keys pressed while you push in the stylus.. in a few sec you will get the grayish white hard reset screen. Hit "send" key to start the hard reset and after it has finished it will ask you to re-hit the send key to reboot your phone.
you are a life-saver. I owe you a beer.
someguy917 said:
you are a life-saver. I owe you a beer.
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glad i could help i am muslim so don't drink but you can always donate to xda here to show your appreciation.
thesire said:
glad i could help i am muslim so don't drink but you can always donate to xda here to show your appreciation.
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It's nice to see members with that attitude. Just wanted to give you the props you deserve for that. Nice indeed. +1 in my book.
Suddenly my Sprint HTC Touch Diamond is running extremely slow. TouchFlo 3D will not start. Various things runs extremely slowly like tapping on the start menu takes like 20-30 seconds to come up.
Rebooted several times. Turned off TouchFlo. Phone's still as slow as molasses?
What to do? Flash the ROM? If so, which I'd hate to do, where do I get the original Sprint based ROM?
Update: For some reason \Windows\manilla.exe never gets run. If I run it by hand then Touch Flo comes up. But it's still kinda slow.
Who/What starts manilla.exe?
Simply do a hard reset, this will reset everything back to original rom as in a factory reset.
http://www.hardreset.eu/htc_touch_diamond_hard_reset_soft_reset_en.html
That would be wonderful if I didn't customize things. But I have - heavily. And I'll need to reinstall all my apps. I was hoping not to do that...
defaria said:
That would be wonderful if I didn't customize things. But I have - heavily. And I'll need to reinstall all my apps. I was hoping not to do that...
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But this is the most likely reason it is running slowly... Needs a hard reset and start again - and be judicious with what you re-install.
Before doing a hard reset, have you tried a soft reset??
A soft reset for heavy users is almost required dally in some cases to release the memory from being attached to programs and the OS which is consider to be called "Memory Leaks." A typical problem for all 6.1 Roms.
This slow and sometimes unresponsive behaviour was what also experience as well. There are programs that help memory find it's home but sometimes a good old fashion soft reset is what's needed.
Last thing: Make sure that when you have flashed a new ROM to ALWAYS do a HARD RESET immediately. Not sure if you followed that procedure in your last flash. IF not, I'm afraid a soft reset might not be sufficient to remedy this issue for you.
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But this is the most likely reason it is running slowly... Needs a hard reset and start again - and be judicious with what you re-install.
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This is exactly what I was trying to avoid. A computer doesn't suddenly go from running OK to dog slow when you have not changed anything (I only rebooted/soft reset). The running of manilla.exe doesn't suddenly disappear.
Everything I install I install for a reason.
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Before doing a hard reset, have you tried a soft reset??
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Daily! If not hourly. WinMo is not known for being stable.
A soft reset for heavy users is almost required dally in some cases to release the memory from being attached to programs and the OS which is consider to be called "Memory Leaks." A typical problem for all 6.1 Roms.
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I'm well versed in what memory leaks are. 'Round here we call them bugs. Being in the business for some 30 years now I can tell you that having to reboot an OS periodically is a sign of an extremely buggy OS. Unfortunately that's what WinMo is.
This slow and sometimes unresponsive behaviour was what also experience as well. There are programs that help memory find it's home but sometimes a good old fashion soft reset is what's needed.
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There's a big difference between being slow and being suddenly SLOOOOOOOOOWWWWW.
Last thing: Make sure that when you have flashed a new ROM to ALWAYS do a HARD RESET immediately. Not sure if you followed that procedure in your last flash. IF not, I'm afraid a soft reset might not be sufficient to remedy this issue for you.
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I've yet to flash this phone. I was hoping to avoid it. There are so many ROMs to choose from, some better than others. And I'm not looking forward to having to reapply all my customizations...
i get a problem like this occasionally after a restart. I need to hit the green dial key to get it to ask my PIN. after i enter my pin everything is back to normal.
just an idea
sprite backup
What you should do is when you hard-reset the phone and you have installed all your must-have apps (and the phone still runs smoothly) use Sprite Backup to make an image. This way when things go bad again, just restore the Sprite image to that wonderful time when everything still worked smoothly and you won't have to install all the apps again. Only the apps you installed after the image ofcourse... depends how often you backup
Works like a charm.
Be careful though, when you flash another rom, you CAN'T use the Sprite image anymore!! You have to make a new image then.
Hope this helps.
Auto-Hard-Reset after flashin & Hard reset difference.What if to break the first one?
Sorry for creating a new thread for this, but it's very important. Would be perfect if fards and itje answer here. If you guys do not know the answer, please just answer: "I don't know". Just to be sure. Thank you.
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the argument is that a rom image (that you flash) doesn't always fill the entire memory space so there's a chance that some of the arrays could contain old data as the RUU doesn't clear the space first. It doesn't hurt to hard reset whether this scenario happens or not, just hold the hardkeys down during first boot after it comes out of bootloader ..
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After flashing, during the first boot, there already IS something that looks like a hard reset. Something like "auto-hard-reset". Therefore allow me to ask you 3 questions please:
1. Is this "auto-hard-reset" similar to the manual hard reset(when we push simultaneously left, right and soft reset key, or via Start>Settings>System>Clear Storage)?
2. What exactly did you mean in your quote(its part that I've marked bold)? I've never heard anything about holding any keys DURING the first boot. Everywhere is written: "Make hard reset AFTER you flash." Or maybe I missed something?
3. What if NOT to wait for this "auto-hard-reset", and just manually, BEFORE it happens, make an HR(pushing simultaneously left, right and soft reset key) in time when firmware splash screen is showed? It would save the time... but is it harmless?
Thank you very much for your answers!
I would actually like to know the same thing...
(BTW, your questions are very well phrased J-pro...I couldn't have asked it better myself.)
EDIT: See the following thread topic...it should answer some questions--http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=490860
i've never seen an auto-hard reset so I don't know where you've got that from. Where does it come up that it's hard resetting, I've never seen anything that it does this automatically?
As discussed in the thread you quoted me from.
Some people believe a hard reset will clear anything left over from a flash that didn't get overwritten in the flashing process.. think about it, if you flash 113mb of new rom into a 256 mb rom space then there's some chance that data will be left behind.
There's enough people who find that hard resetting solves problems, so it does seem to do some good.
All I said that you've quoted me,(why not keep this in that thread, we need to reduce clutter not create more)? EDIT ah I see you did, sorry... A pm asking me to look at the thread would have sufficed
is that after you've finished flashing, if you want to hard reset, then do it then, it doesn't take any extra effort especially if you use the microSD flashing method, where you have to manually reset the device anyway!
"Make hard reset AFTER you flash." is EXACTLY what I've written, make the hard reset after you've flashed, and before it goes through the first (very long) boot up.. Saves repeating that long 1st boot again, it doesn't really matter when you do it, it's just this way saves some time..
HtH
Thank you very much for your answer, fards.
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i've never seen an auto-hard reset so I don't know where you've got that from. Where does it come up that it's hard resetting, I've never seen anything that it does this automatically?
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To see it, just wait till the first(after flash) boot ends. You'll see that through this first boot same processes are executed, just as if we do manual hard reset. That's why I named it "automatical-hard-reset". It always happens through the first boot, after flashing.
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Some people believe a hard reset will clear anything left over from a flash that didn't get overwritten in the flashing process.. think about it, if you flash 113mb of new rom into a 256 mb rom space then there's some chance that data will be left behind.
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That was clear from the very start, mate
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A pm asking me to look at the thread would have sufficed
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I'll remember it
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is that after you've finished flashing, if you want to hard reset, then do it then, it doesn't take any extra effort especially if you use the microSD flashing method, where you have to manually reset the device anyway!
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Here is the point. I DO use microSD flash method. And I DO have to manually SOFT reset my phone. BUT while it reboots, my SOFT reset "automatically" turns into a HARD one, JUST because it's the FIRST boot after flashing. I've got such assumption because I saw(on the screen) that same customizing process happens, etc.
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make the hard reset after you've flashed, and before it goes through the first (very long) boot up..
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I would ask you, how can I make an HR(HardReset) if I have to make SR(SoftReset) first? BUT this your quote from another thread partially answers the question:
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HOLD both silver hardware keys down during a reboot.
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Everywhere is written that a hard reset is: Hold SIMULTANEOUSLY SR-button and both of soft-keys. I've never read about HR as: "Make an SR and hold two soft-keys during booting". It's obviously very different definitions.
So now I can answer: YES, we can make an HR during the first boot after flashing, i.e. we CAN interrupt this first boot(i.e. auto-hard-reset).
But the second part is still not clear for me: is this "first long boot" the same as an HR? Just look at what it does(on the screen) and you'll understand that it's very similar(if not the same). But I just want to have things clear.
Thank you very much!
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is this "first long boot" the same as an HR?
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no. It's the same long boot as standard windows when you log on first time... only "finalizing" installation
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no. It's the same long boot as standard windows when you log on first time... only "finalizing" installation
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I see. And this "finalizing" happens also after every HR, right? Just to get things clear: "finalizing" is not a part of HR, HR happens BEFORE it. But "finalizing" happens everytime through boot IF there is no preinstalled files found(which are deleted by HR, OR just absent after flashing). Am I right?
rather than "finalizing" think "Initialising" as the system is going through all the initflashes.dat files and provxmls that it does as a first run, as the flags are set in the system that it needs setting up.
but to answer, yes, not so much that there's no preinstalled files found, but that the registry is set as stock that it's the initial boot I think.
Theres no evidence that suggests it's clearing storage area during the initial boot.
if you think about it, if it was "hard resetting" during that process, then after a manually induced hard reset, (either by clear storage or teh two hardkeys) it would go through the process of hard resetting all over again..
Which sounds a bit counter productive..
But you'd need to remotely connect to the device and watch the process to be certain I think. Either way it doesn't hurt to hard-reset after flashing
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if you think about it, if it was "hard resetting" during that process, then after a manually induced hard reset, (either by clear storage or teh two hardkeys) it would go through the process of hard resetting all over again..
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Not "over and over", just once again. Then after successful "Initialization" it "sets all flags" to "initialized ROM" and boots normally next time.
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Which sounds a bit counter productive..
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Because of misunderstanding of how to make an HR, I didn't know that HR can be done BEFORE(or better to say DURING/AT START) this "first long boot", therefore I always waited till it ends, setting all the parameters, calibrating the screen, etc. and only after that I was making a manual HR. After this manual HR I saw the same things on the screen, did same actions(setting up, calibrating), etc. That was truly counter productive. That's why I asked. Moreover, I think that there are a lot more(than me alone) people, who make HR only AFTER first "long boot" is finished I hope they will see this thread...
But now it's all clear. Thank you for your answers, fards and guap, it really helped!
ADDED: P.S.: You know, guys, after thinking a little, I've got that we can make an HR even when phone is turned off and without using SR-button. If the phone is off, hold down two soft-keys and power the phone on. Nice. That completely proves everything said above.
HRing after Flashing
I always use Micro-SD method when i flash and when it says update success instead of taking out the battery and turning it on, i simply hard reset it from that screen. so i hold the left and right softkeys and then push the soft reset button (this is the only way i can HR, holding L&R softkeys while holding the power button doesn't work for me i have to press the soft reset key as well). this means i don't have to go through the initial long boot screen twice and its a little quicker than taking out the battery and then HRing.
Hope this helps
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ADDED: P.S.: You know, guys, after thinking a little, I've got that we can make an HR even when phone is turned off and without using SR-button. If the phone is off, hold down two soft-keys and power the phone on. Nice. That completely proves everything said above.
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yes sometimes I do this.. occassionally if the screen isn't responding on boot (after tweaking and pushing things far too much) & I can still turn off the x1 with the powerbutton and then OK key, then power back on and hardreset..
if you can do it (ie the device is still responding, but not the screen) then it's easier than pulling the back cover off.. Damn this stupid idea of hiding the reset button!
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I always use Micro-SD method when i flash and when it says update success instead of taking out the battery and turning it on, i simply hard reset it from that screen. so i hold the left and right softkeys and then push the soft reset button (this is the only way i can HR, holding L&R softkeys while holding the power button doesn't work for me i have to press the soft reset key as well). this means i don't have to go through the initial long boot screen twice and its a little quicker than taking out the battery and then HRing.
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yep thats the way to do it (although you can press the soft reset and then press the two front buttons, as long as you're quick enough).
Hey everyone,
i deinstalled the TF2HD B3 and my mobile crashed, so i removed the battery and now my X1 doesn't boot up anymore...
It always shows the bootingscreen of WM6.1 but nothing happens anymore. Sometimes the screen went black and i have to remove the battery again.
Need help.
Thanks to every answere.
seems uninstalling the software removed something vital too
as I see it, you are only left with a hard reset, though that will wipe your personal data/customizations
Draken Korin said:
seems uninstalling the software removed something vital too
as I see it, you are only left with a hard reset, though that will wipe your personal data/customizations
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I think you can only do so....