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Weird Problems & Diamond almost dead (software/ROM)

Some days ago, i've flashed my phone to get an "up-to-date" ROM. I chose "PDACornerIllusion 21139" of 2009.03.06. All went fine excepting the keyboard of my GPS wont work anymore (dunno why of course), so i re-flashed with another ROM.
I was surprised that my phone kept the CornerIllusion BootScreen, but i didnt care.
All of a sudden, after having soft reset the ROM i chose (the 2nd one), for an installation of some proggie. The ROM restart as brand new asking me to reset the screen, the clock, date etc... losing all my content and customizations. Then i couldnt sync with Outlook after the first sync i've done minutes ago (error code 800004005). I've decided to soft-reset the phone, and now, TF3D wont even start, (it selft tries to start several times, then gives up), AND the programs lists is all broken, no shortcuts left and the games folder is named *h1/4Eg+ç^, nothing works anymore.
I flashed with about 4 roms (including Aztor one), resulting in the same mess.
Does it have something to do with the first one "PDACornerIllusion 21139" and its still remaining BootScreen?
Can i flash my phone from its roots, to get rid of this ?
As it's maybe not the "fault" of PDACornerIllusion, i write this in this section of the Diamond general thread and made a double post at PDACornerIllusion development thread

I suggest you perform a hard reset before flashing any new rom and that you use the traditional "flash-from-PC-using-ActiveSync-connection" method to flash.
And above all I wish you luck!

What was the other ROM you flashed? I am curious.
rondol1 suggests you hard reset prior to flashing a new rom. I suggest you hard reset after flashing a new rom. Net result is probaby much the same. You could even just do a hard reset now with whatever is loaded and things will probably improve. Main thing is...whenever you flash a rom do a hard reset straight after loading it. I always do this religiously and with the exception of one recent rom I tried I have never had a problem.

First of all, thank you both for trying to suggest hints, i really appreciate it.
I've never hard reset the ROM before or after having installed a new one. I never have a problem before.
For the last 2 months, i was on NEON 1.28, then i've decided it was time to update seeing the new features of the more up-to-date ROMs
I've just reflashed it (an hour ago) with PDACornerIllusion 21139, i've hard reseted before and after. let's see how it turns out ....
I've tried NATALY, CLOUDY, MORNA & AZTOR, no luck with any of them, all died after a soft reset or after the 1st sync (reconnecting for a 2nd sync).
Maybe the problem comes from the very root of the phone (like BIOS in a PC, dunno), maybe something in there got corrupted. How to repair it if my guess exists and is it repairable?

dunnno said:
I've never hard reset the ROM before or after having installed a new one.
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There in lies the problem.
I bet you will be fine from now on. Don't ask why you need to do the hard reset - as no one has been able to give a definitive answer - But it is a well known step that many chefs recommend post flash - just do it from now on and you wont regret it.

logger said:
There in lies the problem.
I bet you will be fine from now on. Don't ask why you need to do the hard reset - as no one has been able to give a definitive answer - But it is a well known step that many chefs recommend post flash - just do it from now on and you wont regret it.
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completely agree with logger - hard reset after you flash any ROM. I haven't used PDACorner - so can't say for sure... but do the flash via CustomRUU once... when the new ROM is flashed... do a hard reset as soon as it's complete..
good luck!

let's see then, >>>>crossing fingers<<<<

I've had this happen a lot lately as well. Might have something to do with the newer SYS? Anyway, hard reseting hasn't always fixed it for me. However, flashing back to the Sprint stock ROM (or HTC stock for you GSM guys) then flashing a new custom ROM has always done the trick. Maybe because the stock ROMs are bigger and "clean" out the memory somehow? At any rate, flash stock and then you're good to go. No permanent damage.

no luck, after a 2nd soft-reset, the phone is asking "touch the screen to configure for the 1sy use blablabla", all data's lost again & again...
what do you mean by stock Rom ? the rom that came with my phone when i've bought it ?

I've got the same problem with the Diamond rebooting like a hard-reset. But I always did a hard-reset after a fresh install. I blamed it on the rom and tried several others, including donsalari's "Clean Basic Rom", the Gen.Y Sense 2.1 and 2.5 versions and an older Aztor rom. Same problem every time, the first reboot after changing the device locale works fine, then I set the whole phone up properly and on the next reboot it will come up as if had performed a hard reset.
Additionally, the file system on my internal storage got corrupted somehow, had to reformat. At some point, I also had the impression that data on the phone memory got lost gradually. First the Contact's numbers got replaced by some nonsense characters, then there were numbers and contacts missing, and finally I had no contacts at all. ActiveSync stopped working so I was in the middle of a trip without my phonebook...
I've got two hypotheses:
1) The Gen.Y bootloader messed with the phone (Had tried the Sense 2.5 Gen.Y rom before donsalari's)
2) Flash controller or Flash itself is broken
@dunnno: I suggest you rename the thread to something like "diamond hard-resets on 2nd reboot after rom install"
edit: oops, just realised I resurrected a very old thread... Maybe there's a fix already?

My diamond still suffers from this problem. I tried it again and again with different roms but everytime, at some point all my configuration is lost and the diamond reboots like after a fresh install. Can anyone please help?

I'm having this problem as well :|
Grr, I have to rely on my phone for so much, but it just doesn't want to work correctly.
Help is immensely appreciated.

Well, I got mine to work, I just flashed the stock HTC ROM and everything has gone back to normal. H3PO, I suggest you give that a shot if you are still having problems.

I had these problems when I first started flashing my Diamond with custom roms.
Now I always flash my carrier stock rom first, then hard reset, then flash custom rom, then hard reset and I never have any problems. I have no idea why flashing the stock rom first stops the problems but I haven't had any problems with the dozens of roms I've flashed using this method.
Also I always flash from internal storage, but others prefer using MTTY

I still have some problems with the Contact Database, but flashing some stock O2 Rom solved the "reboot as new" problem.

Cant get Mic to work.

So i flashed my tilt to HardSPL3.29 then ran the procedure to unlock it. So when i insert my SIM card i can make calls but no one can here me. I have read everywhere and cant seem to find the issue. I have tried different radios and OS roms. I did make sure they were compatible. Is there something i am missing? OR did i just make my phone useless?
Thanks for all the great information on here. I could not believe i made it this far. Any help is very much appreciated.

Hard SPL isn't going to touch the microphone, and if you didn't flash a new ROM then the radio should be fine.
Could be a hardware problem, unrelated to the flashing.
Can you record anything, using HTC recorder or notes?

No i cant record anything also.

Running the unlocker flashed the radio.
Flash a new radio and you'll be fine : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=393182
Dave

I did flash a new radio and it still does not work. I am lost with all the different versions and release by different people. I even flashed it back to WM6.0 ATT Rom with the 1.27 radio and i still can make calls but no one can hear me. I am also running hardspl 3,56, When i try to flash a Radio i get a RSA error or something. I then have to flash a complete radio/rom image to the phone to get it to boot. Should i be running a different HardSPL?

hello
had the same problem
i changed the microphone all ok now

Is it easy to change the microphone? I have a similar problem, in that it's intermittent. On some calls people can here me, on other calls they can't. I've tried various radios, but not managed to cure it. It's come to the point where I can't trust my TyTN 2 anymore, and I'm now using an old Samsung phone.

hi
not very hard to change micro but hard to open the phone.
plz any one have link to buy microphone !!

Tmobile MDA Vario 3 no Ringtones... help!

Hello!
I have a Tmobile MDA Vario 3 and the following problem:
I used my phone normally every day, and one day no ringtones are working... I can hear them choose one of the sounds, but no sound if somebody rings me...
what can it be? I dont wanna make a hardreset, because many programs on it and i dont wanna lose them...
I did a hardreset and used before sprite backup, i tested the ringtone and IT WORKS, now i put back my backup and no ringtones working now again, how can i find the mistake in the system? Can i look into the registry like normal windows too?
in another forum i saw someone means it can be the divx player, i deinstalled it, but nothings better...
I NEED HELP... what can i do?
Regards

Can't you just put the programs back on there? It's really not that hard.

ChumleyEX said:
Can't you just put the programs back on there? It's really not that hard.
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Its too much for me...
Its an tmobile device and i putted manually the o2 internet settings in there nobody knows whats the defect on there?
Regards

I could flash and setup my Tilt in no time flat.

Ok, i will do a hardreset, but is there a ROM for the Vario 3 so that i have an original HTC ROM?
And can i flash the phone then to WM 6.5?
Do you have any links for me?

are you on a flashed non OEM rom?

I am on an original tmobile rom, and i i have to reset i wanna change to another rom like windows mobile 6.5, i have to change rom to a htc rom 6.1 and then i have to go to 6.5 right? i wanna put away tmobile settings on hardreset!

Well if you hard reset it will put the oem rom on it. Then you follow the instructions to be able to flash roms on it. Until you flash a rom on it, every time you hard reset it the factory rom will install.

Can you give me a link where i find a description what to do for this?
I wanna flash the rom to HTC WM 6.1 original, and after this i wanna install 6.5 is this the right way??

[Resources] Flashing Your First Kaiser Rom (For Noobs)
No need for interim flashes after hard-spl you can flash a 6.5 make sure you read about Radio update

Maybe you have installed some softwares. let check recent installed softs and uninstall them, then restart. No need to use other rom if you like it
If it still does not work, do hard-reset.
Goodluck

urgent help needed. no sound from my x1!!

I have no sound whatsoever coming out of my xperia x1.
The problem happened when I installed pocketshield and changed the settings a little bit, I uninstalled it hoping that this will fix the problem but still no sound.
When I start SRS WoW it displays an error message saying that there is no audio driver or something like that.
Plz I really need help, i'm posting this from my x1

It happened to me once. You will need to hard reset it, IF the driver is missing.

i don't want to hard reset it it, can i place the driver manually??

I don't think so.

thanx for ur reply. i guess i'll have to do a hard reset, i've been avoiding it cuz i finally have app. and games the way i like this is also why i didn't want to flash another rom.
although i read on another post a simillar problem that was NOT fixed by harrd resetting or even flashing but i'll try and see for myself.
so here is what i'm going to do: as soon as i get home i'll back up some stuff then do a hard reset and see if the sound works then i'll try and flash a 6.5 winmo rom.
but i have some questions first:
1- if i'd like to send the phome to repair as it's still in gurantee period, will they accept it with another rom other than the original? or do i have to flash it agin?
2- can u guide me to a very simple tutorial on how to flash? cuz it'll be my first time.
3- can u also gude me to a good 6.5 winmo rom? i really do care about performance and speed.
thaaanx in advance

ahmedsalem89 said:
thanx for ur reply. i guess i'll have to do a hard reset, i've been avoiding it cuz i finally have app. and games the way i like this is also why i didn't want to flash another rom.
although i read on another post a simillar problem that was NOT fixed by harrd resetting or even flashing but i'll try and see for myself.
so here is what i'm going to do: as soon as i get home i'll back up some stuff then do a hard reset and see if the sound works then i'll try and flash a 6.5 winmo rom.
but i have some questions first:
1- if i'd like to send the phome to repair as it's still in gurantee period, will they accept it with another rom other than the original? or do i have to flash it agin?
2- can u guide me to a very simple tutorial on how to flash? cuz it'll be my first time.
3- can u also gude me to a good 6.5 winmo rom? i really do care about performance and speed.
thaaanx in advance
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1 - The official SE repair centre will not accept it with a ROM that is different from the original. If you want to send it to an official SE repair centre, you need an official ROM on it.. Private worhshops won't care at all, so you can take it there.
Original ROMs:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=475482
2 - How to:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=497511
3 - 6.1 and 6.5 custom ROMs and guides as well:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=477801
I can't recommend a 6.5 ROM, because 6.1 is better for my needs and I didn't like any of the 6.5 ROMs, but that is a personal preference. The newer 6.5 releases are pretty stable and fast, so you won't have problems, though.
Maybe someone else can give you a recommendation.

found the solution
i found what was the reason i had no sound at all
it is all because i installed SRS WoW 1.5
i tried to install it again after a hard reset it made the same exact problem and after uninstalling it it worked fine so i wanted to share this

Coll. Thanks for the info, some apps mess up the drivers and it is always good to know which ones to avoid.

I had the same problem on my Fujisu-Siemens Pocket Loox T830 when I installed SRS WOW. I was able to solve it without a hard reset because I had backed up the original sound driver before I installed SRS. But it teached me a lesson: Never ever touch that SRS WOW thing! It's crap, it completely messes up your phone!

i guess so but SRS WOW worked fine for me before installing the newer version
now they both cause problems

Can anyone help me? Camera!

Hello friends,
First of all, I apologize for my bad English!
I have a HTC Tytn II running WM6.5 ROM, HardSPL 3.57 and Radio 171.09.
The problem I have with this phone, is that the camera never worked properly, sometimes in return for Radio and it works for a few days and back to stop. I do not know what else to do since I switched to the original ROM from the factory, and the original radio, but have no success.
What should I do? Some could help me with this?
Thank you all for space.
Alexander D.

alexandre.cgd said:
Hello friends,
First of all, I apologize for my bad English!
I have a HTC Tytn II running WM6.5 ROM, HardSPL 3.57 and Radio 171.09.
The problem I have with this phone, is that the camera never worked properly, sometimes in return for Radio and it works for a few days and back to stop. I do not know what else to do since I switched to the original ROM from the factory, and the original radio, but have no success.
What should I do? Some could help me with this?
Thank you all for space.
Alexander D.
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Moving to General for Q&A

alexandre.cgd said:
Hello friends,
First of all, I apologize for my bad English!
I have a HTC Tytn II running WM6.5 ROM, HardSPL 3.57 and Radio 171.09.
The problem I have with this phone, is that the camera never worked properly, sometimes in return for Radio and it works for a few days and back to stop. I do not know what else to do since I switched to the original ROM from the factory, and the original radio, but have no success.
What should I do? Some could help me with this?
Thank you all for space.
Alexander D.
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It looks like you need to find a propper radio combination, keep testing other radios

I repaired a customer's phone once who had this problem. He had the original WM6.1 ROM and original radio ROM so I didn't flash any new ROMs. I opened the phone and cleaned out the camera connections, and applied heat to the connections to renew the joins. I put the phone back together and the camera was still not working, so I opened it and cleaned the camera connections again and applied heat. Put it back together, and it started working. Hasn't been a problem since No idea why it didn't work the first time. Looks like the connection just needed to be made secure.