Ok, A few months ago I got an old(ish) Tilt. It was heavily used and I wanted to install a fresh operating system. I figured if I am going to flash it I might as well instal WM6.5 on it (it had 6). So far so good. I got HardSPL on it, flashed my ****, all good. My phone was working fine. My issue is in the fact that after a few hours though, the phone will slow down or die or something and I will restart it, and then it will not pass the splash screen. At first I figured I bricked it because I tried one to many ROMs and maybe one was bad. I left my phone alone only for a few months later be in a need of a phone so I searched all over these forums, googled my problems, and found out I can actually flash my phone without starting it by pressing the power and camera buttons. I started doing that, going through tens of ROMs but tey all seem to have the same problem. After a certain amount of time they will not boot up again. I unlocked my phone, I even tried cooking my own rom which failed. I am just lost. Why wont any of these ROMs last for more then a few hours?
The phone is am HTC Tilt, HTC Kaiser, It has been unlocked using the KaiserUnlocking utility, has HardSPL, and right now has WM6.1 on it because I needed it to unlock. I am not certain if 6.1 has these same problems as this will be the first time I have installed it. All I am wondering about is why wont these ROMs last after a few resets and a few hours of use. Is there some "anti-piracy" thing built in the kills them? I don't even know. Please if anyone knows anything and can help me out, all I want is a clean, vanilla if you will, phone that doesn't need to be constantly re-flashed. I need a working phone. Preferably WM6.5 but at this point I will settle for anything that isn't too unstable and slow.
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Before i begin: I apologise if this is a common issue, I have done a couple of searches but as i dont have access to a computer atm this was done on my kaiser - not very easy. There is therefore a very good chance i have missed the solution if there is one. Please don't flame if this is the case.
Hi, I'm have a constant problem with my kaiser where if i put it into standby it won't come back out. I have made no changes between it waking up successfully and it now not.
I originally had the stock 02-uk rom which never caused me any problems. I then decided to flash to dutty's rom which i'd heard nothing but good things about. this didn't suit me so i reflashed to confused stu's mob vista 1.2 within the day. i decided to stick with this rom. a week later and everytime my phone entered standby it was refusing to come out. the phone could still receive calls but wouldnt show any signs of ringing and wouldnt allow me to answer them. I decided that as i was about to hard reset anyway i'd flash to v1.3 of mob vista. about a week in again and i cant wake the device from standby.
this is beginning to become seriously annoying and time consuming. I'm not sure if its rom related. all i can say is it never happened on the O2 rom but has on both 1.2 and 1.3 of mob vista. I can't comment on dutty's as i didnt have it long enough.
if anyone knows of any existing threads related to this that would be helpful.
Thanks a lot.
Ok i kept searching and found this thread which has the solution.. i think.
Its to do with the USB advanced network funtionality. With it turned on the phone works fine, when its off the phone sticks in standby.
Does anyone know what causes this. I have always had it turned off as my computer doesn't like it and yet i havent had a problem until recently. would it be to do with WM6.1?
Hi, i have been reading these forums for a while now and they have been a great help in first choosing my phone but also fixing problems with it.
However i think my problems have gone too far now. I have had my diamond for 2 months now and it has been nothing but bad news from day one, for example;
No connection to 3 different pc’s even after advice read on here.
Battery only lasting half a day even with virtually no use.
Randomly switches itself off regularly and will restart with hardly any battery after full charge.
Freezes on a regular basis, whether it requires you to restart the phone or wait a few minutes to work
Often when receiving a call it will not allow you to answer
Have twice had an electric shock from it when on charge
just to name a few probs. Also with a daily reminder of some problem with Manila.
I went back to vodafone and the staff said i might as well try and get a new phone.
Anyone one else on here agree or have any ideas what i should do, shall i try and stick with the diamond?
thomasbradshaw said:
Hi, i have been reading these forums for a while now and they have been a great help in first choosing my phone but also fixing problems with it.
However i think my problems have gone too far now. I have had my diamond for 2 months now and it has been nothing but bad news from day one, for example;
No connection to 3 different pc’s even after advice read on here.
Battery only lasting half a day even with virtually no use.
Randomly switches itself off regularly and will restart with hardly any battery after full charge.
Freezes on a regular basis, whether it requires you to restart the phone or wait a few minutes to work
Often when receiving a call it will not allow you to answer
Have twice had an electric shock from it when on charge
just to name a few probs. Also with a daily reminder of some problem with Manila.
I went back to vodafone and the staff said i might as well try and get a new phone.
Anyone one else on here agree or have any ideas what i should do, shall i try and stick with the diamond?
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the only way to make it beter is use a cooked rom
look at my sig...for help
cooked roms walk all over standard roms
I agree that you will probably have more success with a custom ROM, but it appears to me that you don't even have the basic functions working to a satisfactory standard.... before you flash your ROM and invalidate your warranty, insist on having the handset replaced.
Then, when you have one that works properly, you can consider flashing with a custom ROM and enjoying better performance.
I own a raph and the battery at first was awful. Now with a custom rom and some tweaking It'll stay on for 2 to 3 days with basic use. Install diamondtweak and enable all the energy tweaks. You getting schocked by your divice is wrong, and install touchlock pro or s2u2 to stop it from answering calls in your pocket. I have my device sync with mac and windows vista, I suspect you are doing something wrong because I don't hear a lot of complaints about not being able to sync. If your decide to update to a custom ROM you can still flash back to your old one for warranty. If you cant find yours on the forum you can always try to dump it yourself, do install Hard-SPL before you install a custom ROM, 12
Cheers guys, it isnt turning off in my pocket, if i leave it on a table and the screen turns off, rather than being able to turn it back on it has switched off! also i bought the diamond because of xda-devlopers cos i wants to update to a custom rom and have you lot being able to help. unfortunately it has be problematic since the first week but i will talk to vodafone again then hopefully i can get down to adding a custom rom etc..
I don't have any of the problems you have got.
I suggest you take it back and insist Vodafone swop it for ones that works properly. You will not be able to do that if you flash a new ROM onto it because that invalidates warranty.
Been lurking around for quite a bit now, been flashing my diamond since i discovered xda-dev, and with that goes out awesome thanks to the chefs out there for pushing what our phones can do, and how quickly they do them!
Though I've run into a problem that search cant seem to find an answer to!
My Diamond requires a Hard Reset about every 12 hours, and if it doesn't, then all programs disappear, and eventually it'll hard reset itself!
I was running CT's 6.4 for 2 months without a single lockup, decided to flash topaz r6, then back to CT's 6.4 and then bam, problem started. I've tried numerous roms, seems to have developed into a chronic problem with all of them.
I've managed to uncover this problem, or very similar to this with other devices, especially when moving to a wm6.5 rom, and it seems the fix is to flash back to a stock rom, then to the rom of choosing!
But this is where I'm on the confused side. My phone is a branded (rogers) diamond, htc doesn't seem to have released a stock rom for this phone, so I'm not sure how to go about fixing the problem!
If someone has some insight, you'd be a huge help! Thanks!
Just flash ANY stock ROM. Doesn't need to be branded. Just one that is not cooked. Any one that is released by HTC or a Telco should do the trick.
if flashing a stock rom doesnt fix your problem have a look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3433851&postcount=22
cobbs,
After 3 weeks, that quick fix solved the problem right away!
I appreciate you digging out that answer for me!
Hello everyone, I don't know if this is the right place for asking this, but I'm in quite a big problem.
I've had my HTC Diamond since December and I've flashed it to several different roms many times since then. Never had any problem at all.
But during the past two weeks my phone just started acting crazy. It would all of a sudden crash and even if I took out the battery and placed it in again, it wouldn't boot up. I'd have to wait until I got back home to flash the ROM again, so I could keep using the phone.
BUT the problem is that ever since then the ROM keeps hard-resetting itself every few hours. Sometimes it might last for a day or two without doing anything weird. But all of a sudden it might just crash, and when rebooting the phone would act as if it was the first time running the phone (you know, with the screen calibration, time settings and all... and then having to import all of my contacts and calendar again, not to mention any application).
This hard-reset also happens randomly when I turn the phone off and on again. Sometimes it loads up normally, sometimes it goes to factory settings again.
Now, I wouldn't be so worried if this wasn't happening WITH EVERY SINGLE ROM that I'm trying. Both Windows Mobile 6.1 and 6.5 roms. Even those that I've used in the past without any problem. They all hard-reset themselves at some point or crash and get unable to boot until I flash another ROM again.
I've also tried fully hard-resetting the phone myself -both the phone memory and the internal memory- and even flashing different Hard-SPLs and Radios.
It still goes on the same though.
Anyone has any suggestions?
Or is my phone dead forever now?
Thanks in advance for the help!
Have you tried to instal stock roms? If they work, install cooked rom with the same version as stock. Might help.
I have the same problem since a few days... Have you solved it yet?
I'm having extactly the same strange issues... Does anyone have any idea on why this is happening? I'm going out crazy!
This happens sometimes after you've installed numerous ROM's.
You'll need to use an app called 'Mtty' to sort out the problem, then flash ROM again and it should work fine.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-231190.html
Look on google/do some research before using to make sure you understand what it is mtty.exe is, and how to use it.
thank you for your quick answer cymru, but i resolved flashing a stock rom and then reflashing the cooked one ad suggested by kosherpig.
Bye!
Hey all,
I posted a while ago about my phone having died and only having red flashing lights...I managed to solve that- thanks for you help, but now have a completely different problem.
Since then about a week has passed and approximately every 36 hours the phone seems to crash. When I take out the battery and turn it on again it invariably hangs at the Ericsson logo screen. When I then leave it off for a period of time (between 2 and 12 hours) I either find it starts to work again, or that I'll have the red flashing lights and have to leave it for longer.
When it does start working, it always seem to have been hard reset and I have to go through the set up again.
It's possible heating the battery speeds up how long it takes to start working again (although I've tried it with 2 batteries so I'm not sure why that would work) - and I'm not sure if that is actually the case yet or not anyway.
- It's very frustrating to lose all of my contacts daily, but I don't want to give up on £250 worth of kit... any ideas?
Thanks so much
welbis said:
Hey all,
I posted a while ago about my phone having died and only having red flashing lights...I managed to solve that- thanks for you help, but now have a completely different problem.
Since then about a week has passed and approximately every 36 hours the phone seems to crash. When I take out the battery and turn it on again it invariably hangs at the Ericsson logo screen. When I then leave it off for a period of time (between 2 and 12 hours) I either find it starts to work again, or that I'll have the red flashing lights and have to leave it for longer.
When it does start working, it always seem to have been hard reset and I have to go through the set up again.
It's possible heating the battery speeds up how long it takes to start working again (although I've tried it with 2 batteries so I'm not sure why that would work) - and I'm not sure if that is actually the case yet or not anyway.
- It's very frustrating to lose all of my contacts daily, but I don't want to give up on £250 worth of kit... any ideas?
Thanks so much
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LOL,
no idea why.
Installed any tweaking software??
Sadly no - and I've tried it with 2 different roms too
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Sadly no - and I've tried it with 2 different roms too
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Heh, don't know.
Maybe some other rom's installation messed up something....
hmm... I faced the same problem...
So.. I did have to send it for repair :S ....
maybe i have the same problem... many roms tried, many soft and hard-reset, but the lifetime cycle of the phone before to re-flash the device is at maximum 1-2 days... now i'm trying the tips about quickgps (maybe could be correlated) on the thread in this forum... but the most probably truth i think that could be an internal memory rom damage... if anyone find a soluzion about this problem via software i'm here...
I seem to be having the same problem.
A week ago i tested the latest roms with winmo 6.5.1, after several roms i settled with a rom with build 23081, enabled htc sense, played around abit and went to bed and put the phone to charge. when i woke and touched the screen, the phone immediately froze.
After removing battery it froze again in SE boot screen and after second removal of battery the phone hard reseted it self.
The phone has been freezing and flashing itself ever sense, sometimes the uptime is minutes sometimes over day.
Currently the phone has survived 3 days without a spontaneous flash, the only difference is that i didn't bother to enable htc sense last time it flashed. So i enabled htc sense once again and will see if the phone survives a day.
ristiisa said:
A week ago i tested the latest roms with winmo 6.5.1, after several roms i settled with a rom with build 23081, enabled htc sense, played around abit and went to bed and put the phone to charge. when i woke and touched the screen, the phone immediately froze.
After removing battery it froze again in SE boot screen and after second removal of battery the phone hard reseted it self.
The phone has been freezing and flashing itself ever sense, sometimes the uptime is minutes sometimes over day.
Currently the phone has survived 3 days without a spontaneous flash, the only difference is that i didn't bother to enable htc sense last time it flashed. So i enabled htc sense once again and will see if the phone survives a day.
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i had approximatively also the same problem... i'm trying to understand what is the reason of this instable situation... gps location? memory? graphic instance that use HTC sense? is heavy to understand... if anyone could also find the right solution...
was having the same problem tried the method in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=540290 and it is working on my X1 so far
lebkom said:
was having the same problem tried the method in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=540290 and it is working on my X1 so far
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Did the "task 29" do anything?
I tried the method suggested but no change besides hard reset. And the X1 froze about 12h after that...
ristiisa said:
Did the "task 29" do anything?
I tried the method suggested but no change besides hard reset. And the X1 froze about 12h after that...
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ye mine did it again aswell this morning
i just tried hard reseting then install a stock rom then hardreset again and install a custom rom, will let you know if it works
Do you guys often use Opera Mobile?
Ahah!
Very encouraging to see other people had the same difficulties... and I suppose that it's just a question of making sure a fresh ROM flash works properly.
Sadly mine has reached the stage where it's no longer working for 'a day' before crashing... it's just pretty much dead.
Now I can bring up the tricolour screen if I'm plugged in, the ROM then begins to flash off the memory card, but crashes half way through every time.
I have tried this with 2 batteries, one of which (which I have used once and was working fine but only lasted 2 days before breaking) now does nothing whatsoever. The other lets me get half way through the flash every time.
- I can't send it back on the warranty until I reflash it myself (and I don't have a receipt anyway) so I'm going to go find a high street mobile fixing place and see if they can help.
hardresetting then flashing a stock rom (R3A generic) then hardresetting again then installing custom rom and hardresetting, definately fixed my phone, has been working for more than 2 days now it usually stops in less than 1 day.
FYI - high street phone guys managed to reflash the device for £15....it lasted 4 days but has just died again.