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Every time I try to do the rom upgrade for my PDA2K the device does a soft reset (when it's reset it then reconnects to activsync, and the green logo reappears) and after a while the ROM upgrade software tells me there is an Error 101 Connection Error. It's driving me nuts, I've tried all sorts of variants, soft reset first, hard reset first, USB port, USB2 port, Activesync 3.7.1, activesync 3.8, Windows XP, Windows 98. I don't understand why there is a connection error, because I can connect to activesync correctly, it even reconnects after the ROM upgrade causes it to do a soft reset. Please help! I've even tried following directions to copy the temporary files and running those directly but the result is the same.
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Try connecting your device then stopping activesync (task manager, then stop "WCESCOMM.exe" in XP), then run the upgrade.
Regards,
Dom
Hi,
Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately the process kept reappearing during the attempted upgrade and I still got the Error 101 message.
When activesync starts, let it complete the sync and then go ahead and run the upgrade. I experienced this last weekend
victor
I've tried it dozens of times. I've let it sync on many occasions, and I've also tried it on many occasions with it connected as guest.
I tried iMate online support for the third occasion regarding this matter, and as before once I tell them what the problem is they then don't respond (they also never respond to my emails either).
I have actually considered hiring a laptop for 24 hours, just in case it's my Mac that is causing the problem (but I'm using Microsoft Virtual PC running Microsoft Windows XP to upgrade the ROM on a phone running Microsoft Pocket PC, so I really don't see why it shouldn't work. Normal sync, and installing software via Activesync work fine. I'm on the brink of selling the device because it's just caused me too much grief. The trouble is, it's put me off ever buying another Pocket PC, and I cannot find a suitable alternative. Every device I read about has some reason why it wouldn't be suitable.
At last I've had the opportunity to do the ROM upgrade on a 'real' PC running Windows XP.
It behaved in EXACTLY the same way as running Virtual PC on my Mac (even down the the odd delay before Activesync recognises that the phone is connected - I had assumed that this was because of the inefficiency of running an emulator!).
Error 101 connection error every time. Firewall switched off. Tried with and without hard reset.
I wonder if there could be a hardware fault with my phone? The pins on the phones connector all look fine.
Now I am really stuck, I seem to have completely run out of options (and I don't want to send the device of the the middle east either!).
One last idea. Is there anything more than a hard reset? I've just removed the battery. If the unit is completely deprived of power will this take it back to factory settings any more than a hard reset?
NOPE!
Hard Reset is the best you can get bar removing the insides of the phone and swapping it with someone else's!!!
Dom
if you do remove the battery you need to put the lock switch back into the postion as if it the battery was in. This seems to make the phone think that the battery is dead and then drain the internal backup one.
I am planning to hard reset my phone since Active Synch via bluetooth is just not possible. My laptop only sees a bluetooth modem and refuses to acknowledge the existence of Active Syncn on my phone. I just wanted to know when I hard reset what happens? Will all the softwares I installed disappear? Will I have to re-intall them? Also how do I hard reset the O2 Mini S. Thanks.
Hi all - I have a weird problem for which I am hoping people here would have a resolution. Recently bought a Tytn II,
ROM Version 1.81.415.4 WWE
ROM Date 10/29/07
Radio Version 1.27.15.32
Protocol version 22.51.88.13W
Using with a 2 GB memory card
Now, i have noticed a few times that the device just does not come out from the standby mode - the Green LED indicating that the GSM is on is flashing, but when I try to call into it using anothe rphone, it indicates being switched off or not reachable. I try to start is using the power key, or any number of keys without luck - the only way out is a soft reset.
I have seen some people quote a similar problem, but not inding a resolution there, am posting this up here
Pls help - I am extremely reliant on this as a business device and will get stuck if it behaves like this
Have you tried a hard reset? I know some radio's/ROM's have this issue
mine started doing that a while back and I found that it was a combination of my phone automaticly reciving an email while it was asleep and this program I had that gave you points for AP's and cell towers I forget what its called after I got rid of that program and changed my email to retrive manually the problem stoped
What apps would I need after a hard reset ?
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Have you tried a hard reset? I know some radio's/ROM's have this issue
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Hi - thanks for the valuable advice. I would do so - however, another problem is compounding the same - I got this from a friend, and dont have the getting started CD that comes with the pack - can you tell me about, on a hard reset, what apps would I need to reload from the getting started CD? Or would I not need the CD ? I have all the other contact data with me on Outlook, and the other files I have copies of on the computer, so I don't plan to use a backup/ restore.
The only thing I have noticed that gets changed is the sensitivity resets to default usually which can be changed back in KaiserTweak or Advanced Configuration. I would say if you have never done any ROM or Radio changes to the device, and its a new phone its probably got something wrong with it. That gives you 2 options. 1 - take it back and get it replaced if you can, or 2 - follow the WIKI and change you ROM/Radio, but read WIKI because you will need to HardSPl before flashing anything.
I had the Standby of Death SOD this is when the phone fails to come out of standby with a power button press. This issue only affects some people on some networks. I'm not sure if its a network problem or a software problem but as only a minority of people have it, I suspect its mainly a network problem there is a software solution.
The solution is to change the phone settings band option from auto 3G/2G to either 3G Only (WCDMA + UTMS 2100 in Europe) or 2G Only (GSM + AUTO) depending on your requirements.
Also read this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=540943&highlight=standby&page=2 where the resolution was to get a new SIM.
Obviously this only solves the problem when the crash is because of the sim and/or settings which impact the sim. To rule out a software cause its best to start with a hard reset.
I have the same issue once in a while. In my case gwes.exe hangs at that point which after that i have to soft reset. Still have no fix found though
I'm sorry but my fix wont work for you as its only for people whose phones only crash in standby there is no gwes.exe hang associated with it. Obviously it only solves the problem when the crash is because of the sim and/or settings which impact the sim. To rule out a software cause its best to start with a hard reset.
@nlel
I allready tried a hard reset but the problem returns after a certain time.
The gwes.exe does not hang when using the device, it only hangs when resuming from standby and does not allways occur.
Well in your case its very obviously a software or hardware problem and nothing to do with the SIM and/or settings which impact the SIM. I don't know what else to suggest if my solution doesn't help I don't know what else you can try to do btw how do you know gwes.exe is crashing when resuming from standby.
When it happens to me (because of phone band type set to auto) I cannot see what is happening on the phone at that precise moment as I have to soft reset. There is nothing that is obviously crashing at the same time.
By the way gwes.exe according to MSDN, its Graphics, Windowing, and Events Subsystem. GWES loads display drivers, printer drivers, and touch screen drivers, maybe you have a hardware fault.
Does it happen to both your Tytn II's?? and have you tried my solution or a new SIM ?
Howdy,
Lately I started experiencing access issues with the phone. One of these is the screenshot issue. The screenshot gets taken, although the phone says Couldn't take screenshot and saves the screenshot. The screenshot does not get shown in the Photos app like the app can't access the file.
Here are all of the access issues I experience, I believe they are connected all together and have the same root cause.
1. Whenever I press WindowsKey+Turn off button to take a screenshot, the phone says Saving to Screenshots... and then Couldn't take screenshot. The screenshot does not get saved to Screenshots folder. If I check this same Screenshots folder via Windows Explorer, it shows the taken screenshot is there
2. No camera app, including the built-in one, can save the taken photo. Whenever I start the camera and press the Camera button, the Camera app either disappears as if it crashed (and Start screen is shown) or the Photos app is shown instead of just taken photo. Checking the Camera roll section in the Photos app does not reveal the photo as if it wasn't taken. If I check this same Camera roll folder via Windows Explorer, it shows the taken image is there!
So the phone does take photos and screenshots but can't read them! Why?
3. Most of the time Photos app fails on start. You tap photos, it shows Loading... and then the app closes and Start screen gets shown. The other time it shows Loading... then Resuming... then Loading... again and does that multiple times. Sometimes it starts well but shows only old photos and screenshots that were taken before I started experiencing issues with taking screenshots and starting system apps.
4. Often so the Phone storage app available in Settings doesn't start either and closes after showing Loading... Sometimes it starts with no issues.
5. Music app fails to start every now and then. If I am being preserving, the app starts after multiple attempts to launch it. When it starts, it does not return to album view when you click Play on a song in an album. The app just freezes.
6. Finally, my System section in Settings|Phone storage|Phone now shows 4.29 GB (!) although it consumed 2.12 just before I started experiencing these strange issues. Seem like it has been flood with dumps and logs.
It appears the issues arisen when I replaced my 32GB Transcend UHS-I QSDXC card with a 64 GB by µSDXC from Sandisk and attempted to synchronize photos via Zune application and both WinRT and Desktop versions of Windows Phone apps.
More detail:
1. I interop-unlocked the phone and it worked for a while.
2. My 32 GB SD card ran out of memory and I replaced it with a 64 GB SD card.
3. The 64 GB SanDisk SD card appeared incompatible with Samsung ATIV S and looked as if it had been dismounted every now and then. The phone had been rebooting every 10 minutes or like and CPU was heating high.
4. I removed the 64 GB card and started the phone without the card. It worked well. The phone stopped heating and rebooting ever since I removed the card.
However, I noticed that I no longer can start the Photos app. Moreover, Phone storage also was failing start and Camera app did not make screenshots and photos.
5. I inserted the 64 GB card to my wife's Nokia Lumia 620 and it worked fine there. I put the 32 GB card back into my Samsung ATIV S but access issues are still there.
How do I fix this? Any clue is highly welcome.
I remember in Windows Phone 7.0 days, MSFT was joining SD card File System with the one on phone's memory. Could it be that storage array has been broken when I replaced the memory card?
Also could it be that something screwed with bootstrap (the phone is interop-unlocked and has been boot strapped before it's been unlocked).
Once again, the phone is developer unlocked and interop-unlocked.
I plan to hard reset but am worrying of getting my phone bricked. What if re-imaging or whatever the phone does when it resets itself (I assume it applies a WIM file like Windows 8 does it on PCs)?
Seems like inserting 64 GB SanDisk screwed the phone.
Important note: I did NOT use remove SD Card button on Settings|Phone storage|SD Card when replacing the cards. It just felt no sense to do that provided that I had switched the phone before I replaced the card.
I appreciate your help. Don't want contact Samsung service; my phone wasn't produced for the country where I live.
Hard reset is probably your best bet, since simply power-cycling didn't fix anything. You could check in SamWP8 Tools (assuming you have it installed) and reset all options to their defaults... The danger in hard reset is that you can't interop-unlock if you have GDR3 installed with the official updates from Samsung (as opposed to just the GR3 early release from Microsoft, which is fine).
For what it's worth, my GDR3 (MS bits only) SGH-T899M has a 64GB microSD card in it, has for months, and has no problems like you describe. Sorry I can't help more.
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Hard reset is probably your best bet, since simply power-cycling didn't fix anything. You could check in SamWP8 Tools (assuming you have it installed) and reset all options to their defaults... The danger in hard reset is that you can't interop-unlock if you have GDR3 installed with the official updates from Samsung (as opposed to just the GR3 early release from Microsoft, which is fine).
For what it's worth, my GDR3 (MS bits only) SGH-T899M has a 64GB microSD card in it, has for months, and has no problems like you describe. Sorry I can't help more.
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Thank you for your response. After I talked with W.O.L.F and other gentlemen over here, I came to the conclusion that the issue is that I toggled the Full access to file system in WPH Tweaks. Looks like the option is non-revertible, moreover, it looks like turning the Full FS access off in fact LOCKED access to file system for some system API.
Silly me, I should've used my mind before doing that, but what's done, done.
Using SamWP8 Tools made things even worse, my phone stopped showing in Windows Explorer and started to hang as if it was busy all the time. The fact that it was heating all the time made me think that this toggle-in/toggle-off operations with Full File System access did make something to some drivers is Windows Phone. I don't know what exactly happened but the phone stopped being detected by OS as ATIV S, disappeared from Removable Devices in Windows Explorer and showed only in USB devices section. Also in Device Manager it went from Samsung ATIV S to MTM USB Device or something. Screwed completely.
I had to hard reset the phone, but the 'luck' that I had GDR3 preview (8.x.512.x as far as I remember) turned it into brick. After I hard reset the phone, all I saw was the standard Samsung welcome screen with dandelions and a black screen that showed instead of Start screen.
I understand it like I have to Flash the phone back to GDR2 using publicly available ROMs but am confused with two things:
1. Last time I checked, when the phone was still usable, the phone showed that I had XEN as a CSC.
Now what if I flash it with a different CSC like SER; since I live in Russia?
2. If I use 64-bit flavor Windows 8, would Samsung driver work fine there, I don't want to mess with incomplete flash.
I am pretty confident that I know how to turn off signature verification for bootmgr in Windows 8, but I am not sure I know how to make sure installed driver works fine (except for checking its return code on starting).
I would appreciate your recommendations. I would've sent my phone to Samsung service, but I bet it won't give me anything except for additional problems.
The "Full FS access" hack in SamWP8 Tools has nothing to do with the actual file system. It just modifies the way that the MTP service on the phone - the one that normally lets you only see the documents and media folders - launches so that it can access all of drive C:. It doesn't actually *change* the file system in any way - the tweak to the service configuration is in the registry - and in any case, the MTP service isn't even running when the phone isn't connected to a PC.
With that said, you might have screwed something up when you had such access. For example, if you deleted or renamed the Pictures folder, that would break things. However, I don't think that's the problem. I think your phone has a hardware issue with its internal Flash storage. The key evidence of this is the failure of the hard reset. GDR3 (it's not really a "preview"; it's the release bits, just only the MS portion rather than the combined "retail" update that also has Samsung firmware updates in it) didn't "brick" your phone. I'm afraid it's almost certainly just a case of defective or damaged hardware.
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The "Full FS access" hack in SamWP8 Tools has nothing to do with the actual file system. It just modifies the way that the MTP service on the phone - the one that normally lets you only see the documents and media folders - launches so that it can access all of drive C:. It doesn't actually *change* the file system in any way - the tweak to the service configuration is in the registry - and in any case, the MTP service isn't even running when the phone isn't connected to a PC.
With that said, you might have screwed something up when you had such access. For example, if you deleted or renamed the Pictures folder, that would break things. However, I don't think that's the problem. I think your phone has a hardware issue with its internal Flash storage. The key evidence of this is the failure of the hard reset. GDR3 (it's not really a "preview"; it's the release bits, just only the MS portion rather than the combined "retail" update that also has Samsung firmware updates in it) didn't "brick" your phone. I'm afraid it's almost certainly just a case of defective or damaged hardware.
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Uhm, Mattemoller90 over here told me this is an issue with GDR3 Preview:
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I did a hard reset. Now all I see when the phone starts is a black screen. If I press the Power button, the standard Samsung desktop welcome screen with dandelions appears. Dammit! Nothing else but this welcome screen.
Now would flashing Wolf's custom ROM help here or the phone is completely bricked?
ReFlash GDR2 and your phone start normally, after, if you want update with GDR3
Black screen after an hard reset is a bug of GDR3 preview
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I definitely did NOT delete anything from Phone or SD Card the only bad thing I did is I swapped my SD cards from Transcend 32 GB to SanDisk 64 GB that's it. Then I was trying to turn the full access off multiple times using both SamWP8 Tools and WPH Tweaks all to no avail and after one of such Turn full access off -> Restart -> Turn full access on -> Restart cycles I noticed Windows has completely stopped recognizing my phone.
The worse thing I could do is I could pulled out the USB cable from the PC without first detaching the phone programmatically when I presumably had the full access feature turned on, but that's all to it.
Who knows, possibly the NAND memory inside the phone has been damaged somehow, I don't know how.
Currently, when I am trying to flash the phone with GDR2, I get the following:
Gentlemen, I have a problem here:
When I click Start in the Flasher tool, I get the following message box:
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Warning!!!
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Partition information is Not equal.
Download all binary?
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Yes No
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Open WP8 SMD image at : D:\Setup\Apps\Flash GDR2\Flash ROM\GDR2\GT-I8750 XXBME1_R_signed.wp8
Open WP8 SMD image at : D:\Setup\Apps\Flash GDR2\Flash ROM\GDR2\GT-I8750_OXABME1_R_SIGNED.csc
Open WP8 SMD image at : D:\Setup\Apps\Flash GDR2\Flash ROM\GDR2\GT-I8750 OXXAMB1_P.csc
[Channel 0] Start Download Success !!
[Channel 0] Start AskSamsungUEFIDwonloadVersion !!
[Channel 0] UEFI version is 10 !!
[Channel 0] Start AskSecurityType !!
[Channel 0] Device Security Enable and Secure Binary!!
[Channel 0] Start AskDeviceType !!
[Channel 0] AskDeviceType is Product !!
[Channel 0] Partition info does not Match !!
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What does this mean and what should I do? I am trying to flash from GDR3 Preview to GDR2.
I this somehow a confirmation to the fact that phone's memory is broken?
Heck, bad news then. This phone cost me near $500 in Russia...
Thank you.
Okay, the issue is resolved. The phone successfully flashed to GDR2 once I set the All option in the Flashed program and specified the XEH CSC code (which was the code my phone has had before it started to do quirky things).
Thank you everybody for your support.
Hi guys,
every new Teclast user could be interested to this topic.
Sorry for my english, it is not my first language...
Please, tell me any other F.A.Q. to put in this list.
Q: Help me, when I try to turn on my tab I display various errors written in English, what can I do?
A: Plug your Tab and charge it, after 5 minutes try to swich it on.
Q: Help, my tablet cannot switch on!
A: Have you tried to switch it on by pressing Power + Vol+?
Q: Help, my tablet turns on and enters directly into Windows / Android, there's no longer the dual boot choice!
A: Turn on the tablet by pressing Power + Vol+, fla the dual boot option with the two small icons in the upper left.
Q: I heard that there is the "Boot to Windows / Android", how can I use it?
A: To use the Boot To Windows / Android must be sure you have the BIOS updated to rev 2.02, note that the last tablet shipped by Teclast have the latest release of the Bios and they are fully compatible; You can find "Boot to" App here on XDA.
Q: When I turn off the tablet (from Windows) it takes so long to be able to turn on again?
A: Disable Fast Startup in the Windows settings, the path Control Panel -> Power Saving Options -> System settings -> Specify power botton actions; alternatively, you can use SlidetoShutDown.exe located in C: \ Windows \ System32, trivially just create you a shortcut to this file on your desktop and use it to turn off..
Q: How can I identify the correct Product ID of my Tab?
A: See the Product ID located back in the tablet (example).
Q: Can I use the tablet as router? (Only for 3G versions)
A: Sure, it's called tethering, unfortunately not all the phone companies allow you to use it; You can force it using custom APN.
Q: What is the right custom rom for me?
A: All Android custom rom are divided in Teclast Air II and Teclast Air 3G (cell module); Teclast Air III is compatible with Air II custom roms; for some models of Air 3G, we discovered they have a different camera and you can have problems with it.
Q: Can I update UEFI Bios?
A: Do you really need to update? With 2.02 version you will fix battery Drain in Windows, if you want to fix it see Guides on XDA.
Q: Can I use USB OTG to read pendrives?
A: Of course, just with an ordinary OTG adapter, Google!
Q: Can I install Windows 7/8/10 64 Bit?
A: You can Install Windows x64 only on "Pro" tablets, any others must use x86 (32 bits) OS, If you don't want to brick.
Q: Is the original Windows image activated??
A: Yes, Teclast ship its tablets with original license by MS.
Q: The stock Android ROM (original) I do not so good, are there any alternatives available?
A: Of course, the brilliant developer Mirek190 creates its own custom rom, you can use Intel MFT to install it.
Q: Why do I have trouble with the pair / pairing a Bluetooth device?
A: Try to turn off all connections (3G, WiFi and Bluetooth), and then turn on only the bluetooth to pair.
Other F.A.Q. here (I decided to create a separate topic, because we have a Forum now!)