I have had a problem for a while. My wifi settings (SSID, keys etc.) disappear when i soft reset making my thumbs sore entering SSIDs WPA keys, user/pass for my network shares etc.
I think this started when i flashed rom/radio, but its hard to tell since i have long since lost count of how many flashes I've done just the last couple of weeks (damn you time stealin' WM6).
I'm now back on recent offical WM5, but this problem persists.
Anyone else have this problem?
Any fixes?
Did you try a power off by pressing and holding the power button for 4 secs????? A soft reset will not save registry settings.
Thats how i always do my softresets unless the phone locks up.
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Hi All,
I have a problem with my Hero, and i am hoping some one could help, here goes:
I had my hero for about 6 month working perfectly including GPS with Waze.
Yestderday i decided to try out some new roms, i backed up my stock (with root) firmware 1.5 with nandroid. i installed Villainrom V12 everything worked exept Waze, it kept giving me messeges that there is no satelite reception (which is not possible cause i always used to get reception there). So i went back and restored my backup and now it's the same, no satelite reception . . .
Did i some how fry my GPS component ? or is it fixable.
Thanks in Advance
Can't really help you with a fix but last sunday I didn't get a sat fix at home, drive 50 miles to London, still no fix, tried turning the phone on and off, gps on and off still wouldn't get a fix all the way there. Stayed in London for three hours, turned gps on when I left and got a instant fix! Been working fine ever since!
I've had very similar problems with my GPS. It worked great on stock, but when I installed a custom ROM, I started having intermittent issues. I'm using VillainROM 12 and the most recent radio, and sometimes I get a fix right away, and other times I don't get a fix at all. When I can't get a fix, rebooting the phone almost always gets it working again. I had the same problem with an older radio and VillainROM 10. I do remember seeing a tentative workaround somewhere in these forums, but am having trouble finding it again...
I spoke to soon, I tried it with gps status last night, wouldn't get a lock, drove 6 miles, still no lock, left in on for an hour, still no lock. Did a hard reset last night, got an near instant lock with gps status. I've tried it about 4 times today, got a lock everytime. I'll test it all week and see what happens.
Well i had kept my stock radio , maybe i should try updating that and see what happens.
@marky33 When you say hard reset what do you mean ? did you take the battery out ?
Hard reset is just shut down the phone and turn it on again (rather than soft - i.e. reboot using buttons). This can fix GPS issues but in most recent ROM's it should be fixed by default. It can also be a radio issue - get the latest and you shouldn't have a problem.
Ive had this problem with villainrom 12, the fix used to be to switch on the gps before a reboot, and then after rebooting ( with the GPS switched on) it would work and find satellites.
I havnt had this problem since switching to Radio 63.18.55.06PU_6.35.15.14
Radio I used which had this problem with villainrom was 63.18.55.06JU_6.35.09.26
btdag said:
Hard reset is just shut down the phone and turn it on again (rather than soft - i.e. reboot using buttons). This can fix GPS issues but in most recent ROM's it should be fixed by default. It can also be a radio issue - get the latest and you shouldn't have a problem.
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Haven't you got hard and soft the wrong way round?
solarporing said:
Well i had kept my stock radio , maybe i should try updating that and see what happens.
@marky33 When you say hard reset what do you mean ? did you take the battery out ?
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Like this below, wipes all user data
Power the unit off (removing the battery if necessary)
Hold down the Home and Back keys
Press the power button whilst still holding down the Home and Back keys
After a few seconds a message will be displayed on the screen prompting you to press the Menu button to confirm the reset process.
Release all buttons, then press the Menu button to hard reset the device
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Haven't you got hard and soft the wrong way round?
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No, a hard reset is usually a reset which removes all power from a device and then starts again - i.e. resetting the hardware itself by removing power
A soft reset is a software reset - i.e. rebooting the software of the phone
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Like this below, wipes all user data
Power the unit off (removing the battery if necessary)
Hold down the Home and Back keys
Press the power button whilst still holding down the Home and Back keys
After a few seconds a message will be displayed on the screen prompting you to press the Menu button to confirm the reset process.
Release all buttons, then press the Menu button to hard reset the device
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What you're talking about is probably a "factory reset" which should reset the device to factory defaults (i.e. just been sent from HTC's manufacturing factory). But i have never seen it referenced to as a fix for GPS issues - or any issues involving custom rom's for that matter.
I stand corrected about hard and soft
Just wanted to let the people know that the problem was solved after doing the same thing as nijnvy, the second i updated i am getting gps lock in seconds.
Thanks to every one
So by accident I launched a CHT file from my SD Card which essentially crashed sense. No biggie, did a hard reset and thought I would be okay.
Wrong.
When I hold down the end key (to either load johcos' end key or even if i uninstall it) my screen is dead. The hard keys work, but not the screen.
Anyone have a suggestion? I have been using tmo-us stock rom without problems until yesterday when this started. I realize I could flash a new rom and maybe it is time...but tis very annoying this is happening after a hard reset.
Thanks.
still not working after flashing energy rom
argh.
flashed energy.
same problem.
now have to work...but any suggestions? my long hard key is dead and freezes my phone. hard reset/ new rom did nothing.
thanks.
same with android
so now anytime my phone goes to lock screen the screen stops functioning though the hardkeys work just fine.
thought i would try android and be savvy...but wrong.
same problem.
any ideas? i am ready to take a hammer to this damn thing...
This recently happened to my GF's phone, She said she was just playing a game one day, it froze so she popped the battery out and rebooted. Now every time she uses the End/Power ( red ) hard button to shutoff or wake up the device, the screen stays locked and won't respond.
I have tried soft reset, hard reset, different lock screens and what not. The only solution I found, besides sending it in, is to let the screen shut off by itself, and then wake it up with the Call/Send ( green ) hard button.
You can also try using the End/Power hard button to lock it, but then as long as you wake it with the Call/Send hard button it should be fine.
It has worked every time now. Try it and see if it helps! It's a little annoying but it saves money and insurance!
Going to repost this in all those previous listed threads to see if it helps anyone else.
Good Luck!
Firstly, trust me I tried searching for info first before posting but couldn't find any relevant solutions..
The problem:
My HD2 started bugging up and froze on me this morning when switching to the music tab. Had to pull the battery because nothing was responding. Then I couldn't get to the homescreen after 10 resets. My only choice was a hard reset. Thank god I used Sprite backup yesterday to back up my phone.
So after the hard-reset and after restoring my back up everything seemed back to normal. But now when I lock the device the screen stays black when pressing the power (end key) to wake it back up. The hard buttons light up but no screen. I have CHT installed and wondering if it became corrupt with my locking? Just a guess. Tried restoring to my back up a second time after another hard reset and same issue.
Any suggestions anyone?
i have the exact same problem, can you tell me if you managed to fix this and how... i did the exact same thing, restored using sprite backup an then the phone would not activate the screen when i tried to unlock...
After installing the HKTW Gingerbread, my lockscreen has disappeared, and the home button isn't working. It's tedious, to the say the least, to have to press the back button about 10 times to get to the home screen.
I've looked online, and it seems people just had to enable the lockscreen again. I can't find the option to disable it or enable it.
From what I remember reading last night some people had success getting their home button working after either restoring data or taking out their battery/putting back in.
I didn't back up data :/
I've pulled the battery several times, to no effect. Its quite annoying lol
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Bump, can no one help me with this? Or should I just flash back?
Me too
I'm running 1.83 with an unlocked bootloader. My problem presents itself as no lock screen, home button and search buttons do not work for single press or long press (but do still provide haptic feedback), and holding down the power button only gives the option to power off, not airplane mode or silent.
Factory Data Reset fixes the problem until the power turns off.
Did you restore system data with titanium?
i had the same prob and had pulled the batter 1/2 a dozen times before i saw this thread. didn't help, so titanium to the rescue. not sure what it would take to fix it aside from that, but that was absurd and aggravating to no end, fsck that.
The reason I asked the question was because when I restored all of my system data, this happened to me. I started over again but this time I didn't restore my finger printer scanner data and for the first four packages with "accounts" in their name. Now I have a completely working 2.3.4 with the proper AT&T market.
I didn't do a TiBu before I went to Gingerbread, and had the same problems. Interestingly enough, after installing the build.prop fix, a few hours later I locked the screen and when I turned it back on the lock screen was back.
mine is completely gone too
i had this problem when attempting to restore data via titanium backup. reflashed and downloaded apps fresh, and no problems.
Were you able to figure it out, our did you reflash?
Can anyone please upload the titanium backup for system data?
Hi, I have a 2 week old handset which has now twice displayed a pretty strange/annoying bug.
I have been using no Stamina settings other than location based WiFi and queue background data for the most part to gauge battery life under my normal work schedule but I noticed last week that my saved WiFi at home wasn't on, so instinctively I tried to click the WiFi symbol but to no avail.
I then tried to restart the phone, but when pressing the power off option, it simply booted me back on to the screen I was on before hand. This continually happened until I got pee'd off and repaired it.
Again today I ran into the exact same problem. No WiFi and I could not power off. After several attempts at powering off I managed to get it to boot into safe mode where I started uninstalling apps to rule out any rogue apps. I still couldn't reboot forcing me to repair and wipe the phone.
I keep telling myself that this is merely a software bug and I can't seem to find other posts where people are suffering similar problems.
So I futilely ask, has anyone ever had anything similar happen to theirs?.
Yeah I think this is a software bug too, a similar thing has happened to me a couple of times with the wifi becoming "stuck" and rebooting the phone fixed it but if you're having trouble shutting down your phone, have you got quickboot enabled? Regardless of that though, you do have two options to force a restart, either hold volume up and power, this will force shutdown or press the small red button next to the sim card tray.
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Yeah I think this is a software bug too, a similar thing has happened to me a couple of times with the wifi becoming "stuck" and rebooting the phone fixed it but if you're having trouble shutting down your phone, have you got quickboot enabled? Regardless of that though, you do have two options to force a restart, either hold volume up and power, this will force shutdown or press the small red button next to the sim card tray.
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I am pretty sure it is the quick boot option now. Stupid bug.
Phew...don't have to return it now.
I think sony have disabled the quick boot functionality for some reason, I ticked it thinking it might be almost like a reboot instead of power off & then power on, later I noticed the power off menu wasn't doing anything when tapping it, was almost about to do a reset but then remembered I ticked the quick boot option.
Hope they enable it in future updates.