I've tried a few different custom ROMs on here, and recently most seem to be sufferring from the same issue. It's been happening to me for a couple of months now, I'm not sure if it's a 6.5 bug, or some other software package or whatever. I will say I just recently got a replacement phone for another problem, and it's doing the same thing as my old phone. At my work, we require a 4-digit password and for the phone to lock within an hour for our Exchange server sync.
For whatever reason, when I put custom ROM's on there and sync, within about 3 days at most my device will totally wipe. It wipes the storage card, everything. And it's a real pain in the ass to try to keep my settings for very long. I'm just curious if anyone else is seeing the same issue? I just figure, probably not a lot of people require a password so it doesn't happen to a lot of people. It seems to only affect 6.5 ROMs for whatever reason.
Shameless bump. Sorry, just want to make sure, someone has to have seen this, maybe not though.
I can really only confirm this happens on two ROMs. I don't want to call anyone out because it might be a WM6.5 bug and not a chef's fault.
sheps rom works for me, it is the only rom I have used so i cannot confirm your question about other roms not working. good luck and if i were you try Sheps rom, very fast and stable rom, and it looks good to.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=497699
I use exchange at work and have only seen this once, and the problem for me was the security code was input incorrectly more than 7 times and all data was erased even the microsd card. I was quite pissed but thats the only time I've seen it.
dapirate said:
I use exchange at work and have only seen this once, and the problem for me was the security code was input incorrectly more than 7 times and all data was erased even the microsd card. I was quite pissed but thats the only time I've seen it.
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It's similar to that, it used to be where I would leave the phone sitting there for a while and come back to it and it would say "if you input your password incorrectly one more time...blah blah". And no matter what i do, it would wipe my device. Now usually i just turn the screen on and the skinned keys don't show up, it's just the old one. Pressing the keys does nothing at all, i usually reset the device, then it wipes on the next reboot.
at one time i thought it was related to either plugging it into the charger or a computer because it would usually do it right after that. I see it happen no matter what now though, i could just have it sitting there and it will do it.
stickynugz said:
sheps rom works for me, it is the only rom I have used so i cannot confirm your question about other roms not working. good luck and if i were you try Sheps rom, very fast and stable rom, and it looks good to.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=497699
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Well obviously one of them is NRG's ROM, I have also seen this in TPC's ROM. Hard to say what's similar between the two...I can't confirm too many others though as I don't usually switch that often, just when the one's I like to use update.
Yep. I've had the very same 'feature' happen to me too. Cannot properly identify what's causing it either.
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Have you checked with your Exchange Admin... I believe there is a feature that allows them to remote wipe (or at least setup the parameters) devices attached to the server... They may be wiping your device because it shows up as a foreign device... Just stabbing in the dark, it may not be a rom based issue, but an exchange issue... It happens with custom roms, did it happen with the stock rom...?
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Have you checked with your Exchange Admin... I believe there is a feature that allows them to remote wipe (or at least setup the parameters) devices attached to the server... They may be wiping your device because it shows up as a foreign device... Just stabbing in the dark, it may not be a rom based issue, but an exchange issue... It happens with custom roms, did it happen with the stock rom...?
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Good suggestion, although I am the Exchange admin, so no, I'm not wiping my own device.
I have never seen it happen on a stock ROM, although I usually don't have one on for very long. I've never seen it in 6.1 either, just 6.5 ROMs from about late June thru now.
OK, 3 ROM's now, RRE just did it to me. It must be a 6.5 bug or an Exchange server bug.
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OK, 3 ROM's now, RRE just did it to me. It must be a 6.5 bug or an Exchange server bug.
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well i run 6.5 and use exchange 2007 for my business, havent seen this happen at all on any rom. I dont have any pin required for my devices, but i can turn that on just to test for you.
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well i run 6.5 and use exchange 2007 for my business, havent seen this happen at all on any rom. I dont have any pin required for my devices, but i can turn that on just to test for you.
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That would be cool if you could. I have a feeling since it happened on two phones and multiple ROMs that it will happen to anyone. I just feel that no one really requires a password. Just make sure you set a maximum number of attempts before wipe, I have the default of 8 set. Use one of the ROMs I mentioned if you don't already.
im not using exchange and it has happened to me with one of the roms.
the chef didn't really know what do with it or what's causing it, all i know is that it has never happened to me before, and after changing to shep's rom it hadn't happen since.
give shep's rom a try.
I'd think your Exchange server is having issues. There should be logs to see if a remote wipe was ever performed on your device. Are you sure your kids or annoying friends didn't try to unlock your phone a few times which may have caused the remote wipe?
This just happened to me on Sunday, running my own-cooked 23033 ROM (and about a week earlier as well)
I hadn't even tried inputting a password - my phone had been locked, and when I looked at it, I got the message about having one more chance to enter the password (which it wouldn't let me do - the phone was completely locked up). Since this had happened to me before (I had JUST finished putting most of the stuff back on my 16GB microSDHC card), I quickly removed the card, put in the correct password, and watched my phone hard reset.
So no, you're not crazy. It may be related to Exchange, but I doubt it. I think it's more related to Pin Lock, because after 5 unsuccessful attempts to unlock a device (whether it's synched with Exchange or not I believe), the phone is supposed to hard reset to protect your personal data. There must be a glitch with Pin Lock in some of the 6.5 builds that causes this on occasion. I'm not sure what it is, though.
Did a bit of research ...
Apparently, a trusted application can initiate an erase-and-format operation by calling a LoadLibrary function in Fatutil.dll. There a registry key that controls full device erasure is:
Code:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\Profiles\<MyProfileName>\FATFS]
"SecureWipe"=dword:1
Also, there is this key which controls LocalWipe and RemoteWipe based on the Password Required Policy (4131) setting.
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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\Security\Policy\LASSD\DeviceWipeThreshold]
"4146"=1 through 4294967295 (0xFFFFFFFF)
4146 = SECPOLICY_LASS_DESKTOP_QUICK_CONNECT
Apparently, setting "4146" to zero (0) or 4294967295 (0xFFFFFFFF) disables the feature.
This is really going to suck if it turns out that some ROM packages now include LocalWipe/RemoteWipe as some form of anti cross-porting device protection.
HTH,
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This just happened to me on Sunday, running my own-cooked 23033 ROM (and about a week earlier as well)
I hadn't even tried inputting a password - my phone had been locked, and when I looked at it, I got the message about having one more chance to enter the password (which it wouldn't let me do - the phone was completely locked up). Since this had happened to me before (I had JUST finished putting most of the stuff back on my 16GB microSDHC card), I quickly removed the card, put in the correct password, and watched my phone hard reset.
So no, you're not crazy. It may be related to Exchange, but I doubt it. I think it's more related to Pin Lock, because after 5 unsuccessful attempts to unlock a device (whether it's synched with Exchange or not I believe), the phone is supposed to hard reset to protect your personal data. There must be a glitch with Pin Lock in some of the 6.5 builds that causes this on occasion. I'm not sure what it is, though.
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Well that's good, i was starting to feel crazy. Exact same symptoms though, phone is just sitting there, locked, and when i turn the screen off I get that message. Most of the time the screen appears to be locked at this point, i'll try a reset and it boots, wipes instantly, reboots and runs through hard reset. I am preparing to install a few Exchange updates, so we'll see if that corrects it. I did check and our last major update was in April, and this started happening in late June, so I don't think it's Exchange either.
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Did a bit of research ...
Apparently, a trusted application can initiate an erase-and-format operation by calling a LoadLibrary function in Fatutil.dll. There a registry key that controls full device erasure is:
Code:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\Profiles\<MyProfileName>\FATFS]
"SecureWipe"=dword:1
Also, there is this key which controls LocalWipe and RemoteWipe based on the Password Required Policy (4131) setting.
Code:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\Security\Policy\LASSD\DeviceWipeThreshold]
"4146"=1 through 4294967295 (0xFFFFFFFF)
4146 = SECPOLICY_LASS_DESKTOP_QUICK_CONNECT
Apparently, setting "4146" to zero (0) or 4294967295 (0xFFFFFFFF) disables the feature.
This is really going to suck if it turns out that some ROM packages now include LocalWipe/RemoteWipe as some form of anti cross-porting device protection.
HTH,
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Thanks for that! If someone could be so kind as to whip that into a cab file, that would be great. Might at least give a temporary fix for this until it's figured out. I keep re-flashing new ROM's and hoping it'll go away one of these times.
I would bet that the suggestion of remote wiping is the best track to follow. Perhaps the "Managed Programs" feature is somehow automatically set in your exchange environment and creating the problem? Although I do not know what I am talking about, just guessing. Seems like a security issue with your exchange/phone set-up. Try replicating the issue with the radio off. At least then you will know if it is an Over The Air Issue or something set on the phone itself.
Sounds like a real pain. Good luck sorting it out.
Doug M.
Before putting together any form of .CAB, it would be worthwhile for those experiencing the problem to provide the following feedback:
Is it only occurring on devices receiving policies from an Exchange Server
Are the registry entries I noted above present and what are their values
Is the issue specific to certain ROM builds
Is there perhaps a common set of packages in use
Cheers,
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Before putting together any form of .CAB, it would be worthwhile for those experiencing the problem to provide the following feedback:
Is it only occurring on devices receiving policies from an Exchange Server
Are the registry entries I noted above present and what are their values
Is the issue specific to certain ROM builds
Is there perhaps a common set of packages in use
Cheers,
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This issue was reported with my 23034 ROM by a user who syncs with Exchange. I do not sync with Exchange, and my unmodified ROM does not contain the DeviceWipeThreshold key.
There's a thread started by a poster named zimo in the General forum that describes the same issue-I'd link to it except I'm on my fuze. It's several months old, and was just bumped.
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I was getting 15-20 second gps locks when I had radio .40 and DCD 3.2.6, but as soon as I upgraded the radio and DCD then it's taking like over 7-9 minutes to get a lock. Sometimes it won't lock at all anymore unless I do a hard reset on the phone. I'm not sure what happened. Does anybody have any ideas? Look at my signiture below for my current configuration.
What's the best Radio and ROM to use right now with the least amount of problems, etc.? I was looking at the V2.2 heavy and light, but I'm not sure if I really understand much about what they are about or the differences in what I have now. I think my biggest problem is with text messaging. If I do it a lot I have to keep restarting my phone because the memory goes down to zero in no time at all. Infact, I have to keep constantly clearing the memory if I use any programs at all. Thanks for your help and time!
Try either 3.3.4 or 3.2.6. I prefer 3.3.4
after all of my testing i ended up sticking with 3.2.6. did you do the aGPS fix? have you checked the QPST settings since your flash? generally, these settings should stick, but in some cases; such as when you need a new a-key, these settings are lost. my last flash removed all my QPST settings and i couldnt lock until i did the aGPS fix again with the updated IP address and port.
Well, in the past it kept all the information after I did the upgrade, so I just assumed it still did. I didn't need a new A-Key. I guess I'll check the QPST settings and do the aGPS fix again. It's been so long ago since I did all the GPS stuff I can't remember what I did and didn't do. I still do get locks but they take forever now and sometimes I don't get them until I restart the phone.
Why are you sticking with 3.2.6? Why don't you like 4.1.2 or 2.2 heavy or light? I've always had the memory problem where if I use programs it just eats up my memory and I don't get most of it back after exiting the software, and if I use my text messaging then my memory just goes down to zero in no time flat and I can't recover it unless I'm constatly restarting my phone. There must be some kind of fix for this. Please let me know. Thanks.. Steve
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after all of my testing i ended up sticking with 3.2.6. did you do the aGPS fix? have you checked the QPST settings since your flash? generally, these settings should stick, but in some cases; such as when you need a new a-key, these settings are lost. my last flash removed all my QPST settings and i couldnt lock until i did the aGPS fix again with the updated IP address and port.
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the QPST settings have changed, so if you did it a while ago you probably just need to update it. youll be locking again after that. ive tested all of dcds roms quite a bit, and always ended up back at 3.2.6 or 3.2.5. im really happy with the speed and everything works exactly as it should. i have a pretty heavy today screen load as well as running several apps at the same time. i didnt like the 4.x.x roms for a couple of reasons. the unread text message thing bugged me alot. i also had a problem with random hard resets, which i was not a fan of.
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the QPST settings have changed, so if you did it a while ago you probably just need to update it.
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Are the changes in the AGPS thread?
yes they are
Oh, really? Then that's probably part of the problem. I changed them maybe a year ago or longer. I tried running QPST to check and it's giving me an error message when I start it, so I'm going to have to try to reinstall it and see if that fixes it. Also, the links for the pictures are dead and they aren't coming up anymore, it makes it harder to figure it out.
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=VerizonAGPSFix
I ran the Serf Telus aGPS Provisioning CAB file and that seemed to help. I sometimes get locks under 1 minute now, but sometimes it won't lock at all and I have to keep soft booting the phone to get it working.
Oh, so that's why my phone keeps resetting? It's not hard resetting I think it's just soft resetting. At first I didn't like the unread text message thing, but now I do because I get a lot of text messages and when I go to read them it doesn't mark them all as read in the group and I can read them when I get a chance.
I still had the memory issues with the 3.2.6 ROM with my memory going down to nothing, especually when I did text messages, I had to keep restarting my phone. That's been a problem I had with all my ROMs. I wonder why that is? Could it be the version of the MMS software I'm using? Is it the latest version?
Maybe I should go to the MR1 ROM? I still will be able to use the GPS and the WiFiRouter software with it right? Maybe that will solve all my problems? What about the 2.2 light and heavy ROMs? Does anybody know anything about those? Thanks for your help and time...
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the QPST settings have changed, so if you did it a while ago you probably just need to update it. youll be locking again after that. ive tested all of dcds roms quite a bit, and always ended up back at 3.2.6 or 3.2.5. im really happy with the speed and everything works exactly as it should. i have a pretty heavy today screen load as well as running several apps at the same time. i didnt like the 4.x.x roms for a couple of reasons. the unread text message thing bugged me alot. i also had a problem with random hard resets, which i was not a fan of.
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Well, I uninstalled QPST and reinstalled it and it worked this time without any error messages. It seems if I don't use it for a while it gives me a error message if I try to use it again and I have to uninstall it and reinstall it and then it works OK. I don't remember the error message, but I think it's something about can't find a server or something.
Anyways, you were right about the information I had being old and not correct. I had 66.174.95.132 and 8888 instead of PDE IP Address: 216.198.139.92 and PDE Port Number: 8889. I corrected it and it still seems to take about 56 seconds to get a lock, but hopefully now it will be more reliable in getting the locks. I seem to remember in the past getting locks in less then 10-15 seconds, and I wonder why I can't get locks like that anymore.
Thanks for the help!
Well, I was wrong, I'm getting 15-20 second locks now and I'm getting twice the satalites, up too like 9 satelites and I was getting 1/2 that before and it's a lot more accurate now. Before when I was using Google Maps, I could see it was off like about 50-75ft, but now it's spot on, on my location. Hopefully someone knows the answers to some of my previous questions and can get back to me. Thanks..
I too was having this same exact problem and I had to update the QPST IP address and port again. Mine had reverted to the same thing that Apota's had, with the exception of my default port being 8888. All is working well now that I reset the QPST IP address. I get 6-8 sats and locks in about 10 seconds.
I had been experimenting with some of the RyanMogul's new ROMs when this broke for me. I tried 2.1 light and it stopped working. I'm currently running 1.1 light with it functioning after reusing QPST.
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I too was having this same exact problem and I had to update the QPST IP address and port again. Mine had reverted to the same thing that Apota's had, with the exception of my default port being 8888. All is working well now that I reset the QPST IP address. I get 6-8 sats and locks in about 10 seconds.
I had been experimenting with some of the RyanMogul's new ROMs when this broke for me. I tried 2.1 light and it stopped working. I'm currently running 1.1 light with it functioning after reusing QPST.
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I just upgraded to the v2.2 light. I think I'm going to have to get use to it because the interface is so different, but I got a GPS lock with my TomTom GPS software in about 4 seconds. I couldn't believe it. I haven't seen a lock that fast before. It's really awesome! LOL
Are there any ROMS out there that have working MMS ? I have tried a number of them and no luck. I know these are labors of love but it's such a vital part of the phone itself to be left on the back burner. The only ones it works for me are 2.1 v's 1,2 & 3 every other ROM i tried it's always the same thing, no soft button lights, no trackball lights, no MMS. I've tried every fix offered under the sun & it just doesn't work, OR it might work, 18 hours later.
From what i have read it looks like half the people have no problems & have are in the same boat as me.
any suggestions?
thanks
I use sense-able and have no issues sending or recieving mms msgs
the MMS fix is quite simple. What ROM are you using? I know that in the EE thread there is a link to ivans-apns and instructions on removing your current APNs and installing the APNs from ivans rom.
I have working MMS on every rom I have tried except for one .....
Thanks for the 411 and I must say that name gave me the first laugh for the day "Cornbreadfarts"
Fn Funny dude.
well last night i loaded ZenEXP-Eris_Rev6-fixed_mak, i hadn't seen that one before and it looked very stylish. The overclocking isn't so important but i like the apps2sd. Followed all the instructions including flashing the mms fix also cited in the thread. I should have tried it our right away but i began to get comfy with the rom then when i remembered, bingo, same thing. Attaching even a very small photo gets a generic network error, it'll try 4 times to send it then stop. With other roms, sometimes 18 hours later it'll suddenly go through.
before this I'd tried evil eris, lightning, Dvanilla2fast, vanilladroidv1, fresh 2.1 & aloysius, all with the same result.
every rom has their own little quirks, evileris would seem to stall for a while then suddenly go through all the motions of your frantic thumb presses while u thought there was something wrong. I tried all the solutions offered also with the apn's in the evileris thread but still the same thing
the zenexp seems to restart itself at random times and does not come out of landscape mode after taking a pic. I have to press settings, then back & it resets itself
I like the variety in the various roms and the little extra bells & whistles that the developers add it's just this 1 issue really for me. I don't make a lot of calls and i mostly text back & forth to my daughter in NYC. Recently a loved pet of 13years died but beforehand i couldn't send her any pics of the cat in the days previous.
I guess i'll look for this sense-able and try that. I just don't get it though, we are all using an eris, it should either work or be broken for everyone right ?
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well last night i loaded ZenEXP-Eris_Rev6-fixed_mak, i hadn't seen that one before and it looked very stylish. The overclocking isn't so important but i like the apps2sd. Followed all the instructions including flashing the mms fix also cited in the thread. I should have tried it our right away but i began to get comfy with the rom then when i remembered, bingo, same thing. Attaching even a very small photo gets a generic network error, it'll try 4 times to send it then stop. With other roms, sometimes 18 hours later it'll suddenly go through.
before this I'd tried evil eris, lightning, Dvanilla2fast, vanilladroidv1, fresh 2.1 & aloysius, all with the same result.
every rom has their own little quirks, evileris would seem to stall for a while then suddenly go through all the motions of your frantic thumb presses while u thought there was something wrong. I tried all the solutions offered also with the apn's in the evileris thread but still the same thing
the zenexp seems to restart itself at random times and does not come out of landscape mode after taking a pic. I have to press settings, then back & it resets itself
I like the variety in the various roms and the little extra bells & whistles that the developers add it's just this 1 issue really for me. I don't make a lot of calls and i mostly text back & forth to my daughter in NYC. Recently a loved pet of 13years died but beforehand i couldn't send her any pics of the cat in the days previous.
I guess i'll look for this sense-able and try that. I just don't get it though, we are all using an eris, it should either work or be broken for everyone right ?
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ZenEXP-Eris doesn't restart itself at random times out-of-the-box, you must have installed or modified something that's causing that error. My releases go through a somewhat rigorous beta testing before they see the light of day - at least since Rev5 - and we've only seen minor issues upon release of them.
As for the accelerometer (the "not coming out of landscape" issue you refer to), that's a known bug in Rev6 that was found after releasing it. It is fixed in Rev7.
At the begining of my ZenEXP-Eris thread, I state that you should read the entire thread twice before flashing. This is so you know what you're doing, what to expect, how to make things work properly and what bugs are present in the ROM. Obviously you didn't read my entire thread, or you would have found the MMS-Fix, which is located about 6 lines below the ROM download
On a side note, Rev7 includes the MMS Fix built right into the ROM, no need to flash the MMS-Fix through Recovery like you do now for Rev5 and Rev6. You'll be able to enjoy Rev7 (hopefully) tomorrow (if not the next day).
-mak
Sorry, I thought I had been clear, I did read the whole thread and did dl & flash the mms fix zip u attached. I'm only reporting on the problems I'm having. This isn't a personal attack on you.
As I said, I understand these are labors of love and I wouldn't report something if it didn't happen. I have had 3 occasions where it restarted itself and all 3 times all I had installed was vignette, meebo, Google translate, shopper & barcode scanner.
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Sorry, I thought I had been clear, I did read the whole thread and did dl & flash the mms fix zip u attached. I'm only reporting on the problems I'm having. This isn't a personal attack on you.
As I said, I understand these are labors of love and I wouldn't report something if it didn't happen. I have had 3 occasions where it restarted itself and all 3 times all I had installed was vignette, meebo, Google translate, shopper & barcode scanner.
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I'm sure it wasn't a personal attack, but I'm not sure why you're telling me that?
Anyway, if you installed the MMS fix, you should have working MMS. The MMS fix hasn't failed anyone that I know of and I used it myself on Rev5 and Rev6. Did you boot into the phone and set it up after flashing the ROM, but before install the MMS fix? The file the MMS fix installs gets overwritten during the first boot, which is why you need to reboot before installing it.
I don't use any of the apps you've installed, so I can't attest to their compatibility with ZenEXP-Eris. What I recommend you do is backup your data, go into Recovery and wipe data/cache/dalvik/ext, then re-install the latest release of Rev6, boot into ZenEXP-Eris and set your phone up, reboot into Recovery and install the MMS fix. Before installing any applications test it all out for a few hours, the proceed to install them one-by-one, leaving an hour or so in between installs until you (possibly) find what is causing the issue.
I'm really sorry to hear this issue persists for you but, as I mentioned earlier, you're the first to report such issues, thus the reason I suspect something else as the culprit
Feel free to PM me for one on one support if you need it.
-mak
edit: Also, regarding your softkey lights, they only turn on in dark areas. Hold your finger over the light sensor to the left of the earpiece speaker to see them light up. In ZenEXP-Eris the jogball LED doesn't function, but I have mapped notifications to the charging/power LED in the upper-right-hand corner of the Eris as an alternative, for now.
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Are there any ROMS out there that have working MMS ? I have tried a number of them and no luck. I know these are labors of love but it's such a vital part of the phone itself to be left on the back burner. The only ones it works for me are 2.1 v's 1,2 & 3 every other ROM i tried it's always the same thing, no soft button lights, no trackball lights, no MMS. I've tried every fix offered under the sun & it just doesn't work, OR it might work, 18 hours later.
From what i have read it looks like half the people have no problems & have are in the same boat as me.
any suggestions?
thanks
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Hey,
There are several out there that work. Ivans are typically good to go out of the box and most if not all the Sprint based roms will be good to go by using the apn fix. Its a trial and error thing just find a rom that you like and give the thread a good read.
Most all the posted roms now have an mms "fix" or are good out of the box. I know it gets a bit disheartening flashing, setting up, wiping, flashing etc...lol...but thats the joy of a rooted handset...trial and error till you find a rom and dev you like well enough to stick with.
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I'm sure it wasn't a personal attack, but I'm not sure why you're telling me that?
Anyway, if you installed the MMS fix, you should have working MMS. The MMS fix hasn't failed anyone that I know of and I used it myself on Rev5 and Rev6. Did you boot into the phone and set it up after flashing the ROM, but before install the MMS fix? The file the MMS fix installs gets overwritten during the first boot, which is why you need to reboot before installing it.
edit: Also, regarding your softkey lights, they only turn on in dark areas. Hold your finger over the light sensor to the left of the earpiece speaker to see them light up. In ZenEXP-Eris the jogball LED doesn't function, but I have mapped notifications to the charging/power LED in the upper-right-hand corner of the Eris as an alternative, for now.
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I actually did exactly what you said. I downloaded all the files first then i formatted the sd card, toggled, loaded the rom & the mms fix, wiped the handset (reset & dalvik), flashed the rom. When it loaded I set up the phone, power cycled & booted to recovery, flashed the mms fix and restarted the phone.
I wanted to make sure that apps2sd was working to i went to the market & installed vignette (excellent photo app) and the usual google made apps like translate, shopper etc
it was after all this I remembered the mms, so i tried it & nada.
I'm about to reformat & wipe now so i'll see what happens
i ask because i just bought this eris from someone and it didn't have service and every Rom that i install asks me to activate. i want to flash it but i don't know if it will work if i cant access cdma workshop.
the froyo roms don't require me to activate right away but ##3424# doesn't work for DM command service any suggestions?
Typically, NONE of the Eris dev ROMs require activation, so long as the phone was successfully activated in the past without an intervening factory reset.
The only time I have ever needed to activate my Eris was after a Factory Reset performed from within a stock 2.1 HTC release - wiping /data from within Amon_RA and flashing a new ROM does not seem to affect the activation status of the phone.
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i have flashed probably 10 roms and have never had to reactivate my phone. ever.
wonder if some people just do this assuming incorrectly that it needs to be done everytime?
I just looked at the OP and realized that maybe a slightly different Q was being asked - activation bypass?
On several different ROMs, I was able to initiate the activation call, and then hang up immediately - on the 3rd or fourth. try, the phone would allow you to continue.
I have also read posts here that claimed you could touch all four corners of the screen in a certain order, and that would bypass something (I can't remember, maybe someone else can chime in).
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bftb0 said:
On several different ROMs, I was able to initiate the activation call, and then hang up immediately - on the 3rd or fourth. try, the phone would allow you to continue.
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Confirmed, worked for me after the 4th try I think. I just kept alternating between the home and menu button so I'm not sure which actually worked.
My installation has been working fine and I even managed to increase battery life by installing "Juice".
Suddenly, about 3 days ago I noticed the phone was saying no signal. I was clearly getting data, as my apps worked and I was getting eMail alerts and downloads, but no calls.
I tried restarts, but to no avail. I am using Rod_100 UK as I am on Vodafone UK... I assume it is correct, certainly worked for the past month.
I have had to revert back to Windows Mobile.
My immediate thoughts are it is Juice that is causing it. I have just logged back in to my XDAndroid to write this and Juice did not load, and guess what, the signal has come back.......
Just in case is there anything else to look for?
Never heard of "Juice". I have heard of JuiceDefender however...
If you don't have the issue on a clean install, I'd say that app (or one of many I'm assuming you have installed) is the culprit. Rename your data.img and boot, see what happens.
Yes, it is JuiceDefender, apologies for the abbreviation.
I un-installed it and I have network again, but I guess I will loose battery longevity again, not that it made a huge difference.
I'll keep my eye on it....
Still no improvement
No, still not working. I get no signal, when I am in eye shot of a mast and on WM I get a full signal. I am booting in to WM to a deluge of SMS messages that I had not received, mostly vMail notifications, to which the messages are from calls that I did not receive.
The radio is not as strong and keeps dying on me requiring a reboot
I dont know what exactly but some program is giving android problems
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No, still not working. I get no signal, when I am in eye shot of a mast and on WM I get a full signal. I am booting in to WM to a deluge of SMS messages that I had not received, mostly vMail notifications, to which the messages are from calls that I did not receive.
The radio is not as strong and keeps dying on me requiring a reboot
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All I can say is do the standard mess.
Make sure you're up to date.*
Delete (move, rename) data.img.
Format SD. Full format. HP tool.
*There's a lot of testing stuff flying around right now too, making that difficult admittedly. Hopefully the auto-build service will return soon, and all the madness will get committed soon!
Check in your startup file forcecdma=0. I had that problem too.
wormy315 said:
Check in your startup file forcecdma=0. I had that problem too.
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The command is force_cdma=X....
arrrghhh said:
The command is force_cdma=X....
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OK, I have tried deleting the data.mag
Didn't work
Have just changed "force_cdma=0" to "force_cdma=X" Will see if this works and feed back
My gut feeling is it is something to do with "JuiceDefender".
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OK, I have tried deleting the data.mag
Didn't work
Have just changed "force_cdma=0" to "force_cdma=X" Will see if this works and feed back
My gut feeling is it is something to do with "JuiceDefender".
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Uhm, you replace X with a value. 0 if you're GSM, 1 if you're CDMA....
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Uhm, you replace X with a value. 0 if you're GSM, 1 if you're CDMA....
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Well I took it literally, as I have no idea, sorry. I'll put it back... Anyway, I have another problem now anyway. Having made the change it will not boot. I checked the permissions and it is not "Executable" any more. I have tried changing it but it will not let me. How do I fix this - I am accessing via my laptop which is Ubuntu (Linux).
Can you help, please?
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Well I took it literally, as I have no idea, sorry. I'll put it back... Anyway, I have another problem now anyway. Having made the change it will not boot. I checked the permissions and it is not "Executable" any more. I have tried changing it but it will not let me. How do I fix this - I am accessing via my laptop which is Ubuntu (Linux).
Can you help, please?
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What is not "Executable" any more... haret.exe?
The startup file
Sorry, ignore me.
After the change, I double clicked the Android shortcut to launch Android, but it would not start, so I assumed the file had to be executable (as it was the only item I had changed)... I had forgotten to disconnect my TP2 from my laptop!
I've done so now and it has launched. A stupid user errorhttp://media.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
I'll keep you posted on any changes.
Ha, fair enough. Enjoy.
Solved. Keep loosing Radio
OK. I tried all the above. Delete data.img, and check the startup script/cmd.... none worked. At some point I would loose the network connection.
As it started within days of loading JuiceDefender and its components and from the description of how it works - controls the running apps including radio and data transfer, I always suspected it to be the root cause. After the other checks failed I tried removing all Juice Defender apps and since then c30hrs I have not experienced any loss of communication.
Thanks everyone for your help, and I hope this will be of use to anyone else suffering from loosing radio/ signal.
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OK. I tried all the above. Delete data.img, and check the startup script/cmd.... none worked. At some point I would loose the network connection.
As it started within days of loading JuiceDefender and its components and from the description of how it works - controls the running apps including radio and data transfer, I always suspected it to be the root cause. After the other checks failed I tried removing all Juice Defender apps and since then c30hrs I have not experienced any loss of communication.
Thanks everyone for your help, and I hope this will be of use to anyone else suffering from loosing radio/ signal.
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It has been a number of days now and I have not experienced the same issue, so my conclusion is that it is the JuiceDefender that caused the problem.
The down side now is that I get 7am to 4pm battery life as opposed to 7am to 7pm.... But atleast I can receive and make calls!
A note: The signal strength on the project image is not as strong as the WM6.5, but I am sure that is a known issue.
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It has been a number of days now and I have not experienced the same issue, so my conclusion is that it is the JuiceDefender that caused the problem.
The down side now is that I get 7am to 4pm battery life as opposed to 7am to 7pm.... But atleast I can receive and make calls!
A note: The signal strength on the project image is not as strong as the WM6.5, but I am sure that is a known issue.
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Hrm, didn't realize that app would help out that much. But, it makes sense if it's turning off all your radios lol.
Anyhoo, have you seen the kernel I posted from WisTilt2? It has full panel collapse, and battery life is astounding with it.
Code has yet to be committed, as he still has some work to do for the AUO panels (select RHOD100's basically) - so unless you have one of those you can reap the benefits of his new code .
(bzo got nearly 65 hrs with the radio on, sync off - 100% sleep.)
Looks interesting, but where do I download the latest version... I don't plan reading all the threads! And IF I installed would I loose all my settings and apps?
Update
It has been a while since I did all this tinkering, during which time there has been an update.
What I find I get is sometimes (c every couple of days) the meter says I have signal but nothing connects with a message "no network". Also, but far more frequent, as with today where it has occurred 3 times, I dial a number and nothing happens. It says ringing but there is no ring tone and it never seems to connect. I then shut the call down either by using the hang up button or the soft hang up key. The screen then changes to "Hanging Up" but again sits there indefinitely. The only solution id to do a restart.....
Any ideas?
PS: any news on when the bluetooth and camera will be working...?
I have found that any app that acts as a task killer of any sort (juice defender must in someway stop apps to save battery) can also kill your connection. I found this out while using xdandroid and it became immiediately clear when I stopped using the task killer my bars and data proved to be more consistant! Hope that helps.
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So I really love this ROM, it's lightning fast..here I thought that android itself was just incredibly slow..I've tried a couple different roms including stock, and had the similar woes with my HTC desire hd.
So it all works beautifully, it's super stable..only 2 problems, one is that the HSPA/3g/signal icon is always at no bars, setting it to text mode shows -1. Not sure what's up with that, it was kind of scaring me at first, but now I guess I'll just assume I have signalnage and live with it.
However, I'm starting to revamp my security practices, including using encryption for everything b/w desktop, mobile and google sync crap, and using entirely random secure passwords..
Problem is, I wanted to enable encryption via the builtin kernel encryption support...however, I go into Settings->Security->Encryption, set a PIN, it says it'll reboot several times and prolly take an hour.
It shows an "encrypting" icon, reboots and i log in like nothing happens. I go to that same page and it acts like I never set it up. I tried this 10 times, tried wiping some cache, removing sdcard, rebooting many many times..nothing.
Any suggestions on how to fix this? I desperately want the added security in case someone finds my phone.
EDIT: could a mod rename this, fix the spelling error? that's really bugging me, I really need to set up firefox's handling of dark system themes..
I love this rom so much too. Hope , it'll continue