Phone stuck in portrait mode, reset help?

jerms77 · #1 (**permalink**) 10-27-2010, 01:52 AM

Slide out keyboard not working to text, phone hangs up. Have to text in portrait mode or phone freezes. I've never done a reset...owned phone since new when it came out in august last year. It's T-mobile windows mobile 6.1. Never been modded.

I've also got that phantom message thing going says I have 7 messages when I don't have any. Should I do a reset? Never done one before, theres nothing on the phone I care about saving except my contacts, I heard of someone saving them to their sim card? If anyone could help I've looked around the forums I've been reading for hours. New to this stuff.

eric12341 · #2 (**permalink**) 10-27-2010, 02:49 AM

well you can first try to hard reset it by using the clear storage feature in start>settings>system then clear storage. but first you can backup your contacts with exchange activesync if you have a live or google account.if that doesnt work id look to TMO for a replacement or even an upgrade (HD2 or HD7 ) since you had the phone over a year

**boredandtattooed** · #3 (**permalink**) 10-27-2010, 05:34 AM

attached cab will get rid of all your phantom messages..

you can use PIMBackup, MS MyPhone, Google Exchange, Dashwire, or Sashimi to backup contacts(PIM.vol)

6.1 seemed real slow on TP2 @ launch, i can believe youve been running it this long, with all these mods right here in front of you

eric12341 · #4 (**permalink**) 10-27-2010, 06:36 AM

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Originally Posted by boredandtattooed

6.1 seemed real slow on TP2 @ launch, i can believe youve been running it this long
6.1 seemed real slow on TP2 @ launch, i can believe youve been running it this long

doesnt seem slow to me,its serving me quite well. only 2 lockups so far and this is my 3rd week on it. maybe its cuz of the GT2L cab

**boredandtattooed** · #5 (**permalink**) 10-27-2010, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by eric12341

doesnt seem slow to me,its serving me quite well. only 2 lockups so far and this is my 3rd week on it. maybe its cuz of the GT2L cab

well good for you buddy, but the rest of us that bought our TP2s at launch had horrid lag problems..

so much so we had to use the GFXBOOST-1.1 cab and another to make it more useable..

eric12341 · #6 (**permalink**) 10-27-2010, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by boredandtattooed

well good for you buddy, but the rest of us that bought our TP2s at launch had horrid lag problems..

so much so we had to use the GFXBOOST-1.1 cab and another to make it more useable..

thats y i said the GT2L cab. ive never used it without but the TP2 i played with in the sprint store back when they were "inspecting my TP" back in december. it seemed to run no differently than my TP did on the 2nd stock rom which was a really good and stable rom but with the GT2L cab it seems even faster than that. id like to see some threads from back in the day that documented the stock rom problems, i didnt enter the tp2 scene till may during the stock 6.5 days and i know the problems with that rom. maybe ill give it another chance someday but not now.

jerms77 · #7 (**permalink**) 10-27-2010, 05:10 PM

I've had horrible lag problems since I bought it...so in the year I've had it, I delete all my text messages and photos regularly...never put any music on it or anything. I didn't realise there were any mods out there, I just found this website yesterday. I'm going to try and perform the hard reset. I didn't see any attached cab for the phantom messages tho?