What's My Problem?

one80oneday · #1 (**permalink**) 03-26-2009, 04:04 PM

About two weeks ago I was driving out of town when my phone froze. I restarted it and it was stuck on the touch pro boot screen and would not boot up. So I did a hard reset. Now this happens about every two days or so. I've tried a number of custom roms and nothing is fixing this and its a real pain to sync up everything every two days. Do you think its a rom issue, radio issue, or hardware issue?

DrSuSE · #2 (**permalink**) 03-26-2009, 04:06 PM

After being hypnotized by your signature image I was compelled to take my phone and throw it against the wall... now it is smashed. :'(

Just kidding... I don't know, dude... sorry.

one80oneday · #3 (**permalink**) 03-26-2009, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by DrSuSE

After being hypnotized by your signature image I was compelled to take my phone and throw it against the wall... now it is smashed. :'(

Just kidding... I don't know, dude... sorry.

lol, i think ill change it

**Darkjedi** · #4 (**permalink**) 03-26-2009, 04:11 PM

Could be a Bootloader issue? While I doubt something like the bootloader could be corrupted, see if it's possible to unlock your phone again, or relock it to a stock ROM

pastafarian · #5 (**permalink**) 03-26-2009, 05:57 PM

Sound hardware to me. As suggested, relock and flash to stock. If that doesn't fix things, be prepared to take the phone in for replacement. For the future, you should also consider getting a backup program like Sprite or SPB which make restoring from a hard reset a breeze. I have my phone back itself up every day at 4:00AM and keep the latest 3 backups on the SD card. Good luck!

#6 (**permalink**) 03-26-2009, 06:09 PM

Software issue.

One of your .cab files is probably corrupt. I had this happen, deleting my entire program library and starting fresh made the problem disappear. The phone would flash fine, everything would work fine till I re-installed all of my programs... after that, the phone would probably just lock up, and get stuck on the Touch Pro boot screen till I hard reset it.

Try hard resetting it but installing nothing, see if it runs just fine - it probably will.

Rento_VW · #7 (**permalink**) 03-26-2009, 06:10 PM

To jump off-topic again.. Is that a fake number in your sig... or is that the actual number? Lol.... not smart.

xgm541 · #8 (**permalink**) 03-26-2009, 06:41 PM

Most likely a software issue. My phone recently locked up with opera mini open and i couldnt boot it because it got stuck in the same way as you describe. I believe the culprit was java. Other than that.. try to see how it works without a memory stick inserted since that could be another possibility.

try running the phone with a popular ROM with nothing but the default programs that come with it.

Matchstick · #9 (**permalink**) 03-26-2009, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Rento_VW

To jump off-topic again.. Is that a fake number in your sig... or is that the actual number? Lol.... not smart.

That's a fake number man, Hollywood uses the 555 prefix in all it's numbers and no phone company in the world uses 555 because of the deal that was worked out with the movie industry. So whenever you see a 555 prefix, it's a fake number.

one80oneday · #10 (**permalink**) 03-27-2009, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by pastafarian

For the future, you should also consider getting a backup program like Sprite or SPB which make restoring from a hard reset a breeze. I have my phone back itself up every day at 4:00AM and keep the latest 3 backups on the SD card. Good luck!

I've tried just about every backup program and they all freeze my phone for hours making me miss my alarm, calls, email, texts... Cant seem to get them to work on the tp but worked good on my mogul

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Originally Posted by ShadowDrake

Software issue.
Try hard resetting it but installing nothing, see if it runs just fine - it probably will.

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Originally Posted by xgm541

try running the phone with a popular ROM with nothing but the default programs that come with it.

Tried this last time but phone still froze and got stuck when I reset

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Originally Posted by darkjedi007

Could be a Bootloader issue? While I doubt something like the bootloader could be corrupted, see if it's possible to unlock your phone again, or relock it to a stock ROM

I unlocked/relocked and flashed back to stock and wont install any cabs for a few days to see if that works. Also I remember about a month ago I tried a 6.5 ROM, do you think that could be causing this?