Greetings!
Perhaps someone can give me some insight here regarding my stock TP2 phone:
Long story:
I was cleaning up some stuff on my phone last night and had it connected to my laptop using ActiveSync, as I am on Windows XP. In the past, I normally had it connect, but never really went through the setup process - more or less just essentially navigating to the phone's folder via Explorer.
In any case, I went ahead and continued getting it setup properly when I noticed that under ActiveSync, there's a "Windows Media Player" synchronization option that suggested that I setup sync through Windows Media Player.
Under Windows Media Player, I went through the steps of setting up Sync and saw my phone listed on the right. Initially, it was blank. Then afterwards, when I was conducting a sync, all sorts of folders had popped up.
I was presuming that it was syncing my laptop's information to my phone, because suddenly my phone's device memory was essentially filled up!
So I ended up clearing that stuff out under Windows Media Player, as I recognized some media files that were being pushed to my phone were from my laptop.
In any case, after I had conducted a sync, I noticed that my phone (using the Today screen) has that teal background and that I can no longer enter the 'Settings' menu.
Oops?
Admittedly, I am a bit perplexed by what may have transpired here. I presume I'd have to do a hard reset to restore functionality?
Short story:
I think I may have wiped my device by accident while deleting folders listed under Windows Media Player during ActiveSync, which probably included critical files.
Oops!
I'm guessing the only way I can restore access to my settings would be via a hard reset?