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Old 08-16-2008, 11:14 AM
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Re: Need to copy files off locked up phone

Well, I thought I would post how I retrieved files off my phone. Since I knew it was the today plugin I added causing the phone to lockup I had about 2 seconds of correct phone operation before it would hang. After the hang the phone would not respond to button presses, would not even show up as a know device in windows.

I joined the irc ppcgeeks chat and hund around for a couple of hours asking around at what i could do. I was told I was in for a hard reset. I needed my voice files off the phone.

I found that if I repeatedly pressed the phone button (the green putton on my HTC Touch phone) right BEFORE the background was displayed I could preempt the today screen from loading. I could tie up the phone. This gave me about 40 secounds of access to copy my files off the phone. It would eventually lock up again and I would lose access.

I though I would post this in case someone has a similar problem of needing to access files on a phone that would lock up AFTER booting.

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