Verizon Touch Pro 2 - Searching for Service after using phone - Page 2

HybridAndy · #11 (**permalink**) 08-08-2011, 01:32 PM

Actually, the 2.35 updated I downloaded from the megaupload mirror starts and then crashes after about 5 minutes and gets to 0% and hangs. The phone reboots normally and still lists the old radio. I'll try the 2.37 link from above.

HybridAndy · #12 (**permalink**) 08-08-2011, 02:14 PM

Getting the same hang with the 2.37 radio update. Phone and updater seem to be getting along, get to the point where phone and program display percentage with a bar and it just hangs at 0% and eventually fails with a communication error.

Do I need to be unlocked or step up through the updates incrementally?

**arrrghhh** · #13 (**permalink**) 08-08-2011, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by HybridAndy

Getting the same hang with the 2.37 radio update. Phone and updater seem to be getting along, get to the point where phone and program display percentage with a bar and it just hangs at 0% and eventually fails with a communication error.

Do I need to be unlocked or step up through the updates incrementally?

I think to flash only a radio directly, you do have to do hSPL (be unlocked). If you want to stay stock, flash the latest VZ stock ROM. It will come with radio firmware.

HybridAndy · #14 (**permalink**) 08-08-2011, 03:16 PM

Thanks. I wasn't concerned about not being stock but loosing everything on the phone. My work is a Lotus Notes shop and they don't support anything but blackberry so getting email and contacts/calender data on my phones has been an uphill battle. I'm running a convoluted solution of ActiveSync and IBM EasySyncPro with a Mortscript that runs on boot to make that work. I'm actually still trying to find a good (free) solution for Android right now.

I will have to backup some of the data on my phone and unlock it and see if that fixes the issue. Hopefully I'll get some time later this week to play with it. Thanks again for the help.

**arrrghhh** · #15 (**permalink**) 08-08-2011, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by HybridAndy

Thanks. I wasn't concerned about not being stock but loosing everything on the phone. My work is a Lotus Notes shop and they don't support anything but blackberry so getting email and contacts/calender data on my phones has been an uphill battle. I'm running a convoluted solution of ActiveSync and IBM EasySyncPro with a Mortscript that runs on boot to make that work. I'm actually still trying to find a good (free) solution for Android right now.

I will have to backup some of the data on my phone and unlock it and see if that fixes the issue. Hopefully I'll get some time later this week to play with it. Thanks again for the help.

Ick. We're a GroupWise shop, so I feel your pain

. My company is so bad it's not that they don't support non-BB devices - they only allow BB devices to connect! So I just don't get work email on my phone...

I would backup your data, try the hSPL, then radio flash. In theory you shouldn't lose any data, and you won't need to pillage and start over that crazy setup!

HybridAndy · #16 (**permalink**) 08-10-2011, 12:47 PM

Ha ha, I backed everything up because I though the Hard SPL unlocker would do a hard reset of the phone and it turns out it doesn't. Unlocked and successfully ran the 2.37 radio update from above and it appear to be working now. The first boot after the unlock/radio crashed but I'm up and making calls fine now. Thanks again for the help.

Technically my company doesn't allow anything other than BB either. My EasySync Pro solution ran entirely off my personal workstation but required me to be plugged into the computer via USB to sync calendar and contacts. For email, I setup a rule in Notes that forwards all email to my Gmail account. If I reply, it will come from Gmail but I will at least get to the mail on my phone. It's nice to be able to use Gmail's search abilities rather then sorting through archives in Notes as well. This works through Android as well but I may need to switch Gmail accounts soon (I'm 6.9G of 7.6G worth of space).

Figured out how to dump my Lotus Contact to a vcard file and import it into Android from the SD card so I have contacts. They won't sync but mine don't change that often. Now I just need to find a solution for the calendar. CompanionLink seems like a good solution (sync's Notes to Gmail) but it's $80 and I believe we may be turning into a MS Sharepoint/Outlook shop in the next 6 months so that's no good. IBM has a Traveler solution that syncs Android and Notes but it's a server side application and they will never allow it. Have to figure something out.

HybridAndy · #17 (**permalink**) 08-10-2011, 04:21 PM

Lesson learned today:

You can sync your windows mobile phone and Gmail using ActiveSync.

You can sync your android phone with Gmail.

However, when you do this, Gmail recreates and sends out new Google Calendar invites to everyone invited to every meeting on your calendar.

Fortunately, I was able to rip the battery out of the phone after it did only about 4-5 meetings and then delete my calendar from Gmail and it stopped trying (I have around 2,000 calendar entries on my calendar)

Need to find another solution.