Apache WM6 Kitchen CE OS 5.2.1908 (Build 18508.0.7.0) 071117_1 Bugs/Patches

[tiermann]

Originally Posted by MrHappy

My phone just recently started missing calls. I noticed this when the phone would ring only once then the call would go to voicemail. After some testing I notice that when this happens I can see the phone icon above the signal strength for a good 6 seconds before the phone will ring and let me hit the accept button. But by the time that happens the call has been sent to voicemail.

I am using a rom built from the kitchen and is basically a vanilla build.

If your ringtone is a large file and/or it's on the storage card, you will have a long delay before the first ring. When you get a call, the phone wakes up and has to then initialize the storage card which takes time, and then it has to read the file from the storage card which is slower than main memory.

And also what GGuru said about signal and too many running processes or apps set to run or trigger when the phone is woken up.

[jsavin]

Originally Posted by runt

i find that i have to let my 6700 power off completely to start charging from my car chargers

This is a known issue, but the fix was hard to find. I found some docs that helped me fix this a while back, and did a write up here:

http://www.jakesavin.com/newsItems/d...tPc/2007/06/20

Hope this helps!
-Jake

[jsavin]

Originally Posted by gguruusa

That's interesting. My car chargers (4 different ones, ranging from poor quality to very nice) work fine. Considering that the charger is just providing DC power on 2 wires, I'd say it's more likely that your charger is underrated. How many Amps is your charger rated for? The guy (runt) who has to turn his phone off to charge from a car charger is likely suffering from overloading his charger as well.

This is most likely a software problem, not a hardware one. I just posted the same link in response to another message in this thread, but I had such a hard time finding the info, I wanted to make sure people having this problem saw the link:

http://www.jakesavin.com/newsItems/d...tPc/2007/06/20

Good luck!

[runt]

Originally Posted by jsavin

This is a known issue, but the fix was hard to find. I found some docs that helped me fix this a while back, and did a write up here:

http://www.jakesavin.com/newsItems/d...tPc/2007/06/20

Hope this helps!
-Jake

i'm not sure i want to try that, although i did mod my bluetooth gps last night to let it accept commands (so i can turn vtg on).

[gguruusa]

Originally Posted by jsavin

This is most likely a software problem, not a hardware one. I just posted the same link in response to another message in this thread, but I had such a hard time finding the info, I wanted to make sure people having this problem saw the link:

http://www.jakesavin.com/newsItems/d...tPc/2007/06/20

Good luck!

Nice Find.

It's hardware - it might be addressable in software, but it's fundamentally a hardware problem. Refer to this http://pinouts.ru/Devices/mini-USB_pinout.shtml for the pinout description, which explains why the solution you found works. Clearly, some power sources are a little smarter than others.

BTW, I don't recommend the solution you found of shorting out the pins...there should be a pull down resistor in there to protect your device.

[jsavin]

Originally Posted by runt

i'm not sure i want to try that, although i did mod my bluetooth gps last night to let it accept commands (so i can turn vtg on).

It absolutely works, and isn't too difficult. It probably is easy to burn out the charger if you accidentally join the wrong pins together, but I'd be susprised if anyone damaged their device doing this.

That said, I accept no responsibility for any damage encurred as a result.

PS: See post #235 for more learned info about this. Apparently bridging the pins isn't as safe as I'd originally thought, but I can still attest that my device is not damaged in any way I can perceive, and I've been using my modified charger daily since the beginning of June -- 5+ months.

[jsavin]

Originally Posted by gguruusa

Nice Find.

It's hardware - it might be addressable in software, but it's fundamentally a hardware problem. Refer to this http://pinouts.ru/Devices/mini-USB_pinout.shtml for the pinout description, which explains why the solution you found works. Clearly, some power sources are a little smarter than others.

BTW, I don't recommend the solution you found of shorting out the pins...there should be a pull down resistor in there to protect your device.

Cool -- thanks for the clarification. I'm pretyt sure it's addressible by software, since the last WM5 OEM update released by Sprint did address the problem, however the version that Verizon had did not. I now know enough that I could possibly have figured out how to apply the core parts of the Sprint ROM, with the Verison OEM pieces, but I must say I'm *much* happier running Helmi_c's WM6 ROM.

Now my wife's Motorola cell phone won't accept any charger except for the one that came with it, and says unfriendily instead, "Not Authorized". A bug I can deal with, but deliberatly locking me out of a standard connection just to get me to buy another charger is totally lame.

But I digress...

[gguruusa]

Originally Posted by jsavin

It absolutely works, and isn't too difficult. It probably is easy to burn out the charger if you accidentally join the wrong pins together, but I'd be susprised if anyone damaged their device doing this.

As long as you don't bridge the power pin (1) to anything else, you'll be fine. Bridging the gnd pin to a data pin won't hurt it, but it sure won't work as a data cable anymore. For a power supply, you're not using the data pins anyway.

I wonder how my USB to miniUSB cable is wired.... When I find my meter, I'll test it. If anyone else wants to test, check the resitance between pins 4 and 5 of the miniUSB connector.

[Trident]

Crud.
Can someone look at this build log and tell me what I'm doing wrong?
I modified my ringtones along with the RGU, ran it through the DSM builder and now it's all fershimmelled.
Attaching the RGU file also.

[gguruusa]

You have an extra comma at the end of the first key.

...
			"battlestar_galactica .wma",
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\SoundCategories\Ring]