Phone Lock Ups After new ROM Update?

Yankees368 · #1 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007, 03:19 PM

Has anyone else experienced several lock ups after installing the new ROM update? Today alone, my phone has locked up 3 times. Twice it wouldnt come out of sleep mode, and once it froze in On Demand. All 3 times required a soft-reboot.

Programs:
Microsoft Live Search
Telenav for Windows Mobile (which dosent work anymore, btw)
Handmark on Demand
HTC X-Button 1.5
WiFiFoFum
Arcsoft MMS
PocketCM Contacts 0.15
Nilisco Flashlight
BlueFrog Big Button Dialer
HTC Home
Google Maps

winmobilelawyer · #2 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007, 03:43 PM

Yes. Its happened to me twice. Whats the deal with that?

krohnjw · #3 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007, 03:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yankees368

Has anyone else experienced several lock ups after installing the new ROM update? Today alone, my phone has locked up 3 times. Twice it wouldnt come out of sleep mode, and once it froze in On Demand. All 3 times required a soft-reboot.

Programs:
Microsoft Live Search
Telenav for Windows Mobile (which dosent work anymore, btw)
Handmark on Demand
HTC X-Button 1.5
WiFiFoFum
Arcsoft MMS
PocketCM Contacts 0.15
Nilisco Flashlight
BlueFrog Big Button Dialer
HTC Home
Google Maps

I have had the same issue - 3 times since last night. Prior to the update the only time this really happened was when I was using bluetooth and it went to sleep (not often since it worked so poorly).

Now, I have left bluetooth on today - but the sleep issue is supposed to be fixed w/BT no?

Installed programs:
WM RDP
X-Button 1.5
Arcsoft MMS
iContacts
Big Button Dialer
Google Maps
Live Search
PHM Regedit

winmobilelawyer · #4 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007, 03:50 PM

Yes. Its happened to me twice. Whats the deal with that?

dishe · #5 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007, 04:03 PM

This is something that has been present on the Alltel ROM... I was hoping they fixed it in this release... see the thread titled "I can crash the Alltel ROM at will".
He describes exactly what actions freeze it, so hopefully you can take some pointers on how to deal with this problem in the mean time (turn off BT after use, etc). Its annoying, this is supposed to be a "Fix".

z3bu · #6 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007, 04:04 PM

happened to me today, device wouldn't come out of sleep mode. had to soft reset.

krohnjw · #7 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007, 04:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dishe

This is something that has been present on the Alltel ROM... I was hoping they fixed it in this release... see the thread titled "I can crash the Alltel ROM at will".
He describes exactly what actions freeze it, so hopefully you can take some pointers on how to deal with this problem in the mean time (turn off BT after use, etc). Its annoying, this is supposed to be a "Fix".

That is quite frustrating. I only want to use BT in a persistent state for the winter months. It's much easier to grab a headset from my side pocket than fish a phone out of an interior coat pocket (through gloves and a scarf). The BT audio sounds much better from the test calls I have made, but this is a big bug.

meatlocker · #8 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007, 04:31 PM

Well crappity-doo-da, it has happened to me at least 5 times today. And I am not using BT at all. I have seen lockups that mostly involve either changing a setting (as in trying to initiate an IOTA), changing ActiveSync settings or using IE. I completely lost any network data coverage for a while just a bit ago (even though I had 3 bars of EVDO). Something is wrong here. I have the full ROM, with all of the Ext crap too, so its not like I skipped something important.

Also, I have just done my third hard reset for the day. I am overjoyed.

winmobilelawyer · #9 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007, 04:33 PM

Yea I have the full ROM update also. For me the problem has only happened when I leave the phone on my desk and the automatic "turn-off device" when not used kicks in, i guess we are calling that sleep mode. So i went into Settings>System>Power and unchecked the option. The screen still turns off as that is a different setting. Seems to have fixed the problem for me, haven't bought a BT headset yet so don't know about that. I just hope my battery use doesnt kill without sleep function on. I'll let you know.

Yankees368 · #10 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007, 04:35 PM

This is 100% UNACCEPTABLE

I cannot be rebooting my phone 5 times a day because of some stupid update that may or may not have fixed the broken bluetooth!!!

Can anyone list the actions that they found in the altell rom that makes the phone freeze?