Phone Acting Sluggish

ironmanduo · #1 (**permalink**) 07-04-2008, 11:51 PM

ok this is my first time psoting a new thread so dont flame me to much and i did search.

My PPC is acting sluggish. it just takes a few seconds to do anyting and its kinda annoying. even when there is no programs running and fresh outta a soft reboot then a few sec later it continues.....any ideas?

**darren.wlsn1** · #2 (**permalink**) 07-05-2008, 01:06 AM

have you tried memmaid? check memory avai. might be what you need

**schettj** · #3 (**permalink**) 07-05-2008, 10:16 AM

if its slow right out of reboot, then whatever new software you've just recently installed is causing it.

Today items can cause it, any apps that run in the background can cause it. Making some changes to the registry can cause it.

Try undoing whatever you've done recently. If that's no help, and you're prepared to reload data and apps from scratch, a hard reset (NOTE YOU WILL LOSE ALL INTERNAL DATA/CONTACTS/CALENDAR/SETTINGS/INSTALLED APPS yada yada... have a backup... sync... etc...) will get you back to that "out of the box new phone smell" state - from there you can start loading it back up with crud until it falls over. Then you'll know what's doing it.

In very rare cases, oddball situations like very marginal signal, and even hardware issues can cause the molasseses mode to kick in. If you just can't get rid of it, its time for a trip to the carrier to get a replacement.

Good luck!

ironmanduo · #4 (**permalink**) 07-05-2008, 02:08 PM

i have the big clock plugin for the today screen would that do it? if it would is there any way to speed it up?

holo · #5 (**permalink**) 07-05-2008, 09:14 PM

that's probably not the problem, but you should probably hard reset and then add software one by one and then see when the problem starts - it is almost definitely an application you installed that is causing these problems....

mandangalo · #6 (**permalink**) 07-05-2008, 09:38 PM

I hear the sluggishness comes built in with WM

Hankster44 · #7 (**permalink**) 07-05-2008, 11:26 PM

Hey noobie hankster here, 2 questions
How do you do a hard reboot
and how do you do a back up

thanks

veedubguru · #8 (**permalink**) 07-07-2008, 03:27 PM

Hard reset: Press and hold both left and right softkeys, then stick the stylus through the reset hole in the bottom. You'll get a message about pressing a certain key to clear, then space to boot.

BUT FIRST!!!

Backup: Best application to do a backup with for the important stuff is PimBackup. Just google search it and install it to your phone by connecting your phone to the pc, let active sync on your computer connect to your phone, then click the explore button. Drop PimBackup from your pc into your my documents folder on the phone. Then on the PDA, launch file explorer and find PimBackup in your My Documents folder and tap it. Checkmark everything on the first two screens (You'll need an sd card in your phone for it to back up to). Might also want to click the custom line on the first screen and select options below. Tell it what files / folders you'd like backed up too. Then after your hard reset, start back at the beginning of this paragraph, but instead of selecting "backup" on the first screen, select "restore" and point it to the backup you made earlier on your sd card. It will restore your contacts, call logs, messages, and any files you selected to backup.