ActiveSync (Windows Media Player gaf?) = "Oops?" or "Oops!"

[mark.wayne]

Greetings!

Perhaps someone can give me some insight here regarding my stock TP2 phone:

Long story:

I was cleaning up some stuff on my phone last night and had it connected to my laptop using ActiveSync, as I am on Windows XP. In the past, I normally had it connect, but never really went through the setup process - more or less just essentially navigating to the phone's folder via Explorer.

In any case, I went ahead and continued getting it setup properly when I noticed that under ActiveSync, there's a "Windows Media Player" synchronization option that suggested that I setup sync through Windows Media Player.

Under Windows Media Player, I went through the steps of setting up Sync and saw my phone listed on the right. Initially, it was blank. Then afterwards, when I was conducting a sync, all sorts of folders had popped up.

I was presuming that it was syncing my laptop's information to my phone, because suddenly my phone's device memory was essentially filled up!

So I ended up clearing that stuff out under Windows Media Player, as I recognized some media files that were being pushed to my phone were from my laptop.

In any case, after I had conducted a sync, I noticed that my phone (using the Today screen) has that teal background and that I can no longer enter the 'Settings' menu.

Oops?

Admittedly, I am a bit perplexed by what may have transpired here. I presume I'd have to do a hard reset to restore functionality?

Short story:

I think I may have wiped my device by accident while deleting folders listed under Windows Media Player during ActiveSync, which probably included critical files.

Oops!

I'm guessing the only way I can restore access to my settings would be via a hard reset?

[wodurrah]

Yea thats exactly what you did. I've done it before...copy your pim.vol and just do a hard reset on your device. Tell you the truth I do a hard reset every month just to keep my device moving swiflty.

[mark.wayne]

Originally Posted by wodurrah

Yea thats exactly what you did. I've done it before...copy your pim.vol and just do a hard reset on your device. Tell you the truth I do a hard reset every month just to keep my device moving swiflty.

Ah, okay then! Must appreciate the advice regarding the pim.vol - I feel like such a fool!