Continous reboot - Hands Free Activation?

[bentcipher]

This was happening to me starting last Friday, after hard reset and full restore, it went away and returned 2 days later...

I uninstalled Fring and Igl007 Earth Theme and Sphere Icons. Symptoms went away and haven't returned... yet.

Back to stock skin but I don't have to deal with the bullsh1t.

So check if you're running any custom themes and try uninstalling them. Fring I just found annoying as hell..

[starscalling]

Originally Posted by rrusek

Press CANCEL and phone will stop rebooting..

Go outside and do a soft reset. Let the provisioning happen. Just means you have LOW EVDO coverage where you are at.

not so sure about that....
while that may certainly be ONE of the causes, ive been in awesome areas and my phone has yet to work, even though going throuh houdini successfully and everything.

[garberfc]

Urrrr.... SSDD .

The device has been unusable for the last two days. I don't have any custom themes. I've soft resetted the device many times. No luck!!

One thing I did notice is that when the phone powers up, it indicates there is "No Phone Service" (See attached image). That would explain why the "Hands Free Activation" is unsuccessful...

I'm going to visit a Sprint store and see if they see something I'm missing.

Very pissed off and dissatisfied...

[mtnmedic]

This whole "hands free activation" is DUMB DUMB DUMB.

[shaggylive]

I always find ##786# to be usefull, but thats a hard-reset too.

[bluedeer]

I've had this happen, as well. And nothing new was installed. I'd been using my phone for weeks with everything installed the way it was, and everything was working fine. Until I let the battery run completely down. Plugged it in to be recharged, and took it off when it had and turned it back on. Then it started doing this, and TF3D doesn't even load. I've had this happen to me twice before, with almost exactly the same cause. Perhaps there is some kind of NVRAM that is battery-backed up but gets corrupted somehow and stuck in some kind of Read-Only mode that the HFA can't overwrite when the battery gets too low to maintain it.

Any Devs know much about this? Is it possible there is a capacitor/battery backed up NVRAM that stores activation information that gets corrupted when power is lost and cannot be restored?

[shaggylive]

the NV in nvram means non-volatile. in other words it doesn't need power to remember things.

more than likely tf3d hangs, cuz it knows it should die. lol.. j/k I hate tf.

[TheBundo]

Originally Posted by garberfc

I want to avoid a hard reset. It'll take me several days to get the device back to the way I want it.

Seriously, has anyone seen this before?? Any other suggestions???

Why is the phone attempting to activate itself? I've been using it for several months now...

F

Several days??? Just reun "Restore" from the previous night's backup with SPB Backup or Sprite. You do do a nightly backup, right????

[bluedeer]

Originally Posted by shaggylive

the NV in nvram means non-volatile. in other words it doesn't need power to remember things.

more than likely tf3d hangs, cuz it knows it should die. lol.. j/k I hate tf.

I knew that about NVRAM, but I was wondering if maybe something power-related was causing it to get corrupted. I know the PPC-6700 had nvram and wasn't supposed to lose data or settings when it went dead, unlike older phones, but when it went flat dead sometimes you'd get random weirdness for a while, but never anything as seemingly destructive as this. I've had it do it twice thus far, both times were after the phone was drained completely flat from sitting with activesynch running, in a poor area, not hooked to a charger, after nothing else had changed except running it dead. Otherwise, it is like the phone can't stand being set up for more than a couple of months at a time and as such, starts the HAF on it's own accord. Also, Opera and TF3D never start up, and the whole system is sluggish when this happens, which points to some pretty cpu-intensive activity going on as well as possible memory corruption that can only be resolved by a hard-reset, which obviously flushes the whole thing and replaces all the corrupted files with clean ones, until the system goes corrupted again. Surely, someone has a better answer?

[w7excursion]

I had more problems with this on 6.1 . This weekend it started for the first time since I moved to 6.5 . My phone wouldnt boot correctly and sense wasnt launching. Now I have a some wierd symbols under my internet icon but everything else is working again. Somebody punch sprint in the face for this retard mistake.