TP Locking Up Overnight

[Will7272]

I remember when I had my 700wx, it would lock up on me over night but my wife's never did. I think it's a windows mobile prob and active sync if I remember correctly. I'll research it some more and let you know what I find...if anything.

[saqer]

Originally Posted by coolguy949

This is the 2nd night in a row now that I wake up to a locked up TP while charging overnight. The only way to wake it up is a soft reset or pulling out the battery. The only thing that has changed between the nights it didnt freeze and the nights it is freezing is that i've enabled the alarm.

My first TP never froze but was pretty much unusable due to the blown speaker sound. This new one is perfect except I keep waking up to it frozen. For as long as I can remember I've used my cell phone as my 5:55AM alarm for work. This is bad...very bad. Anyone else experiencing this?

Sounds like a memory leak of some sort. 3rd party apps/utils installed? What alarm are you using?

[munnarg]

I think its a WM problem because I had the same issue with my Touch and the replacement they sent. I haven't had that problem yet with my TP, but I suspect at some point I will. I think I might return my TP due to that earpiece issue though.

[cornelious2]

try going to settings, today, items and make sure today timeout is NOT checked. if it is uncheck it. This is something I have always done to my winmo phones since the q and seems to solve issues were the phone locks up over night.

[coolguy949]

OK, this is the second day night where my phone has not frozen. Maybe the hard reset fixed it?

Originally Posted by cornelious2

try going to settings, today, items and make sure today timeout is NOT checked. if it is uncheck it. This is something I have always done to my winmo phones since the q and seems to solve issues were the phone locks up over night.

What does today timeout do?

[saqer]

Originally Posted by coolguy949

OK, this is the second day night where my phone has not frozen. Maybe the hard reset fixed it?



What does today timeout do?

Turns on your phone to update today screen I believe.

[cornelious2]

Originally Posted by coolguy949

OK, this is the second day night where my phone has not frozen. Maybe the hard reset fixed it?



What does today timeout do?

it basically tries to update the today screen every X interval all I know is unchecking this box has made it so my alarm has never failed me. with it checked it works most of the time, but being late to work a few days out of every month is not acceptable.

I think the phone freezes while trying to do something with the today screen while the phone is in sleep mode.

[saqer]

another thing i noticed with bsod is that it usually happens if you have a today screen plugin that pulls data from storage card.

[johnwashere3]

I have had this happen to me 2x now, and Ive owned the phone for less then a week. My Diamond never did this. I also have the ALARM on for every weekday... Maybe Il turn it off. Im using the htc charger (actully the one I got from the diamond, so its the same as touch pro). I DONT have a today screen thats pulling from the memory card. I do NOT want to do a hard reset either... I hope sprint/htc gets a update out some what soon for these little bugs.

[Compusmurf]

Sager hit close.

Having "active" applications on a storage card has often caused issues with nearly ALL pocket PC class devices.

"active" means any apps that install and run resident when the OS loads, today plugins, things that install fonts, etc.

You can load "single use" programs all you want on the storage card without issues because after you close (not minimize) them, they leave nothing running resident.

The short reason for this is when the device "wakes up" and refreshes or calls those programs, the hardware that powers up/down the storage card hasn't done it's refresh and fully powered up that part of the hardware.

As a long time PPC user, this has been the cause of many unexplained lockups.

I'm not saying this is guaranteed the cause, but I've not had a single overnight lockup with any charger I use.