TP screen turns on by itself.
 

Hi there gang,

Over the past month or so my TP would turn on all by itself. I would expect this to happen with an alert, notification, email or new text msg but there is nothing.

I'll be surfing/gaming at night with the TP sitting on my desk when all of a sudden the screen turns on but no new actions of any type. It just turns on, then won't turn off like the settings I have set say to do on battery power after lets say 1 minute.

I check Application Mgr and the only thing running is ActiveStink. I would expect this to run during the scheduled times of 8-6pm every 2 hours, but not at 10:30pm or 4am.

The other night I was charging it on my nightstand and my wife woke up and asked me what the glow on the ceiling was. I looked and my TP was wide awake.

What is this possessed phone doing?

Re: TP screen turns on by itself.
 

The same thing the mogul was doin' ... I dislike it myself. It hurts the battery life as well. I wish there were a fix for it.

Re: TP screen turns on by itself.
 

mine did this while i was in san diego recently, but as soon as i got back home it no longer did it. so, perhaps whatever it's doing is regional..?

Re: TP screen turns on by itself.
 

Mine started doing this as well - the only way to fix it that I have found is to do a soft reset. Once I did that, it didn't seem to have that problem again (for awhile). It has only happened a few times since I started doing a soft reset.


btw, this started happening with no applications open or anything. Odd stuff, but at least soft reset fixes it!

Re: TP screen turns on by itself.
 

i've heard that the phone turns on when it switches from 1x to evdo. i've had this problem on my phone too. its annoying. i installed s2u2 though, so at least my phone won't randomly be starting up tomtom, searching for a police station, and calling them repeatedly anymore..

Re: TP screen turns on by itself.
 

I see this happening less ever since I installed a .cab to kill active sync unless connected to a PC. You may want to give that a shot. I believe it's called async killer by elias.

Re: TP screen turns on by itself.
 

Seems like all Windows Mobile devices do this.

I haven't heard of a definite fix yet.

And yes, it's pretty annoying.

Sometimes it might come back on 15 seconds after I turn it off 3 times in a row. If I then soft reset, it doesn't happen again for a while.

Re: TP screen turns on by itself.
 

Unfortunately i use ActiveStink via wireless to sync work email. :(

Re: TP screen turns on by itself.
 

My previous two WM devices did not do that. :(