Universal becomes forgetful?!

[BeyondtheTech]

Ever since I got my Qtek 9000, a small but annoying problem has been plaguing me. I figured that switching to a different ROM such as i-mate's JASJAR would have solved it, but it seems to happen there, too...

My Universal becomes forgetful.
After a while of successfully toggling the Wi-Fi connection, it forgets all my access points/wireless routers and prompts me to connect and authenticate with their keys. I used to think it just forgot the WPA keys, but the available access points list just goes completely empty!

After a while of successfully using making calls or using the navigator, it needs to rediscover and re-pair my Bluetooth devices, such as my HS850 headset and my GlobalSat BT-338 GPS. The "paired" Bluetooth devices show up in the Bluetooth > Devices tab, but the headset icon never activates in the Phone applet, nor does the headset activate Voice Command. Also, when I launch my GPS software, I get a tone and a notification pops up asking me if I want to add the Bluetooth GPS device to my list.

After a while of successfully ActiveSync'ing with the 4Smartphone.net Exchange Server, it forgets the password and prompts me for it. This is just starting to happen now. I have the settings saved in a .CPF file I received from 4Smartphone.net, but why its starting to forget even this is starting to concern me.

Is anyone else having these issues, or is it just me? Am I going MAD?! :doh:

[jah]

I have found that if you need to reset when certain processes are running (eg Messaging) data does get lost. I wonder if this explains your issue. PS - I have not suffered the BT issue you describe and I use 2 BT headsets.

[dreamtheater39]

configure ur device (add ur access points, bond ur bluetooth devices...etc.) and do a clean soft reset using psShutXP or anyother software based soft reset....

after the reset, is it all gone?

S

(i'm guessing the problem is, the device crashes and hasnt written ur customizations onto the flash disk...if this doesnt work too, u might have to try another rom! :D)

[snorbaard]

Dreamtheater is right.
Remember that the WM5 keeps a certain amount of data in a cache in volatile RAM. If you reset your device without this data being written to the non-volatile flash, it will be lost.
This is usually recognisable if you reset the device soon after copying a file, or receiving an email or SMS. The file/sms/email will have disappeared.
The WM5 dev blog has said that there are a few ways around this:
1. Turn the WM5 device off for a few seconds (5-10 seconds should be enough) before you reset. The operating system will write any data in volatile memory to the non-volatile flash.
2. Any application that programmatically soft-resets the device with the correct commands will force the write-to-memory to occur as well.

So try to set up your device, sync, and then TURN IT OFF for a bit, before you do a reset. If in doubt, TURN IT OFF! :D