Noobie needs Serious Help: Problems with O2 Mini S Software

[babypimpin]

Hey everyone...I'm a total newbie when it comes to PPC phones...so please bare with me..

anyways..I recently bought an O2 Mini S...and I seem to be having some small problems with it..

when you press the "send" button, it should bring you automatically to the phone keypad...however this doenst seem to work all the time (or much at all...) I have to soft reset the machine to actually get it to start working...and then after 10 minutes or so...it doenst work again until i reset again...NONE of the "phone" functions work either when this happens...i cant go to the call history or get to any of those functions...even if I pull up the "programs" screen...and click on the "phone" icon, it still doesnt work...I have no idea how to fix it..

One solution i figured MIGHT work is to reflash the unit...cuz maybe its a software glitch...however I have absolutely NO clue how to reflash this unit...I've been reading around the site for the past 4 hours trying to learn some of this stuff...but as I am retarded when it comes to computers, I am quite confused...

and what would be the best ROM to upgrade/reflash it with??

Also, I find the machine to be extremely laggy...I dont know if its just mine...and if its the some other software problems..but its very laggy..


And a third thing...I dont know aout other branded HTC Wizards...but for the O2 Mini S, I have this Icon menu going down the left side of the screen...does anyone know how to get rid of it?

If anyone can PLEASE give me a hand...I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks in advance...

[Danny-B-]

It sounds like theres summat wrong with the ROM, also i think you might be running an old ROM too.

I'd suggest downloading the new ROM from www.my-xda.com and flash it with that, it works great on mine.

If your not running an older ROM then do a hard-reset and re-install, but reset before the O2 custom install stuff gets the chance to install.


P.S. hard reset by pressing the Voice record button + Comms manager button then tap the reset, but keep hold of the other 2 buttons untill you see the message on screen.

[babypimpin]

Hey thanks for the quick reply..

Just checked teh ROM version...some oldschool stuff compared to what you have listed

ROM Version 1.5.4.2 WWE
ROM date: 11-8-05
Radio version: 01.09.10
Protocol Version: 4.0.13.20
ExtROM Version: 1.5.4.102

I'm guessing this is a lot older than the new stuff...

Anywyas..I tried to dowlonad the newest software updates off the O2 site but its not allowing me cuz i cant provide a proper phone number...ive tried guessing some phone numbers but no dice...any help there?

Also, would it be necessary to reflash the entire device to get rid of possible bugs in the OS? or would a simple software upgrade such as downloading off teh O2 site work?

Danny, how do you find the O2 software? have you tried other ROM's such as those for the Qtek 9100 or Imate K-jam??

Any help on downloading the appropriate files and maybe a link or details about how to actually update the machine would be great.

Thanks in advance again

Oh btw...what do you mean by "
but reset before the O2 custom install stuff gets the chance to install. "?

[babypimpin]

FIGURED IT OUT!!

shweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!

LOVE YOU DANNY B!!

lol
jk

but yeah...i got a UK number from my buddy whos from the UK...downloaded the stuff..updated it...and the thing works flawlessly now...oh man...and it seems to be running a lot faster...much less lag...

lifesaver!!!