2 MDA VArio IIs Shut down by themselves and freeze?

[mikeycollins13]

Has anybody else seen this? it happens to both mine and my wife?

You cannot receive calls, and the alarms don't work? It needs a soft resest to start up again.

Any ideas?

[pole_vaulter12]

If I understand your problem correctly the same thing is happening to my TyTN. I'm slowly trying to figure out if it's some software that I've loaded or not - any 3rd party apps you've recently loaded? The biggest problem for me is I can't tell if it's frozen or not until I try to turn it back on. Post any progress with fixes and I shall do the same.

[mikeycollins13]

I will uninstall it and see what happens, even though I love it it ha notorious bugs and power consumptions (it runs in the background 24/7)

[mikeycollins13]

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Has anybody else seen this? it happens to both mine and my wife?

You cannot receive calls, and the alarms don't work? It needs a soft resest to start up again.

Any ideas?

If you search the forum I think you find it has been traced to installing *some* apps onto the micro SD card.

[ChrisS/P1]

I'm sitting here fingers crossed as I think I might have fixed this on my Vario II.

I was getting the hang in standby mode problem and having to soft reset on average about 3 times a day. I was reading in some forum or other that it has something to do with applications trying to access the SD card while in standby mode.

It occurred to me that this might have something to do with my email settings. I had a pop3 email account setup to download emails at 15 min intervals (24hrs a day).

I changed 2 things :-

1) Changed interval to 30 mins (basically to save baterry power)
2) Unchecked the 'Store attachments on storage card' check box on the Options - Storage tab.

I don't see how changing the interval would change anything apart from possibly reducing the number of crashes.

I think it could well be caused by email trying to store downloaded email attachments on the storage card when in standby.

It's been 2 days now without a hang.

Fingers crossed.

I'll update if it comes back.

Chris

[mikeycollins13]

Because I realized that i had recently upgraded my wife's and then this started with her too.
I had 1.05->Radio 1.20>HANGS, so changed to 1.11> some hangs, but less, back to 1.20=hanging all the time=>back to 1.16, no hanging so far and battery improved.

Must be something to do with power usage as battery is much better now.
I conclude not such a great idea to upgrade with Chinese Dopod radio rom when living in London, who knows how they all set up their networks and GPRS etc.

Last night, with BT on, and AS in the background, I only lost 30% power compared to 50% before with these apps off. So a noticeable difference.