Phone ringer not working. Help!

[penyekz]

My Voda V1605's phone ringer has stopped working. The speaker is still working and vibration works as well. I've tried to soft reset the phone and changed various ringer configuration but nothing's working. Any ideas?

[marisa4755]

Did you install anything recently? Particularly something like Zen phone, or Phonealarm? Or anything at all?

Do you have a recent backup from when the ringer was working?

[penyekz]

no. No new installations. It was working the day before. My last backup was a long time ago. sigh.... I'm beginning to think its a hardware failure but its strange that the speaker is still working but not the ringer.

[MikeChannon]

There are various ringer entries in the registry - check the wiki. Also check ringer folder to ensure relevant entries are there. I'm pushed for time else I'd give more info.

Mike

[marisa4755]

Depending on how much time you have available, if it were me, I think I would be tempted to do this:

Make a full backup of your device as is.

Hard reset.

Test ringer.

If it doesn't work, then this is beyond my expertise.

If it does work, then it's a software/settings/registry thing.

If it works, restore backup (sometimes this does seem to fix things, I don't know why). If ringer now not working, then you will have to take the decision whether to keep the restored system and hunt around for the solution, or whether to do another hard reset and re-install everything.

Good luck, what a pain!

[penyekz]

Is this the wiki page you are referring to?

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_Registry


I'll try and have a look through after work. I think the idea about a back up followed by a full reset is also a good idea. I may try that this weekend. I'd appreciate it if you could hone in on which settings I should be check for in the registry.

If it is a registry fault, how is this possible without me messing about or install new software. then again, anything is possible with microsoft init. ;)

[MikeChannon]

Is this the wiki page you are referring to?

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_Registry


I'll try and have a look through after work. I think the idea about a back up followed by a full reset is also a good idea. I may try that this weekend. I'd appreciate it if you could hone in on which settings I should be check for in the registry.

If it is a registry fault, how is this possible without me messing about or install new software. then again, anything is possible with microsoft init. ;)

Yes that's the page, the bit that starts:

Change ringtone/vibrate/LED flash characteristics

If you would like more control over how your device rings/vibrates/flashes its LEDs on events, you can can change the Script values of these events.

For example, for an incoming call performing 'activate device, play ringtone, wait 3 seconds, repeat':
HKCU\ControlPanel\Sounds\RingTone0\Script = "apw3r" (REG_SZ string, no quotes)

Likely you should have the above setting apw3r which is a pretty standard setting.
If it's there and your selected ringtone is in it's folder then the hard reset looks more needed! You could try changing the setting to a slightly different one but it might have no effect if something else is blocking it.

Mike

[penyekz]

thanks for that. will try it out tonight.

when I was trying to back up, SPB backup reported an error:
"Unable to read fusionlinks.vol"

Does this have something to do with the ringer?

[MikeChannon]

thanks for that. will try it out tonight.

when I was trying to back up, SPB backup reported an error:
"Unable to read fusionlinks.vol"

Does this have something to do with the ringer?

Never heard of it but might get a chance to check mine later. Sounds!! like it might be related though.

Mike

[marisa4755]

Do you use AgendaFusion? And is this accessed by something like Pocket Breeze?

I remember there was an issue like this with Pocket Informant and PB where in order to get a 'clean' backup, you had to deactivate the PB plug-in before the backup. I think they fixed it eventually.