Text Messages disappear after soft reset

[bgunn]

Hi,

I'm new here, and have just upgraded my girlfriends MDA Vario II to Schap's 3.54 ROM, and everything appears to be working fine, apart from text messaging - which seems a bit strange. I was wondering if this is normal behaviour in WM6, and if not what might I be doing wrong?

I used PIM backup to backup the text messages she had before reflashing, and when I restore - the messages don't appear back in the SMS/MMS inbox. Also, if I send a text message to her, the message goes from the inbox when you do a soft reset on the phone (push the reset button on the bottom). Emails that are in the inbox disappear too.

Is there a setting to stop this, or have I cocked something up to cause this?

Thanks in advance! I'd never have realised you could do so much with these phones without this place...

Regards,

Brian.

[Bensat]

I have the same over here. Now I copy my important SMS to my SIM card. Then I don't have this problem!
It's a workaround and is OK for me.......:D

[*MILO*]

If you close your messages program completely, instead of minimising it, your messages will be saved after a soft reset.

[bgunn]

We've tried that, and they still seem to get deleted.

If you turn the phone off (press and hold the small power key on the side), then the messages are of course saved, and it seems as though they are then saved when you soft reset, but if you soft reset without doing this they get deleted..

By the sounds of this, it's a bit of a known bug then?

Brian.

[Mister O]

reset button should only be used for two situations: hard reset or when the device hangs. Any other situation it's best to use the power button.

[abenk]

how fix this bug???

[mcorrie1121]

Its not a bug. When you use the power button (also a SR) the device is able to save settings, etc (including sms) before shutting down. Like pressing "shut down" on a PC.

The bottom button SR is an instant kill, you might say. Should only be used, really, if the phone freezes. Its like holding down the power button on your PC if it freezes. Therefore it will not save settings.

Just fyi, this hold true with regedits as well.

[ai6908]

Hi,

I'm new here, and have just upgraded my girlfriends MDA Vario II to Schap's 3.54 ROM, and everything appears to be working fine, apart from text messaging - which seems a bit strange. I was wondering if this is normal behaviour in WM6, and if not what might I be doing wrong?

I used PIM backup to backup the text messages she had before reflashing, and when I restore - the messages don't appear back in the SMS/MMS inbox. Also, if I send a text message to her, the message goes from the inbox when you do a soft reset on the phone (push the reset button on the bottom). Emails that are in the inbox disappear too.

Is there a setting to stop this, or have I cocked something up to cause this?

Thanks in advance! I'd never have realised you could do so much with these phones without this place...

Regards,

Brian.

Sometimes PIM backup does not restore all the messages, you might have to restore again to make it work right...

I am not sure about disappearing...although, when the msg is unread and i happened to soft reset my phone, messages have disappeared before...i dont know any fix for that one..

[texasaggie1]

Hi,

I'm new here, and have just upgraded my girlfriends MDA Vario II to Schap's 3.54 ROM, and everything appears to be working fine, apart from text messaging - which seems a bit strange. I was wondering if this is normal behaviour in WM6, and if not what might I be doing wrong?

I used PIM backup to backup the text messages she had before reflashing, and when I restore - the messages don't appear back in the SMS/MMS inbox. Also, if I send a text message to her, the message goes from the inbox when you do a soft reset on the phone (push the reset button on the bottom). Emails that are in the inbox disappear too.

Is there a setting to stop this, or have I cocked something up to cause this?

Thanks in advance! I'd never have realised you could do so much with these phones without this place...

Regards,

Brian.

Hey Brian. These guys are right. It's not a bug or issue at all. The phone just needs time to put stuff into memory that survives the soft reset. Using the power button to turn off and on should solve this.

[ghufi]

hi brian,

i had the same issue with some of the roms of schaps. the first two roms i used from schaps where working great with the messages. and they didn't get lost. with newer roms the problem occured like you described it. i also did some research, but it was a problem of the rom. you can wait really long (hours) before the sms is really saved.

so one of the first checks i run after installing a new rom is when the message itself is saved or do i loose messages after soft reset. my current rom "FuN_KeY_s_ROM_WWE_1.5.2" does not have this issue.

my suggestions: try another rom, maybe a newer from schaps!

[Junner2003]

We've tried that, and they still seem to get deleted.

If you turn the phone off (press and hold the small power key on the side), then the messages are of course saved, and it seems as though they are then saved when you soft reset, but if you soft reset without doing this they get deleted..

By the sounds of this, it's a bit of a known bug then?

Brian.

Looks to me like you did not close the MESSAGING application properly! Only tabbing on the 'X' hides the application. Check in your settings if X BUTTON CLOSE FEATURE is enabled!

[Olioaglio]

I encountered this behaviour of loosing messages, when I stored the
cemail.vol on my SDcard. Since I moved cemail.vol to standard location
(main memory, root) didn't have this problem once.

Just my 2 cents.

Olioaglio

[jaso2005]

Just a guess here but how long were you waiting after recieveing the texts / emails etc before you did a Soft reset?

[GilesTheAlmighty]

i find using the POWER BUTTON solves this problem .. not the reset button, seems to work for me hope that helps.

Its not JUST WM6, it happens on WM5 too and its to do with the message being stored in RAM rather than Memory (i beleive)