Suddenly I'm going extremely slowly... Help!

[thickycat]

Ok, so far I've dumped the ROM and uploaded the kaiser-HardSPL and all was going lovely. However, after most of a day of pretty much inactivity I find the device suddenly goes very slowly. By which, I mean it can take several seconds to draw the screen.

Thinking this might be a rogue application using up all the processor cycles, I poked it up the bottom with the stick. (While doing this the first time, I held in power and camera just to see the boot loader text, but then I did it again with no buttons held.) It's a Vodafone device but it sat on the Vodafone splash screen for about 2-3 minutes then spent longer than that on the Windows Mobile screen before eventually dropping me into normality.

Except it's incredibly slow normality - I clicked on "start" and after a minute, it's not done anything yet.

Next step is a hard reset unless anyone has any better suggestion?

Help!

[scottwilkins]

I assume you've pulled the battery?

[thickycat]

Never assume anything... The full answer is, "No, but I have now"... I'm not sure that's going to do anything more than a soft (poke up the bottom) reset though. I'm now just waiting for the splash screen to subside while I'm typing this.

Having left it half an hour, while it went into standby and after noticing that the clock had stopped updating, I'm of the opinion that the already slow device has got slower...

Ok between 1 and 2 minutes to move from the splash screen to the "Windows Mobile" screen.

Now there's a turn up... After a further minute or so, I get a message, which has now cleared and gone back to the "Windows Mobile" screen before I had chance to copy it here. Basically it said that it had failed to boot either because I'd turned it off improperly or I'd installed something that it was opposed to. I should press send (I guess the green button) to reset to manufacturer's defaults.

Since that's my next stage anyway, I'll re-poke it with the pointy stick and press 'send' when it pops the message up. I'll put my trusty old Nokia N73 into flight mode and take a picture of the message so I can transcribe it here for everyone's amusement.

More news as it breaks.

[thickycat]

I've now hit the 'send' button so it's doing a hard-reset. Meanwhile, here's the text it showed me:

The device is unable to boot be-
cause either you have turned off
the device incorrectly or tried to
install an application from untrusted
source. Press SEND to reset your
device or press any other button
to cancel. This operation will delete
all your personal data and restore
the device to its factory default
settings.

Nice. Ok, I'm at the 'tap the screen to set up your device' screen now.

Wonder what triggered all that nonsense then...

[scottwilkins]

If you're like the rest of us and tooling around the all the fun programs in this forum, there's no telling. :)

I tell folks on computers, "Every piece of software you put on a machine is a liability to the operation of that machine." We can say that applies to this nifty little devices too.

I've had my phone experience the same symptoms you have posted here. Luckly for me a battery pull fixed mine. Sounds like the luck didn't spread much. Sorry. :(

Keep at it though. And don't fret the crashes. They do happen from time to time when you play hard.

[thickycat]

So, a hard reset and a restore of a backup (Yes, I made a backup a few days ago even though I've been in the trade 20 years!) later, I'm back to normality. All I've done that's weird is install pof's loader and I can't see that's anything to do with it. What I was doing at the time of the slowdown was trying to connect to the wifi network at work. I thought the networking had just got itself tied in knots somehow but as the machine was even mega slow to boot, I can't really see that. At least I can still get back to square one at the moment.

I just need to create a .nbh out of the rom parts I dumped yesterday so that I can recover from anything more major...

Meanwhile, if you do a 'boot loader reset', would you expect it to say 'serial' if the USB isn't plugged in?

[scottwilkins]

I'm starting to wonder if there is a major bug in the WiFi of the Tilt. There are some other threads on AT&T's site about this, and my work with WiFi on this unit has been dicey. Hmmmmm...