semi-bricked HTC touch dual

[Lukasss]

Ok, I'm double posting this coz I'm near panic... So if anyone of you guys can help me out, that'd be very great...

My phone is a HTC Touch Dual, non-branded.

First, what I did:

I had this irritating problem with keypad backlight. Posted it in the Niki forum, and downloaded KeiserTweak as suggested.
I changed the following settings:

Call
- ringtone: set to vibrate 3 times and increasing ring

Keyboard
- Backlight Timeout set to 30 seconds

Power Managment
- Memory Card enabled
- PPTP1 enabled
- L2TP1 enabled

ClearType
- Landscape enabled
- PocketIE enabled

HTC Application
- Music Tab - not sure anymore
- Music Player for HTC Home Plugin - not sure anymore
- Unlock HTC Home enabled
- Scroll, Zoom and Rotate in HTC Album - not sure anymore
- X Button in HTC Album - not sure anymore
- HTC Home e-mail button - not sure anymore

Cache
- File System Cache
- File System Filter Cache
- GDI/Font Cache
-cant remember, but checked something to optimize display of images.

I think the rest of the settings remained default.


Now the following:

If I start up my phone it will 'hang' like it's low on resources. If I'm very quick about entering my unlock password and my PIN the device just hangs after a while. The screen just goes black. If I slide open the keypad, I have the HTC action menu. If I choose an action, like 'new sms' the color-circle-hourglass-thingy appears, and stops. Then the phone becomes unresponsive. Except if I press and hold the power button - I get the prompt '...do you want to continue?' switching off the phone. If I tap 'no' the dialogbox doesn't disappear.

Tried so far:
-soft reset
-hard reset
-removing SD card
-removing SIM card
-on AC power
-on battery

I'm new to this, I never flashed a device like this and it is my first PDA. Had it for like 4 days now. :(


Please help.



Grtz


Lukas

[Lukasss]

These are the numbers I get when booting:


M 04
B 04

R 1.58.16.27
G 25.61.30.03H
D 1.31

[Lukasss]

Ok,

This is going to be stupid, but I'll admit to it anyway...

I've read in the manual on how to perform a hard rest. It states to push the send and end buttons, keep the pushed in, and then press the soft reset button until a text appears on the screen. That text states to press "Enter" to continue, and any other key to cancel. Well, the 'Enter' key to me is the 'enter' key on that qwerty keypad, not the shiny silver button between the Send and End buttons.

To the writer of the manual the enter key on the keypad does not exist.
So that's why a hard reset did not help. Because I did not perform one.

My bad. Anyways, my phone is ok again, sorry for the doublepost.


Grtz


Lukas

[maxcor74]

Hi Lucasss, what you did it's not stupid, because when you have a pda with a hardware keyboard, the "Enter" key, as written in the manual, is the one everyone calls the "Enter" key on th keyboard and not the center button!!! :mad:

I'm telling you this because I encountered the same problem...
I spent the entire morning trying to hard reset my touch dual as I had a problem like yours. After a thousand attempts to do that hell of a hard reset, I decided to pull off the battery and wait for the backup battery to go dead (that could take as much as a week more or less...)!!:mad:

Searching and searching I found your post and got the solution to my problem!:D

So I thank you so much, you made me a re-happy man...;)