New User Needing Help!

[grandimperial]

Hi guys,

I just recently got hold of an HTC Touch Cruise but the O2 XDA Orbit 2 rebranded version.

Ive been installing a few useful apps on this but some of the changes i make are lost after the phone has beeen switched off and then on!
Examples of this are the "hide sim" reg edit and the PCM keyboard as the default.

I am assuming that maybe the O2 version of WM6 on this is locked to prevent making these changes.

First, if anyone can confirm this or if not tell how me how ot get round this problem i would be grateful.

If this is the case then i would like to flash the phone with an "editable" version of WM6, are these what the ROMS people mention on here are?

If i am right about the ROMS could anyone recommend a good ROM, if they are specific to anything, one that is more finger firendly rather than stylus would be about the only thing i can think of to specify.

I realise this is a bit cheeky asking for all this but i have had a brief of the forum but would perhaps jus tlike a few pointers if anyone can spare the time.

Many thanks

[neila]

Hi,

If you are turning your phone off by holding the power button then when you turn it on again it will reboot to the ROM image and you will lose all of your installed programs and edits. Try turning it "off" with a brief press on the button, you shouldn't lose anything then. At least I don't.

AFIK the standard O2 ROM allows registry edits, however you cannot edit the ROM contents. You can install apps and they should be persistent unless you do a full power down.

As for the question about ROMs, yes they are customised versions of WM6.1.

You MUST run USPL before trying to re-flash your ROM I suggest you read the upgrading forum there is a sticky there about USPL and loads of other threads about upgrading.

Personally I like ASergs and Bepes ROMs better than most. They are stable and have most of the apps I require.

Hope this helps, Good luck
Neil

[grandimperial]

Thanks so much for your reply and especially the promptness!!!

When i turn my phone off i have been holding the button at the top, i if i just press it shortly then all it does is powers the screen off. To be honest now i can get away without ever powering off since i charge every night.
If my phone freezes etc should i be using the reset button with the stylus to reboot - will this cause me to lose my edits?

Also if i used one of the customised ROMS is it still the same if i turn the phone completley off that i lose any settings?

I will give the upgrade thread now to gain better understanding, thanks again.

[fktsndr]

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=381600

[gerald_s]

Hi,

If you are turning your phone off by holding the power button then when you turn it on again it will reboot to the ROM image and you will lose all of your installed programs and edits. Try turning it "off" with a brief press on the button, you shouldn't lose anything then. At least I don't.

Neil

What?
Turning it off will cause a hard reset or what exactly do you mean?

[Kimma]

Hi,

If you are turning your phone off by holding the power button then when you turn it on again it will reboot to the ROM image and you will lose all of your installed programs and edits. Try turning it "off" with a brief press on the button, you shouldn't lose anything then. At least I don't.

AFIK the standard O2 ROM allows registry edits, however you cannot edit the ROM contents. You can install apps and they should be persistent unless you do a full power down.


I'm sorry to inform you that it should not be behaving that way, and if it does, your phone is most probably broken.
If you mean Hard-Resetting, your phone does not hard-reset when pressing and holding the power button. you'll have to do a combination of other buttons and the soft-reset button to accomplish that.

[neila]

Oops, Sorry about that! I had total brain failure!

Of course turning the device off by holding the power button does not cause a hard reset.

My apologies for any confusion caused.

Cheers
Neil

[grandimperial]

Ok, on my device (which is actually an O2 Xda orbit 2, if that makes any difference) When i press the powerbutton once shortly it turns off the screen but all things are still running on the phone eg calls will still come in and alarms, sms etc.

If i press and hold the button the phone switches off completley but then when i turn back on after this i find some stuff has not saved how i expect. Installed apps still remain but things like default keyboard and my hide sim reg change revert.

[hambola]

When you hold down the power button at least on the TC, it asks whether you want to power off, presumably yours isn't asking you and just turns off anyway.

When stuff that you expect to be saved but isn't, like the default keyboard. Do you use sip changer or something like that? If I am using PocketCM keyboard for example and reset my device it defaults back to the Cruise/Diamond keyboard and I have to set PocketCM again. If you use something like a SIP Changer it will set it for you.

So that sounds like configuration things and not necessarily strange behavior.