Start Menu just lists "Today" and "coldinit" - system behaving strangely

[endolith]

I've been using NTS Jaguar for maybe half a year with no problems.

3.08
3.08
02 25 11
10.1.0.811

Then a few days ago the phone started behaving strangely, I would go to turn it on and it would do nothing but a black screen, with the LED blinking green. I'd pull out the battery to restart it. Once I saw the bootloader. Now the Start Menu lists nothing but "Today" and "coldinit" with an application icon. I can open Contacts and Calendar, but Messaging is completely missing from the Today screen, and if I try to send a text message from Contacts, nothing happens. If I press the wireless button, camera button, messaging button, or IE button, it says something about not being able to run or find the shortcut. The contacts and calendar buttons work, though. The latest restart it said "No Service" and then went black. Is it dying? Is there a fix? Is there a way to run programs without the Start menu?

[endolith]

Now it shows "coldinit" and "enrollnot". Is there a way to make a backup/dump of the filesystem so I can reflash it?

[endolith]

"Cannot execute \Windows\StartUp\OmapClock.lnk"

X-Button allows me to view memory, which allows me to find files, and it seems like most things are still there, so I don't get it.

Is there any way to run commands without using the Start menu?

[endolith]

Now it's saying "Storage memory critically low". Is that all the problem is? I got it to sync with Google Calendar but it loaded too many things and filled up memory? The Start menu has calupd, enrollnot, and coldinit as the only possible options.

[endolith]

I can access the files through the USB link, but there are parts I can't copy, like "Databases". I'd really like to backup all my contact information, calendar information, text messages, etc. before I re-flash it. How do I do this?

[endolith]

Also I can't install any programs. The installer just quits.

[endolith]

I just realized that this happened after installing Funambol and configuring it to update with the scheduleworld.com servers.

[endolith]

I can't even reflash it??? It gives me an error:

ERROR [214] : FILE WRITE

The Update Utility can not write the requested file. Please check your Update Utility.

[endolith]

I hard reset (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=245030) it and am now able to copy my backed up files (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2730393#post2730393) onto it. Then I hope to back them up normally and then reflash with a newer ROM.

[konker]

I hard reset (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=245030) it and am now able to copy my backed up files (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2730393#post2730393) onto it. Then I hope to back them up normally and then reflash with a newer ROM.

You should consider using a backup utility (eg. Sprite Backup) to perform a full backup of the device once you're done setting it up. that way, you have a stable base image to restore from should something like this happen again in the future.
Also, it might be a good idea to sync with Outlook or other local synchronization tools to synchronize your database & PIM information to your PC as an error on the hosted website services could render your online data obsolete & inaccessible.

Konker

[endolith]

You should consider using a backup utility (eg. Sprite Backup) to perform a full backup of the device once you're done setting it up. that way, you have a stable base image to restore from should something like this happen again in the future.

Yes, that's definitely something that should be recommended to all new users. Since I have a SD card in at all times, a program that regularly backs up all my data in the background to the SD card would be best. If I had known about this a few months ago when I started using this phone, I would have been able to hard reset and restore from the backup right when I ran into problems.

Also, it might be a good idea to sync with Outlook or other local synchronization tools to synchronize your database & PIM information to your PC as an error on the hosted website services could render your online data obsolete & inaccessible.

I don't use Windows, so I can't sync with Outlook. I wanted to use ScheduleWorld / Funambol to back up my data and then synchronize calendar with Google Calendar and figure out how to synchronize with Thunderbird/Lightning on my computer, but Funambol apparently is responsible for my phone dying.