Persistant strange problem(s)...
Hi Guys,
Firstly, as always, huge thanks to Tytung for this awesome ROM. Its great, been my daily driver since early Beta...Great work mate!
However, I seem to have a really weird, kinda persistant problem (like since around v1.2). The problem is that suddenly ("maybe" after a total power discharge) I will lose my email accounts and gmail account attached to the HD2 (so contacts / calendar etc are all gone). Installed apps are all there still tho...my feeling is that there maybe some problem with my phone. I have searched the thread and it doesn't look like anyone else has the same issues...
Basically I turn the phone on and they are gone. Hitting the email button takes me to the account setup UI (rather than the inbox of the default account). I also have a little exclamation mark in the bar at the top asking me to enter a backup account. Both of which, the day previous were entered and working fine.
Anyway, I have been troubleshooting (well trying to, its kinda random). I use several pop3 mail accounts (Hotmail & a personal one) and one Exchange account (my work). The work account forces some security policies onto the device. So this time around I only setup one email account (exchange) and entered my gmail account and installed only my critical apps (very few, maybe like 6 or 7). Lots of room to spare on the phone memory. Everything worked fine for about a week, I generally at least once run out of battery completely through the week. Not generally a problem tho, just get home, plug it in and its back up and working after a few mins.
But occasionally, and I am 100% sure its NOT always after a complete power discharge, I power back up and email / gmail accounts are gone. The security policy seems to stays on the device (I still need to enter a PIN to access the device), all the apps I downloaded are still there but seem to have gone back to the "first time install" state.
Its like everything that is related to my "profile" has gone...
I dont use Apps2SD / SD card PIN or anything really unusal. I have flashed several times (all basically giving me the same "random" strange problem). I have repartioned via HD2 Tool Kit several times (used both 165mb / 5mb cache & 200mb / 5mb cache - 5mb cache seems to be the lower limit for HD2TK). I have formatted and re-partitioned my SD (eventhough I dont use the Apps2SD) using gparted. I have never Task29'd, but as I understand it a repartition has almost the same result.
I read that it is possible to get bad blocks (from the first post). I am wondering if this might be my issue. Thoughts anyone? How can I check for this? Anyway, that was my main reason to use a larger partition size (200Mb). Result was the same, ran fine for a while, then emails & gmail account gone again...
its really weird, I am pretty much out of ideas, begining to think my HD2 might just be busted (I have had it since launch and it has been running Ando for a long time now, have flashed a lot of ROM's, wondering if its just getting old and tired)
Any input or idea's would be great appreciated!
Whatev's