HTC HD2: Handset fails to ring - HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hope someone can help.
I recently started to re-use my HTC HD2 after almost a year of non-use.
It is a stock handset running WM6.5 on the O2 network in the UK.
As I hadn't used the handset in a year, I had factory re-set it so, once I inserted my SIM card, I had to run through the set-up process.
Once done, the handset was working fine.
After a few days, I decided to change the ringtone from the default O2 one, to another one.
However, since doing this, the handset never rings when I get an incoming call and only vibrates.
I have factory reset the handset several times but this makes no difference.
I have searched on the internet and found some details of people with similar issues, but the recommended fix of creating a 'volatile' directory is not working for me.
Does anyone have any experience of this issue and can advise how to resolve?

have not experienced the same but some thoughts below ...
Does the speaker work when playing audio file via music player or from file explorer.
If no sound from speaker try blowing into grill left of camera or taping that area while a file is playing.
If speaker plays sound try removing SD card & test, also check & try a few changes in, Settings>Sounds & Notifications>Notifications & see what results you get !
Final option could be HSPL4 & load HSPL2.08 & try a smooth running standard style custom ROM such as CleanEX RV Standard 1.02 as should be a far better WM experience than the O2 branded ROMs ...

Thanks for the reply Mr B.
I have only just got round to checking this post but, yesterday, for some un-known reason the phone is now ringing as normal.
Very bizarre!

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Sound skipping on WM2003

Hi All.
I have a problem that from what I see, I'm the only one who has it.
Everything was fine on PPC2002 and I upgraded today to WM2003, after that I get sound skipping/clipping on many games/apps.
For example when I record something with "Notes" everything's fine but if I use VITO's SoundExplorer I get lots of skipping on the recorded audio.
On games with music (Clickgamer's Knight Lite / ZioSoft's Metalion / Astraware's GTS Racing and many, many more) it clips a lot.
It is very annoying and it never happened on PPC2002 (used the Spanish and the O2 English ROM from LumpiStefan's kitchen for PPC2002 and for WM2003 I used A.30.09 ENG Siemens).
I tried disabling all my Today's plugins (leaving Today totally empty) and renaming the Startup folder in order to check if it was an app in there slowing down the sound, but nothing, it stays the same.
Does anyone have a clue or will I need to downgrade to PPC2002?
I love PPC2002 but the phone losts the signal so frecuently that it renders the phone useless. For example I go to the subways and get No Signal, that's OK but when I get out of it, it doesn't get back unless I turn off the radio or reset the phone, that's annoying like hell. It should check for signal say once per minute, I lose plenty of calls because of that...
So I read that with GB-Soft Tweak (http://www.gb-soft.cz) if I disable "GPRS Always On" I will get signal everytime but unfortunately it doesn't work on PPC2002 so I had to upgrade.
That's it, that's my story
Hope anyone can help me.
Kind regards,
Marton
P.S.: LumpiStefan, if you're reading this: I also got the BootScreen inverted and upside down on WM2003 (just like on PPC2002 Spanish) so I think it is a problem with the Kitchen... maybe you should check it... Cheers!
try GB-SOFT GPRS TWEAK, i have the same problem, that dissapeared
after i set "high priority for audio media"
http://www.gb-soft.cz/XDAII/product_gprs_tweak_en.htm
Wow!!! Thanks!
Now it doesn't click anymore but it does turn off the sound and makes a fade-in every 5~10 seconds.
I don't know what's better: skipping or stopping and fading in
Anyway I notice that it makes fade-in everywhere, for example when I'm checking the ring tones it is set as Vibrate and Ring and the ringtones fade in, just like as if it was on "Increasing ring". That was the first thing I noticed when I upgraded to WM2003... Is there a way to disable that annoying fade-in?
Thanks for the speedy and helpful reply k_dima!
i use AT&T A30.09 about 5 month, and decided to change it to O2 WM2003, that you can find in the Rom Kitchen.
After this upgrade , fade effect dissapeared.
I reccomend you to use O2 ROM , becouse it's a very stable and fast , without annoying sound effects.
Before O2 ROM i use AT&T and T-Mobile 4.0.16.
T-Mobile ROM is too slow and not stable. When you installed more than 10 programms, you can notice it, but Radio Stack from T-Mobile Rom i left as is, becouse i have the best voice quality with T-Mobile Radio Stack.

Trion keeps Crashing/Freezing = Missing Calls & Overslee

Hey
I'm hoping someone out there will be able to help me solve this problem or I may be saying goodbye to my Trion sooner than I would like.
So here's the problem:
While I am sleeping my trion keeps LockingUp!
This has happened a few times and each has been quite costly, either I oversleep and am late for important appoitments or I miss a number of very important phone calls.
I have tried using differnt ROMS but the problem persists. It happened to me a couple times while using the new I-mate rom so I switched to the new Dopod ROM and it happened again! I'm going to try the TYTN rom now... ugh!
Info Regarding my current setup:
Dopod ROM: 1.23.707.4
Programs:
MSN Messenger
MSN PPC 2003
TCPMP
Cyberon
Aidem MP3
Fit4cat Hermes v1.0
Fit4cat Settings changed from default:
Enable wireless plugin + show pluggin = ON
Remove Wireless Manager Icon = ON
Mount Ext. ROM = ON
Improve A2DP "High" = ON
- and that's all I've enabled. A weird thing I notice with the wireless pluggin is that at times on the Today screen it will just show my bluetooth status and neglect to show the WIFI status; at times the BT icon is right aligned as if the WIFI was still there but invisible and at other times the BT icon is left aligned indicating the WIFI icon is not even there.
That's about it for now. Any help resolving the main FREEZING/CRASHING issue would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thank You!
I have had the same problem. Hard reset and ran software freefor a few days, and same problem. Flashed to imate, and same problem. Flashed back to original HTC, and problem gone. I don't know what it was/is, but I feel your pain. We have almost no software in common, so whatever it is I think the problem is within the ROM itself or common Ext_Rom files. I never ran without Ext_ROM may start there.
this problem I had for about 3 weeks, I am currently using the new dopod rom and I have had no problems at all. It is a software problem issue and as roms develop issues will go I would flash either the new HTC rom or dopod rom as I had no problem with either of them I installed the dopod as it is quicker for me.
the same to me with imate rom, and some time when i press the center/enter button it show the sound volume panel
must go to Tytn rom tonight

WM6 & WM6.1 Sound Problem.

hello
I have strange problem with ALL of WM 6 & WM 6.1 that i tested here. (+10)
My Device is i-mate Jamin G4.
the problem with Sound. the sound suddenly stop and dissapeare. after reading from and search i found only 1 solution for that, I should go to Settings>Sound&Notification>Notifications and play a ringtone to get the sound back. In the case sound disappear whole system sound gone and even when somebody calls or SMS there is no sound. the above solution works in 95% of roms and if it dosent bring back the sound soft reset is needed and everything ok then.
another hint is that when press green call button and keypad appears if i press buttons for around 1 minutes whole sound system went and i should use the solution . i said that because i though it might help.
this problem with wm6 & 6.1 just forced me to use official wm5 which doesn't have this problem. this problem is not only mine as i have found on forums many have this problem.
Thanks for your attention!
xborfi said:
hello
I have strange problem with ALL of WM 6 & WM 6.1 that i tested here. (+10)
My Device is i-mate Jamin G4.
the problem with Sound. the sound suddenly stop and dissapeare. after reading from and search i found only 1 solution for that, I should go to Settings>Sound&Notification>Notifications and play a ringtone to get the sound back. In the case sound disappear whole system sound gone and even when somebody calls or SMS there is no sound. the above solution works in 95% of roms and if it dosent bring back the sound soft reset is needed and everything ok then.
another hint is that when press green call button and keypad appears if i press buttons for around 1 minutes whole sound system went and i should use the solution . i said that because i though it might help.
this problem with wm6 & 6.1 just forced me to use official wm5 which doesn't have this problem. this problem is not only mine as i have found on forums many have this problem.
Thanks for your attention!
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My personal advise......
please give it a try to Korand's 3.1 rom, just try for luck. (if you never do)
dioxda2 said:
My personal advise......
please give it a try to Korand's 3.1 rom, just try for luck. (if you never do)
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thanks for your attention. I am now downloading it and let you know the results. thanks
Kornad 3.1 faild
I installed it and did a test on it. although the rom is VERY fast but problem remains !
I just pressed green call button then keypad appeared and i pressed some numbers and sadly saw that the system sound disappeared! any idea? I went to notification and played a ring tone and sound came back
any solution pal?
thanks in advanced
xborfi said:
I installed it and did a test on it. although the rom is VERY fast but problem remains !
I just pressed green call button then keypad appeared and i pressed some numbers and sadly saw that the system sound disappeared! any idea? I went to notification and played a ring tone and sound came back
any solution pal?
thanks in advanced
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I am currently using this 3.1, keypad tones working fine (do you mean this? ).... ( Mine is a G3)
1. Is your speaker works fine? ( like playing music...)
2. did you try a hard reset?
3. optional flash with the lazy tool,
4.
yes, I did all steps except 3. Ill upgrade with that and inform you the results.
BTW please press around 50+ time on keypad to here keypad tones. they suddenly stop! my device is G4. I know that G3 sre better than G4 in wm6&6.1
thanks
I've had a similar issue recently: Korand's WWE3.1 (WM6.1), been running faultlessly for 3 months or so, on a Prophet G4.
Without having changed any configuration, or any new programs, I lost "most" sounds. No ringtones, though I could hear the other person on a call, via either of the 2 loudspeakers. I tried to play an mp3, and I got an error message from Pocket Tunes/WMP (could not play...) - and no alarm calls
I went to Notifications, but could not play any files. I got sound back by doing a soft reset and/or running pocketmax's wake up tweaks (run clock/calendar cleanups - I doubt these had anything to do with it...)
And then normal service was resumed, phew. I missed one more alarm call, and since then, all has been OK.
paul c said:
I've had a similar issue recently: Korand's WWE3.1 (WM6.1), been running faultlessly for 3 months or so, on a Prophet G4.
Without having changed any configuration, or any new programs, I lost "most" sounds. No ringtones, though I could hear the other person on a call, via either of the 2 loudspeakers. I tried to play an mp3, and I got an error message from Pocket Tunes/WMP (could not play...) - and no alarm calls
I went to Notifications, but could not play any files. I got sound back by doing a soft reset and/or running pocketmax's wake up tweaks (run clock/calendar cleanups - I doubt these had anything to do with it...)
And then normal service was resumed, phew. I missed one more alarm call, and since then, all has been OK.
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Thanks for sharing...
i'm having the same problems sometimes. it happens mainly after changing the volume via the up/down switch from off to vibrate or back to certain volume.
the solution is the same as in the first post is mentioned. go to sounds & notifications and there to incoming textmessage. play the ringtone. sometimes a second time doing that is necessary.
but as im testing many roms as well, it happens very often on wm6.1, not so often in wm6.
before i forget to mention, i own a G4 Xda Neo.
//edit: another problem i had once was after using Shadow Vista "My Edition"(wm6.1) from with the ring volume-tweak. during call i rised the volume a little bit and then suddenly my speaker stopped working. even a softreset hadnt solved that problem, then i switched often the volume and after MANY attemps i managed somehow to get it working again. i was kinda shocked
greets
guro
PS: somebody has also the problem when recieving messages and press a key to early that the orange flashled doesn't went off?
well, it looks as if there is not clear solution for this issue. well i think i should go back to WM4 and forget about all other wm6 speed and goodies.
xborfi said:
well, it looks as if there is not clear solution for this issue. well i think i should go back to WM4 and forget about all other wm6 speed and goodies.
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Try a different WM6.1 ROM!
i tried lots of stuff to solve this issue...no luck at all, after flushing the stupid Thai rom, i lost the sound....still trying
well, I tried almost 90% of roms here. all wm 6.1 are having this bug . I found PDAviet 4.0.0.0.6 a bit better than other, the sound bug happens less in this rom how ever it is still there.
oh! i found this here!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=371926
it looks as if this problem is with all roms, I think there must be a way to fix it on this biggest forum. still searching and reading an trying roms!!
hey guys,
since I moved to wm6 I was getting this bug, specialy with the sms notification.
but there was one rom which I did'nt have this problem if I kept the default rigntones. it was "Prophet_S4V.19701.01_F".
i'm flashing Prophet_S4V.19213.01_C, hoping it is that good too. altough I had the micro based on the s4v.19213 and and it was driving me crazy with this bug, I couldn't make it ring...
looking forward to help.
cya
well i only found a temporarily solution for this problem. i disabled the keypad tones and the problem occurs each 1-2 days once but the problem is that it is still big chance of missing important Calls and SMS I hope developers found a solution for this BIG wm6 & 6.1 issue.
xborfi said:
well i only found a temporarily solution for this problem. i disabled the keypad tones and the problem occurs each 1-2 days once but the problem is that it is still big chance of missing important Calls and SMS I hope developers found a solution for this BIG wm6 & 6.1 issue.
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not 100% of prophet does the same way~~~
1. did you really manually hardreset the prophet every new rom flash?
2. any software installed will affect the performance of it?
3. will it happens same when newly rom flash?
dioxda2 said:
not 100% of prophet does the same way~~~
1. did you really manually hardreset the prophet every new rom flash?
2. any software installed will affect the performance of it?
3. will it happens same when newly rom flash?
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yes, i do hard reset by pressing comm + cam + soft > send button . each rom i try i first open key pad and press 30+ on it and i sadly see sound dissapear! it looks as if prophet is not compatible with wm6!
I am now back to the wm5 and eagerly waiting to see a solution or patch from the great developers here!
well. no fix yet pals?
i had some problem too and what I had to do is...
When ever I hold the pda, I will press the volume up button even in lock mode and if there's no any sound, that mean the sound already disappeared, I had to soft reset... I had this problem at least once in 2 days....
Hope there'll be a fix for this issue sooner...

Cannot access contacts in car

Hi all,
In my Renault BT Car Kit (originally designed by Parrot) it seems to be impossible to access my phone's contacts. I have had it working with one of the earliest Tom Codon ROMs by changing a setting in the advanced settings, bet ever after I have not been able to get it working again.
I have searched the forum several times, but it seems that I am not looking good enough.
The problem is not in my car, since I never changed it's ROM, and my wife's phone (Elf) is working great.
My phone is working great otherwise.
Tanks,
TC.
When you paired the phone with the "car" did you answered Yes to the question where you are asked to allow access to the phone contacts?
Thanks! That would be something hard to overlook , but sadly, there is no such question. Neither from the phone, nor fron the 'car'. The 'car' gives <empty> when accessing names. I have tried copying contacts to the SIM, but that also has the same result.
I have tried many (many! also the original from the provider) different ROMS the past year or so, and all of them have the same 'problem'.
When my wife purchased the Elf, the 'car' allowed it immediately, just as her previous phone (some samsung thing). It is just with the Nike that it has trouble with.
Also the Diamond of my collegue that drives the car every now and then, communicates without hassle.
The stupid this is that it has worked with a previous ROM, and I cannot find (in my memory or the internet) how to activate it again. It's more an annoyment than really really a nessesity (is that a proper word ?). I have also been looking into the advanced configuration of both the Elf and the Nike to spot a difference, but nothing seems available.
I am thinking of calling the 'car' "Christine", and just stop trying, but as a technician, I want to have this working, because it has worked before.
thanks,
T.
I assume that your wife's name is not Christine!
Did you try with WM 6.1 and 6.5, including the original ROM? Did you tried to upgrade the carkit firmware? I am using a Parrot CK-3100LCD carkit but I have no problems with my Niki since the first time I was using it.
The pairing process was started from both sides or only from one side?
No, my wife is not Christine... but Stephen King wrote a book once...
The pairing always starts from both ways, I cannot find 'Christine' from any phone without starting the pairing from both sides.
All different WM versions available for Nike have the same problem. (I have had about 30 different ROMs on my phone, just for the fun of it, only 1 has worked properly after changing 'something' in the advanced settings)
I really have no idea what kind of parrot it is, because it has been re-branded by Renault while integrating it into my Clio. I have for that same reason not tried to upgrade the ROM in 'Christine'.
Strange, very strange what's happening. Did you tried some other radio ROMs?
strange... I know...
I have been on the road for a couple of days, have installed a new ROM prior to leaving, but still the same problem occurs: I can call whomever I like, via the phone itself, and I can answer the phone normally by using the the car's controls.
In the Netherlands it is not allowed to use the phone other then via a carkit, so dialing a number is not really an option here.
I have tried several person's ROMs, also radios (although I have not been able to find a link to the recently used 1.71 version, anyone a link?), and all have the same, except for that once...
thanks!
Did you tried with another Nike (from a friend or coworker) to see what's happens? Do you see (on the car screen) the digits or the name of the callers? Did you tried pairing only from one side? Did you contact Renault for a firmware upgrade of the bluetooth carkit?
A coworker has the same problem with the original ROM in a different car (Volkswagen),
I see only <empty> when accessing the name area from the car,
I have tried pairing on different ways, all with the same result
I have not contacted Renault or Parrot , since ny coworker has the same problem AND it has worked (once) before.
It is just a strange, not really big issue, but I would like to have it out of the way.

Incoming call rings VERY LATE!! First the trackball flashes three times.

Hi! Sometimes, when I get a call, first my trackball starts to flash some times and VERY LATE (after about three flashes), my HTC Hero starts to ring.
I once had a program, which read out loud the name of the caller. I removed it and after that time, the ring came very fast for a while but now the problem starts again and I do not have this program installed. What can I do to solve this problem?
Just that you know, I have root and can see every file in my mobile, if there is a special logfile or something... But before I analyze my problem in the files with root, I ask you if there maybe is a very easy solution. How for example can I find out very easily, what my mobile does, while I recive a call? And if you want to know, I have about 200 Apps installed.
Thank you for your help!!
Martin
I have this issue but its mostly when i'm using a memory heavy app or loads of things running in the background. i now use task killer to kill all of the unnecessary programs that are running in the background & for the most part it works tip top. anybody else finding this too?
Yep, I have this - it's incredibly annoying. It's a phone after all and it seems to ignore that fact. I don't have many apps installed and don't tend to have much running in the background either.
Dave
When I first had this problem I got approximately 5 seconds of ringtone to answer (due to the lag in ringtone starting). Although it in no way fixes the problem, you can aid the situation by extending the delay before your answerphone kicks in by phoning your network.
same for me here, unfortunately this is also when not having ANY application running in background (just after phone startup).. takes at least lets say 4-5 secs until da mp3 is played, thats really sucking
Try not using mp3 as ringtone. Use the original HTC ones. The ringtone delay will decrease considerably
I am sorry but that's not a proper solution, has anyone reported that to HTC ?
deeren said:
Try not using mp3 as ringtone. Use the original HTC ones. The ringtone delay will decrease considerably
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I do use the originals - it doesn't help
what bout converting my mp3 filez to wav format?
OF COURSE i mean just converting da ringtone mp3 ;-)
I am using the MoDaCo leaked ROM (HTC Generic 2.73.405.5) and the response to incoming calls is much quicker, with the ringing starting shortly after the first flash of the trackball so I guess that you will get an improvement once HTC release the update and you install it.
J
I'm also using the Modaco 2.2 ROM and I've just tried calling my phone from a landline. I heard 4 rings in the landline receiver before my phone did anything with the trackball or the ringtone. However, less than a second after the track ball started flashing my MP3 ringtone started playing. 4 rings is quite a long time, at least 5-6 seconds, surely that can't be normal, can it?
That's not good no.
How about an experiment ... reboot your phone, give it a minute after booting to finish its initialisation stuff then try ringing again. Better or the same?
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Apparently this has been resolved on the forthcoming Donut release.
Cyanogen reports this as now working correctly in the new builds he is making on the G1 and Magic using some of the newer Donut code.

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