[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] night-mayor:
ok i've had my wizard for a long while now and as i move fwd with my newly acquired omnia hd..i decided to write this arbituary as still to date some of the issues listed cause suffering to its loving owners and are not yet fully addressed.

1 - Wizard's White Screen Of Death (WSOD) :

- Not to confuse this with white screens occuring at application crashes , the issue discussed is when you get a white screen out of the blue while nothing is running..some tried to address the issue as pressure problem / cable problem / connectors problem / screen .. (ok the list included all wizard's components realy) but here goes the answer : Processor failure due to sustaining untolerable tempreture..how to solve you ask ? Trouble-shooting heat can be hactic , the list starts from faulty battery that emitts erritating heat and ends with continues utilization of the lcd screen and passes through the ageing wizard boards that acquired failing capacitors (you can never have em replaced , not unless you are a swiss watch-maker)..so my advice..replace the battery and dim the lcd lights , if the problem continues then u know its the board , ditch it at no remorse.

2 - Wizard freezes in you pocket and wont come back on powering on/resume:

would return rings to callers , the green led works , yet you cant get it to unsleep using the power button (some thought it was pressure / some thought it was heat / others the cables .. touch pad .. blass) but here goes the answer : this problem can be caused by either a software you installed (ex: spb shell) that would manage to have the connection with the touch-pad running even on suspending the devise and would occasionaly go buffer over-run due to several and continues press strokes (easy to test as you can always backup then hard reset your device then fully press the screen while off for two minutes , if it comes back then its software issue) so hard resetting and neglecting the problematic software can help (in all cases i experimented with , uninstalling faulty application didnt help as the change is done within registry and is left there permenently and i didnt find myself entreagued to trap these changes) ... if not however your issue will lay in the on board battery receptor (the black device with pins connecting to the battery) through out time (or maybe by chance) such a device (plastic based) is dislocated by a fraction of a mm. and would cause the metal connecters to disconnect/reconnect upon sudden movement of the device (the ultration in current can cause the processor to crash and rendered to such state) how to solve this issue is to simply : pop your device open , use hot air (dont take your time!) to move the battery receptor 1 mm. inwards..that or apply paper inserts to firmly rests the battery unmovable.

3 - After flashing several roms , flashing a new rom continues successfully yet you power-up to find out your older rom remains unchanged:

some thought its usb cable problem , others hinted broken bootloader , others suspected the usb socket .. ok you just corruped your spl , ipl (they do return the correct version numbers on booting) so flashing a rom with ipl , spl (such as official rom or famous CUSTOM__RUU_Wizard_1050412_WWE_101_11210_WWE) will solve that and do note that most custom roms come free of ipl / spl to become compatible with annoying G4 board along with our beloved G3.

4 - Official rom indicates that your device id is of a different brand and thus official rom and licensed add ons wont install:

some thought it was a defensive mechanism for locked devices (yet owners of unlocked devices managed to get there too!) .. ok let me be brief on this one .. you have corrupted your IPL / SPL and last but not least your "IMEI" , yes thats possible , and on installing a cute rom that would not authenticate validity of IPL / SPL / IMEI such as Wizard_Love_2.26.10.2_WWE_Novii_CF2 you will get to notice that your IMEI managed to change despite that its the same board..so there is only one way to get out of this and here is how :

a - install CUSTOM__RUU_Wizard_1050412_WWE_101_11210_WWE

b - run awizard and have it unlock CID and then upload / enable rapi.cab

c - use your device explorer to browse to device root and install rapi.cab uploaded there

d - restart your device

e - reinstall CUSTOM__RUU_Wizard_1050412_WWE_101_11210_WWE

f - repeate steps b through d

g - run iwizard_979 and have it change your IMEI to the one printed on the box of your wizard or under the battery

5 - Why am i getting so much corruptions on my device :

Some suspected a faulty memory chip..others suspected faulty roms..yet the answer is : your battery is defected .. most rom / ipl / spl / imei corruptions are related to altering flow of current .. so follow methods listed in solving bullet problem (2) up or have your battery replaced.

6 - I try to power my device , but it takes several seconds before the htc logo appears , sometimes i have to remove reseat the battery:

Some suspected rom , others suspected battery .. but the answer is : your board capacitors are defected , a board (if still available) replacement is due.

7 - Help! the device freezes at splash screen :

Some suspected a rom corruption , brilliants suggested entering bootloader mode by pressing and holding camera button then power the device and have a rom written to device , geeks tried to hack into the device at that state and trying to trouble shoot from there..but here goes the easiest and handiest thing to do that is 99% effective: press and hold Comm + Talk + Power .. a black screen pops up and ask you if you want to format your device , press Dial .. the device formats and restore factory defaults and opens smoothly (btw be patiant as on hard reset the device takes more time to boot) .. now you thought the rom was corrupted .. how could hard resetting a corrupted rom without re-installing make it work .. nopes it wasnt corrupted .. your device just acquired a failing (coarking) startup file that a hard reset would replace from rom or pre-cabs.

Finally hope this article addresses and enlighten u to furtherly address craziness thrown at us by the famous wizard.