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[HD2 General] duseven:
Not recognizing my pin (again)

I bought the HTC HD2 end of january. Nice phone. But after 1 week it didn't recognize my pin anymore. Fortunately the shop where I bought it, has a '14 days not happy with the phone get another one'-policy. So I gat another HTC HD2. Had to install everything again and lost everything I had stored on the other phone. But the new phone worked !

Till yesterday evening. Again the HTC HD2 didn't recognize my pin :mad:

I tried to install the ROM-update. But that doesn't work, because you have to unlock the phone for that (otherwise there's no connection between my phone and my computer). Also tried the hard reset. Nothing works.

I hope someone has a solution for me. Cause I'm really getting tired of this.
[HD2 General] MerLinh:
i don't know, i unlock my sim pin since my first phone, my e-mail accounts are working fine, i don't have any of these problems so far, i bought mine january
[HD2 General] optimus-bucho:
This has happened to me a few times where a soft reset worked and once where it didn't (lost all data). Each time it was first thing in the morning and my alarm didn't work. That was on 1.48, since going 1.66 I haven't had either problem occur and it's been almost a month.

J
[HD2 General] besca147:
Which PIN is this? The phone lock or the SIM PIN?

If it's the phone lock, can it be disabled by de-selecting it. This would be a horrible thing to happen if it couldn't be disabled.
[HD2 General] MadMartyn:
i had a big problem with my HD2, I was in the bath and I dropped it of course it got wet but now that blasted crappy stock htc software thingy won't even switch on.....

Next time i'll flash a cooked rom.:confused:
[HD2 General] kilrah:
What do you mean by "blasted crappy stock htc software thingy" and "switch on"? I've never seen software "switch on"...

And if you mean your phone doesn't turn on anymore, you've got nobody else but yourself to blame, dropping a phone in water is fatal in most cases whatever the brand.
[HD2 General] MadMartyn:
it's not good enough..... people having this problem with the device forgeting there pin number and my one couldn't even swim out of the box you would think the stock rom would be water proof, but its not and my current rom from Miri works wonders in the bath. :eek:
[HD2 General] duseven:
It's the phone lock. And I can't do anything now. I can't even make a back-up because the computer cannot make a connection with my phone unless it's unlocked.
[HD2 General] duseven:
Hard re'set doesn't work. Taking out the battery and sim doesn't work. And I cannot install 1.66 because my computer cannot make a connection with my phone unless it's unlocked. :confused:
[HD2 General] kilrah:
LOL, good sense of humor...
[HD2 General] shutdown:
mine forgot it's pin number a couple of weeks ago.

had to do a hard reset to make it work again.

On that side of things it was very annoying, on the plus side... before the hard reset I'd only get 18 hours use out of the phone, after the reset i now get 2 days!

something must have been hidden away and draining my battery life

so i'm quite pleased in a strange way
[HD2 General] pablo11:
Just put it into bootloader and flash. Mind you, your "story" is very thin!!
[HD2 General] waffles666:
Quick question

Has everyone who has had this problem had an exchange enforced PIN code?
[HD2 General] Bim2k:
No. My Exchange does not have any pin code.

Happened to me today for the first time so glad i found this thread. Using the UK 1.66 ROM (WWE). The problem I had was the keypad wouldn't let me enter "a1b2c3" so I could continue re-entering the password.

After a couple of soft resets just now, I was able to enter that a1b2c3. Then, when I tried my 5-digit pin, it recognised it correctly and I'm in now :D

Will do back-ups every 2 days now (lesson learned).
[HD2 General] BeatPoet:
Having a similar nightmare...

Installed s**pe. Now it says my password is incorrect. Soft reset doesn't help and I can't even do a hard reset!

When I press both vol up/down buttons at the same time and then briefly press the power on/end button all that happens is the phone turns on. I don't get any option to perform a hard reset.

What the hell can I do now:confused:
[HD2 General] dannygroeneveld:
Keep both up/down buttons pressed when pressing power button and don't loosen them before the hard reset option is displayed
[HD2 General] BeatPoet:
Tried that. Held down up/down volume. Held down power button. After 30 secs or so the phone just switches off.

The option to reset never appears. I've tried holding down the power button briefly as well.

Can't believe I may have to send it back over this. Very annoying.
[HD2 General] byronlee:
Don't send back so soon

Experienced the same before. HD2 completely forgot my password which forced me to hard reset. Nothing happened by following the hard reset procedures per user manual and other random trials (long hold vs brief press of the power button, with or without microSD/SIM card put in, take away and replace battery, soft reset during bootloading etc.), the blank screen/lock screen just kept reappearing but not the hard reset one.

However, after a few soft resets, a short break and another 10+ attempts, the hard reset screen finally came out and saved my day. So my suggestion is don't send it back so soon, leave it there for a while, soft reset a few times and try again.
[HD2 General] BeatPoet:
Hi

Tried all that for the last half hour. Still no joy. Am going to have to send it back. Let this be a warning to anyone installing sw***
[HD2 General] Viper888899:
Same thing happened to me, after intalling swype i couldn't get pass the windows pin. Had to do a hard reset :mad:
[HD2 General] BeatPoet:
It's pretty worrying the hard reset doesn't work though. Seriously thinking I might sell the HD2 if I get a replacement and get an Android phone instead.
[HD2 General] Meiyo:
My HD2 forgot my phone lock pin too .

But after I removed the battery and put back in , and booted the device , it worked .. even though it told you me you have entered the pin wrong too many times before removing the battery and all .
[HD2 General] dood:
Woh! I thought it was just an odd glitch, but my HD2 also forgot my Pin number. Thankfully a power cycle helped reminded the little blighter what my Pin SHOULD be!
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
from the way you are talking, it sounds like you are starting with the power already on.(Otherwise how could the phone turn off??)

1 - phone off

2 - press and hold both up and down volume buttons.

3 - tap and release power (keeping both vol buttons pressed)

4 - phone should power on (keep both vol pressed)

5 - phone will briefly show three coloured screen, (you can release both vol buttons now) and then jump to grey screen with blue writing.

Press vol up to start the hard reset.

It can be a little awkward getting both vol buttons pressed together. I find it is easier with battery cover off.
[HD2 General] vjandu:
add another to the list!
[HD2 General] doggo:
I've just experienced the pin code issue, at least I've been able to rest the phone thanks to the advice above.

It's only now I realise the value of a backup :(:(
[HD2 General] catastrat:
I've just experienced this issue - again :(

It happened several times before to "forget" my phone PIN, but after a power off/power on, it went back to "normal".

This time unfortunatelly, nothing helped - at the 9th attempt (just before being wiped out), I did a hard reset - and every setting, every customization I had is now lost.

Damn MS - or HTC?!
[HD2 General] smeddy:
I just want to add my voice as someone who suffered this RIDICULOUS failing two weeks ago.

It was definitely after installing a Swype cab (I've posted in the thread I got the cab from to warn peple), and luckily I did not have much to lose on the phone (I was pretty well backed up on MyPhone, and all piz on SD Card etc), and again in my case the failing was a crappily-made Swype cab rather than Microsoft or HTC, and from other threads it's apparent this only affects those with an enforced Exchange policy, but still...

I'm in love with my phone, and I know in this case it's a third part's fault, but it's an issue that needs addressing if it occurs to people in other ways.
[HD2 General] Paul Boy:
in my experiance it may not just be Sype Causing this issue:confused:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=645103
[HD2 General] catastrat:
Strange: in my case, I didn't have Swype or Owner Information activated - still it happened!!!
[HD2 General] thedonone:
i also had this problem and had to do a hard reset but luckily had backed everything up
[HD2 General] rajeevp:
phone wiped out twice due to incorrect password lock

My phone got wiped out twice yesterday (corporate policy) as it would not accept my unlock key. I think the cuase is BsB Tweaks. I did not have any problems before I installed this and after the second wipe I have yet to run into the problem (with no BsB Tweaks installed).

Raj
[HD2 General] ps0209:
Add another to the list

I have had this problem now twice in two weeks! It seemed to be unlocking ok with Swype installed, but after a couple of days, the lock screen would be unresponsive (i.e. enter the passcode and the unlock button did not respond).

Had to Hard Reset the device :( and 1 week later (no swype installed) it is happening again, but this time it is telling me the passcode is incorrect when pressing unlock.

Several soft resets, now sitting here with the battery off, gonna give it one more chance and then another bloody hard reset (4 in 4 months!) :mad:

Stock o2(UK) 1.43 ROM
[HD2 General] captain_haddock:
had the same problem, sorted with a hard reset.

going to back things up now...

anyone any ideas to a permanent solution?

Stock o2 1.43 ROM
[HD2 General] mik63:
Same here,... and worse !

Happened to me as well last night.

In addition, once the phone reset itself to the original config, the SDHC card was "gone".

It is not visible at all; I have tried to re-insert it, remove it and let the phone reboot, etc.., no luck..

Any suggestion?
[HD2 General] mik63:
shdc is back...

after 1 day "trying" different things and after having given up, magically the SDHC card reappeared, but it was completely empty, with only a couple of basic HTC folders...

Pretty scary...
[HD2 General] dannygroeneveld:
After having again the problem of my HD2 not recognizing my password anymore, I realized that I did a 'optimize registry' action using SK-Tools. I now have the idea that maybe that program is the reason that the password is not recognized suddenly anymore. Is one of the other users with password problems on this thread also an SK-Tools user?

regards, Danny
[HD2 General] Bim2k:
happened again to me now, this time the unlock button does nothing when I press it :( guess it's time to hard reset :/
[HD2 General] Hassan75:
PIN not recognized

SO what to do ?

What is the solution for forgetting the password without Hard Reseting and loosing all customizations .I have a forced Exchange PIN , so I cannot stop using it !!! Any help .

Thx
[HD2 General] felix-one:
One more PIN shuffle sacrifice

Hi,

it did it again!

In my case the battery went dry over night. I turned on in the morning and was surprised that it boots up instead of turning on. Anyhow I pluged in the usb power to go on but the pin was gone.

Then I forgott to pull out the sd-card while entering the pin the 6th time!

What a blame - the backup was on the sd-card which was killed with that!

After reformat the sd-card and copy an older backup to it from the pc I am almost happy, not lost too many things and customizations...

So many 'nightmared' users and still not a clue of help?! eieiei...
[HD2 General] rkrims:
Try a better lockscreen: http://pocketshield.net
[HD2 General] farangdang:
I have. And it's lost my pin twice so far. Getting paranoid to the point I'm afraid to install anything because it will hose my pin and I'll have to re-install everything again.
[HD2 General] cliffordlee:
Well this issue does happen, albeit quite rare. It's prolly a bug with wm tho and there's no way to avoid it. It happened to me once, and after a day and countless tries and soft resets, my pin was finally accepted. However the next day, it finally rejected everything for good, of which a hard reset was the only option left. At that time, my volume rocker didn't work and I had to send it in for service. What a bummer. Lesson learnt: Never lock my phone with a password again and always back up my device ever so frequently.
[HD2 General] farangdang:
For those corporate users that don't have the option of just turning off their passwords, or those that are just uncomfortable with leaving their phone unlocked, the key is to just turn off your PIN lock prior do doing any upgrades to the phone. If it's just a personal phone with no account requirements for PIN, its very simple to turn off. Just go to Settings, Security, Phone Lock, (enter your PIN), then touch the box next to "Prompt if phone unused for", and touch the green check mark at the bottom right corner of the screen.

For corporate users, it's a bit more complicated. If you are doing any major upgrades to the phone, or adding simple things like a Swype upgrade, or using BsB Tweaks (reported as causing PIN malfunction on one or two other forums) you will need to Delete your Outlook account (or whichever account requires the PIN). Before deleting though, go to your email tab, touch Menu, and Select Account Settings. Touch the account that requires the PIN, and going through the manual setup get all the settings for your email account. This will all be needed after you install upgrades to the phone to set up your email again. After getting all the required information, go back to the accounts page, and press the Delete button, and select the account to delete. At this point, you may go back to the Security settings (see above) and turn off the PIN.

Apply any phone upgrades, swype, BsB updates or applications, and when done, set up your email account again, and your account will prompt you for a pin the first time it syncs with the email server.

It's a bit of a pain, but until somebody fixes the PIN problem I don't see a lot of other options out there.

Good luck.

Omega XT 19, w/ CHT 2.0.0

TMO US WM 6.5
[HD2 General] smeddy:
Just adding some info to the mix, I found that this happened, without fail, using Energy ROMs with Cookie 1.8.5. It happened three weeks running (e.g. it failed, I reset, made no other mods other than your basic adding QuickLinks etc. but then without warning my phone would forget it's pin about 5 days later).

I never found out if this happened with CHT2 as I was so burned/peeved by this point, I thought "screw it" and went to Android... Have'nt looked back since.
[HD2 General] starsanddots:
For some reason my screen just dims instead of turning off when I dont use the phone. If I press the hang up button it goes off like normal but if I just set it down it dims and stays on, draining my battery... Has anyone else experienced this?
[HD2 General] Archer:
I take it you've already checked your backlight settings in Settings, Power ?
[HD2 General] starsanddots:
Yes and I have done a soft reset as well. I'm not really a "phone guy" so I hope this is something easy to fix....
[HD2 General] wacky.banana:
Hello,

The way I have my device setup to get round this problem is this:

Go to Settings>Sound&Display> then scroll down until you see Display then click on Backlight.

On the page that appears, scroll down to "On Battery Power". Here put a tick in the box "Dim Backlight..." and set the time you want to allow before this function kicks in (mine is set at 2 mins).

Next, move down to "Turn off Device..", put a tick in here, and then set how long you want the device to stay on for before it goes off (mine is set at 3 mins).

You can use whatever time settings you feel comfortable with. Please note that it is the setting for "Turn Device Off..." that will blank your screen for you. The other setting simply dims it and leaves it running, as you have said before.

If battery performance is an issue for you, take the tick off "Automatically adjust backlight" and put in your own settings. So here, for example, I have my backlight on battery permanently set at 30% and on External Power, 60%.

The screen is so big you get blinded at anything above 60% (well at least I do). :)

Hope this helps.

WB
[HD2 General] Qunick:
screen not turning off...during call via BT-headset

Hi guys!

My screen does not turn off even during phone call via Bluetooth-headset.

Any ideas how to fix it?

Thanks!

anyone?
[General Questions and Answers] Marco984:
hi

i'm looking for a cab, to allow me to see in real time battery drain

someone of you, have a similar cab?

thanks
[General Questions and Answers] guinioul:
you can try dcibattery :

http://www.1800pocketpc.com/2009/01/29/dcibattery-and-qwertymemory-status-bar-for-pocket-pc.html

I tried on WM6.5.X and it works fine
[General Questions and Answers] Marco984:
with this software is it possible to see how mA is draining in real time?
[General Questions and Answers] stylez:
Moved as not software release.

acbPowerMeter (Free) acbTaskMan not free but lots of info & AE Button Plus can show mA usage..
[General Questions and Answers] Marco984:
thanks :) sorry for my error to post in not right section :)
[Networking] is128ae:
Hi all, maybe there is already an issue about this, but I can't find it :mad: so please be patient.

As a newbe on the Windows Mobile platform, I have a question.

Background:

For use with Geocaching I bought a second hand Ipaq HX2190b. Wasn't used at all. Including the whole lot of cables, manuals, docking station etc.

When using the Ipaq with some Geocaching Apps (Like GCzII) it wants to connect to the Internet.

But there's no connection to the Internet on the Ipaq itself, but ... I have also a Nokia E71, with a flat-rate connection on it.

Now the question:

Can I connect from the Ipaq, through the Nokia E71, to the Internet ?

And if so, how ????????

Thanks It Advance

Martyn
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] michealjohn:
My current configuration is in my signature.

I have made up my mind to flash a new ROM.

I am planning to try Dutty's Topaz Sense 2.5 Holy Grail R6 Multi-Lang |WWE] [LP].

I have downloaded the following and had the backup of my files (system files) using Sprint Backup and read the "Flashing your first ROM? - A guide".

1. Duttys_Topaz_2.16_Sense_2.5_5.2.21882.5.0.73_Holy_Grail_R6_LP.zip

2. Topaz-HardSPL_V5_00R5_183HSPL.zip

3. TopazSPLRelocker_SPL133.zip

4. SSPL-Manual-TopazV5_01.zip

I have couple of question before flashing the rom.

1. Whether the ROM (Duttys_Topaz_2.16_Sense_2.5_5.2.21882.5.0.73_Holy_Grail_R6_LP) will be suitable for HTC Touch Dimaond2 T5353(please see my signature for other build/os/radio version)? Whether LP is good or TP? Which one to choose any suggestion?

2. Whether this ROM is the latest version or any other version is out?

3. I will HardSPL and then install the ROM as per the instructions in "Flashing your first ROM? - A guide".

If anything went wrong, whether can I able to revert back my original WM 6.5 offical rom (RUU_Topaz_S_hTC_Asia_WWE_2.17.707.1_Radio_Sign_Topaz_61.44tc.25.32_4.49.25.17_Ship).

If so, please suggest how to do it? any instructions/guide on it?

4. What is the advantage of flasing the ROM in SD card rather than in the internal memory?

5. I am going to try for first time, if possible suggest an interesting/stable ROM other than Dutty's. Since many people using Dutty it should be stable..if anyother is also available..pls suggest

Thanks in advance.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] BeeGee_Tokyo:
Wondering why you get no answers?

a) Your questions about Dutty ROM belongs into the Dutty ROM thread

b) Your questions about flashing and going back to Stock ROM are answered 100 times in the Stickies.

Search and you will find answers to most questions.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] michealjohn:
Thanks BeeGee.

Whether Dutty ROM is having separate Thread in this forum? Can you help to provide me the link so that I will post there? Meanwhile I am also searching it..

Going back to official/Stock rom, do we have any links for step by step by instruction on how to do it?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] miro666:
There:

Duttys Topaz Sense 2.5 Holy Grail R6 Multi-Lang

Regards
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] BeeGee_Tokyo:
AAAAAHHHHHHHH, I am too soft hearted:p:p

Search for

|NOV 28||Duttys Sense 2.5 H-Grail R6||5.2.21882||WWE|FRA|GER|ITA|NLD|PTG|NOR|SVE|SPA

how to reflash Stock/Shipped SPL - STEP BY STEP - FOR WARRANTY REASONS ONLY!

As I said - Dutty ROM thread and Stickies. And NO, I will not give you the links, it is easy to find.

Next time use search first, then post a thread please.

Thank you.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] miro666:
Hehe, I marvel you BeeGee :) ... You are still have good nerv...

Regards and happy New Year
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] BeeGee_Tokyo:
MichaelJohn, I hope you found your answers.

Miro666, 2 glasses of Premium Flavored Lambanog (Philippine Coconut drink) and I am cooled down.

Happy new year to everybody!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] michealjohn:
BeeGee,

Thanks for your help. I got it and however I have just postponed the flashing the ROM. I don't want to get into an issue. I am planning to go through this forum for couple more weeks to famarlize the things related to ROM development on Windows Mobile. I am learning more things on this forum, but yet to learn more...
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] RodrigoSalsa:
michaeljohn, reading your posts I remembered when I was so afraid to make the first step, some months ago...

The whole process is very smooth, quick and safe, if you follow the guides. To be honest, I regret not doing it before.

In my case, my wife bought a french TD2, with a 6.1 WM. I needed to change the language, so I used a 6.1 english stock rom. just recently I had guts to update it to 6.5, and now I'm testing cooked roms, to see which fit my needs more. And they are awesome!

See ya!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] Pisca:
Please stop spamming with irrelevant questions, use Dutty's thread please
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pk2:
I’m going to try to keep brief so I don’t lose you. In short, I seem to be locked out of my G1 after root attempt. It won’t read sd cards, and can’t communicate to it through USB. It will run, but normal start up goes directly into 3 pages of T-mobil google setup.

1) Ebay G1, 1.6= donut, worked great but not unlocked so no phone no net.

2) Installed dreaIMG.nbh for root root ala "unlockr’s" method. Followed to a t

3) Try to run update (to cupcake) rom, no go. Rebooted (update) every witch way, battery in and out, formatting & reformatting 4g sd on PC. Try other SD’s, purchase a new 4 gig sd, All I get is the following message:

First:

Android system recovery utility

E:Can’t open /cache/recovery/com

mand

Home+back – reboot system now

Alt+l etc,etc

Etc.

Etc.

After executing Alt+S:

Installing from sd card…

Finding update package…

Can’t mount /dev/block/mmblk0

P1 (or /dev/block/mmblk0)

E:Can’t mount SDCARD:update.zip

Installation aborted.

USB hookup shows up on PC as “HTC Android mass storage”. HTC SYC., DroidExploer, ADB and whatever else I’ve played with on the P.C. won't connect.

Please help if you can. I’ve only had this a week, tried to root, and have spent the last 2 days googling around trying to figure it out how to fix it. If I could somehow just get past the T- mobile crap or through the USB I could probably straighten it out.

Regards, PK