What happened to my Treo?

[Newsdork]

So after about three weeks of Unbranded WM 6 bliss, my Treo started going haywire Friday...

The best way I can describe it is "unresponsive".

I would get calls, and no 'caller id screen' would pop up. If I hit 'answer', nothing would happen.

When sending SMS, sometimes the cursor would stop after typing about 10 letters... it wouldn't send, delete, etc. Sometimes, when I sent a SMS, it would stay in the lower 'compose' field and switch to the threaded chat part, so it was there twice, and I could type over it, but not erase it.

I was constantly soft resetting and using "ok" to shut down active programs, but nothing would solve the problem for long.

I only had a few 3rd party apps in local memory: 1. Google Maps, 2. Slingbox player, 3. Java Virtual emulator. (All installed more than 2 weeks before problems started)

I removed the Java program, and the phone worked better for a couple hours... but then it started becoming unresponsive again, so I removed all my third party programs.

Things only got worse. I started getting "low storage memory" messages. My storage memory was shrinking from about 2mb's left, to less than 500k.

I finally bit the bullet and did a hard reset.
The phone seems to be better... and I have 58 mb's of storage memory now.

I'm just curious what the hell happened?

Have any of you seen this with Sling or Google Maps? It had to be the JVM , right?

I could live without that, but not my slingplayer... Google maps would be nice to have, too...

Let me know what your experience has been. I'll let you know if the phone stays stable now with the reset.

-'Dork

[fastlerner]

Originally Posted by Newsdork

So after about three weeks of Unbranded WM 6 bliss, my Treo started going haywire Friday...

The best way I can describe it is "unresponsive".

I would get calls, and no 'caller id screen' would pop up. If I hit 'answer', nothing would happen.

When sending SMS, sometimes the cursor would stop after typing about 10 letters... it wouldn't send, delete, etc. Sometimes, when I sent a SMS, it would stay in the lower 'compose' field and switch to the threaded chat part, so it was there twice, and I could type over it, but not erase it.

I was constantly soft resetting and using "ok" to shut down active programs, but nothing would solve the problem for long.

I only had a few 3rd party apps in local memory: 1. Google Maps, 2. Slingbox player, 3. Java Virtual emulator. (All installed more than 2 weeks before problems started)

I removed the Java program, and the phone worked better for a couple hours... but then it started becoming unresponsive again, so I removed all my third party programs.

Things only got worse. I started getting "low storage memory" messages. My storage memory was shrinking from about 2mb's left, to less than 500k.

I finally bit the bullet and did a hard reset.
The phone seems to be better... and I have 58 mb's of storage memory now.

I'm just curious what the hell happened?

Have any of you seen this with Sling or Google Maps? It had to be the JVM , right?

I could live without that, but not my slingplayer... Google maps would be nice to have, too...

Let me know what your experience has been. I'll let you know if the phone stays stable now with the reset.

-'Dork

It COULD have been Slingplayer, but I'm not familiar enough with it to say for sure.

However, I'm almost willing to bet that you surf from you're phone a good bit. If that's the case, then it was most likely Pocket IE that caused the problem. Viewing large sites, or lots of sites, fills up your memory with temp files which brings the whole device to it's knees.

(I once had this happen viewing a single website that was extremely heavy on graphics.)

If it happens again, open up IE and go to Menu>Tools>Options>Memory and click "Delete Files". You'd be surprised how much memory you'll reclaim if you're a regular web surfer.

[Newsdork]

Originally Posted by fastlerner

It COULD have been Slingplayer, but I'm not familiar enough with it to say for sure.

However, I'm almost willing to bet that you surf from you're phone a good bit. If that's the case, then it was most likely Pocket IE that caused the problem. Viewing large sites, or lots of sites, fills up your memory with temp files which brings the whole device to it's knees.

(I once had this happen viewing a single website that was extremely heavy on graphics.)

If it happens again, open up IE and go to Menu>Tools>Options>Memory and click "Delete Files". You'd be surprised how much memory you'll reclaim if you're a regular web surfer.

Hey, thanks again.. you're always a big help.

I'm fine after the hard reset, but I haven't downloaded any apps at all yet.

Also, on WM 6, I'm noticing my phone has a harder time finding a consistent signal, especially after I get a dropped call. I went ten minutes today without a signal on an interstate where the signal is usually very good. Weird.

[fastlerner]

Yeah, I noticed the signal dropout when I ran the unofficial leaked WM6 rom. I've been on the unbranded for a couple months with no issues so far.

Right before I went to the unbranded they upgraded our towers to 3G with pretty good coverage. Don't know if it was the new rom or the upgraded towers that made the difference, but so far so good.

I've seen a bunch of other people mention this issue too. The best guess I have is spotty 3G coverage causing the phone to switch bands, and it's not doing it very gracefully.

If it happens fairly regularly, try locking to GPRS and see if that makes a difference.

[836byk9]

I was having the same problem with mine as well. I went to AT&T yesterday and they reset both my data and voice plan. I haven't noticed any problems with loosing signal since then. Maybe its just coincidences but so far so good.