[busterz]

Hi guyz,, had a 2210 for 4 days now ,, last night I took it out of the cradle and noticed that the charging lite was still on ,, strange I thought untill I got it downstairs, yup it wouldnt turn on

Anyway, I pressed the soft reset button in and back on it came, and when I turned it off, it wouldnt come back on unless I pressed the reset button in. After many hard resets it apears to be ok now, though, ime still worried that it may be broke.
Has it happened to anyone else or ??? and what did you do to rectify it ?

And has anyone noticed that active sync is a bit broke , because when you transfer a 43mb + file it keeps resetting itself back to the start even though it does transfer the file,, strange.

Busterz

[busterz]

Hi guyz,, had a 2210 for 4 days now ,, last night I took it out of the cradle and noticed that the charging lite was still on ,, strange I thought untill I got it downstairs, yup it wouldnt turn on

Anyway, I pressed the soft reset button in and back on it came, and when I turned it off, it wouldnt come back on unless I pressed the reset button in. After many hard resets it apears to be ok now, though, ime still worried that it may be broke.
Has it happened to anyone else or ??? and what did you do to rectify it ?

And has anyone noticed that active sync is a bit broke , because when you transfer a 43mb + file it keeps resetting itself back to the start even though it does transfer the file,, strange.

Busterz

[busterz]

Well its done it again :?
I noticed that active sync had stopped responding and when I took it out of the cradle, you guessed it, charging lite on and dead , however a soft reset and shes back. You dont think it could be a program ? ill try running it from a full reset, with nothing installed and see what happens, if it continues this way ime taking it back for a replacement.

Busterz

[rpommier]

Keep us posted, mine is doing that also... I believe it has something to do with the back light settings. Everyday mine will do that for something, either when I take it off the cradle from charging, which I have the backlight go off after 3min. Or if I let the backlight go off while off the charger. The setting for that is 1min.

I'll play around tonight and see if I can get some consistancy... I thought it was only me...

[midili]

what additional programs have you loaded? I have the same problem on my 2210 when I run TomTom Navigator and don't close the program before I turn off the device. And by 'close' I mean remove from memory.

Sometimes I've also noticed that if my BT radio is on when I turn off the device I might have to soft reset to get started again.

Jeff

[rpommier]

I have Battery Pack 2003 5.1 installed and thought that could be the problem. It's happened since unistalling it too, so that wasn't it.

Funny thing is that it didin't happen until I did a hard-reset recently... It never happened on my 'Factory Fresh', 2210

I still think it has something to do with the backlight...

[superkev]

Hi
I too have this problem where a reset is required to strat the 2210 after I have switched off after useding Tom-Tom Blue tooth GPS.
I think it is somthing to do with the PDA trying to fing the blue tooth radio which may have switched off or be out of range (my range is only about 2m).
Ive also sufferd total data loss after one of these resets when the 2210 reverted to its factory condition. I wonder if this was due to the BT radio turning on the 2210 and discharging the batts. The default BT 2210 setting is to allow other devices to find and connect.
Any help appriecited
Kev

[Chris Spera]

I am looking at TTN BlueTooth for another site.

I have reported this particular problem to TomTom and they are currently looking at it. This is, I think, an issue with their GPS Driver when the TomTom Wireless GPS Receiver is selected. The driver doesn't want to give up the reciever.

When you turn the receiver off, or try to run the program without the reciever present (which you should be able to do, BTW), Navigator has a great deal of trouble. The program becomes highly unstable. The BT radio/ stack often crashes and hangs the machine. Navigator often closes of its own accord, no where to be found, or errors out with a address and off-set dialog.

TomTom is currently working on this issue, as I write this, and has been for some time.

Kind Regards,


Christopher Spera

[busterz]

ok it still has the problem from a full reset, and I now have a different 2210 after taking the other 1 back and still the same probs :cry:

However I have found that active sync when uninstalled will, kill my user profile in XP with lots of dcom errors (no it aint the blaster worm) restoring to a point just before, fixes it, and this problem microsoft must know about. maybe fixed in 3.8

Plus I have found that if I leave the 2210 in the cradle while booting up the pc, I get a stall at the bios prompt sometimes , hopefully this will be fixed with a new bios upgrade or maybe a prob with the cradle ?

using an MSI 875p neo motherboard...


Buster

[MarcoPolo]

There is a GPS v2.08 download on the TomTom website with the following statment.

"GPS version 2.08 fixes an issue in Windows Mobile 2003 running on iPAQ's where the iPAQ cannot be switched on after switching it off whilst a Bluetooth connection is open with Bluetooth GPS receivers."

I have also heard that this is a wider issue that goes beyond TomTom Navigator. It seems that it could be to do with the implementation of Bluetooth/communications in a Windows Mobile 2003 on a number of devices. My 2215 suffered some of the issues in this thread and I tried the following to at least settle it down. As far as I can tell, TomTom are the first to acknowledge and fix this problem. A problem that may not be entirely down to them to begin with, from what I am finding.

I tried a brand new install of everything while no other applications were running on the iPAQ. I installed latest version of Navigator (2.24) and GPS (2.08) from tomtom.com. I also installed by copying the CAB files to the iPAQ and running them from there and installed them in the following order: Navigator, voice then GPS. GPS last as it seems to purposely initiate a reset of the iPAQ.

What I have also read elsewhere and noticed about my Pocket PC is the following. Bluetooth under WM 2003 is too insistent on proactively activating associations between the Pocket PC and other communication devices. If you use software configured to access a com port used by a Bluetooth association the BT manager in the system will insist on opening that port, whether you want it to or not. This happens even if you've turned the radio off on the Windows Mobile device. What’s more, I can’t find any setting within the Bluetooth Manager or BT Settings that allows me the user to switch off or override this automatic element of Bluetooth.

[Sparkomatic]

I have the same problem with my PPC. And, I'm not using Tom Tom or bluetooth. At first, I have BT turned on and thought that was the problem. I'd notice that the BT light was on but when I tried to turn on my PPC, I would have to soft reset. Since then, I've turn BT off but every once in a while, I have to soft reset. I'm thinking it's a program loaded on my PPC? Everything is *supposedly* WM2003 compatible though. Here's what's on my device:

PI 4.5
Trip Tracker
Vehicle Manager
Cool Calc
WisBar Advance
Code Wallet Pro
Cleaner
Resco File Explorer
Bounce Symphony
Battleship
Gamebox Solitaire
Calligrapher
Owner InfoX
Pocket Backup Plus

Anyone else using one of these programs and having the same problems? Oh yeah, my PPC will sometimes turn on for no reason at all. No alarms or programs open, the thing just turns on and then turns off after a minute (what it's set at).