10-26-2008, 10:51 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 3
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PDA freezes when typing "space s" or "space k" - but not a virus.
Hi folks,
recently my PDA (HTC Hermes, WM6.0) started to freeze while I was writing an SMS. For some days I thought it was random but I've realised it's whenever I type a space then the letter S or K, or either of these two letters at the beginning of a sentence).
E.g. it would have crashed on the word SMS in my 1st line of this posting.
It actually is hogging 100% CPU but the task can't be killed by WM "end program", so I have to cold-start it.
The PDA has a hardware keyboard but it happens both with this and with the touchscreen keyboard, so I don't know if it's a hardware or software issue.
I'm most grateful for any help as it's driving me crazy having to remember to write SMS without these letter combinations.
Best regards,
Barry Hill
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10-31-2008, 11:38 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 167
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Welcome to the forums.  Has it accidentally came in contact with any liquids? If not, I would reinstall WM6 on it to see if that makes any difference. Just do not forget to back up your data first.
Last edited by Constant Caffeine; 10-31-2008 at 11:40 PM..
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11-01-2008, 02:49 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 518
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Did you ever figure out your keyboard problem?
Fact that it only happens under certain circumstances, + high cpu usage, makes it sound more like a software problem than a hardware glitch.
Have a couple of programs that do not play nicely with each other (on Axim): apparently they do not release memory & system gets loaded down.
In this case a simple Soft Reset does the trick. SOMETIMES MemoryMate will help, but a Soft Reset is an easy thing to do....
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11-03-2008, 10:39 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 3
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Thanks for your replies - haven't solved it yet (still avoiding typing the letters S and K).
What I meant by freezing is 100%cpu in the corresponding task and I can't kill the process.
I'll probably end up hard-reseting the device :-(
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11-17-2008, 01:22 AM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 3
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How I "solved it"
Hi folks,
just to keep you up-to-date - I never found out what the problen was (no PDA virus scanner ever found anything) but "solved" it by doing a backup with sprite backup then a hard reset then a sprite restore. Since then it's OK!
Regards,
Timerider
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