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 Apr 16 2008, 17:05
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Regular  Group: Posters Posts: 61 Joined: 7th March 2008 Member No.: 364,799  |
Does your Blackjack II freeze up every now and then? I'm not talking about freezing when running any particular program or feature within a program. I mean setting your phone down and coming back a while later to find it frozen.
The solution is cake: remove and replace the battery, but until I discover it frozen, I'm missing calls. It seems that half of the days I don't have this issue. The other days it happens up to a couple of times. When I bought my wife her Blackjack II a couple of months after I got mine, I didn't expect the same behavior, but hers does the same. Anybody else? |
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Apr 16 2008, 17:13
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 Enthusiast  Group: Posters Posts: 281 Joined: 9th December 2004 From: Merseyside, UK. Member No.: 101,150 Device(s): HP iPaq 614c, Vario II, MPX220 |
QUOTE(jbone @ Apr 16 2008, 18:05)  Does your Blackjack II freeze up every now and then? I'm not talking about freezing when running any particular program or feature within a program. I mean setting your phone down and coming back a while later to find it frozen. The solution is cake: remove and replace the battery, but until I discover it frozen, I'm missing calls. It seems that half of the days I don't have this issue. The other days it happens up to a couple of times. When I bought my wife her Blackjack II a couple of months after I got mine, I didn't expect the same behavior, but hers does the same. Anybody else? Do you have any 3rd party applications installed that are common to both phones? -------------------- "..busier than a one legged man in a butt kicking contest...."
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Apr 16 2008, 17:30
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 Newbie  Group: Posters Posts: 32 Joined: 19th August 2007 From: Wongo Member No.: 290,897 Device(s): Blackjack II |
If you have SmartToolkit installed on any of the two, that program will sure cause it to freeze up, best not to use that alpha/beta program....
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Apr 16 2008, 18:54
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Regular Group: Posters Posts: 61 Joined: 7th March 2008 Member No.: 364,799 |
QUOTE(everton2004 @ Apr 16 2008, 17:13) Do you have any 3rd party applications installed that are common to both phones? Yes. Com 4 GPS Hack from this site and Garmin XT Mobile. I also have a Kingston 2Gig SD RAM chip in both. So if no one else is experiencing this, perhaps it comes down to those three elements. I'm leaning toward the RAM chips being slightly incompatible since I haven't heard of a freezing issue with people here a Modaco due to installing the GPS software + hack. Does this sound reasonable? |
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Apr 16 2008, 19:03
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Enthusiast Group: Posters Posts: 281 Joined: 9th December 2004 From: Merseyside, UK. Member No.: 101,150 Device(s): HP iPaq 614c, Vario II, MPX220 |
QUOTE(jbone @ Apr 16 2008, 19:54) Yes. Com 4 GPS Hack from this site and Garmin XT Mobile. I also have a Kingston 2Gig SD RAM chip in both. So if no one else is experiencing this, perhaps it comes down to those three elements. I'm leaning toward the RAM chips being slightly incompatible since I haven't heard of a freezing issue with people here a Modaco due to installing the GPS software + hack. Does this sound reasonable? Are any of these apps installed to the SD card? (I assume Garmin will be). Try running both the phones without the SD cards for a day and see what happens. If you get no freezes then that points to either the SD card or something that is installed on the SD card. This post has been edited by everton2004: Apr 16 2008, 19:05 -------------------- "..busier than a one legged man in a butt kicking contest...."
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Apr 16 2008, 22:49
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Regular Group: Posters Posts: 61 Joined: 7th March 2008 Member No.: 364,799 |
QUOTE(everton2004 @ Apr 16 2008, 19:03) Are any of these apps installed to the SD card? (I assume Garmin will be). Try running both the phones without the SD cards for a day and see what happens. If you get no freezes then that points to either the SD card or something that is installed on the SD card. I was thinking the same thing. I'll give it a shot. Thanks |
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Jun 5 2008, 18:05
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Regular Group: Posters Posts: 61 Joined: 7th March 2008 Member No.: 364,799 |
Okay, here are my preliminary observances to this freezing problem (since it seems this problem is rare among Blackjack II owners, this post is more for an archival history for others who might have this issue later):
* My wife and I both have Blackjack IIs manufactured 3 months apart in early 2008. * Both of us experience intermittent freezing or nonresponsive keys that may or may not lead to a "Can't find MSCDIAL..." error or something similar. Turns out that: * The problem seems to occur far more often with the battery that came with my phone (I sometimes exchange our batteries) * The problem seemingly related to this particular battery seems to only happen when the battery has a full, or mostly full, charge. I'll continue to test this. If I can consistently reproduce this behavior, I'll call Samsung and request a new battery. I'll let the group know when I do. |
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Jun 24 2008, 20:27
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Regular Group: Posters Posts: 61 Joined: 7th March 2008 Member No.: 364,799 |
QUOTE(jbone @ Jun 5 2008, 18:05) I'll continue to test this. If I can consistently reproduce this behavior, I'll call Samsung and request a new battery. I'll let the group know when I do. UPDATE: I still have the same battery for my phone, but I have kept my phone out of Silent mode. No freezups whatsoever in over a week now. I've been charging to full the whole way. Maybe the error is caused when the phone gets a sound event when it's in Silent mode? HAHAHA some of you are probably saying, "Get a new phone already JBONE!!!!" -J |
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Jun 24 2008, 21:19
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 Audere est facere Group: Posters Posts: 16 Joined: 19th January 2006 Member No.: 168,344 Device(s): i-mate JAMin, SPV C600 |
QUOTE(jbone @ Jun 24 2008, 21:27) UPDATE: I still have the same battery for my phone, but I have kept my phone out of Silent mode. No freezups whatsoever in over a week now. I've been charging to full the whole way. Maybe the error is caused when the phone gets a sound event when it's in Silent mode? HAHAHA some of you are probably saying, "Get a new phone already JBONE!!!!" -J i actually had the same freezing issue with mine too in the first week or two of owning it. i don't know if this fixed it, but i did a hard reset of the device and didn't re-install the GPS hack (GPS worked fine without it). other than that, i had previously set up the phone to collect my emails by doing a send/receive automatically every 5 mins, but after i did the hard reset i started using an exchange server (mail2web). not sure how this could've affected things, but it's the only other thing I did differently. haven't had any freeze ups for a few weeks now. not sure if this helps but thought I'd share :-) |
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Jul 24 2008, 17:42
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Regular Group: Posters Posts: 61 Joined: 7th March 2008 Member No.: 364,799 |
UPDATE (probably the last):
Even since my last post in this thread, my phone has not locked up once. Not even ONCE! Of course I'm thankful for this, but at the same time I hate it when I don't know the cause of a problem. Maybe my phone just needed to be broken in. Weird. -J This post has been edited by jbone: Jul 24 2008, 17:43 |
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Jul 24 2008, 17:59
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 Peanut Brain  Group: MoDaCo Plus Posts: 6,162 Joined: 10th September 2004 From: Surrey, England Member No.: 56,072 Device(s): Athena, Qtek 8500 |
Strange! Glad it's working now though.
-------------------- He who asks a question looks foolish for 5 minutes. He who doesn't ask a question remains foolish forever.
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