Thanks for all the tips - just phoned T-Mobile and they're sending a new body out to me next day delivery (which is actually tuesday with the bank holidays)

Fantastic Service on Month 15 of an 18 month contract.

Having had really poor service from o2 recently it's a really refreshing change to get such good service from t-mobile

That's interesting - will they mind it having WM6 on it - it's not the official T-mob WM6 it was one of the xda devlopers ones - Ultimate or something like that

I think so, I'll try and get hold of a T6 Torx Driver to take it apart and see if I can get anywhere, could just do with it back on to receive calls!

Oh well!

No nothing looks bent, the phone looks in mint condition bar a couple of little paint bits that have worn away on the sides.

I just got a little bit further by blowing inbetween the screen and the keyboard with the keyboard slid out. I can now touch the top cm of the screen and get a reaction - so I have got past the tap the screen to continue but I can't get past the align screen as it needs the first tap to be near the middle, it does however keep lighting up the screen when I tap the top cm after it's switched the screen off - so it's a bit better!

Forgot to mention it already had WM6 on it - which I put on a few months ago.

Any ideas for getting past the tap the screen bit? I Can't see how any ROM or hard reset will get past that!

My Vario II seems to be dieing straight after it is 12 months old so out of warranty and it's on an 18 month contract so I could do with sorting it!


It started a couple of weeks back, I picked up my phone and noticed the time was wrong, when resetting the time I also noticed the date was wrong - the time/date had gone back to factory settings.

I didn't think anything of it, and continued to use the phone, a day or so later people were complaining that they couldn't get hold of me on my mobile, I tried phoning out which worked fine, I also tried ringing my phone which worked fine - so put it down to bad signal. I then noticed over the next few days that at random times my phone would not dial out, even though it had good signal, it started to try then just beeped a few times and ended the call, I also got more people say they couldn't ring.

A couple of days later the touch screen stopped working - I could see everything on the screen but touching it did nothing, so I carried on using just the buttons, since this happened I've had no more call issues, it would always ring out and everyone could ring me.

So I've used it like that for a week or so, but then a new problem appeared the phone won't charge whilst switched on, it just goes straight to 100% charged on just seems to run on the mains, but as soon as I unplugged it, it would die, I found out by switching it off it would charge properly, so I could still use it by switching it off at night to charge it. I've used it like that for a few days.

Getting fed up of it I decided to do a hard reset to see if that would fix it, stupidly though once reset the phone says tap the screen to continue, and the touch screen still doesn't work!

It does seem to be charging though!!


So first of all is there any way round the tap the screen to continue bit, and I guess the align the screen program will start afterwards!?

And secondly what can I do to fix it?

It works on mine with secure ticked

It doesn't sound too good. Water normally takes a while to affect the boards. On older phones I have had, it has taken up to 3 months or so for the water damage to take effect, but when you dismantle the phone it will be very obvious that it has had water damage.

It could of course be a coincidence and it could just be a dirty circuit board. If that is the case they take the keypad off and clean the board behind with something very similar to a rubber and put it back together

Just to put a positive note in - I upgraded mine and the number didn't change - I have done many soft resets and the number is still in fine!

Yes it will fix TomTom4, or you could upgrade to TomTom 5

I don't know - he was only getting annoyed because you were showing that you are obviously using an illegal copy downloaded from the web. If you went out and bought the software in the first place you wouldn't have this problem.

If for whatever reason you *HAD* to use an illegal version, then when you came across that problem you could have searched on here and found many posts on the same subject and you could have found the answer there.

It appears as well as using illegal software you are also very lazy and can't be bothered to read.

Just my opinion

Can you get it to work with your TomTom GPS Unit?? I couldn't get mine to work with the genuine one - so I purchased TT5 - much better software anyway!

Bout time the released it, I checked that exact page yesterday morning and it wasn't there then!!

This link should take you closer but still not be a direct link

From what I can tell - No not really

It has cured A problem I had with multipress as did others. It lets you press the soft keys at the same time as the directional pad, so you can run and jump in mario etc.

Some people claim that this used to work on the previous ROM, but my testing shows it to not work on the previous ROM.

The new leaked rom does NOT let you press a number and the directional pad at the same time

How do you use it as a torch? Other than just the screen lighting up?


Mine is used as car mp3 player, satnav, calendar/diary, telephone, mobile internet, dvd player, gameboy, and has a few other games such as Virtual Pool to keep me busy!

by receivers he means gps receivers. If you go out and buy TomTom 5 it will work with the new ROM. It's only a worry for those who have an old copy of TomTom or an illegal copy.

The official answer is "No not yet"

There is however rumours of a leaked version floating around

Just tested it - that strange word isn't in the dictionary on mine so you must have added it. But as suggested just enter sound over and over again in a text, delete the text then you will find sound is top of the list next time

That's not true, I have two c500's which I got at the same time (one for me and one for my wife)

The only thing I have tested this with is GNUBoy - but it is installed on both phones, my phone has the new ROM her phone has the original ROM it came with (last one - not early one with GAPI problem) On my phone I can run and jump with the soft key - on her phone she cannot - the soft key does not work with the directional joystick

But you are right that it doesn't let you press a number and a direction at the same time. It's just either of the softkeys

It never turns mine off - I like the little blue led flashing so I leave mine set to on all the time and it stays on

you could try messing up your GPRS settings so it can't connect???

Failing that phone Orange and ask them to bar GPRS on your handset. Or do you need to use it sometimes??

I have a c500 which I had new in Feb. With the old ROM things like mario etc were unplayable due to the fact that I couldn't use two buttons at once. Since using the 4.2.1.1 ROM it has worked perfectly. The Multipress issue is definatley fixed on my phone!

I have just got my phone out and loaded up Wario Land 3 on GNUboy and it works perfectly.

Have you tried GNUBoy?

Maybe you have a different version of the leaked ROM??



oh, before anyone asks for the ROM please don't! I cannot give you any instructions as to where it can be found


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if it makes any difference I am using the soft key 1 to jump and the joystick to move

That's a bit of a pain and very unlucky but water is annoying with phones!

Water damage could have just affected the one circuit board so far explaining why the phone functions to some degree. Another thing with water is that it may have happened a couple of months ago and taken this long to degrade the circuit board. The one board may have gone now but others may also go in months to come. HTC will inspect for any other boards which have had water on them and replace them as neccessary.

Not much I can advise really - unlucky

I think I've sorted it now. I had to use Winamp to remove the Newer tags from the MP3s. In Winamp it shows old ones on the left and a newer format of idtags on the right. Once the newer ones have been removed they work perfectly. Simple but annoying!!!

Now the annoying thing is that the album art is only displayed for a few seconds before the screen returns to the home screen, then the keypad auto locks. Is there any way to stop it returning to the homescreen - but only when Media Player is running - keeping the backlight on would be nice too. I don't want to make global changes as I like the auto keygaurd etc. I just want it to work like TomTom does!