i600 hangs on bootup, even after hard reset

[Guest AbMagFab]

Okay, so my phone has been fine for a couple weeks. I installed the PocketMind media player (kinda nice), and the Resco SM package. All was fine. Then I popped in a 512MB SD card with a bunch of pictures, and started viewing them through the Resco picture viewer. Nice again.

However, I noticed that the memory was filling up (the Resco battery/memory status showed the first memory as 94%, and the second one at 0%, not sure why everything was going into the first memory slot).

Anyway, I turned my phone off, and when I turned it on, it just hung at the Samsung MITS screen. For hours. So I did the hard reset (6/# thing), picked "Ok", it said "Erasing", and now it still hangs on the Samsung MITS screen. I rinsed/repeated, and it's still hanging there.

Any advice??? Am I screwed?

[Guest sdbarron]

I had the same problem this morning and if it weren't for your post, I wouldn't have even known about the 6/# thing. Thanks!

Anyhow, the blue and white screen said that the system would appear to be slow after clearing. I thought it was stuck and kept retrying. Eventually, I came back to scouring these forums for another solution and, while I wasn't messing with it, my phone beeped after 5-10 minutes and then it was OK.

Hope this works for you, too!

Thanks, again!

Steve

[Guest AbMagFab]

Yup, after ~10 minutes it started up... Wow, that is slow!

It looks like the patches are still applied though (CallerID, etc.)?

[Guest paulkbiba]

I had to reapply the registry patch after I did a hard reset.

[Guest maxnix]

Caller ID patch is permanent.

[Guest AbMagFab]

Seems like the MSN IM patch is permanent too. Are you sure I need to reapply the registry patch?

[Guest mark_k]

Seems like the MSN IM patch is permanent too.  Are you sure I need to reapply the registry patch?

Yep.

It tells you that you have to do this right on the Samsung site.