Guest extravagant Posted May 3, 2005 Report Posted May 3, 2005 Guys, a few months back I had a SMT 5600 and it completely broke down on me, I installed some App from armadillo and then my start menu was whipped out.. I then tried to restart the phone and the ROM was gone or something since it wouldn’t start up.. I then shipped it back to Audiovox in the United States (I'm from Canada,) this cost me a lot of $.. anyways the could not fix it so they replaced the handset. I'm not to sure why it crashed.. can someone please try and explain, generally speaking... is it because there where to many programs on the phone or do u think it was because of that app I downloaded.. please remember that it broke a few seconds after I installed the app... I since deleted it.. If my phone breaks again there is no way I can afford to ship it to America again and pay another 20 pounds (50 Canadian) to unlock it.. Audiovox did not send me an unlocked phone.. so do u guys have any recommendations, not to install a lot of programs etc.. anything would be great.. thx guys any does and dont does.. etc
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted May 3, 2005 Report Posted May 3, 2005 Simple solution is don't install applications from questionable sources. Only download from legitimate sites and you should be fine.
Guest extravagant Posted May 3, 2005 Report Posted May 3, 2005 Simple solution is don't install applications from questionable sources. Only download from legitimate sites and you should be fine. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> will excessive programs on the phone cause problems, like them to interefere etc? :S
Guest markgamber Posted May 3, 2005 Report Posted May 3, 2005 (edited) Guys, a few months back I had a SMT 5600 and it completely broke down on me, I installed some App from armadillo and then my start menu was whipped out.. I then tried to restart the phone and the ROM was gone or something since it wouldn’t start up.. I then shipped it back to Audiovox in the United States (I'm from Canada,) this cost me a lot of $.. anyways the could not fix it so they replaced the handset. I'm not to sure why it crashed.. can someone please try and explain, generally speaking... is it because there where to many programs on the phone or do u think it was because of that app I downloaded.. please remember that it broke a few seconds after I installed the app... I since deleted it.. If my phone breaks again there is no way I can afford to ship it to America again and pay another 20 pounds (50 Canadian) to unlock it.. Audiovox did not send me an unlocked phone.. so do u guys have any recommendations, not to install a lot of programs etc.. anything would be great.. thx guys any does and dont does.. etc <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Personally, I can't imagine something like that being more than coincidence. Read-Only memory is called Read-Only memory for a reason and "some app"...hell, the OS itself...shouldn't be able to trash it to the point where a hard reset wouldn't recover it. My guess would be that something in the phone was marginal to start with and it was either bad timing (it's gotta fail some time) or the additional memory use or something fried it. A case in point: Years ago, RAM wasn't anywhere near as solid as it is today and you could get a PC with a couple meg of ram in it and it would work great with DOS. Then one day you would put windows on the machine and it would crash constantly and do all kinds of bizarre things. Was it windows? Well yes, but it only triggered the problem. It was actually the ram. A block of it would be bad but the address of the bad block was higher than the 640 kb used by DOS. Therefore, the computer worked fine with DOS and would fry with windows. But still, you could still use DOS after windows would crash, it didn't trash hardware or the bios rom. I do agree that you shouldn't just go installing any old crap you happen to find on a phone...or anything else. That's just asking for problems and you have no one to kick but yourself. Be it coincidence or not, if you put software obtained from armadillo or something on the phone, you deserve to pay for whatever damage it causes, but I just can't believe these phones are so fragile as to allow themselves to be completely ruined by an application of any type obtained anywhere. Edited May 3, 2005 by markgamber
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted May 3, 2005 Report Posted May 3, 2005 As noted above we have a word sensor to block p2p networks being advertised\promoted here. This has been in place since the early days as ppl were advertising which p2p network they were using to obtain ilegal software.
Guest Confucious Posted May 3, 2005 Report Posted May 3, 2005 Two things - 1) What was the s/ware and where did you get it from? If it wasn't obtained legally then you are asking for trouble. 2) Did you try a hard reset? That usually sorts out most problems.
Guest markgamber Posted May 3, 2005 Report Posted May 3, 2005 As noted above we have a word sensor to block p2p networks being advertised\promoted here. This has been in place since the early days as ppl were advertising which p2p network they were using to obtain ilegal software. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> LOL....well, since my message was altered so that this doesn't make any sense, I'll see ya. If I wanted paranoia this rampant, I'd hang out with coke heads. Don't think much of your users, do you?
Guest extravagant Posted May 3, 2005 Report Posted May 3, 2005 LOL....well, since my message was altered so that this doesn't make any sense, I'll see ya. If I wanted paranoia this rampant, I'd hang out with coke heads. Don't think much of your users, do you? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> LOL, lets not get personal here lol, a friend of mine gave me the software, I think from P2P... the app was xbar or something.. the thing is, even though I scanned it, it showed no virus (I'm using NOD32 antivirus)... also yes I tried a hardreset, nothing would work. Even audiovox coudln't fx it so they sent me a replacement.. the screen would simply get stuck and stay there forever until u removed the battery... NOTHING WORKED..
Guest Confucious Posted May 3, 2005 Report Posted May 3, 2005 Well that's what happens when you get s/ware from P2P - still suprised a hard reset wouldn't fix it tho'
Guest extravagant Posted May 4, 2005 Report Posted May 4, 2005 Well that's what happens when you get s/ware from P2P - still suprised a hard reset wouldn't fix it tho' <{POST_SNAPBACK}> same here, but have some sympathy man.. I'm poor and the bank is after me and I was basicaly taking donations..
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