M500 Zapped!

[Guest p2daz]

Has anyone else suffered this problem??:

I have just got back from Las Vegas, twice while there my M500 did a hard reset,once, as i held it in my hand,apart from the fact that i lost all my contacts etc i was well miffed as to why it happened in the first place?

My conclusion was STATIC!!, as anyone who has been to vegas will testify - static is a pain in the arse there (dry conditions and miles of carpet walking)

The phone seems ok now i am home, i have read numerous posts over the years about phones hard resetting themselves - could this be one of the answers?

Is the M500 more susceptable than other phones ( i never had it using other htc phones in Vegas)

One question, is there a way of backing up contacts etc to the storage card just in case this happens again?

[Guest chucky.egg]

You can set it to save to Storage (rather than Storage Card) every time you reset the phone. It's under Settings - System - Permanent Save.

The downside of that is that it takes longer (sometimes ages) for the phone to finishing sync'ing before you can use it.

I've been looking for a PPC app that will extract all my contacts to VCF files, which would have the same effect and should be faster. I'm wondering whether I can do it with MortScript... we'll see.

[Guest Confused Stu]

Another alternative is Sprite Backup. It ain't free (unless you're into that illegal peer to peer stuff such as Shareaza) but it can make a self-restoring backup of your system. This means if you accidentally hard reset then you can click on one file and it'll restore 90% of your files and settings.

Just a thought for if you find yourself in Las Vegas a lot! :)