M600 keeps switching itself off

[Guest bertm]

My M600 has taken to switching itself off all the time. I've no idea what's causing it but I often go to use it and find that it is off.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Guest jimbouk]

Is it "off" or in standby?

All pocket pc phone devices switch themselves to standby after a preset time. You can set this time in power settings. It is still working as a phone, and incoming calls/texts/emails will wake it. A simple push of the power button brings the device back to life. I advise you require it to ask for a pin entry on reverting from standby, otherwise you find you make calls when it is in your pocket and receive a text (which wakes up the device and makes the touchscreen and buttons live)

If it is actually turning itself off (ie it requires a full re-start taking a couple of minutes each time you go to use it) then it is either switching itself off due to low battery or there is a more serious problem with it.

[Guest bertm]

Thanks for replying. It's fully off. I know what you mean about standby etc but it has to take a couple of mins to load up again going through the orange screen and then the windows mobile screen before it gets started.

It's not caused by a low battery as I can easily switch it on again and use it with the battery at a decent level. Unless the battery is losing charge for a second or something like that.

Any suggestions based on that info?

[Guest jimbouk]

Nope!

I would report it to Orange as a fault.

[Guest Tim]

Mine does the same, even did it once during a call.

[Guest PaulF]

Mine's just started doing this today (done it twice in 2 hours)

I've been experimeting with various software on there - so could it be some software causing the problem?

Here's what I've got on there at the moment:

(Stuff I've had on for a few days)

David Andr Batti 2.0

CAI Systems cLaunch

vjphone tools

regedit

wm5storage

ISHISOFT task manager

Jon Welch Space Trader

Elements Interactive S-Tris

SPBBackup (demo)

Microsoft Voice Commander 1.5

(Stuff I've put on this morning)

Infinite Dreams SkyForceDemoPPC v1.22e

Chris Baker PPCSuDoku

Jackson He Beats Metronome

I also tried the reg tweak tp stop the Text Message sent message - creating HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Inbox\Settings\SMSNoSentMsg with a string value of '1' - but this hasn't worked.

I guess it's likely to be one of today's apps causing the problem - if the device switches off any more times today I'll considre going back to the backup I made this morning and see if that resolves the problems.

Those of you that are also getting these problems - are you running any of these apps??

PaulF

[Guest bertm]

Nope I don't run any of those apps. In fact at the moment I'm not running any extra apps at all over and above the standard install so it's all the more frustrating :)