Applications are locked after a hard reset and restore

[Guest la8pv]

Hi all,

Fore some reason my 2125 phone has started hanging at the "Cingular Hello" screen. It does responds to the power-off button, but won't go past the greeting screen, even if I wait hours...

That's not the biggest problem, though, since I'm able to do a hard reset and execute SpriteBackup.exe to restore from one of the archives on my storage card.

The really strange thing is that once I've done the restore, some of the applications I was previously able to run without problems, now prompt the "Access is denied...cannot start...digitally signed...etc" message - as if the phone is now application-locked again..!

I've tried following the steps found on http://www.modaco.com/Cingular-2125-t235408.html and other places, but my Facade, its homescreen plugin, BatPlug, SKTools, etc refuse to come up. For the life of me, I can't remember what I did over a year and a half ago to unlock the apps on my phone....

I'm at my wit's end... Do I need to reinstall SpriteBackup on to the reset'ed device before I restore the archive or is there a different way to unlock my phone so the apps will run?

Thanks!!!

-e