My phone's gone weird!

[Guest benjymous]

I was messing around running various .exe's in the /windows folder (I know, I must've run something I shouldn't have) when suddenly the phone decided to reboot

However it didn't do a normal reboot

It went something like this (and I get this whenever I turn it on, now)

Sunset screen

White screen (with 3 beepity noises at 5 second intervals)

eventually, after a minute or so I get an error message

CheckDeviceID.exe

Error

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Can't find 'CheckDeviceID'

(or one of its components).

Make sure the path and

filename are correct and

that all the required

libraries are available

Ok

The phone is device locked at this stage, and unlocking works as normal

Selecting OK this took me to the phone number dialing screen, but no calls can be made as it's not getting signal (or finding anything in the phonebook)

Pressing the Home key takes me to a totally white screen, with the Programs | Contacts soft key menu headings at the bottom, but pressing the buttons don't do anything

A few seconds later I get another error

home.exe

Error

-------

There is no application

associated with

"home". Run the

application first and then

open this file inside the

application

Ok

Pressing OK again takes me back to the dialing screen, although pressing home no longer takes me to the ghost home screen

Also, pressing the record button pops up an error saying that it can't find poutlook

Am I into hard reset territory, or can someone suggest a magic fix to sort out whatever I've done to my poor phone?

[Guest Richie M]

Hard reset i'm afraid m8, looks like your registry is dead :D

Dunno about CheckID.exe but home.exe is the program that provides your homescreen. Therefore it looks like the XML file association with it is missing :?

Dunno how you managed it, but dont do it again ;)

[Guest benjymous]

Yeah, I gave up in the end and did a hard reset :?

Now the fun of getting everything re-setup back the way it used to be

[Guest mvsmith07]

Just as an addition to the conversation, because you've obviously resolved the problem with a hard reset now, I believe there is a program in the Windows directory, which kindly does some kind of mass deletion of everything when executed. I seem to remember reading a thread somewhere, which mentioned this program. Unfortunately, I can't remember the thread or what search I was using to come upon the thread in the first place. I think you may well have come across this program and executed it.