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Touch screen not working

Help! My htc touch P3050 froze while booting and now the touch screen isn't responding. Buttons seem to work but somehow it became locked. Is there anyway to unlock it using hardware buttons alone? I haven't tried a hard reset because I need to get the contact data off first. It won't connect with active sync or my mobiler. It connects as a network but active sync can't connect to it. Any ideas how i can unlock or extract the contacts?

kwiknik said:
Help! My htc touch P3050 froze while booting and now the touch screen isn't responding. Buttons seem to work but somehow it became locked. Is there anyway to unlock it using hardware buttons alone? I haven't tried a hard reset because I need to get the contact data off first. It won't connect with active sync or my mobiler. It connects as a network but active sync can't connect to it. Any ideas how i can unlock or extract the contacts?
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Wow Mobiler wont work either? do you connect to activesync regularly? I remember my phone wouldnt sync to activesync when i flashed over to windows mo 6.1
I had to turn off advanced networking in the connections tab. So i dunno how you would even do this without a program such as mobiler.
The only other option..though it may or may not work is if you go to sprint or verizon and you ask them to do a phone to phone transfer of contacts, but im not even sure how they would do this.
Sorry man i hope other people can respond to your issue.

Yeah I think the reason why active sync won't connect is because it is locked. When I'm in the Get Connected dialogue in Active sync it lists USB as connected but at the same time it says your device was not found. I was wondering If it might be possible to back the rom up from the bootloader to say the microsd card and extract the pim.vol file from there. But I have no idea how to do this.

This recently happened to my Vouge. Basically part of the touchscreen errored and it thought it was always being pushed in this one little area, so it wouldnt recognize any other push. Every now and then you could do something, but it would always pull to that one area.
It was a hardware failure and I had sprint fix it. I wasnt even on insurance. I just argued that it was under year warranty, and there should be no reason to pay because HTC would do it for free. At the time HTC's number wasnt working, so they didnt really have a big choice.

I just accepted that the data was gone and did a hard reset. This fixed the problem with the screen. Thanks for the help guys. Now to set up active sync immediately.

If you dont already use PIMbackup I would definatly give it a try so you dont lose your contacts and msg's next time

Broken touch screen cant enter security code to backup

hi, Please help me i dropped my hd2 and broke the touch screen is there anyway i can backup my phone as i had security code enabled and it wont let me enter it?? insurance company have agreed to fix it just need to post it to them but would like a back up first,
Thanks in advance
Ben Ralph

I don't know if this will work, but try MyMobiler (http://www.mymobiler.com/) and see if you can get it running without unlocking your phone.
It needs to install something on your device, and I can't remember if it requires any user interaction, and I don't know if it will do it whilst the phone is locked.
It basically gives you control over your mobile from your PC, so you can use the mouse to enter the PIN.
Hope this helps!
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You'll need ActiveSync (or later windows equivalent) running on your PC.

when i insert usb i cant select active sync its on disk drive

I thought sometimes if you leave the phone once the usb cable is plugged in, it automatically goes to active sync?
(also what insturance plan are you on, just out of interest)

no on mine i think it selects disk drive
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benralph said:
when i insert usb i cant select active sync its on disk drive
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Ahh - don't know what you could do then. You'd need it on ActiveSync to control it from anything other than the screen! I guess you're gonna lose whatever's on there
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I thought sometimes if you leave the phone once the usb cable is plugged in, it automatically goes to active sync?
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Nah - it defaults to whatever you last used, which was obviously USB drive in this case.

thanks for your help guys just wanted to check before i sent it off hopefully most of its backed up on microsoft my phone

going to post at 550pm unless someone can help back up

john is right, the default is ActiveSync the FIRST time you connect, but after that it defaults to the last option used, but if last was USB Drive and you remove the SD Card it will default to ActiveSync again, this is a first step but I'm afraid you still won't be able to install Mobiler (a fantastic app I discovered 1 hour ago by the way!) as it has to install on the phone and you won't be able to click OK to install at the prompt. But you may be able to Backup files on your PC using activesync, so it worth a try!

Another bit of advice that won't help you immediately, but for future reference, I would highly recommend getting Microsoft MyPhone installed. I've got it backing up contacts, emails, text, photos etc. every night whilst I sleep. It really does help when starting from scratch, after flashing ROMs or hard resets.

right removed sim card,
removed mem card,
soft reset
phone said to many incorect pin entered enter a1b2c3 or emergency number
inserted usb
conected to active sync
easywan remote support let me use my phone!!
Well Happpy
Thanks guys

benralph said:
right removed sim card,
removed mem card,
soft reset
phone said to many incorect pin entered enter a1b2c3 or emergency number
inserted usb
conected to active sync
easywan remote support let me use my phone!!
Well Happpy
Thanks guys
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Nice one mate.
Good to know there's a way round that problem. I'm sure you won't be the last

[Q] noobish questions

Hello, I am considering buying a Htc hd2 from ebay. Will i simply be able to pop in my t-mobile SIM card? I also do not have a data plan and was counting on using the wifi. I also want to install android 2.2 with sense or maybe a cyanogen mod. I am very unfamiliar with android and was hoping for a recommendation. In order to install custom Rom's i understand that it requires accessing the SD card on the phone. Can i simply do this by plugging in my phone with the SD card inside? or do i need a separate cable? Also I used to be into jailbreaking my ipod touch, and I was fearless about it because you could always restore the device if you messed up the jailbreak. Is there an equivalent for the HD2?
Sorry i have so many questions, and thanks in advance for anyone who chooses to answer.

Yeah
Buy a Nokia 5110 man, you will be more happy!!!

+1 for Nokia 5110

Lol no thanks... can anyone answer some of my questions?

ranko09 said:
Hello, I am considering buying a Htc hd2 from ebay. Will i simply be able to pop in my t-mobile SIM card? I also do not have a data plan and was counting on using the wifi. I also want to install android 2.2 with sense or maybe a cyanogen mod. I am very unfamiliar with android and was hoping for a recommendation. In order to install custom Rom's i understand that it requires accessing the SD card on the phone. Can i simply do this by plugging in my phone with the SD card inside? or do i need a separate cable? Also I used to be into jailbreaking my ipod touch, and I was fearless about it because you could always restore the device if you messed up the jailbreak. Is there an equivalent for the HD2?
Sorry i have so many questions, and thanks in advance for anyone who chooses to answer.
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first off buy one from craigslist, there about 200 bucks. much cheaper then ebay. Ive bought 8 of them in the past month, never spending over 230. No more Iphones in my family!
I am not sure how tmobile does things, but on att you do not.
Custom Windows Mobile roms Do not require the SD Card, but are required to run android successfully. There are other steps involved in the, its the first sticky in this forum.
Running Android does require an SDcard and cable. Your phone should come with both, if it doesn't, they are ripping you off and look else where.
You can keep the card in the your phone while you do the transfer, there is no reason to take it out.
there are many recovery options available if you break your phone, which is nearly impossible to do.
For android i use darkstones hd2proyo and cm6_leo. both are amazing. I lean towards darkstone, because its faster and has better compatibility with games, however cm6 has many many more features.

ranko09 said:
In order to install custom Rom's i understand that it requires accessing the SD card on the phone. Can i simply do this by plugging in my phone with the SD card inside? or do i need a separate cable?
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You can either take the memory card out of the phone and connect to your PC directly, or just plug the micro USB cable in to your PC, active sync will allow you to access the "Storage Card" on your phone within My Computer.
Android is simple to install - just read a few of the chefs posts - just download and unzip, copy to memory card.
I think you will enjoy.

Thanks for all the help! also is there any downside to dual booting? For example, will texts i receive on android show up on wm and vise versa?

If you receive a text while in WinMo it will not be in your message list when you start Android.

what about the other way around?

Which ever os you happen to be using at the time any notification ie missed call, call log , txt etc will stay on that particular os.

Access Root Files From Computer

My galaxy S4 recently suffered from a pressure crack in the LCD. I was wondering if there is a way to access root files in my phone from my PC or MAC. I have a replacement phone coming in the mail tomorrow and would like to rescue my data.

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My galaxy S4 recently suffered from a pressure crack in the LCD. I was wondering if there is a way to access root files in my phone from my PC or MAC. I have a replacement phone coming in the mail tomorrow and would like to rescue my data.
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If you have the proper drivers loaded, when you plug it into your PC/MAC, you should be able to drag off the files from the phone. Same thing happened to me, and I was able to rescue files from the internal SD.

paintlax21 said:
My galaxy S4 recently suffered from a pressure crack in the LCD. I was wondering if there is a way to access root files in my phone from my PC or MAC. I have a replacement phone coming in the mail tomorrow and would like to rescue my data.
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I also would like to know how to access the ROOT files as well.

dwarfer66 said:
I also would like to know how to access the ROOT files as well.
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I just used Samsung's program "Kies" and I was able to back everything up I needed.

[Q] Any way to recover contacts on Lumia 520 via USB?

Context: My mum smashed her phone screen and has bought a replacement. She's trying to recover her contacts to move across to her new device. I looked in her live account but it seems all her contacts aren't synced up. What I need to do is use the old somehow and make it sync up the contacts so they can then be retrieved on the new one. Yet obviously as the touch screen is unresponsive there seems no way of doing this? Is there some sort of utility that can let you control the screen via a USB connection? I had a quick scan around but only seem to find results for Android. The other problem is she is 80 miles away so I'm having to do this over the internet and phone using teamviewer. I'm not physically there so I can't have a look at the phone myself.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Cheers

I had a case like this once. The closest i could get was a remote desktop with the phone's basic storage access from windows explorer, no further. I ended up replacing the screen with one from a donor L520.
Shortest way should take you about 3 days:
-Get a broken L520 off Ebay
-Have your mother send you the phones
-Replace the screen
-Transfer the contacts to the new phone
-Return the new phone
and lastly: Keep the L520 for research