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Howdy all, my pocket pc apparently died over the weekend, when I got it hooked up to a charger this morning, it went through the entire "new user" screen where it asks me to calibrate my stylus and what not. I thought no big deal, I'll just restore my backup. I used iPaq's backup utility, which I had run a backup of the entire system every night to a file on my CF card.
When I went to restore the backup, it seemed to take fine. Until I reset the machine, the machine goes through the standard reset process, then when it finished, the Start button and top menu bar appears, but nothing else, the hp iPaq pocket pc loading screen is still there. The start button won't respond to stylus touches and if any popups appear (such as low battery warning) I can't click them off or get anywhere to do any work.
Anybody have any ideas as to why this is happening? Did I miss a step somewhere?
This sounds like what just happened to my brand new Ipaq 6955. I had a freeze and had to hard reset, but when I tried to restore, it looked like it worked, until it soft reset, and then would get to the today screen, start loading plugins and then freeze again, which makes no sense because the backups were from before the problem happened. This literally happened a few hours ago! I had to end up installing every app again from scratch and then create a new backup in case this happens again. I did get an error msg on startup just before/as it froze. "Native Exception Error in Lto Manager" (Lto Manager has to do with the built in GPS on my device) Anyway after reinstalling everything fresh, it seems to be ok. It really doesn't take too long, and its what I recommend for you...
Thanks for the info Synergy. I ended up just starting over from scratch, I've now got it configured where the ActiveSync program will perform the backup instead of the iPaq backup utility. We'll see what happens the next time my iPaq crashes (which seems to be way too often if you ask me)
I must say that since starting over fresh, my Ipaq seems to be running much faster and no hangups.
Since my Ipaq is brand new, I have been installing various trial versions of apps and then uninstalling them if I didn't like them. I believe what happened in my case was a registry entry that conflicted with the GPS driver or something. Though that still doesn't explain why the restore's went haywire... I mean I was getting erroneous alarms on the startup immediately after the restore... I wouldn't even be in the today screen yet, and my device was vibrating on the table, and having notifications go off! They weren't there when I made the backups! (still confused)
and then create a new backup in case this happens again. I did get an error msg on startup just before/as it froze. "Native Exception Error in Lto Manager" (Lto Manager has to do with the built in GPS on my device) Anyway after reinstalling everything fresh, it seems to be ok. It really doesn't take too long, and its what I recommend for you...
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