Originally Posted by SilverShoelaces  Sometimes, it's while I'm running a program. Sometimes, I'm not doing anything at all. Either way, my Treo has a habit of resetting on its own...and often. I doubt there is anything wrong with your phone. It is normal for databases to get corrupted once in a while, or for a program not to install properly, etc. These are what usually cause crashes. You should keep a backup program on your device and back up your device fairly regularly to your SD card. I backup mine daily. Then if you start crashing, you simply do a hard reset and restore from an earlier date, when you know everything was working well. You might also consider getting the program, Safeguard, which will often help to pinpoint what is causing the crash.
I've already had my first Treo replaced with a brand new one when I took it to Sprint, hoping they could fix my boot loops. The new one I got does the same thing! Fortunately, my last boot loop was a few months ago, and I haven't had one since, but I've still had a lot of spontaneous rebooting.
The first time around, I installed a lot of applications on my device, but this one doesn't have as many. I have the following programs on my Treo that weren't originally there:
- Facebook
- FlightStatus
- LiveJournal
- MoTwit
- TCPMP
That's IT. And I know that media players are memory-intensive, so I stashed TCPMP on my 4 GB memory card, along with all of my music and videos.
My suspicion is that the resets are due to a lack of memory on my device. I have plenty of storage space left (48M/62.8M on my device and 1.3G/3.6G on my card), but I have no idea what kind of RAM my Treo has. And is there a way to upgrade it? Doubtful that this is what is causing the problem. Particularly given that you have so few programs running in the background.
I've also noticed that some programs don't close when I exit them. For example, Blazer almost always takes me to the last page I visited, and pTunes even keeps playing when I turn off my device! Rest assured the programs are closed, they just intentionally remember where you were so that if you decide to go back, you can pick up where you left off.I suspect that that is also rather taxing on the memory. Is there a way to manually quit the programs, or do I have to do a reset in order to get rid of them?
Curse the 755p's lack of a reset button!
Edit: While it says that my OS is XP, I'm currently transitioning between computers (I'm borrowing from someone else to post), so I can't even back up with a HotSync. So the boot loop errors would hit me even harder than usual were I to have one now. >_< |