😃 Hoorah ,,, a fix for that stupid 6630 rebooting problem !!
Still yet to find out why I actually got this problem, but as I can remember I was using Agile Messenger when my phone closed the program & back to the main menu (I had no other apps open), tried Agile Messenger again, closed after a few seconds, asumed that it must be as I was in a 3G network area & it's not supported in Agile ?!! it used to work fine on my 6600 :frown:
Then shortly after tried to send a text, immediately booted back to main screen, odd, tried again, booted back to main screen.
Thinking something was wrong I backed up my entire phone C:\ drive.
Rebooted & had lots of problems, phone rebooted and rebooted, finally got it back up & running in 'Offline' mode (without a SIM in the phone), but couldn't access my contacts or type in anything (a single press of the keys rebooted the phone).
Searching on the net I discovered my symptoms to be similar to the GAVNO virus:
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?ContentId=3968
and a cure using an anti-virus program:
http://mobiletech.softwarecellulari.it/shop/eng_DettaglioArticolo.asp?ID_ART=4189
not wanting to part with cash for an AV program just yet & some spare time on my hands I messed around with the files on the phone to attempt to fix the problem.
Perhaps I don't actually have this GAVNO virus on my phone, or maybe I do, but basically the fix for me was to delete ONE file on the phone:
c:\system\data\PTIT9UDB0F.DAT
immediately after this file was deleted everything worked again.
Tried rebooting to see if it came back, hoorah NO, still working, now after 4 reboots all seems well. Bluetooth working fine, contacts, text, booting up is back to normal, everything so far works perfect again. 😃
Not sure if this will be the cure for all 6630's, perhaps the GAVNO virus copies itself to different locations/filenames to confuse.
To discover the problem I ran a full backup using SpriteBackup 😎 (which obviously would also backup & include the rogue .DAT file), then I tediously removed file-by-file until the contacts list came back up. Once discovered I restored from backup & messed around again with things until I pinpointed the exact file(s) causing the problem, luckily it just appeared to be one rogue .DAT file.
I've seen many posts on this problem, unsure if it will work for anyone else
(remember to make a full backup before doing anything),
Hope this advice helps,
DB
😎