My aging phone, a Mogul running Windows Mobile 6.1, has been giving me a lot of grief lately. I can handle the occasional lock-up (yeah, Windows has trained me well! #conditionedResponse) but it got to the point that I was missing text messages and locking up just as calls were coming in. Very annoying and counter productive for a communications gadget.
Initially I thought it might be related to the new battery. See, I had recently picked up an extended life (as in thicker) battery for under $10 shipped from Amazon. I reasoned that perhaps the battery wasn’t delivering the right amount of power. I swapped back to the original “factory” battery and … nothing changed.
I ended up doing a hard reset. Lost all my apps and data and it hasn’t locked up in a week now. I guess I had installed something, at some point, that wasn’t resting easily.
Side note: Hard resetting this thing is interesting. Hold down both action buttons while pressing in the reset button with a stylus for 5 or 10 seconds. Real easy to do if you have more than 2.5 hands.
I didn’t really lose any data since I sync mail, calendar and contacts to our corporate Google Apps account. I did lose some installed apps, but I have all the original .cab files so I’ll start very carefully and cautiously reloading just the ones I miss the most and see how it goes (I’ve already reinstalled Skyfire. The Evernote and eWallet clients are next.).
Amazing how fast WinMo runs after you get rid of 2 years of cruft! Worth a shot if you have a Windows Mobile phone that likes to lock up.
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January 18th, 2010 
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