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Phone randomly restarts when mounted

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:34:22 GMT

When mounted to my PC, my X8 shuts down and restarts frequently and randomly. After it restarts I have to re-enter my PIN number and the phone has un-mounted from the PC, so I have to start all over. Naturally this makes any sort of file transfer very unreliable and difficult. When the phone is just connected to the PC for recharging, I don't have this problem. I am running Android 2.1

Help!

Re: Phone randomly restarts when mounted

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 19:16:44 GMT

Mines doin` the same since 2.1

Re: Phone randomly restarts when mounted

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:18:11 GMT

Having received no better advice, I formated the memory card (after taking a backup copy of everything I did not want to lose) and that seems to have removed the problem.

Re: Phone randomly restarts when mounted

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 23:47:55 GMT

Thanks.I`ll give that a go.

Re: Phone randomly restarts when mounted

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:07:51 GMT

Didn`t work for me

Re: Phone randomly restarts when mounted

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:21:28 GMT

mount the handset in silent mode ..........turn on the silent mode and then connect the handset to pc

Re: Phone randomly restarts when mounted

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:16:27 GMT

Ok.I`ll try that next, thanks.

Re: Phone randomly restarts when mounted

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:58:45 GMT

So not only does it keep on randomly restarting when mounted (I connected it in silent mode this last time and it's been several minutes without restarting, which is a bonus), my phone will now randomly start playing Fields of Gold by Sting for no good reason. It won't ackowledge that it's doing it either, so I have to randomly push buttons, hoping it will stop.

What the @£££€¤%# is up with this @£€#¤$£@ing phone?

Re: Phone randomly restarts when mounted

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:45:31 GMT

Ah,mine did that this morning (not sting though,although it is a good track).It may be the SD card notification sound.I disabled it earlier.Thought my phone was ringin`.

Re: Phone randomly restarts when mounted

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:56:27 GMT

Mine's doing the same too. I'm just curious to know if I can actually save contact information before I can format my memory card. I know for sure that pictures and media files can be saved but not really sure abt the other information like contacts and text messages etc. I don't wanna lose them

Re: Phone randomly restarts when mounted

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:03:56 GMT

This worked for me

Re: Phone randomly restarts when mounted

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:10:25 GMT

Copy the contacts to your SIM card and/or Gmail?

In other news, my phone had decided that Fields of Gold should be the new text message alert (for some reason) and that was why it was playing that song. Once I figured that out, it was easy enough to make it stop. And mounting the phone in silent mode has kept it from randomly restarting (for some odd reason) this far.