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Message "force close"

joeb

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Sep 23, 2009
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I have searched but couldn't find anything so decided to start a new thread and ask.

Basically 75% of the time i try to read or write a message it says an error has occured and its needs to close then the "force close" option appears.

Also last night my phone was getting messages but when i went to read them they were not there.

Anyone got any idea's on how to sort?
 
I have searched but couldn't find anything so decided to start a new thread and ask.

Basically 75% of the time i try to read or write a message it says an error has occured and its needs to close then the "force close" option appears.

Also last night my phone was getting messages but when i went to read them they were not there.

Anyone got any idea's on how to sort?


Try this ...

PHone On .. got to Main Home Screen ..

Pull the battery and the Sim Card ... Wait 3 to 4 minutes

Re-install SIM and battery and reboot ... give it a whirl and see that sorts it out ...
 
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Well i have taken the sim card out and battery out and switched it on, but not left it for 4 mins.

If the battey was out ...How could you turn it On?

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You need to :
Try this ...

PHone On .. got to Main Home Screen ..
with the POWER still ON !! (do not use the power button)

Pull the battery and the Sim Card ... Wait 3 to 4 minutes

Re-install SIM and battery and Power the phone back on

.. give it a whirl and see that sorts it out ...
 
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If that doesn't work, I hate to say it, but it may call for the factory reset. It does fix a lot of problems, but it's a pain to configure everything again.

yeah have been tempted to do that, but now it seems like the Force to close error i get is popping up frequently, about 75% of the time i do something, might have to take it into an orange shop or something.
 
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yeah have been tempted to do that, but now it seems like the Force to close error i get is popping up frequently, about 75% of the time i do something, might have to take it into an orange shop or something.


Then next thing is to do a Factory Reset ...

If you have valuable stuff on the phone i would back it up before doing the following :

MENU | Settings | SdCard & phone storage | Factory Reset ...
 
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Then next thing is to do a Factory Reset ...

If you have valuable stuff on the phone i would back it up before doing the following :

MENU | Settings | SdCard & phone storage | Factory Reset ...

The only valuble stuff i have on there are current messages and some of them are up to 100 messages long, and my contacts, but they will be on the memory card yeah.

Also this new update my s/n is not recognised when i go to update.

Firmware 1.5
Build - 1.76
Software 1.0.0
 
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The only valuble stuff i have on there are current messages and some of them are up to 100 messages long, and my contacts, but they will be on the memory card yeah.

Also this new update my s/n is not recognised when i go to update.

No your SMS messages will need to off loaded ..
you can Use an app called aTxtract or MyBackups Pro will do both the sms and contacts ..
 
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I have a google mail account, so they will all be in there then?


Yes ... so if you Factory Reset or eventually get a new phone .. you just need to register my using the Gmail account and password you use for this phone ...

Turn Sync on and the phone and google will do the rest to sync your Web Gmail contacts down to your phone ...
 
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Yes ... so if you Factory Reset or eventually get a new phone .. you just need to register my using the Gmail account and password you use for this phone ...

Turn Sync on and the phone and google will do the rest to sync your Web Gmail contacts down to your phone ...

Installed the new update and thats helped a little bit but not as much!
 
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I've been getting the same message poo up occassionally since I did the Orange update. Thing is it doesn't appear to actually do anything. I says "force close" so I click ok and the message just goes away and I carry on with whatever I was doing before. Android is good but it would be nice to have a phone that just works, nice and simple and doesn't have bugs all over the place. I have enough of them with my Windows run PC.
 
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been happening all over my phone today!

Was even in call to orange towards the end of my break, and halfway through i got the force error thing and it closed the call down! lol

Then i wrote a nice long text to this girl ;) ;) and it forced closed it! Was not happy lol.

Going to ring and complain major style 2mora!
 
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