[brandnewsimmy]

I have read before that this is a somewhat common problem that the phone just kind of 'hangs' like when you push a button the screen will come on, but you will be unable to move the selection at all and no buttons work then suddenly they do. Has the cause of this been found out or talked about already? I had .37 earlier today and eventually it just stopped doing it I have no idea why I didn't change anything. I 'upgraded' to .42 and it is hanging again! I uninstalled all 3rd party apps and maximized the BB memory (about 27mb free in case you want to know) but cant figure out what to do next! Like I said .37 just suddenly stopped 'hanging' and I guess I should have left it... If anything has been pin pointed as the problem I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
Oh, and my little bit of time playing with .42 seems like it is noticeably faster that .37. Thanks again!

[brandnewsimmy]

Soo.... I kept messing with my phone and remembered reading to yank out the memory card. That seems to be causing the problem... With the card out my phone comes out of 'sleep' and starts working right away no problems. So I tossed the card back in and opened up 'media' and on the bottom of the screen it said 'scanning' and it finished scanning and all seems to be well now. Hopefully that was it...

[ricpac]

[brandnewsimmy]

So has that the memory card been linked to the phone freezing? If so is there a work around? My phone seemed to start doing it again as soon as I plugged it in last night. That could have been a crazy coincidence I don't know, but I formated the memory car and will try that today.

[justajason]

I experienced the "freezeup" a few times with .42. So I took it off. Later on this weekend ill try the cold install. I'll use JLcmdr to wipe the device, and install the OS clean. Then do the restore option for my mesages and PIM data. Then a couple of battery pulls, and install my 3rd party apps.

[John Clark]

I experience random hourglassing...5-10 seconds usually. Thats the only lagging that I'm aware of. I'll try this and see what happens.

[John Clark]

So, I took out my memory card (haven't done that in ages) and the OS does seem a bit snappier....no lags. Interesting. Thanks for the heads up!

[Spawneh]

Handy Tip thx guys

[John Clark]

With my mem card out, after about 15-20 minutes my phone locked up totally. Normally, when a single app locks up you can do alt + esc and get to the home screen and the device isn't dead. However, it was totally locked this time and required a reboot. This just because I took my memory card out?

[ricpac]

I have not had any issues at all since the upgrade, not even the reboots or the lock-ups caused by the memory card (good for me at least as I really don't want to go that way). I got no UMA here but WiFi works great (just what I need), it easily turns b&w whenever I get in range and never really disconnects at all unlike before with .180 and .184 and dot-37. I love this OS. It's just fast.

[John Clark]

I put my mem card back in....no scan.

[davids196839]

Everything seems to work fine on the 8310 and AT&T. I have been testing this update since yesterday.

[blackcivic]

Works fine on mine too. Wifi is working as it should be

[justajason]

Sounds like it might be a 3rd party software thing. Or at least the combination of different 3rd party apps. that make the device hang up. Very interesting.

[PDM]

I believe it is the SD Cards causing the "hangs"...

[wabbit]

it hangs, bbm if you're in alot of convo's going back and forth, locks up too, also uncaught exception 9? when i took it out of the holster, also, if you goto full screen streaming video i have rebooted the phone.

edit: this is on a 8310 att curve.

[John Clark]

Wirelessly posted (BB 11020)

No, wasn't like that. BBM issues like that are caused by smileys in your contacts names. Have your contacts remove smileys from their names. Removing them from your end isn't enough either.

My issue was a 3rd party, I think, looking for the card. I just don't know what.

[wabbit]

well, the phone will just lockup, hard lock, alt esc, etc, buttons, etc its a hard lock on the home screen, no 3'rd party apps etc running. it was a clean install of 4.5 and it locked up. the odd ball part is its random, it hard locked 2 hrs after installing then 3 days later.

tell me more about the smiles? i have had them before 4.5 never really bothered me and its in people name which i could care less.

[John Clark]

Wirelessly posted (BB 11020)

Smileys in bbm names will cause errors, uncaught exceptions, "layout" errors. Get your contacts to remove smileys and symbols from their names. This has been an issue since the first betas came out last year.

As for the lockup, I'd not experienced it until I took my card out. I'm sure it was an app looking for the card and not finding it. Same thing can happen with a card formated in an earlier OS.

I put my card back in, so we'll see what happens.

[wabbit]

interesting, funny part is i don't think they even know how they did it