| Having purchased a bluetooth GPS receiver for | | | | this problem but could find nothing so I took it |
| my O2 XDA 2i (see my review here), I was a | | | | upon myself to fix it.Firstly I tried to find a way |
| little disappointed that the Tomtom software that | | | | that I could disable the phone software part of |
| I had also purchased would crash every 5 or 10 | | | | the PDA while allowing the rest of the PDA |
| minutes. This is infuriating because it's not | | | | software to function as normal, this would |
| something that you can fix on the move with 1 | | | | obviously mean that the phone functionality was |
| hand. I would have to stop the car, remove the | | | | inoperable throughtout my journey but it's a small |
| PDA from it's holder, perform a soft reset which | | | | price to pay for not getting lost. Now I know |
| takes a couple of minutes, reconnect to the | | | | what you're thinking "just enable flight mode" and |
| bluetooth GPS receiver, start the Tomtom | | | | while this would disable the phone software part, |
| software, put the phone back in it's holder, then | | | | it also disables the use of the bluetooth stack |
| carry on with my journey. Now imagine doing this | | | | which renders the bluetooth GPS receiver useless. |
| 3 or 4 times throughout your journey!Having | | | | One option is to remove the SIM card from the |
| searched for a fix on the internet I came up with | | | | phone, while this would work it means taking the |
| a range of suggestions from XDA Developers. | | | | back off the phone and removing the battery |
| Some suggestions involved upgrading the | | | | which causes a soft reset and unnecessary |
| memory card to one with a faster read/write | | | | hassle. There is another way!Here's what I |
| transfer rate, which I did but still no joy. I still had | | | | did:Firstly go to start, settings, phone,Under |
| the infuriating crashing problem!I then had a | | | | security tick 'Require PIN when phone is |
| brainwave after receiving an SMS message on | | | | used',Input a memorable PIN for the phone part |
| the move. When I received the message the | | | | of your PDA,Navigate back to the main |
| phone crashed in it's usual way, still infuriating you | | | | screen.How to disable just the phone part of the |
| might think, but it gave me that Eureka moment. | | | | PDA:From the main screen tap the antenna and |
| I realised that whenever the phone part of my | | | | signal icon at the top of the screenEnable flight |
| PDA was attempting to do something it caused | | | | mode.Tap the same icon again and turn off flight |
| the Tomtom software to crash. This would then | | | | mode.A screen will appear asking you for your |
| explain why the XDA would crash every 5 or 10 | | | | PIN, at this point click 'cancel'.Your PDA is now |
| minutes.As you may or may not know, each | | | | fully functioning apart from the phone part |
| mobile phone network is divided up into 'cells'. Each | | | | because you have denied access to the SIM |
| 'cell' is a region of the country that is covered by | | | | card.How to re-enable the phone part of the |
| a mobile phone antenna. If you are travelling in a | | | | PDA:From the main screen tap the antenna and |
| car or train there will come a point where you are | | | | signal icon at the top of the screenEnable flight |
| moving between one cell and another. When this | | | | mode.Tap the same icon again and turn off flight |
| happens your phone (or PDA) will perform a | | | | mode.A screen will appear asking you for your |
| handshake procedure to let the antenna know | | | | PIN, at this point enter the PIN that you chose |
| that you're entering a part of the country | | | | previously.The phone part is now functioning |
| covered by that particular antenna. Now obviously | | | | normally again.It would be nice to have a proper |
| this handshake procedure takes just enough | | | | fix to this problem so that I could receive phone |
| resources so that it causes the PDA to crash. I | | | | calls and text messages on the move but I can |
| then searched more on the internet for a fix to | | | | live with this for now. |