Oh no, prefs gone on my E2!

[janger]

Last night I was cleaning up my 1 week old E2 with ZLauncher and moving heaps of stuff to the card. I've been running ZL for a few days without any noticeable problems. Then I went to run a game to see if it was worth keeping, and all I got was a white screen. After doing a warm reset, heaps of app prefs and stuff have gone, including registration info for a few. The E2 has been through many resets without a problem, until now.

I'm going to do a hard reset anyway now that I have an idea what to keep on the E2, so it's sort of good this has occured now. But I'm wondering if this is a problem with Zlauncher? I saw another thread where some guy's T5 kept losing prefs under ZL. I doubt that is the problem, but if not how often does this type of thing occur?

Also, does Backupman back up everything on the E2? I mean, will contacts and all other data be restored reliably?

[Nuron]

My name is nuron. and sorry that I don't have an answer to your question, but a question instead.

I am think of buying a TEl2 but heard lot of rumors that it is very slow due to the nvfs memory.
I need to know how much time does it take to open datebk5 or agendus, with a database of about one month old or something like that...
Cause the main and important feature for me is the datebook.
people saying, that it shows a white screen for sever seconds before it starts.
thinking of buying an old but second hand new zire 71..not that I want to that much. But palm with good battery, and not that expensive that will run datebk5 and agendus awith sppedy performance, as I heard for now that palm use NVFS there are not many devices that work flawleslly.

Thanks in advance. ;)

Nuron
Israel

[stevec]

BBVFS will backup both saved and unsaved preferences, which would allow you to restore them. My T5 lost the files when it crashed a few weeks back; prefs restored all my registrations, etc, though it's still left me with a T5 that's slower than it was before. In the end I tried a cold reset and restore - a slight improvement but there's something that got corrupted in the crash, that I can't resolve.

[frigo]

Yesterday I had the exact same situation as Janger. Just a plain warm reset, and, boom, all the prefs are gone. So I also did a hard reset to install all the stuff anew. It failed for the first time, then, Palm Desktop did a restore, so I repeated the HR. I noticed at some point that the brightness control screen looks as it should (which it never did before). Namely it had THREE fields with sound profiles, "Custom," "Silent," and "All Off" alongside with the corresponding icons. Now it's gone again, it must have disappeared with installation of some software, so I am back where I used to be, but that's just a minor problem.
I wonder how it ever came to be and what caused it to disappear? Or Do any of you T5 users have the same observation regarding the mess with the sound profiles.
I run Tungsten T5, os 5.4.8 (update installed); to check the profiles tap clock and verify the number of sound profiles at the bottom.

[DBH]

With the warm-reset, you will lose your prefs until you perform a soft-reset immediately following the warm-reset. At least this is what I experienced on my T|2.

[frigo]

OK, then I guess I've mixed up the names. As far as I know:
A Soft reset is done with just a pin.
A Warm reset is done with a pin and UP button depressed.
A Hard Reset is done with a pin and the Power button depressed.
There is also a super-duper hard-tough reset I've read about somewhere, with almost three people necessary to perform ;)
Please, clarify these matters if you can.

[janger]

Oops, I meant to say 'soft reset' as well. I think in my case the problem was caused by a system extension. In fact the day my prefs went to heaven was the day I had installed Uninstall Manager. Not saying that's what caused the problems. But after doing a hard reset and being careful what I installed, she seems pretty stable and a bit faster opening apps. ZLauncher is working great too.