Rebooting With Non Stock Themes - Please Read!
3rd Party Themes - Carrier Logo - Uncaught Exceptions - Missing Icons
How to get past those errors:
1. Let the phone boot and wait for the Carrier Logo screen and/or Errors.
2. After the Carrier Logo is "stuck", hold the Red End/Power button and let the phone turn off. If you are not stuck on the Carrier screen and just have errors or missing icons, proceed to step 4.
3. Turn the phone back on and you should be able to get past the Carrier Logo.
4. Change to a stock theme.
5. Do a battery pull. The phone should boot this time.
6. Read messages.
7. Activate your favorite theme.
As long as you don't reboot with unread messages and a non stock theme, you will not have the problem.
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In hope to still figure out a solution to the 3rd party themes problems i have been doing everything i can in order to HAVE the problem. I could never get my BB to have the problem so many other were talking about. Until now.
I'm running OS .168.
I find that I personally get the carrier logo stuck when i have a 3rd party theme loaded AND I have a unread item. So far i have verified that I personally get errors when:
1- I have unread EMAILS. (SMS, MMS and BBM messages did not cause the problem)
2- I UPGRADE the active theme. (I do not have a problem when installing new themes nor upgrading non-active themes) (not always does this cause a problem either)
So far these are the ONLY times i get any problems with 3rd party themes. I had hope to find more situations where the problems arise, but have not. Other things i have tried is Task Reminders, running programs, and rebooting while in Mass storage Mode.
On a side note, i have found that even when i get the carrier logo stuck, by holding the RED power/end button, letting the phone shut off, turning it back on, i can at least get past the carrier logo without using BB DM to delete the theme. There are still errors, you will still need to reboot, but you won't have to uninstall and reinstall your favorite theme. You will just need to switch to a stock theme (i don't have to use stock themes, just can't have unread messages) before rebooting.
Anyone else wanna chime in about what was going on with their BB before they rebooted and had a Error? for me to get the errors only when i have a unread message seams like it could be avoidable.