I took delivery of my XDA 2 yesterday
One quick question - is there a reset pin for doing a soft reset in the stylus like the XDA 1? I tried unscrewing it but it seemed as if it wasn't meant to be unscrewed or very tight.
Thanks
the hole for the reset is big enough for the tips of the stylus, the bit you use on the screen, so there's no need to take it apart!, i didnt even know it unscrewed !!
Thanks - didn't think of that!
Just getting used to the differences between 1 and 2. It is one of the things I have come to accept that when you need it most - ie to make an important call, the XDA 1 will let me down and requires a soft reset! So I was just a bit concerned in case the XDA 2 was the same and I had no means to reset it.
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OK, I've not read a word of the manual, so maybe I'm doing something wrong. When I soft reset (stylus in the hole) the screen fade away and then it won't for the love of god restart. The first time I did this, I went a little pale. however, if I take out the battery for around five minutes and then plug it back in, it starts up again. Is this wrong?
Also, never quite been able to hard reset the damned thing. I press and hold the two "__" buttons whilst performing the reset, but the same thing happens and I'm never prompted for screen calibration or anything else I'd expect from a hard reset. SOMEBODY HOLD ME
Can someone please talk me through the EXACT and DETAILED procedure and result both a soft reset and hard reset?
For me, on my MDA Pro:
Soft reset: Insert tip of stylus into "reset" hole briefly. Screen fades away to blank and the machine then acts dead. No buttons will bring it back to life. Take the battery out and plug it back in, still dead. Come back after 30 minutes, still dead. It needs the battery removing for at least 5 minutes, maybe more like 10, then reinserting and it springs back to life.
Hard reset: Hold down the two "__" keys (above the 4 and 9 keys) whilst inserting the stylus tip into the reset hole briefly. Exactly the same thing happens as a soft reset - no hard reset is performed.
I'm pretty sure this is all wrong and my device is "special"
Not Right!!!
Xiasma: This is very wrong indeed. I've got access to the jasjar and Pro and neither one displays what you mentioned on yours. The procedure you described for both types of resets is correct. Try one more time holding down the 2 soft keys '_' for half a second then whilst holding them down push the stylus in the soft reset hole in at the back of the device (if in laptop mode).
If you still don't get a hard reset, I'm quite certain you have a faulty unit.
Let us know how you get on :?
Thanks, your reply is very much appreciated. Well, looks like it's a faulty unit, then. It doesn't really affect my day-to-day use, so I'm tempted to keep it until there's an official rom upgrade, RAM hike or something :wink:
have you tried turning the power off (using the...er...power button!) before poking at the reset button...see if that makes any difference?
Any joy with your MDA Pro hard or soft resetting?
xiasma: Have you had any luck with your MDA Pro either soft or hard resetting? I'm interested in knowing for personal reasons also, as I have had to exchange 2 units with t-mobile already, due to what I believe is a very buggy ROM, but I could be wrong and it could be something else. :?
does anyone know how to remove the password and a UK ORANGE SPV M5000? I bought one off ebay but upon getting it it had a code on it and the seller is being a Bas***d and done a runner.
If you just bought it, you won't need to worry about losing personal data I would imagine.
The best way to dump the PW is to perform a hard reset.
Hold down the two buttons with a "-" on them, then poke the little reset hole at the back.
This will clear all personal data from the machine and restore it to the manufacturer's settings.
if it's the windows password than you can simply hard reset and it will go away.
cheers for the reply. how do i do a hard reset?
PReDiToR said:
to perform a hard reset.
Hold down the two buttons with a "-" on them, then poke the little reset hole at the back.
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thanks alot guys worked a treat
Please help !! I've just performed a hard-reset on the Magician (the S100, by pressing the "on" and "reset" buttons together) and it now boots up to the point where it asks the user to align the screen, I mean it lets me click on the 4 corners of the screen (on the little cross) and keeps on accepting my clicks (I must have clicked already over 20-30 times around the 4 corners of the screen and it doesn't proceed to the next step ... what should I do ?? ... should I leave it without the main battery for a couple of hours or something ?? is there any other way to (completely) hard-reset the unit ?? (i.e. I've read in the past in some posts something about a "bootloader" sequence ??
Hello there,
You seem having some troubles on digitizer.
Try to clean it under the cover using a thick piece of paper like a business card.
Sometimes, if someting is between the cover and the digitizer; this will not work very well.
Pass it all over the four sides removing dust, hairs and so on..
Then try again.
Let me know
cheers
There's no other way to hard-reset 'more completely' ... you are already doing the complete hard reset.
It's obviously very weird. I would agree, to clean the screen completely and see if that does the trick. Also, use the original stylus with the pointy head and not a pen cover or something ... make sure you're accurate when aligning the screen.
You can enter the bootloader but it won't help you ... you can re-flash the ROM from the bootloaded but it doesn't seem like it's a ROM problem. It sounds like it's the screen HW problem.
Having looked all over for a couple of days
I came across a picture with instructions for
hard resetting a wizard, which is resetting the phone
thus the phone lock as well.
Dead easy really
1. Press the Comm Manager button (top left)
together with the Voice Activation button (top right)
for 2 seconds.
2. Keep holding the 2 buttons above and press the soft reset
(middle right little hole) with the stylus for another 2 seconds.
3. When the black screen appears it'll ask you to click Send
That's it All done !!
The wizard's going to reboot and reset himself.
Hope this is going to help some of you.
This is called 'Hard Reset' and perhaps its known to almost every wizard owner,its supposed to be known though !!!
Anyways ! thanz for the info!
ATENTION PLEASE... Thanks.
Nice Thread...
but...
what is a hard reset?
what is a soft reset?
what is a cold reset?
what is a simple reset?
what does it do for us?
What da heck!?
Let me recomend this as sticky....
NOP even tough... as a new topic forum...
I was trying to drill the back door to make a small opening to the soft reset button. I succeeded, but sadly i drilled a little dipper so I crushed the reset button. However, The phone still works and every thing is good. The real problem is that i can't use the reset button anymore because when I push it, it keeps the phone restarting until I use a needle to pull the button up. Do you have an idea how to fix this? any good repair shop in USA? what parts do I need? what's the estimate repair cost? Thanks
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I'm sorry, but I'm not aware of anyway to fix this apart from sending it back to HTC or to a repair shop (don't know any in USA). However, you realise that there is software for resetting the device like XDAShutdown etc
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I'm sorry, but I'm not aware of anyway to fix this apart from sending it back to HTC or to a repair shop (don't know any in USA). However, you realise that there is software for resetting the device like XDAShutdown etc
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Thank you fr the reply.
I already have the soft reset application but you know sometimes the phone hangs up and never respond until the you push the reset button or remove the battery. I contacted HTC U.S and they say it would cost from 110-315 USD. That's too much for a button. Just if i could find the part, i think i can fix it myself. If any one has any idea to find a replacement for the red reset button, please let me know.
Thanks
Aseer essamt said:
I was trying to drill the back door to make a small opening to the soft reset button. I succeeded, but sadly i drilled a little dipper so I crushed the reset button. However, The phone still works and every thing is good. The real problem is that i can't use the reset button anymore because when I push it, it keeps the phone restarting until I use a needle to pull the button up. Do you have an idea how to fix this? any good repair shop in USA? what parts do I need? what's the estimate repair cost? Thanks
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I would just leave it how it is and pop the battery out and back in to reset it.
How often does your phone hang anyways? I have had mine for a year and used that button once.
Aseer essamt said:
Thank you fr the reply.
I already have the soft reset application but you know sometimes the phone hangs up and never respond until the you push the reset button or remove the battery. I contacted HTC U.S and they say it would cost from 110-315 USD. That's too much for a button. Just if i could find the part, i think i can fix it myself. If any one has any idea to find a replacement for the red reset button, please let me know.
Thanks
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without adding insult to injury, the wise thing would of been to mark where the reset button was on the back cover, then take the cover off before drilling through it lol
mancsoulja said:
without adding insult to injury, the wise thing would of been to mark where the reset button was on the back cover, then take the cover off before drilling through it lol
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Oh, hindsight is a wonderful thing!!! But no point dwelling on what could have been
Thank your lucky stars you stopped at the reset button and didn't go all the way through your phone. What were you thinking?
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Oh, hindsight is a wonderful thing!!! But no point dwelling on what could have been
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Spartan you gotta admit tho in terms of design, the volume keys being connected to the case and the reset button being hidden behind the case, the HD is on of the worst designed HTC devices ive had, sometimes ive spent 5 mins trying to get into bootloader or hard reset using my finger nails to try n hold the volume keys down while trying to push the reset button with the stylus in my mouth lmao
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Spartan you gotta admit tho in terms of design, the volume keys being connected to the case and the reset button being hidden behind the case, the HD is on of the worst designed HTC devices ive had, sometimes ive spent 5 mins trying to get into bootloader or hard reset using my finger nails to try n hold the volume keys down while trying to push the reset button with the stylus in my mouth lmao
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100% agree with you.....funny thing is HTC mustn't actually use their own devices for everyday use or they would have known this as well and changed their design on the HD2 which is unfortunately designed exactly the same as the HD
The HTC guys probably don't put a new rom on their devices every 2 minutes ^^
mancsoulja said:
without adding insult to injury, the wise thing would of been to mark where the reset button was on the back cover, then take the cover off before drilling through it lol
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You'r right. I was using a manual little drill. I marked a gel case and start drilling the case. I thought would stop once I mark the back cover, but it was too thin that I didn't notice that I have gone through the back cover until the device restarted. Maybe, had not the device restarted I would not have stopped until I reached the other way>>>>>>>>>>> LOOOL
Thank you all guys for the replies.
It appears that you expanded the rubber button when you drilled into it. I would use small tweezers and pull it up a little and see if you can grab any small bits of rubber on the sides that might get caught in the hole when you push it down. It should be an easy fix. GL and Hindsight is a bit*h