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Hard reset without power button, how?

My power button stopt working, so i am sending my device back for RMA but I don't want to sent it with al of my data on it. Is there a way I can hard reset without the power button??

Unplug and plug the battery

If that doesn't work, send me a PM.
V

That just gives my a soft reset, I need a hard reset.
I can drain both batteries but that my take too long.

Rickstur said:
My power button stopt working, so i am sending my device back for RMA but I don't want to sent it with al of my data on it. Is there a way I can hard reset without the power button??
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If you search in this forum for "hardreset.exe" you'll find a small program which makes the hardreset w/o key. I can't remember where it was.
regards
cimber

Or download a shipped-rom from the ftp & extract all files from it. Enterbl.exe should be one of them. Put that one on your magician with Act.Sunc. Execute it from within File Explorer on the magician & your device goes into bootloader (you know dark screen reading serial v1.xx). Now soft-reset & your done.
Cheers, M

Handy Menu Software can do that...! :wink:

Tweaks2k2 can hard reset your device too :wink:

Thanks to vijay555, who showed me this tool wich also can do a hard reset.
http://www.freewareppc.com/utilities/psshutxp.shtml
Thanks to all, now i can savely send my magician back.

Prevent Hard Reset?

I have been trying to search for a Extended ROM unlocker for the Magician (O2 Mini) and was thinking of an idea. Is there a way program wise to prevent the Magician from HARD reset via the normal way? That means that if they press the normal buttons, the device will never hard reset. This will enable security programs to remain in effect when device gets stolen.
So how to hard reset? Install some free hard reset program in the system.
Of course if the O2 mini goes into a loop of soft resets or start up errors, you are dead...

The only thing I know that remotely gets near this is a program in the development section.
see here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=29820&highlight=prevent+hard+reset
hope this helps minister

registry values and hard resets

can anyone tell me if the registry is reset when a hard reset is performed? for a while my phone has been running incredibly slow and no number of hard resets has fixed it

when you hard reset, it put everything back to how it was!

hmm
it doesn't seem to be doing that, i installed zagat to go on my wizard the other week as did a couple of people i know, it's made all of the devices crash constantly and no number of hard resets are fixing it

How are you "hard reseting"? If by using the stylus in the reset hole then that's a soft reset. A hard reset is performed by holding Record and Camera buttons and reseting with the stylus, then pressing the Send button when instructed to format. You can also "Clear Storage" from Settings\System. You will lose all settings and have to start all over.

i've been doing a true hard reset. i've found the issue now, the software that was causing the problem seems to install something or change the registry settings when connected to the pc even if you don't install the software itself.
i'd recommend to everyone to avoid zagat to go like the plague

Zagat OK
I've been using Zagat for six months without trouble. I have it installed on the miniSD and have about 30 cities. Zagat isn't nearly as useful as Vindigo, but Zagat operates fine. It doesn't have a program running on my PC so there is no mechanism by which the PC could be changing the registry of my MDA through activesync.

Cannot do soft reset with stylus method!!

I've searched the thread but can't seem to find anyone with a similer problem.
all of suuden I can no longer do soft reset by stylus the button seems to be working it's not stuck or loose but no soft reset, the only way I can do soft reset is by means of software i.e SPB mobile shell etc.. but this way I can't do hard reset if the soft reset doesnt work by stylus!
I'm assuming it's hardware problem because I've flashed my phone twice just to make sure it's not a ROM issue. Now before I disect my device just see if there is a contact problem where the reset button is placed inside, has anyone come across this issue?

Have not seen this reported previously could be a simple re-solder job?
Mike

My Camera and Video Camera

All of a sudden my camera stopped working. I'm using SPB mobile shell and was looking through my windows folder on my phone just to see if there was anything in there I wanted to use as a widget. I was opening some executables to see what they were and most were just standard stuff, but some didn't seem to do anything. However, now when I try to use my camera on my phone it shows the image it first sees and then freezes up and I'm forced to do a soft reset to get it working again. Also when I checked the test camera executable in windows doesn't freeze up my phone.
While google searching I came across someone saying that there is a such thing as a factory reset by typing in *#7780# that will reset the settings, but not remove any apps or data. First of all is this true and would it probably fix my problem and second of all, is there another way that I could fix this without having my settings reset. Thanks.

1. Soft reset: open the back cover, on the top of the battery, having a black button. This is the soft reset buton. Press this buton to reset.
2. Remove the program.

momhandheld said:
1. Soft reset: open the back cover, on the top of the battery, having a black button. This is the soft reset buton. Press this buton to reset.
2. Remove the program.
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Maybe it wasn't clear as to what was going on. I have done a soft reset many times because it keeps freezes up every time I try to use my camera. Doing a soft reset simply allows me to use my phone again, but if I go into the camera again it freezes up again forcing me to do a soft reset.
And remove what program? SPB mobile shell? I know that's not it because I've been using it for over a month now without any problems. The problems started when I was looking through some executables.

you probably ran the camera test / diagnostics program. There was a post about running some of the exacuteables in the windows folder somewhere around here. Not to fear though. Just hard reset.

josefcrist said:
you probably ran the camera test / diagnostics program. There was a post about running some of the exacuteables in the windows folder somewhere around here. Not to fear though. Just hard reset.
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Thanks for the info. I thought that a hard reset would probably fix it. But is there a way to fix it without loosing all my data and programs?

Not that I am aware of; dont feel bad though I did the same thing. also this is a good opportunity to flash to the newest dark rom.

I was hoping to avoid hard reseting my phone, but either way, thanks, that did fix it.

my camera always stops working
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The camera on my phone freezes from time to time. I can't find any reason for it, other than it seem to happen more often if I use the hardware camera button to launch the camera when the lock screen is on.