I have searched the forum for several hours, but I could not find a solution to the issue I am having. When I do a hard reset, hit send to begin the format, I get an error saying FORMAT Failed, so it boots back up as if it was just a soft reset. I really need a hard reset, but I am not sure how to make this happen. I have reloaded the ROM several times, but it still does not take and comes up just like a soft reset. I went into bootloader and flashed it that way, but still no go. If anyone could help me find a way to rectify this issue, I would GREATLY appreciate it.
Here are the steps I take
Hold the comm mgr button and the record button at the same time, while hitting reset button, then I get the screen that says
Press Send to restore
factory default,
Other keys to quit
I then hit the Send button, then it says
FORMAT FAT partition
then really fats, it flashes "Format is failed"
I have no idea what to do next, as I can not get my factory default settings back.
Please help. I would appreciate it GREATLY.
try using a different ROM or a more recent rom. if you can sucessfully upgrade the ROM then it should be able to hard reset.
I have downgraded and updated to different roms, but I still have the same problem. Appreciate the advice. thanks
Interesting post.
I got my mini s on Thursday and after initionaly starting the device, i done a soft reset before the o2 crap was installed (to avoid the o2 extended rom loading), but was then curious as to how my xda mini s would perform with the o2 crap installed, but i cannot hard reset my device. I have followed all the hard reset instructions but it doesnt even give me the option of pressing the send button, all that happens is a soft reset.
It would be handy to know how to overcome this problem for future reference, in case i need to hard reset.
BTW i am happy with device without the o2 crap installed.
did you try going into settings and clearing storage?
i never heard of hard resetting not working before myself
Good point, so I just cleared storage, and BAM, it came up as a hard reset, so I am factory installed. Thanks for the idea, I can not believe I did not think of that. Appreciate your help. Just weird how the hard reset would not do it, thats pretty strange.
glad it worked
if anything, i thought the settings method would have less likely worked compared to the hardware method
ArgyleMoss said:
Interesting post.
I got my mini s on Thursday and after initionaly starting the device, i done a soft reset before the o2 crap was installed (to avoid the o2 extended rom loading), but was then curious as to how my xda mini s would perform with the o2 crap installed, but i cannot hard reset my device. I have followed all the hard reset instructions but it doesnt even give me the option of pressing the send button, all that happens is a soft reset.
It would be handy to know how to overcome this problem for future reference, in case i need to hard reset.
BTW i am happy with device without the o2 crap installed.
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Same here - I got mine last week, and the damned shop had obviously demo'd it to someone before they gave it to me (gave being the operative word as I got it on a free upgrade).
Was a bit narked to find loads of contacts in (obviously a SIM copy) and tried to hard-reset using the 2 buttons & reset and it only ever worked once after much pfaffing - is there a knack in the presses/time etc?
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I was experimenting on the new Rogers ROM in the Kitchen, to see why myself and everyone was having such problems. Of course I made a backup using XDATools to my SD first. (testing to see if I take off all or some of the check marks to add folders and programs if it could be stable.
But it did not work, still got the crap rom with no phone and loads of other problems. So decided to rebuild from SD, worked fine, told me to hard reset and then hard reset in a minute again. I have done this several times with out a problem.
Now after waiting I push the hard reset NOTHING, push all buttons nothing happens. Completly dead. After a while I was able to get back to the bootloader and download SD card ROM again but after hard reset its still dead. Any IDEAS!!!!
I had installed WM5 and I've made backup using spb backup. A year ago it worked properly, but when I've done it a few days ago, wanted to restore it, and when wizard made soft reset after restoring it stuck. There was only blue window where was written Windows Mobile. I found somwhere that I have to do hard reset using the three buttons. I've done it and everything started going correctly. However I decided to change my WM5 to WM6. I read a lot of threads and installed WRCX2. I installed some more programms and it worked correctly. Everything was fine. Then i decided to resotre my backup. And everything went as before, despite I used different backup (previous one). I wanted to make hard reset again HOWEVER IT DOESN'T WORK! I hold the two top buttons, then press the reset button with my stylus and it makes only SOFT RESET! WHat am I doing wrong or how to do hard reset in a different way?
tekky123 said:
I had installed WM5 and I've made backup using spb backup. A year ago it worked properly, but when I've done it a few days ago, wanted to restore it, and when wizard made soft reset after restoring it stuck. There was only blue window where was written Windows Mobile. I found somwhere that I have to do hard reset using the three buttons. I've done it and everything started going correctly. However I decided to change my WM5 to WM6. I read a lot of threads and installed WRCX2. I installed some more programms and it worked correctly. Everything was fine. Then i decided to resotre my backup. And everything went as before, despite I used different backup (previous one). I wanted to make hard reset again HOWEVER IT DOESN'T WORK! I hold the two top buttons, then press the reset button with my stylus and it makes only SOFT RESET! WHat am I doing wrong or how to do hard reset in a different way?
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Sounds like the problem is the 2 top buttons. Ensure the buttons are held down and re-try.
You were right. At last I managed to do it;] Thank you very!
Hi All,
I hopefully should be getting my X1 tomorrow! (if O2 get it back in stock anyway!)
Im new to Windows Mobile but not new to Windows in general! so I have been reading on here for quite a few weeks regarding customising my X1. I have a very silly question regarding hard resetting.
Is the original factory image of the phone stored on a seperate hidden partition of the disk that we cant see? Does hard reseting completely reset back to factory settings removing all mods etc ? Is there a way by modding the phone we can ruin this "factory" image?
Im just working out that if I install a mod I dont want... can I Always get it back with a Hard Reset?
Thanks in advance,
Craig
Yes, you go back to a fresh out of teh box handset. Everything is wiped.
You don't need to do it often if you don't play with experimental software ported from oher devices etc...
I have used WM for 4 years now and have only once done a hard reset.
my HD is stuck on the WM. I twas installing the Color Topbar with HTC logo cab and did the reset after install and now stuck. Any suggestions?
Hopefully hard reset fixes it
i had the same problem.
A rom install fixed it,but i lost alot
Shouldn't try untested things...
i have a similar problem phone stops at smart mobility screen and then reset again and again,hard reset didn't work 4me..
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hard reset didn't work 4me..
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Then you could have some serious trouble.
Did you really hard reset your device? Often people are confused about Hard-Reset and Soft-Reset, and what actually the difference is. Which keys did you press?
If a hard reset does not help, there is something wrong on a lower level, maybe the bootloader or spl. You could try to get HardSPL on your device (and then flash another rom), or you should make use of your warranty.
i know i have serious trouble.make a hard reset restore manu/ture settings but still the same i will use warranty,phone is 5 days old..
Oh no same problem here but hard reset has resolved the issue pheww. Shouldn't use untested software.
Which iconbar are you having problems with?
Usually it gets stuck on the Windows Mobile screen if one of the modified files hasn't been re-signed after being modified. I've accidently done this myself a while ago when modifying one for myself and testing it and needed a hard reset. That's why I install any I alter on mine first to test it and also take a screenshot of it installed and working.
Also, if you're installing coloured icon bars you usually have to have sdkcert.cab installed.
Im mulling over doing a factory reset to see if that will cure my GPS issues before I send the phone back for replacement.
http://www.knowyourcell.com/samsung...6/how_to_hard_reset_the_samsung_galaxy_s.html
There's the old power up, volume down, home key, select between fastbook, recovery, clear storage and simlock.
Then there's the code, *2767*3855# whih some say as well as obliterating everything, also reinstalls the firmware.
What I don't want to do, is brick the device, and I don't want to kill the firmware on there - because I just don't have any official firmware from Samsung, and I don't care about the stuff from samsung-firmwares, that's not "officially released" afaics.
So, what's the difference between fastbook, recovery, clear storage and simlock? does *2767*3855# really reflash the firmware?
Which option would you recommend?
Cheers
Simon
I used the code the other day... Everything reset. Haven't a clue if that means it firmware was reinstalled, and it felt a bit fast for that (though the boot time was in the minutes).
I didn't have any issues with the reset... and also reset to see if some of my problems including the GPS issue went away.
No avail on any of my problems... GPS is still being a pain and battery life is still lower than expected.
Having said that, looks like new firmwares are starting to pop up... so these issues could be resolved quite soon!
crabby
That code will wipe the whole phone included built in storage to factory.
I used it once to wipe my phone, had no problem but make sure you back up any data as it does full wipe.