how to do hardreset??
I was going to say RTFM but amazingly enough this is not mentioned in the FM...
One way is to press and hold the Camera and Comm Manager buttons simultaneously and then press the Reset button (through the small hole at the bottom of the phone.
Another way is Settings -> System -> Clear Storage.
Before you do this, keep in mind that Hard Reset will wipe all your installed applications and data. Make sure that you have a good backup before proceeding!!!!
abubasim said:
I was going to say RTFM but amazingly enough this is not mentioned in the FM...
One way is to press and hold the Camera and Comm Manager buttons simultaneously and then press the Reset button (through the small hole at the bottom of the phone.
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I tried this numerous times but instead of hard reset the soft one occured...
EDIT---> It does work indeed!!
Actually, abubasim just forgot one miner detail:
It's camera + comm manager + power, hold those 3 and soft reset. A black screen should come up saying: "press send to restore defaults". Press the green phone button to complete hard reset or any other button to cancel.
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hi, i have tryed to hard reset my xda mini s. i cant semm to doo it.
can anyone help?
RTFM?
Hold the comm manager button and the voice command button at the same time. Press soft reset button (keep holding the other two). It will ask you to press send if you want to hard reset (press the green voice key to hard reset). Easy really.
mcwarre said:
RTFM?
Hold the comm manager button and the voice command button at the same time. Press soft reset button (keep holding the other two). It will ask you to press send if you want to hard reset (press the green voice key to hard reset). Easy really.
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sorry
dos it need to be off??
Hard reset
Pressing the hardware buttons seems not to work for me too.
Other way of hard reset: Goto Start\Settings\system\erase storage.
You'll get asked to enter 1,2,3,4. Then press ok and the wizard will appear again in factory defaults.
Good luck.
Make sure it is on and not in sleep mode (i.e. you can see teh display). press and hold the two buttons mentioned. Press soft reset. Wait for a bit and the screen will go black (keep holding those 2 buttons). It will then ask if you want to reset/format. Let go of the two buttons and press teh sendkey (the green dialler one). It does work....
Actually, it doesn't work for all of us. I had to do it through system settings too.
Dr Doom said:
Actually, it doesn't work for all of us. I had to do it through system settings too.
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On a sample of both my O2 XDA Mini S's it did work; as it is listed in the user manual as well as the method to hard reset then I believed it. Ah well.
mcwarre said:
RTFM?
Hold the comm manager button and the voice command button at the same time. Press soft reset button (keep holding the other two). It will ask you to press send if you want to hard reset (press the green voice key to hard reset). Easy really.
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To completely hard reset the device, you need to hold 3 buttons at the same time (comm manager, voice command and power) and press soft reset button under the infra red port. It will COMPLETELY HARD RESET THE DEVICE, so do it only when you really need to hard reset.
Michael
Michael Lin said:
mcwarre said:
RTFM?
Hold the comm manager button and the voice command button at the same time. Press soft reset button (keep holding the other two). It will ask you to press send if you want to hard reset (press the green voice key to hard reset). Easy really.
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To completely hard reset the device, you need to hold 3 buttons at the same time (comm manager, voice command and power) and press soft reset button under the infra red port. It will COMPLETELY HARD RESET THE DEVICE, so do it only when you really need to hard reset.
Michael
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What's the difference between "Hard Reset" and "Clear Storage" (press 1234) in Settings?
yutingkuo said:
Michael Lin said:
mcwarre said:
RTFM?
Hold the comm manager button and the voice command button at the same time. Press soft reset button (keep holding the other two). It will ask you to press send if you want to hard reset (press the green voice key to hard reset). Easy really.
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To completely hard reset the device, you need to hold 3 buttons at the same time (comm manager, voice command and power) and press soft reset button under the infra red port. It will COMPLETELY HARD RESET THE DEVICE, so do it only when you really need to hard reset.
Michael
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What's the difference between "Hard Reset" and "Clear Storage" (press 1234) in Settings?
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You can HARD RESET when the phone won't boot all the way becuase of something you did..... :shock:
Can someone please advise me, I've brought the Xda Mini S today. I am trying to pefrorm a hard reset and following the instructions from the user manual but it keeps on performing a Soft Reset instead.
What do I do? Please help!
start / settings / system / clear storage enter 1234 and away you go!
Thank you very much Lord Buckingham, it's done now!
Thanks again!
So why doesn't the manual say this, and they way it says doesn't work?
I had same prob, so did a quick search on here. Great wealth of information!
some of users said they were able to do hard reset by buttons,
holding those buttons and quickly pushing soft reset, they said it realy hard to find moment to release buttons...
anyone know the button combo? TIA
hard reset procedure: hold comm manager button (the one on the left), power (on the top) and voice dial button (the one on the right) at same time, and while holding them press soft reset buttton. realise soft reset button (stil holding top 3 buttons and format screen will appear. pres green button and that's it.
wow that's a lot of buttons! will try that the next time i do a HR. thanks
My manual states comm manager button, voice comm button together then reset button
XDA-PLUS said:
My manual states comm manager button, voice comm button together then reset button
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Thats correct.
No need for the power button to hold.
have anyone gotten that to work..boy have I tried..but I never seem to find the right timing
lynxlynx said:
have anyone gotten that to work..boy have I tried..but I never seem to find the right timing
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There is no timing...
Just press and hold comm. button and the voicedial button.
Than put your stylus for one sec on the reset hole and still hold the 2 buttons mentioned above.
Than the phone will boot and you will see a screen asking you to press the (green) send button to hardreset.
Panja said:
XDA-PLUS said:
My manual states comm manager button, voice comm button together then reset button
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Thats correct.
No need for the power button to hold.
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i had the same problem with hard reset yesterday (my first hard reset ever . after a few tries i found that most proper way to hard reset device is:
1) press & hold comm button + voice dial button
2) press reset button (while holding buttons mentioned above)
3) KEEP HOLDING comm & voice dial buttons
4) after a while hard reset is done, so we can release all buttons
big thx eva_d!
arrggh!
This has been the best forum i have come accross. My phone function ends up as being a blank in the task manager and i constantly by mistake quit i while i am trying to quit something else. a proper pain...
I am tryin to hard reset the phone so i can set it up in corporate mode...i just seem to be completely unableto get it...i have been trying to hold the two buttons and press reset while still holding the two buttons....five minutes later still nothing....arrgh. Any solutions.... :shock:
This is from the manual:
To perform a hard reset
1. Press and hold the Comm Manager button and Voice Command
button on the device.
2. Keep the two buttons pressed, and at the same time, use the
stylus to lightly press and hold the RESET button.
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it is frustrating at first but it is easier with practice. in my experience i released the stylus after about 5 secs and i was prompted with a question if I wanted to format the device [hit send button to start]
Do you really need hard reset?
Did you try clear storage?
Some times it is enough to clear your phone...
If you're feeling generous, can you try hardreset using VJEschaton?
I've never tested it on WM5 hardware, I haven't had a good reason to hardreset yet.
V
VJEshscaton now works on the Wizard, although I think there are easier ways to reset our phones Eg, using them!
V
fresh123breeze said:
Do you really need hard reset?
Did you try clear storage?
Some times it is enough to clear your phone...
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Is there any difference?
Because i tried that and i think they do the same job!!!
How do i hard reset a Prophet?
I currently do not have my manual with me.
Thanks
Imp
hold camera and connection button (on the left of the device) keep pressed and then hit the soft reset button at the bottom of the device. keep the 2 side buttons pressed until a message pops up asking if you want to hard reset. press green call button to accept.
Alternative method: Go to :arrow: Setting > System > Clear Storage . I t will tell you to enter '1234' and then press 'YES'. It will hard reset you PDA.
fastest said:
hold camera and connection button (on the left of the device) keep pressed and then hit the soft reset button at the bottom of the device. keep the 2 side buttons pressed until a message pops up asking if you want to hard reset. press green call button to accept.
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Thats the correct answer, according to dioxda2 the 'clear storage' option does not do a hard reset and now that I tried, I know he is right.
Hi,
Desperately trying to hard reset an MDA Vario.
Holding comm button, voice command button and hitting reset but after 100 times its just not working.
Is there another way of doing it? Just what am I missing??!?!
Thanks in advance,
HPJ
You are doing it the correct way, after you hit the reset button you should see something like "Press send to restore factory default" you should then press "SEND" ie: the green telephone button.
You could also try "Settings/system/Clear Storage"
Cheers.
That did the job, thanks. No idea the usual way would not work, and its good to know that 'clear storage' performs a hard reset....I orginally thought it may only do a soft reset!
Cheers
Could it be that you were still holding the buttons in after you pressed reset?
You have to let them go as soon as you press the reset.
Cheers
Dave... said:
Could it be that you were still holding the buttons in after you pressed reset?
You have to let them go as soon as you press the reset.
Cheers
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as well, I struggled with this for ages as well. On my Wizard with the latest imate ROM you have to HOLD the Comm Mgr + Voice Dial (and when still held in) press & release the reset button BUT CONTINUE TO HOLD THE TWO BUTTONS until a message appears on screen saying press the green send button to Hard Reset
Dave idea "Settings/system/Clear Storage" is better..i was struggling with hard reset
Hello
Does anyone know how to do a Hard Reset on HD?
Regards
Hold both volume buttons and press and release the power button I think!
Hi, most HTC using this step
press and hold : 1 Call-key , hangup-key, and power-key
2 then then click yes need hold power
3 black screen, press power again will as for hard reset
hope that help
Oh and phone has to be off to.
page 278 in the manual
To perform a hard reset
1. With the device turned off, press and hold the VOLUME UP and VOLUME DOWN buttons, then briefly press the POWER button.
2. Continue pressing the VOLUME UP and VOLUME DOWN buttons until you see this message on the screen:
This operation will delete all your personal data, and reset all settings to the manufacturer default settings. Press VolUp to restore manufacturer defaults, or press other keys to cancel.
3. Release the VOLUME UP and VOLUME DOWN buttons.
4. Press the VOLUME UP button to perform the hard reset, or press any other button to cancel the reset.
Ladies and Gents,
Now that I have been playing with mine for the best part of 24hrs :-D I can confirm that the best way to do a hard reset is to not bother with the holding down of the volume keys and quickly hitting the on / off button - this didn't work for me ONCE!!
It is however possible if you select the CLEAR STORAGE option in the settings menu and key in 1234.
Works perfectly.
Good luck, and enjoy your HD
MobileMerlin
Hi,
I need to wipe my HD - it's going back and I'm getting a replacement (original has dead pixels).
Does the Clear Storage actually clear everything like a hard reset?
Also - does this wipe the SD card?
hard reset will not wipe your storage card. It will however wipe your device storage.
Clear storage will do exactly the same thing as a hard reset. It sends your device back to the time it came out of the box for the 1st time.
It leaves your mem card alone.
Cool - thanks for the prompt replies!
I suppose another solution would be to remove the SD card before wiping!
Hope the replacement is ok -then I can start putting my apps back!
Here a Youtube Video how it works:
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqg8XFJyHBY
Hard Reset:
Power on the Device
Remove Accu Cover
Hold Volume Up and Volume Down Buttons
press the Reset Button on the Back of teh Device for 3-5 Seconds (where the Micro-Sd Card is)
following the text on the screen
kerni said:
Here a Youtube Video how it works:
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqg8XFJyHBY
Hard Reset:
Power on the Device
Remove Accu Cover
Hold Volume Up and Volume Down Buttons
press the Reset Button on the Back of teh Device for 3-5 Seconds (where the Micro-Sd Card is)
following the text on the screen
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Thanks Mate I have just tried it and It works perfectly. Although you have to be slight quick because the actual volume button are on the cover. You know what I mean.
EDIT: You can just turn off the phone press the volup and voldown button and press the power button it will go for hard reset. No need for opening back cover.
sumitescp said:
thanks mate i have just tried it and it works perfectly. Although you have to be slight quick because the actual volume button are on the cover. You know what i mean.
Edit: You can just turn off the phone press the volup and voldown button and press the power button it will go for hard reset. No need for opening back cover.
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solution work
good
thx
Thanks!!!!very useful......
Thanks kerni
It's work.
thanks for hard reset
so, if clear storage is the same as hard reset, why do people still bother with the hard way of hard reset?
dan138zig said:
so, if clear storage is the same as hard reset, why do people still bother with the hard way of hard reset?
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Clear Storage requies Windows Mobile to be running.
Hard reset provides the same function at a hardware level - i.e. you don't need Windows running...
Please Help ?? Someone ?? I did the Volume up+volume down+power button and it displays the colors and it just stays there,it says only htc blackstone led etc... message but doesn`t go any further to the deleting thing. Anyone can help me ?? What`s wrong with it ? Thanks a lot !!
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Please Help ?? Someone ?? I did the Volume up+volume down+power button and it displays the colors and it just stays there,it says only htc blackstone led etc... message but doesn`t go any further to the deleting thing. Anyone can help me ?? What`s wrong with it ? Thanks a lot !!
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If your phone does not reboot even after a hard reset I would try flashing a different rom. Would start by restoring stock rom first then using Dummies Guide top flash custom rom