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How to *really* hard reset Universal to factory condition

With all this talk about WM5 devices not really resetting everything after a hard reset, and my device being dead and not recovering after a hard reset makes me think, there must be an alternate way to really hard reset a device back to factory condition.
I tried a lot of combinations of presses to no end. The only thing I am suspicious about but did not play with is a red/white round sticker (which looks like it is hiding a button) under the battery (upper left corner).
Anyone know what that is, or is there a way to do a harder reset? Taking the battery out for a few days did not help either.

Because flash memory actually needs erasing rather than just resetting I doubt it is possible to clear it with a simple button press. It may be you can do a normal hard reset and hold down a button to bypass loading data from the flash then format it. But I've no idea really.
Jamie

Re-flash the ROM?

uuummm some where in this forum i read that if you have wm2005 and go to boot loader mode you get an option over there to clear the cache or memory something like that, and that would give you a clean installation.....
haven't tried it though.....and i doubt i would get such an option in wm2003se, also i have a similar problem i did a complete flash reinstallation of rom to my device and after the installation i opened windows media player (wasnt the first thing i opened, but didnt copy any files)and guess what....i had a song available over there..... which i could actually play and it did....i checked the location of the file and it was somewhere in my device or documents dont quite remember i did a hard reset again and same issue....
after that i have'nt tried anything the rom is same i just deleted the folder manually but i would also like to know how to TOTALLLLLLY ERASE ALL DATA from the device and clean install everything
regards

on the XDA II and WM5 you hold down the buttons to resent stage then i gives you three options. One of these I am sure clears the phone

I hard reset my Universal several times (well I think I did at least)
Press the soft reset plus the two "-" buttons and you will have a white screen asking if you want to put back your HTC back factory default

Unfortunately that standard hard reset, doesn't do it. I am still stuck at reboot, and the radio rom version shows the attempted upgrade version (01) that started the problem in the first place.

i tried some of them according to herein, but some of them were not function.
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Universal_Technical

there's a little icon called "clear storage" which brings your settings to the factory's default. what's wrong with it?

i'm stuck too in bootloader with my mda pro

atekant said:
Unfortunately that standard hard reset, doesn't do it. I am still stuck at reboot, and the radio rom version shows the attempted upgrade version (01) that started the problem in the first place.
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This may be too late, but there's no way to do any sort of a reset to revert back to a previous ROM... the only thing you can do is reflash the earlier ROM.
Brett

ok ... now the final BIG request ... who can give us an update that works. the patched Maupgradeut_noid is not working with the latest upgrade.
thanks.

To revert back to clean copy of OS (i.e newly installed OS)
Hi,
Just to share with you my experience in reverting my phone to its original OS condition. Before that, just to give you guys some background.
1. Upgraded from PPC2003 to WM5
2. Tried install some patch to enable file transfer (OBEX) in BT
3. Suddenly, the phone screen gone missing. Phone shows No Signal. Cannot receive call.
3a. Did a OS reflash again, but still does not solve the problem.
4. **Panic for a moment **
5. Looked thro Program Files, and seems like some appln i installed were not erased despite doing a hard reset. So, i guess the hard reset doesnt erase some portion of the memory
6. Googled for a solution, but most said do hard reset
7. Went back xda-developers.com site to look for solution
8. Finally found a method. see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1164331 to do a format on the memory
Now, my phone is working fine. The phone screen is back and it shows my telco name, and can receive call
Hope this helps.
Rgds,
Choon

you're in the wrong forum mate

I think I bricked my MDA :(

Maybe this is what I get for tinkering too much...
Backed up my T-Mobile US MDA with SPB Backup.
Updated to the shipping k-jam ROM. Worked fine.
Restored the SPB Backup, but it hung up at like 99% percent. Cancelled it, soft reset, and now it won't get past the Windows Mobile logo splash screen.
Clearly, I should not have tried to restore the backup. Is there anything I can do to get the phone back? I'm not able to connect to ActiveSync, or I'd just run the ROM updater again.

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Maybe this is what I get for tinkering too much...
Backed up my T-Mobile US MDA with SPB Backup.
Updated to the shipping k-jam ROM. Worked fine.
Restored the SPB Backup, but it hung up at like 99% percent. Cancelled it, soft reset, and now it won't get past the Windows Mobile logo splash screen.
Clearly, I should not have tried to restore the backup. Is there anything I can do to get the phone back? I'm not able to connect to ActiveSync, or I'd just run the ROM updater again.
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Hard reset. Hold the Voice and COMM keys, turn it on.
When it asks if you want to reset, hit the proper key.
If that doesn't work then the ROM has gotten corrupted. IF you can get into the loader (hold CAMERA and turn on, get a tri-color screen) you can recover off an SD card image.

The hard reset seemed to do it... thank you!
Now to figure out why Windows won't see it when connected by USB (says it can't find drivers, though it worked before the ROM update).

XDA II doesn't start

Hi,
Suddenly my XDA II was getting hanged and then I tried restting it, but it doesn't go beyond first Splash screen (O2)... I had c_shekhar 3.2 AKU ROM on this. After this problem, I upgraded my phone to AKU 3.5(c_shekhar) and it worked for soem time...but then again it had the same problem.
Now, its not getting started at all... as it just hangs at O2 splash screen. (btw I can still put this in bootloader mode)
Any help would be really appreciated.
Thanks.

guess you could try to format the storage from inside the bootloader

Rudegar said:
guess you could try to format the storage from inside the bootloader
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Also be sure that the backup program you use is NOT restoring System Files/Databases or Install Programs. Infact it is better that you do not restore Personal Databases either.
In bootloader mode, use the camera and record buttons to disable KITL and enable format storage and clear registry, then try again.

hangs very often
Hi,
After disabling KITL and enable format storage and clear registry, it is up again but it hangs very often..and It doesn't accept soft reset at that point...and I have to do hard reset...
Any ideas please ...???

tried using WM2003 SE
I have tried using WM2003 SE (O2 UK ROM) as well but PPC hangs after some time and have to perform hard reset...
Anyone has a clue on this ?

Do NOT use MrTrueVGA, it just brick my AMEO

I seldom activate MrTrueVGA. But tonight I did that for reading one PDF.
It leads me to hard reset the device right after a soft reset.
But the nightmare is ---
after hard reset, I press ACTION key to restore factory default as suggested. It takes few seconds to finish the default restore. Then I was asked to press POWER KEY to boot.
the device doesn't boot at all. just go back to the previous screen: 'Press ACTION to restore factory default or press Camera Key to exit'
If I press Camera Key, it just simply refresh the screen.
Seems the AMEO has entered an endless loop...

I have to try resetting the device in different way...
Now I mange to get the a dark screen as well as the ACTION key with Green light on.
any idea what mode is it (green light)?
Seems the OS couldn't startup after restoring factory setting. I guess I have to put the origin ROM back to the device instead of the updated WM6.
Continues tomorrow...

I've used it on my Athena with WM6 without a problem. Maybe something else is going on.

Is that an official release of WM6 for your device? I have no problem with MvRTrueVGA what so ever....
Have you tried flashing your device again?

I got my Ameo into a very similar loop. I took the battery out for a few minutes, then when re-inserted, I was able to "see" the Ameo from Sync Centre and re-flash the ROM...

Monocube SafeMode2 saved my butt various time with truevga..

the WM6 is download from here (t mobile version). I am looking for a way to flash back origin version.
BTW, other softwares I run after starup: USB mousr driver, WM5storage.

Sounds like the OS got killed. reflash the device

Thanks Olipro, I am a bit regret that if I had run your hard-SPL, probably i wouldn't experienced this problem.
The symptom do like OS got kill for some reason. I am wondering anyone had tried to hard reset after flashing WM6 ROM?
more update will come...

update:
reflashing ROM image solves the problem.
but i still believe MrTrueVGA caused the problem. Somehow it causes the conflict and blow up the OS.

I use MvRTrueVGA on WM5 and WM6 on my Ameo without problems.
(only smaller graphical bugs)
even changing the resolution never took me more than one soft reset

forget to mention, i use another software "scree orientation" at the same time.
maybe these two chaps don't work well together.

Renamed pim.vol now phone stuck on boot screen

I wanted to remove all the contact from my HTC, so following some postings on the net, I renamed my pim.vol file to pim_old.vol and turned my phone off, then back on. Apparently it should then create a new pim.vol file.
However, my HTC has been stuck ont he Windows Mobile boot screen for at least 10 minutes now.
Is the phone screwed, or would you expect it to take a long time to reboot?
Thanks.

Also, it made a 'pleep' noise when it brought up the Windows Mobile screen. I don't know if that is significant?

Hi there
Did you try soft reset, hard reset, take the battery out ? If yes can you get into bootloader and be ready to flash another rom ?

Hi,
yes I have tried all of those things.
Even after a hard reset it does the same, gets to the Windows Mobile boot screen and stays there. I don't think it gets far enough into the boot to connect it to a PC, Activesync said there was something missing and couldn't connect.

Hi
This is strange as you just renamed a windows file which should be corrected by a hard reset
Hard reset again and be patient (give it some time )
if not corrected Try flashing a rom from SD card

I left it for an hour after the hard reset, and still nothing. I had to take the battery out in the end to turn the phone off.
I have no idea how to flash from a ROM on an SD card?

I think you'll find the answer here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=406721
Good luck

If you hear the beep sound, you should be able to plug in your USB cable and activesync will know that your HTC is inserted.

I have tried that but ActiveSync says there are components missing and then won't connect to the phone.

Reinstalled Activesync?