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soft/hard resets

whats a soft or hard reset, there is a hole at the button of my xda ii that resets it but keeps all my programs, i assume thats basically a restart button, so thats a soft restart? a hard restart is when u take out ur battery for like 10 mins and lose everything right?

That's a soft reset. To hard reset , press the on/off button while pushing ths stylus in the hole at at the bottom on the XDA. It clears everything from RAM, and it reloads the operating system from flash memory. Just like when you first bought it and turned it on.
Removing the battery will do it eventually, once the backup battery runs down.

jljones said:
That's a soft reset. To hard reset , press the on/off button while pushing ths stylus in the hole at at the bottom on the XDA. It clears everything from RAM, and it reloads the operating system from flash memory. Just like when you first bought it and turned it on.
Removing the battery will do it eventually, once the backup battery runs down.
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why does my xda when i remove my batt even for a minute, it always performs hard resets? any suggestions to avoid hard resetting when i change sim cards?
thanks.

How do i hard reset? (search is useless)

Long story, but I want to hard reset my wizard.
I've looked in the search, and its really useless (mainly because every time someone says 'I've done a hard reset' with out saying how they did it, i get a hit)
So how do i do it?

Google is your friend.
# Press and hold both the Comm Mannager Button and the Voice Command Button
# While keeping those two buttons pressed, press the Reset Button with your stylus, release the reset button, but keep the other two buttons pressed.
# After about a second you will be prompted for confirmation. Press the Talk Button to confirm

The Talk button, send button which your phone will ask, is the your call pickup button. Took me a while to figure that one out.
.......But I'm still looking for a way to completely reset my phone, meaning old reg settings etc.

To completely wipe you phone to factory click Start>Settings, then click the System tab, then click "Clear Storage" It will prompt you follow the instructions, I would recommend removing the SD Card if you have one in the phone.. Just incase it wants to wipe that also.
I had to do this last week :/

EvilTwin said:
Long story, but I want to hard reset my wizard.
I've looked in the search, and its really useless (mainly because every time someone says 'I've done a hard reset' with out saying how they did it, i get a hit)
So how do i do it?
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Tip for all newbies using search - use AND then the results will come up. I entered hard AND reset and the answer was on the second page of results.
Eviltwin - why not update rom whilst your at it - you have an old rom.
And its 'gentle' not gental lol :wink:

mightymegit, this also doesn't clear your phone completely. Or it does and my phone is son clever, it always knows where I live, after I install again f.i TT5.

How do i do a hard reset when i cant even get passed the toda screen?

ok here is the problem, i downloaded batterystatus and loaded a few option it asked for a soft restart so i let it be, soon as it get to the today screen it freezes, my activesyne wont connect to my phone it just stays frozen, is there another way to do a hard reset? or clear this issue please i really need help.

what the guy below me said!

jr4000watts said:
ok here is the problem, i downloaded batterystatus and loaded a few option it asked for a soft restart so i let it be, soon as it get to the today screen it freezes, my activesyne wont connect to my phone it just stays frozen, is there another way to do a hard reset? or clear this issue please i really need help.
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If you have the phone completely off, (battery removed). If your holding bothe soft keys when you press the power button it will ask you to press y/n to do hard reset

jr4000watts said:
ok here is the problem, i downloaded batterystatus and loaded a few option it asked for a soft restart so i let it be, soon as it get to the today screen it freezes, my activesyne wont connect to my phone it just stays frozen, is there another way to do a hard reset? or clear this issue please i really need help.
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Press the two soft keys and with the stylus at the same time press the reset button. Good luck
Regards

need help please!

I recently installed some cabs without backing up my tilt. Now, i just wanna go back to the original, like when i got it. I went into settings>system>clear storage. i put in the 1234 like it says and hit yes, and nothing happens. I dont know what to do. Please help!

You should Hard Reset it. This way you will eliminate any data or programs you installed after you started using it. By Erasing storage you will not clean the registry etc.

This is how you Hard Reset your Tilt:
Hard Reset **NB** This cannot be performed while the device is connected/charging!**
Press and hold both soft keys
Using a stylus, press and hold the soft reset button at the bottom of the phone
Keep all three buttons pressed until the keypad lights turn off and then flash
Release the soft reset button while still pressing the soft keys
Let go of the two soft keys once the message "This operation will delete all your personal data, to manufacturer default" appears on screen
Finally, press the green call button to perform the hard reset, or press other key to cancel
BEWARE: You will lose all te data on the device - including your PIM data (messages, contacts...), only SD card will be left intact - so backup everything you might need after you reset it to factory state.

thank you guys very much. I am new to this. This is my first pda style phone and i love it. Im just a newb with it. LOL.

phone won't hard reset!

Hi,
I have tried and tried to do a hard reset but the phone only soft resets.
i press and hold both soft keys under the screen (the "-" key above the Q and the "-" key above the P) and then i poke the reset button on the side of the phone. It will only soft reset. I've tried this when the phone was turned on and turned off.
I've even tried pressing the left soft key first and then the right, I've reversed the order . . .
Nothing I try will let me do a hard reset!
Any ideas?

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No doubt you're doing it, but you have to push both soft keys at the same time as when you push in the stylus. Push both keys extremely hard with your right hand, and enter the stylus with the other.
Otherwise you could just try flashing one of DCD's rom's. That ought to get it to the hard reset status you want anyway right?

hey scotcha12345,
I tried pushing both keys at the same time too (then poked the reset). But it still won't hard reset.
I would like to do a hard reset because I'm sending this phone back to vzw.
I just want to clear the memory of any personal stuff.
I did the Settings>System>Clear Storage thing but I want to be REALLY sure that everything is gone and a hard reset seems like my best bet. (But, of course, the phone won't hard reset.)
Since it does not look like I'll be able to hard reset can anyone confirm that the Clear Storage thing does what a hard reset would do at least in terms of clearing anything personal and getting rid of programs that vzw might not like? (It has the stock ROM so I'm good there.) From what I can tell, I should be ok with Clear Storage but I would still rather do the hard reset.

and just to be clear, I've tried pushing all three (both soft keys and reset button with stylus) at the same time, too.

hard reset
2 other suggestions:
1st:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Titan
Scroll down to: Downgrading -- Official Carrier ROMs & associated radios with flashing guides
You could reflash with that. It's the original ROM and radio, so there should be no problem, thus avoiding any warranty deal breaking. (fairly quick and easy)
2nd
I'm pretty sure in the past I've seen a program that has a button that you can just push that does a Hard Reset...looking for it.
I've never done the Clear Storage, so I'm no help there.

Have you tried using the soft keys on the face of the phone? The ones above the windows and ok buttons. I've only used these and never the ones on the keyboard.
Ivan

try doing it by pressing the two softkeys obave the send and end buttons and then prees the reset button with the stylus BUT KEEP PRESSING THE TWO SOFT KEYS, DON'T RELEASE THEM UNTIL YOU SEE THE HARD RESET SCREEN...

btonetbone & nelsongruebr
Thanks, that did the trick.
(Sorry for the long response time. I was in a coma for the last 6 months.)

to answer your earlier question about the "clear storage" method... yeah, that does the same hard reset as when you press the two softkeys (on face of phone) + reset button.
The "clear storage" is the only method for the xv6900 users to hardreset since they don't have softkeys.
Ive hardreset both ways on my xv6800 with the same result.