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.
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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 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?
I want to hard reset my device as it keeps freezing, i have a backup made with spb from when i installed tt5 and got it configured. i need to know if i do the hard reset and then run the back uo from my sdcard will it bring back tomtom or will i need to install it again from scratch ?, sorry if this is a dumb question but i had real probs getting my bt gps working first time around
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.
I am about to do a Hard Reset, Factory reset on my HTC HD2, that I currently run Android with the SD card. I asked once before, but I just want to be sure after the factory reset, I should be able to boot up into Android using the SD card again.
Is there any reason why I should have any issues?
Thanks in advance.......
Chaz
The sd card files arent touched during a factory reset. what are you doing a factory reset of?
+1 What's the reason for the Hard Reset ????
Cheers.....LinChina
i wanted to change to another gmail user so Yes i did a reset BUT when it booted it was still the same using miui SD
so the hard reset will only work for NAND Roms?
thanks for all the replies.
The reason for the Hard Reset is that my GPS isn't working like it used to and other apps are also not working right, and before I did the Android with the SD card, I would hard reset, and every thing was fine after that, so I want to be sure the Android part doesn't get screwed up.
I do plan to take the SD card out before the Hard Reset....
Thanks again....!
Chaz