closed------------>
clampi said:
Hi i bricked my Sprint TouchPro last night and it wont let me into it!!! how can i hard reset and is ther a way to salvage my contacts?! some1 plz help me!!!! :'(
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You will have to provide more detail as it depends on what you did. When you say you bricked it, what were you doing and what failed?
If you hard reset it, everything will be as it was when you first got it so your contacts and any other changes you made to the phone will be lost.
hvbelton said:
You will have to provide more detail as it depends on what you did. When you say you bricked it, what were you doing and what failed?
If you hard reset it, everything will be as it was when you first got it so your contacts and any other changes you made to the phone will be lost.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i mean as in it turns on but it trys to load TF3D then freezes and wont work at all! ill upload a video when i get home from school
clampi said:
i mean as in it turns on but it trys to load TF3D then freezes and wont work at all! ill upload a video when i get home from school
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
What changes were made that may have caused the problem?
You still be able to get around using the Start Menu, at least until the phone freezes as you say.
if the phone boots but tf3d just freezes, just go to start, settings, personal, today - items tab, scroll down the list, deselect tf3d - sync phone with pc (this backsup contacts - hard reset - sync to pc to restore your contacts.
hvbelton said:
What changes were made that may have caused the problem?
You still be able to get around using the Start Menu, at least until the phone freezes as you say.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
nope no start menu! i tried to go in and delete OZ IM cuz it was extremely irratating me and i tried soft reset and it would only load to start screen
Hi clampi, what happens when you connect it to your PC? if you can still active sync you should be able to back up a lot of files and stuff if you need to hard reset, it doesn't sound like it is broken though, just messed up, you just have an unpleasant hill to climb. I have not gone through anything like this since I had an Artemis, when I learned to use SPB backup, free trial available, now whenever I do something which I think may potentially bugger up my phone, like digging holes in my registry, I use SPB backup first. Sometimes I just make a backup, hard reset and restore just for the hell of it, I think it can help smooth out/de-frag memory. Any way good luck sorting it out.
uniqueboy said:
Hi clampi, what happens when you connect it to your PC? if you can still active sync you should be able to back up a lot of files and stuff if you need to hard reset, it doesn't sound like it is broken though, just messed up, you just have an unpleasant hill to climb. I have not gone through anything like this since I had an Artemis, when I learned to use SPB backup, free trial available, now whenever I do something which I think may potentially bugger up my phone, like digging holes in my registry, I use SPB backup first. Sometimes I just make a backup, hard reset and restore just for the hell of it, I think it can help smooth out/de-frag memory. Any way good luck sorting it out.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
how do u think i could hard reset???? i cant even get the Start dropdown to open?!
clampi said:
how do u think i could hard reset???? i cant even get the Start dropdown to open?!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
RTFM...
There are instructions in your owner's manual on how to do a hard reset. For the CDMA Diamond, it is Power, Vol Down, DPad Center, and reset. Might be different for TP.
Regardless, you are far from bricked.
colonel00 said:
RTFM...
There are instructions in your owner's manual on how to do a hard reset. For the CDMA Diamond, it is Power, Vol Down, DPad Center, and reset. Might be different for TP.
Regardless, you are far from bricked.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
thank you! ill do it when i get home so i can restorre my contacts!
Do you even know what you are saying?
how are you gonna restore anything after doing a hard RESET ?
take the time to read the instructions, howtos and wikis!!!
MisterSosa said:
Do you even know what you are saying?
how are you gonna restore anything after doing a hard RESET ?
take the time to read the instructions, howtos and wikis!!!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sync outlook contacts?
MisterSosa said:
Do you even know what you are saying?
how are you gonna restore anything after doing a hard RESET ?
take the time to read the instructions, howtos and wikis!!!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
yea i kno what im sayin! i was sayin thank you for telling me how n i was gonna do it after i restored my contacts!. and i kan get my TP to acticesync but when i try to save my contacts it says Outlook has not been installed! im on windows Vista
Install Outlook and try again. I think you can download it from Microsoft's website (at least as a trial).
Instructions are on page 126 of the manual for the Touch Pro.
Here's what it says;
To perform a hard reset:
With the device turned off, press and hold the Volume Down and Enter keys first, and then press and hold the Power key until you see the following message on the screen: <Warning Message>
Release the Volume Down, Enter, and Power keys, and then press the Volume Up key to perform the hard reset, or press any other button to cancel the reset.
Related
I've just tried to unhide my extended rom with help of 2 registry keys. now my device does not boot up. It stays on white blank screen.
What can I do ? (other than hard reset ?)
Is there a way to boot up without reading registry keys ?
is there a way to edit the registry of a not booted device ?
or any way to open device without reading registry ?
Well, I'm only a newbie myself, so I don't know if this will help. I unhid my own extrom yesterday with reg tweaks. There we more than two changes to make, mind you, including the addition of a dword value that didn't exist on my 8525. You don't offer what type of device you are using, so that might limit how much help you get here, btw.
Anyway, have you tried soft resetting by using the stylus in the hole at the bottom of the device? That MIGHT do something different and let you get into the system.
There is a safe mode that some 3rd party offers ... I think SPB PocketPlus...but that won't help if it's not already installed, and I'm not sure it would help in your circumstance.
Anyway...good luck. I hope this, or someone else's advice can help you.
-pvs
pvs,
thank you. I had to hard reset. now I am trying to install everything back.
it will be hard...
Btw, I of course tried to soft reset with the stylus.
My device is I-Mate Jasjam (HTC Hermes)
mrmrmrmr said:
pvs,
thank you. I had to hard reset. now I am trying to install everything back.
it will be hard...
Btw, I of course tried to soft reset with the stylus.
My device is I-Mate Jasjam (HTC Hermes)
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
What you didn't have a comprehensive back up!! Oh dear dear dear. That's a hard lesson I learned a while back. Now I could happily hard reset right now and be fully back up and running in say 10 minutes with SPB backup. A lesson for all.
Mike
in fact I am using SK tools for backup. but my backup was too old.
This is a new device and I installed a lot of software lately.
Well, look on the bright side, you have cleared out all the 'stuff' that builds up on a system after a lot of installing and uninstalling, and you're sure to build it better this time. It's just irritating that this kind of thing usually happens when you have no time.
mrmrmrmr said:
in fact I am using SK tools for backup. but my backup was too old.
This is a new device and I installed a lot of software lately.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Mmmm yes I have that problem remembering to do the backup often enough, sods law something goes pear shaped when you haven't done one for a while
Mike
exactly ))
well its going well now...
just losing time.
I need a little help.
After a crash I hardresetted my Hermes and then used SK Tools to return to a backup point. But now when I try to activesync I get a message on my PC saying that the mobile device has already synced with another PC and it requests a new name for this PC.
I haven't synced with another PC. What shoukd I do ?
This problem started yesterday.
All of a sudden i cannot access my settings at all.
I need to to a hard reset but when i go to the start menu and click settings, nothing.
i've tried leaving the battery out but i don't know how long the back up battery lasts.
Is there any other way to do a hard reset?
this is a developers page, so dont be so lazy and read you manual how to do a hardreset !!! you dont need settings for making a hardreset. oh god !
bluemetalaxe said:
this is a developers page, so dont be so lazy and read you manual how to do a hardreset !!! you dont need settings for making a hardreset. oh god !
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm sorry i didn't know there was one.
I was only asking for help, chill out man.
first what kind of phone do you have? second...if you know the type do a search on google on that type include hard reset in the search text...there will be probably more than enough hits...
keleko said:
I'm sorry i didn't know there was one.
I was only asking for help, chill out man.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
its late..and metal's a cranky kind of guy, so ive come to realize, he can be rude as **** sometimes..but he means well! dont take it personal
JstarLuvsTina said:
its late..and metal's a cranky kind of guy, so ive come to realize, he can be rude as **** sometimes..but he means well! dont take it personal
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i'll let him off then,
Its sorted now anyway, i have the omnia
and if anyone wants to know how to hard reset then here ya go:
1. turn the phone off.
2. hold the power/call/end buttons for about 5 secs.
3. you will be asked if you want to format, this will only format the phone memory not 'my storage' or 'storage card'.
4. press the call button to format and hey presto working omnia again.
Why didn't you just soft reset............
is is so easy to say: "make hard reset"....
----
control panel registry branch may be deleted(then i cannot help you), or you just missing empty directory in /windows/start menu/ - look there, if it is missing, make it(just empty dir named "settings") there and make softreset....
if still problem persists, try to copy any shortcut(lnk) to that /windows/start menu/settings dir, make softreset and look, if that icon in menu start is there..
there may be other possibilities, but...it is late and i need to get some sleep now..
in future, try use ppcpimbackup to make..... whole PIM backup(sms, mms, mail, calls, etc), just in case you need hard reset(you cannot make full backup with i.e. spb backup, if system is damaged, it may be nonsense - ppcpimbackup will just make databases backup, so in case of reset it won't be such pain as loss of everything..)
btw, it is wrong forum section, imho...
Hi,
I got my black x1 on satyrday. started loading diferent programms to get other languages from paragon and some other , but nothng worked. then I was trying to change some registrs to unlock the extra rom. wich didnt work and after reboot it starts up with se and shows xperia and that was it.
so next day I went to shop and they without any questions give me new x1.
that was my first day with x1
strange but i think thats the problem with hacking around
strange is that hard reset didnt work
Wtf were you trying to unlock? what extra rom...
Hard reset just removes all of your settings, but you didnt screw with the settings, you screwed with the registry
the rom where are all the programms that installs after hard reset
I thouht that registrs are set to default too !?!?!?!?!
arnisv said:
the rom where are all the programms that installs after hard reset
I thouht that registrs are set to default too !?!?!?!?!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Lol! Be careful with the tweaking next time around... they might not be nice enough to replace it so easily again.
msalmank said:
Lol! Be careful with the tweaking next time around... they might not be nice enough to replace it so easily again.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I know.
I`ll do my best.
but still my fingers itch
arnisv said:
I know.
I`ll do my best.
but still my fingers itch
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
So tell me... (this going to be my first WinMo device) can we easily reset everything on the set or not - if needed? Like you re-install windows on a PC and stuff?
arnisv said:
the rom where are all the programms that installs after hard reset
I thouht that registrs are set to default too !?!?!?!?!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
lmao actually im not sure, this is gonna be my first winmo phone actually.
But i guess you just messed up the recovery sector of that locked ROM ;p
youre lucky though. thats one advantage to buying phones from a retail store, just walk in and get a replacement no questions asked lol.
I'm also a n00b on WM but I think there is no a 'thing' as unlocking extra ROM in WM
Nah windows always has a protected area where people normally arent supposed to go into. I've also seen retail computers with whole locked off partitions where all of the original programs and settings are stored, waiting for the consumer to screw up and use that restoration disk.
strange. so many people able to buy X1. y is there not alot of X1 on ebay.com?
i really wanted this phone!
All of the X1s right now are out in sweden. Maybe ebay has a separate site for sweden like they do with china/hong kong.
Plus, who in the right mind would buy and sell such a wonderful device ;p
OK
The stick in se but is soft reset. I thoth its hard reset.
whot is realy hard reset combination?
Press power and soft reset together for at least 5 sec.
Nippero said:
Wtf were you trying to unlock? what extra rom...
Hard reset just removes all of your settings, but you didnt screw with the settings, you screwed with the registry
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Registry changes do not survive a hard reset. So tweak away.
JKingDev said:
Registry changes do not survive a hard reset. So tweak away.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
yes I did a test
added a string to registry and after hard reset it was gone
wich means that phone was OK that I returned.
I thoth that push button under cover is hard reset because couple times after messing with phone it hanged and pressing soft button it resset all(like hard reset)
does anyone know how this phone is hard-reset?
Do you mean how to hard reset......? For sure you can find in the manual......
It's same with HD
Hard reset: windows flag button: settings: security: restore factory defaults
But does anyone know how to perform a SOFT reset with the HD mini???
JohnJackson said:
does anyone know how this phone is hard-reset?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
To perform a hard reset
1. With the phone turned off, press and hold the VOLUME UP and
VOLUME DOWN buttons, then press the POWER button shortly
and release it. You will then see a message on the screen warning
you that the operation will delete all your personal data and reset
all settings to manufacturer defaults.
2. Release the VOLUME UP and VOLUME DOWN buttons.
3. Press the VOLUME UP button to perform the hard reset, or press
any other button to cancel the reset.
and the MANUALS download page
http://www.htc.com/europe/userguide.aspx?p_id=314
Here is the cab for soft reset and power off. It working well with mine.
thx for power off and soft reset apps
Hei
Thanks for these apps. Soft Reset works fine, I've put it to "quick" apps.
Power off just switch my screen off and lock it.
Its ok to me too.
Good luck
Hi,
it's nice to have the application to make a soft reset. But what if the device freezes. Recently I've experienced it sevral times and I always had to remove battery to restart the phone. It's very uncomfortable. Any solutions for this?
Frank Caarls said:
Do you mean how to hard reset......? For sure you can find in the manual......
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
What's a manual?
Anyone found a reset button or method other than "battery out" ?
htc itself states on their website the "switch off - and on" as a soft reset. In case of a frozen device - it's battery out.
Lets face it: with the little red button the Mini would have been much more expensive
http://www.hard-reset.com/htc-hd-mini-photon-hard-reset.html
hello hatillac ,working fine cab soft reset my mini thank you
My device hangs frequently while editing contact details, or when a contact has a lot of SMS's. Haven't found a solution yet...
Laterman2 said:
My device hangs frequently while editing contact details, or when a contact has a lot of SMS's. Haven't found a solution yet...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Many people experience this problem. It's part of the design of HTC Sense.
I encourage you, and everybody, to write complaints about this problem in the support section of HTC website. Just as i did. It's the only way to force them to correct this problem with an update.
Laterman2 said:
My device hangs frequently while editing contact details, or when a contact has a lot of SMS's. Haven't found a solution yet...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
why don't u use myphone for editing the contacts?
Most of the time, you'll have to edit contacts on the go. That's why it's a mobile phone.
I use pc Outlook to edit for now. But this is a serious handicap. Have to remember or write down details, and wait till i get home or to the office to power up the pc, and do the editting. Often, papers got lost. Or i forgot some details. This is really not the solution. Just a temporary method to get by.
All my older pocketpc and windows mobile phones made it very easy for me to edit contacts on the go. Never had problems with that. THis is one of the strongest points of windows mobile, despite its shortcomings on user-friendliness. What HD mini did was to kill this one very important advantage of windows mobile.
Why???
Just a small tip for frozen phones. Wait five minutes. It happens a lot that the phone is working again.
It's not supposed to be this bad. HTC is making the contacts editting of WM a laughing stock.
bart3385 said:
It's not supposed to be this bad. HTC is making the contacts editting of WM a laughing stock.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I've installed SPB shell on my fone- gives better user interface and does away with the HTC contacts editer- recommend to anyone, you can download 15 day trial to see if you like- be warned, you will
Dear all,
After a short time the screen of my HD2 switch off (until here everything is normal) but after a long time (30 min) the HD2 don't want to wake up even if i want to swith it on again with the phone touch. The soft reset didn't work anymore, only the fact to remove the batterie permit to start again...
Is somoene have an idea to solve this issue ?
Thx a lot,
ironlg said:
Dear all,
After a short time the screen of my HD2 switch off (until here everything is normal) but after a long time (30 min) the HD2 don't want to wake up even if i want to swith it on again with the phone touch. The soft reset didn't work anymore, only the fact to remove the batterie permit to start again...
Is somoene have an idea to solve this issue ?
Thx a lot,
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try a hard reset?
ironlg said:
Dear all,
After a short time the screen of my HD2 switch off (until here everything is normal) but after a long time (30 min) the HD2 don't want to wake up even if i want to swith it on again with the phone touch. The soft reset didn't work anymore, only the fact to remove the batterie permit to start again...
Is somoene have an idea to solve this issue ?
Thx a lot,
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If the answer above does not work ......................
Have you flashed a custom rom? I would put the phone into bootloader (press and hold down the lower volume key and then push the reset button with a pen to get the tri colour screen. You need the battery cover off to access the reset button.)
Then flash a stock rom suitable for your device.
I had this issue once, are you using Sprite Backup to restore your phone data? If you do, please dont use Sprite backup anymore, use another apps like PIM backup or SPB backup.
Today setting
I had this issue before. Check whether the below setting is enabled.
Start > Settings > Menu > All Settings > Today > Items
The setting "Today timeout", at the bottom left hand corner,
should not be selected/enabled.
i also have this problem before if the following requirements are met:
1) Over 1000 SMS on the phone, very oftenly the phone will not wake up after a notification, will not wake up out of no reason, will not wake up after a missed call
2) when the facebook app is updating the contact details (I have only 40+ linked contacts but it still lags the phone during update). Not often.
I am on stock 1.66 non-tweak
I also have this issue. Stock 1.66 rom.
Have 1000+ SMS.
Phone does lag when facebook app is updating contacts.
Just tried disabling today timeout as suggested. Will see what happens.
To the OP,
Search for a thread called "HD2 died.. or did it". You will find answers in there that will help you.
WB
Everething is ok after an hard reset but i would to restore my config (sprite backup).
thx
thx but...
GamerMYJ said:
Try a hard reset?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Everething is ok after an hard reset but i would to restore my config (sprite backup).
thx
Keep SFR Rom
pablo11 said:
If the answer above does not work ......................
Have you flashed a custom rom? I would put the phone into bootloader (press and hold down the lower volume key and then push the reset button with a pen to get the tri colour screen. You need the battery cover off to access the reset button.)
Then flash a stock rom suitable for your device.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thx u but i would like to keep a SFR Rom
You're right
cryshop said:
I had this issue once, are you using Sprite Backup to restore your phone data? If you do, please dont use Sprite backup anymore, use another apps like PIM backup or SPB backup.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Unfortunatly i have used sprite backup to restore my config...
I have fixed it
Zentury said:
I had this issue before. Check whether the below setting is enabled.
Start > Settings > Menu > All Settings > Today > Items
The setting "Today timeout", at the bottom left hand corner,
should not be selected/enabled.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
And the option was enabled. Thx
Ok
wacky.banana said:
To the OP,
Search for a thread called "HD2 died.. or did it". You will find answers in there that will help you.
WB
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'll look this thread. Thx
ironlg said:
Unfortunatly i have used sprite backup to restore my config...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
using sprite backup, probably you're also restoring those settings that screw up the phone
That's why you would be better off not using it... and isntead configure and save your preferred system with SASHIMI by bengalih
ironlg said:
Unfortunatly i have used sprite backup to restore my config...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sprite Backup doesnt work so well with some cooked Roms and It took me few days to figure out what happened to my phone, I like the way Sprite Backup does but totally not the way it affected my phone.
AND...please note this, trying remove your battery many times when your phone is still on may damage your phone's hardwares and trust me, it happened to me and now I have to be sending my phone back to do a warranty.
Congratulations !!!
cryshop said:
Sprite Backup doesnt work so well with some cooked Roms and It took me few days to figure out what happened to my phone, I like the way Sprite Backup does but totally not the way it affected my phone.
AND...please note this, trying remove your battery many times when your phone is still on may damage your phone's hardwares and trust me, it happened to me and now I have to be sending my phone back to do a warranty.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thank you very much for all this informations. Concerning to me, i have solved my problem with a new configuration of the options of sprite backup. I changed "merge to" by "replace all". Congratulation it was actually the origin of this issue.